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bucolic_frolic

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1. The role of TV in the development of these stooges should not be underestimated

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Mon Dec 28, 2020, 10:13 PM

Dec 2020

I've been on a Hogan's Heroes rerun binge of late. Great humor. Someone pointed out - some WWII vets wouldn't watch it. It made Nazis look humorous, it made them ok, just another nation's soldiers. And I didn't realize it was satire at the time, I was too young. And yes, the gross materialism in Let's Make a Deal was obscene. Raised on trinket capitalism. Those are some of the building blocks of MAGAt personalities, "matured" for the modern age by The Apprentice.

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It finally dawned on me who trumpanzees are; and where they belong [View all] magicguido Dec 2020 OP

The role of TV in the development of these stooges should not be underestimated bucolic_frolic Dec 2020 #1

Reading the headline, I was thinking Jane Goodall was going to figure into this somehow (nt) mr_lebowski Dec 2020 #2

LOL Lithos Dec 2020 #3