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so please stay tuned. In 1983, there was an exciting sci-fi miniseries that aired on television called V.

The story follows the arrival of seemingly friendly aliens who come to Earth and seem to want to cooperate and benefit humanity.

At some point, there's a shocking reveal when we discover, along with actor Mark Singer's character Mike,

that the aliens are not what they seem.

They look human, but actually they're rodent-eating lizard people, and they're not here to help us

after all.

The whole thing's a thinly disguised metaphorical warning about fascism and the lack of humanity

which that political approach inherently conceals.

I say conceals, at least until it can get away with not having to hide its nastier components.

In other words, V's very clearly based on the premise that fascism is bad.

Thus, it was extraordinarily ironic to see the same story beats of V being used as a framework for online

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