• doug@lemmy.today
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    sadly I would not put it past a lot of those psychopaths to do it for free.

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      No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤

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        Maybe some of them just show up in masks with their mallninjashit, and they’re not on the payroll and no one asks if they did the two week training.

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        I was recently thinking, this recruitment drive must be heaven for the common proud boys brownshirt.

        Who of them wouldn’t sign up, they get to harm immigrants, they get cover from the very top if they catch public attention, they get gear, and they might even get paid for it.

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      Assuming we manage to get a much more reasonable government in place in the coming years, hopefully they’ll be the ones paying for what they’re doing.

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        When he uses a squad to break into Bill Paxton’s sleazy getaway spot where he tries to seduce Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s followed by this scene:

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          I think it’s right when he sees someone’s about to hurt her, so he hurts the guy or something, and the guy ends up getting kicked in the balls by Curtis. The scene ending with some awesome “action helicopter” cam of the extraction completed, home boy limping back to the heli holding his balls, “Son of a…”

          It’s such a well directed movie with perfect pace too. Even when it goes over top, it makes just enough fun of itself for doing so.

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              Haha, I chucked it on last night after typing this comment. There’s so many scenes where characters have no place being there but they are, because it’s just the public dealing with an action hero.

              My partner hadn’t seen it before.

              “There’s no way he’s about to jump the building with a horse… Yeah, I was gonna say. A horse would never do that.”

              “But that’s the point. You’re so into the action hero stuff that you didn’t notice they played a screeching rubber SFX when the horse stopped.”

              😙👌

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        It’s where the squad attacked bill paxton when bill was trying to convince Jamie Lee Curtis to leave the country. They cut the trailer in half, bill fell on Jamie and tom flipped his shit, made this face.

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      Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.

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      It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold

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        that whole movie was gold

        Indeed, I miss the James Cameron golden era when he was pushing cinema boundaries and not pumping out the nth iteration of Avatar

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    It’s even better because when they do get paid if they leave before their 5 years they have to pay back their bonuses INCLUDING tax.

    So they’re kinda paying for the privilege of hunting minorities. Really sick to think about.

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    Pedos are like that. Diddy is well known for never paying anybody, which is why 50 Cent was given all of that footage.

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      Ya know, I don’t keep up with the rap world. The only “diddy” songs I know are a song from the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack, which uses a Led Zepplin sampled song as the basis for the song, and a collaboration with Lincoln Park where he uses a their entire song, with him replacing their lyrics with his own in which he calls all women bitches.

      So my view of him from my vantage point is that he’s unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.

      I know even less about 50 cent’s music. I don’t know a single song. I just know he got famous around 2007 for getting shot 7 times. But any idiot can get shot. Just ask Brett.

      That being said, outside of music I know diddy used to host parties in which he needed 10,000 bottles of baby oil.

      50 cent on the other hand I’ve been told got the creeps from diddy, and that led to some confrontation, which left 50 cent with a grudge. Then he said he felt happy taking diddy down, and was happy there were no more parties.

      So even though I will probably never listen to a single one of his songs, and even though I can’t imagine how or why I’d ever spend money on 50 cent, I can still say I at least respect the fact that he saw diddy as a creep who needed to be taken down. I can respect that. Even if the music isn’t for me.

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        I’ve never listened to any of Diddy’s music. All I know is everything that’s been revealed. Another important fact is that he paid to have Tupac killed for a million dollars. Funnily enough, he didn’t pay that guy either. Also got Biggie killed. He’s a piece of shit.

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          The only thing I know about all this nonsense is that on occasion you may find me in certain establishments, with a glass of champaign.

          It’s not often, but it does happen.

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        Also 50 cent has a couple alright games. They aren’t great but honestly for a celebrity game they’re only outclassed by the Riddic games.

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        50 cent on the other hand I’ve been told got the creeps from diddy, and that led to some confrontation, which left 50 cent with a grudge.

        Diddy invited him to come shopping and then tried to pay for everything and didn’t let 50 pay for anything. 50 recognized that Diddy was trying to trap him with favors and using social graces as a way to take advantage of 50.

        It’s like a meta-analysis of politeness in society by two people who are excellent at reading others.

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        Unless I missed something that collaboration is jay z and Lincoln park. I assume it’s points of authority/99 problems?

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    This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

    He doesn’t just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy and powerful people… people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn’t they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn’t have as much power as he does now?

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      The american legal system is catered to one principal:

      if you owe your bank $10 that’s your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks’ problem.

      This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.

      The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered. Your kids are set for life and all the people you conned foot the bill.

      It also shows how much a high estate tax would cripple these incentives.

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      This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?

      All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they’re the in group with Trump.

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      I don’t get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don’t have very good memories around there.

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      Same way I stuck with my wife for 20 years despite her being a rotten person - I kept hoping it would get better, and she’d string me along with promises… Then she cheated on me with our son’s best friend’s dad, that finally made it easy to leave, and once I left, hindsight made all the previous mistreatment so much more obvious…

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        Yo dawg pardon my language but fuck that bitch. Stay strong and sorry someone played with your heart like that. Your example speaks volumes for your son.

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      Parents are probably more connected than we know, or he got in by providing their proclivities.

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      Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies… They’re all so up their own ass that they don’t think they’ll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.

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    An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.

    Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of this.

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      yeah he did trash all those science fundings for a reason and part of it is to pay his own policing force aka ICE

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          And that’s because Trump is a Russian shill and Russia promised to bring down America in this exact way, a half a century ago. Edit dmn I’m getting old that’s closer to 3/4ths of a century

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    Its the old bait and switch. Did you know that Federal Deposit Insurance can be paid out in a period of decades? They can make you ‘‘whole’’ over a period of time that can stretch over years. Technically you will not lose any money but practically you can die before you get your money.

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            You can mention lots of American things, just not American politics! I come to shitpost to see shitposts, not more american politics

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          Simply mentioning ICE doesn’t make it political. By that logic, any mentioning of anything related to any country, any type of police, any type of military would be ‘political’ and I’ve never seen anyone complain about that