6d ago

Remember in the hunger games when Katniss unvolunteered and let Prim die because Snow was mean to her.

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Hunger Games - Resist oligarchy, enslavement and groteque forms of capital punishment for ancestral "crimes".
Star Wars - Resist the fascist space dictator and the military industrial complex.
The Matrix - Resist authoritarian control, the obfuscation of reality, lack of bodily autonomy, and literal farming of our organs.
Divergent - Resist.. cliques, I guess? I'm gonna be honest, everything I know about this series seems dumb to me. Maybe someone more informed and 10 years younger can make a better case than me here...
V for Vendetta - Resist actual factual old school fascists/Nazis, war crimes, concentration camps, human experimentation, total media control, punishment without due process.
Notice how none of these are "Resist governments that make me pay a progressive tax that limits the burden on lower income earners, that regulate industries to ensure worker, public and environmental safety, that seek to limit the influence money plays in our elections so that our representative democracy remains representative of everyone, not just the rich?" Because the shit you are resisting is the good shit, you dumb manchild fuck. It's not the fucking same.
- Divergent definitely doesn't belong in that list. It's like listing The Beatles next to The Monkeys; in regards to it being clearly derivative of the hunger games and the only real thing they have in common is they both made money.
  The hunger games gets to stay only because v for vendetta pales in comparison when it comes to cultural relevance.
  
  Monkees, but yes
  
  I just noticed that the Beatles modified an animal's name to add a musical term (beat) whereas the Monkees did the opposite, removing "key" from monkey.
- never the purge, as musk would get purged, he would never qoute the rick and mortys episode of the purge planet.

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