Someone else watched this movie? It's fucking incredible.

I could go on for hours about every single perfect fucked up thing in this movie, but I'll stick to just one: I love how he blasts his way through like three different 'lieutenant' type enemies, that in any other film would be showing up repeatedly, chasing him down in a cat-and-mouse game until the one final decisive battle just before the showdown with the main villain, but no - they're introduced, they fight, he kills them, they're forgotten about and the next one is lined up. He's simply an unstoppable, almost elemental force that never faces a single challenge or setback.

Why are you defending the rump state of a fascist dictatorship?

I hope the "Republic of China" can someday be peacefully dissolved and the province of Taipei reunited under the mainland government.

but the U.S. says there are limited spots and too many customers from other nations

Sorry, business is business, yeah I know I said all that "defending freedom", "guardians of democracy", "last stand of civilization in the face of tyranny" stuff but these guys already paid so what can you do?

Holy fuck, just crouching there in the open! What was going through the third guy's head? (Besides the bullet of course)

If his response to two guys getting owned right in front of him is to just sit there fully exposed in every direction, I'm surprised he even a brain in there to hit.

I think he's saying that Mao certainly was

disternable from Neocons Burgoise

Oh also

My god, I thought this was only theoretical...! It's- it's a Nunn-McCurdy breach! GORDON! GET OUT OF THE TEST CHAMBER!

Feudalism also rewarded the worst and greediest scum, for a lot longer than capitalism has, and the result was the Habsburg jaw.

But seriously comrade, the idea of 'dysgenia' is a dangerously reactionary concept, and thankfully more or less nonsense. Genetic changes in a population amounting to real 'evolution' of a species take tens of thousands of years to happen at the absolute minimum, and such a short time frame would need an EXTREME environmental pressure on a part of the genome that already has a high potential for change.

The genetic basis of personality, or whether there even is one, is a compete mystery - and I am inclined to believe that even if there is any influence, it can be easily overcome through changing people's material conditions. As a force, greed and sadism are already encouraged to far more effect by glamorized depictions of wealth and power in capitalist media, than by the extreme long-term selection by genetics. And consider this - which part of the population is in a position to be selected for greed and sadism? The ones already in charge as members of the capitalist class, and the population of the imperial core who (for now) have a material stake in supporting the Empire. For the entire rest of humanity, co-operation is by far the best chance for success.

But even that is not really important, because one way or another capitalism literally cannot exist 500 years from now. Either the global economy will have collapsed from the climate crisis, or capitalism will have been overcome by communism. So don't worry comrade, capitalism cannot be 'bred into our genes', any more than feudalism or slavery or hunter-gathering was.

This region has always been disputed, but Guyana recently discovered a bunch of oil, a portion of which is off the coast of the disputed area. The issue has basically been dormant for decades, because the region in question despite being 90% of the land area of Guyana has only 10-15% of the population, mostly Indigenous villages. However, it was never formally resolved, which means the countries' coastal economic zone was never resolved either. This would also be fine, except Guyana has already got involved with Exxon to start exploring oil reserves in the contested offshore area, so Venezuela has to do something now or else the precedent will be set that it belongs to Guyana, which will be almost impossible to undo.

Frankly I don't think either side here is prepared for a full-scale military conflict, I think Venezuela will annex the territory by just starting to provide administration to the region, build roads etc. and claim that as it was essentially not being administered to before (and it really wasn't), Guyana has lost claim to it. Nor does Guyana have the resources to start administering it properly, because as a US/Western puppet they've been thoroughly drained the same way every latin american puppet has. So what I'm really hoping is Venezuela can just peacefully push them out through simple economic, administrative means.

He also did something unforgivably cringe in 1953