Is there any connection between the movie Dead Fall with Michael Cain and BBD. I see similarities that involve clothing, haircuts, guitar, seagulls, John Barry and Cocteau.
@sheltech@Count Vlad Stumbled by accident across the little political discussion above. Very interesting - you should both post this stuff over in the other forum, where there are already threads for it. You're a Trump supporter, Vlad? Anyway, I like your term "legacy media". I never liked the "mainstream media" cliché, and "legacy" seems to fit. That said, Fox News would presumably be classed as legacy media, and most of your talking points (both of you) seem straight off Fox News, or at least off people who get their talking points from the same sources as Fox News - the obsession with Hunter Biden's laptop, Trump as a sort of maverick peacemaker, establishment liberals as "wanting" war with Russia, etc (nobody, except maybe a few psycho neocons and weapons manufacturers, "want" that war). It's all Fox-style framing/emphasis and selection of messaging.
I don't like Biden much, but he immediately ended one "forever war" (something which Trump's apologists had incorrectly promised Trump would do), and reduced the drone strike program drastically from the civilian-deaths peak it "achieved" under Trump. On the current Ukraine situation, Biden has said from the outset that military action against Russia is off the table. And he seems to be sticking to this, so far, despite pressure from some minority nutjob factions.
Trump as maverick and "anti-establishment" - that always seemed a joke to me. There's no one "political establishment" - there are several, and Trump is certainly a big part of one of them - the one that leans ideologically heavily to the conservative right. The Republicans seem to adore him. All the Wall Street guys he incorporated in his admin; he's a billionaire property developer!
As for Trump as a sort of peacemaker, that seems an even bigger joke to me. Nobel Peace Prize? Get f**ked!! 😉😄 He escalated every conflict he’s presided over, ramping up bombing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, increasing civilian deaths (in some cases to record-high levels), removing civilian protections and reducing accountability. In the year after he became president he oversaw
@sheltech @Count Vlad Stumbled by accident across the little political discussion above. Very interesting - you should both post this stuff over in the other forum, where there are already threads for it. You're a Trump supporter, Vlad? Anyway, I like your term "legacy media". I never liked the "mainstream media" cliché, and "legacy" seems to fit. That said, Fox News would presumably be classed as legacy media, and most of your talking points (both of you) seem straight off Fox News, or at least off people who get their talking points from the same sources as Fox News - the obsession with Hunter Biden's laptop, Trump as a sort of maverick peacemaker, establishment liberals as "wanting" war with Russia, etc (nobody, except maybe a few psycho neocons and weapons manufacturers, "want" that war). It's all Fox-style framing/emphasis and selection of messaging.
I don't like Biden much, but he immediately ended one "forever war" (something which Trump's apologists had incorrectly promised Trump would do), and reduced the drone strike program drastically from the civilian-deaths peak it "achieved" under Trump. On the current Ukraine situation, Biden has said from the outset that military action against Russia is off the table. And he seems to be sticking to this, so far, despite pressure from some minority nutjob factions.
Trump as maverick and "anti-establishment" - that always seemed a joke to me. There's no one "political establishment" - there are several, and Trump is certainly a big part of one of them - the one that leans ideologically heavily to the conservative right. The Republicans seem to adore him. All the Wall Street guys he incorporated in his admin; he's a billionaire property developer!
As for Trump as a sort of peacemaker, that seems an even bigger joke to me. Nobel Peace Prize? Get f**ked!! 😉😄 He escalated every conflict he’s presided over, ramping up bombing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, increasing civilian deaths (in some cases to record-high levels), removing civilian protections and reducing accountability. In the year after he became president he oversaw