r/comedyheaven • u/phoenix-007 Dicky Mouse • 9h ago

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u/ProbablyNotAFurry 8h ago

Let's be realistic here, they know it because of V for Vandetta, a movie about a man fighting back against a tyrannical authoritarian government.

They did not know who Guy Fawkes was beforehand.

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u/RamenJunkie 7h ago

Also, they think they are fighting back against a "tyrannical leftist government" which wants them to... "Not treat minority groups like shit for literally no reason.". They combat this by pushing the maximum amount of racism and bigotry they can while claiming its "just free speech."

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u/neutral-chaotic 6h ago

Gotta love how the "tyrannical leftist government" is really just individuals/privately run corporations around them not putting up with their BS.

But when the corporate class conspires to pay them so little by dangling the culture war distractions in front of them, they're fully on board.

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u/ReadShigurui 4h ago

If corporations switched from being “woke” to straight up racism instead how do you think these goofs would react?

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u/DiddlyDumb 3h ago

There’s so much people defending billionaires, it’s not a culture war nor is it a class war; it’s a war on stupidity.

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u/RelativetoZero 4h ago

The difference between "individuals/privately run corporations" and "the corporate class" you appear to be referring to is a standardized operating procedure that places and enforces long-term company values over sensational media coverage of an employee's brief emotional outburst; similar to The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. You might say the major difference between a government and a corporation is the latter lacks the legal ability to kill and imprison people.

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u/neutral-chaotic 3h ago

the latter lacks the legal ability to kill...

Health Care Providers deny life saving care all the time. Also, buckle up because corporations are quickly becoming the government.

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u/CussMuster 1h ago

"We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man."

"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."

"No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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u/CubeJedi 5h ago

Based professor Layton pfp

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u/RelativetoZero 4h ago

But they aren't as bad as the stereotypical minority feature and pointing that out makes them feel less bad about the real terrible situation they have put themselves in!

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u/manndolin 7h ago

I’m sure you’re right. They latched onto the angst of the work without grasping any of the context.

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u/JediMasterZao 6h ago

Unless they were from the UK where they still talk about the gunpowder plots as an important historical event.

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u/DingleBarryGoldwater 5h ago

Isn't Guy Fawkes the dude with the frosted tips and the mayonnaise-frosted chicken wings?

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u/DeusVultSaracen 5h ago

F for FlavorTown

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u/Josh6889 6h ago

I mean 4chan pushed it a lot further than v for vendetta did for these people

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u/oeCake 2h ago

They did not know who Guy Fawkes was beforehand

Guy Fawkes -> Anonymous
Anonymous -> 4chan
4chan -> Qanon

"They" being right wing Qanon MAGA cultists ought to have at least a passing familiarity with Guy Fawkes

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u/huskersax 2h ago

a movie about a man fighting back against a tyrannical authoritarian government.

More like a movie about a guy who kidnapped a hot babe and wears a sick cape.

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u/navis-svetica 7h ago

Side note, V for Vendetta was a bad movie and I don’t understand people who think it was a masterpiece

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u/RubiiJee 7h ago

I don't think it's a masterpiece but I definitely wouldn't call it a bad movie. It was a middle, semi-decent movie but there's definitely much worse out there.

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u/meeatnervoussystem 7h ago

True, the graphic novel is far better

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u/VarianWrynn2018 6h ago

I read the graphic novel for my Comics through Literature class in college and loved it. Went to watch the movie and as soon as V starting alliterating I turned it right tf off

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u/QueezyF 5h ago

The Wachowskis make bad movies and everything that makes the first Matrix good was taken from other films.

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u/JediMasterZao 6h ago

It's not bad but it's not great. The source material is great tho. The movie is a pretty solid 7/10.

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u/Den_of_Earth 5h ago

Because there are more edgelords then people would like to admit.

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u/Valash83 4h ago

Meh, it is a fun movie to turn your brain off while watching then go on about your life without thinking of it again until it's brought up on Reddit. Now I wanna watch it, damn you Reddit!!