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Reddit has no problems pushing war footage though. Real people actually dying is totally cool!
That's more a prudish American culture thing than a reddit-specific thing. We went to see the latest Guardians movie over the weekend, in which they foleyed out the line "classy hoes" from No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and showed all sorts of violence, gory deaths, and lots of pretty fucking serious child abuse. And finally dropped the first f-bomb in any MCU movie, in the line "open the fucking door," which was said not in anger, but in exasperation.
America loves its violence, but don't you dare make any reference to anything close to sexuality.
Wasn't usa founded by literal puritans? So it sorta makes sense from a historical/cultural perspective
Ehhh, sort of. Yes, a group of Puritans came over on the Mayflower, but they were about half the passengers. The other half were in it for the money, going to set up shop in the new world for mercantilist purposes. Which explains kind of a lot.
Seems like not a whole lot has changed over these centuries.
Religious fanatics and greedy people took over a huge continent with a lot of resources. Yup, where we are now is a very expected result.
Combined with personalities that were ambitious enough to leave literally everything behind and make a rather perilous trek just for the opportunity to access and potentially exploit those resources.