As for why I was listening to conservative talk radio (🤢) in the first place, that’s all the play at my job. I usually tune it out but can’t use earbuds for safety reasons and I’m not high enough on the totem pole to change the station. I won’t specifiy the exact program because I believe it’s regional.
I’ve been excited for Alex Garland’s Civil War for months now. A24’s been killing their drama films recently and it’s been refreshing having what I thought was an unapologetically left-leaning major media studio who’s found success through authentic, grassroots support. After hearing what felt like four ad reads for the movie in an hour and knowing that means A24 paid money - gave direct financial support - to a show that, amongst other things, spends hours a day promoting bigotry, Russian propaganda, and J6 apologetism, has ruined it for me.
Am I just overreacting here?
Conservatives are just too fucking dumb to understand satire. To them, this movie is like a dream fantasy come true so they can watch it and go “haw haw haw I wish I could do that.”
Similar thing happening in Helldivers right now. It’s clearly a parody of fascism, but there is a loud portion of the community who really doesn’t get it and unironically loves all of the authoritarian stuff.
That’s a reason it’s really good for them to see the movie. I only hope they don’t walk out partway through when the realize pa won’t shoot a hippie, get a medal, and marry the prom queen.
One thing that makes me actually hope for our future is that we have a lot of veterans of serious wars in our country, and the ones who have really seen the bad stuff know what civil war will bring, and they won’t stand for it.
Yes, I know some people know cosplay veterans who shoot all day and talk about killing liberals, but the vast majority of those guys did not fight and kill people.