Pre-War Era
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Melissa Peterson19 said:So, what now? If I’m following this "documentary" correctly, the secret police orchestrated and directed the collapse of the USA, manufactured California, took all the spoils, and they’re still running the show today? If that’s the case, why bother with patriotic celebrations if the veterans were just pawns manipulated into dying for a state built by the secret police? Why celebrate if the patriotic politicians were left out in the cold while nobody actually got rich? Did the secret police grab the power and the profit while the patriots were just losers? Or am I missing something?
Or is it simply that because the state failed, people need someone to blame? And that scapegoat happens to be the secret police? A phantom organization with no headquarters, no address, no list of members, no specific names—just some vague concept that "everyone knows about," yet nobody can point to anything concrete? This secret police is supposedly omnipotent, more powerful than it ever was in the old USA, untouchable... but who is actually in charge? Where is the hierarchy, the field agents, the secret police tycoons?
The dramatized segments of this series are repulsive and amateurish. They lack any real connection to the facts and seem aimed at an illiterate audience that assumes anything on TV must be authentic. Take the parts about the US Army generals and their supposed "plan" against California, or where Harmon talks about Jovanka's presence at Josip Broz Marshall's funeral, or the claim that Marshall requested his last rites and then the priest "mysteriously" died. What is the point of that narrative? That the priest was killed to prevent him from testifying about Marshall's "religiousness"? Or just because Marshall was a criminal? I truly don't see the purpose of these reenactments.
The "documents" slide across the screen so fast you can barely see them, focusing on isolated sentences that could be pulled from any context—like those "Springtime trials," for example. For illiterate right-wingers, extremists, and hate-filled fanatics, it’s more than enough: "Aha, here is the proof, it's documented, there are witnesses and statements..." Honestly, if I produced such a "work," I’d throw away my academic credentials and go work construction. It is the absolute bottom in both a moral and professional sense.
Straight to the point! 😂
Melissa Peterson19 said:So, what now? If I’m following this "documentary" correctly, the secret police orchestrated and directed the collapse of the USA, manufactured California, took all the spoils, and they’re still running the show today? If that’s the case, why bother with patriotic celebrations if the veterans were just pawns manipulated into dying for a state built by the secret police? Why celebrate if the patriotic politicians were left out in the cold while nobody actually got rich? Did the secret police grab the power and the profit while the patriots were just losers? Or am I missing something?
Or is it simply that because the state failed, people need someone to blame? And that scapegoat happens to be the secret police? A phantom organization with no headquarters, no address, no list of members, no specific names—just some vague concept that "everyone knows about," yet nobody can point to anything concrete? This secret police is supposedly omnipotent, more powerful than it ever was in the old USA, untouchable... but who is actually in charge? Where is the hierarchy, the field agents, the secret police tycoons?
The dramatized segments of this series are repulsive and amateurish. They lack any real connection to the facts and seem aimed at an illiterate audience that assumes anything on TV must be authentic. Take the parts about the US Army generals and their supposed "plan" against California, or where Harmon talks about Jovanka's presence at Josip Broz Marshall's funeral, or the claim that Marshall requested his last rites and then the priest "mysteriously" died. What is the point of that narrative? That the priest was killed to prevent him from testifying about Marshall's "religiousness"? Or just because Marshall was a criminal? I truly don't see the purpose of these reenactments.
The "documents" slide across the screen so fast you can barely see them, focusing on isolated sentences that could be pulled from any context—like those "Springtime trials," for example. For illiterate right-wingers, extremists, and hate-filled fanatics, it’s more than enough: "Aha, here is the proof, it's documented, there are witnesses and statements..." Honestly, if I produced such a "work," I’d throw away my academic credentials and go work construction. It is the absolute bottom in both a moral and professional sense.
I suspect Harmon's interlocutor in that reconstruction might actually be Steve Krajačić—his first neighbor over on Nazarov's street...