History Quotes / WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical

->''{{Creator/Joel|Schumacher}} refers to ComicBook/PoisonIvy as a "beautiful, sexy" version of the Unabomber. Never really thought of it that way, to be honest. Never gotten [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that drunk or stoned.]]''

->''Y'know, I thought WesternAnimation/{{the Pink Panther}}'s nemesis (the little moustached guy in the coat for those of you unaware) was Inspector Clouseau, from [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther the films.]] But no, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} tells me he's simply called The Man. Political subtext ahoy!''

->''{{Creator/Joel|Schumacher}} refers to ComicBook/Poison Ivy as a ‘beautiful, sexy’ version of the Unabomber. Never really thought of it that way, to be honest. Never gotten [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that drunk or stoned.]]''

'''Aeris:''' I'm a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Jenova's]] Witness, traveling these parts and spreading the word of [[WingedHumanoid Sephiroth.]] Will you be ready for Reunion?\\

'''Aeris:''' Yes. The day [[ApocalypseHow all non-believers will be smoten in great joining of our mother.]]\\

'''Aeris''': Oh, no. You'll still die. But ''[[CaughtUpInTheRapture faster.]]''
-->--''Webcomic/VGCats'' parodies ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, "The Word"

->''The story is also pretty fucking relevant for the times; that was almost depressing about it. "The world's spiraling towards nuclear war? Well, yeah, obviously, that's a pisser, but hang on; is there something we can conceivably blame on the Democrats?"''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVvLJ-MJMk review]] of ''VideoGame/FarCry5''

'''Aeris:''' I'm a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Jenova's]] Witness, traveling these parts and spreading the word of [[OneWingedAngel Sephiroth.]] Will you be ready for Reunion?\\

->''When I say “[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion}} Zygon]] ISIS,” I am not reading into the story to any meaningful extent. The radicalized Zygons are, first of all, actually described with the word “radicalized.” They send video messages of their hostages, whom they sometimes execute on camera. They have a sigil consciously designed to mirror the ISIS flag. This episode is [[{{Anvilicious}} not fucking around.]]''
-->--'''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-zygon-invasion-review/ El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho''

->''"Y'know, I thought WesternAnimation/{{the Pink Panther}}'s nemesis (the little moustached guy in the coat for those of you unaware) was Inspector Clouseau, from [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther the films]]. But no, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} tells me he's simply called The Man. Political subtext ahoy!"''

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->''The story is also pretty fucking relevant for the times; that was almost depressing about it. "The world's spiraling towards nuclear war? Well, yeah, obviously, that's a pisser, but hang on; is there something we can conceivably blame on the Democrats?"''
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NVvLJ-MJMk review]] of ''VideoGame/FarCry5''

->''"Cordell attacks people for the crime of just being on the street, or just crossing his path, and uses violence as a means to silence those who are doing nothing wrong. It could have gone terribly wrong, this idea, but Z'Dar's chilling performance and William Lustwig's intense direction turn [[DeadpanSnarker an otherwise-idiotic premise into something frighteningly plausible.]]"''

->''"The people who designed our democracy didn't want us in it all the time. Informed, yes. Politicking all the time, I don't think so. They designed an election that was meant to confuse us and bore us a little bit. That's why the Electoral College exists. And C-SPAN. And the State of the Union begins with 20 minutes of shaking hands with grandpas. But now, politics is everywhere, and that takes up precious brain space that we could be using [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments to remember all the things we actually have in common]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenColbert''', ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'', on the 2016 US presidential election.

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->"One did not expect such [[Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist a film]] to come to American screens in the first decade of the third millennium...The extent to which the film freely, perhaps unselfconciously, but pervasively borrows the most explicit stereotypes of antisemitic representation is nothing short of extraordinary. Indeed, there is so much of this representation that it may have escaped the eyes of some reviewers and critics. But they may also simply be ignorant. After all, antisemitic cinema is not the regular fare of film critics these days...But it does not take a genius, nor even a historian of cinema or of antisemitism, to recognize that ''The Passion of the Christ'' is based on two basic models of representing Jews.\\
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The first model is that of medieval Christianity and its interpretation of the story of the Crucifixion. This version, according to which the Jews were directly responsible for the torture and assassination of God, was of course at the root of much of the antisemitic violence that characterized Europe for centuries...But Gibson's personal beliefs and interpretations of the Gospels should be of little interest to us. What matters is the manner in which they mold the film...At this point the second model kicks in....Gibson's characters are directly lifted from the antisemtic cinematic imagination, one of whose most powerful and influential representatives was ''Jew Süss'', brought to German screens in 1940, at the height of Hitler's power and on the eve of the Final Solution...The geatures of the actors playing malevolent Jews are exaggerated through makeup, lighting, and angle of photography. They sway and gesture and whine and argue just as Jews would in the antisemitic imagination; they are, of course, caricatures, physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Even Satan (Rosalinda Celentano) is a much more attractive figure than these spiteful creeps. One would need to make a single change in their manner of speech, body language, or physical features to paste them into any scene from ''Jew Süss''.
-->-- '''Omer Bartov''', ''The "Jew" in Cinema'': Introduction xiv.


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->''"Joel ''[Schumacher]'' refers to Poison Ivy as a ‘beautiful, sexy’ version of the Unabomber. Never really thought of it that way, to be honest. Never gotten [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs that drunk or stoned.]]"''

->'''Andy:''' The Joker has successfully screwed Gotham up so badly that ordinary citizens are attacking an innocent man just because some voice on the television tells them he’s their enemy. Again, it seems like the pragmatic thing to do. Terror and death will stop if we take these extreme measures.\\

->''"Archer is forced to act almost unilaterally to oppose an obvious evil, discovering that he cannot count on his so-called allies for support. It evokes evoked the “go-it-alone” label so often applied to George W. Bush’s foreign policy, which is – of course – a gross oversimplification of American foreign policy, but one that persists in the popular imagination and has become enshrined in popular history. Far from being the consensus-builder that one might expect to help form the Federation, Archer feels more like [[TheSheriff a stereotypically macho cowboy.]] ''“Just try and stay out of the way and everything will work out fine,”'' he advises the Vulcans, suggesting the macho clichés that Bush himself invoked in the wake of the 9/11 attacks."''

->''"When I say “[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion}} Zygon]] ISIS,” I am not reading into the story to any meaningful extent. The radicalized Zygons are, first of all, actually described with the word “radicalized.” They send video messages of their hostages, whom they sometimes execute on camera. They have a sigil consciously designed to mirror the ISIS flag. This episode is not fucking around."''

->''"Forced to disarm after its humiliating defeat in its war with Shinra/Midgar fifteen years ago, {{Wutai}} now peddles its ancient and unique culture to tourists from the very lands that defeated ''[them]''. Though Wutai is a land of many deities, but most of its inhabitants no longer believe in them as strongly as they used to. Much generational friction exists in Wutai over the war and adherence to custom and tradition. Also, Wutai is full of pagodas, ninja, and giant Buddha statues. [[{{UsefulNotes/Japan}} Eerie real-life counterpart?]] Huh. I'm stumped."''

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->''"I’m looking at this [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids touchy-feely egalitarian nice guy]] in Kirk: Is this really the guy that’s gonna buckle up, saddle up, put on the guns and fight the Klingons, who are encroaching on our airspace, in our territorial infinity? No! There are military leaders now in the United States who feel that, for instance, [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama’s]] a wimp."''
-->--'''Peter Weller''' on ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/blog/the-zygon-invasion-review/ El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho''

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/blog/the-zygon-invasion-review/ Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho''

->''"The people who designed our democracy didn't want us in it all the time. Informed, yes. Politicking all the time, I don't think so. They designed an election that was meant to confuse us and bore us a little bit. That's why the Electoral College exists. And C-SPAN. And the State of the Union begins with 20 minutes of shaking hands with grandpas. But now, politics is everywhere, and that takes up precious brain space that we could be using [[HeartwarmingMoments to remember all the things we actually have in common]]."''

->''"''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' isn't just the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} movie you dreamt of, it's actually a little better. P.S. If you're intent on looking for a political message, here in America, only Barack Obama's Hawaii, Harry Reid's Nevada, and Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco are destroyed. Some kind of sub-conscious hostility towards the destructive leadership of the Democrat Party…? Why not."''
-->--'''John Nolte,''' [[http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/05/16/godzilla-review-everything-you-want-and-more review]] of ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' for ''Breitbart''

->''"The people who designed our democracy didn't want us in it all the time. Informed, yes. Politicking all the time, I don't think so. They designed an election that was meant to confuse us and bore us a little bit. That's why the Electoral College exists. And C-SPAN. And the State of the Union begins with 20 minutes of shaking hands with grandpas. But now politics is everywhere, and that takes up precious brain space that we could be using to remember all the things we actually have in common."''