GhostFence

Looking forward to seeing Reddit take a hit. They love to ban people for the silliest of reasons.

Ok you had me for a second, lol

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Well if we did just try to talk them down we'd all be speaking German right now. Well, not me, my African American blood line would be extinct.

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GhostFence @lemmy.world 2y ago

Three Days of the Condor: Rogue CIA op “exposed” by a loyal CIA agent

The crucial point is CIA op. The CIA had an oilfield contingency plan. That's the organization, not just one corrupt individual. Definitely borders on institutional.

All the President’s Men: About the law and the good parts of the government uniting to stop a criminal president

"He also states the cover-up was not only intended to camouflage the CREEP involvement, but also to hide "covert operations" involving "the entire U.S. intelligence community", including the CIA and FBI."

Sounds pretty institutional to me when two whole organizations are involved in corruption.

Dr Strangelove: Rogue general with the POTUS et al trying to prevent world war 3

Okay, then institutionalized stupidity.

The Watchmen: You mean Alan Moore’s wank rag? I don’t think anything about that story is coherent enough to really over-analyze. But the HBO sequel series very much focused on the idea of The Good Cops/Supes

Oh come on, the Government had collateral damage galore in Vietnam. And the killing of war protesters. All institutionally orchestrated.

Eagle Eye: Did ANYONE watch this? So I’ll talk about Enemy of the State instead since that is an awesome movie. And it very much is about a rogue senator (?) and the NSA overreaching and is stopped by the good government agents and Big Willy Style

The NSA is an institution and they blew up those civilian targets. Nobody stopped that. That's what triggered everything else.

But this is my main point here:

Mostly I am just trying to point out that we are already adjusting “global” media to placate major demogrpahics. The main difference, like I said, being that pissing off the US Government means republicans won’t watch your movie. Pissing off the CCP means you need to be careful any time you are flying in the Eastern hemisphere.

Yes, China is creating censorship of the worst form imaginable. And it is affecting what we Americans are able to see on cinema. All the downvoters on here see nothing wrong with this picture?

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GhostFence @lemmy.world 2y ago

I'm not entirely clear on where you're drawing the line here but American cinema has a rich history of promoting mistrust in the U.S. Government. Eagle Eye, Three Days of the Condor, All the President's Men, Dr. Strangelove, and the Watchmen, all were mainstream movies produced in that 70s to 10s time period. Some or all of those depict institutionalized corruption on a level you'd probably not ever see coming from China.