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SteelDriver 33 points ago +33 / -0

They take their cues from the media they watch. This is why depictions of violence like that seen in "Inglorious Basterds" (I don't mean to pick on this movie, but it's an easy example and has a cult following) are problematic quasi-propaganda for 'true believers'. Wanton violence is OK against 'Nazis'. If you dehumanize those you disagree with, or label them 'Nazis', anything you do to them is not only acceptable, but encouraged. The whole point of defeating the Nazis in real life was to stop them from treating humans so inhumanely, not to become them.

"Silence is violence," but physical assault, such as throwing drinks or milkshakes on 'deplorables' is not violent assault ("it's just a drink, relax, Nazi").

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Scroon 6 points ago +6 / -0

You should totally pick on Inglorious Basterds. In fact, all of Tarantino's work is brutal, malicious leftist fantasy. And maybe that's why Hollywood loves him so much.

Basterds is the soy boy fantasty of singlehandedly murdering Hitler. Django is about blacks murdering evil whites. Kill Bill is female murder domination kink with the leftists' own fear and hatred of Asian males plugged in. Pulp fiction is about talky, beta losers playing dress-up gangster.

And Once Upon a Timec is a revisionist fantasy where he pretends that Hollywood isn't as fucked up as it actually is.

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Rattlesnake 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah I didn't realize this for the longest time. I used to just think "He's a director known for making really good but violent movies".

But then I rewatched some of them recently, and you're right. Django is particularly bad. All Southern whites are depicted as completely soul-less, evil, conniving slave owners. Southern culture is just entirely smeared. Basterds, too, glorifies any violence against Nazis, like op said. The scene where they are trying to interrogate the German officer and bring out the "Bear Jew" for not betraying his comrades is just disgusting.

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NotoriousCIC 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes. Media and the DNC dog whistle these nut jobs. It’s why conservatives are routinely assaulted. It’s why Rand Paul was attacked, why Scalise was shot, why a CA Republican candidate got stabbed, the left appeals to the most mentally disturbed and unstable group.

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karmalizing 1 point ago +1 / -0

Really spot on take on this