One of the best analysis of this film comes from a YTer Rob Ager who runs a channel called Collative Learning which opened my eyes to the duplicitousness of this film. I encourage all to watch it.
The first 20 mins of the film, the Omaha sequence, is really the only thing about this film that gets praise bc of it's horrific depiction of combat. But the horror is one sided. For Americans death is gory, gruesome, and ghastly...but...
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Jun 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
True, but it only lasts for so long. Nothing was more tyrannical in the last century than Bolshevism and despite it all, it couldn't completely snuff out Christianity.
It couldn't preserve itself from collapse once people realized after 90 years they were worse off than their rivals who passed them by. Even the party bosses couldn't continue lying as they saw breadlines in their capital and stocked shelves in Podunk, USA.
Jun 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People bash but at some point you have to realize that to be a Christian and a Conservative is to be one who accepts what has been handed to them and make it better for the next generation.
Pride parades are gross, but letting Xi or Putin dominate isn't going to solve any of our problems. Some are seeking to focus more on building local communities, which is fine, but you shouldn't willfully seek destruction of what you inherited.
Jun 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This woman isn't a ratchet...she's a tooth in the cog.
