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0 pointspostsantum5y ago0 comments

That's not always obvious. Luckily, we have a lot of movies showing us the difference between goodies and baddies

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itsyaboi5y ago· 3 in thread

It's a good thing we have Hollywood to help us calibrate our moral compasses!

You're getting downvoted but the producer of the show "24" has stated that it was a "patriotic" show and it's at least in part responsible for the acceptance in the American public opinion of the torture inflicted upon terrorism suspects post-9/11. TV/movies are not mere entertainment, they often carry a message.

postsantumOP5y ago

It's an open secret that US military influences movies to whitewash themselves. The message is that regardless of some dark pages of history, military and CIA are fundamentally the Good Guys(tm)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/27/nsec-f27.html

Dah00n5y ago

Yeah, look at Hollywood and calibrate to the opposite!

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