@LegalLatino2022@japan_nobunaga That 40,000 figure is so low that I had to look it up. I knew that stats about gun deaths were overblown but I didn't realize that if you exclude suicides, guns kill fewer people in the USA every year than beds.
@one_miloo I've seen about a dozen videos of this guy and all of them are videos of him inventing terrible solutions to simple problems without wearing any safety equipment. π
@awkwardgoogle If you have permission to be on the other side of the fence anyway, Plastic dropcloth only costs a couple bucks, can be easily attached, and doesn't rely on the dexterity of one person with a board. :P
@fightazon Satisfying but after the second sissy-kick he should have just waited for the third one (which everyone in a 10-yard radius could see coming) and gone for the takedown. Don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
In brief, here's what happened:
1. Robert Heinlein wrote STARSHIP TROOPERS to showcase martial virtues like honor, self-sacrifice and heroism.
2. Paul Verhoeven, a member of the Arts 'n Crafts wing of the European Left, was displeased by this and wanted to piss all over Heinlein's message.
3. Paul is a gifted filmmaker but an inept propagandist. He dropped the ball so badly in Troopers that he wound up celebrating what he set out to mock.
4. The Bugs are bad. The Federation is good. Rico and his friends are good. Even dressing Carl up like an SS officer didnβt make HIM less good.
5. Itβs one of the most remarkable backfires in propaganda history and I do a happy dance every time I think of the little Dutch boy grinding his teeth over people loving what he wanted them to hate.