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[–] groovyplane@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I mean hey, at least they glanced at a thesaurus this time instead of sticking with the old tried and true "SLAMS" or "BLASTS" .

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (24 children)

its interesting to go through trey parker and matt stones history in the entertainment industry, where at one point they were underdogs fighting censorship, but really they were doing right wing propaganda the entire time, sometimes on accident but usually on purpose. like, how often was the villain of a South Park episode a woman, a liberal celebrity, or an environmentalist? and how about all the episodes about trans people? i also recall Cartman in early episodes getting karmic retribution inflicted upon him for his literal nazi rhetoric, but at some point he now just gets his way and actually his bigotry is justified since all black people can play bass and all Jews really do have a secret pouch of gold.

also, in the Team America movie, which is supposedly a satirical comedy about american interventionism being bad, they end the movie by saying ACTUALLY america SHOULD be the world police, and they kill all the annoying hollywood actors who are all brain dead traitors that support North Korea nuking everyone.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Almost always South Parks villains are portrayed in a heavily satirized way. A common thing they do is to portray those attacking eg an environmentalist as 'normal', but then overly exaggerate how 'true' the attacks are. It's to ridicule the attackers, not who they attack, by showing just how ridiculous this villain has to be for the attacks to make sense.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think they're just good at keeping it real and both sides have stupid ideas/ideals and they should get called on them.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I dunno, the stereotypes (blacks playing bass, jews having secret gold) being true thing is really egregious. The way they satirized Trump's first election is when I really stopped watching South Park because it showed they don't actually keep it real and just insult everyone and everything like they claim. If that's truly the best they could do with that whole trainwreck of a human being then they have lost their talent.

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