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why does this movie exist

Alt text: The movie Bricklayer. Overview: Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant - and rebellious - operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.

In reality, the CIA would be the ones funding the assassination of foreign journalists 🤦‍♀️

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has so many problems. Like, starting with the fact that the CIA never admits anything unless the entire rest of the US government puts a gun to their head, and sometimes not even then, so why would they be able to be blackmailed? It comes down to "Your fabricated evidence vs. CIA fabricated evidence", and the CIA is probably better at fabricating evidence, tbh.

Another being that, historically, the CIA has assassinated foreign journalists and... the world didn't unite against us. Like, it was a blip on the international relations radar. Which, while fucked up, suggests that it's a terrible fucking choice to try to blackmail the CIA with.

[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Hey, managing public opinion has never been easier than the mass-served entertainment. CIA has been battling the frigging aliens in the shadows for decades, why not put in a few blackmails into the list?

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

always reminds me of Top Gun Mavrick: The poor US, with its last generation fighters, against some unnamed micro power with top of the line fighter jets.

Why they didnt just use missile, or a high altitude bomber, ill never know.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Because they had to recreate the Star Wars trench run, obviously!

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Not just top of the line, but better jets than the US 😂

[–] LolaCat@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The tags at the bottom are hilarious lol, who’s searching through the “journalist killed” tag looking for something to watch‽

[–] naun@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It could be a way of finding a specific movie, when you can't remember the name, but can remember some details.

It's softcore for the IDF.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 20 points 2 years ago

This is the plot to like a million movies, similar to 'this one last heist and then we're out' or the 'they killed his son/daughter/dog so now they will seek revenge'

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is like, my favorite movie ever!

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't play league...

It is just that you should start playing from a windows partition because riot will force you to install vanguard.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

I am aware. I’m planning to quit when that happens anyways

[–] emerald@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

"we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

[–] lobster_teapot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What software are you using? Is this some kind of jellyfin plugin so your users can request movies? 👀

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jellyseer! It’s a docker container you can run alongside jellyfin.

https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr