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[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Yet when you hear the movie described, it can sound rather aggressive in its dystopian topicality, like a bombs-away, knowingly over-the-top thriller-satire of where we are today and where we might be headed.

Uh, yeah, no. That sounds pretty accurate of exactly where we’re headed. Only thing really saving us thus far is this administration’s absolute incompetence.

America that’s become a fascist police state: a place where immigrants are rounded up en masse and placed in detention centers, where the police and the military have fused into an implacable authoritarian force, where a hidden cabal of Christian nationalists plan the future from a star chamber, and where a group of ragtag revolutionary guerrillas attempt to disrupt the regime through random bombings and bank robberies.

Only fantasy I see here is the last line. Everything else is well underway.