Libs unironically believe this about every ethnic group that was internally displaced in the USSR during WW2

Yeah, in the later seasons. But the villain in the first season is in the US government. Stranger Things was always slop. But Season 1 was at least well made, not rabidly anti-communist, slop.

Now it's just a parody of itself. Grossly anti-communist and orientalist, tonally inconsistent, and just plain bad. That show's production has dragged on for so long, that the kids are all adults, now, and we're multiple nostalgia cycles away from giving a shit about the 80s anymore.

don't worry, i'm sure he conveniently doesn't remember writing that part because of all the cocaine he was doing

I have never read it because the two Stephen King books I have read, The Shining and The Green Mile, are two of the worst books I have ever read and I refuse to read any more from the author who could produce such garbage.

The book has something way worse, as another comment noted. This is at least pretty funny.

I’m mixed on King. On the one hand, I think that among the group of authors who are megabestsellers, whose books stock every airport bookstore in the country, he’s the best of the best. I think he’s an above average talent who’s spent a lifetime churning out mediocre novels, with a few really good ones under his belt. But he could be two or three times the writer he is if he would only do some drafting and revision.

And I don’t have any particular problem with that scene in IT. Sure, it’s gross and weird but IT is a novel that’s deliberately gross and weird. Much of the first half of the novel is an escalating series of scenes of child murder, interspersed with scenes of spousal abuse and racial violence. The book is written like a deliberate psychic assault on the reader. So I really don’t see the scene as King going “look at these sexy children.”

Though I will say that the mystification and magical Bagger Vance-ing of native people seems in line with what I got out of that bit in IT about the shaman dream magic ritual.

Immortal Stalin thanks to Pennywise until the global revolution is completed at which point Pennywise becomes Henry Kissinger. The communists lock him in an airtight box and sink it to the bottom of the ocean like a cursed Jumanji board game.