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.
“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
Not to mention the fact that captain america isn’t censored or anything in China.
TFW Captain America is actually one of the less horrible “heroes” in the capeshit.
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.
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.
