who else is excited for this???

The cast of the film includes Seth Rogen (“The Studio”), so-true
Gaten Matarazzo (“Stranger Things”), matt
Steve Buscemi (“Boardwalk Empire”), minion-steve
Glenn Close (“Fatal Attraction”), soypoint-1
Laverne Cox (“Orange is the New Black”), soypoint-2
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”), agony
Woody Harrelson (“True Detective”), agony-shrooms
Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”), bazinga
Andy Serkis (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Planet of the Apes” trilogy), agony-deep
Kathleen Turner (“Peggy Sue Got Married”), and agony-consuming
Iman Vellani (“Ms. Marvel”). very-normal

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    But the story is fundamentally anticommunist. Animal Farm is the typical “well after the revolution it was worse so revolutions are bad and evil”. If you denounce state power then you are an anticommunist, simple

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      I think you’ll find many anarchists disagreeing with your last point there.

      But if your argument is simply that it’s anticommunist because it attacks AES, then fair enough. But I still find it valuable to remember that the American cultural mileau is so anticommunist that the criticism had to extend to the ideas of communism itself being bad, not merely that implementation was bad/unrealistic.