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    5 months ago

    Why is the Statue of Liberty making what is clearly just an awkward hand gesture and nothing more?

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    5 months ago

    First season was astounding, powerful, alarming, and interesting. Second season, it is obvious they fired the wriiter who was the showrunner and ended up making the entire second season forgettable.

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      I haven’t watched any of it yet. Would you say that it’s worth just watching the first series and forgetting the second, or does the second series wrap up some story lines ?

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        The 4 seasons are worth watching. Most of it is actually really good, but it does get weird in the last season.

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        Okay, so here’s the deal. This show should’ve had 5 seasons, not 4. Everything up till the middle point of season 4 is AMAZING. After that, they have really rushed it n made it quite illogical.

        The ending is underwhelming. That being said, I would highly recommend u to watch it. The story’s just really really good. Certain twists and payoffs are veeeery fascinating. Highly recommended!

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      It’s based on a Philip K. Dick novel, but I didn’t watch more than a few episodes so I can’t really say how much it strays from the book.

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        Didn’t realize Blade Runner/Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was based on fascism.

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          But they’re a slave race that gets denied personhood despite being literally physically identical to biological humans by a mega corp that has destroyed the planet(s) (humanity has space colonies but it doesn’t really come up) and has taken on the power of the state?

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      This is why I don’t usually finish shows anymore. You get to a point where you feel like they’ve gotten started with the pointless fillers and you check out.

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        The way Game of Thrones ended, completely wasting/shitting-on the seven years people invested into it, left a bitter taste in my mouth.

        After that moment, I never expect to complete a TV show if they treat the audience as if we’re stupid by adding filler episodes mandated by corporate executives for the intention to solely retain viewers for revenue.

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      There are whole sections of the story that show American suburbia as it would have been known in the 1960s, except with Nazis. Churches are repurposed to worship the state rather than a god, but are otherwise unchanged in their layout or services. When the Nazis took over, they found plenty of people willing, even eager, to collaborate.

      The whole point is that America was never that far from fascism to begin with.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe im really in a bubble and reading the wrong articles, but im seeing nazi salutes to the flag, and companies are allowed to fire non-whites.

      Please correct me if im wrong

      • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
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        The first thing the Nazis did after getting dictatorial powers (Ermächtigungsgesetz) was arrest every social democrat and other leftist and put them in camps.

        Nothing of the sort is happening in the USA. Trump doesn’t have dictator powers for starters and won’t get them.

        companies are allowed to fire non-whites

        The courts are still around and will have a say on that.

        Trump‘s US is bad, but far from Nazi Germany. Trump‘s US is extremely unlikely to even return to being as racist as the US was in the 1930-490s.