The joke is that this November your vote counts exactly as much as a senile retiree whose political sources are nestled between a thread of gay furry porn and a thread of kids wearing swimsuits.
It's just kind of arbitrary though. From the outside, it's like watching a country go mental over, say, their national flower. I mean, I guess your national flower is supposed to be a symbol of your national values, history, identity, and so on, but at the end of the day it's just a flower and it's a bit weird to be a focused on it itself, let alone pledging allegiance to it and doing all bizarre the veneration of it you can find online.
If you were wondering, the US national flower has been the rose since 1986, which as an Englishman I think is clearly cultural appropriation.
Did yours? No, because no one cares about national flowers. Just because it symbolises your country, doesn't mean it deserves respect, veneration, allegiance pledged to it, or to be flown into space. It's just a flower.
The "point" is I still get to laugh at that image of Americans pledging allegiance to some guys American flag trousers, and all the other funny stuff you do.
Tbf it was kind of a moment. Most Americans back then did it because that was the outward expression of respect for the country and the men/gussy who made it all possible.
People are far too eager to rush to crediting this kind of stuff to politics without ever considering financial incentive.
They are releasing a movie about an American accomplishment. I personally think they are already sorta fucked in China from the get go, but they are trying to get the press out there that this isn't some sort of American propaganda film so that it'll play in Beijing.
When Hollywood panders to butthurt foreigners like this, we lose the soft power that we used to have. The Chinese can actually make good movies while we make a bunch of lowest-common-denominator capeshit that will appeal to the dumbest people around the world.
Why the fuck are we even celebrating space? It's just another playground for the white elite. $70MM spent to make another film about white colonialism. Think how many Netflix docudramas about the Chicago inner city that money could have made instead.
No we can't do that. The inner city is full of toxic males and we don't want to be celebrating that. Unless it's about a trans disabled black pansexual woman trying to survive in a world that hates her there's no way were making more docudramas.
Most people don’t realize how deeply offensive the American flag is to others. Great oppression happened under the Stars and Stripes, I applaud (((Hollywood))) for taking this bold stand against those wanting to oppress us with their unchecked nationalism!
Yes. Once again the superior french mind game won. The burger spent billions on putting a flag on the moon, and just ten year afterward it had become the french's.
Wasn't the whole goddamn point of the space race that we beat the Soviets?! It's so goddamn weird how repulsed by any kind of national pride is a bad thing. I know they're terrified of someone, somewhere confusing a display of historically-accurate nationalism as current support for the poopoo peepee cheeto man blumpf. But this whole "rewriting history so it's woke" thing needs to be beaten and strung up on a fence post in rural Wyoming.
It was an arms race for what could have been the worst war ever turning into a bloodless scientific breakthrough.
What more cpuld anyone ask for from the American ideal? Other than the Red Scare, trickle down theory, and the Republican Party flushing their principles down the toilet -- but that's not the point, the space race was center stage.
100 years from now when kids read about it on their computers the story won't be about the race between the Soviets and the Americans, it'll be about the first man walking on the moon. I think the directors have a point. They wanted to make a movie about Neil Armstrong, the man, and what he achieved, not about the space race. What he did was bigger and more important than some competition between the Americans and Soviets and it will be remembered longer. Besides, there are already a bunch of movies about the space race .
On the bright side though we get to listen to a bunch of people reee uncontrollably over an artistic decision in a movie that isn't even out yet.
100 years from now when kids read about it on their computers the story won't be about the race between the Soviets and the Americans, it'll be about the first man walking on the moon.
Have you ever taken a history class in your entire life? 90% of the point isn't what happened, but why. That's why they say, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it". You're fucking supposed to learn why people did the things they did.
Holy fucking shit I know people are stupid these days, but this is almost unbelievable. I guess you can't google yourself some critical thinking ability, can you?
100 years from now when kids read about it on their computers the story won't be about the race between the Soviets and the Americans, it'll be about the first man walking on the moon.
I remember my grade school history section on the Civil War. We learned about one group of humans fighting another group of humans. Never figured out why they did it. You made a really good point.
I hope you're right, but I'm pretty fucking suspicious of the way this "not an American hero" thing is being twisted. A guy might be too humble to call himself a hero, but you don't fly 78 combat missions against the communists if you're embarrassed about being American.
"I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that's how we chose to view it"
Anyone who buys like this line of garbage is a full on fucking retard.
China is quickly becoming the biggest film market on the planet and these guys are just trying to get the word out that this movie isn't an American propaganda film because the Chinese are super fucking nationalistic and won't buy movie tickets.
Typical hollywood types just being greedy fucking douches and dressing it up to look virtuous (or in this case, retarded, but I don't think they have the capacity to tell the difference any more).
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1 snowmanbg 2018-08-31
since they have pro-russian president they should use white-blue-red flag.
1 timinator95 2018-08-31
Who the hell cares? I don’t get the fetishistic worship of the American flag at all.
1 TareTiri 2018-08-31
Shut up non American.
1 timinator95 2018-08-31
I’m American, and I still don’t know why people get their panties in a bunch about it.
1 nio151 2018-08-31
That makes you a damn non American
1 skyrimporn64 2018-08-31
go back to mexico you pinko ass commie.
1 MooseHeckler 2018-08-31
Que?
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-08-31
Sorry, but we kinda like respecting our history and the men/gussy who came before us 🤷🏻♀️
It’s what makes America better than not-America.
1 erythro 2018-08-31
It's just kind of arbitrary though. From the outside, it's like watching a country go mental over, say, their national flower. I mean, I guess your national flower is supposed to be a symbol of your national values, history, identity, and so on, but at the end of the day it's just a flower and it's a bit weird to be a focused on it itself, let alone pledging allegiance to it and doing all bizarre the veneration of it you can find online.
If you were wondering, the US national flower has been the rose since 1986, which as an Englishman I think is clearly cultural appropriation.
1 nahnotreallytho 2018-08-31
did your country plant your national flower on the fuckin moon?
nah
1 erythro 2018-08-31
Did yours? No, because no one cares about national flowers. Just because it symbolises your country, doesn't mean it deserves respect, veneration, allegiance pledged to it, or to be flown into space. It's just a flower.
1 nahnotreallytho 2018-08-31
~ 🛫 the point 🛬 ~
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1 erythro 2018-08-31
The "point" is I still get to laugh at that image of Americans pledging allegiance to some guys American flag trousers, and all the other funny stuff you do.
1 nahnotreallytho 2018-08-31
😪
1 d-amazo 2018-08-31
it's almost like this was a historically big event for America or something
1 Arbys_Official 2018-08-31
Yeah but who cares
1 d-amazo 2018-08-31
people who are watching a movie based on historical events wanting the movie to portray it historically accurate
1 Arbys_Official 2018-08-31
lol gay
1 d-amazo 2018-08-31
fucken nerds
1 DistortedLines 2018-08-31
You need to go back
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-08-31
Tbf it was kind of a moment. Most Americans back then did it because that was the outward expression of respect for the country and the men/gussy who made it all possible.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder 2018-08-31
Yeah but China 🇨🇳 will get offended
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-08-31
I think you meant ChapoTrappedHouse.
1 Momruepari 2018-08-31
r/BillionChapoSupreme
1 VidiotGamer 2018-08-31
Unironically this.
People are far too eager to rush to crediting this kind of stuff to politics without ever considering financial incentive.
They are releasing a movie about an American accomplishment. I personally think they are already sorta fucked in China from the get go, but they are trying to get the press out there that this isn't some sort of American propaganda film so that it'll play in Beijing.
1 Redactor0 2018-08-31
When Hollywood panders to butthurt foreigners like this, we lose the soft power that we used to have. The Chinese can actually make good movies while we make a bunch of lowest-common-denominator capeshit that will appeal to the dumbest people around the world.
1 Think_Once 2018-08-31
Since Gosling is Canadian, he just should have used a Canadian flag to piss off even more Americans.
1 MooseHeckler 2018-08-31
Canada would not exist if such a thing were to occur. The US would deny its right to exist.
1 911roofer 2018-08-31
The day of the rake would be here at last.
1 MooseHeckler 2018-08-31
Inshallah.
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2018-08-31
1 strathmeyer 2018-08-31
Find out if the critics are right when First Man takes off into theaters everywhere October 12.
1 LemonScore_ 2018-08-31
So why not also remove the American flags from their uniforms and cast queer transexual black Native American Muslim socialists as the leads?
This film is alt-right garbage. Ryan Gosling? More like Ryan Goosesteps for Hitler.
1 DinosSuck 2018-08-31
Why the fuck are we even celebrating space? It's just another playground for the white elite. $70MM spent to make another film about white colonialism. Think how many Netflix docudramas about the Chicago inner city that money could have made instead.
1 Momruepari 2018-08-31
No we can't do that. The inner city is full of toxic males and we don't want to be celebrating that. Unless it's about a trans disabled black pansexual woman trying to survive in a world that hates her there's no way were making more docudramas.
1 Brodo00095 2018-08-31
This comment was a roller coaster that I'm too short to ride
1 MasterLawlz 2018-08-31
The whole point of the space race was beating Russia to the moon, this is seriously fucking stupid.
1 LemonScore_ 2018-08-31
Nice try, Adolf.
1 Kat_B0T 2018-08-31
Most people don’t realize how deeply offensive the American flag is to others. Great oppression happened under the Stars and Stripes, I applaud (((Hollywood))) for taking this bold stand against those wanting to oppress us with their unchecked nationalism!
1 MooseHeckler 2018-08-31
I mean he is Canadian they are not as sophisticated as they fancy themselves.
1 VisualEnigma 2018-08-31
good to see burgers getting cucked
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-31
I really don't get the drama. Either way, it's the french flag that is up there nowaday.
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2018-08-31
Because it's bleached white, because the French are a bunch of surrender monkeys.
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-31
Yes. Once again the superior french mind game won. The burger spent billions on putting a flag on the moon, and just ten year afterward it had become the french's.
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2018-08-31
Now all France has to do is officially change their nation's flag.
1 dogDroolsCatsRules 2018-08-31
Change ? Blue (earth), white (the flag on the moon) and red (the sun). The very system solar is the french flag.
1 mrv3 2018-08-31
How long before the Jews are removed from any mention during the Holocaust because it was a 'human tragedy'
1 I_EAT_ASS_AMA 2018-08-31
Implying they would ever allow that sympathy card to dry up
1 RollBread 2018-08-31
Well people have already managed to forget who the Nazis were.
1 I_EAT_ASS_AMA 2018-08-31
WHITE PEOPLE
1 the_popcorn_pisser 2018-08-31
Or if they ever make a movie on shit America pulled elsewhere in the world, are they going to remove their flag as well lol?
1 ApugalypseNow 2018-08-31
Wasn't the whole goddamn point of the space race that we beat the Soviets?! It's so goddamn weird how repulsed by any kind of national pride is a bad thing. I know they're terrified of someone, somewhere confusing a display of historically-accurate nationalism as current support for the poopoo peepee cheeto man blumpf. But this whole "rewriting history so it's woke" thing needs to be beaten and strung up on a fence post in rural Wyoming.
1 Chicup 2018-08-31
Its all part of the plan.
1 M0ntyPyt0n 2018-08-31
MODS! SHUT IT DOWN!!!
1 RollBread 2018-08-31
It was an arms race for what could have been the worst war ever turning into a bloodless scientific breakthrough.
What more cpuld anyone ask for from the American ideal? Other than the Red Scare, trickle down theory, and the Republican Party flushing their principles down the toilet -- but that's not the point, the space race was center stage.
1 geraldo42 2018-08-31
100 years from now when kids read about it on their computers the story won't be about the race between the Soviets and the Americans, it'll be about the first man walking on the moon. I think the directors have a point. They wanted to make a movie about Neil Armstrong, the man, and what he achieved, not about the space race. What he did was bigger and more important than some competition between the Americans and Soviets and it will be remembered longer. Besides, there are already a bunch of movies about the space race .
On the bright side though we get to listen to a bunch of people reee uncontrollably over an artistic decision in a movie that isn't even out yet.
1 VidiotGamer 2018-08-31
Have you ever taken a history class in your entire life? 90% of the point isn't what happened, but why. That's why they say, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it". You're fucking supposed to learn why people did the things they did.
Holy fucking shit I know people are stupid these days, but this is almost unbelievable. I guess you can't google yourself some critical thinking ability, can you?
1 ApugalypseNow 2018-08-31
I remember my grade school history section on the Civil War. We learned about one group of humans fighting another group of humans. Never figured out why they did it. You made a really good point.
1 MG87 2018-08-31
Dead Space Nazis?
1 chumthescrubber 2018-08-31
Space Force
1 DistortedLines 2018-08-31
American liberalism is retarded I swear to Gid
1 __Toradorable__ 2018-08-31
> 2018
> watching
Jewish propagandaHollywood filmsY'all deserve it. My chinese cartoons about little girls driving tanks are somehow more historically accurate than this shit.
1 hareeshk99 2018-08-31
This is a non-story that’s been misunderstood and...
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/9bxu3l/upcoming_neil_armstrong_biopic_first_man_leaves/e56sh81?utm_source=reddit-android
There is a lot of false news going on about this ...
1 Redactor0 2018-08-31
I hope you're right, but I'm pretty fucking suspicious of the way this "not an American hero" thing is being twisted. A guy might be too humble to call himself a hero, but you don't fly 78 combat missions against the communists if you're embarrassed about being American.
1 chumthescrubber 2018-08-31
Yea but Ryan Gosling said it so it must be true!
1 hareeshk99 2018-08-31
Except Ryan gosling wasn't even defending it, he was just talking about the fact that he is a Canadian playing an American.
1 VidiotGamer 2018-08-31
Anyone who buys like this line of garbage is a full on fucking retard.
China is quickly becoming the biggest film market on the planet and these guys are just trying to get the word out that this movie isn't an American propaganda film because the Chinese are super fucking nationalistic and won't buy movie tickets.
Typical hollywood types just being greedy fucking douches and dressing it up to look virtuous (or in this case, retarded, but I don't think they have the capacity to tell the difference any more).
1 chumthescrubber 2018-08-31