Ukraine President Plugs 15-Year-Old Film To Free Hostages (metro.co.uk) 34
In what sounds like a Black Mirror episode, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy complied with a hostage-takers demands and posted a six-second video urging the public to watch the 2005 film "Earthlings," a movie about mankind using animals for pets, food and clothing. "Everyone should watch the 2005 film 'Earthlings,'" he said in the video posted to his Facebook page, which has been since deleted. The hostage-taker eventually surrendered to police and the bus passengers were freed unharmed. Deutsche Welle reports: Ukrainian police say the armed man who took 13 people aboard a long-distance bus in the western city of Lutsk hostage on Tuesday morning has been detained after authorities stormed the vehicle. The country's SBU Security Service said no one was injured in the incident. A man with explosives and weapons seized the bus and took 13 people hostage in northwestern Ukraine early Tuesday morning, the SBU said in a Facebook statement.
Metro reports: The man called police after taking control of the bus and introduced himself as Maksim Plokhoy, deputy interior minister Anton Gerashchenko said. But the minister added that police have identified the man as Maksim Krivosh, a 44-year-old Ukrainian born in Russia. In a Telegram account reportedly belonging to him, Krivosh apparently admitted taking people on the bus hostage, and said "the state has always been and always is the first terrorist," while demanding that senior Ukrainian officials release statements on their social media pages calling themselves terrorists. He also called for Ukrainian president President Zelensky to urge people to watch the 2005 movie Earthlings. The film chronicles the day-to-day practices of large industries, and how they rely on animals for profit.
Could have been worse (Score:5, Funny)
We could have been asked to watch the Pikachu movie.
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We could have been asked to watch the Pikachu movie.
Or Cats
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"Earthlings" was much better than "Cats." I'll watch it again and again.
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Hmm... reminds me of a very old SNL skit...
At least it wasn't (Score:3)
It's a Wonderful Life
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Or this [imdb.com] one?
Cats https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5... [imdb.com] is rated lower than Wedding Trough.
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Battlefield Earth
Bus passengers pleaded for him to just blow up the bus now.
Bomb on bus tied to 50 MPH whould of been better (Score:2)
Bomb on bus tied to 50 MPH would of been better movie
Re: Bomb on bus tied to 50 MPH whould of been bett (Score:2)
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David Cameron. Well he doesn't have to, just wants to.
the sign of the end (Score:5, Funny)
The rule is never give up to hostage takers
Not logical (Score:3)
Following a policy thoughtlessly is to not use your head and think. Saying to watch a movie that could wake up some people is a reasonable thing to do when peoples lives hang in the balance. Sure it means somebody might try something worse but then you refuse if that makes sense.
A nutcase is not the same as a political or monetary demand.
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The only "reason" in your bullshit syllogism is populism. That's an animalisitic reason for political survival.
Fuck populism
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Sig: "Funny"=-6
Shoot the hostage (Score:2)
Harry: What?
Jack: Take her out of the equation. Go for the good wound and he can't get to the plane with her. Clear shot.
Harry: You are deeply nuts, you know that? "Shoot the hostage"... jeez...
—Speed (1994)
Save you a google on EARTHLINGS 2005 (Score:3, Insightful)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com... [rottentomatoes.com]
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Re:Save you a google on EARTHLINGS 2005 (Score:5, Informative)
That scene was staged by the activists, they skinned a LIVE ANIMAL for the shock value. No one who has ever actually butchered an animal would ever do that, it's asking to be bit, scratched and otherwise injured. The poor thing had to have been muzzled and tied down while they did it. That's the kind of sick fuckers they are.
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Common sense and basic logic. If you have the tools to skin an animal, you have the tools to kill it.
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why exactly do you think people who routinely skin animals for profit would give the slightest shit about killing it when that takes time
DING-DING-DING!!! We have a winner for the dumbest comment on SlashDot this week!
Just because they work on a fur farm doesn't mean that they don't value their fingers, and a fox or mink could take one off faster than you can blink. Are you also under the utterly absurd illusion that the critter is going to lie there all nice and docile while its skin is pulled off? Or is it going to struggle and make you take ten times longer and require extra people to hold it down? How long do you think it takes to kil
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No it's just bullshit from the anti-animal rights lobby. It happens because contrary to the troll who responded to you when you industrialise this kind of thing you don't care about "killing it", you just care about how many skins you can put together in how short a time.
The person you're responding to is also full of shit, the idea that an animal that is literally on deaths door has the energy to scratch and bite is clearly complete and utter bullshit.
Both the person you're responding to, and responded to,
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the idea that an animal that is literally on deaths door has the energy to scratch and bite
You're the same AC that I responded to above, aren't you? You're amazingly ignorant of anything to do with animal husbandry. An animal which "is literally on deaths door" is going to have an extremely poor pelt, which would be valueless. Fur farms do their best to keep their animals healthy since that's the only way they can make money.
Even if that were not the case you are still wrong, the instinct of self-defense is one of the last to go. I've had a rabbit which had received half the pattern from a 16
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Oh, and this bit of idiocy?
1) People who find animal suffering so unconscionable that they dedicate their lives to stopping it made an animal suffer in the most horrific of ways
Yes, they would do that if it gave them something truly shocking and horrific for their propaganda. I've worked with PETA trust fund brats, they couldn't do something like that themselves but they wouldn't hesitate to pay someone else to "for the greater good".
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So did the skin just evaporate while it was asleep? You don't think it would have tried to fight back while being skinned? Fucking hell. Maybe they anesthetized it and then woke it up for the video shot, there is no way in hell that even the dumbest farm worker would attempt to skin a fox while it was still alive unless they were being paid a fuck of a lot of money to do exactly that.
And you obviously have never been hunting, most animals need to be dispatched after being shot the first time. It's not n
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This is why Slashdot moderation is broken.
You can literally just make up a complete crock of shit with absolute zero evidence, and that doesn't even make any kind of rational sense and get +5.
And it's not that I don't believe what the GP is saying, I've no doubt he read the same bullshit somewhere else and decided in his irrational mind that because he read it on the internet and found something PETA said offensive once or whatever that it must be true.
But it isn't, and the up moderation of this conspiracy
Thanks, Slashdot, for supporting the terrorists! (Score:4, Insightful)
Proving that terrorism work, showing all that even 5 seconds message from the terrorist which would otherwise be unheard, will be shared world-wide by media and news sites like you and reach much farther than it would originally, thanks to your uncritical chase after sensational news.