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Why can’t the left do better propaganda? (hexbear.net)
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Besides 💰and 👁️ *

Why doesn’t the left do a propaganda like the Barbie movie or those two White-Supremist country songs?

Imagine Barbie but with class-consciousness. With all the basically free high-production tools and talent on the left, is it not possible?

*Or is it that simple?

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now it mostly doesn't go as far as to directly critique capitalism, but there is an exception with

Then it wasn't really left-wing

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, considering it's a 145 million dollar product placement movie funded by Warner Brothers and the second biggest toy manufacturing company in the world, I don't think they would allow much of that. Left wing in comparison to product placement blockbusters, I suppose.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely, if that movie came out in the 90s nobody would consider it particularly left or even political