Park Chan-Wook’s vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) is a deconstruction of this genre. It explores basically all the contradictions of revenge that people in this thread mentioned.

Word of warning that it’s extremely gross in several ways though.

Yes, it’s on my list for sure! Dyson Sphere Program has a big update coming though, so I’ll probably finish Satisfactory only to go to Dyson Sphere before I can try Workers and Resources.

Third vs first playthrough of Satisfactory

Can someone find a recording of him actually saying it? Telesur doesn’t have any info on it. I can’t tell if he was just joking and this is another Why China banned the letter N ridiculous premise you can only believe if you forgot that the enemies of the US still have functioning brains and aren’t mindless drones.

I don’t mean to shield him from all criticism, and seeing as I’m cishet I’m sure it could be my own blind spot, but I seriously doubt that he was trying to do some kind of homophobic wordplay. We almost never use “homo” by itself to talk about gay people in Spanish. Maduro is relatively pro-LGBTQ and has historically been to the left of his party and the country as a whole on queer issues. I think there’s a bit of danger in mapping English connotations of latin words to the same latin words being used in another language, because the connotations really aren’t the same.

It does sound a little like a Nick Mullen moment but that’s definitely not what he meant lol. I’m not Venezuelan, but I’m a Spanish speaker from latam and I’ve almost never heard anyone use “homo” to mean gay by itself. He was just using it in the taxonomical sense. Not to mention that Maduro is pretty pro-LGBTQ and has wanted to push a more inclusive line in Venezuela but has, if anything, been held back by the rest of the party.

At least in Star Wars they explain the context with the scroll at the start of the movie, libs think that Ukraine literally popped into existence in 2022.

Do you think the exodus has happened as a result of Maduro’s policies, or the American imposed sanctions? On what basis do you believe that Maduro is not favored by the public, yet the far right opposition is, the polls with very small sample sizes that showed results similar to what Gonzalez is claiming?

The truth is that Maduro has popular support from every part of Venezuelan society save for the reactionaries who wish for private oil companies to run the country again. I don’t know if you speak Spanish or are from LatAm, but the difference in ideology between wealthier, English speaking Venezuelans and the less fortunate who only speak Spanish is enormous. The numbers that the right is claiming are only feasible if you’ve only ever talked with the upper crust of Venezuela, who see Maduro and Chavez as cruel despots who took away their rightful position in a stratified society. Same as the latifundio owners in Cuba, or the mob, the casino owners, etc. If that is the class of people you interact with, you might come away thinking all Venezuelans hate Socialism. If you talk with the workers you’ll get the opposite impression, and one group obviously outnumbers the other and is being suppressed by this attempted coup.

Sending trans women to men’s prisons puts Kamala Harris to the left of the median American voter, who is literally Hitler.

“Chickens for KFC” they said, while literally being worse on trans rights than Iran.

No Republican had to give anything up to achieve this, this is literally just the Democrats doing exactly what they want to do because they want to do it.

They have a journalistic responsibility to include relevant information and seek comment from relevant groups. The article doesn’t include any comment from healthcare professionals or advocacy groups, nor does it contain any information about potential consequences of the surgeries being banned. It fails to actually inform the public on the issue at hand, and the auxiliary information that is brought up just puts the medical procedure into question by positing it as controversial (yeah, controversial because of transphobes) and questionable. Presenting only a limited section of the issue, but making it seem like it encompasses its entirety, makes this article functionally the same as transphobic propaganda.

Stalin Putin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin Bakhmut.

There is absolutely reason to capitulate: the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have an average age above 40 and are absolutely scraping the barrel by conscripting any poor man they find. There is no universe where Ukraine pushes back the front to recover any substantial amount of territory. They have already attempted to launch counteroffensives in better conditions, and all they’ve achieved is to slow down Russia, never actually regaining any territory. The only reason they’re even in the war still is because NATO wants to sacrifice Ukrainian lives to weaken Russia, and corrupt Ukrainian politicians are making a quick buck by privatizing they country in the meantime. This is obviously not sustainable long term; in another year or two they won’t be able to recruit more people, or they’ll run out of artillery shlels.

She is acting like this is a new thing that is just now developing (as in the very very recent term), not a genocide that ramped up in intensity half a year ago.