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2026-03-16 11:57 UTC
@Cheeseness @lritter What's changed since then? I mean, the American Civil War happened two centuries ago, what's changed in those two decades since Firefly came out that changed how you view it?
It can't be the current political and cultural bankruptcy in the USA, the situation doesn't really map onto the ACW motives.
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 12:08
@ticho What has changed in the past quarter century? The political landscape in the US (which again, I struggle to divorce Firefly from as a product and artefact of US culture) and by extension a lot of other western cultures (including my own) has shifted right in a way that appears to have reignited that "lost cause" stuff, which IMO the whole make stuff great again narrative is borrowing heavily from. I little while back, I saw a US confederate flag being flown here. Yikes. @lritter