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strauss was right about oppenhimer

posted a year ago by UMAD (655)
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he was a piece of shit. maybe not in this movie but in real life.

what strauss was right about the most was that oppenhimer was virtue signalling about how the atom bomb was bad and hes a "tortured soul" while he earned alot of money for his role in the manhatten project and took pleasure in every second of it. but in interviews he would try to sound philosophical. and also oppenhimer was a communist bastard. in the movie they try to hide it. in real life there was no doubt that he was a communist supporter.

overall oppenhimer was a piece of shit and this joke of a movie glorified him while spreading lies all over

[–] SolarisPatchwork (298) a year ago

Accurate. Also a psychopath who tried to murder and sexually assault multiple people (https://moviechat.org/tt15398776/Oppenheimer/64bad54ea4b03806da33372f/Oppenheimer-tried-to-murder-his-professor).

He also was a self-aggrandizing narcissist who was clearly obsessed with his self image, and would do things like famously quote the Bhagavad Gita in front of journalists.

Also a failure of the movie: trying make me see someone who invented the fucking atomic bomb as a victim worthy of empathy because he had to face some abuse as he played political games. There's no reason to have anything but contempt for the people who created mankind's most immoral, indiscriminate, and inhumane weapon. If only Phalaris was the king who had ordered the construction of the nuke, and its creators could've been made to enjoy its effects.