I thought we should bring some attention to this.

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    6 months ago

    Team America was a pretty lowkey pro military intervention and pro america movie…

    Did we watch the same movie? It’s SATIRE.

    Also the Kim Jong In “oh herro” and the politicians going “rabble rabble rabble” are some of the most quoted lines from the movie

    “Dicks fuck pussies, and Dicks also fuck assholes”. Greatest speech ever

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      6 months ago

      “Dicks fuck pussies, and Dicks also fuck assholes”. Greatest speech ever

      Yeah, that’s what I was referring to. The movie came out in 2004, you know, the year after we invaded Iraq, as was the context of the movie. If you pay attention to that speech, it’s basically just saying that US hegemony is good and US exceptionalism is real, and that our actions are a net positive for the international community. That the international community needs us. That we need to “fuck this asshole”. In combination with the movie making fun of celebrities that had non-interventionist views, and calling them a homosexual slur that will probably get flagged on lemmy, saying that they suck up to dictators. It being satire doesn’t suddenly make the movie mean the opposite of what it meant, that’s just classic irony-poisoning.