The entire “joke” is that the evil Chinese are spying on you and you should be afraid of them. At this point, I that every TV show over here that gets really popular is obligated to start blasting pure propaganda at the viewer.

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    Most recent season of Rick and Morty has been cringing its pants off with little jabs at Russia or China. Just fucking weird in a show where that low-brow pseudo-political hyuck-hyuck “country-bad” “humor” wasn’t at all common before.

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      I remember one jab at Russia or China on Rick and Morty, but I can’t recall mountains of jokes of it. Do you have any examples?

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        Difficult to find stuff online. I remember they had another random joke thrown at Russia alongside this one. The ironic self-awareness of the show has led it to abandoning satire wholesale and just mentioning real-world situations and problems as if they were the joke.

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          Oh right, I remember that one. That threw me for a loop when I first heard it.

          And there’s also an episode where Rick implies that China pays for the white house or has hands in the U.S. government.

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            That Thanksgiving episode was also racist as hell, I think. I’m white so idk how indigenous watchers may have felt, but the whole thing read pretty bad to me.

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          I interpreted that as just being part of Summer’s character. She always struck me as the teenager who just “discovered” politics and just parrots whatever the media says. I also remember in season 1 when their dog was trying to talk she thought it said “I love Obama” and tweeted it to all her friends.

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      I wish Dan Harmon wasn’t such a lib :( The dude is genuinely a talented and unique writer. Such a lib though. It’s exhausting.