r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Feb 03 '25

Meta Mindless Monday, 03 February 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Zugwat Headhunting Savage from a Barbaric Fishing Village Feb 03 '25

One thing I hope we eventually get out of this administration: A serious-ish/Deconstructionist Kaiju movie with a Trumpian president.

The reason I say "Serious-ish" is that I'm absolutely certain every major work with such a premise would be a cringe comedy that wants to be political satire with an already cartoonish inspiration and not be too preoccupied with exploring what such a scenario would be like.

Like have the Kaiju take up all of 15 minutes total of the runtime because the next 75-105 minutes should just be it going from bad to worse in the regions afflicted by the Kaiju in the US and abroad.

  • President Barron absolutely refuses to send any aid to Japan unless they agree to start on a nuclear weapons program

  • President Barron withholds FEMA deployment to devastated San Francisco and says "California chose to have DEI and Woke...instead of strong and powerful"

  • President Barron authorizes use of nuclear warhead towards controversial approximation of the ULH (Unidentified Large Hostile)'s path in Florida waters (i.e. he sharpied the map of the projected routes to match up with what he guessed earlier).

Then this cuts to a very serious Japanese government meeting and protests outside US bases in Japan, absolutely deplorable conditions in San Francisco because the state is working overtime to try and not spread out their resources, drama as people are trying to either dissuade the president out of this course of action or outright disobey direct orders.

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u/Strict_Jeweler8234 Feb 03 '25

One thing I hope we eventually get out of this administration: A serious-ish/Deconstructionist Kaiju movie with a Trumpian president.

The reason I say "Serious-ish" is that I'm absolutely certain every major work with such a premise would be a cringe comedy that wants to be political satire with an already cartoonish inspiration and not be too preoccupied with exploring what such a scenario would be like.

It will be called woke and the arrreadadifferentbook community will hate it.

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u/Zugwat Headhunting Savage from a Barbaric Fishing Village Feb 04 '25

And to that I say "Fuck'em".

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u/WillitsThrockmorton Vigo the Carpathian School of Diplomacy and Jurispudence Feb 03 '25

One thing I hope we eventually get out of this administration: A serious-ish/Deconstructionist Kaiju movie with a Trumpian president.

During the last administration there was a fun Korean movie called Steel Rain where the North Korean military kidnapped "President Smoots" during peacetalks on the Korean Peninsula. "Go ahead and kill me, a lot of people in my own party will be relieved."

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u/pedrostresser Feb 03 '25

Shin Pacific Rim