![]() Epic music swells when there is a wide shot of the Statesmen's base, quite literally a bottle of alcohol, surrounded by barrels. Every display of alcohol is beautifully shot and magnificently lit. When Tequila is brought out of hibernation, there is a close up shot of Ginger ale quipping "stick to the booze". Our heroes find it delicious every time they drink, and made sure to compliment it. Alcohol is also continually positively commented on throughout the film. It helped our heroes find the statesmen, it helps Eggsy find a way to cure Harry, and finally serves as the foundations for the new Statesmen. Alcohol, especially whiskey, moves the plot forward in every instance, and serves as "inspirations" for our protagonists. ![]() Meanwhile, other drug use or generalized in a very vague way, and is negatively commented on repeatedly, as well as subliminally (as well as it can in its juvenile ways) asserted as something that will kill you. It is romanticized, encouraged, and reinforced as the drug of choice for a gentleman. The film continually reinforce alcohol in positive ways, while making ignorant and uninformed arguments against drug use, recreationally or otherwise.Įverytime Alcohol is referenced in the film (and there's plenty) there is a blatant endorsement of alcohol use. To the extent that nationalism was tolerated in his view of things, he was on board with the creation of national political subdivisions of the eventual Soviet state, with the creation of the various national SSRs (Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, etc.) per his nationalities policy, as a means of representing those nationalities in government and policymaking, but he nevertheless very fuckin loudly hated nationalism, it was part of why he railed so hard against WW1.Kingsman 2's views regarding alcohol vs drugs is extremely bias, and potentially dangerously influential towards its younger viewer. He viewed nationalism (not incorrectly, tbf) as a poison against proletarian solidarity and the international communist revolution. Lenin was also violently anti-nationalist. They were never in the same place, didn't run in similar circles, and Hitler would have never called Lenin - a communist who was good friends with many Jews including Trotsky - "comrade." ![]() In other words, they'd have no reason to meet. ![]() Right from early in the history of the Russian Social Democrats, before their second party congress, he was a notable figure. His brother was arrested and executed for attempting to kill the Tsar and that right there pushed Lenin into the radical left, but also away from anarchism (his brother was an anarchist - he was part of People's Will, an anarchist terrorist group) and towards Marxism. That's the whole ass reason he wasn't in Russia until after the February Revolution, the Tsarist government was going to kill his ass if he was there. Lenin was always in left wing circles.Even when he was a nobody in Vienna he was reading shit like the Deustches Volksblatt, a German nationalist and anti-Semitic newspaper (though it does seem that he didn't get into hardcore anti-Semitism until the war ended - he signed on hard to the stab-in-the-back myth). Hitler was never in left wing circles.Okay so I'm sure it's all meant to be alt history but nothing about that makes sense:
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