Oh, yeah, no, I get that. A "good" person would have stopped well before he got to the point where most of those things were even options. And I did eventually finish the show.
It's not only Breaking Bad, I just think there's so many other ways to show that a character is a horrible person without having to actually show something like that
I feel like everyone forgets about or just ignores that scene. I can recognize that Breaking Bad is a well-made show but I really struggled to keep watching after that
The leaders of the American revolution were some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential people in the colonies.
It's like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deciding that Trump's tariffs are costing them too much money so they commit to organizing and overthrowing him, not a bunch of farmers and laborers managing to organize a rebellion
He wasn't a good president, but I think Nixon was good at being president, and if he had the modern propaganda shield that Trump does, I'd be terrified of what he could have accomplished. All of Trump's sycophants combined don't hold a candle to what Kissinger was able to do under Nixon.
I've only been alive for five US presidents, and too young/too propagandized to really understand what was going on until the end of the Obama administration. But it really is the same shit over and over again, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
Oh, for sure. This was very much a frustrated response to comments I've seen on Lemmy today being like "I'm so sorry, the US isn't like this 😭"
No, as soon as we were able to meaningfully project power, this is exactly what we've been like. Canada got a pass for a long time, being part of the British Empire, but otherwise if you were in the western hemisphere, you had to play by our rules
Fuck's sake, he picks Andrew fucking Jackson as the first example? President "I've wanted to commit genocide since the War of 1812”? President "fighting the banks set up van Buren for a massive economic crisis"?
My username might give it away, I love studying the worst presidents in US history because they're way more interesting than someone who was just kind of there and never got any scandals named for them. But damn, I really didn't want to live through one of them
There's not a lot of people I'll say this about, but I think he is just genuinely evil.
We have the narcissists, the sociopaths, the self-loathing queer people, the ones driven entirely by greed, but I really do think that Stephen Miller delights in the cruelty, the suffering, the... evil
This photo of Goebbels comes to mind basically every time I think of Miller
I just love that so many of the comments are fellow blahaj users being like "I don't see the problem?"