Actually it was that you should provoke infighting between reactionaries so you can stage a coup and seize power
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The barbies don't "stage a coup". They hold a vote to "restore the constitution". The effort is lead by Weird Barbie. Weird Barbie is played by Kate McKinnon, who is most known for her work doing impressions of women politicians on SNL. On SNL, Kate Mckinnon played roles such as Hillary Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. So you have massive lib actor Kate McKinnon leading a vote to "restore the constitution". "Restore the constitution"/"restore democracy" being liberal slogans. This could not be more lib coded unless they started chanting "it's her turn".
Watch the clip.
Uh, I was mostly joking but this vote they stage did involve excluding a reactionary class from the election, so still a coup sorta.
don't forget to suppress the votes of your opponents.
And take away their voting rights until they're 'ready'
Hillary Barbie will SAVE our democracy via voter suppression
no more half measures walter
I always figured that because Barbie world was the opposite of our world, the fact that voting worked in Barbie world means that it doesn't in the real world. Like I thought the whole "lol just vote them out, they're not even paying attention" bit was supposed to show how silly thinking that's how the real world works is - like a child's understanding of politics.
Wut. It was "get your vag checked"
the politics were utterly incoherent. for me the really resonant part was where barbie meets her creator. i thought that was really well done.
I thought that was weird and I didn't understand what was going on. Like yeah the sentiment was nice but where the heck are they, wasn't this a chase scene?
Look. There's a pocket universe connected to Santa Monica where Barbie lives, and there's a pocket universe in the basement of Mattel's headquarters where an eternal Ruth Handler lives. What's not to get?
I don't think the politics were supposed to make sense. Like the whole point is that Barbieland is a "child playing with dolls" view of how the world works.
yeah i mean it was self aware and tongue-in-cheek about that, but that made it worse for me, not better. like i'm tired of movies and TVs that are written solely to provide material for twitter threads.
Didn't that whitewash the history of her creator committing tax fraud by joking about it?
You say that like there’s better politics in other movies
Watch a Soviet or Chinese movie
Good call. Gonna go watch The Great Wall (2016) staring Matt Damon