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ChazInAz

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12. Same, here.

Reply to Archae (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 30, 2024, 02:17 PM

Nov 30

Ludicrously simplistic right-wing jingoism.
Overthrowing Soviet forces with loudspeaker trucks reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? Rifle-toting farmers taking on the Red Army? It felt like an NRA wet dream.

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"Amerika" (1987 miniseries imagining a future U.S. conquered by the Soviet Union) [View all] ChicagoRonin Nov 30 OP

The SNL skit Amerida Johonny Nov 30 #1

I loved that skit! ChicagoRonin Nov 30 #2

My niece warned me that 90% of Canadians live five days march from the border! John Farmer Nov 30 #15

The US is looking more like Russia every day. Irish_Dem Nov 30 #3

I do JustAnotherGen Nov 30 #4

Yikes! I thought my dad was bad! LeftInTX Nov 30 #10

I do! JustAnotherGen Nov 30 #11

It was a right-wing "answer" to "The Day After." Archae Nov 30 #5

Same, here. ChazInAz Nov 30 #12

I did see it. You can find the series on youtube. irisblue Nov 30 #6

It was less speculative fiction and more propaganda. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 30 #7

I have a paperback novelization of that mini-series. John1956PA Nov 30 #8

rupert murdock made it way easier, now that the majority of the rite wing has been brain washed. pansypoo53219 Nov 30 #9

Put a beard on that Ruskie dude and he'd look just like .. Bo Zarts Nov 30 #13

How about the 'Man in the High Castle' tinymontgomery Nov 30 #14