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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What could you do? The simplest thing you could say is that it benefits an awful lot of people to maintain instability and weak states in Central Africa, and it's complex because a lot of the weak actors in that region see it that way, as well. I mean if you believe in capitalism as a mechanism for social change you can just not buy anything with diamonds, gold, platinum, miniaturized electronics, bauxite, stainless steel...well, actually just don't buy things.
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outlier posted:It's been recommended multiple times but I finally caught up with The WIld and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Engrossing, sympathetic to its subject without making them heroes and kinda heartbreaking in parts. It's on Youtube, so no excuse. Be sure to check out The Wild World of Hasil Adkins, One Man Band And Inventor of the Hunch and Bury Me In Kern County, too.
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Le0 posted:Hey thanks a lot. Just finished Restrepo, gently caress that was powerful. War sucks Restrepo has a sequel, sort of, called Korengal.
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spankmeister posted:It's good. One sided though. Laughably so. I'm no Russophile but you'd never know watching this thing that Yanukovych was an elected leader opting out of EU style financial coercion or that all Euromaidan did was manage to get neo-fascists into power.
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cloudchamber posted:The far-right played a large role in the protests and the government that took over once the president fled had a handful of members from extremist parties, but it's not really true at all to say that the Maidan led to a fascist government. I phrased that poorly - I don't mean that the government of the Ukraine is now neo-fascist, but that there are now (even more) neo-fascists in positions of power in the Ukraine than before, while none of the more progressive and/or liberal elements of the movement have much to show for it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Maybe my favorite 90's skinhead hype movie: Maybe your favorite
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Bullfrog posted:Hypernormalization (Adam Curtis) was a really great film in terms of storytelling, but he misses the mark on a few things mostly relating to the internet. This is a tiny complaint, but he also spends a weird amount of time on clips of young women, as if to make them out to be vapid young people/millennials. It's also pretty unfocused. It's probably unfair to say he won't ever top The Century of Self, but this was a huge step down from Bitter Lake or even that VICE thing he did.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:You can easily say that about almost any organized religion with all the wacky stuff they toss in and dumb rules they come up with What other religion can you say that about exactly? What a weird thing to say.
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Looten Plunder posted:Domestic violence is the police force? As in Husband / wife cops? It's about an alleged murder of a woman by her ex boyfriend, who is a cop. She was not a cop.
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I wonder if Burns will touch on the Vietnamese-Cambodian War, perhaps the most righteous foreign intervention in human history. Nominally Communist or not Minh and the Vietnamese were not having any "but they're our bastards" bullshit with the Khmer Rouge. The UN continued to recognize the Khmer Rouge (!) and eventually forced a counter revolution and restoration of the monarchy.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's a good idea. How is it? The Vietnam doc bar is set very high and my feelings on the war are such that too much "unbiased" pussyfooting will get me ornery
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Mahoning posted:It's like The Civil War on steroids. Except without a clear good guy and bad guy. There was a clear good guy. Moreso than the USCW. At least the Viet Minh didn't wait three years in until they were losing to come out against landlordism just in case they could have it both ways..
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MonsieurChoc posted:I watched this and it destroyed me I'm legit crying right now. P sure I couldn't handle this ATM
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Herv posted:I get let down that the majority of Americans turned into pussies and hit the panic button over communism. The US wasn't against colonialism, they just knew they were the heirs to the empire
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cloudchamber posted:The films portrays both sides in the conflict's decision making as being out of touch with reality. The description of Le Duan's reasoning before launching the Tet Offensive makes him sound like an complete fantasist. I'm assuming it focused on the conviction that a successful offensive would trigger a revolt in the South? Or on Tranh's and Le's belief that the operational focus should be on destroying US troops and materiale to end the US ability to prosecute the war?
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Oct 15, 2017 18:36
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cloudchamber posted:The way the doc told it Le Duan launched the operation based on the assumption that the South Vietnamese army the US helped put together would collapse quickly and that the offensive would also initiate some kind of general uprising against American rule. Neither of these things ended up happening so the offensive cost thousands of northern troops there lives and also compromised the undercover network they's set up in the south, a situation they apparently tried to deal with by massacring civilians who were aware of it. That is what Tranh and Le thought would happen (Giap disagreed but was strong armed into planning the attack after a large number of his supporters were arrested). They wanted to focus on surrounding and destroying US positions, however, to force them out of the war. Giap knew that wouldn't work but also knew the US wasn't willing to fight a war of attrition, so he refocused the attack to include large scale guerilla strikes on the SV army. The process that led the NVA to the Tet Offensive was really complicated and involved a lot of different competing factions within the government even at the Politburo level, so it's not quite fair to say Le's fantasies of a SV revolt fueled the whole thing. For example, he also hoped that getting the NVA involved in a more conventional conflict would force the hand of the PRC and drag them into the war as it had in Korea.
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mod sassinator posted:I dunno, what are you expecting? The movie ends just like the war... with confusion, pain and suffering. There's really no way to tie up loose ends or draw some deeper meaning other than it was a waste of many lives. yeah, except that's not so. Vietnam and southeast Asia continued to exist, continued to fight, and it was a critical and meaningful part of a major struggle in the history of western imperialism. There are lots of ways to discern meaning from the extended conflict ~1950-1980 in the extended Mekong region and the fact that Americans were confused by losing a war doesn't mean the actual conflict was confusing.
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Mahoning posted:So then why is your posting about it so bad? Are you seriously melting down because some people don't agree with how Ken Burns represented the Vietnam War? I'm really sorry I didn't know it was so important to you
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Mahoning posted:Are they melting down because of how Ken Burns represented the Vietnam War? no FWIW everyone you're talking to is in their 30s Like I don't know what credentials you want people to have before they can state an opinion that contradicts Kenneth Burns and his Documentary Crew. Do you want a bibliography? Photos of time spent in Vietnam? Your dad liking the series is just emblematic of how the series timidly says nothing interesting about Vietnam. It's a very well done but totally spineless presentation of exactly the popular consensus on Vietnam. Incidentally, the popular consensus is bullshit DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Oct 28, 2017 |
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Any attempt to counter how much of a weird baby youre being just makes you look like an even weirder baby People who disagree with me are children, who hate white people, and also they don't know anything, but i'm not bothered cause i don't care, my dad liked it
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Mahoning posted:I’d love to. I mean Peter Davis did it 40 years ago and it wasn't boring or dumb, and lots of veterans were involved so I don't know what you're talking about. BTW does anyone remember what thread all those PD Vietnam docs were posted in semi recently? There were a bunch of things posted besides Hearts and Minds on youtube and now I can't find them or remember the names, particularly one about the presence of US "advisors" and "contractors" in SV after the US withdrawal that was badass. edit: I'm not 100% sure they were peter davis movies, but they were contemporaneous docs ~40m each and one focused on the post withdrawal period and was eerily, disgustingly relevant to Iraq and Afghanistan DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Oct 28, 2017 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:"Dispatches" and "Bloods". Bloods is ridiculously good
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Volkerball posted:a nonpartisan account of what happened. No such thing. Burns is pushing a perspective the same as any other documentarian or historian. Like what is your argument here, republicans buy shoes too? Or do you think it's good that the documentary portrays Vietnam as a tragedy for America so jingoists can relate?
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SimonCat posted:You think Vietnam wasn't a tragedy? A tragedy for whom? If you insist on pinning an overall narrative arc to it, the good guys won. It had a happy ending. Millions of people had to suffer and die because the western imperial powers decided it was better to burn Asia to the ground and depopulate it than let it go red, so yeah there were countless awful tragedies mixed up in it. But no I don't think the failure of the US mission in Vietnam was a tragedy. The fact there was a US mission in Vietnam is an atrocity, the fact that thousands of mostly poor and disinterested US citizens died is awful, but the US military empire losing and heading home tail between its legs is not a tragedy.
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Volkerball posted:So your argument here is that Vietnam was actually cool and good just because in the end it made the US look bad, and that Burns choosing not to make this a central theme demonstrates that he is biased. No? The wars in SE Asia were bad because imperialism is bad, and fighting wars to maintain dominance over others is bad. Lots of people died in the struggle to grant the people of the region self government, and that's bad. It's not a tragedy. It wasn't a tragedy for the US either, it was an idiotic, bungled imperial adventure. Burns is a human being, which demonstrates that he is biased. He and the rest of the artists involved created a piece of art, which necessarily frames its subject. No frame is impartial or objective
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Mahoning posted:Christ how are you not understanding this? Ken Burns is not and never has been one to give a modern day critical overview of history. He lets the event unfold as it happened through the lens and voices of those who experienced it. Spielberg has made at least 2 romantic comedies but I don't see how that has anything to do with anything. I'm not criticizing what Burns should have or could have done. I'm criticizing what he did. You seem to have this weird belief that Burns's portrayal of the war is neutral, drawing objectively from a well of pure experience and fact to show equally "what it was like" for "both sides". That's silly, of course - Burns had to decide whose experiences to highlight, whose to cut, who not to interview at all, what images would and wouldn't play with what accounts, which determines how we interpret those accounts, and so forth. Anytime something is presented to you as unbiased and you believe it, what's actually happening is you're being told what you already believe.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Do they talk about how widespread benzedrine use and abuse was in the postwar US as a recreational, weight loss and study drug? Actually I’d be interested to hear how and why it stopped, the transition from the wartime drug race to peacetime marketing is fascinating but it kind of blows my mind it was ever regulated
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:War on Drugs. When they came up with the "drug schedule" as part of the Controlled Substances Act, there was an attempt to separate out licit from illicit drugs, and the scheduling was a way to create a gradient that allowed for "the potential for abuse" to exist alongside lucrative and controlled commerce. Notably excluded are the "schedule 0" drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Makes sense, I’m just surprised the speed lobby didn’t have the pull to do what alcohol and tobacco did given the deep military connection and the demographics of it. It’s not like diet pills were the province of poors and browns, they were manufactured by American Pharma for use by house wives and office workers
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She did and they’re all great. 2 is maybe even better than the first but it’s a very different kind of movie
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precision posted:Yeah I like 1 and 2 both a lot for very different reasons. What about 3 turns you off?
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cloudchamber posted:Sounds like a balanced volume on the war. teach the controversy I say
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's like 4 minutes into the first one, too. No warning at all. I'm surprised I watched em back in the day. Paradise Lost extremely hosed me up as a kid
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Same. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I remember reading Blood of Innocents, too, and picturing all the locations as places around the holler where my dad and grandparents lived. That and a rolling stone article where some white kids beat a black kid they went to school with to death with a six pack of mt dew (I think it was over dating a white girl, but drugs were involved too) were some of the first true crime stuff I read and the memory of just overwhelming empathy and fear are still really vivid
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Harton posted:Yeah I don’t get why they didn’t just use the babysitters and just day drink, that’s the only real strange part of their behavior. It just makes more sense to assume they are dumbasses and someone took the kid rather than they drugged them and disappeared a body just so they could stay up drinking. Child abductions are really rare, you probably do much more dangerous things in an average drive to work
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Mahoning posted:The Act of Killing, if you’ve never seen it, is fascinating. Although I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse at the end of a documentary before. Good news, there’s a sequel
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mobby_6kl posted:^^^ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQQyBIHfr8g
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Dongattack posted:Can you ask for documentary recommendations here? If so, anyone know of a documentary about german WW2 submarine warfare that goes into great detail about the tech and tools used that isn't super americanized (constant buttrock)? NO you may NOT
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I will definitely watch this
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ruddiger posted:I’ve been going through all the punk and thrash docs on Tubi, there’s some really good ones and some really boring ones. The Descendents doc is super good. The Pennsylvania Hardcore doc is super boring but good for making a list of pa hardcore bands to check out. save me the effort?
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Jakabite posted:Just finished my first proper documentary short. It’s about a Slovakian busker who lives off the money he makes in the street, and gets into issues like what it means to follow your dreams and be an outsider. It’s not public release yet but if anyone wants to watch, drop me a pm and I’ll get you a link. It’s only 25 minutes too. i'd be into this
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