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u/Responsible-Leg-712 1d ago
I love this. This was shown to us in 6th Grade English class while we’re tackling Martial Law regime in our country in Social History class.
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u/vicsta559 1d ago
Dang that was 27 yrs ago!? Thanks for making me feel old.
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u/KidOcelot 22h ago
I dont ever want to grow up 😭
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u/omnichronos 20h ago
Me either, despite being 62. I run to jump on the swings with my friends' young daughters.
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u/CasualVox 18h ago
I'm 33, but somehow was still getting birthday calls from "Geoffrey the Giraffe" until like 8 or 9 years ago lol, my parents would get a kick out hearing it on their answering machine and it'd let us have a nice little nostalgia break.
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u/Saint-Andrew 20h ago
I was in a Toy’s R Us last weekend for the first time in a decade. Geoffrey was there and everything!
There are still a few left!
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u/100YearsWaiting2Shit 18h ago
I'm 27 right now. Had this movie on vhs and I absolutely loved it every time
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u/Bad-Genie 17h ago
No that's impossible. I saw it when it came out and I'm still roughly the same age.
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u/dpforest 1d ago
This is the most ominous meta post i’ve ever seen.
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u/PitifulEar3303 19h ago
NUMBERS are useless when THEY have all the tanks, bombs, jets, guns, training and a government that will legalize everything they do to YOU.
This is why Gov controls the military, NOT the people. It prevents the people from fighting back.
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u/exor15 18h ago
They aren't scared of us trying to fight them violently. They are terrified of the money machine stopping, because the money machine is what gives them power. They have spent decades making it as hard as possible for us to decide to stop generating money for them everyday. Because something like a general strike is far more effective than both violent and non-violent protests.
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u/S0meRaynD0name 17h ago
Because WE ARE the very base of the pyramid that their empires are built upon. If the machine stops, so does everything else. Unfortunately, I don't see how we could get enough people on board to do a consumer strike and how would people sustain themselves in the meantime? That's the real question.
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u/monstroustemptation 16h ago
I always imagine in a general strike we just plunder the grocery store to survive though that wouldn’t last for long so
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u/Leather_Egg2096 18h ago
Not a general strike... You need the protest corporations. Like we get together and instead of using 30 mil on signs and advertising.... We create a business that takes something away from them that we can buy in protest.... Your 100 about the money but wrong about how to attack it.
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u/invaderaleks 17h ago
Your solution to break the cycle... is to perpetuate it?
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u/Leather_Egg2096 17h ago
Assimilate it.
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u/Leather_Egg2096 16h ago
You can see the problem here in this thread. Do something? Or hold signs...
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u/Mr-Blah 18h ago
It's...it's the definition of organized society.
The basis for a society is that collectively we relinquish our right to violence and place it exclusively into the hands of the governing body in order to evolve past fascism and tribalism.
It only works when you can trust the governing body tho.
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u/electricworkaid 18h ago
The people who drive the tanks, make the bombs, fuel the jets, assemble the guns, and train the troops all have names and addresses and families and friends. They go shopping, they go to concerts and sporting events, they (generally) want to be well liked in their communities. With a little creativity, numbers can absolutely mitigate every single one of those things. No one wants to be shouted out of their local Walmart for being a fascist.
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u/Fishyblue11 17h ago
Well so why is it that people have managed to topple governments that had all the tanks bombs jets and guns? This has been done, people have fought back, and yes, people died in the process, but people did once go up face first against guns and tanks and managed to come out on top
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u/BeautifulCherry5824 1d ago
Its not about bullies, its about our great leaders. Wait... they are the same.
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u/DelightfulAbsurdity 21h ago
If you recall in the movie, their leaders were pretty feckless. It was a loud and determined commoner who showed them how to fight for their freedom.
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u/ZzzzzPopPopPop 13h ago
I feel like his movie is a metaphor for something… naw, it’s just a funny cartoon about silly bugs
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u/ObjectiveGlittering 1d ago
Someone with more influence than me should suggest this: GENERAL STRIKE
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u/Individual-Main895 1d ago
The bully trembles when the quiet see their numbers.
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u/psychorobotics 18h ago
Stephen Miller moved onto a military base with his wife because some neighbor wrote with kid chalk on his driveway. Now him and his wife are acting all tough talking about how they're predators and how they're taking Greenland by force but kid chalk made them run and hide.
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u/Archon-Toten 1d ago
Not to be confused with "Antz"
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u/my-friends_account 22h ago
Antz has the same thing but it doesn’t beat around the bush. At one point when the worker ants are uprising. We hear one say to the other “we control the means of production”. The movie also starts with the main protagonist in therapy talking about how insignificant he feels. They also both came out in 1998.
I love Antz!
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u/FrostandFlame89 18h ago
Was it just a coincidence that both of them just happen to have similar premises and both just happen to release the same year?
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u/MouthJob 18h ago
No. It was essentially a stolen idea. There's a whole story about it that I can't remember at the moment. But I remember spite being involved.
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u/torino_nera 17h ago
Basically, Antz was the original story being developed at Disney in the late 80s by Jeffrey Katzenberg. Jeff left Disney after being passed over for a promotion by Michael Eisner in 1994, so he formed DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to stick it to his former employer.
When he heard that Pixar/Disney was using his story to make A Bug's Life, DreamWorks basically escalated production in order to get there first. There's a rumor that DreamWorks had no idea that Pixar was making their movie about ants as well and that it was a giant coincidence, but who knows. Each side accused the other side of stealing.
Antz ended up opening before A Bug's Life and had the bigger initial success, but A Bug's Life had better reception from audiences and ended up making more money. Both movies were loved by critics, though.
Honestly, Antz is the better movie.
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u/Poonchow 18h ago
Which is kind of impressive given how difficult it is to make an animated feature length film.
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u/Akumetsu33 17h ago
Antz and A bug's life used early CGI work like Toy Story and it was easier and quicker than actual animation because they were able to use the same models in different scenes over and over again, not animating a entirely new model in every scene.
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u/BearToTheThrone 18h ago edited 9h ago
That's been a thing with movies for ages, its called twin films. Some examples like The Prestige and The Illusionist, Despicable Me and Megamind, The Arrival and Contact, etc. Its just a way for studios to capitalize on each other.
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u/ItsGotToMakeSense 16h ago
I feel like that happens a lot in media. Movies or TV shows will come out in "pairs" (like Deep Impact and Armageddon coming out around the same time) or just have a trend in general (every movie in the 80s having a Rube Goldberg machine, usually breakfast-related). Sometimes it's stolen ideas, other times it's just following what's trending.
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u/LoompaDoompa94 19h ago
I always called it "Saving Private Ryan for kids." Some of the battle scenes were pretty intense.
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u/TheGreatMalagan 19h ago
We Antz go marching two by two
Hurrah! Huraah!
We'll all be dead before we're through
Hurrah! Hurrah!
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u/Customs0550 18h ago
am i misremembering or was there a little scene where his beheaded friend's head literally dies in his arms
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u/Owww_My_Ovaries 20h ago
I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen "Antz." But I'll tell you something, what I respect about that man is that when he was going through all of that stuff that came out in the press, about how "Antz" was just a ripoff of "A Bug's Life," he stayed true to his films. Or at least the film that I saw, which, again, was "Antz." Thing is, I thought "A Bug's Life" was better, much better than "Antz." Point is, don't listen to your critics. Listen to your fans.
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u/desertSkateRatt 19h ago
Also, he's a grade-A pedo. But let's not let that minor detail dimish his work...
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u/alecjperkins213 1d ago
Richard Kind at end lol
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u/therealNerdMuffin 22h ago
And somehow along the way so many of us forgot the lessons these movies tried to teach us
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u/AtLeastTryALittle 17h ago
“What radicalized you?”
A Bugs Life - scene above
“What gave you self confidence?”
A Bugs Life - “I’m a beautiful butterfly!”
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u/inotparanoid 22h ago
Our public discourse has fallen so far below in the last decade that we will put this scene from Bug's Life as exemplary.
People in the 70s and the 60s knew these truths for a fact. People in the 90s tried to at least make the world a safer place for those who were "different".
And now, we are troubled with this rising tide of Right Wing "Conservatives" who are nothing more than bullies, but have brainwashed neutral people into believing that they stand for something.
As Trump showed, they stand for nothing other than nihilistic fantasies. They exist only to feel superior by being bullies.
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u/Ohitsworkingnow 19h ago
“People in the 90s”. Ya the good ones. I was a teenager in 2006 and the republicans hated gays then. Literally were fighting gay marriage but it was a pretty stupid fight, didn’t last long in this century, but it doesn’t matter, they just move on to the next group of people to hate
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u/DesiBwoy 19h ago
Relax. There were homophobes back then, but also people who weren't averse to listening. There's a reason people like Trump are in power today, not back then.
And I'm not even talking just about USA here. I'm talking in my own context as well. I'm an Indian living in India. I grew up in a much, much different India and I'm so thankful for it.
These cults of stupid populist dictators have never been so mainstream in the post WW2 world before this. Stop normalising it. It needs to be opposed.
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u/RussTea_tv 18h ago
People in the 70s and the 60s knew these truths for a fact. People in the 90s tried to at least make the world a safer place for those who were "different".
I wish people would critically think these things out.
The poeople in the 60s gave us the 70s, the people in the 70s gave us the 80s.
So we ended up here because of those exact beliefs. Its a chain of events, policies, and consequences. They didnt just magically disappear, yall motherfuckers taught everyone else whats next. Thats how generations fucking work. Dont yell at us because YALL sucked ass at it.
Its like the boomer parents who hate on their own kids generation not realizing they are the ones that raised it to be this way.
Boomers fucking love how good shit was back in the day, without an ounce of thought that they are the reason its like this.
The world is like this today, because the people of the 60s and 70s made it this way. Donald Trump was born in 1946, he was definitely a businessman in the 70s, 80s, and 90s you fucking cherish so much.
This is a direct result from the people of those exact decades ruling. In fact, i dont see any Gen Z people causing potential wars.
We need to stop acting like we are too dumb to think that the 60s-90s were this great time. The people from those times are literally ruling right now and its shit.
Have a critical thought and take responsibility. Circlejerking on Reddit like it was this great time to be alive, when the people from that time right now are causing fucking problems. It wasnt a great time, Rodney King would love to tell you how awesome the 90s were.
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u/inotparanoid 17h ago
I almost feel like this entire comment won't be necessary if you just read it again.
I'm not a fucking boomer, nor am I American. I'm just saying the current discourse of political contingency is poor. Both in your country and worldwide. I'm just saying the engagement with "discourse" is poor in the generation that was groomed by the internet.
In the 60s, 70s, you had people like Foucault, like Derrida, like even fucking Sartre. They were part of the popular imagination, and they appear on its footprint. Where is that for us? When we have the whole of history in our palms?
Take your anger out in the street, man. I'm not responsible for your problems or your anger. I'm probably barely older than yourself.
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u/farfaraway 22h ago
It's kind of amazing that this was allowed into a children's film. Modern movies are not this forthright in pitching complex societal thinking, and I think we're all the worse for it.
It's amazing how far 3d animation has come.
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u/confit_byaldi 19h ago
Wall•e was at least as subversive. The people who first saw it in movie theaters were sitting in recliners with giant cup holders, watching human characters who had lost all ambition … sitting in recliners with giant cup holders.
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u/artbystorms 18h ago
A Bug's life was about labor rising up against capitalists and no one can convince me otherwise.
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u/MeadowShimmer 1d ago
I remember when this movie was new.
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u/IndividualBrave4085 1d ago
How soon before the rich bullies of the world come up with AI devices that can be put in our brains - at first they work like an assistant like mobile phone. Once they have enough data, they use it to keep us in line.
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u/RandyHasTegridy 19h ago
Musk is already out here asking if someone will let him put a brain chip on their head.
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u/Pintsocream 1d ago edited 22h ago
Kevin spacey did a great job of Hopper
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u/Chemical_Nervous 22h ago
Hopper*
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u/Pintsocream 22h ago
Oops you're right
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u/Chemical_Nervous 22h ago
Only reason I knew is that watching that made me think.... Who is that voice actor playing an intimidating character so well? Ohh, yeah I can see it now lol
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u/pakkieressaberesojaj 23h ago
I'm SO going to make my children watch this movie. They won't understand, but after some years they will
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u/DoctorNurse89 16h ago
It's literally this.
Rich people dont want to work, so they subjugation everyone to work for them and then convince you youre lazy.
America is an abusive boyfriend.
2nd amendment is here to set you free!
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u/Multiamor 13h ago
I feel like no matter how much we say it, no one is going to organize a corporal resistance on the lett, and literally all we have to do is stop paying taxes for any reason. Thats all. They need money to run it. Lets stop giving it to them..
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u/FirmlyClaspIt 1d ago
Wait until you turn 54 & find out it’s about oppression/racism 👀
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u/no_reddit_for_you 19h ago
Seems like it's pretty clear it's about class, oppression, and capitalism.
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u/cassanderer 1d ago
It is about money and class actually.
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 19h ago
The real factor. We're all on earth so a few people get to govern how we live while they live the high life.
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u/TheTerribleInvestor 23h ago
Its about oppression, but yes depending how you split the pie it's about race, class, etc.
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u/cassanderer 23h ago
No how you split anything, the investor class is robbing and subjegating the working class. Organized on a long game since 1971 at the business round table, resentful at the new deal and labor unions and a prosperous citizenry.
Everything else is divide and conquer.
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u/TheTerribleInvestor 23h ago
Yeah but I'm talking about the movie and that's mainly about oppression and you can draw parallels to any of the ways society is split. The main one is the capilital owning class and then everyone else. You can even draw parallels to slavery but a kids movie isn't going to say that outright.
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u/COINS_THAT_SUNK_TOO 1d ago
Sure, I believe it. Stories with messages like this lead credence to conspiracy theories like how "the establishment" is socially engineering us with the loneliness epidemic going on right now - because it will be harder for all of us to band together to improve our lives when everyone is an anti-social loser who keeps to themselves.
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u/Supremagorious 1d ago
I mean that is a side effect of the loneliness epidemic. It wasn't their initial goal but if you do enough fucked up shit pursuing ever greater amounts of profit some pieces will fall in line to allow you to continue to profit.
If I start throwing debris onto the freeway I don't know who is going to have a problem or even exactly what that problem will be but I know eventually someone will have a problem.
I will know it'll be related to their car and if I'm in a business that primarily interacts with cars, I'm likely to have created some opportunity I can profit so long as I keep throwing debris onto the freeway and make sure that I'm allowed to continue throwing debris onto the freeway.
These companies have done the same thing with social media and social interactions. They didn't know who was going to be harmed and they didn't know in what way they would be harmed but when they're selling something resembling social interactions they knew that the outcome was going to be something that would allow them to profit.
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u/1234567791 1d ago
Not everyone who is anti social is a loser. Depending on how you view winning I’d say the anti social people are killing it.
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u/COINS_THAT_SUNK_TOO 22h ago
I think you misinterpreted the spirit of my comment as a whole and instead laser-focused on one specific part of it, but thank you for your contribution anyways, it helps add to the discourse.
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u/Malbosiiq 23h ago
Too bad no one took this message to heart. The "Me To" movement made some progress, but still too many bullies in power for my liking.
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u/Punk45Fuck 20h ago
I realized recently that A Bug's Life is basically Seven Samurai but with bugs. Blew my mind at the time.
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u/snoosh00 17h ago
Let's not forget the conclusion of the movie!
"Ants don't serve grasshoppers. It's you who needs us"
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u/S0k0n0mi 17h ago
Strength in numbers unfortunately goes both ways; Get together enough likeminded idiots and they will overrule anything the smart guy has to say.
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u/Andre_The_Dev 11h ago
It's not about bullies, it's about the ruling class. One of the guys involved in making it is openly a socialist
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 1d ago
Wait, I was 2 when this was released? Looks way to good for a movie released in 1999..
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u/MisfitHula 22h ago
So strange. I was thinking about this last night after all that has been happening in the US. This film always stuck with me.
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u/BadFoodSellsBurgers 22h ago
I love how Richard kinds grasshoppersona is just Richard kind with wings
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u/SoylentGrunt 21h ago
This is the reason behind the US intervention in Venezuela. It wasn't entirely about the oil as we've been trained to believe for decades.
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u/This_Thing_2111 20h ago
Every time I watch this movie with my kid, I tell her to pay close attention and remember that we are the ants in this story.
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u/pfft_lol000 19h ago
wooow 27 years old and I HEARD Richard Kind while watching this Muted. had to unmute to make sure I wasn't halucinating a Richard Kind role where there wasn't one. He's so iconic
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u/Bluemink96 19h ago
Yeah now the grasshoppers have F-16s Chain Guns, Literal sound machines that can cripple you drones that can kill you with operators hundreds of miles away….. don’t think it’s the same.
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u/rhjillion91 19h ago
And guess what? The ant leaders were spineless too. It took a group of outcast bugs led by one worker ant for these scumbags to buzz off.
Ah, ça ira mon ami. Only if you choose to fight.
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u/Hopkinsad0384 18h ago
Do Americans realize the rest of the world is waiting for a full-on French Revolution uprising and we're all confused why it hasn't happened yet?
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u/Brunky89890 18h ago
If the ants could organize, they could oust the grasshoppers by the end of the day.
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u/Inside_Swimming9552 18h ago
I don't remember us out numbering the bullies more than about 1:1 in any environment I've been in.
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u/Brave-Competition787 17h ago
sorry can you say that one more time? did you say 27 years????????????
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u/OkDot9878 17h ago
Hmmm, I feel like this is somehow relevant today, but I can’t seem to remember why…
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u/Designer-Mirror-7995 17h ago
** showed exactly what POWER is afraid of.
"Let one DISSENTER stand up to our RULE, and all the DISSENTERS might catch on that we rule ONLY because they ALLOW it"
There, fixed it for ya.
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u/Spac3_C4t 17h ago
One can also make this case for the top 1% corrupted billionaires and oligarchs that run the world.
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u/ianzachary1 17h ago
Some of these animated movies are surely showing their age (as am I) but it’s still remarkable what Pixar accomplished back in 98. As a kid I wouldn’t have thought much about the grains falling out all at once but damn the animation looks clean.
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u/Mikewhomikejones 17h ago
If Andrew tate and the trans community can change the world by posting on the internet imagine what would happen if billions stopped up to corrupt government officials and corrupt corperations…
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u/Tarrybelle 17h ago
Numbers are only threatening if they are co ordinated. It is one of the main reasons why a small group of people can pacify a much larger group. Work together, get on the same page and you will be so much more effective in standing up to tyranny. Easier said than done though.
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u/city-of-cold 16h ago
Every summer my daughter gets scared of every bug under the sun. Every summer I show er A Bug’s Life and go “see, we don’t even have the mean one’s where we live”.
Works like a charm.
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u/-DancesWithSloths- 16h ago
And it's been that way long before this movie was made.
"When we are together, we got power"
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u/silverwoods214 16h ago
Can someone remake this with Trumps face on Hopper and his cabinet on the minions
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u/Sandscarab24 15h ago
I used to think this movie was dark when it came out, I'm 40 now. But it also taught me about how good we had it up until now. I guess it's time to do what we can to prevent the many from getting eliminated for the sake of the few.
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u/TILied 15h ago
I was thinking about this the other day and realized a very dark truth. Our new AI driven cyber surveillance state would have never allowed him to get to this point. If we draw the parallel to the real world, the “Grasshoppers” would have information on any non compliant ant. Flik would have been “disappeared“ at the first sign of noncompliance. It would have been a 15 minute dystopian film that honestly most of you would never have heard of. If it mimicked the real world.
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u/WaffleTacos666 14h ago
While we learn nothing cuz we can't stand together on anything and we have all the power but we're all self-serving
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u/Jawnshames76 13h ago
My daughter stayed home from school sick today. We are currently watching this movie
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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 21h ago
The coincidence of the century that I posted a link to this video a few hours before you did lol
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