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The other country that is doing this at Hollywood scale is China, and it’s not just their ‘only popular in China’ movies like Wolf Warrior (1 and 2).

Some scenes:

https://youtu.be/g7y36UIRAjo

IP Man 4, which is more well known to western audiences:

https://youtu.be/OlW2VphUNd4

https://youtu.be/JFmaPK0JyVQ

You get the idea. Americans make movies where America good, everyone bad. China is now making movies where China good, everyone bad, specially white Americans.

Anyways, along with the glorification of US might and power by the pentagon, their recruiting tactics have also used video game stylization to attract young people:

https://youtu.be/N0f_ZUgqvxE

^ That is a fucking video game ad as far as I’m concerned. No mature person should be turned on by that.

parent crate_barre 4 years ago

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