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A screenshot of a guardian article entitled, Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally. A photo shows musk with his right arm outstretched, hand flat, appearing to do the Notsea salute.
January 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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image description: a screenshot of a substack article. Text reads: "A close reading of Saw VI and why we should have seen Mangione coming. Violence begets violence. Cambria Ruth America is, and has always been, a contradiction. It preaches peace but feeds on war; it speaks of freedom but practices slavery; it praises the meek but rewards the oppressor. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" literally are at the start of our most precious founding document, yet the country does nothing to protect the sick or free the imprisoned. And, in fact, it takes that contradiction even a step further- it actively chooses to harm the weak and brutalize the detained. We have more mass shetings than any other country on Earth; we have kindergarteners gu ed down in their schools. And yet, America despises violence. "Violence", in this case refers strictly to acts done against the perpetrators, and not those merely trying to fight back. The recent assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson brings me to an important question I've had, which is: how immoral is it to take a life if that life has already kil' millions of people, and would go on to eventually k many moreol" there is also a still from Saw VI of a disheveled corporate-looking man. The Saw movies are often written off as nothing but "torture porn"-which is described on the library for the University of Kentucky's website as a subgenre of horror that explores the concept of human mortality and displays a fascination with the theatricality of mutilation." But at the heart of this series is the story of a man driven to madness by the failures of the healthcare system. "The Jigsaw Killer," aka John Kramer, is dying of cancer throughout the present-day timelines of the first and second movie. After his terminal diagnosis, he begins to seek out people who take their lives for granted, in an effort to get them to appreciate the preciousness of a healthy life. The way he does this is by administering a test-referred to him as a "treatment-in which the kidnapped victim has no choice but to mutilate themselves or die. I love these movies", and if they're analyzed as moral lessons rather than simply surface-level torture porn, they have all of the characteristics of a modern parable. And it speaks to the literal horror of dealing with the healthcare system as an average working-class person. Insurance companies may hide their violence behind formal. letters and white envelopes, but the consequences of those actions often result in an actual visceral body horror and severe pain. In Saw VI, a main theme could be summed up as having to rely on the actions of others for one's survival. Our CEO character goes through multiple trials having to literally decide who lives or dies using his own company's policy calculator, before ultimately having his own fate decided at the hands of someone else - the widowed family of a terminal patient he personally chose not to provide care to. (Alt text is limited due to limited character limits)
January 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM