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Same remoteness that drew so many peculiar types there, out of necessity to do the things that they wanted to do.

HEAR HEAR!

You know just how far away from The Law that place was when the mob got its' claws on it? That's also the land where polygamy remained a standard practice until relatively recently.

there's /r/StarWars and /r/SaltierThanCrait over on Reddit

Those two spaces had differing stances.
There also the case of InterestingAsFuck as opposed to DamnThatsInteresting, because why the fuck does "Fuck" have to be in the title?

But then there's shameless karma-farming duplicates, like ComedyCemetery and ComedyNecromancy.

Damage is minimal, comrade. Jetski destroyed. Bridge will remain closed for the next eight months due to... scheduled maintenance.

Bullseye! I was not expecting such an explosion, nor defensive fire before the explosion. So it must have been a drone that they noticed too late.

In such an environment, what sort of mindless orc squatter still wants to remain in Crimea? They are not wanted there, they are connected to their ~~waterless toilet~~ homeland via a shoddy and vulnerable bridge, the disruption and inconveniences of daily life are constant, their midget mobster in the kremlin has proven to be fallible and crumbling in a Potemkin land where image is everything.

It's a great choice by the director how everyone scowled when they didn't get the canned bullshit answer disguised as an enlightened one. How this one panelist decided to break the mesmerized charade and you see confusion and anger in peoples' eyes.

BUT... that "we used to be" line is also lazy nostalgic whitewashing of a mountain of incredibly inconvenient, sordid history.

That Casino Royale scene might be in my personal top five. After having drifted away from Bond since the last one I had really enjoyed - that would be The Living Daylights - while watching this Madagascar parkour I felt the spark rekindle completely.

EDIT: #1 in my old classics bucket list is to someday watch Lawrence Of Arabia on the big screen. I think the restoration and remaster was overseen by Martin Scorsese.

Supposedly that scene so technically accurate, it is used in assault rifle training, all eyes asked to concentrate on what Kilmer does.

Now that is one spectacular choice.
That phone call ruined the philosophical mood for the audience as well as for Max. We are supposed to be in Max's head more than just observing him.

There's also the thing of picking your battles. There are changes one can and cannot make depending on the hostility of the political environment and if fickle potential voters have your back - which they have proven too often that they don't. There is also often sabotage in the delicate process of trying to pass and enact anything, sometimes all that is needed is one or two assholes from your own party to bring the whole house of cards down.

In an ideal world, they could try again, but for that we need educated and consistent voters to support them, and instead they get tarred with the label bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe by the oh-so-pure crowd - "if I don't get everything in the first try I don't wanna try at all... not even one fucking day a year".
Meanwhile, the assholes on the other side send death threats to you and your colleagues. Their propaganda machine portraying you as a 'Murica-hatin' less-than-human caricature.

I cannot imagine trying to navigate this as a career.

While growing up in Mexico, turn-of-the-20th-century president Porfirio Diaz was always described as a villain who abused his position to cling to power for around three decades, leading to the Mexican Revolution and old man Diaz living the rest of his life in exile in France.

But now it seems that legacy has been reevaluated as much more nuanced and complex than that, with Diaz as more of a benevolent dictator with weaknesses and blind spots, who pushed his country to modernize and enter the Industrial Era, a likely reason why Mexico - flaws and all - didn't fall too far behind during the 20th century, did not become a pseudo-colonial/corporate territory like so much of Central and Southern America and the Caribbean.