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Lurker Child said:
His life is best described by the phrase: "a mild amount of tomfoolery". It's great biopic material. The Cold War period of his life alone is weird and exciting enough to be a captivating movie, if done well. Think Catch Me If You Can combined with A Beautiful Mind and a "who's who" of ex-Nazis and Western Rightists. You could even call it Imperium, what a title!

Now, this alone is, admittedly, not much. There are so many historical eccentrics that deserve biopics but never get one. So why do I bring it up?

Because I got the perfect man for the leading role. None other than Ryan Gosling. Literally me!
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This sells it for me. The idea of Ryan Gosling playing Francis Yockey in a biopic is just hilarious. It would be on par with Tobey Maguire playing Bobby Fischer. It's something that needs to happen.

Unfortunately it won’t or, if it does, it won’t be done well. Hollywood doesn’t allow the mild amount of tomfoolery required for a proper Yockey biopic. It’s why we won’t have a Death Of Stalin equivalent for the Nazis, despite the mountain of material on Hitler’s inner circle (particularly from characters like Himmler) that one could write a black comedy off of.
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Spy for the Nazis during World War 2
get in a fist fight with Oswald Mosley 1948
Evie getting captured by the FBI when you're traveling all over the world to work with Nazi groups

criticize George Lincoln Rockwell get depressed when he literally doesn't know who you are
secretly work for yugoslavian military intelligence work for Soviet military intelligence work for Egyptian military intelligence have several love affairs with various women
after being pursued by the FBI for a decade accidentally get caught because your suitcase breaks open
weirdly hang out with a bunch of Zionist Jews for some reason

kill yourself in prison with cyanide
you can either make a really funny black comedy and make it very accurate like the death of Stalin or play completely straight
 
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Sargon's wife's son said:
This is a site for making fun of stupid weirdos on the Internet sorry if I don't really care about grammar
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I'm not asking for perfect well formed sentences and good paragraphs I'm merely asking for posts that show you have some awareness of basic English syntax and style, If you want to write your posts in Portuguese and feed them through chatGPT that's fine, but your posts are genuinely unreadable.
 
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JJLiautaud said:
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Seems like a fine place to me anyways. I can't really stomach the video and astronomy is outside my wheelhouse, but I'm sure her video really has little to do with actual problems with the field as a science. Of course "Dr. Fatima" has an almost hour long aside about "Palestinian Liberation" and wears a weird (I'm assuming) "traditional" outfit in one section while still wearing a nose ring. She also has a Patreon with 734 members while yields a mimimum of $2202 a month (based on $3 minimum per member). I guess making anti-colonialism videos online is a lot less work and a lot more lucrative than doing actual academic work. Weird that she already has that many Patreon members with only like 55K subs and 10 videos, I guess the wallets of leftist ideologues are deep. She says she has three different degrees, physics, astronomy, and arabic studies and wrote curriculum for the University of Maryland. She says she has a PhD in astrophysics from a "very prestigious university and department, but it's not important where." (WTF is your work under an NDA?).
The top comments are deranged and retarded as usual. These people really live in their own reality.
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To sum up, she is literally everything I hate about modern academics.
 
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Amerikaner Teddybär said:
3 hours of an Arab woman saying how white people are overrated in Astronomy
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She, like a lot of women, take forever to actually get to the point of what they're trying to say. Even her introduction video, which should be basically, "Hi, my name is X and I have X qualification/education." She, again like most women, does this thing where she starts an idea, gets distracted with some petty aside or joke, then continues to be distracted for the next minute before finishing her earlier idea.
 
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85CentSoda said:
To sum up, she is literally everything I hate about modern academics.
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"Indian inmigrant woman studying astrophysics". Being a poo in the loo with a box takes priority over any pride in her career. Her career is cynically tacked on as if to prove that her opinion is valid. And then it turns out the validity is from other people anyways. Do American students actually struggle with tertiary education? Over here she would be perpetually stuck in the first year with that attitude.
 
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PorkStackrs said:
What do you guys think of Djpeachcobbler?
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His videos on the Aztecs while good on the production and research side has made me not want to watch his other stuff. Those videos put a lot of effort, work, grit and wit to build up a conclusion that doesn't hold any weight. "The conquistador system was flawed and a/immoral, this rotten system is similar to the system we live in today. The actions of the people don't matter, they are all replaceable. And it's a shame to see these people get crushed by it."
You can without any effort just take his conclusion and flip it. "The Aztec system was flawed and a/immoral." And more importantly it give a fatalistic and incomplete view of the world. Humans aren't machines, not everyone is self serving, well or bad meaning or a victim of circumstance. It's extra glaring when you consider this is in effect defending the Aztec Empire. An Empire built on ritual sacrifice, ritual conflict, fuck ton of slavery and serfdom that was made after the rest of the world figured out things like steel, gunpowder and so on.
And while this can be excused by time constraints or for the sake of pushing the weak conclusion he more or less glosses over the faults of the Aztec system(if you get conquered by the Spanish equivalent of pirates you suck) and ignores that the nations that allied with Spain were treated well and became nobility in the Spanish system as well as not just one codex survived recounting what happened shortly after the conquest. You can also make the argument that sans disease for the average person New Spain was a better place to be in than the Aztec Empire.
 
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Smashed & Slamed said:
You can without any effort just take his conclusion and flip it. "The Aztec system was flawed and a/immoral." And more importantly it give a fatalistic and incomplete view of the world. Humans aren't machines, not everyone is self serving, well or bad meaning or a victim of circumstance. It's extra glaring when you consider this is in effect defending the Aztec Empire. An Empire built on ritual sacrifice, ritual conflict, fuck ton of slavery and serfdom that was made after the rest of the world figured out things like steel, gunpowder and so on.
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Its like the Lazar video where he argues the Christian religion and the Aztec religion were basically the same because well the Spanish executed a few people too.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
On topic of Paleotube, just discovered that there is an interesting Paleo Animation youtuber named CenospireAnimation.

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Kind of cool and has potential. I really love paleo-art, specifically more 'alien' periods like the Devonian or Silurian marine life (see picture below). Seems like this channel focuses on nice little animations of really the "dinosaur" era which is pretty popular. I really like his "Permian Dawn" video. Quite good for someone who seems to be new to animation. Thanks for making a post.
Does anybody know good sources for paleo-art? I really like using it, particularly marine life, as desktop backgrounds. So far the best I've been able to do is use Stable Diffusion to upscale tiny photos from geology textbooks I have.
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