So the Seth Rogen and James Franco film, The Interview , will not be released in the theatres this December because hackers . Boo-fucking-hoo. The popular, common sense narrative is that this hacking was a DPRK job, but so what? The film is some asinine comedy about two Americans travelling to North Korea to assassinate Kim Jong Un, replete with the requisite "chinaman" racism (as the trailer made it very clear with its yellow peril "ching-chong-strawhat-buckteeth" chauvinism), and what existent nation would ever tolerate a mainstream and international film promoting it dissolution as a nation? Can you imagine a film comedically celebrating the assassination of the US president? You should, because it would be awesome, but the moment you imagine it you would also have to imagine its non-existence, the feds showing up at your door if you were part of such a project, or the country guilty of making such a movie being subjected to sanctions. Which are far worse,
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