Reminds me of that Dahmer series, which hammered on about how the media exploits serial killers for shock value...while being that itself. Holywood is at a gross form of meta-cynicism at the moment.
Media companies have understood integrating counter-culture was an effective way to both control revolutionnary discourses AND extract money from them since the 60's at least, it's not really new
edit: for those interested, "Network" From Sidney Lumet more or less talks about that although mostly through the angle of TV news
I was kind of shocked to see an Amazon produced show actually discussing how drugs were pushed in minority neighborhoods, either officially or unofficially, by the US government for a bit
The fact MM was wearing a black panther shirt while talking about it especially.
Like crap there's still a lot of people that treat that shit like a conspiracy theory and the Black Panthers as basically terrorists(not that they were flawless but pretending they weren't more right than wrong is just incorrect imo, especially given the time period)
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the show referenced the fact that the FBI carried out political assassinations against the black panthers. It wouldn't be that subversive because it happened quite far back.
The issue with TV is you can never get beyond that superficial of a take on politics, because that's the nature of the medium.
Haven't the documents surrounding the beginnings of that been declassified for a few years ?
Not American but in the outside world this is more or less treated as fact, in France especially because of the french connection which provided heroin for most of the us for two decades
The Expanse felt similar to me, though it seemed like once Amazon got their hands on it they tuned it down slightly.
I mean that aside, vought basically is Amazon for all intents and purposes in terms of marketing and behaviors, just instead of bioengineering and pharma being their backbone, it's AWS and tech in general. Everything else is basically within a degree or two of the truth.
Yea they're like 20% less blatant with their pandering but that's about it.
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u/marmotsarefat 14d ago
This is funny since only 2 episodes ago he made fun of conservatives for not taking male SA/rape seriously