ABigGuy4U
17hr ago
There aren’t a lot of options. Burgerland and Israel got their assess kicked, the news just isn’t reporting it. The “laundry fire” on the Gerald R. Ford was so bad that there are now serious concerns the ship will never sail again. Basically every American base in the Middle East has been glassed. The final kicker was when most of IAF got unexpectedly blown up on the runway a few days ago. This was in exchange for attriting about 10 percent of Iran’s missile stockpile. Your only options are Operation Overlord 2.0 or nukes.
ABigGuy4U
19hr ago
I’d argue that if there was a betrayal, most the architects were men of the Lost Generation, like Allen Dulles and his brother. Boomers are just the fall guys because their the only ones still around to blame.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I'd personally just go full globohomo: money under the American aegis is nice. Get a luxurious villa on the Caspian, drink nice Shiraz every evening watching the sunset.
The problem that IRGC Colonel Mottezen has is that the Iranian people remember all the fingernails he pulled out for God, and the United States remembers those 40 years of him being an intractable pain in the ass. Neither one of them want him administering the new globo-homo wonderland Iran. The first second they get the chance him and his entire family are going to be hanging from construction cranes. And he knows this.
So for weeks I’d been hearing insane levels of word of mouth about the movie Obsession: It heralds the arrival of Gen-Z filmmaking. It says deep things about the anxieties of modern dating. It’s a genuinely spine-chilling horror film. Man, I was hyped.
Then I get to the kinoplex and I am shown a rather dull and prosaic romantic comedy about a man dating a Latina. If there are supernatural elements, I’m not sure where they went. Maybe critics were referring to the bog-standard dark brujeria that the female lead used to ensnare and damn her sensitive white boy gf. I hate to be one the one to tell you this, but they’re all doing that (I bet you believed her when she told you have a tinder account either).
After that it hits all the usual Latina gf notes: the honeymoon phase, the love bombing, the ethnic cuisine, the BPD, the paranoia. And as for the “shocking” twist ending, it was a bit of a downer but statistically that is the second most common way these relationships end, after marriage.
What did you guys think of it? Overall I would rate it 2.5/5, the scene where he’s on the phone with Latina tech support will definitely get a laugh from anyone who’s been there. When it hits streaming it would make a good double feature with Fools Rush In.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
Astroturfed bullshit has to allowed to spread, when it’s big and real it’s tough to stop with anything.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
But that’s partially because January 6 was very small and contained. A white people equivalent of the George Floyd or Rodney King riots would be a lot harder to deal with, as unlikely as it is.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
You bury TWO Nazis in Mount Zion and Arlington cemetery, and suddenly people think you can just grab a shovel and stick the buggers in anywhere. It needs to be a tasteful, limited number of Nazis, just the good ones. Otherwise people start getting the wrong idea. Once your start building thousand-Nazi necropolis monuments in Canada you’ve crossed the line.
These people have been rioting for a hundred years.
Yes, but that also means that they are trained, heavily armed, and not particularly squeamish. Northern Ireland could pop off incredibly fast in a way mainland England just can’t. The paramilitaries never fully complied with the Good Friday Agreement. There are still sweet old Irish farmers in South Armagh with crates of Libyan AK’s and rocket launchers buried under the barn.
Additionally, the demographics are a lot different in NI. Decades of civil war and deindustrialization hit the economy hard, so it was never an attractive destination for migrants.
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
But are you correcting for the fact that Tsarist Russia was basically a feudal backwater? It’s not like the communists inherited a shiny industrial state and then drove it i to the ground. They’re the only reason the industrial state exists at all.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Stinky is the gateway to Europe. Stalingrad, Thermopylae and the Fulda gap all in one. Russia’s victory is assured now.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
HAPPENING NOW: Stinky has fallen! It’s over for the Ukraine! Now the Banderite swine will scatter like the rats they are!
@daguerrean @Dean @Chrisprattalpharaptr
APOLOGIZE!
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
I really like Quantum. It’s Bond as pure Miami Vice cologne-ad vibes film.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
Does anyone else watch The Rock and feel some grief that Connery didn’t keep making Bond films up into the 1990s?
ABigGuy4U
18d ago
No one noticed the unfortunate implications because the character is so aggressively white-coded. He wears khakis and button up shirts and drives a somewhat boring BMW. Ejiofor uses a flat California accent and talks like an educated professional (the character is a failed architect) with no traces of AAVE.
ABigGuy4U
18d ago
I suspect Kony 2012 was some kind of test program to see if a moral panic could be astroturf generated out of nothing.
Nixon is only getting more and more rehabilitated as time goes on. In hindsight, Watergate was clearly a Turkey-style “paper coup”, a more subtle alternative to blowing the President’s head off in the middle of a parade in Dallas. Woodward and Bernstein had a long history of being used by the CIA to leak information they wanted leaked. Mark Felt (“Deep Throat”) was a Machiavellian little social climber who resented Nixon for not making him Queen of the FBI after Hoover died on the throne.
ABigGuy4U
19d ago
Both those countries have a long and storied history of total economic and monetary collapse, so it would make sense their citizens would hold a lot of foreign currency. And due to sanctions the ruble in particular is toilet paper outside of Russia.
ABigGuy4U
20d ago
Inflation is getting bad enough that weekly grocery haul for a family of five can easily cost hundreds of dollars. We’ve needed larger denomination bills for a while, the only reason we don’t have them is that it makes life easier for drug dealers.
Particularly for anyone who mainly consumes contemporary media as opposed to reading Chesterton or something.
There is a pretty popular Father Brown TV show on the BBC that’s been running for ten years, so regular people may have more familiarity with the character than you might think.
ABigGuy4U
21d ago
Given widening education and earning gaps between men and women, this is very quickly becoming a theme that men of any race can sympathize with, and it probably makes a good thematic hook for a film aimed at young men. What I find strange is that they cast two actors that are pushing fifty for a movie primarily aimed at zoomers. Maybe they are relying on the IP to bring in young people, and using the casting to broaden the audience demographics a bit.
Yes it’s always lucky when a conveniently timed terrorist attack gives you an excuse to do exactly what you already wanted to do anyway. Russia, America, and William Randolph Hearst would approve.
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