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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)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And one is a Mossad agent, to boot

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I completely forgot about that badeline-disgust