ngl, apart from losing family and friends in bloodied horror attacks, gathering around the flaming wreckage of US warplanes with your neighbors sounds like a really cozy time
The one Soviet engineer who is a returning character, the KGB bring him to a gulag and kick him “in the organs” over and over again specifically to make him have chronic health conditions. From what I understood, this is just to keep him in line because he is so smart.
Fell off of For All Mankind for this exact plot point. In a universe where the USSR sustains itself for (so far) 20 additional years, and in one where half the world participates in global communism and in a world where clean energy is adopted in the 90s, it comes across as lazy and mean-spirited to continue depicting the Soviets as every other piece of American media does.
I mean, why would you even need to torture a single man for his entire life? Gives the impression the Soviets trained up this one engineer and they can't possibly lose him.
This is especially for a show called For All Mankind- You don't get the impression the story is actually for all mankind now. It's, in fact, quite hostile and disrespectful to most of humanity.
All the Soviet citizens just seem to be following orders out of fear.
It cannot be without reference that, in response to the statement "you have to learn to trust people," a young Soviet woman character says "try living in the Soviet Union."
netaangyahu jesus christ
for all mankind season 8
Getting fomo from the polymarket grift like I got fomo from scamming cryptobros
i could probably be described as 'intolerable' when it comes to my utter rejection of the word. imo the deconstruction of the left/right dichotomy is the most important cultural issue to tackle in the west before any other decent organizing or education can happen. politics in the west is such that you can never exactly know what someone is referring to when they use these terms so they're devastatingly effective at muddying the waters
the moot-/pol/-epstein conspiracy finna make me disassociate
uh bros? on amazon prime no less?? tankees stay winning
Tf man, wildest twist. Has me even angrier, all that damage and (presumably) loss of life to kidnap a world leader. Americans are going to use the fact they were so 'precise' and 'just went after the president' to justify forgetting about it all and leaving Venezuela to rot.
your tesla steers into a group of children crossing the street b/c its grok-based brain deduced it was a woke mob of protestors attempting to box you in. you try to apply the brakes but grok has a prompt hardcoded in urging it to not shy away from politically incorrect actions. seven children are instantly killed and another two are splattered across your windshield. your tesla dings that its time to replace the wiper fluid.
elon retweets the news story weeks later with a one word reply. another twitter user asks grok if its true. grok replies by questioning the veracity of the holocaust
Oh, sweet, cause-and-effect in my assassination narratives.
history repeats itself
It's probably the only scene worth watching from the show and to its credit I think its an amazing scene. The build up of dread subverted by a celebration from a history we don't know, it's great. What's not great is realizing that you're not meant to be laughing at all the American characters who are like, kicking dogs over this, but in fact you're meant to identify with them and be angry as well.
They even go out of their way to show you that Mexico is watching and is as excited as they should be. It's only the yankees pissed off. It'd be such an incredible way to reinforce the theme of mankind needing to put their differences aside and contribute to a wider goal together, but unfortunately, the show thinks the americans are the good guys.