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Aristus

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1. At the time it was released, I was still a pro-Reagan, flag-waving, rah-rah, Amuricka-Fuck-yeah!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 10, 2020, 12:02 PM

Aug 2020

obnoxious asshole.

But when Harry Dean Stanton said "Avenge me! Aveeeeeeeeeenge MEEEEEEEE!" even I thought "this movie is a piece of shit!"

I haven't watched it since...

What right-wing crapola...

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On this day, August 10, 1984, "Red Dawn" was released. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP

At the time it was released, I was still a pro-Reagan, flag-waving, rah-rah, Amuricka-Fuck-yeah! Aristus Aug 2020 #1

ridiculous reagan era propaganda. rampartc Aug 2020 #2

Thank you. I didn't want to be the first person to call "Red Dawn" Mike 03 Aug 2020 #4

Yet another marker of our descent into idiocracy. Voltaire2 Aug 2020 #3

Who woulda thought that the Commies just had to buy the GOP. OhZone Aug 2020 #5

It's the"Citizen Kane" of Reagan-era paranoid crap. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 #6

It's just a movie. I enjoyed it but never expected anything like what happened the movie to ... SWBTATTReg Aug 2020 #7

Today's boogaloo bois and their ilk think they are wolverines sanatanadharma Aug 2020 #8