Bruh there is literally a popular media character called Captain America.
If you were trying to satirically come up with the main character of a state propaganda show, a name like that would probably come to mind. For satire.
Imagine how US Libs would react if a superhero called Captain China started getting really popular.
And Captain America isn’t just a superhero. He’s literally, canonically a god, and the unquestioned defender of the entire universe!
When libs analyze a show like Squirrel and Hedgehog (a DPRK cartoon) down the individual pixels in order to prove just how propaganda it is, but apparently what Marvel has is 100% not propaganda?
Nooooo you see I, a Westerner, can think for myself and thereforeI am not influenced by propaganda. Chinese and North Korean people are just mindless drones that follow every single piece of propaganda.
What’s also ironic is that they always say how violent Squirrel and Hedgehog is, and how it uses the trope of objective good vs objective evil, and the good guys always pull through. While conveniently not mentioning that Japanese anime from the same era has a similar level of violence (you know, the country right next to the DPRK and has quite a bit of cultural overlap?), or the fact that literally every kid show ever has the exact same simplified good vs evil message? The cartoon doesn’t even mention any real countries! It’s in a 100% fictional, fantasy setting!
Also, if you’re going into college level literary analysis to draw comparisons between a cartoon for children and real life politics (like, young children, not high schoolers or some age where you’d actually expect them to understand real politics), aren’t you basically saying that children in the DPRK are way smarter than Western children?
I don’t know the show so I Googled it. It does look violent but then again a lot of shows I watched as a kid were violent to some extent. The thing with these people is that they want to see ghosts so badly that they start imagining them. It’s the same people that say ‘AT WHAT COST?’ about every positive piece of news coming out of China/DPRK. They can’t accept reality.
Maybe it’s because I only watched it when I was already an adult, but I didn’t even think it was that violent. It was kind of violent, but again, so is anime. And it’s not like there aren’t Western kids shows with that level of violence.
I think it’s the presence of blood that scares the Western crowd. It seems to be a taboo over here, where you can basically get away with as much violence as you want in a kids show (think Loony Toons, Tom and Jerry, etc) as long as you don’t show blood. But even a single drop of the stuff crosses the line.
“It’s all just a projection at this point.”
- Karl Ilyich Stalin in his book “100 million deaths: the highest stage of communism” published 1984
This is literally the georgy orwell book, uhhh 1984
wasn’t it 1489?
More like 1488
There is no art under capitalism. Artistic expression doesn’t sell well as a product.
TFW Captain America is actually one of the less horrible “heroes” in the capeshit.
There is some singular comics where he say some very good stuff and gets really pissed with the us for a lot of things, like the imvasions, etc. But its very small stuff compared to the thousands of other issues that he appears where he doesnt criticise the us.
As i responded to the other guy, the bar is very low.
gets really pissed with the us for a lot of things, like the imvasions
And then you get panels like Cap reading a plaque with a list of dead GI’s from Vietnam and saying he will memorise every single name, because he is ashamed for having missed that war. I am neither kidding, nor exaggerating.
I’m ashamed that the list isn’t longer 😔
I mean, I’m sure he’s a great guy in-universe. But the fact that he’s canonically a god (he weilded Thor’s hammer) and the protector of literally the entire universe, and libs don’t think that could possibly be meant to say something about how the real America is. Meanwhile, they spend way too much time psychoanalysing any communist show.
I’ve watched reviews of the DPRK cartoon Squirrel and Hedgehog, and the parallels to real life politics they draw are just, a rubber band would snap if you stretched it that far. Saying nothing about how Japanese anime from the same era is actually pretty similar in plot structure and level of violence, is anime from a US supporting country also commie propaganda? It’s also not like those countries are right next to each other, and could possibly have similar cultures that show through in their media, right?
Sorry, it’s not you. I’m just in a salty, ranty mood tonight.
I’m not disagreeing, i meant it as “the bar is very low”. As in “at least he really bashed some nazis”, which in last two months seem to be unreachable by real life westerners and their media especially…
I fully expect proukrainian propaganda to eventually find its way to comics too in this or that form.
INB4 First Officer Ukraine
More like Sturmbannfuhrer Ukraine… as a good guy.
There was a character called “Baby Killer” a few years ago in Marvel. He was a Polish general in a cloned teenage body, and his power was being violent and shooting guns. So you know, not really out there in terms of plausibility.
Polish general
I had to google that. Old style female surname (male style would be Zamorski, meaning literally “Oversea”), not a polish first name - Mikhail is russian version, or possibly… ukrainian, especially that this character was introduced in 2014, rather famous for some massacres in that country.
I half expected it to be jab at general Jaruzelski, but it seems not to be, and we don’t actually had any real bad generals lately. Closest one would be field-bishop (yes that’s a real general rank in Poland) Sławoj Leszek “Flaszka”* Głódź, but he wouldn’t be Baby “Killer”, since he was pedophile, also famous for incredible even for a catholic bishop feats of coruption.
*Nickname meaning literally “The Bottle” since his drinking feats and parties were equally awesome to corruption
Lovely people all around
be meant to say something about how the real America is
In a Hercules comic from mid 00’s, they literally went to the obelisk in Washington DC as the current site for “World’s Axis”. Compared to that, Cap using a magic hammer is small potatoes.
lol add the fact that the US DOD funds these fucking movies for no particular reason.(operation) Just Cause, no pun intended
deleted by creator
The fact that on a dedicated communist forum site, on the most popular community, we have to clarify that us supporting liberals are a joke with (/s) shows just how bad of a disease liberalism is, lol.
"Liberalism. It can happen to your wife and your kids at anytime. Make sure to get tested at a Marxist-Leninist party near you.
In case of emergencies dial 1 (800) 624 ENDLIBERALISM 2247 That is 1 (800) 624 ENDLIBERALISM 2247"
deleted by creator
Ah gotcha, I’m also a smidge autistic but mainly ADHD, and what I mean by mainly, I mean the stereotype
deleted by creator
🤣😂😅🥲😭
Not to mention the fact that captain america isn’t censored or anything in China.
If you changed up the colors on his shield just a little, he could easily be Captain DPRK.
This is my headcanon now.
I misread the title as “our shows are actually artistic and expensive!”
Well, that’s not wrong. XD
That too.
