Trey Parker and Matt Stone are probably two of the most courageous and talented satirist the world truly needs right now.
Props to them for being one of the only people who views Woke as something else other than just the cringe way of saying “Political Correctness”
Truly admirable and sagacious comedy CHADS!!!
These dudes are great. I love to see this stuff.
I’m conflicted: they are hilarious… but aren’t they billionaires? This is such a rare combo, I don’t know what to think. Lemmy, tell me what to think!
Ehh, they are funny but they have had some Ls in the past. Two episodes come to mind:
- Both parties are the same
- Comparing being trans to identifying as a dolphin.
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Yes they certainly do. Is everyone forgetting what Kyle says at the end of the Bin Laden episode? “America may have its problems, but it’s our home, and if you’re not gonna root for your home team, you might as well get the hell out of the stadium.”
Another thing, Bush has been shown a few times on the show. Normally when Bush appear in a popular cartoon, he is made fun of for his incredible stupidity. Bush has NEVER BEEN MADE FN OF ON SOUTH PARK. They rarely give him lines, and when he does speak, Parker and Stone do not make him say anything stupid. This is implicitly pushing a Republican viewpoint on the audience and makes them believe Bush really isn’t all that bad when it is historical fact that he is hands-down the worst American president ever.
When was that written? I can easily think of a worse President
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Original air date November 7, 2001
Bush gave us the Patriot act, and wars that some say killed over 100 000 Iraqis.
They literally created an entire separate series about Bush called That’s My Bush. This is even mentioned in your own source.
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That’s My Bush! is an American television sitcom that aired on Comedy Central from April 4 to May 23, 2001.[1]
This was before 911, and before Americans became rah-rah (or more rah-rah) about invading Iraq, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Bush look better.
They’ve absolutely been on the wrong side before, but they’ve also acknowledged past mistakes. Climate change is a big example.
We’re all wrong about stuff - and that’s okay. It’s what we do after we learn we’re wrong that matters.
I grew up in a time and place that had me believing homosexuality was immoral and that white men were being discriminated against by affirmative action. What I believed was wrong, and is not representative of who I am now. But I didn’t have social media or a television network keeping a record of every time I said something awful.
What do they think of US invasion and occupation of Iraq?
They did Team America World Police, in which the lesson is we are total dicks but some assholes need to be fucked.
and thanks to the US, Afghanistan and Iraq are better places, I suppose.
Maybe let people improve without testing them incessantly?
The type of reaction you had sometimes only serves to keep people from wanting to introspect and grow.
I don’t think they’ve changed in that in 25 years; either that, or they started to change when the results came in years later and maybe did/do a “how were we supposed to know that invading Iraq was a bad idea?”, much like some who supposedly regret voting for Trump didn’t know that voting for and/or otherwise supporting him was a bad idea.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen South Park, but aside from their religious stuff, their humour, or attempts thereof, strikes me as either right-wing, lame, or both.
Right wing?? Where did you get that impression from?
They seem to hit the left more than the right—what Bill Maher sees to be doing these days.
Fuck Bill Marr lol
At least he wasn’t as pro-Dubya Bush as were Parker and Stone.
Dude they’re known libertarians. They moderated over time like all semi-rational people when exposed to Trump, but they had early episodes depicting the people tearing down the rainforest as heroes.
True libertarians didn’t support the wars in Iraq or for that matter Afghanistan.
True libertarians don’t exist.
they had early episodes depicting the people tearing down the rainforest as heroes.
South Park is satire, and they very often use irony. I feel very rude for pointing that out, but you’ve missed the point entirely if you genuinely do think their intention was to… Depict deforestation as heroic…
I don’t recall those episodes even though I definitely saw them, but that really doesn’t feel like that was the intent of the episode… that would be out of character
edit: to be clear I do mean that it would be out of character to show deforestation as heroic, and that yes it must have been satire
I do mean that it would be out of character to show deforestation as heroic, and that yes it must have been satire
They looked for these angles. They did a similar thing with trying to make tobacco companies look heroic.
Look man, it’s not some kind of hidden thing that they were (or maybe are) right libertarians. It’s well documented for anyone who cares.
I think there was even “South Park Republicans” floating around in the vernacular for a time (the reference is probably still on Wikipedia).