eightpix

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[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Falling Down is the American Dream turned nightmare.

I'd submit that — in 1993 — the one that struck me as being the most similar was Demolition Man. Not the Sly Stallone character in comparison, tho. The Dennis Leary character was more a 1 to 1 analogue of the non-conformist pushing back on a system that deems him "not economically viable."

Later, 1998, I'd say that The Way of the Gun (wri/dir Christopher McQuarrie) does this well. I know, I know, low scores on RT and iMDB, but this movie still works for me. Even the opening scene, which sets up a world of reprehensible characters perfectly. It's a rock-solid neo-noir western helmed by a the writer of the Usual Suspects (and a long string of Tom Cruise projects including M:I 5,6,7&8.)

I'd also toss in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. A man, who has a code, undertakes to address that which he sees as unjust while moving through a world that wants to exploit him. And, American Beauty (1999) (tw: Spacey)

By the late aughts and early '10s, in the wake of the total meltdown of the global economy, Margin Call (2010, only economic violence) and Killing Them Softly (2012). "Now fucking pay me."

From TV: The Wire and Breaking Bad fit the bill.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

John Lennon ‐ Working Class Hero

If you're a bot, do better.

If you're a person, outperform bots.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Continuity, governed by the script supervisor, is designed to be invisible.

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." ~ God Entity, Futurama S03E20

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • Genetic-level diagnoses and treatments.

  • Inexpensive, rapid genome sequencing.

  • Commonplace genetic counselling for more than just pregnancy.

  • Laws in place to govern the collection, use, ownership, and patenting of human genes and genetic information.

  • Cloned tissues (i.e. blood, skin), organs (i.e. heart, lungs, kidneys) for transplant or repair.

I graduated university the same year the Human Genome Project first published completion. Certainly, that project uncovered more questions than answers.

Also, we've done an absolutely garbage job of becoming appropriate stewards of this technology. Primarily, today, it would be used to identify, segregate, subjugate, and eventually kill a portion of the population.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Books/Magazines/Podcasts:

  • No Logo by Naomi Klein

  • Adbusters by Kalle Lasn

  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

  • A New Train of Thought (though somewhat ham-fistedly) by Various Writers

  • Ashes, Ashes by David Torcivia and Daniel Folkner

  • Reset by Roland J. Diebert

Fitting the description of movie/show:

  • Mr. Robot

  • Utopia (UK version)

  • Killing Them Softly

  • The Big Short, Margin Call

  • Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

  • 3-Iron (Korean film)

  • Parasite (Korean film)

There are several documentaries and short films

  • The Corporation by Joel Bakan, Harold Crooks, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott

  • Who Killed the Electric Car?

  • The End of Suburbia

  • Man by Steve Cutts (3m47s)

  • Nuggets by Andreas Hykade (5m06s)

  • The Power of Nightmares and HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis

Also, you might search for films about "corporate malfeasance".

  • Michael Clayton (top pick)

  • The Insider (top pick)

  • Erin Brockovich

  • Dark Waters

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Send him to the Hague. Then, I'll know he's real.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think there was a POW scene in Magnum P.I. that was a lot for little me. Not sure episode/season.

Honestly, though, coming to the realization at abput 13 that the "General Lee" and the prominent placement for Confederate flags the Dukes of Hazzard represent an American South that promotes white supremacy, Jim Crow laws, and segregation — all antithetical to my BIPOC existence.

The cognitive dissonance involved in the song, pre-programming me to lend them the excuse that they're "just a good ol' boys..." — yeah, my parents should've known better.

The thoughts I had for Daisy Duke would've had me lynched, like Emmitt Till, under that flag. Still might.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

As an introvert, it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers. Fewer attachments, lower risk thresholds, can bail when I need to. Mostly it's jokes or insights, comisseration and comedy are easy roads in.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Um... has this series jumped the shark yet?

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

호박죽 (ho bak juk, pumpkin porridge). Many a cold morning in the ROK, this was my breakfast.

Actually, a lot of my comfort foods are porridge based: cream of wheat, corn meal porridge, steel-cut oats, rolled oat oatmeal, oatmeal and raisin cookies.

 

If you've seen these, which do you think?

 

Pictured: a young, wrathful Frederick Douglass.

Comparing America's racist immigration control and enforcement measures to 1930s Germany is... inaccurate. 2026 America is now emulating what it was before 1860. The

When:

  • Indigenous, black, tan, brown, Asian, and people are arrested because the look like 'the other,'

  • lies are written off as memes,

  • the Monroe Doctrine is foreign policy,

  • cities are terrorized by secret police,

  • non-conformists are shot in the streets,

  • political opposition is met with federal investigation

all of America's episodes of villainy are back in play.

Genocide, colonialism, plunder, militarism, more plunder, expansionism, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, even more plunder, hypocrisy, calamity profiteering, segregation, McCarthyism, monopolies, interventionism, propagandizement, dumbing-down, and a lot more plunder — this is the "great" some in America seek.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41402945

By "Erik Prince", I mean belligerently and dramatically overreact to an attack — actual, perceived, provoked, planted, or otherwise. They could do what Blackwater did in Fallujah in 2004. Or, in Nisoor Square in 2007. Or, in Kabul in 2009.

They ~~could~~ are terrorizing a population. At home. In Minneapolis.

They could kick-in home, school, and business-place doors, lurk in public buildings and streets, employ flash-bang grenades, tear gas, body-armor, fully automatic weapons, SUVs, trucks, and tanks in the streets, terrorizing a population into submission.

ICE is being funded at the same rate as the military of Poland. Or, the entirety of US military spending in 1917, on entering World War I. Nice work on that big, beautiful bill.

Btw, have you seen ~~Civil War~~? Yes, you have, yeah, that A24 movie.

They could prod a population into employing IEDs, RPGs, and assault weapons. From bats, to boards, to bricks, to and bottles alight. We've seen this before. Inside America, and outside America. This is a wavefront of a war.

The world, meanwhile, burns. Storms rage. Fires consume. Ice recedes, collapses, and melts.

Please. Prove me wrong. Peacefully, impeach, convict, jail, try, and imprison the President who is trying to have the American people pay — in taxes, tariffs, and blood — for his coup d'etat.

Please.

note: Erik Prince is the CEO and founder of the private security company Blackwater, now Akademi, once XE.

 

By "Erik Prince", I mean belligerently and dramatically overreact to an attack — actual, perceived, provoked, planted, or otherwise. They could do what Blackwater did in Fallujah in 2004.

They could terrorize a population. At home.

They could kick-in home, school, and business-place doors, lurk in public buildings and streets, employ flash-bang grenades, tear gas, body-armor, fully automatic weapons, SUVs, trucks, and tanks in the streets, terrorizing a population into submission. They could be funded at the same rate as the military of Poland. Or, the entirety of US military spending in 1917, on entering World War I. Nice work on that big, beautiful bill.

Btw, have you seen ~~Civil War~~? Yes, you have, yeah, that A24 movie.

They could prod a population into employing IEDs, RPGs, and assault weapons. From bats, to boards, to bricks, to and bottles alight. We've seen this before. Inside America, and outside America. This is a wavefront of a war.

The world, meanwhile, burns. Storms rage. Fires consume. Ice recedes, collapses, and melts.

Please. Prove me wrong. Peacefully, impeach, convict, jail, try, and imprison the President who is trying to have the American people pay for his coup.

Please.

note: Erik Prince is the CEO and founder of the private security company Blackwater, now Akademi, once XE.

 

Right, I'm a masochist neck-deep in figuring out who, what, and why. Except for Wings of Fire; that's my connection to my young'un.

 

Searching for my people, I guess.

My partner hates it when I say that Die Hard is my favourite X-mas movie. Or, that I only want socks, underwear, and egg nog. She's lactose intolerant. Maybe I'm just X-mas intolerant.

Anyway, have at ye scallywags! Vent your frustrations! Build me an anti-X-mas list! I'm already celebrating New Year's over here.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19799305

At the top are corporations and the well-to-do. In the middle are judges and police. At the bottom are the couch-dwelling viewers beholden to all above watching TV.

I know I've seen this online somewhere, but I can't remember where. It may have been a cut-scene from a video or a standalone .GIF file. I'm not certain.

If anyone in the community has seen this same image, I'd love to know the source.

 

At the bottom are the couch-dwelling viewers beholden to all above.

I know I've seen this online somewhere, but I can't remember where. It may have been a cut-scene from a video or a standalone .GIF file. I'm not certain.

If anyone in the community has seen this same image, I'd love to know the source.

 

The Secretary General of the legit United Nations, said this.

Are there any adults in the rooms where decisions like "bomb Gaza" are made? Why are so few saying what defeated Jamaal Bowman are saying, "permanent ceasefire now". And remember how Bowman was defeated. $17K/hr.

Also, cute story, Lebanon is the only other country in the world to feature a plant on its flag. The Lebanese are beautiful, Mediterranean people. LEBANON is at the crossroads of empires, and now — as is often the case — Lebanese are victims of outland calamities; Syria, the dock, and econonic collapse.

Hezb. are based there. Lebanon is thus remade like Afghanistan. Isr. reserves the right to "defend".

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