Slasher movies in the 1980’s, particularly the Friday the 13th film series, told us a lot about the values of the United States under the Ronald Reagan …
Damn there were a lot of slasher films in the 80s.
They must have been cheap to produce.
I love an '80s aesthetic but christ Reagan fucked this country
Reagan kicked the window of discourse so far to the right that it has still not recovered
Loved your explanation of the "Iran-Contra Scandal", the most nonchalant, vague name for the process by which America sold weapons to both sides of Iran-Iraq war by selling drugs to fund terrorists who raped and murdered civilians in Nicaragua because the United States opposed the democratically elected government in Nicaragua, all in violation of both US and international law. The media really helped bury the extremely evil nature of this operation by giving it such a vague name and making the focus of this "scandal" a bunch of congressional testimonies, as opposed to the real human deaths it caused.
There should be a slasher movie where reagan is the protagonist killer.
7:41 was the funneling of drugs to the us known at the time, when the movies came out? Or is this just an metaphor for the time?
excellent video as always man. also love how smart the comment section is
This video covers almost the entirety of our current political epoch. Americans to this day, express much concern about what people 'deserve' or more often, 'don't deserve'.
I can't think of a better YT video from this year
My mom worked at a law firm in downtown Memphis in the early 80s and I remember the increase in police presence because of all of the mentally ill people that got turned out when Reagan made them homeless. One of my mom's friends lost her job at such a hospital because it was closed down. I guess we can thank Reagan for the schizophrenic bag lady stereotype.
What's the name of the song to introduce the last part of the video?
MLMs are a part of the religious right. I was in an Amway group for a short period of time about five years ago and they worshipped Reagan and would tell people to “vote with their heart” during election times. I got curious once Trump was elected and the leaders in that group follow him on twitter. They just want their conservative in power so that their taxes won’t increase on their wealth and hide it behind “Christian values.”
HINKLEY is my Hero
Crispin Glover's epic dance from F13 4 as the ending credits was awesome. As was the block knife to his face.
The things ive done…
Hippies reassemble! We can all come together again!
I think the message that sex is a moral failing played a huge role in creation of incels I think on some level incels are people who were born at a time where they caught the tail end of raegan cultutre bought into it and grew up to realise it was bullshit and started blaming women
great soundtrack for the video 🙂
And just when I thought I couldn’t hate Reagan any more…
Reagan was probably one of the most damaging presidents in american history.
Reagan was a fraud, calling himself a conservative, however the prime directive of true conservatives is a balanced budget. Not a conservative, and, as I am glad you illuminate, he was a criminal. As for the conservative Christians, they are immoral according to Jesus.
how dare you demonize Jason by comparing him to Reagan grate as always subscribed
I think the appeal of F13th was targeted towards sexually frustrated misfits. They could imagine they were Jason with all his strength massacring the popular kids who were having all the fun. Other slasher films like Elm Street had more sympathetic characters.
Nancy Reagan kinda looks like Mrs Voorhees if you squint. ..
Regan is the worst president of the 20th century. Awful man, awful president.
That's right about conservatives and the boogeyman. They have an "us against them" mentality.
Reaganomics 1980 2019 tax breaks to the richest 1% and Corporate America 39 years of failed socialism Republic corporate policy. Blue-collar middle-class workers became poor, the working class poor become homeless. Unions are busted, factories move overseas, the rich get richer the poor get poorer Reaganomics deficits sword, military increase, wage gap between rich and poor expand . this was a terrible man with a terrible plan but unfortunately it's the same failed economic policies active in America today 2019 same dumb Republican shit 39 years unbelievable.
The fact that Reagan and his administration took so long to address the AIDS crisis because "premarital and/or LGBTQ sex is bad!" is absolutely disgusting. I can't imagine the horror people must have felt back then of facing a plague-like disease that the government wanted to do nothing about because they were Puritanical assholes.
Title: Heh I see what ya did there.
The only way to stop another reactionary backlash from winning, by the way, is by embracing intersectional solidarity. No one gets left behind. That's the only way we'll be able to avoid the divide-and-conquer tactics the Right uses to advance a backlash.
name of the song in the beginning ?
as someone who is old enough to remember the 1980s, this vid hits all the nails on all the heads. 100% truth.
I’ve been saying this for years! Thank you.
The funny thing is, in a ‘’Christian’’ culture, you might think moralizing certain behaviors would make it even more incumbent on the community to respond in kind, with Christian principles of love and compassion. Instead we’ve imbibed this asinine ideology of personal salvation, where the whole world can fuck off and the individual can still be saved.
i love how stuff that was considered flat and forgettable in it's time with the right amount of time andperspective can be so revealing and useful for understanding the times of the society that made it all your work is great mr. cut, thank you for all your effort
Separation of Church and state my ass
i listened to the first part of the dollop on reagan recently, guy was a psychopath. like, i used to think american psycho connection to reagan was just neoliberalism (beginnings) of the 80s but nah, it was the wholesale patrick bateman character.
Hey Ronnie Reagan, I'm black and I'm pagan,
I'm gay and I'm left and I'm free.
I'm a non-fundamentalist environmentalist,
Please don't bother me.
– Christy Moore
And Why the radical right hates Isis again ?
this video is great — the credits song is perfect
Not hard to see why people call Reagan the devil.
I always found the implications of slasher films very unsettling based on the reactions of the audience. Many seem to empathize with the killers and hate the victims and enjoy their deaths. As a pre teen, I sympathized with Jason's mother and her loss and resented how the counselors didn't pay the attention they should have and almost felt like they deserved what they got, but now that viewpoint disturbs me.
Ronald Wilson Reagan = six letters each = 666 = coincidence???
"In midst of this madness it's madmen that win, even when we vote the opposite it all reverts to Reagan." – Dälek, Asylum (Permanent Underclass)
Did you ever do a video on demolition man, cause if not you should. Not a demand, just a suggestion
Fuck Reagan and his policies. Although he ended the Cold War and saved the economy at the time, but the real question is at what cost? LGBTQ discrimination, abortion restrictions, expansion of the Christian right, the gap between the rich and the poor, rise of Trump, HIV/AIDS crisis all over the world, misinterpretations about sex, feminism, and socialism, mass incarceration, the migrant problem, gangs in the US, and police brutality, deficit in government thanks to expensive military spending, and conflicts with the Middle East such as the creation of the Muhajeddin( yeah, the Reagan Administration gave them weapons to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, but left them in poverty after the war ended as they didn't care about them and didn't want to improve their living standards).
This video is so good wtf.
Also in the film bio Fri 13 Betsy Palmer said she was cast out by being pregnant outside of marriage in the pure 1950s Christian world.thats why Jason was deformed and the only place she was excepted was solitude in the woods. Watch how deformed and retarded children were treated up till 1980 Geraldo Rivera report.thats jason.look back on all the killer's in the 60s-70" who were let back out prisons to kill again this is why the punisher was created in 1980 somebody who hunts and kills killer's. Jason protected his property want to live don't go to crystal lake.if you weren't a parent who burned a child killer on elm street you'll live.listen to Paul Mooney on ghost and killer's he sums up everything
Damn there were a lot of slasher films in the 80s.
They must have been cheap to produce.
I love an '80s aesthetic but christ Reagan fucked this country
Reagan kicked the window of discourse so far to the right that it has still not recovered
Loved your explanation of the "Iran-Contra Scandal", the most nonchalant, vague name for the process by which America sold weapons to both sides of Iran-Iraq war by selling drugs to fund terrorists who raped and murdered civilians in Nicaragua because the United States opposed the democratically elected government in Nicaragua, all in violation of both US and international law. The media really helped bury the extremely evil nature of this operation by giving it such a vague name and making the focus of this "scandal" a bunch of congressional testimonies, as opposed to the real human deaths it caused.
There should be a slasher movie where reagan is the protagonist killer.
7:41 was the funneling of drugs to the us known at the time, when the movies came out? Or is this just an metaphor for the time?
excellent video as always man. also love how smart the comment section is
This video covers almost the entirety of our current political epoch. Americans to this day, express much concern about what people 'deserve' or more often, 'don't deserve'.
I can't think of a better YT video from this year
My mom worked at a law firm in downtown Memphis in the early 80s and I remember the increase in police presence because of all of the mentally ill people that got turned out when Reagan made them homeless. One of my mom's friends lost her job at such a hospital because it was closed down. I guess we can thank Reagan for the schizophrenic bag lady stereotype.
What's the name of the song to introduce the last part of the video?
MLMs are a part of the religious right. I was in an Amway group for a short period of time about five years ago and they worshipped Reagan and would tell people to “vote with their heart” during election times. I got curious once Trump was elected and the leaders in that group follow him on twitter. They just want their conservative in power so that their taxes won’t increase on their wealth and hide it behind “Christian values.”
HINKLEY is my Hero
Crispin Glover's epic dance from F13 4 as the ending credits was awesome. As was the block knife to his face.
The things ive done…
Hippies reassemble! We can all come together again!
I think the message that sex is a moral failing played a huge role in creation of incels I think on some level incels are people who were born at a time where they caught the tail end of raegan cultutre bought into it and grew up to realise it was bullshit and started blaming women
great soundtrack for the video 🙂
And just when I thought I couldn’t hate Reagan any more…
Reagan was probably one of the most damaging presidents in american history.
Reagan was a fraud, calling himself a conservative, however the prime directive of true conservatives is a balanced budget. Not a conservative, and, as I am glad you illuminate, he was a criminal.
As for the conservative Christians, they are immoral according to Jesus.
how dare you demonize Jason by comparing him to Reagan
grate as always
subscribed
I think the appeal of F13th was targeted towards sexually frustrated misfits. They could imagine they were Jason with all his strength massacring the popular kids who were having all the fun. Other slasher films like Elm Street had more sympathetic characters.
Nancy Reagan kinda looks like Mrs Voorhees if you squint. ..
Regan is the worst president of the 20th century. Awful man, awful president.
That's right about conservatives and the boogeyman. They have an "us against them" mentality.
Reaganomics 1980 2019 tax breaks to the richest 1% and Corporate America 39 years of failed socialism Republic corporate policy. Blue-collar middle-class workers became poor, the working class poor become homeless. Unions are busted, factories move overseas, the rich get richer the poor get poorer Reaganomics deficits sword, military increase, wage gap between rich and poor expand . this was a terrible man with a terrible plan but unfortunately it's the same failed economic policies active in America today 2019 same dumb Republican shit 39 years unbelievable.
The fact that Reagan and his administration took so long to address the AIDS crisis because "premarital and/or LGBTQ sex is bad!" is absolutely disgusting. I can't imagine the horror people must have felt back then of facing a plague-like disease that the government wanted to do nothing about because they were Puritanical assholes.
Title: Heh I see what ya did there.
The only way to stop another reactionary backlash from winning, by the way, is by embracing intersectional solidarity. No one gets left behind. That's the only way we'll be able to avoid the divide-and-conquer tactics the Right uses to advance a backlash.
name of the song in the beginning ?
as someone who is old enough to remember the 1980s, this vid hits all the nails on all the heads. 100% truth.
I’ve been saying this for years! Thank you.
The funny thing is, in a ‘’Christian’’ culture, you might think moralizing certain behaviors would make it even more incumbent on the community to respond in kind, with Christian principles of love and compassion. Instead we’ve imbibed this asinine ideology of personal salvation, where the whole world can fuck off and the individual can still be saved.
i love how stuff that was considered flat and forgettable in it's time with the right amount of time andperspective can be so revealing and useful for understanding the times of the society that made it
all your work is great mr. cut, thank you for all your effort
Separation of Church and state my ass
i listened to the first part of the dollop on reagan recently, guy was a psychopath. like, i used to think american psycho connection to reagan was just neoliberalism (beginnings) of the 80s but nah, it was the wholesale patrick bateman character.
Hey Ronnie Reagan, I'm black and I'm pagan,
I'm gay and I'm left and I'm free.
I'm a non-fundamentalist environmentalist,
Please don't bother me.
– Christy Moore
And Why the radical right hates Isis again ?
this video is great — the credits song is perfect
Not hard to see why people call Reagan the devil.
I always found the implications of slasher films very unsettling based on the reactions of the audience. Many seem to empathize with the killers and hate the victims and enjoy their deaths. As a pre teen, I sympathized with Jason's mother and her loss and resented how the counselors didn't pay the attention they should have and almost felt like they deserved what they got, but now that viewpoint disturbs me.
Ronald Wilson Reagan = six letters each = 666 = coincidence???
"In midst of this madness it's madmen that win, even when we vote the opposite it all reverts to Reagan." – Dälek, Asylum (Permanent Underclass)
Did you ever do a video on demolition man, cause if not you should. Not a demand, just a suggestion
Fuck Reagan and his policies. Although he ended the Cold War and saved the economy at the time, but the real question is at what cost? LGBTQ discrimination, abortion restrictions, expansion of the Christian right, the gap between the rich and the poor, rise of Trump, HIV/AIDS crisis all over the world, misinterpretations about sex, feminism, and socialism, mass incarceration, the migrant problem, gangs in the US, and police brutality, deficit in government thanks to expensive military spending, and conflicts with the Middle East such as the creation of the Muhajeddin( yeah, the Reagan Administration gave them weapons to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, but left them in poverty after the war ended as they didn't care about them and didn't want to improve their living standards).
This video is so good wtf.
Also in the film bio Fri 13 Betsy Palmer said she was cast out by being pregnant outside of marriage in the pure 1950s Christian world.thats why Jason was deformed and the only place she was excepted was solitude in the woods. Watch how deformed and retarded children were treated up till 1980 Geraldo Rivera report.thats jason.look back on all the killer's in the 60s-70" who were let back out prisons to kill again this is why the punisher was created in 1980 somebody who hunts and kills killer's. Jason protected his property want to live don't go to crystal lake.if you weren't a parent who burned a child killer on elm street you'll live.listen to Paul Mooney on ghost and killer's he sums up everything