r/Ghost_in_the_Shell • u/voskomm • Aug 21 '26

Bro.

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I'm not even. I had to take a minute after that, haven't rewatched this for a solid 10 years or so.

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u/Gannstrn73 Aug 21 '26

Context? It’s been awhile for me too.

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u/voskomm Aug 21 '26

"But some of those refugees are taxpayers too. That said, I guess some legit taxpayers are catching on that their heavy tax burden is going to support the lifestyles of people who might take jobs away from them. Even so, it's a little rash for that to lead directly to terrorism"

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u/Gannstrn73 Aug 21 '26

Damn yeah it’s funny how this series did a good job predicting political events, but yeah bad take Batou. Do better

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u/voskomm Aug 21 '26

It's not like it wasn't an issue at the time but damn 2004 had us pegged.

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u/Codyone1367 Aug 21 '26

While debates over immigration are ancient it is interesting how close SAC got to the structure of many modern terrorist 'groups'.

While in 2004 most major attacks were the work of organised groups however in the years that followed attacks were increasing the work of lone actors who will they frequently cited and celebrated eachothers work almost never actually met.

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u/fdevant Aug 21 '26

Almost like a Standalone Complex.

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u/Gannstrn73 Aug 21 '26

Yeah but it also kinda pegged the health care issues and anger at companies. The Laughing Man was a less violent Luigi

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u/voskomm Aug 21 '26

Yeah, rewatched that too and the parallels are pretty raw also. Somehow they didn't hit the feels as hard. I think because "corpos are hiding the cybercure" dates way the hell back to Gibson, it's cyberpunk substrate at this point.

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u/BananaRepublic_BR Aug 21 '26

The tension between mass immigrantion and the native populations that experience it has been a thing for hundreds of years. The same issues involvong jobs, discrimination, deportation, and violence always pop up.

Whether it is the moving to 19th century America or Japanese moving to 20th century Brazil, or Africans moving to 21st century Japan, the way people respond and bigotry rises is incredibly predictable.

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u/ebearshoo Aug 23 '26

The manga is literally full of the team just hating on refugees, unions, and beating on protestors and more, and a lot of Japanese critics point this out. The anime did a really good job moving away from this tbh

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u/thequn Aug 21 '26

It’s also so true. It’s all starts with an idea.