Anyone feel like there’s more parallels to it today than the 80s? - They Live (1988) Discussion

They show this movie at the QANON meetings.

Big hit with the conspiracy minded.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

What’s the movie they show at the Russiagate conspiracy theory meetings? Home Alone 2?

Take out the aliens and there’s a lot of truth to it.

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[–] Redsfan001 (6003) 3 years ago

As the middle-class erosion takes place in America, the real message of this movie (f-uck the rich, distrust the man) will become more popular.

As will this movie.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

It’s taking long enough. The masses were starting to wake up during Occupy Wall St.

But then the establishment injected identity politics in everything and had us warring among ourselves again.

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[–] Drooch (5333) 3 years ago

They gave the Left a fox to chase, to keep them away from the banks.

The stupid kids fell for it hook, line and sinker.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

Dumb kids. Useful idiots ruin everything.

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[–] Drooch (5333) 3 years ago

It’s true. Ignorance is the great evil we face.

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[–] TimMC (9143) 3 years ago

Q is imaginary.

Fuck off with that wacky shit.

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[–] Martoto (4085) 3 years ago

Yeah the world is further to the right than it was then. Carpenter has been saying for years "Regan never went away. the 80s never went away."

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[–] JohnnyDoe (1710) 3 years ago

Further to the left, i.e. centralized/collectivist etc.

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[–] Martoto (4085) 3 years ago

No, sonny. You're mistaken. Otherwise the wealth would have been collected and redistributed right? But the wealth gap has in fact widened. See? What you say makes zero sense.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Indeed! We have a "socialist" senator who owns three homes and more wealth in the capitol building than we had on Wall Street 40 years ago... But the government is here to help you.

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[–] Martoto (4085) 3 years ago

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

You’re still in a fantasy mind of what socialism means. Socialism in reality is nothing but a tactic for the power hungry to extract a massive wealth transfer for themselves and their buddies.

Decentralized power is the only thing that will constrain the corrupt, and that is impossible in the way that pretty much every single political system (congress etc) is structured.

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[–] Martoto (4085) 3 years ago

Utter nonsense.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Not nonsense at all. That's what the $15 minimum wage is all about, destroying small business so that the economic landscape flattens into two distinct categories; the haves and the have nots. The regulatory "rules" that favored large businesses during the COVID crisis created the largest transfer of wealth in history. Big Government literally picked the winners and losers. Now those with a vision of their own new world order plan on going in for the kill while small business is too weak to defend itself.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

Lol, nice non-argument. The rebuttal of a moron.

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Stalin,Castro, Mao and the Kim's all disagree with you

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[–] FilmBuff (6672) 3 years ago

It's the move away from free market capitalism that has widened the wealth gap to an unhealthy point. The U.S. has moved much further left since this movie was released, and the lower and middle class have predictably suffered as a result.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

And they still vote for more of the same due to succumbing to the propaganda’s nice words.

We need some boxes of those glasses, and people need to put the damn glasses on.

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[–] FilmBuff (6672) 3 years ago

I understand why so many of the billionaires vote Democrat, but will never understand why anyone in the poor or middle class does so.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

1 reason - propaganda is very effective. They can literally say one thing in the media and do the opposite, and no one will hold them accountable.

If there was a media or some kind of other mass medium that enabled people to judge on our leader's actions instead of their words, this problem would cease to exist.

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[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

LOL, WHAT?! The liberal mob rioted for months last summer and pretty much got away with it. A few hundred people staged a pretty lame riot at the Capitol in June and liberals clutched their pearls as if last summer didn't happen.

A UK hospital just said you can't say the words "mother" or "breast feeding" in their facilities. World further to the right now, LOL!!!!

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

It’s only a riot if our overlords are directly affected. Don’t you know? Those ungrateful peasants.

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[–] SandyR (7323) 3 years ago

Sure...

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[–] exithereplease (3553) 3 years ago

Good lord.

Let's stop this thread.

This movie is ONLY good for a viewing if your stoned.

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[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 3 years ago

there is a lot more support for it.
I think incidentally this film has influenced this culture big time.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

It's the opposite. Millennials are in love with government authority. Therefore this film is gaining a 2nd awakening due to the effects of unconditional government corruption and control.

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[–] Anotherday (6757) 3 years ago

The themes of the movie are easily applied to an ideological worldview. In the Early 2000's, it was the left's favorite go to. Around 2012, it switch to the right. Then to the left in 2016, and in 2020, it switched to the right.

Carpenter meant it to be a mockery of Regan but he stumbled on a theme that's fluid to any group of elite. That's why the film stays relevant.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

Good observation of the left to right swing. Just like 1984.

But a lot of people that the left considers "right" today are really just liberals that haven't changed their positions on free speech, as the left moves more into evil dictatorship and authoritarian territory.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

Please stay in the Politics cesspool.

It’s where you belong.

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[–] ManToTrust (1648) 3 years ago

Please only comment when you have a logical argument. Illogical slander is the language of low IQ trolls.

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