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Why are rightoids so media illiterate? : redscarepod

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This is a p good video on why The Sopranos and American Psycho resonate:































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The Sopranos is literally an allegory for the American Republican Party.
He's right, everyone knows that the word Mafia originates from the phrase "Mah-aI-D'Amrico", which is Italian for "American Greatness".































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Does he say that in the video? I haven't watched it in a while.
I do remember thinking he gets some stuff wrong. Like the part about how 'Old Money' people reject 'New Money' people due to some arbitrary rule about needing to be born into wealth and not because of how they don't conform to the social codes of high society.































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No, but he alludes to it being an allegory to the political machine run by Italian-Americans during times when they were discriminated against and 'not accepted' (lol) into high society. The show is about how Tony was a very normal Italian-American man who was a little too into the old traditions (mob life) and how his daughter rejects him when he's hospitalized after the finale to instead go live and date a black guy...
The series creator David Chase said he based the show on his own life, which includes mob/organized crime connections, and his own father who died during production of the show. I can't find any sources on the Internet saying he was making fun of or satirizing organized crime and the Italian-American experience, but he did say he never liked the finished product of the show...
As for the daughter's storyline, it could be a parallel to many Americans' experiences in the modern age (and he could have just been writing what he knew).































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