Unironically, what the fuck was his problem?>stalks and drugs an underage child>calls a nuke on a small town >proclaims anti-american values in the height of the fucking red scareYou'd think he has a death wish, but no, the motherfucker floors it at the first opportunity he gets. Man of fucking chaos this one.
>>151087813Reminder he was almost definitely executed after the events of the movie
TAKE ME TO CHURCH
>>151087834WHERE'S THE FIRING SQUAD MANSLEY
>>151087813Fed syndrome where you began looking at people like cattle to be controlled because youve got the authority to do so now
>>151087813it's a movie for children
>>151087834I feel like several consecutive life sentences would have been much more appropriate. Going from the low list to the highest he commits numerous accounts of child endangerment, stalking, harassment, false information, misuse of military assets and personnel, taking command from a general to launch a nuclear device on a populated area of civilians, treason, attempting to flee and maybe other stuff.
>>151087813He's driven entirely by the primal urge to protect the self at the expense of the not-self. He'll take whatever decision accomplishes that goal right now, even if he contradicts himself later because he doesn't care if he's being a hypocrite as long as he's being a LIVING hypocrite. He devoted himself to serving the government and destroying America's enemies because he wanted to be safe. He hunted the Giant because he wanted to be safe. And he ran away from the incoming nuclear strike he ordered because... he wanted to be safe. He's one of those people who are so paranoid that they'll never be comfortable unless they're the only living creature in existence.
>>151088007Shut up
>>151087813Government spooks do that all the time
>>151088013Anon, impersonating a three star general to call a nuclear strike on an American town would get you taken to a remote location and shot TODAY. During the 50s? You'd be gigafucked. Mansley was dead the moment he said "fire", not even taking the other host of offenses into account.
>>151087834Or was promoted.
>>151087813Irish moment
>>151087813iron giant is a nortubel type movie
>>151087834>>151088013>>151088175A few years ago there was a thread where an anon went through every single count he would have gotten, and it totaled out to something absolutely ridiculous like 500,000 years in prison, and concluded that it'd be way more likely that he'd either be given a cyanide capsule or simply driven out to a desert and shot in the back of the head.
>>151087813>Ladder climbing civil servant pursuing an investigation because it'll benefit his career rather than out of a sense of making the nation safer. He might have a streak of patriotism to him, that promo he cuts in the diner seems to be genuine McCarthy era fear that the Soviets are on the way to fuck America up, but I ultimately see his self preservation and his careless ambition as the major flaws that send him down a dark path.
>>151088175I'm not so sure the current clown car administration would actually punish such an action anymore, the boss wants nuclear testing restarted and there's probably some 19 year old DOGE guy with a hatred of American urban environments ordering a general around at this very moment.
>>151088674I mean no need for a desert, the movie takes place in Maine and you're only about an hour's drive away from a totally uninhabited forest county.
>>151087834Nah, his xenophobia was highly sought after he probably was recruited by the CIA.
>>151088804fuck off pol brain
>>151088674Yeah, they would have basically given him a show trial where everyone in the room was fully aware he'd be charged as guilty and then executed. Probably had his name stricken from records too.
>>151088869They'd want the whole incident under wraps as best as possible, lest the public know that a GIANT ALIEN DEATH ROBOT was involved. There's no show trial for that.
>>151088581Kill yourself, favela monkey
>tfw Iron Giant is the last hand-drawn film Brad Bird's ever gonna make feelsbadman.mov
>>151087813He's a paranoiac glowie in an era that doesn't just encourage paranoia, but outright rewards it.
>>151088823Sent to some small Asian country to knock over a government and install an American puppet. Probably used vampires to do it.
>>151087813>>stalks and drugs an underage childunderstandable
>>151087813Kent Mansley? More like Cunt Man-Sleaze!
I saw that
>>151089416Things should have stayed that way. Imagine a world where every person sees every other person as a potential threat, and everyone is just mindlessly clawing and biting and howling and snarling at each other forever. Imagine all of humanity's potential being permanently destroyed by paranoia and violent insanity. It would be so beautiful.
>>151089496kek
>>151087834The movie is set in 1957 and for reference the last execution carried out by a martial court was on 1961 for a so called John Bennett for rape charges. So yes he definitely got smoked after this.
He did nothing wrong
>>151089551this but unironicallyotherwise you get trannies
>>151087813What do you think Mansley-s spread asshole looks like?
>>151088916I wonder if the government were cool with the statue. They can't realistically silence everyone in that town, so eventually knowledge of the giant would spread. Maybe they'd intentionally try to spread the info of it to tabloids and cheesy myth chasing TV shows to try and discredit it.
>>151087813>stalks and drugs an underage child>calls a nuke on a small town>proclaims anti-american values in the height of the fucking red scare>ginger>in New EnglandHonestly he's no different from a Kennedy.
>>151087834Mansley was an American citizen and didn't technically commit high treason. He probably would have just been drank himself to death like McCarthy did.
>>151087834Trump would pardon him.
>>151091270Yeah, I don't think it was full treason, just desertion.
>>151091270>>151091317He grabbed a communicator out of a general's hands in order to impersonate him and launch a nuclear strike at American army and civilian targets. I don't know if that's treason but I doubt it'd have been viewed as much better.
>>151088916Toss him in ADX florence, every super prison needs a crazy guy
>>151091347I was referring to the "screw our country" scene. He literally tried to abandon his post.
>>151091380Fair enough, I guess it'd depend on how they interpreted that line. I doubt he was sincerely renouncing America with that statement, but they could totally use it against him. ...then and again though, would they even need to? Everything he did involving the nuclear strike was some serious shit.
>>151091347That would have been extremely bad if Mansley was in the military under the general's command, but he wasn't. He was a federal agent, which means the US government would be much more forgiving of his transgressions, not less.
>>151087813he is a fed, and a fascist who drank the propaganda cool-aidwould sooner do harm on innocent civilians to be promoted for doing the hard job """"for his country""""
>>151091441I'm pretty sure that impersonating a general to call a military strike against American civilian targets would be viewed horrifically no matter who was doing it anon, let alone one that circumvented nuclear protocol.
>>151087813Isn't it possible that he was simply just fucking insane
>>151087834They would have just sent him somewhere with eyes on him 24/7 for his big "nuke the US" stunt.
>>151088674was it by the law of the period? or in relation to the (at the time) modern law the anon made that post?
>>151091497What parallel universe do you come from where the US government cares about morality? His superiors probably would have done the same thing.Frankly even if they DID execute him, it would only be to save face.
>>151088748It's funny how the Soviets got the Americans to live rent free in their heads; because behind the facade of "The Red Iron Bear!" was mostly kept by glue, spit, and the dreams of the Proletariat. I mean look at modern Russia, lol. It's all propoganda to hide how crap they actually are.
>>151087813He represents Americans mindset/mental illness But from the 50s specifically
>>151092168mcharty was right about communist infiltration toughbeit
>>151087813He did literally nothing wrong, he was doing his job.
>>151092323McCarthy was actively detrimental to genuine anti-espionage efforts in the US. He knew the people he personally accused weren't Soviet spies, he just didn't care.
>>151087813WHERES THE FAT COCK MANSLEY?
>>151087834deservedly so
>>151092323The biggest shock of the Venona project being declassified was discovering that McCarthy wasn't actually a Soviet agent intentionally discrediting organized counter-intelligence against Soviet espionage and double agents.
>>151087834Why would he be executed?
>>151087813>an underage childAs opposed to an adult child.
desu he's the lesser evil as far as G-men go.>ah there's a threat, I must destroy itvs.>hmmm there's a threat, we might be able to subvert this for own purposes, could potentially be a good false flag
