i think there's a universe out there where Rocky and First Blood establish Stalone as being the contemplative action movie guy. both those movies had interesting things to say about grief, loss, disappointment, and carrying on with the traumas of what pursuit of the american dream actually mean

god the number of people around hwre who said they were sitting out the 2024 election because they voted in 2020 and not everything got fixed…

getting 2/3 of anyone to agree on anything is hard enough when you're not dealing with 40 million people, all of whom have direct consequences of the outcome of the decision. you're gonna have a few deluded souls who've allowed themselves to think russia (lowercase intentional) is their ally, but you're also going to have people who think the best thing to do is ceasefire now and find a better path in the future. i'd estimate there's around one perpective on this war per ukrainian citizen, and so "should we retain our boundaries when this is over" is just one way of getting a cross sectional view of those perspectives

honestly i have like 6 people i'm rooting for. all significant on the geopolitical stage

i think there's so much discourse about this since Latin men voted, on the whole, for trump. there is a non zero number of people who, if trump implements his border control plan, voted for their own deportation

Its the people who think it's not that bad yet who doom us every single time

Since october 7th, the US has sent Israel 39 F-35s, the most advanced aircraft in the world. This brings Israels count of F-35s (again, the most advanced aircraft in the world) to 50. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been begging us for F-16s, an outdated aircraft that the US Military has relegated to National Guard service and plans to retire in 2025. The Netherlands and Denmark have been who has donated all of the F-16s Ukraine is receiving.

I want to point out, literal days after Ukraine received the F-16s, they launched a counter invasion and captured Kursk. This is something that could have been much more impactful back when Ukraine started asking for the F-16s (which I want to make sure everyone remembers is a fighter platform from the 1970s that we are retiring in a few months). I don't even know... What I want people to do with this information. I just want people to sit with it and draw their own conclusions about America's priorities, and what it means to ask for and receive aid from the US.

Israel has also demonstrated at this point that this isn't about Oct 7. This is about the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. And to an extent they're demonstrating why people may turn to Hamas in desperation

But it is published and spread. That's the part that is truly damaging

Literally got on trains, headed into West Virginia, shot at each other, stormed machine gun pillboxes, and got bombed. If it weren't for those people we'd still be in labor camps

Also for how much he gets credit for cracking down on organized crime, there's not nearly enough talk about the kinds of organized crime he cracked down on and the kinds he didn't. I'm not saying be was in the pocket if the Russians all along or anything. But I'm for sure saying be definitely did a lot to ensure the Russian mob's success

It would benefit a social cause that is near and dear to his heart: making Mark Zuckerberg extremely wealthy