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  • Many good ones were already mentioned

    But from memory:

    • The snatch
    • The big Lebowsky
    • Clerks
    • American Psycho
    • 2001 a space odissey
    • Blade Runner (possibly the directors cut)
    • Apocalypse now (possibly the redux version)
    • Full metal jacket
    • The godfather (first 2 movies, the rest is not as good)
    • Fight club
    • Alien
    • The Truman show
    • In the mouth of madness
    • They live
    • The terminator (first 2)
    • Animal house
    • the dollar trilogy from Sergio Leone
    • Once upon a time in America
    • pulp fiction
    • reservoir dogs








  • Replace ruling family with ruling class and this seems very fascist to me. Do as I say or else

    There are civilizations that went extinguished because they rebelled once conquered, and again history is written by who wins, we will never know (luckily) what history would say if Hitler or Mussolini won (the Mussolini part is just a joke, he never really had any chance without the Nazis)







  • gimsy@feddit.itto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    6 months ago

    That’s wishful thinking, in world history there’s always been who is on top, and in general the conditions of people are far better than in the past, thanks to (or despite of) capitalism

    Wealth redistribution is sign of a mature society as well as punishing who abuses societal rules for private gains

    Some societies are, in many ways, more mature than others, and western society aren’t much better that eastern ones, despite what we like to think, they just value different things, including status symbols, and being better off than the average, when this is left unchecked… It causes problems, to the point where it is not possible any more to control it

    And here we are