• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    2 months ago

    The average Western man/a large plurality of Western men are directly mainly influenced by the villains of our days

    You can literally tell by the memes that have been used for a decade and the fiction that gets produced!

    The Joker from Dark Knight/Joker and the guy from American Psycho both come to mind immediately as far as memes are concerned.

    But it seemed like everyone went to see Oppenheimer… a three-hour movie lionizing the father of the atomic bomb.

    Don’t even get me started on pro wrestling, which literally featured Trump as a hero for a while; people loved Vince McMahon.

    Or Jerry Springer before that.

    An unfortunate chunk of U.S. culture loves legitimately bad people, since at least the 1990s.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Fantastic comment, friend! And the more mainstream rappers’ images have been sanitized (Snoop Dogg comes to mind, Diddy before the fall) when they were literally murderers and human traffickers, many have never stopped and sing about it proudly too. This whole world is a mess but America is basically even more diabolical Sodom and Gomorrah, the anti-humanist Mecca. 😓