Captaaainuniverse
Time-Traveller
I can't remember where I said it, but I have said before that there are two kinds of politics in entertainment - internal politics, something that more naturally happens in a certain piece of entertainment, a chosen subject or philosophy, something like GitS is built around it's chosen subjects, and agenda driven politics, something inserted into that piece of entertainment that doesn't date well, arguably doesn't fit and is more reflective of <current year> politics than the media itself.
GitS does reflect some of the things we think about today, but it's also dated, that's because much of the politics it's built around isn't specific, it's broad. I don't remember much about the wars from the series apart from certain characters mentioned to have an involvment in some global disputes, and those seem to be based of poor relations between countries that have been that way some 20 or 30 years before even the first film came out, it's cyberpunk aesthetic is full of things that could be possible, but we don't have yet, or they still exist in another form.
there are a few scenes in season 1 that both don't reflect reality and somewhat could before long, and could have some slight spoilers; one episode follows a foreign politician's son falling in love with an android, they watch films on cellophane reels, something so obsolete that I can't see us having the technology to actually play them by the time period GitS is set in, there's another curious episode where some students sell organs on the black market, section 9 investigates a legitimate organ farm where pigs are grown with genetically human organs and the pig's organs are harvested for medical purposes, scientists are now arguing about the ethics of doing such a thing when they now know they can do it, and at the end of the first series aramaki and mokoto come across a huge library, aramaki makes some comment about printed material being produced only as a force of habit, it's sort of true today, physical books today only really exist anymore because people like to read them that way, and old people still exist, many of them will still swear by something they can touch, but in about 20 - 30 years those old people will be gone and be replaced by people around my age, we are the first generation to integrate into an almost entirely digital life.
what it doesn't even go out of it's way to predict is stuff like trump, teresa may, or anything quite as specific as what is happening today, anything with the corrupt politicians and the activism in GitS is mostly from it's own fictional wars, which, with how a few of those countries are today, could possibly collapse if they tried entering into a war with countries that have a stronger economy and much better weapons, there's also the fact that trump has just shaken hands with kim jong un, and the joke was made, twice, after trump had ended the d*** measuring contest him and jong un had on twitter, making the joke pretty outdated from it's conception.
there are people who don't like to hear of trump because they don't like him, and there's people who are getting sick of "hurr hurr trump" jokes especially when he's doing more in under 2 years than obama did in 8
