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Re: The Muppets...Communist Propaganda

Post by Animavore » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:09 pm

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Animavore wrote:What a way to cherry-pick movies :lol: He pulls out four movies, two of them kids movies, supposedly against the oil industry and then says they don't want to tell the story about what the oil industry has done for America...

Using the same format of tenuous linkage I'm going to say off the top off my head... Armageddon. A buch of oil drillers go into space to drill into an oncoming meteor to plant a nuclear bomb within and blow it up saving the day.

Go America! :woot:
Even that was about the small(er) guy triumphing over the larger organisation NASA/Goverment/Miltary/Large Rock

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Re: The Muppets...Communist Propaganda

Post by Ian » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:13 pm

How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.

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Post by Robert_S » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:23 pm

Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
Don't forget the Earth Endor-First Ewoks and their glorification of eco-terrorism.
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Post by Audley Strange » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:25 pm

Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
I always saw the Rebels like Al Qaeda. Religious terrorists blowing up things and killing people who don't use the force the way their charismatic cult leader demanded it be used.
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Post by PsychoSerenity » Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:11 pm

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Damn, they're so fucking irritating. How can anyone watch Fox? They get a guest on who they disagree with, and without even an attempt to be impartial, they get into a tag-teem to talk over her and prevent her even answering the questions, - it's like they think talking louder makes them right.
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Post by sandinista » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:57 pm



When they were "discussing" propaganda movies, surprised this wasn't mentioned. Perhaps it was a little to blatant to be propaganda?
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:24 pm

Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
Please, Ian, we all know that the "rebels" were no better than the Empire. They were just fighting to preserve or reinstate the old "Republic" which, as we all know, a republic is just a smokescreen and window dressing. People never have any "freedumb" - it's all a big sham. The rebels were just fighting for tyranny of the Senate, ruled by a shadowy theocracy of warrior monks.

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:27 pm

Audley Strange wrote:
Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
I always saw the Rebels like Al Qaeda. Religious terrorists blowing up things and killing people who don't use the force the way their charismatic cult leader demanded it be used.
Seriously. Nobody gave any warning to all the construction workers on the Death Star trying to put that thing together. On minute there's a guy welding another piece of metal onto the Star, and then next he's vaporized. Hand that Luke Skywalker a medal!

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Post by hadespussercats » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:33 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:
Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
I always saw the Rebels like Al Qaeda. Religious terrorists blowing up things and killing people who don't use the force the way their charismatic cult leader demanded it be used.
Seriously. Nobody gave any warning to all the construction workers on the Death Star trying to put that thing together. On minute there's a guy welding another piece of metal onto the Star, and then next he's vaporized. Hand that Luke Skywalker a medal!
We all saw Clerks. :bored:

How about the way the Rebels capitalized on an indigenous people's mythology to control them and make them fight at the Rebels' bidding?
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:42 pm

Well, maybe the incest is best part, then...

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Post by hadespussercats » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:46 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:Well, maybe the incest is best part, then...

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and that Angelina Jolie totally kissed her brother. She knows it, you know it, I know it, even her dad knows it...
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:50 pm

hadespussercats wrote:
and that Angelina Jolie totally kissed her brother. She knows it, you know it, I know it, even her dad knows it...
Well, it seems to me that anything involving Angelina Jolie is hot, especially the Angelina of 10 years ago.... brother kissing or no brother kissing....

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Post by hadespussercats » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:27 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
and that Angelina Jolie totally kissed her brother. She knows it, you know it, I know it, even her dad knows it...
Well, it seems to me that anything involving Angelina Jolie is hot, especially the Angelina of 10 years ago.... brother kissing or no brother kissing....
Agreed. I was just making a gratuitous Family Guy reference.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:35 pm

Ian wrote:How about Star Wars? Nobody much talks about what sort of leftist peacenik collectivism the rebels had in mind once they violently seized power. The movies end before we can see their dictatorship-of-the-proletariat style government. People only seem to care that the Empire was defeated. It's sinister propaganda, I tell you.
It's actually worse than that. The whole point of the "rebellion" was to put...Republicans in power. We got the whole freaking galaxy away from them and they get it back in only twenty-ish years. :fp:
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Re: The Muppets...Communist Propaganda

Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:39 pm

hadespussercats wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
and that Angelina Jolie totally kissed her brother. She knows it, you know it, I know it, even her dad knows it...
Well, it seems to me that anything involving Angelina Jolie is hot, especially the Angelina of 10 years ago.... brother kissing or no brother kissing....
Agreed. I was just making a gratuitous Family Guy reference.
Missed that! Good one!

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