Ross Lawhead

But ultimately a thumbs up. Worth a watch.

Thematically it needed a bit more of a punch, more along the lines of the Cap and Winter Soldier TV show, which had a great thematic discussion of nationality and American imperialism. Not that they needed to retread that, but a harder look at nationality and race would have been timely.

I expected more from the script. It was essentially a rehash of CA: Civil War with an eighth of the cast. There were a few twists, but all of them in the first half of the movie. If it's going to be a twist movie, you gotta hold a big twist for the end. Ultimately it was very A to B.

The secondary cast delivered. I warmed a lot more to Danny Rameirez's character than I thought. Xosha Roquemore commanded the screen admirably, and Shira Haas played enigmatic and powerful perfectly.

Saw CA:BNW and you know I have thoughts. (No spoilers)

Anthony Mackie is one of the top actors of the MCU. The man can do anything.

Carl Lumbly always delivers a top performance, so glad they gave him a solid role.

Harrison Ford seemed to be having a lot of fun, he gave it 100%

Lock screen. To use the 2 lumens it emits to shine on the stairs at night so I don't trip and break my necks.

I think every man remembers where he was and what he was doing when his wife/husband/gf/bf/SO looked up from their phone and said, "Babe, how often do YOU think about the Roman Empire?"

I think about that moment several times a week now.

#romanempire

Please, God, it's the man on the left....

So while pure anarchy may not be desirable in practice, it may be something to add into the mix when devising fair systems of social order.

Honourable mention: there is a
#ChristianAnarchy movement which aims to worship Christ outside of any hierarchical system.

However, if a nation suddenly decides to do what they want, or to pull out of the social contract, it becomes difficult to get them to fall back into line.

where no one nation is above the others (hey, I said in theory) and all nations police the other nations and all nations must decide what the best course is for the good of all nations.

An anarchic society would therefore need to have laws, but the weakness comes in enforcing those laws without a dominant power, such as police or a sanctioning body. IN THEORY the realm of international politics is a pure anarchy...

Communism usually demands paying all resources into a central bank for fair distribution by the state, and libertarianism puts individual rights above most considerations and relies on state enforcement for those rights... anarchism advocates that community rights override those of the individual.

There have been various attempts at creating intentional anarchic societies, usually on a small community level, and there have been unintentional anarchies, which are transitionally violent.

There are some ideological overlaps with #communism and #libertarianism, but anarchism is not these.

You can get a flavour of the idea of it in something like jury duty-- at any time you may be called upon to serve the society in a fair, decision making capacity, as an equal member of that society.

Anarchy does not always mean pandemonium or an animalistic free-for-all, it simply means that society does not allow any person, persons, or system to be in rule above it. Politically anarchic societies are very demanding of its participants to be engaged in the political running of the society.

Let's talk about #anarchy and why we may want some of that when we start rewriting and restructuring society, and how anarchy can be democratic.

Anarchy is, by definition, a "rule (governance) of none", as opposed to monarchy, a rule of one; plutarchy, a rule of money; or oligarchy a rule of a few.

I did the same for my laptop. Windows couldn't run more than my open source word processor, and even that lagged. Installed Linux Mint and everything runs quickly and easily. And startup time is seconds, not minutes.

RIP Turn Off The Light by Nelly Furtado

"I can't see the fourth blockbuster Captain America movie because my car isn't charged," may SEEM like a complaint, but this is the life that I dreamed I would be living when I was fifteen years old.

YouTube video by Friend Dog Studios GOP Jesus

Seemed past time to watch this again

Trump Claims Victory Over Canada, Mexico After Getting ... Basically Nothing Donald Trump temporarily postponed tariffs against Mexico and Canada, who mostly agreed to continue existing programs.

The president made a show of temporarily postponing a regional trade war after Mexico and Canada promised him things they were already doing.

There's something appealing in that prospect rn

As for police... the penny only dropped when Existential Comics pointed out that if you steal $20 from your employer, the police will be there in person for you. But if your employer withholds a week's wages from you and you report them... they'll laugh you out of the building.

Whatever he's doing to exploit the system right now, you can be assured that it's a hack job. Which is another layer of terrifying.

Good article. Something that needs to be highlighted is Musk's incompetence. He's not rich because of his decisions, but his ability to graft other billionaires and investors, not to mention the US government itself. Eventually his crash will be so big even the treasury won't be able to bail him out

I remember arguing with someone who bought that 8 spiders bit. Doesn't make a lick of sense, they couldn't find any sources to back it up, let alone remember any time in their life that they or someone they know woke up with a spider in their mouth... and still they walked away not convinced.

Be awesome if it could, though

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