https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1st3gxn/man_and_his_date_leave_chilis/

I think I'm getting what Graham Platner was saying, when he was talking about avoiding more 'useless' and 'meaningless' wars

I mean, if they were winning their lib imperial war and its objectives easily, they wouldn't be complaining but nooo... it didn't go to plan

I guess this is one of the examples of liberal 'pragmaticism' and duplicity I must take into account. Ah well, at least these shady canaries in the mine tells us things might not exactly going as planned for the US

Related but I also remember this one military spokesperson in the Biden admin, who was like "eh the cost of war" regarding civilian casualties in Israel's genocidal and ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinian resistance in Gaza, but almost teared up when he heard about such casualties of the SMO in Ukraine.

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Oh would you look at that? It's Black History Month!

Tales From The Hood

The film presents four short urban-themed horror stories based on problems that affect the African-American community

These are presented within a frame story of three drug dealers buying some "found" drugs from an eccentric and story-prone funeral director.

Rogue Cop Revelation: All Cops Are Bastards

Boys Do Get Bruised: A Monster that abuses a Boy in his own home.

KKKomeuppance: What you get when KKK leader David Duke runs for office and decides to move to an infamous slaver’s southern mansion, who’d rather kill than let go of his slaves

Hardcore Convert: ‘reforming’ a gangbanger with a torturous device (if 70% was good, this is the 30% I'd admit as bad; comparing gang violence to American white supremacy violence and sensory fuck ups)

This is gonna be a shot in the dark. Nonetheless, enjoy the horror and black comedy if there be. This was directed by Rusty Cundieff, and co-written by him and Darin Scott. Let’s see, Cundieff is known for helping write Fear of a Black Hat and Chappelle’s Show.

There are more sequels, but it lacks the late Clarence Williams III, who plays the eccentric funeral director and storyteller that keeps me here.

Bad Black

A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.

Written, produced and directed by Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana, known for Who Killed Captain Alex (2010), expect VJ Emmie again, not the best digital effects, but certainly the most passionate and skilled local martial arts, practical effects, and action overall. Also, hi Alan Ssali the muzungu.

This will be a good palate cleanser for that last film we watched.

Note

Honestly, I wished to have watched the first film with y’all in Halloween, but things got busy

We’ll start at 5:00 PM EST on Blorptube, right here: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/tales-from-the-hood/

https://letterboxd.com/film/bad-black/

Doesthedogdie.com links: No dog died

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/21272

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/400495

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/ https://www.imdb.com/

Tales From The Hood

Sex Et Nudity: Mild

A man is shown only wearing tight underwear.

Violence Et Gore: Severe

The final story has an intense sequence of rapid-fire editing of clips and photos of actual lynchings and racial violence which is very upsetting to watch.

A man's head is torn off. His headless body falls back into view. A zombie holds his severed head in full view

A man gets punched in the face. Blood comes from his mouth.

A group of teenagers pull guns on a man

A man is beaten by by three cops

A cop pees on a grave only to be pulled into it

A cop crashes a cop car

Several syringes are launched into a man's torso before his flesh is melted off into a wall. Brief but graphic.

A man's bones are broken after a magic drawing of him is crumpled, causing him to end up a brutal mess of shattered bones. The paper is then stomped on and blood is shown splattering onto the leg.

A boy is brutally beaten off screen but his screams are heard.

Profanity: Severe

Use of the word [p-word for vaginal area] to describe cowardly men.

Use of the word dick and [c-word; used to describe male people who do fellatio] by crooked cops.

Shit, fuck, and [b-word for prostitute] are used frequently alongside ethnic slurs ( the N word )

Substance Abuse: Moderate

Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and heroin use.

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Severe

The theme of child abuse could be upsetting for survivors of child abuse.

Bad Black

Sex Et Nudity: Mild

After a woman's boyfriend runs away, she wails out "I'll never get laid!"

In a bar, there is a painting of a woman with large breasts. Easy to miss if you don't pay attention.

The child training a doctor "How to be a commando" is shirtless for some of the time.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

The violence in this film is not entirely bloody, but it is extremely frequent throughout the film.

A small amount of blood is shown against a car after a man is shot. Not extreme, as it isn't super messy.

8 Minutes and 10 Seconds into the movie, A vehicle is flipped over after crashing. The man inside of the car gets out and is shown to have one side of his head severely damaged. It's bloody, but not as bad as other movies.

The first 8 minutes of the film is a man robbing a place and then shooting citizens. He is also in pursuit by police, which the man then proceeds to murder as much as he can. The martial arts are more violent than gun fights. When a fight does occur, there are punches and kicks thrown, and other kinds of defenses. Not bloody, just intense. Some parents/people often intimidate, and hit children.

A child is shot in front of other kids. Can be disturbing to some.

A child takes a man's gun, then shoots him.

A mother and father proceed to hit their son multiple times, then the father hits the grandmother in a fit of rage.

The newly trained Doctor fights a small gang. People are hit with bats, punched, kicked, and damaged with various martial arts moves. Some minor blood after the doctor is punched in one scene.

Profanity: Moderate

"Shit" and "Bastard" are used some times.

A few uses of "Fuck."

"Hell" is used ALOT throughout this movie.

A woman calls her grandson a "[r-word, regarding mental health] goat."

Substance Abuse: Mild

A child asks the doctor if the pills he has are sweets.

Minor alcohol use in the film.

A guy asks a motorcyclist for some drugs.

Some smoking is used in the film

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Mild

The poor people begging might be a little depressing to some people.

Source

Tales From The Hood: https://tankie.tube/w/toAmF28Mos5KJY4Bp5wuuG

‘Bad Black’: https://tankie.tube/w/fYdoufVAYnCUZXs2sLTSRk

Apocalypse and continuing life is the theme, and 2 movies do it in their own contrasting yet English ways

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Endgame:

Can there be misery more loftier than mine? - Hamm

Adapted from Samuel Beckett's play, set in an inexplicable post apocalyptic scenario, we are stuck in a ‘living room' with a blind, wheelchair-bound old man, Hamm, and his codependenti yet irritatable servant, Clov, briefly alongside Hamm’s more geriatric parents, Nagg and Nell, whose humble bed is the trash can. Throughout the plot, they all ponder about their lives overall, as they slowly lose the game of life. Expect the typical theatrical minimalism and tragicomedy we all know and love, like we saw in Waiting for Godot (2002).

Generally accepted to be Beckett’s bleakest play - indeed after it’s 1957 English debut at the Royal Court, the TLS’s Olivier Todd quipped that it made Waiting for Godot look like “a cheerful operetta”. However, Beckett himself described it as “the favourite of my plays.” Although the programme was not broadcast until 1991 it was recorded in 1989 prior to Beckett’s death and had his blessing.

World’s End

FInally, we meet the end of the trilogy of the 3 flavor cornettos

The World's End is a 2013 science fiction action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg. – The film focuses on five friends who return to their hometown for a pub crawl and uncover an alien invasion.

In 1995, Wright wrote a screenplay titled Crawl about teenagers on a pub crawl. Deciding it was better suited as a comedic exploration of young adulthood and aging, he reworked the screenplay with Pegg in the early 2010s

The stunts were coordinated by members of Jackie Chan Stunt Team, and The World's End is considered a social science fiction film.[6]

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/endgame-1989/

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-worlds-end/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/313057 (Dog plushie abused)

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14708

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/

https://www.imdb.com/

Endgame (1989)

Sex Et Nudity: None

There is no more…. sex. I mean, does showing a dog plushie’s non-existent ‘sexual organs’ count

Violence Et Gore: Mild

Barely any, except maybe a dog plushie thrown, and a spouse dying. Maybe a slap or push.

Profanity: Mild

One could go worse than the likes of ‘bitched’ and ‘accused fornicator’.

Substance Abuse: None

There is no more… substance abuse. I mean, really, there’s no more… painkiller, even.

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Mild

Existential themes are at play; also the characters are assholes to each other, except maybe Nell, she seems sweet. Elder abuse maybe.

The World’s End (2013)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/parentalguide/

Sex Et Nudity: Mild

A woman tells a man that she wants him.

A man follows a woman into a pub toilet thinking she wants to have sex with him.

Mentions of threesomes and one night stands. A young couple walk into a toilet implying sex.

A man says that he may have gotten a woman pregnant.

Mentions of sex but no onscreen sex or nudity.

A man's nude buttocks are shown for three seconds as he shows a scar of his.

Violence Et Gore: Moderate

Quite a lot of sci-fi violence, but all of the blood is blue.

All the violence is comical and over the top.

Some characters are thrown about and punched but none of them suffer bad injuries beyond a few bruises and a bit of blood.

A man smashes his head into a wall 11 times to prove a point.

A man dives of a wall onto a car and the windows smash; he appears to be seriously injured but is actually fine.

Profanity: Severe

Fuck, shit, and bitch are used alongside lesser profanity like ass. 46 F words.

Substance Abuse: Moderate

Alcohol and tobacco use. Implied cocaine/cannabis use.

Frightening Et Intense Scenes: Moderate

Displayed past suicide attempts on the wrist by a character, whose life went down the shitter. [If I told ye more, like who it was, it would spoil the movie]

Source

Endgame (thanks deathtoreddit for the subs!): https://tankie.tube/w/u7kr2SsyHbaTk7iLpFpp57

At the World’s End: https://tankie.tube/w/nPaTi7gtWUSAghNcyxuH6C

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Inkwo For When The Starving Return

Set two lifetimes from now, the film follows Dove, a young, enigmatic genderfluid warrior who discovers both the burden and strength of their Inkwo—ancestral medicine and truth—as they confront terrifying flesh-eating creatures that grow stronger with each life they consume. Guided by a frog helper and fortified by alliances across the boundaries of species and spirit, Dove must embrace their identity and their gift to protect what remains of Earth’s humans and animals.

My Name Is Kahentiiosta

This short documentary by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day armed standoff in 1990. She was detained 4 days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec government did not accept her Indigenous name.

Palestine 36

This must be one of the first movies depicting the Great Palestinian Revolt of 1936, from the nationalist perspective. The first intifada, if you can swear. I knew of this through the Middle East Eye

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, under the backdrop of dispossession and disenfranchisement by a relatively small Zionist forces, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem/Al Quds and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.

Here we shall also see how the Palestinian national movement, relatively young and divided yet burgeoning, start and makes its bones in the art of sumud (firmness), muquwama (resistance) and intifada (uprising), albeit at a heavy price to pay against Brits as their national leadership is decapitated and scattered.

On the other hand, the British empire, using the vile, wily repressive strategies they’ve developed from experience, such as in the Troubles, help teach Zionist forces in counterinsurgency, one such leader being especially involved materially and ideologically, Captain Orde Wingate, who thankfully but too late died in 1944.

Wingate was so deeply associated with political causes in Palestine that his superiors considered him compromised as an intelligence officer in the country. He was promoting his own agenda rather than that of the army or the government. In May 1939, he was transferred to Britain. Wingate became a hero of the Yishuv (the Jewish Community), and was loved by leaders such as Zvi Brenner and Moshe Dayan, who trained under him and said that Wingate had "taught us everything we know."[41]

Note:

I stitched this movie up using bilibili (to find a 24 episodes, 5-minute each that contain the full movie), peertube (to upload it to), and vimeo (to edit it together and download it; gone is my free trial there lol)

We’ll start at 5:00 PM EST on Blorptube, right here: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/film/palestine-36/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1401858

CWs for the films (excluding spoilers?)

https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/ https://www.imdb.com/

Palestine 36:

Source

Inkwo: https://tankie.tube/w/3HyM2gHR4P9RX18WxuV4VW

Kahentiiosta: https://tankie.tube/w/jBgD2TWrGxosqcRN1mHwmz

Palestine 36: https://tankie.tube/w/6bLNbJ1DTLLgbkXMb1ToAv

This same slaver, Pozzo, doesn't even having the fookin' spine to get up lol, without help from his servant/slave Lucky, or Didi and Gogo

Hello gumshoes. This place is often filled with doom and negativity (rightfully so) and I want to try and encourage people to breathe and practice mindfulness or something. So let's do a little geopolitical analysis. I will give you my read on the Venezuela situation, and you can criticize it or add to it. I was inspired to do this after trying to explain to a bunch of veterans why, no, Hezbollah was not going to attack the US via Venezuela.

I am not going to moralize or make excuses for anyone, I am just going to try to state some facts and make assumptions based off of what I would do if I was a self-interested nation.

Rise of America

So I think something to keep in mind is that colonialism and imperialism are both very effective. In that game itch.io, when you eat, you get larger, which gives you more opportunities to eat. Aggression and expansion are feedback loops. The United States benefited from Europeans squabbling over petty disagreements in the old country, they spread out across an entire continent, used an unequal exchange with less developed economies to buy slaves to power the engine of economic growth, absorbed the impoverished masses of Europeans, and put them to work for higher wages, dangling land in front of them when they needed to blow off some steam and de-escalate class conflict while also populating the westward territories.

I think for Americans it is difficult to conceive of the idea that in most other countries, there exists continuity of civilization. A person in Russia can look back at Onfim's drawing and recognize that as their ancestor. When Gustavo Pedro goes on his coke-fueled anti imperialist rants, he invokes historical civilizations as the great cultural heritage of the Colombian people. Anyways, getting kinda sidetracked here, but my point is that America is brand-fucking new. It is a giant DR Horton development taking up an entire continent.

The oceans and resources and lack of competition, along with a liberal foundation, allowed America to speedrun capitalist development and become an imperialist country within only one hundred years of its founding. We live and breathe instant gratification. We have Marvel-brain. All of us.

I would say that up until the 1960s or so, American Imperialism followed the trend put forth by Lenin. The core country exports capital abroad, establishes extractive industries in the colonized countries, and imports them home where laborers do work with instruments of capital. Labor which is so high-efficiency given the low cost of raw materials, that the extra money can be used to pay off the workers in the core country to prevent open class conflict. At some point though, there are diminishing returns on real productivity. You can only make a shirt so efficiently before there are no more innovations to be made to drive production costs down.

Also, during the 1940s, the United States made its currency the global reserve currency. Which everyone agreed to use, due to the fact that the USA made half of everything on earth at the time. As many of us are aware though, being the global reserve currency means that you can create $100 from thin air, while others have to produce and sell $100 worth of goods. This encourages the core country to have an economy made of fictitious capital and rent-seeking, while other countries are encouraged to move their capital into productive industry.

So we have several forces at play.

1. The efficiency of production is already maximized in many industries.

2. Countries outside the core country are incentivized to make things. (this creates a trade deficit for the USA)

3. In the core country, speculative and rent-seeking industries are higher-return than productive ones.

Due to these factors by the 1960s and 1970s, European and Japanese industry was becoming competitive with the USA. Because Europe and Japan are cucked vassal states of the US, they were forced to increase the value of their currencies relative to the US in order to make American exports competitive and reduce the trade deficit.

Note - they may have been convinced?

Trump Voice Chinar

China comes on stage in the 70s and because of the forces of highly-developed capitalism and the status of the USD as the global reserve currency, they are able to make the very successful and much-memed Deng gambit (I recommend How China Escaped Shock Therapy to see what their thought process was at the time.)

We arrive in the 2020s and now the situation is flipped. China is the world's factory, the American economy has become mostly speculation and rent-seeking in industries that should be run by the government like healthcare, real estate, education, etc. The US still has a thriving high-tech industry, driven largely by its military industrial complex, and research departments at the biggest corporations. China and America are now "peers". But America still has those de-industrializing parasitic forces acting on it, while China (ostensibly a dictatorship of the workers) can use state subsidy to keep important commodity prices low. They can also curb speculation so that capital is invested into industries that make real things instead of sports betting apps.

Because of basic math, it becomes obvious that the economy of China will eclipse America at some point (in real terms it probably already did a while ago). America's technological lead is just a set of engineering problems. China has a fuckton of engineers, they will solve those problems eventually.

China's Strategery

The US is dependent on China. China has thwarted several attempts at destabilization so far. They have decoupled their technology from the US with a native-made OS and chips to protect themselves from supply-chain attacks. They try not to rock the boat, and follow the US-led "rules based international" order because as long as they can grow at a higher rate than the US, the gap will continue to widen. It is in their best interest to continue business as usual.

The USA has become more desperate. Soft power has not worked on China. Supply chain attacks will not work. Color revolutions will not work. Internet propaganda will not work. America has two remaining advantages. Its military, and its historical momentum. The historical momentum is being cashed in on it seems. Tariffs are basically a game of chicken to see which country will concede first and get a lesser punishment. America has come for its pound of flesh. This is not a long-term solution. Weak leadership that bends the knee to American interests will become increasingly unpopular as American barbarity is put more and more on full display-- especially when Europeans aren't getting to take part in the imperialism and are instead subjected to it. When you can get your chips from China, why bother kissing American ass? I think eventually we will see the US' more fickle allies peel away, Pakistan and Turkey, or the Phillipines or something idk I wont pretend to know enough about these countries' internal affairs. There are only so many hours in a day to read shit.

Historical momentum is being used up, and that leaves the US with its final strength. Military power. The US has crafted a war machine built specifically for "precision" strikes. A single American casualty is political suicide (I actually don't even believe this, the Houthis blew up 4 American soldiers and nobody gave a single fuck), and our doctrine reflects this. Hellfire missiles, tomahawks, electronic warfare countermeasures, jamming, radar-seeking missiles, global surveillance networks, you get the idea. The United States shredded Saddam Hussein's entire military capability in like two days, yet it could not subdue the Iraqi people.

America's military power relies on overseas bases, and overwhelming technological superiority. The ability to project power requires enormous supply chains. The B2 bombers that destroyed Fordow probably had to refuel 3-4 times in midair. Each of the KC-135s or KC-46s that refueled those bombers had to take off from a different airbase. Every single one of those airbases exists in a country that consents to its existence because the US gives them things they want, or because the US provides that country with weapons to subdue their people.

Venezuela and the Tom-Clancification of Our Expectations

The operation in Venezuela was the peak of US military capability. A highly-sophisticated, "surgical" (only killed like 100 people) strike, where the enemy's ability to retaliate was totally denied. That's what this thing is built to do. Neutralize military assets. Decapitate leadership. Regime change. It cannot do occupation, that is a recent development in the last 20 years due to the increased sophistication of the underdogs in asymmetric warfare.

What people in the sub are asking for, is that America's ability to project power also should disappear overnight. That a hypersonic anti-ship missile flies out of the jungles of Guyana, and slams into the USS Gerald Ford at mach 5, turning it into an artificial reef. I would argue that when all is said and done, and the US is just another country, fully disabused of the notion of its' supremacy, with the century of humiliation in full swing. We will never have even see one of these missiles used. The US will probably know when you have them, and where they are. If you actually have the capability to scuttle an aircraft carrier, it would paint a massive target on your back. You would need to have enough infrastructure set up so that you could launch your missiles before the US hit your launch sites, or that your sites were well-protected enough that your sites were unassailable, or that you have so many sites that they could not all be destroyed.

What I am describing is basically what Iran has created. Massive missile production and launch complexes protected by a network of SAM sites (including the Russian S-400 I believe). During the 12-day war, these SAM sites were systematically degraded until F-35s could destroy exposed missile launchers, and the B2 bombers could penetrate deep into Iranian airspace. Iran is a country of 90 million people, that has basically been at war for its entire existence, has multiple regional allies, and a robust local defense industry. Even with all that, they were only able to produce some sick compilations of Israel getting blown up, and essentially force a temporary stalemate with themselves at a disadvantage. Fighting America is hard.

What would a reasonable response from China look like?

Given that fighting the US is really fucking hard and it requires a lot of infrastructure, military spending, and local industry, a response from China looks like making all of those things. Hypersonic missiles and the capability to defend their launch sites. Littoral defense systems. Giving them to your allies and multi-aligned countries so that they can build the robust defense systems that would be required to be prickly enough for the US not to touch. Giving asymmetric actors the weapons needed to deplete US stockpiles in strategically important regions. Stealing technologies from US research institutions, carrying out cyberattacks via proxies, etc. It's not 1950 anymore, the PLA isn't going to come over the 38th parallel and engage the American Imperialist head-on. It doesn't make sense strategically, and as much as I think the USSR kicked ass and took names, it's a bit childish to expect others to do things just because you want them to.

In the long-run, American military superiority is dependent on technological superiority. We have already fucked our institutions of higher education. We direct our engineers to built blockchain and AI instead of real things.

Real Things

When I have visited the rocket museums in America, I like to look at the F-1 Rocket Engine. It is an incredible machine. It looks so advanced, but it's practically ancient technology. Each one of these was hand-crafted by engineers who had decades of experience. Rocket engines literally did not exist when they began. Like the pyramids, we wouldn't know how to build these today because the productive forces are the people. The technical documentation is just for auditing. The ability to build things is contained within the people who make them. We do not invest money into our people anymore. We do not put our time and energy into meaningful projects anymore. Our culture is rotten.

I work in engineering making "real things" and our culture is toxic. Elon Musk has given everyone brain worms where they think that getting a bunch of new grads and iterating over and over can beat a culture of deep contemplation and study. All of the meaningful advances I see in robotics are from China because they do fundamental research. They invent new algorithms. They pour billions into R&D. You have to go to school for years and immerse yourself in learning shit for years and years before you make something novel. Let me ask you, does that sounds like something that America is going to prioritize in 2026???

What Can I Do to Stop Freaking Out?

Yes this sucks. Yes everything sucks. You are one person. The forces of history are quite literally the collective product of every human who is alive and who has ever lived. We are in a river and we cannot change the current. But the current can also guide us. If your neighbor is starving, you must give him bread. If institutions are failing, you must try to create your own. If you and your neighbors are threatened, you must learn to defend yourselves.

I know it sounds corny as fuck and lame. But we are the fucking rat. We get shit on in the hole. Remember though that the pyramids were made by people getting up every day and doing mundane things. The F-1 engine starts with dudes making bottle rockets in their backyards. Like a famous sugar daddy once said:

quantitative change leads to qualitative change

America is gonna do America shit, China is gonna do China shit, you need to decide what you're gonna do.

https://archive.is/bUAAc

from r/urbanhellcirclejerk, a subreddit mocking anti-China r/urbanhell