It’s also strategically inadvisable in a genre that relies on the characters’ large expressive eyes.
I am pretty sure that Great Depression was not intentionally engineered to murder people
No, but if I had a political axe to grind against Roosevelt and was looking for any excuse I could to discredit him, the fact that his administration was seizing and burning thousands and thousands of tons of food in the service of his unworkable extremist economic ideology could be presented to make it look pretty damn intentional.
It’s not “twenty million people died last month” level, but there was rampant systemic malnutrition and hunger in large parts of America during the Great Depression that contributed to tens thousands of excess deaths from various diseases. That’s actually how many famine deaths happen, but when it happens in America it doesn’t count.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I don’t know how to interpret chasing off famine relief with gunboats as anything other than intentional. It’s equal to any of the evidence that can be produced for the Holodomor and it far exceeds any of the evidence for the intentionality of the Maoist famines.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
British landlords were growing massively profitable food cash crops for export only and were refusing to let them be used for starvation relief. The British navy was using military vessels to prevent food aid ships from other countries from docking in Irish ports. How the hell is that not a “direct line from the policies” of the British empire?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
The problem is that after 15 years of woke politics the US has approximately the same racial dynamics as a maximum security prison and in that situation yes any rival prison gang having control over your cell block is automatically a bad thing.
I think part of the problem is that the vast majority of the public education you get about the Holocaust is in the form of unverifiable survivor narratives and nothing else, which leads to the erroneous conclusion that there is no other evidence. No one is going into a middle school history class and hearing the teacher say “ok kids! Here’s 20,000 pages of documents seized from the Nazi archives, let’s plug it into excel and run a statistical analysis!”
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Do you think that also gulag system and Great Chinese Famine was also faked? Do you think that Great Chinese Famine was result of things smarter than Holocaust?
It does irk me that famines in Ireland, British India, Africa, ancient regime France, ancient China, Tsarist Russia and the United States are all the understandable effects of blight, weather patterns and supply chain issues but that every famine in a communist country is automatically and intentional act of mass murder and must be treated as such.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Batman vs. Superman was originally going to be much longer (possibly two parts) and Jared Leto’s Joker was going to be in it. When they truncated it they cut the Joker and ended up just giving a lot of his lines to Lex Luther. Because of this, Eisenberg’s Luther comes off less cold and calculating and much more overtly unhinged than most portrayals of the character. Which is why I think a lot of people didn’t like it.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
A story: A man jannies a forum for many years, and he pushes a mop. And afterward he turns the mop in to the admin, and he believes he’s finished with the mop. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the mop.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Which may have been a good idea 10 or 15 years ago. But now India and China can produce their own special effects pictures. Just making a CGI heavy action or superhero movie no longer automatically guarantees a half billion at the international box office.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
The first era of movies from 1900 to 1977 were inspired by real life, Vaudeville acts, stage plays, folklore and novels, and other visual arts like painting, still photography and comics. The second era of movies from 1977 to 1995 were inspired by older movies. The third era from 1995 to 2007 were inspired by movies inspired by older movies. The modern era of movies from 2007 to today are inspired by movies inspired by movies inspired by movies. It’s a xerox of a xerox of a xerox, and it’s getting pretty faint.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
I suspect Ryan Coogler wanted to make a movie about a juke joint in the Mississippi Delta in the 30s, and then tacked on some vampires and gunfights to give it enough mass market appeal to get produced and make money.
Strange and convenient coincidences of this kind happen more than you might think. Pakistani civilians in Abottobad reported that several Navy SEALS were killed during the Bin Laden raid when their Blackhawk crashed, and that they saw bodies and body parts being loaded onto another helicopter for evacuation. A few weeks later, a helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing about half of the exact same SEAL team that were on the Bin Laden raid.
Carrier groups fighting the Houthis in the Red Sea suffer all manner of random bad luck. Bad luck that strangely always seems to coincide with Houthi claims that they have struck American carriers. The USS Eisenhower had to be towed out of the Red Sea due to unspecified mechanical issues a day after the Houthis claim to have struck it. A few months later several members of its air wing died in a helicopter training crash. The USS Truman suffered extensive damage due to a freak collision with a civilian merchant ship just days after its Red Sea deployment. It also lost a fighter a few days after that because... because it just fell off the ship ok??
An American Marine general was mysteriously found dead in his quarters at 29 Palms Marine Base in California. Coincidentally he had just returned from unspecified duties in Ukraine. Coincidentally there had just been a particularly large round of Russian ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine, many of which OSINT analysts theorized were targeting NATO military advisors in Kyiv.
Members of elite special forces units tend to die in helicopter crashes during training exercises off the East and West coasts. Usually these training mishaps happen a few days or weeks after major Ukrainian offensives. A particularly nasty one claimed the lives of several Delta Force soldiers about a month after October 7, 2023. It was confirmed that Delta Force was assisting the IDF during raids to rescue hostages held in Gaza, but this crash is of course completely coincidental and did not happen anywhere near the Middle East.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
The real turning point will be when insurance companies stop covering those areas. Flood insurance in the Texas gulf coast already has to be subsidized by the state government because it’s just not profitable anymore.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
Why has there been a coordinated push over the last few years to get people to stop using fireworks because it’s supposedly bad for veterans and dogs? I smell a psy-op.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
@MadMonzer You’re both right about 2006. The insurgency took about a year to really going and 2006 is when the coalition casualties really started to pile up. People forget that the Iraq War was much more intense than Afghanistan. The casualties sort of evened out in the end, given that Afghanistan lasted 10 years longer. But the Iraq War caused more coalition casualties in three years than the entire twenty year long Afghanistan conflict.
Also until about 2010, the Eastern European former Soviet states had a reputation for being corrupt war-torn economically depressed hell holes so I’m not sure they would have been held up as a shining beacon of the benefits of regime change. I think @DradisPing might be anachronistically applying the good reputations that countries like Poland have now, rather than how everyone saw that region fresh off the Balkan Wars.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
9/11 is one of the reasons the dissident Republican groups never went anywhere, because of all the new, much more comprehensive terrorist financing laws.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
Iran's irrational hatred of Israel is not rooted in history or geopolitical sense
Yes it is. Israel and Iran are the two most militarily powerful countries in the Middle East. If Iran or Israel disappeared overnight, the other would be in an excellent position to dictate terms to the weaker Arab states. Whoever survives is the major regional power for the next 300 years (barring Turkey). You’ll notice that while Israel and Iran had a few scuffles through the 80s, the knives really started to come out after Saddam Hussein fell and Syria collapsed. Iraq (and the threat of a Ba’athist axis) being the main third player for regional power.
Iranians would benefit tremendously if their insane leaders were overthrown and a sensible government aligned itself with the US.
That’s how we ended up in this mess in the first place!
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
One especially funny detail from that era is that you saw a lot of people nostalgically pining for their idyllic childhoods back in the Nineties... the 1890s.
I am beginning to have doubts about Israel’s combat effectiveness in Gaza. People have been debating so hard about the moral aspects of the Gaza war that no one has been paying attention to how the war is actually going. And it does not look good for Israel. There have been two major security incidents in the past week causing a total of 12 IDF deaths and dozens of serious injuries. There are indications that the first incident may have been much worse than advertised with potentially as many as 50 deaths. Even assuming that official total is correct that isn’t good.
Israel is almost a full two years into the war and has leveled most of the buildings in Gaza and inflicted enough civilian casualties to seriously impact its standing in the United States and the world. The fact that Hamas still seems to have supplies, an intact organizational structure and the ability to carry out complex operations and ambushes implies that there has not been nearly as much degradation of capabilities as advertised. It also implies that much, or perhaps even most, of the tunnel infrastructure is intact, including the supply tunnels into Egypt.
I have long suspected that the Gaza War hasn’t been going well and I am increasingly convinced of that. I don’t think Israel has the manpower needed to fully occupy Gaza, clear the tunnels, or filter out militants from the civilian population. I think the air strikes that have so badly damaged Israel’s reputation have done little to degrade Hamas.
Like I have said about many other militaries in the past, I also think Israel is concealing its true casualty count. I cannot even find an official casualty count but the videos and individuals incident makes me think it could potentially be as high as 1200 dead and 10,000 wounded, not counting military casualties during the October 7 attacks.
I don’t imply any moral claims here, I am just giving my opinion on the current state of play.
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