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It's A Wonderful Life is one weird ass movie if you ever spend more than 30 seconds thinking about it
The talking blinking celestial objects as representative of God, a wingless angel, and Joseph, God's adopted dad, happens right away which is kind of a tell
Then the old drunk tries to poison a kid and the young girl asks what's wrong with liking every boy and the kid george says he wants a harem with 3 or 4 wives and it's MERRY CHRISTMAS from there
"Do me a favor, dance with my kid sister, it'll be the THRILL OF HER LIFE" as if she's some untouchable instead of "well well well"
"Youth is wasted on the wrong people" is a good GB Shaw line though.
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From The Transom, in 2015:

It is difficult to give thanks in a time that seems so dark. War, terror, and genocide stalk nearly every corner of the globe.
The insecurity we felt after 9/11 is amplified by the fears, for the first time in a generation, of great-power war — or even world war. China is run by authoritarian kleptocrats. Latin America is run by criminal gangs. Russia is run by a revanchist tyrant.
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