• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Anything involving Taylor Sheridan makes USSR propaganda look tame.

    In some show about Cowboys or Special Ops people, there are these moments inserted where one of the main characters turns to the token soft-hearted libtard from a big city, and explains how the world really works. How you can’t trust the media, how windmills and solar energy doesn’t work, how communists are infesting universities. The poor libtard thinks they have “facts” and “information” on their side, but the rugged individualist schools them on the “Way Things Really Are”.

    There has always been propaganda, but mostly it’s stuff like Top Gun. A movie is made where the heroes are Navy fighter pilots, and we see how they live cool lives, and have adventures, and end up protecting us from the arab bad guys.

    Taylor Sheridan’s stuff is unique in how blatant the propaganda is. There’s a scene in Landman that’s especially famous for this, and of course the clip on YouTube is full of morons agreeing with it, or talking about Joe Rogan. But, it was also so blatant that there are dozens of articles and videos debunking it.

    It’s hard to fact check Top Gun. Yes, such a school exists, yes fighter pilots get goofy nicknames (but not cool ones like Maverick or Ice Man unless it’s actually a super embarrassing story). But, they’re not generally making factual claims in those movies. But, these Taylor Sheridan shows, while they’re absolutely filled with that kind of generic “rah rah USA, individualism, roll coal, blah blah” bullshit, they also have these scenes that might as well be introduced with a trumpet and someone saying “and now, for the propaganda moment!”