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Well played. Very well played!
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith

Real life Hammer Horror?

Typical. Reminds me of men like Epstein. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. When people have a history, especially a long history, of wealth and privilege, of being able to buy and bribe their way out of any situation, they believe they're above the law, and sadly, that happens all too often, and has throughout time.
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Really? That bad? Spill the tea!
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No, I've never heard of it. I have Netflix, so I'll have to check it out. I have to watch my Farscape and Buffy tonight first though. lol
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I actually was initially okay with this, seeing this as perhaps a kink, the way mommies say to babies, "I want to eat you up" or how we use the word "devour" in sexual terms. I really was not put off by this when it first came out. I have my own kinks, so perhaps I just saw this as related.
However, when I saw the trailer, and read the whole article, I had no idea just how far back this family corruption went. When I read about the patriarchs and their murder/homicides, it got weird. Their level of narcissism and need to control all their family members. Things got way darker, way faster.
I wish I got this channel because I really,
really
want to watch this. I feel bad for his children, though. They're going to grow up and probably be so traumatized by this.
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith

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"We were a very small family, but my grandfather controlled the narrative," she claimed. "He controlled it like a chessboard where you were told what school you went to. You were told what car you drove. Basically, you were followed, you were filmed, you were recorded. It was a life under microscope and you couldn’t misstep out in public or there were repercussions, and they were really serious."
One of the text messages shown in the documentary read: "I have a fantasy about having someone prove their love and devotion and tying them up in a public place at night and making their body free use."
A handwritten wrote, allegedly from Hammer, read: "I am going to bite the f--- out of you." In an audio message, Hammer allegedly said, "My bet was going to involve showing up at your place and completely tying you up and incapacitating you and being able to do whatever I wanted to in every single hole in your body until I was done with it."
Hammer’s father is Michael Armand Hammer, the grandson of oil magnate Armand Hammer, who ran Occidental Petroleum Corp. The industrialist had ties to the Soviet Union and high-profile associates, including Prince Charles and former Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi. When Armand died in 1990, Michael inherited nearly all of his family’s business empire, which was reportedly worth more than $180 million.
Hammer’s great-great-grandfather, Dr. Julius Hammer, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after the wife of a Russian diplomat he gave an abortion to died. He was imprisoned in 1919. Julian, Armie’s grandfather, killed a man in 1955 in his Los Angeles home over a gambling debt. According to Vanity Fair, Julian claimed self-defense, and the charges were dismissed.
"You don’t wake up one morning and become a monster," Casey explained. "It’s… a learned behavior. It’s what you’re used to."
"When I was growing up, there was no social media," she said. "… Nobody really knew the secrets [of] wealthy families like that. On the outside, everybody had to be perfect… All I had to do was behave, not say anything that would embarrass the family and go out picture perfect. And I would be taken care of for the rest of my life. My mom had her cigarettes dyed to match her shoes… That’s how messed up wealthy people are."
"Your emotional state is not my responsibility." – Warren Smith

He looks a lot like the poster Vlad.