CommieTommy

joined 4 years ago
[–] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

we shall see, honestly I think if everyone one the site banded together we probably could maintain a rate of 420.69 ppbs per minute for at least 15 to 20 minutes, even without bots. It could be like that thing in Hiroshima where people send in 10,000,000 paper cranes every year for the arty thing that's put up by the memorial, but with exponentially more libs

[–] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

but what about one that does 420.69 per second?

[–] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

it's obviously just noise from the 53,130 other people who sent in death threats over the 48 hours, with a period of one death threat every 3 and a quarter seconds

[–] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

hmmm... it's almost like she just pressed alternate sides of the keypad until she had a nice looking number, hmmmmmm... after all, it's not like anybody would ever just lie on the internet

[–] CommieTommy@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

I'm getting in on the bandwagon while I still can

 
 

This is prime agitprop.

The idea is that technology has developed so that everyone could *theoretically* stay 25 years old forever. However, everyone only has a certain amount of time (shown by a counter on their wrist), and if they run out they instantly die (for reasons that the film never explains). Time is used as both a currency and as a timer for how long people have to live, they pay rent with time, they buy food with time, they work for time, etcetera.

There are frankly monstrous levels of inequality and the film repeatedly makes the point the point that the system is set up to benefit those at the top and to limit social mobility at all costs (to the degree that a group of time-police turn up and confiscate all but 2 hours of the time of the main character, who's a working class guy from the slums, who got given over a century by a suicidal rich person who explained how the system was set up for the purpose of exploitation). The story says at various points that the titular capitalist makes nothing of value, and explicitly says "is it stealing if he already stole it?" in reference to them robbing and then distributing a time-lenders owned by said capitalist.

It also says that the main cop managed to pull himself out of the slums by making sure that no one else would ever leave and

It has loads of other stuff like that in it that I can't remember right now. All in all it's brilliant agitprop with the only exception being the bit where the main character gives the cop some time so that he'll just survive long enough for other cops to arrive and take him to withdraw some of his time from the bank or something (on the other hand though this is right after the main character's shot him in the chest and just before they steal his car and they make the point many times later that being a cop is scummy).

btw the film is also really horny so the two main characters are basically always either in really tight clothes or half naked (or entirely naked at one point).