Why didn’t they save this for the political prisoners they need to torture?
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The mandatory cinema consumption featuring great leader's family will continue until morale improves.
Lol thats not a $75M film. That's an $82M film because that 7 million in sales was also spent by the same people who made it.
The ironic thing is that if it was a real documentary, talking for example how they met, how she got citizenship, her involvement in his businesses etc then a lot of people would watch it. Heck, I don't care about movies about first lady, but I would watch it.
It's just for some reason they want to keep so far away from those topics they n made it about the 20 days before second inauguration.
Kelly told them they don't have to follow illegal orders, and forcing them to watch this movie sounds like a war crime.
Good god, this sounds like some shit they would do to those torturees at guantanamo, force them to watch this shit on repeat until they confess.
I shouldn't make light of it we did some horrific torture at guantanamo, probably still do, popular music and movies is actually part of it, playing the same music on repeat, hot and cold temperature changes, stress positions, all sorts of disgusting shit, along with sexual abuse.
We stopped pretending to be a civilized country in 2001.
In the future, people will look back and think "OBL correctly assessed his target and struck a decisive victory."
If they’re gonna do propaganda, why is it in the most pathetic way?
Shouldn’t it be a film about national pride or something like that?
Maybe it could be about the triumph of the will? That might be nice.
I suspect that it's a reaction to the various successful media projects by Michelle Obama. In Trump's mind, the Obamas are making him look bad by being smart/successful/..., so this is Trump's attempt at showing that his first lady too can create a successful media project. Because the Trumps are tasteless and have surrounded themselves with sycophants, there wasn't anyone around to tell them how crap the movie was, so it got released as it is.
The big tell that this was Trump's attempt at trying to one up the Obamas, is that once it became obvious that the Melania movie was bombing, Trump posted a super racist video about the Obamas. He tried to one up the Obamas creatively, failed, and then resorted to insults.
Meanwhile Melania is 28 million dollar richer, so as usual she probably doesn't care that much about how bad this makes her look.
It's not that they don't know the movie is shit, it's that they don't care. They are happy juicing it to have good numbers even when everyone hates it. Just as the president is happy having his name on something where all the people in it hate him, he's happy having a nobel peace prize on his mantle that was given to someone else.
He's just a pathetic man, and can't or won't hide it in his old age as he loses control of his faculties and the party leads him around by the hand to dismantle his America First Legacy and the like. Talk about Sad.
Because it works. Most of Trumps propaganda is pathetic, but it still works doesn't it. Still in power, escalating more and more.
Private, don't worry, I won't make you bomb that dinghy in the Caribbean Sea for no reason. Instead you can watch Melania and prepare me a film review report by next week.
Isn’t that against the Geneva convention
“Against their will” sounds funny in context. I was forced to do plenty of things in the military against my will. Most dealing with PowerPoint presentations.
Isn't the point of joining the military is to surrender free will? That's one of the many reasons I didn't want to.
In war, mostly yes. But the majority of the time, they only control your work hours. There’s a ton of caveats to that but day to day, it’s like any other job. But they cannot make you spend money on something like this. I don’t know if I could have not laughed in their face for trying to pressure that.
*This varies more or less depending on the branch.
But could they buy the tickets themselves and order you to go to the cinema during work hours?
They could and you’d have to go.
They're all asleep at the Melania movie! Now is our chance to invade!" -- The Entire Massed Russian/Chinese/North Korean Army
Sounds like any other corporate job, except you don't have the fun of literally murdering your competition.
... please clap...
Pathetic.
Are they trying to increase the suicide rate?!
Wow, that's kind of awesome. If those members didn't hate him already, they do now.
Maybe they’ll be mad enough to disregard illegal orders next time they’re ordered to do something illegal.
Did the asswipes force the soldiers to pay an admission fee to watch the crap film? The drunk wife beater also wants the North Korean fake clapping and tears.
Thankfully this shit hasn't made it to my installation. I'm guessing these eight bases "world-wide" have to be targeting the USMC.
The Marines get the absolute bottom of the barrel treatment even as far military members go.
Its the least they deserve for continuing to be the iron fist of the christofacists.
Trumps latest nickname 'clockwork orange'
How dare they be pressured to take a long nap.
Even though I disagree with torture in all instances hard to feel bad for someone who agreed to help oppress and murder billions for the bourgeois.
The more I watch the more I think of the propaganda songs Romania made about Elena Ceaușescu.
I thought it was wild when my CO said Fox News was the only true news station. If he had told me I had to go watch some foreigner butcher English for an hour and a half I'd have lost my shit. I'd for sure be reporting his ass to the battalion or brigade commander. That shit is inexcusable.
I read this elsewhere and I thought it was satire.
Well, at least hopefully this will cause dissent in the army as they stop taking him seriously.
"I'm fine with murdering people in the name of the oligarchy but I draw the line at watching a boring movie!"
Unsurprising. Usually the far-right church infrastructure also buys tickets in bulks to these types of events.
I used to date a woman whose dad was a pastor and his church would get bulk tickets to stuff like Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ to give out like candy. It undoubtedly inflated the box office numbers.
I feel sometimes like many of them almost acknowledge their weird dichotomies but compartmentalize it. For example, to support ICE to me seems inherently unchristian, because the bible including the new testament constantly talks about treating foreigners well and being peaceful/forgiving/non-materialistic.
But they will excuse voting for Trump by saying "well, he isn't my preacher!". To me that is simply moral relativism, so the Christian part is even more odd, how they barely ever display the values the bible says that they are supposed to live by. It is totally superficial and a country-club type arrangement.
The government is a proxy that allows their bigotry to manifest in the real world, while they can still wear a fake smile and say "I'll pray for you" and in their own mind they are an agent of peace on earth through their prayers. Christianity (USA right-wing varieties) to me is a strange broken mindset, I grew up with reformed Christianity and have had to purge it from my mind as an adult.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
No shit. Why do you think most people don’t join the cult? It’s been awful for literally generations.


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