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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

Same with the movie Wall Street: it was meant as a cautionary tale about greed and callousness in modern society, but Reagan era yuppies ended up identifying with the villain.

Several decades later, they made the atrociously titled sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" which had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer blow to the genitals and Trump cult members STILL managed to consider the obvious villain admirable.