r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 1d ago

A prior discussion about this, iirc, noted that Texas was chosen to make it less overtly political, but I haven't seen the movie.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

The movie is fantastic btw. It's a love story to war journalism and an actual fantastic depiction of what civil war here would be like.

One of the few movies I've watched repeatedly.

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u/loneSTAR_06 1d ago

You’re one of the few people I’ve heard have as high opinion of that movie as I do. I love it, but basically everyone else I know hated it.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Canada 1d ago

As a Canadian, I loved it. It feels like it would bring up a lot of difficult emotions and cognitive dissonance for a lot of American viewers. It's not that they hate the movie - they don't like how it makes them feel.

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u/loneSTAR_06 1d ago

Fair point, but I think a lot of it is more because of how they marketed the movie, leading people to think it was about something different than it was.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Canada 1d ago

I'm hard pressed to understand how anyone could have misinterpreted the marketing. The trailers are pretty unambiguous.

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u/mu_zuh_dell 1d ago

I didn't like it becaue of the way the politics were portrayed. There were good parts, but that was in spite of the movie's "lore". I understand the idea of creating fantasy scenarios, but... the movie already plays on and is born out of fears Americans have, and those fears stem from real politics. So to keep the fear, but toss the politics... it made it seem like a cheap cop-out.