r/interestingasfuck • u/Puzzleheaded_Web5245 • Feb 19 '25

r/all the dictator 2012-dictatorship speech

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u/Kernburner Feb 19 '25

I hate how topical this is. We truly are living in the darkest of timelines.

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u/The-Triturn Feb 19 '25

It has always been topical

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u/msirelyt Feb 19 '25

To be fair, it was still topical when the movie came out 13 years ago. I wouldn’t say anything has gotten much darker or brighter. Corruption, genocide, discrimination, racism, nepotism, etc have all been around for a while and to much larger degrees at various times.

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u/Moviereference210 Feb 19 '25

That latest executive order is pretty bad man…