A group of Polish live action role players or loppers,
has held a not so flattering mirror up to America by
role playing Ohioans at a 4th of July celebration.
Now, this first went viral by the way back in May when the 4th of July Lark
cruise photos, were spread on Twitter, but now we have more insight.
Thanks to an interview with the group's leader and
vice spoke to the group's leader and his thoughts are super interesting.
First, what kind of research did they do to engage in this
live action role playing of Americans in Ohio.
Well, Bartosz Bruski and yes that is his name,
unwinds by heading to a trailer park outside Warsaw,
where he directs a group of around 60 polish people who pretend
to be ordinary Americans-people from Ohio to be exact.
Bruski and his fellow LARP enthusiasts turn a peaceful holiday
resort in a Polish forest into an American trailer park,
with dozens of participants who stay in character with their assigned family,
living at their assigned trailer home for 28 hours at a time.
We just pause for a second and say, who has 28 hours to spare to like,
role play people from another country?
>> No, it's more amazing than that.
They write scripts, they had 700 pages of scripts,
they get together and they choreographed this.
It is amazing what they do and I like that it was 28 hours.
So random.
Anyway, and they say where it came from.
They were watching stranger things and X-files and
they wanted to kinda recreate stranger things.
But then as they went into it, they were trying to find a place that looked
like America and needed to be a little bit more woodsy and then they find this place.
And they're like, it's not quite right for stranger-things, but
it does look like it could be a good trailer park, like in the middle of Ohio.
So, they turned into a trailer park etcetera.
And to me though, so I love this story.
>> I hate it.
>> That's, it's super interesting.
So, we're [LAUGH] apparently we'll debate that in a second.
B ut the fact that they put so much time and
effort into it, I'm kind of amazed by it.
>> Yeah, it's awesome that they put so much time and
effort into mocking Americans and, >> But we deserve it.
>> Do we though?
Do it, we're not all the same.
It's a country of literally hundreds of millions of people and yeah,
yeah, you're referencing one group of Americans in the middle of the country.
And kind of making a generalization about Americans overall.
And I don't like it.
We're fighting, we need solidarity internationally, right?
I get it, the criticisms and
the critique of our systems makes all the sense in the world.
But I don't look at these pictures and think to myself, like, this is great,
I feel really great about this.
No, I don't feel very great about it at all.
>> I'll tell you why I liked it Anna, because they, so here I'll read you
a paragraph from the interview that they did with the leader of this group device.
He said, we grew up with, he explained how he read a bunch of things about America.
>> I know, I know he read that America was so great and
it turns out that America is not so great.
So, let's mock them by doing this large thing of Ohioans.
And by the way specific Ohioans in a trailer park and
make generalizations about Americans.
Who by the way, a huge portion of Americans have been fighting tooth and
nail, against the people in positions of power who have screwed us time and
time again, right?
Let me read the paragraph and then say, why I like it.
He said, we grew up with a vision of the States as if it's the land of milk
and honey.
Then when you grow up and information is shared more,
it turns out that it's not so nice in the States.
We came up with the idea of this broken American dream, and this was a motif for
the project.
>> Yeah and for fun.
We just mocked him for 28 hours a time.
No, but Anna.
No, no, no, but look, the reason why it's important is because American media,
including most importantly in this case the movies,
did an amazing job of presenting a completely false version of America.
So, the rest of the world, thinks my God, America is so amazing.
You guys got it made there.
But what he explains later in the interview is, then when I read into it,
I realized, my God, they don't even have health care.
And sometimes they just let people die if they don't have health insurance.
To people in Poland, that is so barbaric.
It shocked their conscience.
They are like, did you know that Americans, the government will just let
you die if you don't pay a ransom to private insurance?
And now they know more about guns, in our gun culture, right?
But he says that he did not know the scale of the massacres in America that we're
continuing.
And I think most of the world doesn't know about that.
And if they knew about it, maybe it could help in some way.
>> I'm pretty sure we're the laughing stock of the international community.
Okay. Especially considering,
we have a mass shooting in a school in Texas and we do nothing about it.
But Canada decides to respond to it instead and
passed gun control regulations in their country.
I'm pretty sure internationally we're a punching bag, because yeah,
because of our elected officials, I guess we deserve it, right?
But for me it adds insult to injury to see these images of Americans being mocked,
when we're all freaking suffering under this oppressive,
terrible corrupt political system.
That's the part that I don't like, that's what I'm saying.
>> Yeah, I don't know that they're mocking us.
>> Okay, let's look at the pictures that they posted themselves.
So, check out their Facebook page, that's where they posted these images and
I just don't like it.
I don't, I'm sorry.
>> Okay, but tell me it isn't true.
Okay.
>> That is not true.
>> That looks better than real life.
And in fact they said they got critique from actual Americans and said, no,
you guys look healthier, slimmer.
It's way cleaner than it would normally be,
there'd be a lot more garbage, etcetera.
But is this not happening in the country?
It definitely is.
But no, I honestly think you have a skewed version
of what the rest of the world sees.
The rest of the world does not see the disaster of America.
So, now it's a little bit more obvious cuz of Trump and
all the shootings and even the rest of the world can see that.
Look, they hired bozo the clown, to be their leader, Jesus,
what is wrong with America.
But even before bush?
No way the entire world was like, my God, except for
the people that we were every once in a while bombing or doing coups against.
And but even half of them,
we would trick with our propaganda thought America was amazing.
In Iraq, we lose a little bit of steam, but not that much.
>> No.
What are you talking?
What are you basing this off of Cenk?
Okay, first time I traveled out of the country was in 2007, okay?
Literally went to almost every European country during that trip.
I was gone for a month, right?
Hostility toward Americans, was palpable, okay?
Everyone hated us, everyone hated our government.
Everyone thought we were a laughing stock.
It was just abundantly clear.
I think you're actually living in a bubble.
Because in America we're not encouraged to learn about other countries.
But other countries, know about us, they learn about us,
they know everything that's going on in America.
So, I get it.
America, especially right now, has devolved, it sucks,
doesn't take care of its citizens.
People are drowning in medical debt, people are dying in mass shootings,
it is a disaster.
I will grant you that, okay?
I'm just not interested in their cutesy little project,
where they're like role playing Americans, who are suffering in this country.
>> Look, I understand what you're saying, but at the same time,
if you said to people, >> Let me do it then.
Okay, why don't we do a little Larkin community of polish people and
see how they like it.
Would they take kindly to that?
I would guess no, I would guess no, I could be wrong though.
>> I don't think they're trying to hurt us Anna,
I think they're trying to highlight the things that are wrong in America.
And so that they could maybe on the off chance that will see it and
maybe we'll wanna fix it.
>> We live it, we see it and obviously we wanna fix it.
>> But you know, >> But more importantly,
this is their hobby, this is like a fun-hobby that they're doing.
Do you not understand my point?
>> I understand it but, >> If we were to do it with any other
country, they would reign terror on us, you know that.
>> You know why?
Because we're the bullies and we're the ones that are strong unfortunately.
And we go and invade countries and bully people etcetera, right?
And so, if you said to people across the world,
poor America don't make fun of them.
Those guys are obviously suffering.
That is not the impression people have.
They think that we're the whole bullies,
that are super strong and living in a land of milk and honey, and
we go around and smash their stuff every once in a while.
They don't think we're poor, they don't think we're suffering.
They think that we're the bad guy.
>> This whole project is to point to the fact that we're poor.
[LAUGH] >> No, but
that's why this is an interesting story.
Because it's for the first time somebody going, look at these poor Americans.
Every other time, it's look at these oppressive but
strong rich Americans that are oppressing everyone else.
And I got news for the rest of the world.
I think Anna says you already know it, maybe you do.
But for the rest of you that don't know it, know we're suffering here.
They let us die for profits in almost every industry,
they squeeze all the wages out of us and give it to the rich.
So, when you see those spectacular Hollywood movies, that is in our lives,
that's the lives of the elites in America.
The overwhelming majority, are suffering greatly.
Those Loppers unfortunately,
are much more accurate depiction of America, than any movie you've seen.