You Can't Handle the Truth! - A Few Good Men (7/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a reference or joke about authority figures who think they are above the law, and occasionally about sympathy for the military.
What it is
The courtroom scene from A Few Good Men in which Col. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, shouts 'You can't handle the truth' at Tom Cruise's character.
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What Hacker News said
Cites rayiner · 2026-06 · on “Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass”
It's because Americans and many Europeans under the shield of the U.S. military and have never in their lives felt a moment of fear about external threats.[1] They never have to meaningfully confront the central fact of their existence: that they enjoy a vastly disproportionate share of the world's bounty in a way that would be impossible without overwhelming military power. I suspect people living in say Ukraine don't talk like this. [1] As I get older, I'm more sympathetic to Colonel Jessup: [this video] .