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Handmaid's tale honestly is subpar because speculative fiction is supposed to be somewhat believable. Only the terminally woke insist it's good.

Yeah I really didn't like it either. The best thing I can say about it is that as far as woke media go, at least it isn't as insufferable as nigger shows like Black-ish, Dear White People or Insecure.
 
Handmaid's tale honestly is subpar because speculative fiction is supposed to be somewhat believable. Only the terminally woke insist it's good.
I enjoyed the book but I think it only worked keeping it in first person and about Offred’s personal experiences so the story didn’t get too bogged down in the overarching details. I haven’t seen the show but I imagine it would have to go away from what made the book good to work as a tv show.
 
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The irony is completely lost on these faggots.
If given the opportunity to mistreat, enslave, subjugate conservatives and force them to comply with SJW rules you better believe they’d take that chance.

Look at what’s going on in the U.K. and Canada. The cops show up if you like a tweet making fun of trannies and Canada has a joke of a human rights tribunal that’s allows serial pedophile trannies to force economic ruin on innocent people if their feelings are hurt. These things are cheered by SJWs. They’d love to reverse first speech protection laws here.

Edit: I say this as someone who’s center left but who’s now Adolf Hitler according to these idiots.
 
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So Handmaid's tale is just a gender flipped version of that episode of Sliders where there's only a few men left?
 
The last time someone wanted to jaw at me about Handmaid's Tale, I noted how the setting bore an intriguing similarity to a specific real world society. Namely, Saudi Arabia.

They found someone else to talk to after that.
It was literally about Iran after the revolution. They used to be so much more liberal and then they got taken over by the hyper conservative religious side. There are pictures of women with so much freedom, and you wouldn't believe it was Iran.

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The last time someone wanted to jaw at me about Handmaid's Tale, I noted how the setting bore an intriguing similarity to a specific real world society. Namely, Saudi Arabia.

They found someone else to talk to after that.
I thought the person writing it in the 80's was warning about daily life under the trump presidency, the series has become a documentary about the suffering of minorities by Orang Grumph etc. etc.
 
It was literally about Iran after the revolution. They used to be so much more liberal and then they got taken over by the hyper conservative religious side. There are pictures of women with so much freedom, and you wouldn't believe it was Iran.

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I wonder what ReeeeesetERA's take on the Shah would be.

Those are some qt Iranian girls.
 
I thought the person writing it in the 80's was warning about daily life under the trump presidency, the series has become a documentary about the suffering of minorities by Orang Grumph etc. etc.
Yeah, Margaret Atwood has been saying "It applies now more than ever" every time there's a republican president in the US. Hilariously, Reagan was the first guy who was definitely going to make the book come true.

Feminists love it because it's persecution porn. They love to say to each other "Oh that could happen here now!" and "Wow, the women's march had police with guns watching them! That's just like the book where police shot women for protesting or something". The media's been happy to churn out a bazillion articles on why it's totally relevant in today's climate.

As a piece of stand along fiction, I'd say who fucking cares, but if they're gonna keep saying "Oh it's just about to happen here" then I get annoyed. It insinuates all the men in the US would go along with some bizarre religion that's like conservative christianity mixed with polygamy, and of course the men in charge are all impotent.

The story is so far fetched, it's ridiculous that it's considered speculative fiction. Now, if it were set in a muslim country, that'd be another thing, since we've actually seen that happen, and see muslims demanding the law reflect their religious beliefs.

Just as another little point of annoyance against the author, she's canadian. She says the handmaid's tale could NEVER come true in canada, but totally could in the US.
 
What stops the US from invading Canada in this counter factual scenario?
I don't know. Somehow a tiny group of weirdos overthrew the entire US government AND defeated the armed forces. It's not even the whole US, it's just some area. But they also blew up congress and blamed it on muslims?

Like I said, it's not a very logical story.
 
The people talking about how we're close to the Handmaid's Tale happening today fail to realize that if it did happen, they wouldn't be talking about how it compares to the book. They would be the ones doing everything in their power to escape the regime as it's power grow because actually being persecuted is thousands of times worse than their current, safe, comfortable lifestyles.
It's the very world they're in that allows them to just haphazardly block out people for opinions freely; they would most definitely pining for this oh so "horrible" era of our country if such a regime came to be.
 
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