• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    it’s also sicko-wistful

    They make it sound more based than it was, although there were some pretty awesome moments. It’s too bad every last slaver wasn’t executed and their property redistributed to the freed slaves and landless whites. If only John Brown was president during reconstruction, that’s basically the only way we would have gotten the good ending

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      1 year ago

      It’s crazy to me that most depictions of John Brown are negative; and liberals are too scared to make a movie depicting him as a valiant hero because they’re worried about what their fellow reactionaries will think.

      Reactionaries though when the Nat Turner movie comes out be like ‘stahp! He was brutal! He killed civvies!’, but when a movie comes out romanticizing the troops in wars that saw massive civilian casualties like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. be like ‘For the Imperium! Cogax Lex Nostra or whatever latin stuff idk!’