It’s the “Conan the Barbarian” syndrome, the idea that the people who live on the very edge of nominal civilization will all grow into seven foot tall mountains of muscle because they have to chop wood all day, carry massive burdens and wrestle bears with their bare hands. Look at people who do back-breaking work all…

What scares me the most is that there are a bunch of smart, capable people with a very meticulously planned agenda who are filling whole notebooks on how to play the exact same game, but smartly and less “bigly”

The same people whose outraged spleen explodes three times a day would probably go into violent thermonuclear fission if they got a single glimpse at a totally uncensored Facebook, boiling over with terrorist propaganda, video nasties, kiddie fiddling, rape, murder and things I wouldn’t even dare mention. Instead of…

This is what happens when you have somebody with a very low degree of intellectual curiosity if any. He’s not stupid as in low IQ, but he’s never picked up a book in his life and never saw the need to educate himself in anything than what he needs to know to “run” a business and a limited range of personal interests.

The GOP knows they are on the losing side of history. What has happened in the last 250 years shows that they are simply trying to hold back the tide they are King George of today. The nasty thing is that they are nurturing an army of over 10 million white guys seething with rage and hatred, lavishly equipped with…

Trump understands (although I wouldn’t bet at what cognitive level) that people have biases and if you reinforce them, like the thesis that Migration is destroying the US economy by stealing jobs and Trump claims so, he gets a free pass on a lot of other things.

Hackman’s Luthor is one of the best things about Superman.

The only reason they are at odds is that it’s based on the Dark Knight, the first story where Superman and Batman square off to the death in a future where Batman is pushed to the limit.

Returns tries to be a love letter to the original Superman, but feels more like a dog trying to hump your leg for 90 minutes.

Ever notice that nobody seems to be able to stop them in the first place ? The French, the British and even the Americans were handed their asses on a platter when they tried and it took years to fix that problem. The Soviets ARE the first to check the Germans before Moscow, the invasion of the USSR isn’t a walk in…

Here’s the traditional narrative, in the final months of WWII, three German tanks catch a unit of Sovet IS-2 breakthrough tanks and annihilates them completely.

The big difference between the Germans and the Soviets regarding the murder of Polish officers is that Katyn was revealed by the Germans when they occupied the part the Soviets had conquered. Deafening silence about the tens of thousands of Polish officers who were executed or died in German captivity.

So far for businessmen running the country more efficiently than politicians.

There are these guys who tinker in their workshops, forever busy with inventing and designing stuff, but never really making anything useful, mostly trying to perfect something that is too deeply flawed to ever be practical.

Yes, people will continue to praise Steve Jobs as an absolute genius, even though he was a complete jerk, while they will damn Bill Gates despite him being one of the greatest humanitarians of the last 25 years.

They are already counter-attacking. One of my buddies is an expat in Thailand and has been laughing his pants off at lockdown and measures saying everyone is being manipulated claiming they have only one or two cases where he is and nobody is worried.

Rugged individualism is very easy to put on a badge, slap it onto your chest and then strut about as if you are the prime exemplar.

If they had to face true freedom, individualism or even the daunting task of forming a true learned opinion, they would be devastated.

How do you fuck up like that Harvey ?

There are many methods to writing, but Hollywood kinda fosters the wrong approach out of convenience.