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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)
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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago

I was a huge NCIS fan in my early 20s. Realized looking back that's it's just a big patriotic circlejerk

[-] pillow@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

bunch of ideaguys brainstorming in a windowless office that has "how to make copaganda even worse" in red marker circled on the whiteboard. one of the guys raises his hand and says "what if they're also all troops?"

[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago

And one is a Mossad agent, to boot

[-] pillow@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I completely forgot about that badeline-disgust

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