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Does it fail as satire? Does this kind of thing work as good satire for specific people? Somebody explain.

  • RedCoat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    It’s very similar to the satire issues you get in Judge Dredd, it’s like yea he’s a fascist cop executing people for minor crimes but the world he is operating in is a crime-ridden hell hole so it’s easier to see it as necessary. I think the take away here is that British people need to stop making post apocalyptic future fascist satire.

    • cilantrofellow [any]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      Every satirical universe like this explicitly needs to end with a pan out through the fourth wall, showing some gammon fuck roleplaying his fantasy with his pants around his ankles.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      Dredd has outgrown his origins in a lot of ways. He’s a product of Thatcherite England and so much of the banality and evil of the post-Reagan/Thatcher world has become completely normalized, so the satire doesn’t hit the same.