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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

There's also an argument that it doesn't matter. An unborn child is 100% feeding off of the parent carrying them. Nobody has the right to force that choice on anyone.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Poison Ivy is like Magneto. It becomes harder and harder every year to say they're wrong.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

They must have had a Visa/MasterCard/whatever product placement in mind that fell through, and then they did the scene, anyway.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pierce Brosnan was great as James Bond. Goldeneye probably saved the franchise from oblivion. He got shit scripts after that, but he was right for the role.

Also, Dalton's first movie as Bond is highly underrated.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both of them should honestly be real worried about that. If Trump gets to fully exercise that power, and they step out of line a little bit, either one of them would be exiled in no time.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

OK, so not your first time. I misread that.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would recommend having someone around as a trip sitter for a first time.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago

Ripley was an anchor baby.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and it's a wonderful place, but it's politics are weird.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, Sony is just better at this. They're really good at taking advantage of their competitors' mistakes.

We forget a lot now, but the opening of the PS3/Xbox 360 era looked like Microsoft was winning. Sales looked good for them, Blu-ray be damned. Then the Red Ring of Death hits. In some ways, Microsoft has yet to recover from that. Sony held their face just above the toilet water ever since.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Depends on how many states we're talking about and their geographic distribution. 1M isn't enough to hold the whole country. It probably can't even hold New York City. It could probably hold New Hampshire.

Current US military doctrine suggests you need 1 soldier for every 3 people you're trying to occupy. This is especially true when you have to assume every civilian is a potentially armed insurrectionist, and the US has a lot of guns in civilian hands. That said, fascists tend to throw out hard won wisdom like this, and tells the army they aren't trying hard enough. For as much as they drone on about how they're a bunch of tough guys, they are complete shit at actually fighting a war. Here's a former US Army intelligence officer talking about the numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyBIqRunQ5Y

Oh, and while the existing military might follow orders to take over states "in rebellion", they're going to be doing a lot of malicious compliance. The way they did Trump's birthday parade proves it. They 100% phoned it in on purpose.

One of the side effects of Trump trying to move so fast is that he doesn't have time to purge the military and refill it with loyalists. That would take over a decade. Stalin did that to disastrous effect; the Winter War was only a technical win with catastrophic losses, and the later German invasion was barely held back. Hitler didn't really try to purge the Wehrmacht, with the Night of the Long Knives being mostly a purge of their own SS people.

Trump therefore has to rely on already loyal people with guns, which is mostly ICE, local sheriffs, and police. None of them are big enough to hold the whole country, either, or even a major state.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Instructions unclear, now sitting in basement.

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