The most intolerant wins ~ Nassim Taleb
It is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both ~ Machiavelli
Never be afraid.
Proud Zionist/Jew ✡️
ENTJ
@WashTimes Threatens?
I has already developed into a master diplo row
... and rightly so.
The Kiev Nazi regime is so corrupt, insolent and out of touch. Those ungrateful sods think they have leverage over anyone. They don't.
F#'em.
@TelmoPestana@joaomiranda Abrir o mercado e torná-lo atractivo a investidores é o que está por fazer.
Gestores maus há sempre, em Portugal e noutro país qualquer. O mercado aberto e competição é o que permite, e força, a melhoria.
@TelmoPestana@joaomiranda Os gestores são um extracto da população. A cultura tem mais a ver com África do que com a Europa. Este é o real problema.
O que falta é volume de empresários, para que o mercado seja menos exíguo e ofereça mais postos de trabalho.
@ArmandoMema Albanian, are you completely insane?
Varoufakis 6 month tenure came at the cost of an extra 100 billion to the Greek taxpayers.
Keep that f-cking f-ck in Australia.
He talks smart talk but in the praxis he's a proven total inept.
This explanation from Citizen Vigilante is actually useful:
“If you don’t pay your bus ticket… or steal a banana at the store… eventually the cost of everything goes up for everyone else.”
The vigilante doesn’t just punish — he explains why rules exist.
Small crimes aren’t victimless 👇
I watched Citizen Vigilante last night expecting something along the lines of Death Wish (1974), The Punisher (1989), The Dirty Harry films (1980s), and Falling Down (1991). What all those films have in common is an average man responding to a period of rampant crime on the streets (1970s - 1990s) a collapse in civic will to police it, and leftists fomenting the disorder to subvert society.
There are five elements that distinguish Citizen Vigilante from those films:
1. While similar in theme, CV borrows the trope of Taken (2008) in that it uses an American, not a native European to enact vengeance.
2. Unlike all those other movies, any pretense of this being entertainment is overridden by the reference to rapes and murders from the news. The atrocities find their place in the memory of the viewers in a soulless depiction of violence that is intentionally, morally sickening.
3. There is no redeeming Aristotelian mitigation of the violence. The most graphic (and unnecessary) images of mayhem are portrayed. The imago dei in the police forces is destroyed in sickening portrayals.
4. The film's hatred of the migrants finds its catharsis not in the murder of migrants, although that occurs, but in the slow-motion, graphic killing of those who should be enforcing the laws. The Vigilante has a set speech at the end about the culture and laws of the migrants, but it is more factual than personal. The personal violence is reserved for the judiciary and executive branches. Whether for reasons of time or otherwise, the legislative branch is not included as targets.
5. Finally, returning to the American sub-text, the American is not just a father as in Taken. He is former military with tattoos indicating special forces skills. I think the film represents Uwe Boll's civilizational cri du cœur, a prayer to the gods of vengeance to send the Americans a third time to save Europe from itself.
Filmically? The complete absence of surveillance society elements make the film a fever dream of improbability. The CV, would have been observed every step of the way. Boll didn't bother putting gloves on Hammer's character. There was little effort to disguise the CV. This might reflect a desire to represent him as an almost recognizable Everyman. The film is not trying to be logical. It is tapping into the societal Id.
Because of it's graphic, almost sadistic, violence I cannot recommend the film to any except the most hardened viewers. Once you know the themes I identified above, it will be more interesting and less stomach-churning to watch the cultural response to it.
The zeitgeist is turning again on a rusty axis and the metallic screech that results is going to be global.
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