V for Vendetta Speech

I think it's time to let you guys know that the previous descriptions were basically tongue-in-cheek trolls. And boy, it worked. I get several emails a day from youtube telling me people have commented and they all sound pretty pissed off. I'm actually a Socialist IRL. Thanks for watching.
Also, yeah, I'm aware that the speech is missing something from the centre. When I ripped it and put it on WMM, it gave me loads of 10 second clips and it seems I forgot to put some in; sorry about that.

[@thegrandmuftiofwakanda]

I'm not a big fan of documentaries. I prefer my dystopian political thrillers to be fiction.

[@kanarayanaphd]

😆 🤣 😂 😹 but sad

[@Spartan11117777]

True

[@scyobiempire4450]

I coughed up my drink after reading that

[@GiRR007]

please ?

[@markcana2917]

😏

[@keirahanneman6521]

"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people."

[@Inquietuss]

Yea but the governments have people with guns and devices that can thin the people. And their people also know how to fight and use those devices. Ijs

[@vanillaunicorn9419]

Raul Martinez The people have guns too, at least here in America. And we will go far for our freedoms. Unless you are Obama, then you will go as far as you can to fuck everyone over in your country.

[@Mr0Anonymous0]

Keira Hanneman please replace 'governments' with 'corporations' when you share this in the future!

[@keirahanneman6521]

5thdimensionstuff it's a quote from the movie

[@Mr0Anonymous0]

Keira Hanneman I know.. but why not change it a bit so its meaning becomes more actual?

[@sealstorm1935]

It actually terrifies me how relatable this movie is becoming. Yeah, I live in the British Isles.

[@jasonjr376]

At least you arent in australia 🙃

[@bugwar5545]

@@jasonjr376 Is that a '...hold my beer.' challenge?

[@Trump20-24years]

@Mr. Tibs what’s happening in AUSTRALIA?

[@Trump20-24years]

@Mr. Tibs huhhh

[@micaelstarfire8639]

@@Trump20-24years Complete fascist takeover

[@aaroncherry9985]

This thriller is slowly turning into a documentary.

[@Vex916T]

They Live was a documentary too which was confirmed by Rodney Piper himself.

[@PaulGoux]

Unfortunately people are to simple minded. A lot more pain has to be administered before they decide to wake up.

[@vibunja3602]

No, this is just fiction. Look for Idiocracy. That's a documentary that was meant to be a comedy, and a joke.

[@aaroncherry9985]

@@vibunja3602 I stand by my original statement

[@gundamcollector77]

@@vibunja3602 Last i checked Communism and Tyrannical Governments have never been Fiction and have been a part of the history books for a very long time.

[@jackbrigoli7452]

"If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror." In the current state, no truer words could be spoken.

[@jackbrigoli7452]

@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 Show me the chip in their brains forcing them to break the law and spread hatred and misery as well as lockdown rules during a pandemic.

[@dawnofsvarog6661]

@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 The truth is - never in the history of mankind ,have been information's more accessible than today. All the information you need, is a few clicks away.. Yet some people is too lazy to look, some people are too lazy to think and most - are afraid to look..

[@EmptyMan000]

@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 For productive change to be truly made real, personal responsibility for failures must happen first. No blaming wrongdoing or backtracking on some invisible puppetmaster or technology pulling the strings. In some cases, that would be acceptable, but not this one. If you want things to get better, you have to admit you are part of the reason why things have gone to shit.

[@firstduckofwellington6889]

@@dawnofsvarog6661 Nah theres just too much conflicting information for anyone to form a coherent worldview.

[@ozyankee4403]

... I would like to caveat your “ If you’re looking for the guilty, you need only to look into a mirror “ with If you’re looking for those who spread the words of propaganda.. consider yourselves who listen without thinking, those emotionally share unconfirmed data without verification, and blindly believe the bias of big media, woke Hollywood and hypocritical politicians and use retweet’s, and Facebook and other forms of social media to spread those incoherent demands triggered by irrational feelings of fabricated intolerance in the disguise of social injustice. Those who thrive by donning the modern equivalent to a slave collar demanding better WiFi ...smart phones has turned the gullible masses into little B!tches against each other

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

Hugo Weaving has one of the most underrated voices in all of film.

[@TheNarf11]

Willem Dafoe would like to have a word with you

[@JoeMama-kc9lv]

He's been in my top 5 since the matrix (scene where he is interrogating lawrence fishburne is a must watch).

[@aldrickpada1043]

@@JoeMama-kc9lv watch him speak in elvish as lord elrond

[@Amri90ify]

voice of megatron

[@slevinkalevera1260]

That is the truth

[@thevocatiousunspeakables709]

The only truly unrealistic element in V for Vendetta was V getting the upper hand so easily

[@azuredragonofnether5433]

Plot armour, mate.

[@leonconnelly5303]

He's basically supernatural

[@meagannesmith2932]

Yes and no. You forget that he has had nothing else to do but plot every single step of this plan. He has had time to make plans and back up plans.

[@andrewbrown6786]

The simple flaw in any system of control is: knowing what makes it work and how it works - when you know them, you know how to beat them, and with a repressed society - help will always be freely available 👍

[@TheDoomslayersDaddy]

Also it's unrealistic that the oppressive government could ever be anything other than leftist 😂

[@joruss443]

I came out of the theatre that day with a different point of view, and a feeling that one day we will need to do the same, and that feeling grows stronger everyday.

[@tiddybopper]

Covid was our reckoning and we failed ourselves. I had my job taken away from me by a tyrannical state. I was the only person I know that took a pay cut and found another job instead of suckling off the government's teet. I hope your feeling has grown strong enough to stop you from being a coward. If you can't already tell that this has gone way too far for way too long then I pity you

[@psi0nics956]

Unlike this film, the heart of change happens by building, not just by destruction.

[@Commzard]

The graphic novel: fucking good The movie: fucking relatable

[@enesballa2217]

Couldn't agree more

[@erikbuchanan4648]

Wonder how many of the terrorists that attacked the capital building thought they were V?

[@whereschavo3953]

@@erikbuchanan4648 you are dumb. and have it backwards, the government establishment that you follow and like, are the ones encouraging authoritarian rules on its citizens, lock downs ,mask mandates social distancing, covid vaccine passports?.. thank god for states like florida who actually still have freedom.

[@erikbuchanan4648]

@@whereschavo3953 ever notice how some people that know they have no argument resort ti simple insults? Congrats! Your on the cutting edge of 3rd grade debating skills.

[@whereschavo3953]

@@erikbuchanan4648 is all you read your dumb and the s topped reading cause you got offended. I actually made an argument

[@katarinajovanovic4038]

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." Voltaire

[@jamesvanitas]

Try telling that to #kickvic movement

[@bicyclist2]

I love the quote. Thanks.

[@mercian7]

@@bicyclist2 BREXIT?

[@ThePigeon5734]

@@mercian7 xD I agree so damn much.

[@mercian7]

@@ThePigeon5734 That's a lot of agreeing...I agree more

[@attilathechump9458]

The only thing wrong with this movie is that the people rise to unite with him. In real life, as the past two years have shown us, the people would unite with their oppressors to hunt him down and destroy any of his sympathizers.

[@theobnoxiousgamer9624]

💯 💯 💯

[@rickdavenport9538]

👍

[@jackdaw1328]

Personally I believe the people would only rise up if access to sports fixtures and night clubs were curtailed. We are all obviously just waiting for the gospel according to murdoch/fox news!

[@BillHawkins0318]

So true

[@deborahcookston9373]

Yeah how disappointing

[@Loki1191]

"In politics there are no murders only the removal of obstacles." The Count The watchers in the dark, V for Vengeance.

[@xxbeto92xx]

"Dad wos wroung with the telly?" Most british kid alive

[@commmander64]

I wonder what would happen if the kid was a southern american or outback australian. The SOUNDS he would make would melt my heart.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

"I dunno son"

[@andrewjoyce9038]

No such thing as British

[@mrlmb5562]

And I bet you Americans would say that “God damn it dad fix the TV”

[@GrayFoxROU]

Yeah. An endangered species in Englandistan.

[@vsbees937]

*”The truth is there is something terribly wrong with this country isn’t there?”*

[@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760]

Not necessarily anything wrong with the country. But definitely something wrong with its *_politicians._*

[@roberthays2883]

@@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760 agreed but that’s probably what V was stating too. The leadership sucks.

[@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760]

@@roberthays2883 We have an extremely left wing government in Denmark, so out of curiousity, I did a research into what the right wing politicians vote in parlament when the voters are not looking. Turns out, the right wing votes for each and everything the left wing wants. Left and right is the exact same thing in Denmark, the language is different, but the result of voting one or the other is the same. 100% of politicians and thereby 100% of government in Denmark is corrupt. It's a lie. A scam.

[@Spartan11117777]

If only this speech was filmed in China. 😮

[@roberthays2883]

@@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760 it’s like coke owning Minute Maid and Fanta and Dasani and all these other drink brands. You think they’re competing but they really only report to one company in the end. My only question to that would be, wouldn’t ppl notice? I mean, here in the states it’s clearly different between right and left. The policies and night and day.

[@raqrod1606]

This speech is just perfection. Pure fire.

[@esteban3155]

Coming to see this speech February 2022. And it couldn’t be more relevant.

[@markheltman2705]

this story unfortunately vastly underestimated how many people would side with the oppressive government,

[@Maskami]

big oof

[@jamesscott7215]

big oof

[@majorasdude7728]

Damn that biden and the dems but hey "if you're looking for the guilty all you need is look into a mirror

[@markheltman2705]

@@majorasdude7728 i wasn't talking about biden or the dems...

[@majorasdude7728]

@@markheltman2705 then who were you talking about?

[@rorymcnamara1]

2005 - thought provoking and brilliant 2019 - fucking terrifying and actually happening.

[@marcusmt4746]

What about 2020? hahahahaha

[@xsix7324]

its been happening for centuries..

[@og2tone9o15]

@@xsix7324 correct me if I'm wrong every virus we ever had (ex)swine flu and covid19 are just ways to crash the economy. They crash the economy with whatever new virus they make up every 10 years so that everybody is just on welfare and living in public housing and they make crazy inflation rates with the excuse of whatever virus is happening,they want us all bankrupt where our only option is to bow down to the government

[@noyes8882]

@@og2tone9o15 covid 19 has killed a bunch of rich people too dude

[@og2tone9o15]

@@noyes8882 whats your point

[@apple2960]

This just got a shit load more scarier in light of recent events

[@bugwar5545]

Anyone notice that Hollywood is doing a reboot of this? Neither did I.

[@tayyabno10]

"But again truth be told, if your looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror".

[@peterjoyayangod4349]

The time i read your comment is the exact time he said the quote on the video. Da heck!!

[@wadez1000]

New conglomerate uses inferior tech compared to Vanu sovereignty. "Technology Equals Might"

[@aredub1847]

ala brexit

[@tyler58701]

What makes it better is that @tayyabno10 icon is the new conglomerate of planet side the freedom fighters.

[@booker9879]

Yup.... mirror mirror on the wall

[@TheFashioncore]

V for Vendetta is a masterpiece of a movie, my absolute all time favorite. The messages and wordplay V displayed was just astonishing.

[@celark]

I would highly recommend the comic. It is a masterpiece.

[@velouris76]

The film was brilliant, but the original graphic novel was better.

[@Wankshaftsbury]

@@velouris76 I agree, the original graphic novel

[@barryetherton4889]

I do think it is a very underatted movie.

[@shoaibhamza4371]

@@velouris76 But you don't get this acting, this marvellous dialogue delivery and the music in the novel

[@Pigeon__Man]

You cannot comply your way out of tyranny.

[@doomtucan5093]

This sounds just like American today. We have allowed the elite to gain power and we squabble amongst ourselves over petty issues. We should be fighting the elite together.

[@Radarhawkeye]

I feel safer hearing V talk than when a politician gives a speech.

[@admiralhackett7686]

Bro same

[@kevinhowe543]

That's because you aren't a corrupt politician so you have nothing to fear from him

[@Shebeast3]

👏👏

[@greatscott369]

That's because you know who's side he's on

[@XemnasO01X]

Because he has no reason to lie.

[@CallMePaine]

Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot!

[@taylorkiefer410]

Got to say tho, his speech in the comic was better

[@CallMePaine]

@@taylorkiefer410Could you put the text out here? Of the comics? Would love it read it. Thank you.

[@mr.boomguy]

How long did that take you!?

[@NaturallyGreasy]

@@mr.boomguy Although I very thoroughly appreciated actually seeing it written out before me, and being able to read it myself and take in every sentence. I feel like you can find this written somewhere published as the script to this movie.

[@mostafajahid5478]

Can't thank you enough.Great work.

[@Yabuturtle]

Most people are aware of the corruption that is present, but are afraid to do something about it. A sheep needs to be convinced, but most people don't need to be convinced, they need to be motivated.

[@leonconnelly5303]

I think the issue is more people don't know what to do about it

[@Satellitegirl41]

@@leonconnelly5303 It is risky to fight back and could cost you your life. Most would rather keep their head down and hope it magically gets better.

[@Seven-pl9rd]

Australia needs to hear this

[@hoonaticbloggs5402]

Yea na

[@Vanderlayindustries]

​@@hoonaticbloggs5402yeh definitely mate, quite a few times tbh.

[@magicallittlehobo]

That moment when it ends and you forget you're on KZbin and you think you're actually watching the whole movie. NO, WHY IS IT STOPPING? WHAT?

[@forgottenking9798]

magicallittlehobo fucking relate

[@invisiblefiddle1645]

O my gosh yea! Me 2 !

[@QixTheDS]

Shit just fucking enthralls you

[@milton_foward]

Yup... just happened to me

[@Nomadic_Inquisitor]

Hate that I can relate.

[@Maufinvest]

to everyone pointing fingers why our society is broken: like V says "If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"

[@Spiritryptamine]

Bullshit. Modern society is built in a way that regulates us to the bone. We have little space for change, so that higher classes can milk us to the last drop. Enough of the guilt culture. Just use the space you have to do what you can. That's our responsibility.

[@Max-is4qu]

Lol how is society broken 😂

[@TheTyler701]

Max ppl like to be dramatic

[@Max-is4qu]

@nathanieldayspring00 Ask a person in 1900 how life was, don't be so dramatic and edgy you little emo. The fact that you can't climb up in this world is all thanks to yourself. You are the only 🐑🐑🐑

[@vincegalila7211]

@nathanieldayspring00 well it could be worse.

[@Inufan2005]

This is awfully relevant to today.

[@dildoswaggins2907]

This right now, is exactly what’s needed

[@guillermoelnino]

does speech 5 seconds later: every news outlet calls him a white supremacist and says everything he just said is a crack pot conspiracy theory.

[@xrpadoption3293]

V for Vendetta should be watched BY ALL HUMANS. One of the top 10 movies ever made period!

[@xrpadoption3293]

@Nikola Leviathan it's a movie about government control...something blacks know about right? Democrats promise the world to black community's, then get voted in and it gets worse.

[@liam2386]

@@xrpadoption3293 typical.... turning everything into a race issue 🙄

[@xrpadoption3293]

@@liam2386 how is that a race issue? I think your the racist. Go away and take your liberal negative view with you. Yuck.

[@gammatheprotobean1541]

@@xrpadoption3293 of course you have to make EVERYTHING about race just like everyone does these days

[@xrpadoption3293]

@@gammatheprotobean1541 what was racist troll?

[@somedude1666]

This is getting more and more relevant as time goes on.

[@StsFiveOneLima]

Isn't it, though.

[@brettt141]

no not at all. Just cause your person doesnt win and you like to say the other side is hitler or castro. they arent. not even close and its disrespectful to make those comments to those who lived through real oppression.

[@LethalByChoice]

@@brettt141 That's a very dumb assumption, you don't even know what he's specifically referring to. You're pretty blind if you can't see that tyranny is enveloping in our country.

[@macdelttorres3366]

@@LethalByChoice there is a reason why there is antifa.... kind of funny they show up in all the wrong places... but I guess some people Like the white supremacy and proud boys or kkk gathering more and more strength and having a voice in the White House .... they are just very very fine people.

[@stealthbrawler]

@@macdelttorres3366 proud boys are lead by a "person of colour" (i do not remember the specific race but he is not white) and their ideas are not racist at all considering the amount of different races the members can be, in fact, if proud boys are racist they are terrible at it by allowing anyone of any skin color join them. In fact its ridiculous to make that claim. Secondly: the KKK are less and less relevant every year with less than 3000 members as of last year, and even so, the kkk are more closely related to the democratic party than they ever were the Republican party in the USA and this is proven by the fact that Joe Biden had close ties with Robert Byrd who actually had ties with the kkk. Also "white supremacy" is on the rise due to the fact that any other group is permitted to act in a supremacist manner. Other groups are just as supremacist in nature and this has been coming to a boiling point because the standards of not being racist or sexist were only put on white individuals and it has become the case where people have seen the double standard and swung to the extreme in many cases or decided to fight in between attacking both extremes, you cannot have double standards and expect something positive to form. Also Antifa is a very bad example considering they are acting more fascistic than they people they oppose, violent attempts to censor their opponents, physically attacking opposition whenever they see fit, and it's been riling people up. You like to call the right fascists, from an outside perspective, you're a hypocrite. You say you hate fascists yet no doubt from reading your comment likely believe that censorship is just, that violence is just, that attacking those of another opinion off of social media, banning people and removing them is just, then well done, you acted more like a nazi than anyone else. Also, if you have ever said or thought of the line "believe all women" and then asked for evidence when it's accusations against those of your political leanings, then you are a hypocrite to a very high degree. Not saying you believe in the aforementioned quote or acted in this way, but if you have, then you already have my conclusion. But let's use your logic. "Maybe theres a reason people such as the proud boys are popping up, maybe its because anti-American sentiment has grown to the point such individuals feel justified to defend the ideals of the nation, maybe white supremacist thinking is popping up due to a rise in anti-white racism that has gone un-condemned and even praised and so it has risen not as the disease but as the symptom of hypocrisy, a disease rampant within the political left of America" there, your logic presented in an opposing argument, it does not matter if you agree with the argument, your logic is utilized and therefore it matters not whether you sympathize with what it defends or what it is used for, you say antifa rising is the result of fascism yet someone can say that Antifa has caused the rise of opposing groups. Either way, it isn't my job to tell you what to think, I just disagree.

[@unbekannteruser2418]

The best thing about this scene is that Inspector Finch listens, making him vulnerable.

[@libertylivesin1776]

More relevant than ever. I'm convinced these politicians are using these fictions as a manual or release them to install desensitization to the idea as just a movie, just a book, just a game to weaken our resolve.

[@JoshSweetvale]

This isn't an orchestrated puppet show. Despots _scavenge_ for manacles. From the internet, from the bible, from science and history... Despots aren't very creative. That's what you're seeing. No terrifying demonic design, just a taped-together edifice that'll collapse in a light breeze.

[@josephperrelli8308]

look up predictive programing.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@josephperrelli8308 Madness. Madness, stupidity and egocentrism.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

The way he says, "If YOU see what I see, if YOU feel what I feel ....' Runs chills down my spine.

[@darthbricksempire3606]

yeah that line made my heart boil

[@ayoubzougari2761]

" The last thing people lose is ther fear... after that they became truly free and truly dangerous" - V for vendetta.

[@Idontknow-vm1iy]

That’s a good quote. One should always be fearful of a man or woman with nothing to lose.

[@adamdrach5394]

What the tyrannical authority figures fear most is not a man or woman without fear, but a man or a woman with nothing left to lose, and a critically thinking mind.....

[@adamdrach5394]

For when there is nothing left to lose, then fear is lost, and once fear is lost, and once one is committed to a single minded ness of vengence, than a most terrible plan will hatch, which will ultimately end in either martyrdom or victory.

[@craigmuhammad3561]

thats facts @@Idontknow-vm1iy

[@LoveEarthHereAndNow]

#Liberation

[@oliverkey1435]

“People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”

[@ThomasCostigan]

Happy Guy Fakwes 2021 people. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

[@Gallade400]

"He promised you order, he promised you peace. And all he demanded in return was your silent obedient consent." Sounds like the current PH administration.

[@Epic-so3ek]

I thought PH was acidity level

[@Gallade400]

@@Epic-so3ek philippines bro

[@TwoTimesTwentyOne]

Because all the other corrupted leaders you've had were SOOOO much better.... heh

[@BeaverChainsaw]

Shut up, all you had to was not go to bars, movies, or beaches for a FEW months, but no that didn't happen

[@Gallade400]

@@BeaverChainsaw actually, majority of the Filipinos did not go to bars, movies, cinemas, etc. The middle class had to continue working to provide for the family, so they had to go out. The lower class had nowhere else to go, added by the fact that they are marginalized, and had been struggling even before the pandemic. It's a point of pride, to be honest. We don't have dumbasses like anti-maskers where masks = slavery. Some cannot afford a mask or face shield. Unlike the UK when they lifted the quarantine, some of those britons head straight to pubs. We go outside because we have to work, and we are well aware of the danger, but it's better than waiting for a vaccine and have no money (at least in some other people's perspective).

[@sarokcsiszolo]

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ..."Who was he? He was Edmand Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother .. my brother...my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us."

[@BlackDiamond2718]

(Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture playing)

[@marn200]

@@BlackDiamond2718 I see you watch with subtitles as well....

[@Havi1912]

To think this was fiction... My god how did we let this happen... We should be ashamed of how much we have fallen...

[@asturianix9820]

Can you give an example of h0w today is anything like this?

[@Havi1912]

@@asturianix9820 How about when we allowed the entire world to force us into getting an experimental injection to fight off a flu virus? For those same people to then tell us that we have to continually get the same shot because "well it doesn't ACTUALLY make you immune to the virus". Or how about when Canada elected a psuedo-dictator to run the country because "we liked his hair"? I mean hell did you even listen to his speech, because it kinda says exactly what happened these last 4 years. We allowed fear to dictate our senses, and we gladly bend over backwards if it means "safety".

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@asturianix9820 The Jumbotron now has audio.

[@asturianix9820]

@@JB-yb4wn I usually cringe with comments like "wow, things now are exactly as V said" because they are usually meant to complain that masks were mandatory for two years to slow the spread of a mortal virus.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@asturianix9820 Yeah, I hear you. I am of the same mindset when people imply causality with absolutely no evidence to back it up.

[@micaelstarfire8639]

More relevant today than ever

[@Donut6975]

Watching this movie in 2020 is like a fever dream

[@chancerbox1935]

It really is, because this movie actually takes place in 2020

[@LareesieAlice]

🤣 right? Preemptive programming. The Wachowski brothers (writers) became trans sisters and one of them died... if that isn't "miraculous", I don't know what is.

[@molevalence1584]

@Kylo Ren Doyle Been watching it on November 5th since its was available on DVD/Blue Ray. Welcome to the tradition.

[@LAkadian]

Somebody learned a new phrase from the internet and wants to sound smart!

[@theodorebennett7938]

@@LareesieAlice Well they may be really weird, but they are/were talented.

[@ondrejkrump7576]

one of the greatest speeches in movie history

[@lerroyjenkins8630]

@Ondre yes but no, Charlie Chaplin's speech in the Great Dictator is the greatest speech of all time

[@anteroapina1853]

This is what i would like to hear in the news. I know it without saying but major part of people don`t see it like it is.

[@Nathan-ls4xt]

Shout out to you lovely folks who are watching this on November the 5th, 2021

[@PW218]

Folks today are not watching it, they are living it.

[@TheDCGuitar13]

This scene means everything in 2019. In Britain, in America and so many places.

[@NTJedi]

Yes the far LEFT is trying to remove and censor our freedom of speech!! There's already people being arrested in Britain for expressing scientific views which conflict with the twisted politically correct WOKE views.

[@TheDCGuitar13]

NTJedi any idiot screaming the left or the right is more gullible than an Alzheimer’s patient. At least they have an excuse...

[@indeed7289]

it means nothing because fat neckbeards over used it

[@robdog1245]

What does it mean? Not much.

[@brandenpratt8567]

I hope this is true on 11/5

[@wwld9823]

This speech is more relevant now than ever, Tomorrow is the fifth of november

[@HellHinadaii]

Today, my Friend! Greetings from Argentina

[@purrformance]

Ready?

[@johnyd.productions]

Remember, remember the fifth of November

[@PaulGoux]

Unfortunately people are to simple minded. A lot more pain has to be administered before they decide to wake up.

[@alishareef937]

Today is too!

[@mqbitsko25]

Nineteen Eighty-Four is now. Remember the scene in the book when the old man tells Winston he doesn't have a Telescreen because "I could never afford one"? We all carry telescreens in our pockets. We volunteered for it. We PAID for them.

[@rinraiden]

I could listen to V talk all day :D

[@davidthorton8161]

rinraiden I could watch you type all day.

[@andrew1257]

well then

[@andrew1257]

w e l l t h e n

[@jonnyd5202]

I think I could listen too you talk all day

[@andrew1257]

^^^^^

[@allynflinchbaugh4570]

"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" - World Economic Forum. "No" - V

[@nicksivert5431]

Those who ignorantly agree to that are the ones who simply choose to not rise up to the challenge to make their lives better, but demand that everyone else who does to give up on those ideals and live in the shit with them. Thereby, establishing their kind of "equality".

[@NeilCWCampbell]

A society that surrenders its freedom for security is deserving of neither!

[@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760]

85% of danes strongly support world economic forum

[@thinginground5179]

@@nicksivert5431 It's fucking annoying isn't it.

[@allynflinchbaugh4570]

@@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760 If that is so, it is ironic that the Danish sperm count is declining.

[@tenmaai8663]

The day has come, ladies and gentlemen.

[@lilyshealinggarden5648]

It's currently 2023, and I come back to this speech to remind myself that power, is not just power.. yeah.. the government everything..

[@Truckerdaddy]

I honestly don't believe they could've found anybody better to voice V than Hugo Weaving. The way he draws you in is amazing.

[@bman3794]

This was a man ahead of his time.

[@musicismoreimportantthanyo9246]

Thank guy Fawkes 400years ago too 😊

[@klaxoncow]

Remember, the original graphic novel was written in the '80s.

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

And now, in 2021 this resonates more than EVER!

[@praetorian65]

There is just something about the way Hugo Weaving says "I enjoy them as much as any bloke".

[@mrfrelancekiller]

Great dialogue, flawless acting, meaningful story, Matrix style fight scenes, this movie has everything!

[@avi2578]

This speech always gives me the chills. Truly a message for every bygone age, for every current system, for every day that passes with more and more freedoms being quashed, and for every person who let these injustices go quietly. As George Carlin once said, and I paraphrase, we don’t truly have rights or freedoms and if you believe otherwise then open a history book and look up Japanese Americans and internment camps in America- land of the “free”.

[@unitedstatesirie7431]

Would you like to know the real historical details of "THE 5th OF NOVEMBER" ? UNITED STATES I. R. I. E. Investigation Research International Educator The real "X-Files" US 4252935977 AGENT Sinne'

[@vuducanh2k5]

And what MacArthur have done to transformed Japan from a totalitarian fascist imperialist nation to a democratic, peaceful and wealthy nation This is land of the free

[@unitedstatesirie7431]

@@vuducanh2k5 ⚠ ALERT ⚠ THE POLICE, SECURITY GUARDS & NATIONAL GUARD IS OVERWHELMED. Buy 12 gauge RUBBER BUCKSHOT and PEPPER SPRAY to protect your towns & cities from the evil criminal Communist violent looters / protesters ! BE ON A 24 HOUR SHIFT WATCH! Use power spotlights & flashlights at night-time to watch for violent looters. Use two-way radios incase the criminal Communist looters jam your cellphones. UNITED STATES I. R. I. E. Investigation Research International Educator The real "X-Files" US 4252935977 AGENT Sinne' The HOLY BIBLE says in Matthew 22:36-40.... "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

[@vuducanh2k5]

@@unitedstatesirie7431 Dirty Commies everywhere, each citizens need to own fire arms, collaborate with each other to form some local minutemens, protect themselves from Antifa, KKK, etc

[@gageclark1279]

CLASSICAL LIBERAL Mate, how abt we get rid of KKK and antifa?

[@pat1081]

Man Hugo Weaving rules.

[@robdom91]

After a few years, mirrors can go blind. They become less reflective and when you look into one it's like everything is in a thick white fog. I suspect a lot of people need new mirrors in this world...

[@decab8292]

Never has this speech been more prevalent than today in 2021...

[@jamiesawdy2357]

You said it.

[@Cathrope1]

2022

[@decab8292]

@@Cathrope1 I concede...

[@jedironin380]

Except for today, in 2022.

[@geraldcummiskey6721]

10 out of 10 deca

[@finntasticexplanations]

"Words will always retain their power." What an important message for today. It manages to be true for the founding fathers who afforded civil liberties and protections for freedom of speech. V's internal logic is so cogent, it's very hard not to agree at times.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Don't lean so hard on your founding mythology Yank. Your "founding fathers" (what a patronizing name) were as guilty and fallable as anyone else, one of them even said your constitution should expire and be re-written every 16 years because he knew your culture and politics would change so much.

[@MickeyKraut419]

@@seekingabsolution1907 That's why Article 5 of the Constitution exists. They incorporated the means to evolve within the original framework. Sadly, with the passing of so many generations, we the people became lazy. We placed more importance on the convenience of comfort than on being informed enough to carry on, with due diligence, the duty presented us of keeping our government in check. That's why Franklin said "...a Republic, if you can keep it..." The shady shit our government has done, over the past century especially, the brunt of responsibility lies at our own feet for not keeping informed, not keeping government accountable to us, and for falling for the illusion that there is any real difference between the 2 parties. We vote in the same archetypes year after year, and prove ourselves insane and short on memory for ever hoping to expect a different result. I have faith in the potential of what this country could be, and the ideals we as a nation should stand for... but not in the majority of her citizens... and certainly not in any government official. Struggle is the crucible that hardens and hones great people. Great people bring forth good times. Good times bring forth lazy and complacent people, and with them the decline. Human history is replete with this cycle.... today is no different.

[@Vex916T]

Civil Liberties are privileges, not freedom. Freedom is freedom... stop thinking differently spelled words are synonymous with each other, they are not.

[@finntasticexplanations]

Yes, the American founding fathers believed and wrote about freedom. These were people who sometimes fought for individual freedoms and sometimes personally restricted them as slave owners. Americans like all people can be complex and morally dubious (not all Americans, just like not all people). I never claimed that Americans were without faults (no one believes that, except straw men). If you dislike my comment or America just say so. You don't have to attack political institutions with countless examples of well documented scandals. Your time would likely be better spent writing this in a dissertation or lengthy journal article. Nevertheless, I assert words that champion freedom are still important for maintaining freedom. Freedom because of words allows you to disagree without condemnation or threat of force. People don't have to believe in America to believe in freedom.

[@finntasticexplanations]

@@MickeyKraut419 Well said! A Republic with high ideals is hard to maintain in any age.

[@David-dl3vj]

I loved watching this back in the day. Now I'm fucking living it, and it's nowhere nearly as entertaining.😬😬

[@bugwar5545]

'May you live in interesting times.' Worst. Curse. EVAH!

[@1980Shadowwolf]

Right we even got Fauci trying to act as our high chancellor

[@arthasmenethil2201]

Remember, remember that 5th of november. Gunpowder, treason and plot. Happy 5th of november, everyone!

[@thebodybuilder6469]

This is becoming more and more of a relevant speech everyday

[@JB-423]

the entire movie is. while this movie shows england, it also says that the US is fighting another civil war. spot on

[@Mystyx-Sama]

This message hits closer to home with each passing year...

[@koshka02]

I love the contrast of John Hurt playing the Chancellor when in 1984 he was Winston Smith

[@scrappi2215]

This man wasn't a terrorist...he was a HERO ...💯 our world With covid today ...this movie isn't much off...we needa man like V in this time n age ...

[@scrappi2215]

@idk it's crossed my mind a few times as well lol 💯🤷‍♂️🤣 there was METHODS to this man's madness

[@leopoldchristellsvensson395]

2020 and this should play on every television in USA

[@chiduska1229]

Trueee

[@krismine99]

Oddly enough, it's not the government censoring us as we had all feared, but large corporations and the mob. I would call it even more extreme than anything our government could do

[@jamiekoga1903]

@@krismine99 certain ppl in Government are in on it.

[@rickr.a2806]

@@jamiekoga1903 But aren't those in the government controlled to a certain extent by the wishes of those corporations?

[@jamiekoga1903]

@@rickr.a2806 Some are and some are controlled by wealthy families. Its the entire system that has to be looked at to get the full picture.

[@caesar4857]

Where's V when you need him? "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

[@balladofcoseypolar4711]

We are not allowed to criticize dirtbag fascists without temper tantrums from the religious authoritarian right.

[@minecraftleo]

In Us.

[@Epic-so3ek]

not real

[@jothejoker6771]

@@balladofcoseypolar4711 *Fascism, as defined by Dictionary.com is characterized by suppression of (in America's case) freedom of speech, minority rights, and right to bear arms (in case of tyranny). The Republican party does not stand for any of those things, they are in fact the complete opposite in that they promote truthful news outlets and peaceful and constructive protest, fiercely protect minority rights, and encourage people of all political, racial, and economic background to exercise their 2nd Amendment right. Fascists are **racist (which most Republicans are not), aggressively nationalistic (starting wars to expand control and never questioning their goverment or orders, which most Republicans don't do), and police all information from outside sources so as to control the populace (...in case you haven't noticed, Republicans want more information from the outside world so as to educate and inspire the people). Fascism is basically just authoritarianism but with a healthy dose of racism mixed in. The Republican party is not fascist. If you _were_ living in a fascist regime, you wouldn't be able to call it a fascist regime! I invite you to present to me a counter argument that debunks some, or all, of my points, or rationalize your own thoughts and explain to me why you think your points are correct. Please be respectful and reasonable, thank you, God bless! *Fascism, a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. **Racist, a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.

[@jothejoker6771]

@@balladofcoseypolar4711 Also, separate topic, there is nothing wrong with being a Christian. If you are not one then I encourage you to consider doing your research by visiting a church or 2 or 3, talking to Christians and reading the Bible. If you are really such a progressive person as you may think you are then you will educate yourself on the culture and ideologies of the Christian faith, otherwise, why call oneself "progressive?"

[@soultakr1445]

Happy 5th of November to all

[@shadowx8405]

I've always thought this speech was HEAVILY influenced by a REAL revolutionary hero: Martin Luther King Jr.: "You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer…. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit." Like V, Dr. King died shortly after this speech. Five months after this sermon, he was shot and killed for his efforts to further justice, freedom and equality for all. There are REAL revolutionaries and heroes out there. Never forget that.

[@robertphillips213]

He wasn't perfect and never claimed to be, but MLK Jr stood up for what he believed was right, lived that belief, and ultimately died for it, trying his best to engineer the first peaceful revolution; not of government but a revolution of society. That deserves the highest respect. No one can ask more of any man than that.

[@thebatman1371]

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.”

[@trevormurphy7041]

It’s amazing the world is turning out like to b this movie

[@vinsokukan1879]

@Benjamin Salas 1983 the dawn

[@pickashole]

And it will have the same consequences unless people demand their freedoms back.

[@BACKACKACK]

@Mastodon1976 commie traitor

[@phoenixlandsberg9649]

​@Mastodon1976 Oh, how fun it is to see another left-wing guy on the web ( I mean you ). All that you can do -- call other people TRUMPtards. It is almost like Trump is the one and only Jesus of the Right Wing. But there is one and only truth - In history of the mankind there were and there are and there will be many upon many terrible religions, ideas and ideologies. The Right Wingers are evil, The Left Wingers are evil - it changes from time to time. (By the way. Fascism is a left wing ideology, natural evolution of socialism, because Communism is only an idea of a perfect world, not a working thing at all). NAZIS, Bolsheviks, Capitalists during the times when Monopolies Ruled America and Europe. The Libra shifts from one side to another. And right now, at this very moment EVIL is on the left Side. Because there are almost no more moderate Leftists, only radical Globalists remain, that want to destroy the very same western world that gave birth to them, world that fed them. And what for? For the rotten ideas of Leftist Leaders. And you, "comrade" are one such leftist. Rotten. Stupid. Blind and deaf. This movie advocates exactly against such people as you are. Dictatorship is always a dictatorship. Nationalist or Socialist - it matters not at all

[@NexusEhh]

Mastodon1976 It’s honestly pathetic and annoying reading whatever you say, thinking that only right wringed groups are solely responsible for everything that’s happened. I’m not even right wing, yet I have no doubt you would try and label me as that given how amazingly small your brain is. Both sides of every political system is in the wrong for everything’s that’s happened, not just “right” wing groups. So maybe get your head out of your ass

[@elmerfudd6740]

who would have thought that this movie would predict the governments of 2021

[@bugwar5545]

With a LOT of luck, 2022 will be the beginning of the end of it. For this generation. The next crowd will have new battles.

[@NoturaverageTyler325]

Little did we know what the future had in store for us

[@bugwar5545]

"Those who fail to learn from the future are doomed to enact it." Abraham Lincoln

[@carlisle195]

I love this film

[@toxic_xxmonkey1154]

SAME :D

[@PARSA-POWER]

Now you have 222 like and 2 comments

[@saleemtar]

" Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense." Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

[@JonathanXLindqviust]

"---Ye may break my bones, and defeat my soul. Crush my rebellion, withhold me till old. But one thing you never can, is to kill that sad thing.--- A word. *The* word. That levels armies, brings down nations, and speaks louder than any speech of hatred or war. That pathetic, tiny, meak, word. Truth."

[@Belthazor24]

What spins me out is how many people watch this movie and don't seem to (or want to understand) that V is talking about the rise of fascism through the thinly veiled guise of conservativism.

[@danhalo1]

Actually a lot of us got that message. Since it’s pretty much spelled out for us throughout the movie and is even talked of in a later scene.

[@Belthazor24]

@danhalo1 Exactly! Yet somehow on every video clip from this movie, in the comments is some conservative lunatic who clearly didn't watch the movie.

[@crystalfullerton3908]

​@@Belthazor24there are a lot of them in these comments, absolutely zero grasp of proper context.

[@Trashcansam123]

"Those who trade their liberty for security deserve neither." -Thomas Jefferson.

[@LnPPersonified]

That was Ben Franklin.

[@lucifer6966]

Incorrect. Neither Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson said those words. B. Franklin is believed to have penned those words in a letter to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1755. The actual quote is “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” The issue is this quote had an entirely different meaning back then than it serves today.

[@forgottenrights351]

@@lucifer6966So the real person who said it is whoever read the letter aloud in the assembly.

[@theobnoxiousgamer9624]

I’ve heard it as “those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither and will get neither.”

[@BWMagus]

@@lucifer6966 No, it meant the same thing back then.

[@jaybouchard5997]

'Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?'- Joker

[@bugwar5545]

It ain't just you.

[@kylepinner5372]

Boris, pay attention, this could be happening in the future

[@Joanafandrade]

I think so too.

[@richardcochrane1966]

V For Vendetta - absolutely one of my favourite movies of all time

[@Coffeeandasmoke]

All the world's best speeches in one spot!

[@idkwut2do907]

When you realize V is our boi agent smith

[@QixTheDS]

Yolo Swag you mean Elrond of Rivendell

[@gilbertv1433]

@@QixTheDS you mean red skull

[@QixTheDS]

Gilbert v I think you mean Noah the Elder

[@motokoaznable7071]

You mean MEGATRON

[@CaptainDoomsday]

Ironic that Hugo Weaving played humanity's jailer and humanity's liberator.

[@accuset]

Aw dang, I got an ad at the end and was hoping for more of the movie. Still an amazing classic that need always be remembered.

[@Butterpants1987]

this movie would never be allowed to be made in 2022. would enlighten people to begin questioning their over lords. cant have that.

[@ilmarihiltunen2779]

When tyranny becomes law, civil disobidiance becomes civic duty!

[@davidjosephferguson7432]

This speech is becoming more and more relevant, time is near people.

[@PaulGoux]

Unfortunately people are to simple minded. A lot more pain has to be administered before they decide to wake up.

[@lekebabfrancais9018]

@@PaulGoux Wake up to what?

[@MW-ty5zw]

@@lekebabfrancais9018 I don't even know what to tell you... It is so obvious and has been for well over a decade. Just... wow. Think a little. Is there anything big and important happening?

[@lekebabfrancais9018]

@@MW-ty5zw Instead of speaking in generalized wish wash tell me what the fuck am I supposed to wake up to?

[@MW-ty5zw]

@@lekebabfrancais9018 Ok. Here is an easy one. Listen to V's speech and focalize it with COVID-related mandates, passports and lockdowns. Do you find similarities?

[@johnrie18]

"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."

[@dedfedentertainment7166]

Adam Sutler more like Adam Sandler

[@stefvans6492]

Annyone else reads this in the voice of V ??

[@oldheadprisonofficer7024]

I have to say when I saw this as a kid I thought it was really boring but as I got older and kind of saw how the world work this movie really speaks to me about how our government really works anymore and can't help but agree everything V is saying

[@Noizemaze4]

You best start believing in dystopian futures, you're IN one ~

[@jonplaud]

Go hone Barbossa, you're drunk.

[@Jupiter1423]

"Because while the thruncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words are for the means to meaning - and for those who will listen, the annunciation of truth. And the truth is, there's something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?"

[@phillipkerfoot2389]

More relevant now more than ever

[@thevirtueoflove3935]

the pen is mightier than the sword

[@-streetsareuneven-648]

I absolutely love the hugo's voice, i have watched this flim three times already just to hear his voice. I have growned listening to english with american accent, so, everytime i hear a british speaking, is just magnificent for me.

[@MCIV1104]

🙈🥀

[@-streetsareuneven-648]

@@MCIV1104XD

[@stevenbalaz8308]

He’s Australian. Not British

[@ashishpatel350]

2021... So much truth it's sad

[@eonreeves4324]

this and Equilibrium

[@jaredschmidt8013]

So many people sleep on Equilibrium! It’s such a great movie!

[@stormydavis8546]

IT’S HAPPENING!

[@owenrummage7306]

Yes it is

[@realdirtyrat]

I was thinking the same damn thing. Also the speech from the movie Network

[@owenrummage7306]

Brotherr_3 THE WORLD IS A CORPORATION! Lol

[@fullofwhiskey4911]

What’s the procedure? STAY FUCKING CALM!?

[@HybridSpektar]

Nah its just sensitive snowflakes who think they are oppressed. True freedom is simply not giving a shit