Yiannopoulos also defends pedophilia. It's been known for a while—and is the least surprising thing about him—but blew up last night.

I believe part of the reason some Sanders fan believe Nevada was stolen from them is so they can justify the violence at the convention and the later death threats caused by his supporters.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would definitely be on my short list. IMO only Touch of Zen is better,* though probably plenty of people find it slow and boring as well.

No one knows what would happen. Nothing in the Constitution and—I'm pretty sure—no precedent exists to determine what would happen.

In fairness, that's probably true of most kung-fu films (or most films for that matter). There are only a handful I think are actually good, but plenty that are damned entertaining.

I haven't seen 300 so maybe? It certainly wouldn't surprise me.

I still need to watch Ip Man but have you seen the wonderful Once Upon a Time in China series? Especially the great kung-fu western Once Upon a Time in China and America? Lots of nationalism—especially anti-British—but also understandably so. The films are a blast, some of Tsui Hark's and Jet Li's best work.

Weirdly enough, the army is apparently called the "Shadowless Imperial Guard" (無影禁軍) in the movie. Nameless Order is probably from the theme song "Nameless Order-as-in-command"(無名令), though the pass they guard is called the Nameless Pass (無名關) so maybe it's from that. I'm not going to investigate further.

These are probably obvious, but Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin," Zhang Yuan's "Beijing Bastards," Chen Kaige's "The Emperor and the Assassin," Wang Xiaoshuai's "Frozen," Tian Zhuangzhuang's "The Blue Kite," and Li Yang's "Blind Shaft" are some I would recommend.

Really? I was living in Guangzhou when it came out and most of my friends drew the connection. I even thought a fair number of newspaper articles made the comparison. I didn't think it was subtle either, especially when one thinks of Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin.

Definitely, and that's one reason I generally prefer Taiwanese or Hong Kong films. Yet at least at the beginning he was seen as somewhat of a dissident (e.g. "To Live"). There's some truth to that—though in hindsight probably not as much as I used to think. Ever since Hero however his films have become garish and…

Mao often compared himself to Qin Shihuangdi and the movie largely parrots the Party line about Mao and Tiananmen, so yes it is.

Hero is an unabashed apologia for Mao and, to a lesser extent, Tiananmen. His films aren't simply pro-CCP (which frankly would be bad enough).

Eh, Zhang Yimou has always been sappy and over-rated. Plus ever since he saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon succeed, he's been trying to make a nationalistic mainland version.

It's arguably not the most productive attitude, but for a while now I've been at "fuck everyone who voted for Trump." None of this is surprising, really. He's been an incompetent, blustering asshole his entire life. He ran on bigotry and promises of violence—including nuclear war. This is what people voted for so…

It's especially not the answer since Milo targets individuals for his followers to attack. In ignoring Milo, you also ignore the people he harms.

"It also helps he talks to policy experts who know what they are talking about."

Not to mention there are a fair number of prominent black Muslims.

Hell, there's not even the excuse that there was a recent mass shooting so this had to be hastily thrown together. There's always a recent mass shooting.

I'm baffled that anyone has a good word for this episode. It was so dumb and bland, as well as completely out of character. Even if they build off of this—and they should! Oliver is the mayor and the Green Arrow has traditionally been political—this was the worst episode of Arrow I've seen.