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@vicemovie. Wow. I have some thoughts. This gonna be a thread.
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Oddly, I came away admiring Cheney more than I ever imagined possible. A horrible, ever more amoral ghoul, but goddamn - so disciplined, so focused, so relentless and shrewd. You admire him like Lee, or Nimitz, or Rommel - an impressive force, albeit for evil.
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Money, of course, is always at the bottom of things. These venal, callous, power-seeking creatures like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington - it's like moths to a light. As long as money gives you power in our society, and money serves those with money - we'll have monsters.
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Rip the corporate money, the lobbyists, the cost-plus and no-bid contracts, rip the funding from institutes backed by greedy scions of wealth, drain THAT swamp, the real swamp? And these creatures will die off, or move off to (literally) greener pastures.
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My mom, who was raised in the left, who organized teach-ins at SUNY against the Iraq war... She was depressed by
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- being reminded that in the end, the f***ers won; they live and wallow in their own crapulence to this day. I have a different perspective.Show this thread -
Our short history as a species with organized society is largely one of blood and power, and truly evil people -- not the "mere" serial killers and rapists, but the ones who at the stroke of a pen slaughter, impoverish, and doom millions -- rarely face consequences.
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...Yet I think that in this short, short blink of time we've been here -- we've gotten better. And the more of us understand the true shape of things, the corrupting and corrosive nature of unchecked power, the better we become.
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That's why works like
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are so important. The more of us are awake, the more of us can, at the least, plant the seeds of future justice. So learn, educate, fight for justice when we can, and always think of futures yet unwritten. Teacups waiting to tilt. #ViceMovie
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And maybe say a little prayer before bed tonight that, before he departs this earth, we can see Henry Kissinger strung from a gibbet on the steps of the Capitol, and Cheney, Rumsfeld, W, Feith, Wolfowitz et al in the dock of the Hague.


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Oh, also, Steve Carell was terrific as Rumsfeld. Someone please tell his agent this is the sort of Oscar bait he SHOULD be chasing. He's at his best when that quickness and gift for awkwardness aren't suppressed or ignored, but are able to enliven the character!
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