My sister had a cat who was declawed (not by her), medicated, old, sort of inbred, and had lived inside all his life. A more harmless cat you could barely imagine. He regularly found it a challenge to drink his water without fucking it up, and spent a lot of time just staring at the wall.

He once found a moth that was already damaged when he got to it, and successfully killed it. He carried the moth around in his mouth, clearly basking in the intoxicating flood of pride of the hunter he was feeling, for almost an hour before eating the whole thing.

Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven’t had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it’s an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it’ll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.

(Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren’t fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)

I mean honestly, US presidents killing random people and families the world over for literally no reason is nothing new. On the scale of Trump stuff, this is pretty minor, as sad as that is to say.

This wasn’t your question exactly, but here, a good horror movie for you:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hpcx5

“Pikunikku” from 1996 is supposed to be pretty good too.

Honestly it seems like a fine solution on both sides.

“You have secured yourself an honored platform and you interact with it. Please buy me my own honored platform, so that we may remain as equals in the matter of the computer. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Ones I have not seen in other comments, although you probably have enough at this point:

• The Fifth Element - Yes I know the director is a sexual predator, it’s still really really good. One of the most creative movies ever made
• Run Lola Run - Surreal modern-style impossible narrative movie from way before movies really did that, also very well done
• O Brother Where Art Thou - Damn, we’re in a tight spot
• Schindler’s List - Warning, very very very heavy obviously, but there is a reason it won all the awards
• Conan the Barbarian - You may or may not like B movies, but if you like “Sword and Sandal” B movies, this one is the king
• The Sting - Absolutely top-notch gangster movie from before your parents were born
• Office Space - If you have ever worked a crappy tech job this movie will become your spirit animal in time of need

I’ve also heard great things about “Highlander.” Don’t watch the sequels.

There are also miniseries. “Stranger Things” season 1, “Chernobyl,” and “Game of Thrones” up until about season 5. Yeah, it’s a shame they never made any more after that, but you can just let it be. You’ll know roughly when. If the three female assassins from Dorne come on the screen, you went too far, just turn it off immediately and be sure to take a shower right away.

Edit: Additions

This is a remarkably good list. I know you’re getting a ton of recommendations OP, but this is really a very comprehensive one with an absolutely excellent balance of “real good quality” combined with “easy and rewarding to watch.”

There was a little cat that used to accompany me on my walk home from work most nights. I would walk through this pretty quiet neighborhood, and the cat if he was outside would run up and walk along with me. Like “Oh shit, we buddies, let’s go on patrol together.” Eventually, it would be too far and he would take his leave. Then, same thing next night.

Wonderful stuff, man.

This estimate is way out of date at this point. As of this April, it was probably around 600,000, most of them children. And then them completely shutting off food to the population came after that.

Yeah. Sometimes for high-profile cases, lawyers have a habit of giving press conferences and things, but that’s kind of an exception to the norm and not necessarily a good idea I think.

Part of the point of the Snowden leaks was that they don’t completely give a shit about those limitations. I’m sure the details vary in various parts of the apparatus, but as I understand it they don’t even really bother with the fig leaf anymore (even as of that pretty long ago time at this point).

Not really… “not guilty” can mean, he didn’t do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden’s “yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that.” Or just the OJ Simpson “let’s talk about something else for a while and change the subject” defense. It could be a lot of things.

But I do get it that that might be their defense and they’re just not saying anything about it because they’re waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.

@njm1314@lemmy.world Oh look, we were just talking about this kind of issue! It’s a damn shame how all these military people started gleefully firing on all the protestors, which always happens.

I haven’t heard that his defense team is trying to claim that… I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.

I 100% assume that the McDonald’s employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don’t want to give away their methods.

I have no evidence and I don’t really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.

I think that Reddit/Lemmy style communities are incredibly easy to rig in a couple of different ways. If you care, you can work your way into a mod position pretty easily and then start to subtly mold the conversation. Reddit is pretty easy to flood fake votes into. And, of course, anyone can make any unlimited number of accounts and say literally whatever they want to. So, if you want to start an incredibly profitable business, you can just do that all day and sell your services to anyone who wants to spread pro-Israel (or pro whatever) messaging. I think more than a little handful of people have already done this, Reddit is one of the biggest targets in the world for it.

“Fuck off I don’t like you, I’m happy out here, it’s where the birds are”

Edit: A counterpoint, Matt Damon told an entertaining story about adopting a small cat that they found more or less in the jungle during a vacation, pretty injured but generally fighting to survive. She hung around and ate the food they gave her for a couple of weeks and they decided we have a cat now.

He thought that they would take her home, get her veterinary care, and she would become a little jungle-cat terror of the neighborhood, but he said that once they got her home she literally never went outside again.

Yeah. I mean it’s not a competition. They can both be horrifying things that need to be stopped.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

https://www.inmateaid.com/information/inside-the-world-of-ice-detention-centers-what-happens-after-an-immigration-arrest

https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/news/alligator-alcatraz-migrant-detention-conditions/

I wasn’t talking about CECOT exclusively. The Gulag was a whole nationwide archipelago of various small-scale detention facilities, which parallels what Trump is doing more or less to a T.