Inglorious Bastards ain’t your average war flick or history lesson, it’s Tarantino doing his offbeat thing

I can understand that, I like his style ususally. But that’s point of my disappointment. As a historian I cannot see it apart from the historical events. But the crowd reaction is what really freaked me out, it’s scary if you think of it.

But remember, Tarantino’s all about pushing buttons and sparking chatter. If it got under your skin, maybe it hit the mark.

It may have. I think the true brilliance of the movie is how the audience, due to framing, can be induced to condone the killing of innocents. I sincerely hope that wasn’t actually Tarantino’s intention.

For instance the soldier killed by the bear jew refused to give up military secrets under threat of death. He chooses te respectfully refuse and is then killed. Framed differently in lots of war movies this is a heroic act.

But here people then cheer when te bear jew comes out and finishes him off.

All of this is an actual war crime.

That’s just folks enjoying seeing the Nazis get some comeuppance.

Indeed and I know, it’s all a bit of good fun. I just can separate it from the very real and very deadly seriousness of this part of history. That was what the main question of this thread was about.

Thnx!

What are impossible sliders?

Leisure Suit Larry

Ken sent me

It takes leather balls to play rugby

Lubbers

That last sentence made me crack up

Joe cartoon!

C/angryupvote

I’m this thread I’ve missed Bastion, once the top answer of these kind of threads.

Personally I’m very fond of the germanized versions of pop music songs in Wolfenstein: a new order.

If you don’t vote with your wallet on the Netflix one, crackdowns will become the norm

Yeah, it’s a shame that the sarcasm gets overlooked by many. So it gets mistaken as a celebration of fascism.

Such is the bane of great parody, unfortunately.

Starship troopers

I think it’s quite hard a you’d have to compare it on ‘time spent behind the wheel’, which is not easy to precisely calculate.

New report reveals government fraud QUADRUPLING under Sunak

HMRC contributed enormously to the rise in government fraud after Sunak approved tens of billions to be spent on pandemic support schemes. Joseph Connor by Joseph Connor 2023-06-09 16:46

In a new report released this week, it has been revealed that government fraud has nearly quadrupled under the watch of Rishi Sunak, reaching an alarming £21 billion from the previous £5.5 billion during Theresa May’s government.

The report, conducted by the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee, compares the two years before the 2020 pandemic under Theresa May’s government with the subsequent two years under Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Boris Johnson’s administration.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which fell under Sunak’s direct responsibility, played a significant role in the surge of fraud cases. This was mainly due to the Chancellor’s approval of £97 billion in funding for various pandemic relief schemes, including the furlough scheme, bounce back loan scheme, and the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ program aimed at boosting the economy during the Coronavirus crisis.

According to the report, HMRC estimated that the total fraud and error associated with the lifetime of the furlough schemes amounted to £4.5 billion, although the estimate is subject to high uncertainty. The report also highlights that HMRC forecasts the recovery of only a quarter (£1.1 billion) of the losses incurred.

The bounce back loan scheme, administered by the business department, experienced an estimated £2.2 billion loss due to fraud and error. By the end of the previous year, the department had managed to recover a mere £10 million. Alarmingly, the Cabinet Office was not notified to implement counter fraud measures until several months after the scheme’s launch.

Furthermore, local government grant schemes designed to mitigate the pandemic’s impact lost approximately £1 billion to fraud and error.

A notable discrepancy arose between the resources allocated by Sunak to combat fraud arising from the funds distributed by HMRC and other departments. While the National Investigation Service received £13.2 million for counter-fraud activities, the Department for Work and Pensions invested £613 million in counter fraud measures.

During the pandemic, approximately 4,000 tax compliance staff were reassigned to handle relief programs. As a result, there was a significant drop, estimated at £9 billion, in the revenue collected from businesses and individuals compared to the previous two years.

The report classifies HMRC as a “department of concern” due to its mounting tax debt and the levels of fraud and error it is managing. The committee’s chair, Dame Meg Hillier, expressed ongoing concerns about these risks and emphasized the need for HMRC to prioritize prevention through improved fraud and error safeguards

They might reveal more after even more time has passed. The incredible thing about all this is that several people worked on these files, yet, on behalf of morality, chose to keep most of it a secret.

If anything the NSA should praise these journalists for their morality, but that’ll never happen.

Piggybacking onto this, also on simple gallery, curious about alternatives.

Why could you not just find the magnet link with VPN on? Just trying to understand why that should be done via TOR