• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    within the Grand Theft Auto lore, there’s a nude religious cult called “The Altruists” of elderly baby boomers that has a small, secluded, primitively walled compound high up in the hills of a state wilderness area where they cannibalize people that have been kidnapped. They are heavily armed and hostile. Unless you are delivering victims for them to eat, then they warily give you cash and send you on your way.

    They are anti-tech but have an in-game website and blame all the generations that came after them for ruining the world. Everything to do with them is optional, but if you do it, you can get into a shoot out with them, waste them all, and steal their cash ($100k) from their compound.

    afterwards the news radio runs the following story:

    A mass suicide at a cult camp. The Altruists were a terrifying cult of isolated baby boomers who lived in the hills. Now it seems most are dead after a mass suicide or ritualistic shooting that police are investigating. Marcela Gonzalez is on the scene.

    Marcela: It’s carnage here in the woods. The group seems to have annihilated themselves with many crowded around an area used for what appears to be ritual sacrifices, all seemed to have been late middle-aged people who expressed dissatisfaction with modern life. They loved guns and swinging, along with a ghoulish prolection for human flesh. Back to you, Steve.

    We will stay with this story unless we’re told not to.

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    3 days ago

    When did Julia Garner’s career become providing overly sympathetic (Yet not totally sympathetic) portrayals of fraudsters? Also why the fuck is there a Caroline Ellison-apologia industrial complex? Why the fuck is she even out of jail? She stole billions of dollars, she has a job where she works with other people’s money again. She’s literally just free now, all because we pretend she was shitty boyfriended into all of it, which we know isn’t fucking true because she was fucking bragging about it on her fucking tumblr

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        24·
        3 days ago

        Legitimately her entire fucking presence could be summarised with

        uwu i like toxic relationship dynamics and stealing. I also like spending billions of dollars. uwu
        I dislike the lesser races and when the poors think they get to have opinions. it makes me sad

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      20·
      3 days ago

      Why the fuck is she even out of jail?

      I was surprised she wasn’t still in jail. But then I was surprised that I was surprised. White collar criminals never do much time. She did 14 months.

      Ellison served as a key government witness in the 2023 criminal fraud trial of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan called Ellison’s cooperation in the case “very, very substantial” but said prison time was necessary due to the magnitude of the crime. On September 24, 2024, for her role in the scandal, Ellison was sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion in assets. She served 14 months in federal custody at FCI Danville and was released in January 2026.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Ellison

      I’m actually sort of surprised she didn’t give a middle finger to American law by living a five star lifestyle in place like the UAE and living on the money she squirreled away. Surely somebody who easily grifted at least $11 billion could have put away a nice chunka change for a rainy day.

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        3 days ago

        I was surprised she wasn’t still in jail. But then I was surprised that I was surprised. White collar criminals never do much time. She did 14 months.

        Like not to defend SBF but he’s set to do 25 years for the same set of crimes. Sure she turned witness and he got weird on the stand, but it is ridiculous how she got away with it.

        I’m actually sort of surprised she didn’t give a middle finger to American law by living a five star lifestyle in place like the UAE and living the money she squirreled away. Surely somebody who easily grifted at least $11 billion could have put away a nice chunka change for a rainy day.

        No one could find any squirreled stolen wealth for her specifically, and she had to declare all her wealth to get the sweetheart deal she got. If she started spending money she had squirreled away she could risk getting SBF levels of punishment, but of course that requires law enforcement that gives a shit about financial crimes. Which lol. She made like dozens of million from compensation as CEO of Alimeda “Above board” and she got to keep that, sorta. She’s currently “working” for a non profit start up set up with some of the stolen money. (It’s obviously a sinecure)

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      She stole billions of dollars, she has a job where she works with other people’s money again.

      I mean, thats the main qualification for these jobs.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      why the fuck do they make so many of these types of movie

      My Occam’s razor take is that the execs at Netflix etc think it will make their company money and just as importantly they love stories about filthy rich people.

      who actually watches this

      In horror movies - the actors are usually (very) attractive because audiences are drawn to superficial physical attraction even if it’s clear the beautiful people will soon end up dismembered. I think some people - even if they won’t admit it - have a similar attraction to stories about the richest people in the world. To those audiences - money is “beautiful”.