Discopanda 1w ago • 100%
I fucking hate this so much. It's nothing more than pandering to right wing vote and strategy of tension kind of shit. If the government really wanted to end the border crisis they would use the a little thing called diplomacy and get a deal with Lukashenko. But they won't because in 2024 this kind of WW2 kind of nazi policy will get you votes from fascists and give explanation why you dont do shit to fix any of problems that you promised to fix.
Discopanda 1mo ago • 100%
This guy is so fucking cool
Discopanda 1mo ago • 100%
There is a mod called World of Baldurs Gate, that combines BG trilogy, icewind dale 1&2 , all of the most popular mods into one playthrough. It's massive.
Those ungrateful workers don't want make more money for billionaires and be glued to their cubicles.
www.independent.co.uk
Fuck those people men. My grandfather from Poland was a slave or as they called it "forced labour" during WWII in Germany, parachute me anytime to kick their teeth in.
Discopanda 2mo ago • 100%
I don't know if I trust the Russian CIA. At this point it doesn't matter who is the president. The country is in rubbles, US just waits for a convenient excuse to end the war in order to introduce shock therapy 2.0.
www.nytimes.com
TL;DR: CIA maintains 12 secret bases near the border with Russia since 2014, Gladio 2.0 anyone?
Discopanda 8mo ago • 100%
Regular Russians remembers what 'democracy' looked like in the 90s, anybody who will try to reinstate this will get the same treatment as Navalny. The West has dreamt for over 100 years to balkanize Csarist Russia/USSR/Russian Federation, to seize their natural resources. Breaking Russia into a dozen feuding republics is the dream of every strategist in the State Department.
www.nbcnews.com
Oh shit they've got him.
slavoj.substack.com
"So in my view the only correct position is: armed resistance to Russia in Ukraine, but peace and negotiations in the Gaza war. Why? Is this stance not inconsistent?" Yes.
Discopanda 11mo ago • 96%
Cyberpunk 2077 is fine, especially after 2.0 patch, combat is great, different builds can give you a lot of fun. But when it comes to storytelling it misses the point entirely. V has a pretty good life, the horrors of dystopia doesn't really apply to him. Of cours Jackie, the Relic etc, are a huge problem for him, but in this world you're a cybernetic demi-god, have all the money, cars, apartments, there are no downsides.
www.theverge.com
Omg what is this article.
Discopanda 12mo ago • 100%
The war will end as soon as they draft the children of the rich.
www.vice.com
"The problem at privatized military housing at Fort Hood was so bad that nine Army families sued their landlords in 2020." Privatized military housing? At this point I'm convinced, that US Army and other public services are just a con to transfer money to the corporations. Modern day America never cease to amaze me.
Discopanda 1y ago • 88%
I liked Tom Segura before he started to make fun of poor and homeless people.
Discopanda 1y ago • 80%
Piketty's Capital in XXI century.
Discopanda 1y ago • 100%
Is there something more cyberpunk than being a cop? What a pile of dogshit.
Discopanda 1y ago • 100%
Yes. The real life main character was forced to step down due to sexual harrasement, one of the investors was accused of sexually harrasing a minor.
Discopanda 1y ago • 100%
Omg Anne Applebaum is such a lib. Her books are dogshit.
Discopanda 1y ago • 100%
Discopanda 2y ago • 100%
Profiling is especially harmful. It's like the FBI knew that vast majority of serial killers where born in disfunctional families and neighbourhoods, but instead improving the material conditions of these families, especially with healthcare, they invented this bullshit pop culture version of serial killers, where the perpetrator is the master of deceit, literally the devil, and the profiler is the tortured soul that is trying to understnd the dark side of human psyche.
Discopanda 3y ago • 100%
There was a great script made by Daren Aronofsky and Frank Miller. based on Batman: year one :
After Bruce Wayne's parents are shot, Bruce loses his fortune and becomes homeless. Alfred's character changed to a African-American man named "Little"Al who runs a Auto-Repair shop and acts as Bruce's mentor. Bruce doesn't travel the world, he instead reads books on various types of combat and practices them. Unlike the comic it would have focused more on Bruce. Bruce uses mostly chemical based weapons when fighting (like the original Bill Finger Batman). Bruce Wayne gets his persona from an intertwined T and W on a ring he wore while fighting crime that was mistaken for a bat. Many key scenes from the comic are omitted from the script. The Batmobile and Batcave are present. The Batmobile was a modified car in "Little-Al"'s garage. The Batcave is located in a abandoned subway station. Gordon has lived in Gotham for years, and is trying to leave for the sake of his pregnant wife. Gordon's wife is renamed Ann. Carmine Falcone is omitted from the script and Gillain B.Loeb would have replaced him as the Master of the Organized crime. Selina Kyle would have been African-American and would have had a more prominent role. Gordon's character would have been suicidal. The Batmobile would have been a Lincoln Continental. There would have been many new characters that were not in the comic.
Discopanda 3y ago • 100%
He's a little grumpy, what was she thinking? Doesn't she know there are no-go zones in Paris? Fox news told me about it. But then he meets the guy, talked about baseball, they're best friends now.
Discopanda 3y ago • 0%
Oh shit, your're right.
Taken movie discussion. Introduction: I loved first Taken movie. Like a lot. When it came out I was 21, and I felled for it, felled for its politics. I was unaware of its hateful rhetoric, I agreed with its Islamophobic, racist views of the world. I was a product of the propaganda at the time, and I am extremely ashamed of it. After some time, my process of transformation, de-radicalization, and de-programming in terms of politics, but also my personal perception of the world began. I read Fromm, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucalt, Zizek, Roudinesco, Baudrillard and at the same time, I started psychoanalysis with lacanian psychoanalyst, which lasted for several years. Fast forward to present day, I have a wife, two children, son and daughter. I was commuting from work, 1-hour ride, and felt, yeah I’d watch something. Started watching Taken and I was shocked. Before we go forward, there is something to say about this kind of movies. Taken re-started and perfected the genre of angry middle age (white, but not only, as Equalizer shown us), divorced dads who are phantasizing about violence, as a sign of powerlessness and frustration that has no way out. Revenge flicks where always present, but Taken gave it another spin. The way this kind of movies work, are as follows, first part is the boring setup before the action begins. It’s mostly based on reality, people sees injustice, threats of violence, someone close to main character is being hurt/abducted/killed. It’s just a cover to unleash the violence on the screen. The second act, is where the phantasy begins. It’s so different than act 1, that is almost ridiculous. In Taken, the first act is about Bryan/Liam Neeson who is trying to reconnect with his daughter. He fails, because he doesn’t care, he has an emotional burden with his daughter that has not been resolved by him in any way. In this part, he’s shown the way he is in reality, a pathetic loser. The way he speaks, the way he looks, acts around his family. He thinks he’s badass, but he’s not. It’s so cringe it’s hard to watch. He feels underestimated, he would like to show what he can do, but his ex-wife and her new husband look down on him as if he were a loser. And he is, but this is just a build up to act 2. Second part is just pure Fox News propaganda. I mean it’s so over the top, that it’s ridiculous. You know, Europe, France and Paris especially is where the rapist are. There are no real men, they’re being cucked by the Muslims. Our poor Bryan warned everyone that her daughter shouldn’t go to Paris, he knows how the world looks like you know. He’s badass CIA or some other operator. A preventer. Nobody listened to him, so as soon as his daughter left the plane with her friend, she was harassed by some Muslim trafficker. You know, like in real life. Women are being literally snatched from the airport by Muslim gangs in Paris, and the cucked French police can do nothing about it. I mean come on, it’s so manipulative, racist and stupid. But sadly, it works. Bryan confronts his ex-wife and her rich husband, he’s so agitated and visibly happy to show everybody that – A-ha I was right, look I will save my daughter, I will show you that you were wrong about me. It’s pathetic. After his daughter is TAKEN, Bryan flies to Paris to investigate the crime scene. When he found out a picture of the trafficker from the airport, he did what every professional CIA operator would do. Beat him up and throw under a truck. You know, the classic, standard procedure. When he confronted the Albanian kidnappers, posing as his friend from French intelligence (speaking in English, nothing suspicious of that), the ideology of the movie spilled out from the screen: “You come to our country, take advantage of our system, and think because we are tolerant, we are weak, and helpless. Your arrogance offends me. And for that, the rate just went up another ten percent”. I mean damn. What the fuck is going on here? You’re trying to find your daughter or are you on a personal mission trying to defeat the evil that you identify with immigrants for some reason. It's very convenient and fits in with the right-wing rhetoric. And of course the torture scene, it’s basically porn, scene is shown in a way to give a sense of pleasure. For some, maybe even sexual pleasure. This guy (lazy, breaking the law, snatching our precious women, of course Muslim) is being tortured, he got what he deserved. So that’s the way to deal with this kind of issues. No systemic reforms, no integration into society. You coerce them with violence. That’s the ideology of this movie. If you haven’t got any strong opinions about immigration etc, after watching Taken you will have ready-made answers. And of course his daughters friend is fucking dead. Why? Because she’s a whore. She’s not as pure as his daughter. She deserved it. I mean it’s sickening. The whole narration, its psycho-sexual undertones. His daughter is alive because she’s precious on the human trafficking market, because she’s a virgin. There are no virgins in Europe you know, only God blessed Americans are pure. Beside the racist, fascist ideology, the psyche of Bryan is conflicted, it is unable to cope with the fact that his daughter is maturing and she wants to decide for herself who should be her sexual partner. It is this conflict that is the cause of his outbreak of violence. In his mind, even the slightest chance that his daughter is going away alone and she will have an intimate relationship with someone causes enormous stress. So we can say that what is shown after act 1 is a product of his phantasies. The fact that she was kidnapped and someone could take her virginity, it's too much for him, he must save her. Not to save her life, but to protect her virginity. Well that’s Taken for you. What the fuck is wrong with Luc Besson. You could say, b-but wouldn’t you do anything for your daughter? Wouldn’t you go for a murdering rampage to save her? No. As a parent, when something happens to your kids, you have to do anything to keep them safe and to look after them. Look after their mental health, do everything so that the inflicted wound heals. There is no room for revenge, rampage and violence. It’s just in your head. You fucking moron.