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Some Guy TT posted:the handmaids tale got a series to cash in on the young adult dystopia fad because since the handmaids tale was actually an adult book about feminism therefore it had to be more rigorous and thus perfect for smart older viewers who were too cool for the hunger games perhaps that was the reason the series was greenlit but ain't no way it would've gotten a 2nd season without the existential threat of trump making folks seek out media pandering to their worst fears. jokes on them though, the narcissism of the RBG/clinton wing of the libs set womens rights back farther than the wildest fever dreams of right
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now we gotta vote biden no matter what or they'll double secret overturn roe v wade and republic of gilliead much 
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Handmaids Tale is just The Turner Diaries but for liberal feminists instead of libertarian racists. Post-apocalyptic escapist pablum where the author gets to rail against their enemies in society both by making them cartoonishly evil to the point of incoherence and within the plot itself through the protagonist’s words and actions. If you agree with the author’s priors you’ll probably like it. If you don’t agree with the author you’ll either hate it or be baffled by it.
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Margaret Atwood's "Siege"
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The Oldest Man posted:am i the only person who actually read oryx and crake that book was good, impressively unsympathetic and also full of overtly goofy poo poo
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Gripweed posted:I got another question. The wiki entry on econowives said they aren’t allowed to learn how to read. But it also says they do the shopping. So they’re making economic decisions for the household. They’re literally called econowives! How does that work if they’re all illiterate? How are they supposed to pick a power company if they can’t read? the labelling on the packages is really good: simple, intuitive. i think they're allowed to know numbers because the milk has 1 or 2 for the fat %. i really like the grocery store and i wish a revolutionary army would force something like it onto whole foods
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Gritty Tarantino reboot: the footmaids tale
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Weka posted:Gritty Tarantino reboot: the footmaids tale So instead of the funny hats they just wear regular shoes?
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Some Guy TT posted:the real confounding thing about the handmaid system is that its explicitly presented as agitprop as in this is why our country is so great and superior which is to say that gilead brags about the fact that they have slavery and mandatory prison rape this is supposed to make sense because the liberal perception of reactionary propaganda is so skewed they think right wingers can say literally anything and their idiot followers will believe them Trump is going to federally enshrine in law the right to an abortion, or even funnier, be stopped from doing so by the Democrats
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Weka posted:Trump is going to federally enshrine in law the right to an abortion, or even funnier, be stopped from doing so by the Democrats That would mean Trump getting in in 2024, which literally cannot happen because only the Good Guys can get in and do things. Also, it would make me anxious about a heckin' fascism happening like outta some dystopian novel about a fallen America, though I can't think of one off the top of my head.
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:But also, lol at the chuds just checkmating the legislative/judicial/executive king and everyone just has to obey now. It would be indecorus not to.
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I'll have to take your word for that. I can't remember how to read since Trump last got elected.
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titty_baby_ posted:I never watched fat enough yes you have
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Pretty rude to presume it is metaphor for Trump, not Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Carville https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1772017050770137587
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woman forced to do shopping. This is a dystopia
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Wait, according to the wikipedia summary I skimmed, Gilead lasts like a generation, tops, before it collapses due to a Canadian expose on the corruption of its leadership? Atwood is a no talent hack. Who the gently caress cares about corruption *or* Canadian media? And even if they did, what kind of self respecting totalitarian regime can't conquer or at least block out the Canadians? She should have set the book on another planet, or in an ambiguous time and place, if she wanted the allegory to stick
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Nix Panicus posted:Wait, according to the wikipedia summary I skimmed, Gilead lasts like a generation, tops, before it collapses due to a Canadian expose on the corruption of its leadership? lmao
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Nix Panicus posted:Wait, according to the wikipedia summary I skimmed, Gilead lasts like a generation, tops, before it collapses due to a Canadian expose on the corruption of its leadership? lol
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I thought no one was allowed to read?
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sydney sweeny and her buxom figure were in this show?
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Nix Panicus posted:Wait, according to the wikipedia summary I skimmed, Gilead lasts like a generation, tops, before it collapses due to a Canadian expose on the corruption of its leadership? so handmaid's tale is happening in the aaron sorkin universe, where jeff daniels newsman can bring down governments (a brutal dictatorship, no less)
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Tankbuster posted:woman forced to do shopping. This is a dystopia Ah yes, but the irony is they have to wear only one type of outfit
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Tankbuster posted:woman forced to do shopping. This is a dystopia Weka posted:Ah yes, but the irony is they have to wear only one type of outfit lol
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In this hellish totalitarian dystopia... women be shopping
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Weka posted:Pretty rude to presume it is metaphor for Trump, not Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Carville James Carville is a whiny piece of poo poo who is exactly as right wing as his GOP operative wife
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Nix Panicus posted:Wait, according to the wikipedia summary I skimmed, Gilead lasts like a generation, tops, before it collapses due to a Canadian expose on the corruption of its leadership? Yeah that bothered me too. Canada would have turned back all refugees from Gilead, killing them if necessary. They would not have dared to risk conflict. Mexico migth have its own civil war if all trade with the north suddenly ceased overnigth. Much of the world would have been complicit with Gilead. Europe would still need NATO and Saudi Arabia would still like to buy arms. India and most places outside of the western nations (however you define it) would do whatever suits their interests. If that entails selling overpriceds goods to Gilead then they would happily do just that.
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it's the ultimate lib fantasy because they still view Canada as what the USA could be if we lived up to our values. they literally idealize fuckin Canada lol
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:it's the ultimate lib fantasy because they still view Canada as what the USA could be if we lived up to our values. they literally idealize fuckin Canada lol Meanwhile Canada today is mulling over Soylent Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bssvubnVvgg
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Meanwhile Canada today is mulling over Soylent Green. This an ad by a clothing retailer btw
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Weka posted:Pretty rude to presume it is metaphor for Trump, not Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Carville 
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The Oldest Man posted:am i the only person who actually read oryx and crake It was pretty good, but i didn't care for the rest of the series I liked the pigoons. 
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Baudolino posted:Europe would still need NATO Lol
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why wouldn't the giant medical company invade canada in that story's timeline?
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Just set your allegories in an undefined time and place so they remain timeless and not bound by any sense of geopolitics people! Its not hard! Trying to pretend Gilead is the US adds nothing and only detracts from the focus of the story!
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:it's the ultimate lib fantasy because they still view Canada as what the USA could be if we lived up to our values. they literally idealize fuckin Canada lol It's because Canada kicked the US's rear end in war and Americans worship strength.
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Weka posted:Pretty rude to presume it is metaphor for Trump, not Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Carville jesus, that guy looks eight decades older than the last time I saw a picture of his weird fuckin head. maybe its the shambling corpses that refuse to be interred, not the broads
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Nix Panicus posted:Just set your allegories in an undefined time and place so they remain timeless and not bound by any sense of geopolitics people! Its not hard! Trying to pretend Gilead is the US adds nothing and only detracts from the focus of the story! Frank Herbert should have made Howard Taft Leto II. Edit: He ends up falling into the bath and it spews out unlimited oil.
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