Black Western is a (small) movie genre. The films are uneven in my opinion (Django Unchained vs. Posse), but here's a list if you want to check some out:
Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday....
Yeah, the "why be good if there's no God/Hell" is a disturbing as fuck argument, because it essentially says that if they decide that their god wants them to start killing, they'll do it.
I'm good because if I do something bad, I feel bad about it. It's pretty simple.
That's the problem. These people lack empathy. They don't feel happy when they make someone else happy unless they get something more than that out of it.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating....
That's not the best part. The best part is that 'maritime law' is mostly about things like insurance issues. They're talking about the law of the sea and they don't even know it. They're wrong about that as well, but...
The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia....
No, I'm not willing to commit murder. And clearly neither are you or you'd have done it already. Don't ask other people to be brave on your behalf. Go start this glorious revolution of yours and stop being an armchair Che Guevara.
So you are perfectly satisfied with how America is, right? Since you're unwilling to start cutting off heads? And you never complain about anything, right? If I go through your comment history, I won't find one complaint about things in the U.S.?
People like you just don’t understand how much of a strangle hold the media has on the public’s mind. You just don’t understand how much corporations control us.
So why aren't you getting out the guillotine? I thought it makes you a hypocrite wanting to change these things but not being willing to cut heads off.
Once again, sounds like you want people to be brave on your behalf.
I'm not complaining about anything. I'm asking how to convince people of something. And the ironic part of this is that I'm asking how to get people out of a vengeance mentality and your answer is vengeance.
Sure, just as soon as you look up what vengeance means. Because, again, your suggestion for getting people out of a vengeance mentality is vengeance. While suggesting I'm disparaging Americans by suggesting they have a vengeance mentality.
I am far from the only one who sees America's vengeance culture. Here are some others who see it, including academics:
The call for vengeance is rooted in the nation’s very founding, in the way English settlers treated the native people and each other. Over the last four centuries, it has repeatedly been expressed as violence acted upon the most defenseless people, scapegoats of social tyranny. Vengeance is the Achilles heel of what it means to an American, negating the hope that inspires each generation and continues to draw immigrants.
The most gruesome recent examples of social vengeance were the state murders of Troy Anthony Davis in Georgia and Lawrence Russell Brewer in Texas. For many supporters of the death penalty, these killings illustrate the blindness of justice: death was inflicted fairly on an obviously wrongly-convicted black man and an unrepentant racist white man. For anyone who believes in a humane sense of justice, one that has a moral or ethical (as opposed to a vindictive or punitive) lesson at its heart, these acts illustrate how barbarity is accepted as a normal part of American life.
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From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the "rights of victims" and make pronouncements against "evil." Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself - in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media.
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In this season of gratitude and goodwill, we’re greeted with headlines reporting revenge travel, revenge dressing, revenge impeachments and revenge of presidential proportions in the 2024 campaign of Donald Trump. But are Americans avengers?
The answer was simple once. Yes, we dreamed of revenge, cheered it at theaters and sports arenas, secretly wished it upon bosses and double-crossers. We prayed revenge would right family slights and false friends. Yet we respected the line between fantasy and action. Our society demanded it. Vengeance was considered uncivilized, unethical, an act of ugly self-destruction. We denied the need to get even.
In recent years though, we’ve seen a surge in vindictive behavior. Judges, journalists, politicians and their families have been targeted with violent reprisals. Online encounters trend spiteful, with TikTok and Bumble fighting the spread of revenge porn. Corporate culture plays like a mud-pit production of “Measure for Measure,” starring Elon Musk. And congressional midterms are a grudge match, the next round scheduled for January, according to the headlines: “The GOP captures the House — and is ready for revenge.”
Harvard is the mainstream media? The University of Michigan is the mainstream media?
Again you clearly don’t see how much of a strangle hold corporations have on everything including the “news”. The people you’re voting for don’t represent you. They are there to collect big bucks from corporate lobbying.
All of these politicians are filthy rich. Ask yourself why when their salary is less than 100k a year.
Again, why are you not getting out the guillotine if you're complaining about this? Because you said that makes someone a hypocrite if they complain about America but don't get out the guillotine.
It would be replayable for me probably. I haven't played it since the 90s.
I remembered some of the puzzles, but it was still a fun time replaying Grim Fandango when they refreshed it because I didn't remember enough of them. And there was less of a time gap there.
It’s just such a common thing you see in American society.
I can't say I have the same experience as you. I almost never see it. And I live in a town with a bunch of Catholic churches, a Catholic university with attached congregation of nuns and a monastery.
I honestly can't tell you if I've ever seen someone do it around here.
‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old ( www.theguardian.com )
When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men....
Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity' ( abcnews.go.com )
Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday....
Tacos. ( lemmy.world )
Park rules ( lemmy.world )
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details ( www.cnn.com )
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating....
Sovcit wants to be on the land. ( lemmy.world )
I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. ( lemmy.world )
Rudy Giuliani indicted for role in Arizona fake-elector scheme ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020...
UN says 800,000 people have fled Rafah as Israel kills dozens in Gaza ( www.aljazeera.com )
‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates ( apnews.com )
The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia....
Edward Hopper - [passing by] Blackwell's Island (1928) ( lemmy.world )
Boebert ridiculed for fumbling sign of the cross during House Oversight Committee hearing ( www.salon.com )
Nazi Propagandist Nick Fuentes Caught on Stream Watching Gay Porn ( slrpnk.net )
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