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  • I think Lashana Lynch killed her role (positive comment about her acting). I think the story was already facing an impossible climb in being adapted to the modern world.

    The original movie showed that aside from the Jackal being better than competent government agents, there were also practical logistical difficulties trying to find one unknown bad guy in a liberal world. And the internet basically solved all of these.

    • Magical anonymous internet chat that can be carried around on a USB stick. At a minimum that’s a reboot of the computer to run on the USB stick.
    • A wealthy person being traced with publicly available information because I guess they hid their money trail themselves instead of letting a professional handle it. That’s boots on the ground investigative reporters at a minimum looking for a single slip up.
    • So many burner phones.
    • Forged passports that don’t just trigger an alert when the person doesn’t exist on the passport database.
























  • florenciaOPto196Late Stage Private Healthcare Rule
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    17 days ago

    That’s not at all how it works. The rich already fear the poor. They won and yet are perpetually afraid all the time about the poor actually doing something about it. Source: all the journals from royalty to plantation owners.

    The elected politicians need to fear the poor. Start actually making life better for them so they can get elected. But the rich pulled out the “he useless priests, lets team up” card to practically nullify that.















  • Scott Bessent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent

    The New York Times noted that in addition to Bessent’s Soros connections, he was also a donor to Democrats like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. But a closer look at this politics shows that his pivot to MAGA may not ultimately be that big of a pivot after all — as a student at Yale University, he wrote in the newspaper that as a Southerner, he was “heartbroken when George Wallace decided not to run for president.” Wallace served three terms as the governor of Alabama, most notably advocating for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” a line written for him in his inaugural address by Asa Carter, a right-winger who founded his own Ku Klux Klan organization, per PBS.