arotrios
@arotrios@lemmy.world
For amusement purposes only. Moderator of The 13th Floor
Main account: @arotrios@kbin.social - this one is to provide proper attribution for crossposting from lemmy instances.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 1 week ago:
It’'s because the overall intent is not to unify the country under one government. It’s to keep the America fighting with itself so that it can’t interfere in Russian, Saudi and Chinese ambitions for an autocratic oligarchy. It’s in their best interests if America descends into the worst version of fascism that the world can dream up, and Trump’s GOP is entirely on their payroll.
Any potential positive government action by the GOP for the American people runs contrary to those goals, so they’ve turned to the tactics of fear and intimidation to maintain their hold on the population. Each public nazi salute is intentional, designed to strike fear and controversy into the hearts of the citizenry and publicly tarnish America’s image on the world stage.
Look at how Trump ran on inflation, but the only actions he’s taken have been to attack people’s livelihood or erode trust in federal and state institutions. He’s literally dismantling the federal government from the inside, but all anyone wants to talk about is the nazi salutes.
This is an intentional distraction.
This sort of thing doesn’t work in a strong democracy with an un-compromised media, but our democracy has been hollowed out by the cancer of Citizen’s United, rendering the power of a citizen’s vote near worthless, and by the likely election fraud performed by Musk. So they’re gloating and glorifying the symbol as a sign that no one can stop them.
See, the people in charge right now don’t care if the US collapses. They WANT it to. America has been the symbol of democratic freedom for the entire world. With the US abandoning that fight, there’s no real geopolitical power strong enough to take its place.
Which is exactly what Russia, China, and the Saudis want.
- Comment on Grok 3 roasts Lemmy 1 week ago:
All true, and it’s still vastly more interesting than Xitter…
- Comment on What's it called when a man steals women's selfies to use to create a fake online persona, and when people call him out on this, he says "I never said those photos are me"? 1 week ago:
Catfishing by Gaslight
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
It’s an amazing tool if only one person is updating / maintaining the file. The moment collaboration starts, you’re all fucked. I’m currently maintaining one that I inherited that is at least 10 years old and comes with a 50 page instruction manual on how to run it every month… that then gets posted to a shared drive where anyone can edit.
And then the rest of the month is spent explaining to the end users how they fucked it up this time.
On the flip side, I’ve also built sheets that could parse data between Nav, MySQL, and SQL ERP systems with tables of over 5million rows each on a single button refresh that ran flawlessly for years… because I was the only maintainer and the sheets were locked from accepting changes from other users.
- It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 16 comments
- Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) - 1959 - starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello, directed by Marcel Camuslemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 0 comments
- Comment on Scanners - 1981 - written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. 1 year ago:
A happy synchronicity - had no idea that had been posted, but off to upvote @MC_Lovecraft@lemm.ee.
- Scanners - 1981 - written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 8 comments
- Comment on They Live - 1988 - Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. Written and directed by John Carpenter. 1 year ago:
Agreed - May as well make this a double feature.
- They Live - 1988 - Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. Written and directed by John Carpenter.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 17 comments
- The Third Man - 1949 - Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Trevor Howard. Directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene. Voted best British film of all time by the BFI (1999)lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 4 comments
- The Maltese Falcon - 1941 - Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, directed by John Hustonlemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 1 comment
- Comment on Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Episode 2 - Gillian - Interviews with the cast of Gilligan's Island 1 year ago:
Wut?
The internet archive lit the fire, or whomever posted the video collection did. I just found the smoke, and invited y’all around the campfire. There’s no need get snippy, Zorak.
- Howl's Moving Castle - 2004 - by Hayao Miyazaki, based on the 1986 novel by Diana Wynne Jones.lemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 9 comments
- Comment on Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Episode 2 - Gillian - Interviews with the cast of Gilligan's Island 1 year ago:
Shhhhh… the corpodrones will hear you. They haven’t relinquished the copyright - they’ve been hunting Space Ghost to extinction everywhere on the internet.
Seriously though, licensing and an aggressive anti-piracy campaign have pretty much wiped Space Ghost from most places online, and the daft motherfucker is a cultural icon. So it sure sure is great that the Internet Archive, knowing it’s days were numbered, absolutely doesn’t have a full download link for all the episodes in the lower right hand panel so you glorious bastards can do what you do best and make sure it doesn’t get locked away behind a corporate paywall or vault for the next 30 years… because that would be illegal and wrong and cost a couple of pennies to the assholes who have every writer in Hollywood out on the street striking.
In fact, I’d say recent developments towards the centralization, sterilization and capitalization of our culture have become so extreme that subversive action is not just justified, but inevitable at this point.
In other words, surf’s up, mateys! Time to ride the waves and sail the high seas again… Space Ghost needs our help!
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast - Episode 2 - Gillian - Interviews with the cast of Gilligan's Islandarchive.org ↗Submitted 1 year ago to moviesandtv@lemmy.film | 13 comments
