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arrow-up11.69KimageI can't disagree.lemmy.worldFlying Squid to Microblog [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square270fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆linkfedilinkEnglish35•11 months agoI still like to think the thing from Fight Club where they blow up all the central banks would be cool.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoThat movie is wilder than I remember….
minus-squareBoomer Humor DoomergodlinkfedilinkEnglish20•edit-211 months agoThe idea of “destroy the banks and free everyone” is in so many movies and shows. Sneakers, Mr. Robot, Fight Club. Hell, even Tuvok had a gang of teenage hackers “ethically distribute” money in SeaQuest. I’m destroying war, corruption. I’m ripping the heart out of greed! [as they both battle to hack into and out of the world bank] It does have some historical precedent. In the ancient Near East it was common for all debts to be destroyed every decade or so.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•11 months agoMr Robot definitely had my favorite execution of the idea. Destroying the tape backups with their own environmental control system was just the best. I still feel bad about the nice security guard guy though :(
I still like to think the thing from Fight Club where they blow up all the central banks would be cool.
That movie is wilder than I remember….
We don’t talk about it…
The idea of “destroy the banks and free everyone” is in so many movies and shows. Sneakers, Mr. Robot, Fight Club. Hell, even Tuvok had a gang of teenage hackers “ethically distribute” money in SeaQuest.
It does have some historical precedent. In the ancient Near East it was common for all debts to be destroyed every decade or so.
Mr Robot definitely had my favorite execution of the idea. Destroying the tape backups with their own environmental control system was just the best. I still feel bad about the nice security guard guy though :(