6 Weirdly Conservative Messages Hidden in 'Ghostbusters' - After Hours 

obvious cinema sins is obvious

The love for you is so strong.

One of my favorite channels leaving a comment on one of another of my favorite channel's best video series. And now I have to change my pants. Thanks a lot, CinemaSins.

Gillian Orley peed out of excitement huh? (Keeping it PG 13)

Omfg I love this channel and I love you. Mind BLOWN!!

G bust. Buster Ghost

“Good thing 9/11 hasn’t happened yet, or you’d be 100% Guantanamo’d” Fucking dead. XD That entire comic is gold. I love this show

“Load bearing pizza box” 🤣😂

Yeah like forget medical doctors, engineers and physicists; entrapanures sure know a thing about science!

HE-MAN!

+AndroidPolitician years and fucking years.

Same

It's been three hours. I said i was going to sleep. But there's always another video.

I’m chronologically here on Ep-47 of the 87 total. I only started rewatching the channel after Cracked got new, new owners, and started making Cracked-like content again.

@@cjwrench07 wait that’s a thing? I thought they just totally went under and it was all garbage people running it? Where is this “Cracked-like content” you speak of?

This is not a re-upload.

....Great Scott!!!! (hides the Delorean)

Cracked B...But you fixed a picture!

Thor!

Compare that to Danny Phantom and Ghost and Molly McGee where there's a world where ghosts could live in.

He wants it so when he becomes the government he already has all the power he could want.

good one

Godzilla wins. Why? Because it's freaking Godzilla.

You win.

If sodomy is Red from the Godzilla creepy pasta then he's fucked.

HAHA! "butthurt"

Ghosts are considered enemy combatans and/or Muslim. And both groups don't deserve a trial by Tea Party standards. ;)

As the judge in Ghostbusters 2 said, the law does not recognize the existence of ghosts. Why that continued to be the case after the events of the first one, I have no idea.

Joe A. Verage i believe you just lost your argument with "probable cause". being american you should be able to see how thats not active policy, just a paperwork hurdle. and there are a ton of mercs in those war torn countries that were opened up for haliburton. and i'm assuming you never heard of blackwater. you know, private military off the books but using american tax dollars kinda stuff. what about drone strikes that have killed 2 americans or innocent women and children at a wedding? then there is the actual classified stuff we don't know in the inteligence and espionage circles, but we know exists thanks to julian asange. no, you just keep telling yourself that everything goes by the book, especially in "war torn" countries where you can expect them not to

Joe A. Verage Assange might be anything, still doesnt change the fact, that due to wikileaks, we all can see how serious american soldiers take these rules of engagement and how they completely disrespect life of civilians in middle east. And even so I dont understand neither why someone should risk the life of a soldier, when he can use a drone, the rate of civilians compared to military human targets, killed by a drone a higher than 9:1. This much on protecting civilians. They also didnt give a fuck, when they used uranium ammunition that causes mutations and will harm the civilians of iraq for several generations. Not to mention that this war(s) never had something to do with finding wmd´s, fighting the terror nor something like liberate the iraqian people. This whole war the US are fighting in the middle east is about oil and geostrategy, if u dont recognize this then only cause u dont want to.

I dont know which fox produced walt disney documentary u have watched, But the soldiers arent their to built schools nor to protect people. Sure not everyone is a bloodspilling psychopath, but they dont care much for their lives neither, U see that at statistic and u see this in videos, that killing civilians is pretty naturally to them and nothing they would care about. Of course not as primary targets, but as an approved collateral damage. And still the only reasons there are us-troops in the first place is for the resources of the middle east and u can not possibly doubt that.

After Hours is why I subscribed in the first place.

Me too...that and Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder. : )

Yer I'm still annoyed Cracked shut down and we'll never get new episodes

This aged well

Today's Topic is also good. But, yeah! After Hours is my favorite. 👍

No PG13 crap though.

We used to get along well with the french, our declaration of independence and constitution were greatly influenced by french philosophers, and our independence was won with their help. Politics change over time, but the statue of liberty has always represented liberty freedom and immigration. Though we always forget the immigration part whenever its inconvenient for us as well :p. Cuz like the french we're hypocritical bastards as well.

GhostInTheShell29 Legal immigration. Not just immigration in general, legal immigration.

The statue of liberty wasn't even meant for the United States. I don't remember who it was first given to, but they declined it and the statue was given to the U.S. instead.

GhostInTheShell29 Fun fact; one of the major reasons the Ameican colonies were able to stand against the British was because of French funding and reinforcements. Mostly because they had a long running blood feud with England, and wanted to piss them off.

mechredd Who told you that load? It was always intended as a gift for the U.S., the guy who thought it up started out by saying that a monument to liberty in the U.S. should be a combined effort between France and the U.S.. Hell it was designed together, with the U.S. funding and building the pedestal and France building the statue.

no, libertarians are just people with a vaguely childish and selfish view of politics and society, whereas the tea party are fucking maniacs

***** "Childish and selfish"? Weird, I didn't know valuing personal freedom and abhorring nanny states who try to tell you what to eat and drink is "childish and selfish".

Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters 2

Crazy tends to blur together to those on the outside of it.

I think you misspelled communism there pal

@@Sumschmuck If you think movies are real life u may be a conservative yourself. They're not the brightest lot.

@@whatsupinspace854 at least we can tell the difference between a man and a woman

@@Sumschmuck good gods this is what brainwashing looks like. You make a nonsensical 'No You!" Response to me because you don't know enough about the issues to discuss them, I cringe at you, and you reply with a boogey-term keyword your con-men heroes have taught you what to think about it, and re-bleat it out like a mindless sheep, even though it is in no way associated with what we're discussing, or communism. This unthinking glorification if flagrant stupidity has to fucking stop. You're allowing your mind to be owned by people using identity politics obsessions to keep you from regulating them or stopping them from robbing you and your homeland blind, you eager little bitchboi.

@@Sumschmuck If you mean how the ghost Gestopo keep the brother ghost down, then yeah, you must be a real fascist.

+Ryan Yeager remember they assumed it was the GBs drugging people to scam them

pretty much

Well. Shit. I guess you're on to something.

darksean99 I second that

Well you certainly cant blame hillary. If you try, her followers will set you on fire.

Hamfisted is the operative phrase.

which one is Dan?

Your picture is perfect for this video. Hetalia forever

Unless you want to live in a country that's healthy, educated and has a strong middle class. If you don't care about all that, by all means get rid of government.

Zero capitalism = better world

Exarch-of-Sechrima I wish

Nah, that’s too easy.

That's actually not true. I think you'll find that that sentiment is liberal propaganda. I know a lot of conservatives that like science. What they don't like is fake science pretending to be real science for the sake of politics.

Jason Schlierman Maybe I should have specified, the conservative representatives in political office don't tend to believe in science. Or are at least corrupt enough that they ignore it. By no means am I saying they're the only ones, but they do have the highest numbers of science deniers.

+Jason Schlierman The current Republican nominee for Vice President is on record saying that cigarettes aren't bad for you because there's no evidence to support that. Seems like a denial of science to me

Newt Gingrich just said at the RNC that Americans feel that crime is way worse than it used to be ,even though stats say the exact opposite. They like to ignore tons of actual data and pander to peoples fears and illogical presumptions constantly. Sure some have to believe in science but it rarely helps their arguments so they don't tend to bring it up often

Eric13345 Well said! Thank you for putting it so eloquently, the words to describe what I mean't were escaping me & you put it perfectly.

Agreed

schmuck

On the contrary, it became even more relevant. :3 (This depends, of course, on whether you consider 'adhering to the norm' a political viewpoint, which it absolutely is, or 'propagating for conservative values' such, which it also is. Mind, I didn't watch the new Ghostbusters because I only sort of enjoyed the originals when I was a kid and the jokes in the trailer didn't appeal to me. [I'm more a space kinda guy])

It's not.

It's weird for a movie that comes off as "socially progressive" to have a conservative message.

Lord of The Rings is overrated whoa, conservatives believe they're socially progressive too

Because conservatism doesn't work. But it's weird for a movie about scientists to be conservative.

Love you guy

+scarheavyfox yer tryin' to take mer guns away!!! *shoots ectoplasmic lasers at you*

darkservantofheaven Well, if the TEA Party was really what these people thought, than maybe. TEA is really an acronym in this case, for Taxed Enough Already, so they'd be on the side of small business against the government; particularly one that in it's intervention blows up a NY high rise. There's more to it than just Christianity; in fact, they support the Constitution, which recognizes freedom of religion, so anyone sensible could really be in the TEA Party.

Yeah. It's just the TEA party would probably not let Muslims in.

Bazingaman 117 Religious freedom is the cornerstone of freedom in general. Of course they'd let muslims be members.

darkservantofheaven Nah brah. This is Ayn Rand-style Tea Party Libertarianism. Anti-religion, anti-monogamy right-wing politics.

Leviathon672015 ah. I need to look into this abit more.

Teat Party is not Libertarian. If they had argued for it being a Libertarian movie, I would have agreed more with them.

Nathanael Ginn Thank you..Tea Party is basically Evangelical Liberals..they seek to enforce their view, Jesus, on us via the power of the state..same as economic liberals..Plus they are not conservative on economics at all..they cherry pick. The libertarians are at least consistent...

No problem! The TEA party originally was used in a Libertarian way but was infiltrated and corrupted by Republican far right progressives. As a true libertarian, I can tell you a large number of Tea party members just like you described them. Real libertarians want to break down the centralized government due to the infringements on individuals's rights. As long as someone is not hurting someone else, I believe the government shouldn't interfere. Legalize polygamy!!! lol

Are you trolling?

EconPop already did a similar analysis, about big gov't stifling business.

Actually it's not that the Ghostbusters overthrew God or became God; it's that science is practically their god.

Yeah, but the OCP are meant to be evil.

Peter Gorman LAMO OCP is liberal dream state, cops everywhere and government giving me everything

World E OCP isn't a government, its a corporation. They/re the worst case scenario of an unregulated market.

World E - i think Billy Weeds point wins out here - OCP is a corporation - a corporate police force is the opposite of any socialist utopia, it places profit over people and is an example typically of the path that all right wing politics likes to go down on their march to totalitarian fascism it is solely on the right wing, the way in which OCP is portrayed, though i guess this makes Robocop a left wing movie as a soulless megacorporation crushing the poor is the enemy the wikipedia plot outline: "To avoid mass collapse, the city mayor has signed a deal with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP), allowing them to run and control the underfunded police force in exchange for giving OCP the freedom to demolish the poor run-down sections of Detroit and construct a high-end utopia called "Delta City," to be managed by OCP as an independent city-state free of the United States" When you talk about 'government' you need to be more aware of the disctinction between a government that is representative and beholden to its taxpayers, as opposed to a government which has sold off all its assets and leverage and is virtually redundant due to all power being givne to corporations - corporations that go to a place that make even feudalism look good, as they psychotically only value human life in sofar they can extract profit from it.

divinuminfernum Thank you! OOCP really is a Liberal's worst nightmare, a corporate Oligarchy with a Monopoly on everything unfettered by any regulation.

was that a eulogy?

And yet, they vote for the same people and favor 90% of the same policies. A libertarian president would be a disaster.

Ben Schwab I was thinking something along those lines too. I guess the thing is that hardly any movies that contain liberal messages are subtle about it. Whilst the ones that are overly conservative tend to hide it. I could be wrong about that, but it's hard to name any big films that have loads of liberal subtext.

+Bob McBob Partially due to conservatism being silenced in the media, in the schools, and even in the public square, especially by this term 'political correct' which really usually means 'aligned to liberal beliefs'. Even in the sense that even in these youtube comments you see people making assumptions that conservatives are muslim haters, women rights haters, in the video even they made it seem as if all government or authority is hated by conservatives, and that christian conservatives don't believe in science.

Pecola1FromScratch Hmm... I'm not sure about that. Partially because what we consider "conservative" or "liberal" can vary wildly depending on where we live. But mostly because confirmation bias is a thing. You are less likely to notice messages in film (for example) that conform to your political beliefs, but will strongly notice those that don't. So it will seem a lot like more films have political bias against your side than in favour of it. On top of that, the idea that the term "politically correct" was invented by liberals to police others is untrue. If memory serves, the term was invented by a conservative looking to dismiss any ideas vaguely aligned to liberal beliefs. Which actually ties in with my above point about confirmation bias. I'm sure there's a lot of people out there implicitly or explicitly saying that all conservatives are muslim-hating, women-hating scum. However, I see just as many comments, if not more (though, this I admit may be my own confirmation bias), accusing anyone of taking an even vaguely leftist position as being an overly PC SJW feminazi, and whatever other string of slurs and insults they've gotten into their head. As for the video itself. Yeah, maybe? But I see it as more them focussing on the far-right fringe than them tackling the mainstream ideals of conservative. Also, it's a video looking at the plot holes in Ghostbusters via the premise of looking for political subtext within it. I think their points on politics are meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek. But I do agree that their definition of "conservative" is probably more in line with how liberals view conservatives, than how most conservatives actually are.

Bob McBob Probably. But I know for a fact their view of conservatives is not accurate to 100% of conservatives. And since that isn't possible you cant really blame them. But starting to say that as long as they hate the govt and anyone in a govt position, is definitely the funniest misrepresentation of conservatives I have seen. (At least recently)

+Ben Schwab Not only that, but I've always suspected that reality had a strong liberal bias too. Someone should get on that.

Then we need a more frequent schedule for them! I neeeeds me some AH!

Its once a month

It's an overall libertarian message, I guess you can say.

PCPbarbie Yea, that sums it up well.

Conservatism has absolutely nothing to do with religion

The modern conservative movement has a very strong religious platform, including support for controversial and unproven "conversion therapy" (a.k.a. "pray away the gay"). It may not be representative of Teddy Roosevelt's conservatism but to be fair, very little of the party platform has the same foundation as it nowadays.

ShiniHLaser My point exactly

He figured out that Friend's maths don't add up, though.

Troll fail. XD

My arm is not long enough For the jerk off motion that is in my soul right now

Yep

I know right? I swear I've watched every episode

DarkLordLink Same here.... I think they are trolling us :)

someone else said it might have been a corrupted file so they fixed it and re uploaded it within a few minutes, because ive seen every after hours but not this one

Same

Maybe it was a re-upload from very recently

+Merry Machiavelli Liberal means more. "I applied a liberal amount of peanut butter to the bread". Liberalism is different from today's liberalism.

Tevo77777 Okay. But its still slightly nonsensical from a 'describing people's beliefs' perspective. All the American rhetoric about against government overreach and regulation originates from Classical Liberal thinkers. It is a quintessentially Classical Liberal belief. Describing Classical Liberal beliefs as 'Conservative' is woefully confusing considering, at the time, Classical Liberalism and Traditional Conservatism were considered the two great opposing ideologies.

Merry Machiavelli Liberal, means more government. Liberalism, means more human rights.

Tevo77777 Okay. Sure. Whatever. Boil down a complex ideology forged over generations with a myriad of schisms, justifications and contextual nuance into a sentence. That's not problematic _at all_.

Merry Machiavelli Conservatism: Attempting to keep the current system in place, to conserve the current system. Reactionary: To make the system as it was in the past, to react to recent system changes. Progressive: To push for reform and change the system, thinking that said reforms are progress.

😂

+jfrsnjhnsn Yea, I really don't understand Daniel.

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Its a girl

Jessica Jones I didn't even know you were expecting! Congratulations! What did you name her?

It's weird when you don't notice the first time around, especially when you're a child to be exact.

@@CosmoShidan When you're a child you're unlikely to notice any message liberal or conservative.

The legal standing of ghosts currently is like that of black people during slavery, or worse. Even the English language itself is biased against them, like how the word "haunted" has primarily negative connotations.