Imagine a boot SO mighty that if it exists it might crush you, so you need to lick it ahead of time so that someday if it does exist, it might not crush you.
These selfish quislings are far too comfortable with the idea of taking away the rights of others.
“South of the border, Americans have maintained their right to bear arms, have found recourse in the courts for the COVID violations against business and churches, and are much more encouraging of the free market. Meanwhile, our homeland is being flooded with immigrants.”
The Earth itself doesn't have to be hanging in the balance. Smaller plots are just fine.
I don't need a month-long plot broken into 2hrs; I'd really rather have a more limited duration being represented.
More on that point: I recently watched the Director's Cut of Napoleon, and found myself wishing it didn't have such a "biopic" feel, where 20 years of events was condensed down to 3.5hrs. Quite frankly I'd rather have a vibe more like "The Raid: Redemption" where it doesn't have to be Real Time, but closer to that serves a better narrative.
I keep thinking back to Rogue One, at the end of Act 2 where our Team Of Heroes has been assembled and they're traveling towards the epic showdown that is Act 3. They've got a few days to spend in hyperspace, and we get one brief scene establishing that fact, quick banter between a few people, and off to the big showdown.
It felt so rushed to me that I wondered what I was missing over those days spent in travel; how characters were preparing themselves for what was next, how they were reconciling the events that led them to this; there is an utter wealth of joy that can be found by just slowing down and letting characters exist in time, instead of just minimal exposition followed by action.
I just love when I get a meeting update in my Outlook and Teams says "new notification!" but it's the same notification as Outlook that I've already cleared, but then my phone buzzes because Teams is shouting "There is new activity!" but it's not new activity, it's the same notification I've already cleared on both Outlook and Teams on my laptop
Stockwell Day should know better before spouting that misinformation. The fact that he doesn't, or just doesn't care, is reason enough to ignore him and his ilk
Trump never uttered one word implying an aggressive act against the independence of Canada. He said that he thought the Canadians would do better as Americans after a voluntary federal union, and it was refreshing to hear him repeat this past week that if Canadians were Americans they would not only benefit from lower taxes but better health care, as well as being able to dispense with the defence budget altogether, since it has come so close to eliminating it anyway. Two whole generations of Canadians have been force-fed the fraud that Canada’s health-care system is superior to that of the United States; 80 per cent of Americans receive a level of health care beyond the dreams of any Canadian who does not go to the United States for medical treatment.
Conrad Black can go fuck himself with these misleading statistics.
My brother living in North Carolina needs to pay $1400 a month for health insurance coverage for his family, and that gets paid whether it's needed or not; and we've all heard the horror stories of actually trying to claim health insurance; there's a reason that Luigi is being seen as more of a folk hero than the "terrorist" that some paint him as.
And as for "Trump is just making a sales pitch for a united North America", Black framing it as a friendly offer sharply contrasts with how Trump himself has been framing it; all vinegar and no honey. We'll be "cherished", huh? The same way he cherishes current states with budget cuts and reckless firings?
Conrad Black is disingenuous at least and a dishonest and unreliable narrator at best.
It has become an ongoing issue that my wife complains that she smells something, then gets angry at me if I am unable to smell that same smell, sometimes accusing me of gas lighting her or calling her a liar, when actually I just don't smell the smell she's smelling.
I'm not making implications or accusations, I'm not trying to mislead or confuse her, I just can't smell whatever she's smelling and that fact frustrates the heck out of her as though I'm personally letting her down. Then she gets a bit aggro and I have to change the garbages / kitchen compost in the hopes that perhaps those are the sources of the smells I can't smell. Sometimes that helps. She will never change the garbage or take out the compost herself.
When she insisted that she smelled a gas leak from our furnace that I couldn't smell, we called a professional who confirmed our furnace was working fine and there was no gas leak; but I was still the villain for denying the gas leak ahead of time. Three times in the last 6 months this has been a thing.
Can't speak for every guy, but some of us will make sure to give extra room on the sidewalk to purposefully indicate that we're not a threat. A bit of mud is a small price to pay to know that we have prevented even a modicum of fear from springing up in the hearts of a random passerby.
Many of us understand why women choose the Bear over the Man.
Thanks, y'all