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Happy St. Patrick's Day, courtesy of the Queen of Technicolor Maureen O'Hara herself.
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Kit1989
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Kit1989
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“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible. Man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” —Reinhold Niebuhr
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Eric Conn wrote an article in Nov of 2020 explaining why his podcast was named "hard men podcast" (now named "brutal american podcast").
It ends with a very interesting quote 🥸
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Qatar didn't join the Abraham Accords, it strove to maintain good relations with Iran, it even got bombed by Israel last year. Iran is attacking it anyway
Oman tried to mediate between America and Iran. Iran is attacking it anyway
Also: if the advice here is for countries to prioritize good relations with their neighbors rather than embroiling themselves in conflicts a thousand kilometers away, perhaps Iran should have tried heeding that advice?
Trita Parsi@tparsi
I was always stunned by the lunacy of the Abraham Accords from an Emirati perspective. The UAE's conflict with Iran is far more resolvable than Israel's conflict with Iran. By joining the Abraham Accords and explicitly becoming a member of Israel's anti-Iran bloc, the UAE essentially attached itself to Israel's conflict with Iran - even though Israel is 1000 miles from Iran, while the UAE is only 50 miles from Iran's shores. The UAE made itself a frontline state in Israel's fight with Iran. Abu Dhabi is now paying the price for this mistake. Geography is ensuring that the key decisions are made elsewhere - while it pays the highest price.
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On October 23, 1943, when Franceska Mann arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazis saw just another prisoner. They were wrong.
The 26-year-old Polish-Jewish ballerina, once a rising star in Warsaw known for her grace and beauty, faced the gas chamber’s antechamber with dozens of other women. Ordered to undress for a supposed “disinfection shower,” she sensed the deadly lie.
Instead of submitting, Franceska used her presence as a weapon. Accounts describe her undressing slowly and provocatively, drawing the leering SS guards’ attention—particularly Josef Schillinger. In a sudden move, she seized his pistol (or, in some versions, struck him with her high heel first), shot him fatally in the stomach (he died hours later), and wounded another guard, Wilhelm Emmerich.
Her act ignited chaos. She cried out to the women: fight, because they will kill us anyway. The prisoners erupted in desperate resistance—clawing, biting, attacking the guards with bare hands. For minutes, the power flipped in that room of horror.
The Nazis responded with overwhelming force: machine guns, reinforcements, and grenades. Franceska and the other women were killed. Yet she never entered the gas chamber. She died fighting, on her terms, stripping the Nazis of their illusion of total control and proving that even in the abyss, defiance endures.
Her story reminds us: courage can flare in the darkest moments.
Never forget.
Eternally young.
Eternally beautiful .
Eternally dancing.
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If you're more oppressed than a black man under chattel slavery in 1826, then your oppressor is yourself. You sit in chains of your own making, whining that you do not have the agency you deny yourself.
hoe_math = PsychoMath@ItIsHoeMath
Yes, white men in 2026 are a great deal more oppressed than black men in 1826. Black men in 1826 were given free food and housing. White men in 2026 are denied resources as aggressively as possible. Black men in 1826 had a place to escape to. White men in 2026 face a global institutionalized genocide with nowhere safe to run. Black men in 1826 were thought of as inferior and forced into the lowest social class. White men in 2026 are again institutionally portrayed as inferior, forced into the lowest rung of society, told that we have no right to exist, are labeled with words like "Nazi" which means "worst possible person," and we are imprisoned and killed if we try to speak up about this. Black men in 1826 would be safe and well-fed if they did what they were told. White men in 2026, even if we do what we are told, we can be attacked in our homes by blacks and illegals who are not supposed to be in our countries at all, and if we defend ourselves the law will throw the book at us. We are not allowed to even be safe and at peace even if we slavishly obey. Black men in 1826 eventually grew into the wealthiest group of blacks in the world. White men in 2026 are going extinct in our own countries while being forced to pay for Somalians to have 20 kids apiece. I could go on, and you know this very well. Once again, you were already aware of all of these things, and you are pretending not to be because you are a stupid, evil, dirty rat, and you are emotionally, financially, and genetically committed to assisting in White genocide, having what looks to be a Chinese wife and kids. You only make yourself look stupid by trying to deny it.
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I’ve seen this picture like a dozen times. assuming it was ai, made to take the piss out of the morons. But no, it’s real.
Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby
A picture worth a thousand words.
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The first time Hitler and Mussolini met alone in private? Mussolini opened by loudly boasting about his latest sexual conquests. He thought this would impress Hitler.
You can imagine his actual reaction, lol!
yoshimi red@nise_yoshimi
lowkey problematic tbh
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George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys.
It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal.
Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise.
Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million.
And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion.
Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia.
The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
50 years ago today, ‘STAR WARS’ began filming.
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Last comment on this absurdity:
Literally no one living in the modern United States would trade places with a Black American slave, or serf in Ireland, back in 1850.
Our lives today are SO remarkably soft and easy that adult fighting men of the various human tribes can spend hours arguing, on the magic computers in our hands, about which group has it worse.
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In a Chinese museum, even a pair of Mao Zedong’s underwear is treated as a national treasure.
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Pretty much. I’ve long wondered if part of the runaway success of Star Wars was because much of the cinema of the 70s was relentlessly bleak and ended with Charlton Heston screaming at the audience for destroying civilisation. People just want to be happy sometimes.
Sonny Bunch@SonnyBunch
Every negative critique of PROJECT HAIL MARY I’ve seen is basically “I resent this movie’s amiable tone.” Which strikes me as yet more proof it’ll have pretty solid legs, since most people don’t want to be made miserable.
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But seriously, if Boniface VIII is so great, where is his cause for canonization?
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@McGillPatterson I'm surprised Dante didn't wake from his tomb in Ravenna undertaker-style when that tweet dropped.
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@JamesDiddams If I recall, GW did abolish Pope Day (a day when the Pope would be burned in effigy) among the Continental Army.
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There were strong currents of philosemitism around the time of the founding as well. Basically, anything but Catholicism
Maia@maiamindel
the founding fathers saw islam as a really cool foreign religion and catholicism as basically a mental parasite commanding a legion of violent fanatics
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john adams crashing out in 1799 because he’s dealing with a dozen plots by hamilton to end democracy while convinced the republicans are going to overthrow the government
jefferson crashing out because he tried to grow italian olives in the middle of virginia and the crop failed
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