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I was wondering when someone would bring up the Venezuela parks and rec episode. I watched a few episodes of the show back in the day when I was an apolitical dipshit and didn't really care for it but that ep stayed with me. I knew almost next to nothing about international affairs at the time so while I assumed it was of course exaggerated that episode pretty much served as a basis for my conception of the country. As I became more aware and more left wing the show came rushing back to my memory and it was nauseating to think how divorced from reality the depiction of the country was and how there are probably a decent amount of Americans who formed their opinion of Venezuela based on scenes like that prison one.



This might be a painfully obvious and shallow observation for you veteran posters, but I think some of these seemingly goofy and apolitical comedies can be just as bad if not worse than MSM propaganda--I remember my friend was like "oh there's this crazy scene in The Interview, where the North Korean lady says there's 100% literacy. That's based on real NK propaganda haha," as if the idea of a country educating all its citizens was such a fanciful notion that only a supremely delusional people would cite such a statistic. Another instance involved a conversation about architecture or something, I forget the exact context, but I mentioned that I thought the big cities in Kazakhstan had really cool styles and the person seemed shocked that this was the case, and that it wasn't just huts in the desert ala the opening of Borat. There's billions of other examples of course, but this particular Fred Armisen shit makes me uniquely nude and red and mad online.