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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 105 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This isn't blackmail, this is just expressing clear dominance.

The blackmail happens behind closed doors, and blackmail is such an ugly word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by InverseParallax@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world

The script is nothing to write home about, largely adapted from the meeting transcripts.

The setting is fixed and fairly limited, painting a backdrop but only just, powerful men desiring comfort besieged by winter.

The acting is art beyond anything I've seen elsewhere, each character responds to the next, you see and are absorbed by the mundanity of the interactions, the basic dynamics of a corporate meeting, while the underlying impact screams in your brain.

They took the dry meeting notes (https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf) and made a drama that shocks you with the ultimate banality of evil, exactly as imagined by Hannah Arendt.

This just came to me today, we all write our own narratives for what we do, and watching Heydrich, the ambitious patriot trying to clear the way for his country's deserved greatness, the bureaucrats trying to slither amongst the politics, the soldiers merely looking for leadership, and the diplomats and lawyers merely trying to keep the blood off their cuffs.

Meanwhile, Eichmann takes his orders and follows them with the obedience and competence of a well-disciplined soldier...

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 110 points 4 weeks ago

I lived in the shithole parts of the country, it made perfect sense.

Many 'Americans' would eat shit if they knew the smell would piss people off.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago

Wow, this milkshake brings all the .ml to the yard.l

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 197 points 1 month ago

I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."

Man, it's like you spend centuries brutalizing all your neighbors, if not outright conquering them and enforcing holocausts, and this is the thanks you get!

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Fake 'Leftists' (lemmy.world)

I'm sure this won't end up just like the GOP immigrant caravans of ms-13 and disappear right after the election.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

And polls continue to call the race a tie.

At some point we have to acknowledge that roughly 30% of our population are just evil, fascist monsters. Having lived in those states, this isn't a surprise.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 101 points 1 month ago

lemmy.ml: But how dare you call China an open-air prison!!!

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 122 points 2 months ago

You're making a mistake.

He's not the disease, he's only a symptom of something we're otherwise able to ignore.

There are vast oceans of his supporters who love him because he "tells it like it is", ie he helps them speak more openly about their own bigotry.

Trump going away will only give us someone else, and honestly, they'll probably be moderately competent.

Trump is a godsend, because he is so absolutely, perfectly stupid and incompetent, a real operator would be devastating. Use this opportunity to gain resistance to their form of plague before it's too late.

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I mean, sure, at this point why not?

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

Optimization, son.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InverseParallax@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

Your honor, I would like the opportunity to interview the underaged girl accusing me of rape, privately in my basement, so we can try to reenact the crime and confirm her testamony.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

God damnit...

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago

That was so much more fun than it had any right to be.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 263 points 1 year ago

Interest rates going up means investors are demanding more profit so all the tricks web companies have held off on till now are coming out.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

Nailed it, investors are demanding profit increases, it's not just interest rates (though they're the main reason) but also the corporate tax cuts in 2018 basically dumped a ton of profit onto corporations because they repatriated all their offshore cash they'd been hoarding.

That bump lasted 2 years, but the expectation of higher revenue is still there, it doesn't matter if you got lucky at slots last month, if you make your normal salary this month investors will be absolutely pissed.

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