• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    It’s a classic, but not exactly what the world needs right now. The Orwell adaptation he should have done is 1984.

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      Yeah, not sure we need to know about the dangers of communism while capitalism is tearing apart society, but we all know who finances these productions.

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        Animal Farm is pro communist. Did you read it? It warns of the offpath idea of Stalinism.

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          This… this doesn’t counter my comment. An offpath of Stalinism is still within the scope of “dangers of communism”.

          My main point was that we don’t need that movie right now anyway. We need a Captain Planet reboot or a new FernGully or a Lorax that isn’t shilling SUVs.

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      Hell yeah. Love to look to the anticommunist snitch for guidance during a time when increasingly unhinged fascists are coalescing worldwide and dragging us all into climate apocalypse and WW3

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        I wonder if the colonial cop could ever bring himself to hate Trump, were he alive today. Never quite managed it with Hitler. Had a lot of smoke for the guy who beat Hitler though. I’m sure those are unrelated. :thonk:

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          Yeah, I’m glad us leftists can agree that criticizing the people who beat Hitler - like Churchill and FDR, great men of history - is it self a damnable offense.

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      Idk I think leave this guy in the past. He’s a relic of the Cold War. We don’t need that propaganda anymore. There’s so many other, better dystopian fiction books out there that haven’t received their “definitive” adaptations, plus other more interesting original concepts people can do. Besides, maybe what people really need right now is people believing a better world is possible rather than accepting a crap one.