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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 4h

The funny thing is, you're kind of right. This whole thing is a sort of vanity project for Trump. He hasn't delivered on many of his promises, he seems slow to react to things and has clearly lost a step. But even then, he's still the best president since at least Bush 41.

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 4h

Good Choreography and passible SFX don't cut it for me in 2025. Blade Runner 2049 which came out 8 years ago looked a million times better. From Disney and ILM, I would expect more,

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 4h

Also whoever budgeted the effects needs to be fired. The fight scenes were well-choreographed, and the effects on the bikes were cool, but half the time it was painfully obvious they were on a set, even when the scene took place outdoors and they threw up their hands and said IDC .

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 4h

I wanted mindless fun, but barely got it. I wanted cool, colorful, slick, well-edited bike chases with cool music. I think that was about 5 minutes of the whole runtime? The rest was some boring slogfest with a ham-fisted, yet confused message about AI.

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 6h

Glad to see brave people standing up for what's right. #NoKings

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 6h

What an absolute piece of DOGSHIT! I've seen livelier performances at a funeral than what some of these actors put on. The script is bland, uninspired, and filled with more plotholes than there are potholes in India. Should've been called CON: Ares, because I feel scammed! 📽️

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 10h

Currently seated for 📽️

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 10h

Shut down the Southern Border, Closed USAID, Defunded the CRS, Removed taxes from tips, deported numerous rapists and murderers, ended the Gaza war (thought that one was really important), drastically reduced Veteran Disability claim backlog, and more. This admin isn't perfect, but it's done good.

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 13h

I hope you enjoy my thread on a forgotten, yet important American book
#Booksky

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 20h

One of my favorite aspects of the Bluesky is the great care and attention given to lesser known books and authors. I thought I could contribute by discussing one of my favorite forgotten authors: Dr. Lothrop Stoddard! #StoddardSaturday

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Make America Honest Again! @lovemycountry1954.bsky.social · 1d

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 21h

Japanese poster for MEDIUM COOL (Wexler, 1969)

Japanese poster for MEDIUM COOL (Haskell Wexler, 1969)

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 15h

😆Remember when Dianne Feinstein voted in the Senate the day she died?

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 15h

Good Shot, but Green Symbology?🤢

Gotta go with Winchester White!

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 17h

Rock Hudson in, Seconds (1966) Directed by John Frankenheimer

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Naschy's Toupée @naschystoupee.bsky.social · 17h

Andalusian Superstition (1912)

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 16h

Lovely film. Joel McCrae was initially slated to star in this film, but turned down the role because he hated working with Lake on Sullivan's Travels a year earlier. Such a shame, I liked their onscreen chemistry in that film.

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 16h

😆As an amateur filmmaker myself, I can certainly understand the desire! I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to do that and just hope the audience doesn't mind. But I think there is also a great reward in turning footage that at first appears amateur into something professional and coherent.

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 17h

Your appeal to morality falls short when we see much more clear and present threats issued by democrats. No victim has come forward to say they were harmed by the language used by the people in your picture, while we can point to the brutal murder of Mr. Kirk as a victim of leftist violence.

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 18h

Additionally, we can see that in FY2022, the now-defunct USAID spent $3.82 billion fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa.

combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

Again, here we can see another parallel today as Africa between 2016 and 2018 Imported 85% of its food from outside the continent. Despite a massive population growth in recent decades.
unctad.org/news/covid-1...

COVID-19: A threat to food security in Africa

The International Monetary Fund has projected a deep coronavirus-induced global recession, which threatens a nearly 4% drop in world GDP and could drag the GDP of African economies into a fall of abou

unctad.org

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

"Such checks as now limit the increase of colored populations are wholly external, like famine, disease, and tribal warfare. But by a curious irony of fate, the white man has long been busy removing these checks to colored multiplication."

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

However, this should not be misconstrued as a weakness of Whites. Stoddard argued that this was due to Whites politically enabling rapid expansion of Colored births.

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

It's worth pausing here and considering Stoddard's position. Looking at the world population 105 years later, it's clear that his prediction came true.

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

..."this ratio seems destined to shift still further in favor of color. There can be no doubt that at present [they] are increasing much faster than the white. Treating the primary race-stocks as units, it would appear that whites tend to double in eighty years, yellows and browns in sixty years"

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combatvet88.bsky.social @combatvet88.bsky.social · 19h

..., the rest of the world being inhabited mainly by the other primary races of mankind yellows, browns, blacks, and reds."

Here he demonstrates that, while Whites dominate the world politically, they are less in number than the Coloreds and this trend would only continue...

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