cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41402945
By “Erik Prince”, I mean belligerently and dramatically overreact to an attack — actual, perceived, provoked, planted, or otherwise. They could do what Blackwater did in Fallujah in 2004. Or, in Nisoor Square in 2007. Or, in Kabul in 2009.
They
couldare terrorizing a population. At home. In Minneapolis.They could kick-in home, school, and business-place doors, lurk in public buildings and streets, employ flash-bang grenades, tear gas, body-armor, fully automatic weapons, SUVs, trucks, and tanks in the streets, terrorizing a population into submission.
ICE is being funded at the same rate as the military of Poland. Or, the entirety of US military spending in 1917, on entering World War I. Nice work on that big, beautiful bill.
Btw, have you seen
Civil War? Yes, you have, yeah, that A24 movie.They could prod a population into employing IEDs, RPGs, and assault weapons. From bats, to boards, to bricks, to and bottles alight. We’ve seen this before. Inside America, and outside America. This is a wavefront of a war.
The world, meanwhile, burns. Storms rage. Fires consume. Ice recedes, collapses, and melts.
Please. Prove me wrong. Peacefully, impeach, convict, jail, try, and imprison the President who is trying to have the American people pay — in taxes, tariffs, and blood — for his coup d’etat.
Please.
note: Erik Prince is the CEO and founder of the private security company Blackwater, now Akademi, once XE.
As the American empire retreats and settles into its sphere of influence, it’s gonna become more dangerous to be brown over there than brown in the South. There are only so many murderers and bullets to go around, and if they’re occupying their own land they’re not raping and pillaging elsewhere.
And Europe will be next. Fascism approaches.
Nothing new under the sun. 🤷
Btw, have you seen
Civil War? Yes, you have, yeah, that A24 movieIt is good?
It’s fine. Not nearly as pertinent as OP is making it seem, though.
Not pertinent.
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Yet.
ech@ is right. I threw that reference in there for no good reason.
Yet, that Jesse Plemons scene (spoiler!) is feeling pretty chilling to some. But that’s all. For now. I had Kyle Rittenhouse vibes off of that. Linked article reminds us, he was acquitted.
But for whatever an answer to the question is worth: It’s a solid 6.5/10 movie. I’ve not felt the need for a second viewing. Watching America tear itself apart in real-time is a little more pertinent.
Not pertinent.
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Yet.
Not ever, really.
Movie premise spoiler(?)
The movie’s real focus is ethics in wartime journalism. They could’ve been documenting any war and the plot would remain largely the same, including radical local groups taking advantage of the chaos to inflict harm and death. The closest it comes to being vaguely relevant is the suggestion that such a conflict could happen at all in the US. No part of the movie really focuses on the why or how of the conflict - just typical war-torn country stuff.
I’m not going to argue the utility of the comment.
I said, didn’t I?, it was a throwaway line — vaguely connected for a 7-minute, TikTok-friendly scene with a cameo by a pretty solid character actor. Anything to keep 10% of readers interested for one more paragraph — this attention economy is the pits.
You seem like a film/media purist. What consumable, catchy, full-length film helps you to make sense of Mr. Toad’s wild ride into authoritarianism?
