Why are so many uptight about this movie - Civil War (2024) Discussion

[–] liscarkat (16565) 15 days ago

We are currently living through what happens when everything breaks down. If we were to have a fair election in November, we could start recovering in January of next year, but the chances of having a fair election are like a snowball in hell. We're probably going to have four more years of the same shit, followed by eight years of Newsom, which will be a plunge into the abyss.

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[–] maximmm (3056) 15 days ago

yep - meanwhile, hollywood and mainstream news media will be gaslighting the US population throughout the whole breakdown.

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[–] e3e34ifj (1337) 15 days ago

This is hysterical. Conservatives were convinced that Obama would cause a racial civil war. He didn't. Conservatives have been convinced that Biden will cause a civil war perpetuated by wokeness. He hasn't. Ironically, the closest thing we've had to a civil war were the George Floyd riots and the Jan 6 Insurrection. I wonder who was president then? Hint: his name rhymes with Dump.

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[–] Satan2016 (23421) 15 days ago

Best economy in the G7!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/biden-economy-voters-polling-numbers-covid-recovery.html

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[–] diezman (1811) 15 days ago

I remember wondering who would get triggered by this movie.

Saw it this past weekend. It was a good movie. I didn't really see too much as far as politics. Didn't really care.

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[–] HarlemEagle42 (16200) 15 days ago

People think it's targeting them. That kind of thing.

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[–] Narwhale37 (713) 15 days ago

This movie doesn't take sides,

That's the problem. Alex is an enlightened centrist hack who thinks he's superior to people because he doesn't have legitimate beliefs. He just wants the right and left to live in harmony and sing kumbaya. It's even more ridiculous to suggest this given that the actual civil war was about slavery.

Don't believe me? He admits this himself:

“All it would take is a bit of reasoned discussion to understand what is meant by [left and right-wing politics], in a species that is particularly bad at having words that everybody universally accepts the meaning of. That’s not fucking rocket science” – Alex Garland

Why are we shutting [conversation] down? Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all they are. They are not a right or wrong, or good and bad. It’s which do you think has greater efficacy? That’s it. You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it out, and you try again a different way. That’s a process. But we’ve made it into ‘good and bad.’ We made it into a moral issue, and it’s fucking idiotic, and incredibly dangerous … I personally [blame] some of this on social media. There is a an interaction that exists human-to-human that floats away when it reaches a public forum.”"-Alex Garland

Such an insufferable hack.

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[–] Keelai (31969) 13 days ago

A democracy needs at least two political parties to be viable. Those parties need to compromise and cooperate with each other. They take turns winning and losing elections, but they're still part of the democratic system.

The movie's president was a fascist who wanted to destroy democracy. That's when you put aside your partition differences and unite to defeat a Fascist. If we can't, then we're doomed to see events in the movie become real. Democracy is very fragile.

"How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt