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When you definitely understand Hamas (hexbear.net)

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If you're only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're only reference for terrorists are movie villains this makes complete sense.

You (probably) joke but it's true. It may be extremely paranoid to say this, but I can't help but feel the US government is entirely aware of the propagandistic power of television and have made full use of it in that way for decades, and I don't just mean movies and TV shows.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Justice Scalia responded with a defense of Agent Bauer, arguing that law enforcement officials deserve latitude in times of great crisis. "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles.... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Judge Scalia reportedly said. "Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?" He then posed a series of questions to his fellow judges: "Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer?" "I don't think so," Scalia reportedly answered himself. "So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The paragon of law in the most powerful country in the world.

The most powerful ethicists and philosophers are powerless against his flawless dictations.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Ayn Rand shrugged

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Of course fish isn’t meat!” [Scalia] boomed. “Why else do I—and millions of Catholics—eat fish on Fridays during Lent?”

“But from a scientific perspective,” I responded, “isn’t meat just the flesh of an animal? And aren’t fish animals?”

Scalia scoffed. “You’re telling me the Pope has been wrong for centuries?” (Source)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I-was-saying

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

"Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?

Fuck yeah, isn't a hero supposed to be able to handle the consequences of his actions? The ends can only justify the means so far

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Barely a conspiracy. The Pentagon consults on basically any Hollywood movie involving the military at all. So all of them