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SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer
So I get why people say this is thematically poignant and timely but isn't saying "We're 3/4 of the way there" (a sentiment I saw in one review) a bit much?

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SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer
Yeah I dunno. I don't want to be a contrarian, because this show is unbelievably well done and thematically it's extremely pertinent, and I acknowledge similar things happen a lot more in other parts of the world, but I've been seeing reviews with titles like "The Handmaid's Tale Could Happen To Us" and that seems rather clickbait-y to me.

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

Snak posted:

I mean, sure. Could it literally haopen to us the way it happened im the show? No. Should people be constantly vigilant that this sort of thing could be happening? Yes.

3 months ago, I never would have expected that I would have to worry about mainstream white supremacists and neonazis in the United States. Like, these were ideologies that were still very much alive, but they didn't have mainstream acceptance, and now they do.

I'll give you that and I'm probably being pedantic, to be entirely fair. I just get frustrated by people who panic and, in far too many cases, don't do anything about it. That's largely how we loving got here.

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