Total Recall
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seriousficMy full review is coming up, but a brief tangent: this is another one of those movies where an evil dictator fakes terrorist attacks to justify an imperialist invasion. Guys, can we please stop with this plot? I'm starting to think some people are taking this "9/11 Truther" thing seriously. And they shouldn't, because it's stupider than the Birthers.
I mean, it's at least somewhat plausible that you could get a few guys and fake a birth certificate. They'd tell themselves it was for the good of the nation, they'd keep it under the hat, fine. Not saying it happened, obviously, but it's remotely plausible.
Bush ordering 9/11? Thousands of people working in secret to kill their fellow Americans, planting bombs in the WTC under the nose of all the people who wouldn't like bombs planted there, inventing, like, holographic missiles that look like airplanes, no one breathing a word of it to the press... and then there's the hindsight questions. Like, if Bush is willing to kill thousands of Americans to invade Iraq, wouldn't he just fake finding WMDs? Get another Republican in the White House, riding off that success? Or instead of sitting around in stunned silence when the WTC was hit, he'd be ready to jump up and look like a decisive leader (or just arrange things so he wasn't being filmed at the moment)?
Look, it's just silly and Bush has been out of office for four years, so there's not even a point to it anymore. Let's think up some new evil plots, okay?
I mean, it's at least somewhat plausible that you could get a few guys and fake a birth certificate. They'd tell themselves it was for the good of the nation, they'd keep it under the hat, fine. Not saying it happened, obviously, but it's remotely plausible.
Bush ordering 9/11? Thousands of people working in secret to kill their fellow Americans, planting bombs in the WTC under the nose of all the people who wouldn't like bombs planted there, inventing, like, holographic missiles that look like airplanes, no one breathing a word of it to the press... and then there's the hindsight questions. Like, if Bush is willing to kill thousands of Americans to invade Iraq, wouldn't he just fake finding WMDs? Get another Republican in the White House, riding off that success? Or instead of sitting around in stunned silence when the WTC was hit, he'd be ready to jump up and look like a decisive leader (or just arrange things so he wasn't being filmed at the moment)?
Look, it's just silly and Bush has been out of office for four years, so there's not even a point to it anymore. Let's think up some new evil plots, okay?
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Date: 2012-08-04 11:17 pm (UTC)Machete.
I'm trying not to stretch it too much (for instance, GI Joe has terrorists plotting attacks in order to force the US to create a police state, but then also plan to replace the President so that they themselves run the police state), and there is an obvious overlap, conspiracy theory-wise, in bogus WMDs/fake terrorist attacks to create a police state/justify a war/whatever. So there won't always be 1:1 parallels, but an analogy can still be intended.
For instance, the Secret Empire plot in Captain America was clearly meant to be a metaphor for Watergate, even though not!Nixon was running a terrorist organization and not breaking into anyone's hotel. I do realize this can go into highly subjective territory, so I try not to bring it up unless there's an insultingly obvious "9/11 was an inside job!" plot, since that's my pet peeve and not general anti-Bush/war sentiment.