• dessimbelackis@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I also believe zombie movies are a facet of this.

    Oh, what’s that? A human-shaped monster of an excuse to blow a thousand rounds? Extremely American.

    The Purge is the same thing without the window dressing of a monster.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      And also both in movies and “prepper” or gun nut rhetoric, survival begins and ends with guns. No gardening, no first aid, no communication techniques, just guns.