Conner Bolt

I like to talk politics, sports, and movies.

[𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖙 @registerofdecay]

Pouring an obscene amount of resources and human capital into one sector will undoubtedly yield some results. The question is whether it could have been done more efficiently and better (and without killing millions.)

The US has more medals with a much smaller investment.

[Spencer Askew @spencer_askew]

My favorite part of “Masters of the Universe” is when He-Man realizes that it was time to stop negotiating and start beating the crap out of evil.

Villains don’t always need to be understood. Sometimes they just need to get kicked in the teeth.

[Hannah Cox @HannahDCox]

It’s so weird how people consistently think this is a mic drop response - as if pages upon pages of economic and political theory haven’t been written laying out how nonsensical it is.

Ok, once more for the people in the back...

"when Chilton was asked by the libertarians what gave government the right to ban immigration into the U.S., a ban going far beyond the will of private landowners, he answered: “sovereignty.” A fascinating reply: since he thereby implied that the US. government is really the owner of the entire United States land mass, overriding the rights of private property." - Murray Rothbard January 1991.

You’re actually arguing AGAINST private property rights dude.

[Conner Bolt @Connerxlc]

@SWT_Channel I mean, Skeletor is a classic

[mithrandir 🦬 @___mithrandir_]

I hate that they didn't kill off Ahsoka at the end of Clone Wars, because that opens up some really dumb plot contrivances. Where was this fully trained Jedi from the pre fall days while Luke was trying to solo Darth Vader and the emperor lol

[Conner Bolt @Connerxlc]

@StarWarsDaily_ Haven't gone to see the new movie yet, but nothing beats how giddy and excited I was to see THAT X-Wing fly by in the finale of season 2. That appearance had all the gravitas and awesomeness that wished happened in the sequels.

[Escuela Austriaca de Economía 🇦🇷 @DiegoMac227]

Fidel Castro antes de tomar el poder: "yo no soy comunista o marxista, creo en la democracia".

Todos tienen el mismo disfraz, me hacen acordar al Kirchnerismo y a la izquierda, que acusan a Milei de dictador pero son ellos los que buscan por todos los medios tumbarlo, olvidando que él fue elegido democraticamente.

[That Junkman @ThatJunkman]

This is the biggest mistake in movie history. Even if you like the sequels. It’s like getting the Beatles back and having them all sing separately.

[neal @nea1__]

LeBron went to eight straight finals and it was just normal

[🇺🇸 Phigs @ItsPhigs]

We get it bro you're a boomer who is also blind and retarded while regurgitating RLM's complaints about the prequels.

Real star wars fans knew what was happening and who was fighting who.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Gene Epstein @GeneSohoForum]

"Progressives have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is redistributionist gov't. But such gov't is inherently regressive. It tends to distribute power & money to the strong, including itself. Gov't becomes big by having big ambitions for supplanting markets as society's primary allocator of wealth and opportunity, Therefore it becomes a magnet for factions muscular enough, in money or numbers or both, to bend government to their advantage." George Will

[Conner Bolt @Connerxlc]

@_nabiecat As do all politicians. The Jedi hadn't seen a real Sith in 1000 years how would they know?

[Sigma Malewife @SquidMechanicus]

Anakin's characterization might be the one thing I genuinely dislike about TCW.

Sometimes he feels more like Han Solo with a Lightsaber than he does the character from the movies that he's supposed to be, which CW03 pulled off perfectly.

[Lucas Star Wars Girl @LucasSWGirl]

RIP Marcia Lucas, ex wife of George Lucas and Oscar Winner for her editing of Star Wars.

She let rip on the Disney Sequels and every single word was true. They never did call her.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“We should have a communist area and a capitalist area beside each other to see who wins.”

North Korea vs South Korea

East Germany vs West Germany

South America vs North American

We’ve already run this test.

Communism always loses.

[Fun Ahead 🇺🇸 @heroesahead]

I dunno man, while the OT is probably one order of magnitude superior to the PT, tonally, acting, the script, the dialogue

a LOT closer than you're pretending

Murder Bears and Threepio are roughly the same level of silly as Jar Jar and a 50s diner on Coruscant

Star Wars was always a mix of the silly and the profound

That's why it was the biggest franchise in history, literally anyone could watch it and find something to glom onto

[Mike @themessychef30]

The Spurs literally blowout the Thunder in every game where they're allowed to match OKC's physicality.

The Thunder are nothing special when you can get as handsy with them. Really shows how league manufactured their success is. Balance the whistle and they crumble.

[Conner Bolt @Connerxlc]

@KevinLamb74 @cineburk It's a bit of a long winded explanation. It was too much for the audience at the time and definitely too much for kids. The politics aspect of the prequels WAS interesting and well done but not what was expected. You can appreciate it when you're older after rewatches

[Kevin Lamb @KevinLamb74]

The Phantom Menace presents the vision of a man with absolutely no restraints, whether they be creative, technical, or financial. I know many consider that to be one of the film's greatest faults, and George Lucas himself even toned some things down like Jar Jar and midichlorians in Episodes II and III in response to fan backlash.

But I actually really appreciate that Phantom Menace is arguably the one Star Wars film that just projects George's brain directly onto the screen with zero filters.

Everclear Lucas if you will. Such a fascinating, imaginative, and colorful movie that has weathered the criticisms and stood the test of time. There will never be another film like it.