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My kingdom to find Eclair films 1913 short Why?
One of the most notorious of these films bore the innocent title Why? Released in 1913 Why? shocked critics with its tale of corrupt elites and its vision of workers revolting against capitalism in America. The film’s hero, a fiery eyed immigrant with wild hair, dreamed of revenge against the wealthy classes who feasted while enslaved workers starved. The three parts of Why? contained episodes of capitalists and workers shooting it out with revolvers over child labor, corporate greed, and class inequality. In a scene that could been scripted by Marx himself, the capitalists turn into sacks of gold when shot. Released by the American arm of the independent French company Eclair Films Why? culminated with workers burning down Manhattan.
June 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
And yet! This administration is determined to make everything worse and to hand each and every American a reason to fucking hate them all.
May 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
The lost film I would like to the most:
April 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
Yep
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
Hmm. This doesn’t bode well does it?
April 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
So, what's the modern The Day After gonna look like?
March 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
Yes and here’s a tidbit from Richard Evans The Coming of the Third Reich regarding popular press and the role it played in Germany in the interwar years.
Scandal-sheets undermined the Republic with their sensational exposure of real or imagined financial wrongdoings on the part of pro-Republic politicians; illustrations could convey the contrast with Imperial days. The massive publicity the popular press gave to murder trials and police investigations created the impression of a society drowning in a wave of violent crime. Out in the provinces, ostensibly unpolitical local papers, often fed by right-wing press agencies, had a similar, if more muted effect. Hugenberg’s press empire might not have saved the Nationalists from decline; but its constant harping on the iniquities of the Republic was another factor in weakening Weimar’s legitimacy and convincing people that something else was needed in its stead. In the end, therefore, the press did have some effect in swaying the minds of voters, above all in influencing them in a general way against Weimar democracy. The emergence of the sensationalist popular press was only one among many new and, for some people, disquieting developments on the media and cultural scene in the 1920s and early 1930s.
March 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
And here we have my cat trying to solve Felix Ure’s Titan puzzle.
March 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
oldsongsawakening.bsky.social
To the Tesla employees being urged to hold onto their stocks - maybe think twice about that one. We're having some deja vu here.
Tech Elon Musk tells Tesla employees ‘hang onto your stock,’ urges vandals to ‘stop being psycho’ Key Points Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees at an all-hands meeting Thursday night that they should keep their stock, which has plummeted in value this year. Musk touted the company’s prospects in the robotaxi market and in humanoid robots. Enron Chairman Urged Employees to Buy Stock Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay exhorted employees in September to buy more Enron shares and reassured them that the company’s upcoming quarterly financial report was “looking great” only weeks before the energy trader disclosed the worst results in its history and a billion-dollar write-down that destroyed its public credibility. “Talk up the stock and talk positively about Enron to your family and friends,” Lay told employees via an electronic forum Sept. 26 with Enron offices around the world. A transcript of the forum was obtained Friday by The Times. “The company is fundamentally sound. At current stock prices . . . this seems to be an incredibly cheap stock.” Lay’s comments came at a time when Enron employees still would have been able to sell shares held in their retirement accounts, a window that closed Oct. 26 when the company imposed a so-called lockdown on such trades. The lockdown, which ended Nov. 14, resulted in huge losses for many employee shareholders.
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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98 comments but only 6 of them haven't been deleted by mods and they're just glazing Elon, lol.
March 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Sure, why not.
March 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM