There’s no way that shit wasn’t astroturfed, right?
You know it’s funny, I was just a baby owl then, but all that anti-environmentalism is actually what got me learning about the environment in the first place. “Global warming is a hoax” made 10 year old me ask “Wait, what’s that?” and turned me into an environmentalist even as a kid.
Captain Planet also probably helped.
Looten Plunder is one of the most realistic portrayals of a CEO ever to be put on television.
iirc before 9/11 the FBI’s highest priority was “environmental extremism” like Earth First! etc.
Yes eco terrorism, something existing only in the fever dreams of the industrialists.
They are still at it, many states have anti protest laws, feds are trying to make animal rights activists terrorists, and they are gunning for the protesters that are trying to stop oil and gas and other heavily polluting industries.
It is worse than you think already, courts are fucked from state to feds on balance, prosecutors are cynical dishonorable hacks betraying the bill of rights systematically.
They all believe the republic is already dead in all but name. As that state of nd private rico kangaroo court case on greenpeace showed, or the atlanta police center bs. They are not pretending anymore.
After also, there just aren’t as many envirornmental activist that engage in monkeywrenching now as there were in the 70s 80s, like practically none now. I was an activist back in 2003, and when we had a campout/meetup with other environmental groups (like us, not doing terrorism, just work like volunteer environmental surveys and legal reviews of land use proposals) the feds, or homeland security or whoever, were lurking around us in the woods at night with night vision goggles armed to the teeth. We’d catch glimpses of them sometimes, it was pretty creepy. I even was walking down a dirt road near our site around dusk and came across a guy suiting up from the trunk of his car like he was going to war. I tried to make small talk but he didn’t want to talk to me.
tangential but does anyone actually remember ghostbusters? i watched it and the EPA is the main villain, they clearly hate the EPA so much, its so funny
I fucking loved ghostbusters as a kid. It was one of my first autistic movies. I watched it probably a stupid amount of times. Anyway it didn’t age well and idk how to feel about watching it so much as a kid
Whether or not a movie is diadactically pure or even good should have no effect on whether you enjoy it. You can and should recognize how Reagan the undertones of Ghostbusters is while enjoying the fact its also a really fucking fun movie about busting ghosts. The fact you enjoy it means you can analyze it even more cause its not a chore to watch. You didn’t end out hating the EPA, sp dont worry about it
And who do people remember more as a villain, the EPA guy or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?
Yeah, I think calling the EPA the villains is a big stretch. They’re a plot device in a comedy movie. They’re the catalyst of the climax not the villain. Someone im guessing at Cracked.com had to wrote an article and came up with this under a deadline and now irs the only take about the movie. They were just trying to be silly and what comes out if it was incidental and subconscious unless it was anything Dan Akroyd contributed which were an absolute reflection of his belief
Someone im guessing at Cracked
It was 100% a Cracked article, although I can’t remember who wrote it.
Back in its heyday, Cracked was pretty notorious for doing a lot of research, then completely misinterpreting it in a weird way. I remember there was one article where they mentioned Native Americans traveling to Europe centuries before Columbus. Turns out, what they actually read was that Indians were there. From the Indus Valley. In India.
damn thats rough, i was obsessed with harry potter but at least there was tons of conversation to help me get over it rofl
They didn’t just do a PR campaign they murdered environmentalists too.
South Park definitely was going for environmentalists as part of their campaign against caring about stuff
that ManBearPig thing for instance
And ”saving the rainforest is totally gay”.
Not me, I watched captain planet.
Definitely, I still think the hate towards vegans/PETA feels like remnants from that era. It just seems so anachronistic, ”lol it’s so uncool to care, I’m eating my borger and don’t care about the dead animal lol”.
Remember when watermelon was a term to describe “greens” that are really “red inside”?
This post I stumbled across comes from 2010 and cites a bunch of different examples of this “Green is the new red” concept over the decades. https://barrypopik.com/blog/watermelon_green_on_the_outside_red_on_the_inside
two examples:
15 February 1956, Toledo (OH) Blade, “Koreans Recognize 3 Types Of Reds, Visitor Tells Guild” by Betty Marsh, pg. 25, col. 1: THREE types of Communists known to Koreans were described yesterday by author-educator, Mrs. Induk Pahk, Seoul, Korea, at a luncheon meeting of the Friendly Center Service Guild.
“The red apple Communist is red on the outside and whote on the inside. The tomato Communist is red both on the inside as well as the outside—a hopeless case. The watermelon Communist is green on the outside and red inside,” Mrs. Pahk said.
“With a big kettle and a hot fire, we could make apple cider of the first, tomato juice of the second and watermelon pickles of the third.”
Urban Dictionary
watermelon
The new breed of Environmentalist extremist, the term ‘watermelon’ indicates that these losers are only green on the outside, but red (or Communist) to their core.
Look, a watermelon spiking that tree, and on private property, too. Let’s go spike HIS sorry ass.
by Proud Conservative Jul 21, 2003Someone once called me a watermellon and now I describe myself that way >:D
🍉Just pointing out that you can cause an enormous reduction in emissions and material usage if you frag a member of the bourgeois
The industrialists had a projection campaign at the same time accusing Big Green of being an all powerful puppet master and greedy non profits getting rich on donations.
Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton both had bestselling novels where the villains were ecoterrorists.
They are both conservative, the rare conservative artists that broke through beyond just lib bashing.
They are few and far between especially now with the mask off the cons. Out of the closet in full nazi dress uniforms.
blame south park
%Also SJWs
wasnt that more like around 2010 ?
yes
Yeah, but the archetype didn’t change, only the term did, before that it was hating on ”politically correct” people.
that is a 2010’s thing my man
