The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution
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Documentary
2023
102 min
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The New Americans is a visceral, meme-driven journey at the intersection of finance, media, and extremism, which uncovers the connection between the Gamestop squeeze and the Jan 6th Insurrection and reveals explosive possibilities of our digital future.
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"Was funny when it focused on the shitposters and memesters on Reddit, the moment it started to equate Wall Street Bets to the January 6th Trump Kerfuffle it started to lose me. There’s overlap in those communities no doubt but then there are a bunch of other places and groups on the internet that the director could have included and the question would be when does it end? At the end of the day the movie was really taking about the madness of crowds and how technology exacerbates that madness but I feel like we’ve gotten that lesson a bunch of times already… "
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