YuccaMan

Doesn't China produce more new solar capacity than the rest of the world has like every year?

Correct, and I came in here to say it. MAGA Americans are still Americans, and the overwhelming majority of us are completely housebroken.

Well I'll be. I'll have to check it out, I really liked the movie. Thanks.

I believe he was talking about the film from 1973, which Kill Bill heavily homages (or rips off, depending on how charitable you're feeling) but shit, I never knew Lady Snowblood was originally a manga.

I believe he was talking about the film from 1973, which Kill Bill heavily homages (or rips off, depending on how charitable you're feeling) but shit, I never knew Lady Snowblood was originally a manga.

And never mind the fact that Russia, even in its currently degraded state, is objectively less evil than the United States

I have to know if/how any of them justified saying that, those are next-level brainworms

This sounds incredibly misanthropic, egotistical, and self-indulgent. You should delete this post. I'm not going to accuse you of lacking humility or empathy, but that's how this comes off, and it really sucks.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. People do that with Star Wars a lot as well. Always gives me second hand embarassment.

Plus like, leaving all else aside, I've never understood how peer pressure and making somebody feel lesser for not seeing a particular movie is supposed to make them enthusiastic about doing that (though of course much of the time that isn't the point, it's a mask for a smug sense of superiority)

The high drama of family strife, conspiracy, betrayal, and power, played out with life or death stakes. Or at least, that's what I enjoy about it. It's very operatic. Plus it's got a number of excellent performances and an excellent soundtrack. And as an aside, it's a rare example of a movie being far better than the book it's based on. Fond as I am of the novel, there's a lot of shit that the movie rightfully excises (in the novel, Sonny's unnaturally large penis is literally an integral part of Lucy Mancini's subplot.)

Also, particularly when combined with the sequel, Godfather shows a mythologized, multi-generational rendition of the Italian immigrant experience. More broadly, it's a cultural artifact of 70s America that reflected a growing sense of otherness among so-called 'white ethnics' from the socially dominant WASPs, and a rejection of the assimilationist tendencies that had supposedly characterized the immigrant experience prior to that point.

None of this is to say you have to watch it. If it isn't your thing, then it isn't. I hate when people insist that a movie is essential somehow, and that there's something wrong with you if you don't like it. I just figured I'd share a bit of what I liked/thought about it.

I'm sure anyone who's even halfway familiar with this scenario has seen this map before, but I'm including it anyway because it hammers home how absurd the notion is that the rest of the Allies stood a chance against the Soviets. Even without taking the actual combat readiness of these units into account, the numerical disparity is simply obscene, as is the disparity of experience (recall that 8 of every 10 German casualties in this war were inflicted by Soviet troops; the scope and intensity of fighting on the Eastern Front is simply beyond the experience of the American and British armies, at that or at any point.) My off the cuff assertion is that this would've ended with mass American casualties and a rapid loss of political will, rendering superior American manufacturing capacity moot.

The other day I was coming onto the freeway where the entrance lane merges with the right lane, and before I could merge a truck that was travelling in that lane forced me onto the shoulder and almost ran my ass into the retaining wall. Had plenty of time and space to shift left before I got in the lane, and I know for damn sure they were able to see me.

People drive like absolute sociopaths in California.