American Sniper...more like American Diaper

[Iamwhomiam]

Well I see it like this, Kyle ain't nothin compared to our drone pilots. One DP I learned yesterday had something above 1600 kills ! Confirmed kills ~ with video. (you're grandkids will be seeing those in reruns come the '30s)

Honestly, having an Obama in the White House while "combating" the "growing threat" of the terrorizing and terrifying Islamic State, did you really think they'd award an Oscar to black man named Oyelowo rather than to Our American Hero?

[brianguest]

AMERICAN DIAPER VIDEO!! This parody video is better than the real thing!!!

AMERICAN DIAPER:
http://youtu.be/g03ItpysxEA



FOX's TV Show "Right This Minute" coverage:
http://www.rightthisminute.com/post/rtm ... -one-cares

[8bitagent]

Well I see it like this, Kyle ain't nothin compared to our drone pilots. One DP I learned yesterday had something above 1600 kills ! Confirmed kills ~ with video. (you're grandkids will be seeing those in reruns come the '30s)

Honestly, having an Obama in the White House while "combating" the "growing threat" of the terrorizing and terrifying Islamic State, did you really think they'd award an Oscar to black man named Oyelowo rather than to Our American Hero?

Well, I had tears down my face when I saw Oyelowo's amazing turn as MLK Jr in Selma in theaters. At best, the only thing I've felt wrt Obama is he's done some things in his second turn I wish he attempted in his first term. First term Obama is pretty much Bush Cheney 2.0...which is odd how the clownservatard rednecks hated him from the get-go

[8bitagent]

AMERICAN DIAPER VIDEO!! This parody video is better than the real thing!!!

AMERICAN DIAPER:
http://youtu.be/g03ItpysxEA



FOX's TV Show "Right This Minute" coverage:
http://www.rightthisminute.com/post/rtm ... -one-cares

Haha nice. Weird seeing Chris Kyle's murderer's trial when noone but the brave Chelsea Manning has put on trial for Iraq

[8bitagent]

Oh god, I need to know where to find this clip...so spot on...

[conniption]

‘To be a hero, you must have honor’ – Jesse Ventura on “American Sniper” and SEAL Chris Kyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2bA9t4Nn58

Published on Jan 28, 2015

One must not be a liar to have honor, which means that Navy SEAL Chris Kyle “falls short on the honor department,” former Minnesota Governor and SEAL Jesse Ventura told RT. In an interview focusing on the controversy surrounding the movie “American Sniper,” Ventura explained his recent lawsuit against the estate of the film’s central figure, and why he immediately knew the picture was nothing short of “propaganda.”

on edit: changed vids

[stillrobertpaulsen]

I finally got around to watching it. I thought the whole movie was a metaphor for blindness. The character has such myopic tunnel vision, which is great for his specific military skill set, but bad for coexisting among fellow humans. Certainly that extends to the women in his life; girlfriend cheats on him, wife threatens to leave. But there's a political blindness implied through omission: he gets royally pissed seeing the 1998 embassy bombings and 9/11, yet goes off to fight in Iraq, which had nothing to do with either of those events. He can pick off a "savage" in Iraq 2100 yards away, yet is blind to the "savage" two feet in front of him when he gets home.

But I can see why the movie is such a hit with Murcans, and it has little to do with Cooper's excellent performance. I think most of the people embracing it buy into the simple-minded moralizing presented in flashbacks by Kyle's father. The whole sheep-wolf-sheepdog analogy is the kind of country witticism your average gun-nut would nod his head with in agreement. The irony is Kyle can't even follow this. You could make the argument that war perverts his noble intentions, that the PTSD threatens to turn him into the very wolves he's trying to fight, which definitely came across in the scene where he attacks a dog that he thinks is threatening but is really just playing around. But there's a casualness Kyle has with guns, at least in the movie, that I found disturbing. His father chastises him as a boy for throwing his gun in the dirt after making an excellent shot. But that lesson doesn't stick: on the very morning before heading off to the gun range to get killed, he's joking around in the kitchen with his wife ... by pointing a fucking gun at her. Again, blindness that may have contributed to fatal consequences.

[seemslikeadream]

What could he do?
Should have been a rock star."
But he didn't have the money for a guitar.
"What could he do?
Should have been a politician."
But he never had a proper education.
"What could he do?
Should have been a father."
But he never even made it to his twenties.
What a waste --
Army dreamers.
Ooh, what a waste of
Army dreamers.

Tears o'er a tin box.
Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know,
Like a chicken with a fox,
He couldn't win the war with ego.

Give the kid the pick of pips,
And give him all your stripes and ribbons.
Now he's sitting in his hole,
He might as well have buttons and bows.