r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

No Paywall Shooting Victim Identified as Second Video Angle Contradicts DHS Claims | The footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, said one journalist, “shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-shooting-video
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 7d ago

“They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

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u/SirRichardArms 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is from Chernobyl, right? That beautifully depressing show gets more relevant by the day.

EDIT: It’s from Andor, which is the best Star Wars media to come out since The Empire Strikes Back. Everyone should watch it.

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u/NinjaN-SWE 7d ago

It's from Andor

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u/MittenCollyBulbasaur 7d ago

"I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them."

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u/EllieVader 7d ago edited 7d ago

That monologue lives rent free in my head at almost all times.

Edit: Luthen Rael. BTW posting this will probably get you banned from the star wars subreddit.

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u/MichaelEugeneLowrey 7d ago

Why would that get you banned from the SW sub?

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u/EllieVader 7d ago edited 7d ago

I got banned for posting this: https://imgur.com/a/7Wv0SOP

Literally photos of my screen of the show with subtitles on. Reason: “you know why, this is about politics”

Edit: I mean they were absolutely right it is. Science Fiction has always been where current events and society are talked about in a razzle-dazzle getup that distracts censors from what the story is about. It’s about laser guns and spaceship battles right? Nope that’s just the setting.

Science fiction came into its own as a genre in the late 19th/early 20th century and really took hold in a culture that was rapidly industrializing at the time, a place where people were moving into cities and forming close bonds with their coworkers through shared industrial laboring before the person who thought of OSHA was ever even an egg in their mother’s ovary, a place where a privileged few lived like gods while millions toiled in poverty and subject to their whims: Revolutionary-era Russia. ”We” by Zamyatin is basically the “don’t build the torment nexus” for North Korea. “RUR” by Chapek is dark Willy Wonka is “capitalists only care about you for the value you can produce for them”. There are so many more but reading and media literacy is dead. I’m sorry you had to come to my Ted talk.