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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Ya I have a dozen passports because I just think they're neat
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Dec 8, 2022 19:32
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smug jeebus posted:So is Paul Whelan really a spy or what? Serious question reading the dudes bio there’s zero chance he’s an intelligence officer but “court martialed enlisted marine and itinerant cop with collection of nationalities suddenly becomes chief corporate officer for vague company with inexplicable duties in Russia” sure raises red flags for an agent (disposable guy being ran by intelligence officers). But there’s totally a type of guy who likes to imply he’s some sort of secret baddass while absolutely not being one and cop/marine reservist triggers those flags as well. who knows
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Dec 8, 2022 19:36
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smug jeebus posted:Someone should tell Putin that he can win by saving what he loves How will saving anime win the war
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Dec 8, 2022 20:06
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Best Friends posted:(disposable guy being ran by intelligence officers). correct guy seems like a dipshit
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Dec 8, 2022 20:07
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mlmp08 posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1600841239821254656?s=46&t=3YW59LPar8G3_6Oq_0112Q The key take away for every country out there is just arrest high profile americans in their countries on (real) drug charges, convict them (easy enough) then trade them back to the USA at a later date for some loot.
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Dec 8, 2022 20:55
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Best Friends posted:reading the dudes bio there’s zero chance he’s an intelligence officer but “court martialed enlisted marine and itinerant cop with collection of nationalities suddenly becomes chief corporate officer for vague company with inexplicable duties in Russia” sure raises red flags for an agent (disposable guy being ran by intelligence officers). Canadian too. He would have had a better career going into the Police Service of Northern Ireland than the USMC.
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Dec 8, 2022 20:58
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euphronius posted:drat right. probably the second best in the whole 9 movie main run. Lmfao
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Dec 8, 2022 21:05
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euphronius posted:
The Last Jedi has some fun meta themes https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/01/millennials-strike-back-an-esoteric-reading-of-the-last-jedi Caleb and Samantha Cohoe posted:The new Star Wars movies start where, forty years ago, the original began. Despite the triumph at the end of Return of the Jedi, the political situation in the Star Wars universe has reverted to its previous state. The Empire is now the First Order, the Rebellion is now the Resistance, Palpatine is Snoke, and there are no meaningful differences between the originals and their replacements. Many viewers have complained about the stasis, and indeed it is disappointing. But a Straussian esoteric reading will reveal that it serves a purpose. funny scene where Benicio Del Toro finds out the ship they’re on is an arms dealer selling to both the empire and the rebels  https://youtube.com/watch?v=NwYnbwQ0kv4
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Dec 8, 2022 21:50
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paul_soccer12 posted:Ya I have a dozen passports because I just think they're neat me too, but for very different reasons
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Dec 8, 2022 21:53
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Computer Serf posted:The Last Jedi has some fun meta themes It is almost as if the film is saying that the old is dying and yet will not allow the new to be born.
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Dec 8, 2022 21:53
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lobster shirt posted:i think more us marines should be in russian prisons Look at this fuckin scab, trying to take jobs away from good honest American prison guards. 
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Dec 8, 2022 21:56
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Computer Serf posted:The Last Jedi has some fun meta themes Ehhh, that is a real strech, the mechanics of Hollywood, run by many of the same people as decades ago, are designed to continually pump out identical copies of previous elements of popular culture to the point they are nearly identical in their story beats. Star Wars in particular is infamous for for constant recycling, Lucas was proud of it. You could say one scene had intentionality but I don't think it is enough to build an entire narrative around. The message of every Hollywood film has always stasis, there are very rarely honest changes to the world order from the start of the film. Americans can not think imagine a future beyond the stability of the imperium (Brits can't either - Harry Potter/Lotr). Star Wars also ends up with the restoration of the Republic (which did literally jack poo poo for thousands of years except made some companies rich). Ardennes has issued a correction as of 22:21 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 22:06
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DancingShade posted:The key take away for every country out there is just arrest high profile americans in their countries on (real) drug charges, convict them (easy enough) then trade them back to the USA at a later date for some loot. Russia obviously doesn't care right now, but most countries have something to lose when it comes to their reputation for being safe to visit.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:12
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Computer Serf posted:funny scene where Benicio Del Toro finds out the ship they’re on is an arms dealer selling to both the empire and the rebels I could be misremembering, but doesn't he end up betraying them or otherwise being bad (which in movie logic means that the things he said were also bad/wrong)? While I'd prefer if it was actually pointing out how meaningless the conflict is, it seems at least as likely that he's meant to mock people who pretend to be detached and say "both sides are bad." edit: TLJ is still unquestionably the best of the new trilogy, just because the other two movies are so profoundly empty of anything even remotely worth discussing. At least TLJ did some unexpected stuff.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:13
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Ytlaya posted:edit: TLJ is still unquestionably the best of the new trilogy, just because the other two movies are so profoundly empty of anything even remotely worth discussing. At least TLJ did some unexpected stuff. Palp's plan was to save the galaxy from the endless stagnation of the Republic, only by killing it that the galaxy finally saw some dynamism until he was put down again.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:24
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Ytlaya posted:I could be misremembering, but doesn't he end up betraying them or otherwise being bad (which in movie logic means that the things he said were also bad/wrong)? While I'd prefer if it was actually pointing out how meaningless the conflict is, it seems at least as likely that he's meant to mock people who pretend to be detached and say "both sides are bad." He does betray them, but I didn't read that betrayal as a repudiation of his point. It fits into the movie's broader narrative of "the old ways don't work anymore, if they ever did; the leaders of the past need to step aside and let a new generation take things in a new direction," which was a very attractive message to young audiences post-2016, if sadly surface-level. The fact that JJ took the next movie in basically the same direction as the Dems since then (ie: haha, you want change? gently caress you, you're getting Biden/more sacred Jedi bloodline poo poo) is, shall we say...  Ardennes posted:Palp's plan was to save the galaxy from the endless stagnation of the Republic, only by killing it that the galaxy finally saw some dynamism until he was put down again. lol "God-Emperor of Tatooine" was underrated.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:24
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The prequels hit harder now that it is even more apparent that we, too, are in a dying system sliding towards authoritarian control due to the previous system being unwilling or unable to act appropriately to avert disaster. Even the supposed heroes of the story, the Jedi, are so detached from any society or social group but their own to the point they allow slavery to continue in places they have jurisdiction. They quickly embrace militarism the moment it is offered to them and continue to call themselves peacekeepers the entire time they fight a war to maintain control over various peoples who are trying to determine their own political system outside the republic. There is a lot of political action happening in the prequel and imperial era in Star Wars that is really fun to watch, the Mandalorian has some of this too but the sequel trilogy as movies fails to capture these kind of elements that make the other stuff a lot more interesting to me.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:29
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Majorian posted:lol "God-Emperor of Tatooine" was underrated. It would have at least made things interesting.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:29
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Oh yeah, uh, in terms of stuff relating to the thread's topic, Bakhmut is apparently still happening: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1600625494008991744
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Dec 8, 2022 22:36
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CongoJack posted:The prequels hit harder now that it is even more apparent that we, too, are in a dying system sliding towards authoritarian control due to the previous system being unwilling or unable to act appropriately to avert disaster. Even the supposed heroes of the story, the Jedi, are so detached from any society or social group but their own to the point they allow slavery to continue in places they have jurisdiction. They quickly embrace militarism the moment it is offered to them and continue to call themselves peacekeepers the entire time they fight a war to maintain control over various peoples who are trying to determine their own political system outside the republic. they blew up all the politics in the The Force Awakens with a big space laser. politics is boring grandpa 
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Dec 8, 2022 22:36
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Frosted Flake posted:lol I mean she was probably a collator or analyst. Some guys just get lucky, what can I say? Lmoa
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Dec 8, 2022 22:36
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Rutibex posted:they blew up all the politics in the The Force Awakens with a big space laser. politics is boring grandpa Yea that sucked really bad. I agree with jettisoning all the EU stuff when Disney took over, but I think some of that could have been used to create a much more compelling version of Star Wars post Return compared to what they have done with those movies.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:42
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luckily we got the last Jedi so one of the three was good anyway the open racism towards griner in the American press is shocking even me
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Dec 8, 2022 22:45
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:Russia obviously doesn't care right now, but most countries have something to lose when it comes to their reputation for being safe to visit. Griner would have been safe if she had followed Russian law. Are you saying Americans should be able to ignore the laws of their hosts?
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Dec 8, 2022 22:48
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CongoJack posted:Yea that sucked really bad. I agree with jettisoning all the EU stuff when Disney took over, but I think some of that could have been used to create a much more compelling version of Star Wars post Return compared to what they have done with those movies. Most of the stuff past the Thrawn trilogy was worth throwing out, they just didn't have anything to replace it with. Thrawn seems like he is going to turn up in the Disney+ shows.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:50
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Yes, for a weed laws definitely
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Dec 8, 2022 22:50
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Dixon Chisholm posted:Griner would have been safe if she had followed Russian law. Are you saying Americans should be able to ignore the laws of their hosts? Admittedly they threw the book out at her, a regular tourist would have either just have it confiscated or just be deported on the next flight. In general, Russian cops/border patrol prefer not to arrest foreigners because it is simply too much hassle.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:54
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Ardennes posted:Most of the stuff past the Thrawn trilogy was worth throwing out, they just didn't have anything to replace it with. Thrawn seems like he is going to turn up in the Disney+ shows. Yeah, he was already in "Rebels." Hopefully he will show up in more things too.
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Dec 8, 2022 22:56
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Majorian posted:Oh yeah, uh, in terms of stuff relating to the thread's topic, Bakhmut is apparently still happening: But I was reliably informed Russia was too casualty adverse and incompetent to attempt a breakthrough??
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Dec 8, 2022 22:57
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Corky Romanovsky posted:at some point you need to stop blaming the British, 
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Dec 8, 2022 23:06
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Best Friends posted:reading the dudes bio there’s zero chance he’s an intelligence officer but “court martialed enlisted marine and itinerant cop with collection of nationalities suddenly becomes chief corporate officer for vague company with inexplicable duties in Russia” sure raises red flags for an agent (disposable guy being ran by intelligence officers). Big True Lies energy.
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Dec 8, 2022 23:08
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can we move on from Star Wars to video games?
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Dec 8, 2022 23:11
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euphronius posted:Yes, for a weed laws definitely Ardennes posted:Admittedly they threw the book out at her, a regular tourist would have either just have it confiscated or just be deported on the next flight. In general, Russian cops/border patrol prefer not to arrest foreigners because it is simply too much hassle. Jeez, guys, leave some bait on the hook...
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Dec 8, 2022 23:12
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mawarannahr posted:can we move on from Star Wars to video games? We're on True Lies now.
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Dec 8, 2022 23:13
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Dixon Chisholm posted:Jeez, guys, leave some bait on the hook... I wanted to talk about how tourists are normally treated.
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Dec 8, 2022 23:17
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That GameCube star wars spaceship game was pretty good.
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Dec 8, 2022 23:17
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Basketballs for murdermalls
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Dec 8, 2022 23:17
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mawarannahr posted:can we move on from Star Wars to video games? Fallen Order: Survivor game play trailer due out today!
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Dec 8, 2022 23:22
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mawarannahr posted:can we move on from Star Wars to video games? Video games are even more dead than Star Wars
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Dec 8, 2022 23:23
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CongoJack posted:The prequels hit harder now that it is even more apparent that we, too, are in a dying system sliding towards authoritarian control due to the previous system being unwilling or unable to act appropriately to avert disaster. Even the supposed heroes of the story, the Jedi, But that's the whole point of the jedi. Their whole big prophecy is about someone who will bring "balance" to the force and just make everything sit there as is without anything ever changing.
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