The US House of Cards was inspired from them.
lust vs love
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
WTF are you talking about?
The US version of ‘House of Cards’ was taken from a British show.
The fact that you used ‘US House of Cards’ shows that you know this.
thisismynewnewacct@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
You do realize the concept can be based on one thing and then the storyline can be based on something else, right?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The writer of US House of Cards said the Underwoods are based from the Clintons.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Underwood-Urquhart comparisons
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Underwood is an Americanized version of the original BBC series lead character Francis Urquhart, a Machiavellian post-Margaret Thatcher Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. Urquhart employs deceit, cunning, murder, and blackmail to influence and pursue the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. According to series producer Beau Willimon, the change in last name stemmed from the “Dickensian” feeling and “more legitimately American” sounding resonance of the name ‘Underwood’. Whereas Urquhart is an aristocrat by birth, Underwood is a self-made man, having been born into a poor Southern family with an alcoholic father.[43] Urquhart was one of television’s first antiheroes,[21] whereas Underwood follows the more recent rash of antiheroes that includes Tony Soprano of The Sopranos, Walter White of Breaking Bad, and Dexter Morgan of Dexter.[20] However, unlike most other antiheroes, Underwood is not forced into immorality either by circumstance (White), birth (Soprano) or upbringing (Morgan). In his review of Season 2, Slant Magazine’s Alan Jones writes that Underwood is evil by choice.[45] Although the character is based on the BBC show’s lead character, in interviews during the writing and filming of season 2, creator and showrunner Willimon said that he used Lyndon B. Johnson as a source of themes and issues addressed in House of Cards.[46] Unlike the right wing Urquhart, who leads the Conservative Party, Underwood is a member of the Democratic Party, but cares little for ideology in favor of “ruthless pragmatism” in furthering his own political influence and power.[8]
-Wikipedia
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Milosevic was also a pile of shit. A less informed, less ambitious pile of shit.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Milosevic didn’t have Hillary to tell him when to bomb, he had to improvise
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Human Rights Watch estimate: 489–528 civilians killed (60% of whom were in Kosovo)
Yugoslav estimate: 1,200–2,000 civilians killed and about 6,000 civilians wounded
FHP: 218 Albanians, 204 Serbs and 30 others
China 3 Chinese citizens killed in NATO’s bombing of China’s embassy in BelgradeTar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They should have tried not genociding kosovar Albanians and serbs.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Bombing Yugoslavia was one of the small handful of good things NATO ever did, but the other person is talking about the civilian casualties here. One would presume the people involved in murder and rape don't count towards those number.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can’t wait for the yearly whining of s*rbians on the anniversary
Senseless@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
My condolences to Mr. Cockburn
deft@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
This is hilarious
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is horrific.
Thousand dead because the powerful can’t be adults.
deft@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Both things can be true. This really isn’t the post to pearl clutch
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hilary is a psychopath
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This an important reminder that even people lacking any sort of humanity are still very much human.
protist@retrofed.com 3 weeks ago
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when NATO intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo.
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Lmao holy shit
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yup. The people in charge of the “free world” are petty, vapid, and… Human.
Don’t trust anyone that puts people in power on a pedestal. That person lacks objectivity and will betray everyone and everything as they get closer to power.