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I'm currently watching 24 again and it now feels even more like fiction than it ever did.

• mnky9800n 1y ago
  24 was a wonderful piece of American propaganda whose only goal was to make it seem like torture was okay.
  • acdha 1y ago
    Yes, it was sickening to watch a lot of people - even self-proclaimed libertarians – flip on torture during that period. There was a stark reversal from the 90s where the War Crimes Act was unanimously passed because back then anti-torture laws were thought of as affecting enemies like the Viet Cong, which lasted less than a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996
  • Der_Einzige 1y ago
    The jack bauer power hour is a strong memory of my childhood.
  • mrguyorama 1y ago
    People who talked about how 24 and Jack Bauer showed that torture was good actually included a goddamned supreme court justice and I think the SecDef? The Bush Jr admin was openly fans of the show. Oh, and the cast were invited to have a panel at a conference for the fucking Heritage Foundation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P52G4Kyq5M A look at the 24 world and it's insane violence by Jon Bois
    • mnky9800n 1y ago
      There should be a whole PhD dissertation in how 24 took over American culture and was used to justify heinous acts with some trite “the ends justify the means” hero porn on prime time. Edit: and don’t forget this show was on fox.
  • layer8 1y ago
    Yeah, the “justified torture” is when I had to stop watching.