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@SomeRndmGuyUT @TheCinesthetic The ending would have been impossible to film given the budget and time constraints. Better? Perhaps.

I'm just grateful it exists. They literally haven't made movies like this for 20 years. Solid storytelling and an all-star cast without anyone trying to dominate.

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@BCStruggleLeag China ditched Maoist communism for authoritarian state capitalism under Deng and later leaders—allowing private enterprise, billionaires, and market incentives—which lifted people out of poverty far more than central planning ever did.

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@Chris4Perkins2 Middle-class taxpayers fund compulsory programs that inevitably wind up riddled with fraud. These systems also create permanent dependency by subsidizing the non-working and the indolent. Tighter, mandatory work rules and verification, not endless handouts are the fix.

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@KyleKulinski Fraud and internal looting drain most “compassion” programs before aid reaches people. Minnesota cases alone show $250M+ stolen through fake daycare and nutrition claims by provider networks. Tens of billions vanish yearly in Medicare, Medicaid, and child-care assistance.

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@Leonajardinho Federal policies have inflated housing costs for decades. Easy credit through the FHA and government-backed lenders, 30-year (and longer) mortgages, mortgage interest deduction, and the 500k cap gain exclusion combined to limit young buyers opportunity to but a first home.

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@skuelmo613 @TheRabbitHole Qatar does fund a lot of bad stuff. But they also host America’s biggest military base in the region, which gives them leverage. The real scandal isn’t that Trump deals with them, it’s that Qatar has spent years buying influence in U.S. universities and politics long before DJT.

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@JeffreymGourley @BeingJWood China stayed poor for decades under Mao. The billionaires only appeared after the country abandoned central planning and allowed private enterprise. They’re evidence of what happens when you move away from socialism, not proof that it works.

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@MoxeeMeg @AffordAnything The phrase 'living wage' is deliberately vague. It has no fixed definition — it’s whatever number activists decide is politically useful at the moment. Compassion, while avoiding any real discussion about trade-offs, incentives, or what actually raises living standards over time.

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@RealSarahIdan High taxes, heavy regulation, rent control, and expansive government programs have already been tried at scale in places like New York and California. The results have been higher housing costs, businesses leaving, and worsening quality of life for working people.

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@progressiveact For a long time now . . .

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@fig3307 @Playteaux1 The claim that Trump never criticized communism until recently is simply false, he’s been doing it for years. As for Putin, Russia hasn’t been communist since 1991 and he has, at best a working relationship with him, it is not what I would call a cozy relationship.

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@ConceptualJames Stalin’s at least tied survival to labor — 'He who does not work shall not eat.' Modern DSA-style socialism wants the opposite: expansive welfare, no work requirements, and taxpayer-funded comfort for the professional class with no respect for the production that pays for it.

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@fig3307 @Playteaux1 Criticism of communism doesn’t require Trump’s approval. The 20th century already delivered the results: over 100 million dead under regimes that actually tried to implement it. That record stands on its own, independent of whatever you think about the current president.

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@Playteaux1 @BerkeKhanx Hitler was exceptionally clear that National Socialism had nothing to so with Marxist/international socialism. This is recounted in Goebbels diary. Referring to The Third Reich as a socialist regime is wildly misleading.

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@PandaMumoje @ImtiazMadmood Assuming there is someone left to remember. And that's the part their counting on.

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@TempestRising_ @elonmusk @EndWokeness @FoxNews Communism is not his plan . . .

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@TheAliceSmith That’s how effective the indoctrination has become. The most effective manipulation is the kind that convinces people, especially if they've gone to college, thar they arrived at their beliefs through their own independent thinking.

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@AatifBashar12 @StephenM Legal immigration has always had rules, numerical limits, and backlogs. Slowing it down or adding more scrutiny isn’t the same as maliciously 'pausing' it to harm American citizens. No one is entitled to instant immigration just because they got married to a foreigner.

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@AatifBashar12 @StephenM ICE doesn’t harass legal immigrants who are following the rules and maintaining their status. They go after people who are in the country illegally or who have violated the terms of their visa.

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@AatifBashar12 @StephenM ICE enforcing immigration law doesn’t harm American citizens. American citizens aren’t entitled to keep illegal immigrants in the country just because they married them — the law applies regardless of who you’re married to. By your logic, Obama should have been thrown in jail too