• Pentacat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      They know they’re pieces of shit. They’re proud of being the bad guys. The fact that they’re protected by the US government at all levels while being the worst people on earth is a rush for them.

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    As a way to make her talk, Meero orders an ISB worker to use an audio torture device on Bix that continuously plays the dying screams of children over and over through a pair of headphones. The screams come from an Imperial genocide that took place on the planet Dizon Frey, with the native Dizonites being culled by the Empire during colonization efforts and the construction of a refueling center.

    “The massacre of the Dizonites was broadcast and recorded as proof of mission,” the ISB worker says. “They make a sound as they die — a sort of choral, agonized pleading. It’s quite unlike anything anyone has ever heard before.” According to the worker, a trio of communications officers monitoring the broadcast were later found in various states of emotional distress. He tells Bix: “We’ve taken the recordings and modified them slightly. Layering, adjusting. And we found a section of what we believe are primarily children, which has its own particular effect.”

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      I had this in mind too, and this time I don’t even feel bad for comparing real life to le epic series, because we’re just pointing it out, these motherfuckers are the ones actually doing it.

      Fascists continue to be, among other things, really fucking cringe and tryhard in their emulation of fictional bad guys.

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        I suspect the Andor writers did their homework. It echoes so many RL colonialist and revolutionary narratives.

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    I’m confused. Were the pro israel mob trying to say something like “hamas kills babies” or were they dabbing on people who know about israel’s lure tactics with this kind of sound?

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    Totally normal behaviour

    Absolutely impossible to understand why that would end in confrontation

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    Waiting for the Zionist tiki torch march and chants of “You will not replace us!” as they surround pro Palestinian/anti genocide protesters.

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    The videos of the pro-Israel brownshirts look like the most insufferable fucking meat head frat boys that you can imagine. Can’t say I’m surprised in the slightest.