V for Vendetta is a manual for the UK.
Add some 1984 to the mix.
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TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Like Idiocracy has been a manual for the US, V for Vendetta is a manual for the UK.
For fuck sake people, these are movies of worlds we DON’T want to live in.
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well both books were written to describe what british authoritarianism would look like.
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How long before we have a leak of the PM masturbating to state violence? Ugh V for Vandetta was so sexual in such an intentionally uncomfortable way
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I don’t remember a scene like that was it only in the comic?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I didn’t watch the movie, but I can’t imagine an American movie getting away with what the comic did. Yeah, one of the major themes of the comic is the fucked up sexuality displayed by the fascists and the leader gets off on the concentration camps.
Really good comic, but it’s definitely a lot. Moore did a really good job of depicting the fascists as pathetic but dangerous. Though fair warning, if Moore could think of a slur a brit might possibly use it’s in that comic.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Honestly, the us is going full vendetta too. Our president is really reminiscent of Adam Susan
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The US would be better off with president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Quick! Someone make a movie where the population suffers from affordable housing, free and universal healthcare, fair taxation, and a healthy planet!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
You mean Star Trek? But where are the suffering people? It’s no fun when there is no suffering. Why would fascists want a world like that. I don’t understand why there are not more people willing to support the 1%ers. We might all be suffering, but their lives matter too you know! The world we live in right now, like in Don’t Look Up, is much more appealing. I mean, fuck poor people, fuck sick people, fuck hungry people. It’s their life choice. They just should have been born more fortunate. It’s their choice to have no life, no future, no opportunity. Might as well lock them up in prison (concentration camps) and use them for forced labor.
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How about I get us started? To get the groove going;
AHHH! Look at my Bank Account! I have money left after paying rent! OHHH THE HUMANITY! 😨
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Drugs are cheaper than groceries, also delivered within 15 minutes while groceries take 1 to 2 days. Guess what I’ll be consuming tonight instead of dinner!
1 grocery bag with food for 2 day: 75 euros.
Or:
5 grams of ketamine: 25 euros.
5 xtc pills: 10 euros.
3 grams amphetamine: 15 euros.
I just saved 25 euros expenses, with enough for 5 days! Yay!
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think we are living in the Star Trek universe, but we’re just getting to the Bell Riots shown in DS9. No word on if we get much past it.
dankm@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
On the planets in the Cardassian/Federation neutral zone…
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
We were talking about earth. In Star Trek earth is nice.