They do seem to actually believe it… they think they're going to be vindicated.

I guess maybe there are a couple of lessons…

1) It's amazing how much one man can achieve… if he has lots of time and money, and his ideas happen to align with the interests of big companies and billionaires.

2) Plenty of the bad guys don't think of themselves as bad.

Gigawatts of clean energy have failed to make it to the American grid primarily because a random old guy went to huge lengths to run campaigns for no discernable reason.

Most of the right weren't even going to bother to fight such a pointless fight, but they were happy to help him when it worked.

Wait, he sounds like that *on purpose*?

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I feel like he thinks of himself as a good guy somehow, you know?

My best guess is that, in spite of being Australian, his politics are well-aligned with a typical American conservative: the only thing that really matters is ruining the left.

You'd think the guy behind Fox News, and its human form, Donald Trump, would have been disgusted by Tony Blair, in spite of his bedding in of Thatcherism.

I can't get past the thought that the bleak, relentless violence, rather than a substitution for human suffering, seems to at times have been a motivation for it. To see a reenactment that seems to have such bloodlust running through it certainly didn't move me any closer to any sort of god.

Mmm! I watched this to try to get a Catholic perspective on the whole Jesus thing, but for an atheist it's just some guy getting brutally tortured to death. I guess it hits differently if you're into the supernatural side of things.

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Do I recall an ice age in near enough real time? Ewan McGregor failing to sing and dance? It's all a tedious blur.