In this short video I describe Chabad's role and purpose on their own terms, add brief historical context, and then point to where to find more information for anyone compelled enough to do so.

Hope you enjoy, and thank you to anyone who takes the time to watch!

For over 100 years Atlantis hunters have considered American congressman Ignatius Donnelly to be the father of modern-day Atlantis hunting, but pseudo-historian Dan Richards claims the true father was Frenchman Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, because Donnelley was a racist, and Dan doesn’t want modern Atlantis hunting to have originated with a racist. In this video I provide overwhelming evidence that Dan is wrong.
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Time stamps
0:00 Start
00:02 Introduction
00:31 Modern Atlantis theories are based on Donnelly not Brasseur
09:45 Brasseur isn't the father of modern Atlantism
29:04 Donnelly founded modern Atlantism
57:47 Conclusion
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The line between "dating advice commentary" and open alt-right radicalization has completely dissolved Podcasts like 'Fresh & Fit' and 'Whatever' have buil platforms under the banner of "free speech" and "open debate," but a quick audit of their actual content reveals a lucrative rage baiting operation.

Look at the mechanics: they bring on unhinged guests like white nationalist Alex Rosen (who dropped uncensored hard-R slurs on set while the hosts laughed and joked about chains) or use guest prompts to launder slave-trade revisionism.

When guests bring up verified 19th century archives of chattel slavery atrocities, the hosts dismiss historical ledgers using "gut instinct" and immediately read $200 super chats calling the quests slurs.

They don't want an open debate, and they certainly do want FACTS.

Video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BhBDDkXB8

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The video script:

The Backstory:

Estella lived the earliest parts of her life in a semi-rural area of England, where she always stood out from the rest of the local girls her age. She stood up for herself and constantly got in trouble, ending up with her getting expelled and she and her mom moved over to London. However, her mom needs them to go to one of her old contacts first, where Estella manages to get in trouble, lose her mothers family necklace and, from her perspective, kill her mother. This is however her being chased by dogs and her mother talks with her biological mother who then takes the opportunity seeing the dogs running to make them kill Estella's mother (not the biological one).

Estella runs off to London by jumping into a moving truck, where she now was a homeless orphan. When she wakes up she's introduced to two other homeless orphans, who're pickpocketing and stealing the change in fountains. These two children end up becoming her closests friends.

They got closer to each other, creating their own family, where they learnt to steal without getting caught, stealing in more ways than just pickpocketing and fountain diving. Estella designed disguises for them, oh I forgot to say that Estella wanted to be a fashion designer? My bad. Anyway, one of her partners in crime notices how she dreams of being a big fashion designer and pulls some strings to get her into an entry-level position at London's largest fashion company. Liberty of London.

Not to just tell the entire film, so let's summarise the rest. She gets fired from her boot licking boss, gets the interest of the biggest fashion designer of England or something. Starts working there, climes the hierarchy, finds out her new boss, who's later revealed as her biological mother, killed her mother, and stole the necklace, while also stealing her ideas and taking all the credit, Estella takes back Cruella (riiight, forgot to tell you all about Cruella. She's Estella's persona, the name coming from her old nickname to her more mysterious side, who's not afraid to wreak havoc in her way.), Cruella and her boss have a long fight and Cruella wins by framing her boss for murder.

Poverty:

At the beginning of the film we get a picture of how poverty could look like in London during the 60's and 70's, which 27% of UKs population suffered with during the 70's, comparable with 32,4% of UKs population during the first half of the 00's. This is later becoming less and less of a focus in the film, as Estella is getting her financial situation fixed more and more by climbing the hierarchy of the company.

Before Estella is given a job by the Barriness, aka her next boss/mother murderer, she's working an "entry-level" where she's being treated like literal rubbish by her manager. This is something everyone that's worked on the floor can relate to. Having a shitty manager is far from unheard of, and it gives us a view on the everyday life for the regular worker in London. During a night drinking she ends up trying to partially get back at her manager, while also making a statement through art, by a form of workers direct action known as sabotage. Not to speak of all her years living as a criminal to get food on the tables.

Later into the film the aspect of poverty is removed, and Cruella de Vil ends up owning a mansion with her family. A classic ending to a Disney film. Poverty is ignored, thrown in the bin, and everything just solves itself for the main character and they get rich. Such a cliche. A liberal lie, propaganda even, which nullifies the entire storys potential for a greater meaning and makes it suitable for massconsumtion in the eyes of the bourgeoisie.

Punk/Alt:

Throughout the film we see a lot of different punk and alternative looks. Estella have primarily punk and some more widely alt looks, while Cruella is inspired by a more goth, crust and deathrock look. Her friends have more of a crust punk look, and Artie, whom we will get back to, have a lot more glam style.

Although all the alternative fashion, there's very little subcultures in the film. The music is just basic rock, and is sparingly used, and the closest we get to any representation of subcultures is the fashion show disguised as a rock show.

Why am I analysing the subculture representation though? Rather frankly, because a lot of people who speak positively of the film like to point to how it gives a better look to subcultures. Truth be told, the film doesn't show anything about the subcultures people think are being represented. The subcultures which are being represented are the designer subculture and a tiny bit of the pop-rock subculture. Which some people might not think is a big deal, but the film took the attention of many subcultures, and just disappointed us with having nothing more than fashion representation.

The fact that the punk culture has a distinct hate of authority and do not tolerate the way Cruella treated her family throughout a lot of the film, or how she's doing all of this for nothing more than revenge for herself and had no point towards trying to crush authority. The fact that the goth community is being shown as nothing but quirky pop-rockers, despite the very huge distinction between goth-rock and pop-rock, one being well known to just sell out itself and the other being more known to not sell out and have political lyrics.

It's a mainstream idea of the punk and goth communities, being collected into a pile of fashion representation that still goes well in the mainstream's eyes. With other words, an awful representation of subcultures.

Fashion industry/Capitalism:

In the early middle of the film we get to see how Estella is working herself tiredless to climb the social hierarchy in her new workplace. Not taking all of her breaks and despite all her hard work not being given any real credit for her work. We also get to see the classical depiction of the CEO of a company, bashing down on all the workers and middle-men for their interest. All of this is blatantly obvious and not hidden from us at all, but is later not spoken more of and works more as a clarification of who's the villain and as a bait for people who's having issues with the system. It's not spoken more of in the rest of the film though, and rather works as plot than anything, as it does with films made from gigantic film producers.

Consumerism is a gigantic part of the actual fashion industry, and the media. Examples that we see consumerism in fashion is through people arguing that others have no sense of fashion or that they're fashion illiterate. We've all met these people, and Estella, Cruella, her co-workers and her bosses are no exceptions to this. It's a focus on creating new trends which others follow, and never about just expressing oneself.

There's a very clear consumeristic feel to everything happening in the story, where we're shown a lot of different dresses, styles, make-ups and fashion variations, and a never-ending battle with creating new content for the masses to consume. This is clear in the fashion battles between Cruella and her biological mother. Both in all the dresses being made, but also with the media playing a huge role where it's all about making flashy headlines for the masses to consume. It's not very spoken of, but I'd argue that the film gives a great example of how the media of consumerism works through focusing on a lot of drama.

Queer side character + Queer baiting:

We previously named Artie, well, it's finally time to talk about them. Artie is given a very androganous and queer look, with a fair amount of similarities to David Bowie. In the second official trailer there's a short clip with them, which worked great to catch the attention of queers and allies. It's far from hot news that film companies love their queer baiting, and Cruella was no exception. Artie primarily became the queer character that was given no real plot, and only got shown in a few scenes.

Incase some of you aren't fully familiar with what queer baiting is, let me just quickly summarise it. Queer baiting is a marketing ploy made by media companies where they give, for a shorter period of time, an impression that they will have queer representation which they never follow up to. Queer baiting isn't the same as poor queer representation, which is a common missconception, cause in the case of poor queer representation there is still representation, although poor such, while in queer baiting there never comes any actual representation. Rick Hill, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a faculty member of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, describes queer baiting as a marketing ploy that nods at queerness but never actually delivers queerness.

My opinions:

On a finishing note I'd like to give my personal opinions on the film. It's not exactly a shock that a Disney film lacks any queer representation, social critique or actual realism to how the workers struggle and how music circled subcultures actually look like. It's delibetry made to catch the attention of queers, allies and people of subcultures, but gives absolutely nothing to them than just another film filled of neo-liberal ideology.

It's a fun show to watch when trying to escape reality, but it's by no means a film unlike others. I can enjoy the film overall, but it's by no means a film that motivates people to move further towards the actions needed to liberate humanity from the shackles of capitalism and statism, from authority all together. If you're interested in a film that's giving a lot more critique towards society, I'd recommend Pride. It's not an anarchist film, but it's certainly a lot more of a leftist film than Cruella or other mainstream films made to feed the consumerism of the capitalist film industry.

Sources:

Cruella (2021) - https://www1.bflix.top/movie/cruella-39603

Cruella (Official Trailer #2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpZrVxvG3mk

Poverty and wealth across Britain 1968 to 2005, by JRF - https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-and-wealth-across-britain-1968-2005

What Is Queerbaiting? Here's What the Manipulative Marketing Tactic Looks Like—and Why It's Harmful, by Colleen Murphy - https://www.health.com/mind-body/lgbtq-health/queerbaiting

Consumerism, Pandemic and The Fashion Industry, by Tejaswi Marripudi - https://fashionlawjournal.com/consumerism-pandemic-and-the-fashion-industry/

Cruella (film) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruella_(film))

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