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formaldehydefce · 1 month

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#quiet on set #nickelodeon #dan schneider #all that #electric chair

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ribbedpleasure · 1 year

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put me in the little tikes electric chair for little tikes serial murder

#kids toys adult issues #electric chair #jamesposting #jamesposting (cryptid mode)#25 #50 #100 #250 #500 #1k

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jeong-guwon · 1 month

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Delainey Hayles as Claudia Interview with the Vampire — season 2

#claudia #interview with the vampire #iwtvedit #iwtv #delainey hayles #*mygifs #sorry for subjecting you to my bad gifmaking but i've been climbing the walls since the trailer dropped & had to do something so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#also with all due respect whoever decided to use that fading in-out transition... electric chair. as if the bad lighting wasn't enough :/#ANYWAY. she <3333

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theliterateape · 1 year

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[From the Archives] Required Watching: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

By Keith Gatchel

Time for another installment of Required Watching where we knock you out of your comfortable routine of TV and movies to show you a documentary that's weird for the sole purpose of making you a better person. Knowledge is power.

The Movie Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.

What Happens:

Fred Leuchter, Jr. grew up in the family business, which in this case involved the Massachusetts prison system. Being a man who clearly shows up to work at 8 a.m. ready to answer a phone with Steve Buscemi levels of professionalism, he filled a niche market by creating an electric chair that became the iPhone of conductive furniture death.

This led to jobs as a consultant on other matters of execution including everything from lethal injection, to hangings, to gas chambers (OK, only those three), which by his own admission don't have anything to do with each other. This expert knowledge made him a perfect expert witness for the defense of Ernst Zundel, who was being tried as a Holocaust denier in Canada. This is where, like so many Errol Morris movies, our characters went to a foreign country to commit a crime. In this case, to get evidence that it never happened.

Accurate vs Artistic:

There’s plenty that’s staged by the subjects, especially with Leuchter, which I’m generally against. But, we’ll allow it because they’re clearly just reenacting their processes for visual flair. Mr Leuchter even seems to relish the shots they put him in, be it chiseling samples out of Auschwitz's walls, pulling the switch on an execution, standing in front of a Faraday cage, or inspecting equipment (although it becomes apparent that he’s essentially doing this movie because he’s out of money).

It should also be noted that Morris added in all the counter-evidence to Leuchter’s findings because initial screenings made him either look like he supported Leuchter or caused people to consider his case. This is understandable, as Morris has shown in movies like this and Gates Of Heaven that he wants to present characters as they show themselves with as little narrative guidance or interference as possible (relatively speaking).

Morris assumed we already knew Leuchter is a horrible person. In this case, fortunately, as steadfast as we all are in our acceptance of the Holocaust as the fact that it is, the experts later interviewed do give the documentary moments of relief when Leuchter feels like he’s starting to make too much sense.

Drinking Game:

Whenever Morris cuts to video of Leuchter operating execution equipment like a mad scientist, or any of his reenactments, just fit in as many shots as you can, since you’re going to want to anyway.

Why You Should Watch It:

If you’ve been reading this column regularly (thanks, Mom!) you’ve probably noticed a running theme in the documentaries I’ve chosen: always stay skeptical. Specifically, it’s because these are about smart people doing stupid shit. Since that sounds like an endorsement of good ol’ down-home wisdom and plainspoken truisms, I feel the need to bring up The Dunning-Kruger Effect. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a Ted-Ed video explaining it.

If that’s too much, here’s an opera. But, it’s defined as “the phenomenon by which an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence” (and some of you just read that sentence and thought, “Doesn’t look like anything to me”). What our good friend Errol Morris does with “Mr. Death” is show us a person who succumbs to that almost pathologically. He’s not stupid by any sense of the word, and everything he says and claims come from places of genuine compassion, however you feel about him on a moral scale. But, his trap in the Dunning-Kruger Effect (or, getting Dun-Ked, as the kids call it) is what many smart people fall into once experiencing initial success.

Mr. Leuchter created a revolutionary device, however you want to look at it. But, the sales gave him the acceptance. This is where you either get Dun-Ked or not, whether you choose to believe your own hype. Smart people fall into this even moreso because they can fill in and over-justify any thought or opinion with what they think they know, and if you’ve never seen it, ask the angriest Trekkies you know how time travel works, or a gun-owner about the law. You either keep operating like you’re hot shit, or you stop to remember there’s more to learn. You become the villain in every story that stopped their training and goes to the dark side.

In this case, like so many socially awkward people who think they’ve learned enough, Leuchter went with the Nazis. Who else can you think of that would ever do such a thing (which, yes, we know who you’re thinking of, if not probably them). This is how folks like Jordan Peterson, Ann Coulter, and Fox News operate, and why Bill Maher, David Mamet, Frank Miller, and Gallagher all suck now. This is how you get conspiracy theories, and how they spread. Zundel says it best in the movie when he quotes Leuchter, saying, “It wasn’t what I found, it was what I didn’t find,” and following it with, “It never occurred to me that a man could be convinced by something that is not there.” It’s an opinion that should never apply to anyone.

What To Watch After:

Let’s all take eight minutes and watch master skeptic George Carlin rattle off even more ideas for the death penalty from his 1996 special Back In Town.

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr” can be found on YouTube.

#Executions #White Supremacy #electric chairs #1999 #Death #"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)#gas chamgers #Death Penalty #Nazis #Holocaust #Trump #Breaking Bad #Swing Kids #Donald Trump #Errol Morris #electrocution #lethal injection #Frank Lechter

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kathywaller1 · 2 years

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The Magic Chair (and a Note on Steve the Cat)

I’m told that health is what old people talk about, but I’ll report on mine anyway. Having written one post about falling, I think a second on the topic is warranted. I don’t want people to think I spend all my time crashing to the floor or calling the fire department. Last week, I stopped taking Valium for insomnia and I haven’t fallen since. I use the walker with confidence. David no long…

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#electric chairs #falling #Hoveround #injuries #Steve the Cat

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lucidpast · 7 months

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Toy Electric Chair, American (1920s)

Originally this toy included flailing legs, but they must have worn off at some point. Note the symbolic dead rat on the ground under the chair.

#electric chair #toy #toy electric chair #1920s #death penalty #morbid

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apradonite · 1 year

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presidential alert THE GIRLS ARE RACINGGGG

#'why does sonic have the same expression you gave the blazamy pie-' [electric chair buzzing]#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonadow #this can be seen as platonic or romantic idc sonic deserves bisexuality #digital art #artists on tumblr #sega #fanart #sonic fanart

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blughxreader · 4 months

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Obsessed with the idea of yanderes who, when you try to break up with them, feel GUILTY and are like “babe? what gave you the idea that I’d let you dump me? Have I not made my intentions with you clear? I’m so sorry :^( cmere”

#gojo satoru coded #patronizing pieces of shit who are like ‘hushhushhush its okay’ and you’re like ‘ELECTRIC CHAIR’#yandere headcanon #yandere imagine #yandere blurbs #yandere scenario #yandere x reader

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darkmagicians · 1 month

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Kaiba: Could you FIGHT and KILL and TRAMPLE on the hearts of your friends...? Mheh heh heh...

Kaiba:

Kaiba: wait hey no I meant like metaphorically hold on what the fuck??? what the fuck?????

#yugioh #ygo dm #seto kaiba #yami yuugi #battle city #kaiba believes in equality when he tried to kill them they ALL got an electric chair to sit in <3 #(he's come so far)#i also feel like its important to note that like 2 pages prior mokuba was like #why are we going to where that loser jounouchi is????#bc he is a little shit (affectionate)

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chrissy-kaos · 9 months

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Went out it lunch with the love ❤️. Had to stop at my favorite little consignment shop. How many people can say they sat in a real electric chair before? 🪑⚡️🔌

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piosplayhouse · 2 months

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The horse is six feet under at this point I know but I still can't get over the gall of James Somerton correctly! arguing that Disney's lack of queer representation should be blamed solely on the company and not on the Chinese market, only to immediately fuck up any sort of logic he had in saying that by concluding that this is because China should be completely written off as a viable market because the government only lets people watch shows about communism and censors everything else 🤪 source: I shit you not, a right wing conspiracy theorist !! Since he doesn't actually know anything about the subject he's talking about, he's not actually making any arguments. He only mentions Chinese BL because the article he plagiarized did, and even then he has to punctuate it with a "audience of mostly STRAIGHT WOMEN! " of course, even though the article also acknowledges and has multiple interviews with queer Asian people who found comfort in the genre right below all the stuff he copied. There's no mention of queer Chinese artists or lesbian works or any sort of empowerment, probably because he didn't care to learn about any of them, and so rather than ending with what could have been a strong message about the persistence of queer identity even under political oppression, the video fizzles out into nothing with an aftertaste of "so Disney should just say fuck the Chinese and make whatever they want" (because yeah James sure that's the reason why Disney doesn't make gay stuff there's definitely no biases within the company itself or American culture) and "well at least we still have the Japanese and the Thai are making bl now!" Just the epitome of self-centered white saviorism. No real sympathy or respect for queer Asian struggles, just a reframing of a unique struggle with representation into "well I got mine so go get yours somewhere else" while he waits for them to spit out a work that he can regurgitate into a profit on his channel

#also he pronounced weibo as weebo #horrible. straight to the electric chair for that guy #james somerton

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miggydiaz · 3 months

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Lisa Frankenstein was exactly the 80s camp masterpiece I wanted it to be and I loved it so much I immediately bought the soundtrack on vinyl when I got home. I might go see it again just because.

#It’s a back massager #an electric chair is just a tanning bed for criminals #lisa frankenstein

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 6 months

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