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Why are so many uptight about this movie


This movie doesn't take sides, it shows the effects of a civil war has on a society. It merely show what happens when everything breaks down.

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

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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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lol are you fucking talking about biden? how much of a dumb motherfucker does one have to be to think getting trump back is a start to recovering?

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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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i came in here thinking people were annoyed at how boring it was. nope, turns out some retards here managed to pull politics from this. this movie was nothing but two vaginas talking about boring shit. it barely had a story. the trailer literally had all the interesting scenes from it and it lasted like 2 minutes.

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

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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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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

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A democracy needs decentralization...

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I have no idea what that means.

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The closer the rulers are to their constituents, the more democratic a society becomes.

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The constituents elect their representatives and leaders.

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Or some elect, and others don't?

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Stop posturing. There's a literal fascist threat to democracy now who attempted a coup against the country.


Time to pick a side.

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Don't pick the Fascism side!

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Perhaps a democracy needs more than just two sides to be viable. It also needs an informed electorate.

Any more than four or five parties and you get a non-functioning democracy as nothing gets done.

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"informed electorate"
We're in serious trouble.

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Yeah, that's what happens when education suffers cuts for the last fifty years. People believe in Pizzagate.

At least they love the Affordable Health Care Act; it's a lot better than Obamacare. I find it funny to mention this to some and look at their face to see if they understood.

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not really. it doesnt need two parties as much as a democracy is better than a monarchy. it's all about the right leadership. if we had augustus as emperor today, that country would do way better than an average democracy. singapore had basically one party for 50 years, it's the best run country in asia.

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Probably hits too close to home?

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a civil war movie before an election? they are just trying to scare people into voting for Dictator Joe.

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joe is a lot of things but is far from a dictator. only a fucking idiot could think that. now trump on the other hand, was an actual dictator wannabe with his jan 6 attempt. what joe is is a cuck.

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magats like to prejudge things and whine about them before they have ever even seen them

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