Well, I mean it’s definitely progress over Golden Age films like Ben Hur and Charge of the Light Brigade, both of which had one B. Reeves Eason as the second-unit director. In both cases, he killed so many horses on set (if they got sick or anything, he just had them shot, not treated; the eponymous Charge was a herd…
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Republicans operate on a simple premise: federal government is corrupt and ineffective, and must thus be destroyed. If you believe that, then you have no problem installing cronies and telegenic morons to run federal departments into the ground, because that fits entirely with your narrative (and if they use their…
Oh look! It has its own website and everything! Go search for “1 man 1 jar,” and then spend the rest of your days cursing your eyes for the sight, and turn your back on the gods, who — as they have condemned us to live in a world where such things as this exist — have clearly turned their backs on us. Popcorn for all!…
What, you want to dwell on it? You want to maybe witness it? (spoiler: you do). I’m not going to abuse myself by searching for it again, but the video is probably still out there; go find it, watch it, and bathe in the horror and existential despair.
Great, now you’ve reminded me of that video from some Russian guy who squats down naked in front of the camera and forcibly shoves an empty jar up his lubed-up asshole, where it promptly implodes into many small shards with an audible pop! and which he then proceeds to dig out piece by piece amidst a considerable…
This questionnaire reads like those assholes who retort with “oh yeah? Well if you’re so smart, then why aren’t you rich??”
How much are we willing to bet that the incoming administration’s only policy regarding Africa (aside from rescinding everything else) will end up being punitive sanctions against Kenya in retaliation for “installing a Muslim Socialist operative as usurper, through massive voter fraud and fake news, to destroy America…
What are the odds that these five — along with all the rest of the Monuments designated since 2009 — all get de-listed on January 21st?
It’s not memorializing the attackers. It’s memorializing the Freedom Riders and the churchgoers and the freed slaves who struggled and died so that their people might one day live free.
She’s the only Democrat they have with any kind of national profile who could possibly mount an effective opposition campaign. But I very much suspect that she means what she says when she says she isn’t interested in running, for the very good reason that her current position in the Senate is the most effective way…
Yup. Just watch, for example, how gutting the ACA — which the Senate just voted to do and we have no reason to think won’t be followed by the House in short order — is going to go over. Despite this article from … let’s see, three days ago, claiming that the Republicans were unwilling to do it, and (rightly) pointing…
What is “happening” is mainstream media, confronted with a bully, is tripping all over itself in bootlicking obsequies to suck up to the proto-dictator.
And yet, capital cases are decided by juries (or by judges in the sentencing phase), who — for some reason — have a documented tendency to have “reasonable doubt” far less often about sentencing the defendant to death when that defendant happens to be African American.
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For comparison, here’s side-by-side debate footage of George W. Bush from 1994 and 2004. Witness the difference a decade makes, between a man who was 48 at the start, and 58 at the end:
He would see this country burn if he could be king of the ashes.
The Iraq War, from 2003 to 2013, resulted in somewhere between 112 and 123 thousand civilian deaths (ie, numerous innocent people). The soldiers dropped the bombs and pulled the triggers; the soldiers were given orders by their commanders (or felt safe to go rogue based on the environment of lawlessness that permeated…
I’ll just leave this here.
You do realize that “not a single penny more than the bullet” would result in innocent people being put to death in higher numbers, right? You realize that you’re arguing here that you are willing to accept the state murdering innocent people, in order to make it cheaper in the few cases in which guilt is unambiguous?
See, this right here is exactly the cognitive mechanism that made his murders possible: the moment you can rationalize to yourself that some people are less than human based on your criteria, the moment that process is treated as a valid thought process, then it becomes a tool anyone can use.