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- usa@midwest.social
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.
According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.
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If they’re gonna do propaganda, why is it in the most pathetic way?
Shouldn’t it be a film about national pride or something like that?
Because it works. Most of Trumps propaganda is pathetic, but it still works doesn’t it. Still in power, escalating more and more.
Maybe it could be about the triumph of the will? That might be nice.
Or they could write a book about their struggle.
Maybe they’ll be mad enough to disregard illegal orders next time they’re ordered to do something illegal.
It’s the enemy military right? It’s torture right?
How dare they be pressured to take a long nap.
Bring the kids!
Trumps latest nickname ‘clockwork orange’
They really want to get couped, don’t they?
Lol thats not a $75M film. That’s an $82M film because that 7 million in sales was also spent by the same people who made it.
Even though I disagree with torture in all instances hard to feel bad for someone who agreed to help oppress and murder billions for the bourgeois.
Why didn’t they save this for the political prisoners they need to torture?
They did and are. Why do you think they are making the military watch it.
Like a cross between “A Clockwork Orange” and “Full Metal Jacket”.
“ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS BIOPIC OF THE FIRST LADY, PYLE!?”
The mandatory cinema consumption featuring great leader’s family will continue until morale improves.
Some of her other works might be better suited for improving morale
Meh.
The ironic thing is that if it was a real documentary, talking for example how they met, how she got citizenship, her involvement in his businesses etc then a lot of people would watch it. Heck, I don’t care about movies about first lady, but I would watch it.
It’s just for some reason they want to keep so far away from those topics they n made it about the 20 days before second inauguration.
Thankfully this shit hasn’t made it to my installation. I’m guessing these eight bases “world-wide” have to be targeting the USMC.
The Marines get the absolute bottom of the barrel treatment even as far military members go.
Hazing has changed over the years it seems
“Against their will” sounds funny in context. I was forced to do plenty of things in the military against my will. Most dealing with PowerPoint presentations.
Isn’t the point of joining the military is to surrender free will? That’s one of the many reasons I didn’t want to.
In war, mostly yes. But the majority of the time, they only control your work hours. There’s a ton of caveats to that but day to day, it’s like any other job. But they cannot make you spend money on something like this. I don’t know if I could have not laughed in their face for trying to pressure that.
*This varies more or less depending on the branch.
But could they buy the tickets themselves and order you to go to the cinema during work hours?
They could and you’d have to go.
More taxpayer money wasted by this Republican administration and Republican Congress that can’t do their jobs to do appropriate oversight.
Seems like we are at war.
Are they trying to increase the suicide rate?!
Or cause a resurgence of fragging?
