Karl Urban

Honorable mention: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Rockwell, Jean Reno...

Though he would be open to a bribe. Maybe a nice yacht to match his jet.

Such a weak and pathetic little man.

That's one ofvthe best summations I've seen yet of the problem.

I can't understand how tankies can't see it. Granted that some of them are undoubtedly liars and they're really just angling to be among the few who get to live privileged lives on the backs of the people, there are many who are more or less sincere. How? They see how it works in capitalism - you give a relative few people control over an outsized portion of the wealth and they use it to influence politics and ultimately to fuck the country up in pursuit of their own short-term self-interest. But somehow the same people who see that that's how it works in capitalism seem to sincerely believe that you can give a relative few even more political power and even more control over even more wealth and just so long as you hang a different label on it and surround it with enough communist rhetoric, it'll all work.

It's as if they think that the rhetoric, or maybe even just the label, is the important bit, and the part where you give a relative few control of most of the wealth and most of the power is somehow irrelevant.

I doubt that.

I expect that, if pressed, they'd register some mealy-mouthed quasi-criticism, simply because there's no possible way to even convincingly pretend that it's justifiable, let alone acceptable. But that's just mouth noises - they're never going to actually take a meaningful position against it or against anything elseTrump says or does, simply because, at this point, continuing to support Trump requires so much dishonesty and misrepresentation that if they start questioning any part of it, there's too great a chance that the whole house of cards is going to come tumbling down, and they'll be revealed as angry, toxic fools, and they can't allow that.

Every Christian is either a woke marxist or a heretic.

This is a good example of what I believe to be the basic dynamic going on in the US.

Trump isn't really leading this autocratic coup. He's a tool of the people who backed and made up the Heritage Foundation and the like.

None of them want to, for instance, suspend habeas corpus because they actually consider immigrants to be an invading force - that's just rhetoric to stir up the base and provide cover for their real goals.

Both Trump and his handlers want to suspend habeas corpus so that they can imprison whoever they want whenever they want.

But while his handlers want to do it for the standard autocratic reasons - so that they can disappear dissidents and political rivals and the like - Trump wants it just because he's thin-skinned, egotistical, petty and vindictive, and he wants to be able to punish people who piss him off.

So they share a goal, but for different reasons.

That's how we end up with a relatively nuanced coup apparently being led by a delusional moron - the Heritage Foundation and the other conspirators have arranged things so that the toddler in chief can be allowed to basically run free, telling his lies and throwing his tantrums, and it ends up benefitting them.

All of them, real or imagined.

Torchlight 2, as either an Engineer with mechanical minions or an Outlander with shadowlings.

Fascism doesn't have a uniquely distinctive economic system per se, but it does generally exhibit a handful of specific features, including private ownership of the means of production, the melding of political and business interests with the notion that support for (specified) domestic conpanies equates to patriotism and lack of support for them to treason, and a "revolving door" by which individuals can and do hold positions of power in business or in government alternately or even simultaneously.

Well played.

I doubt it's true, but Trump desperately wants to be told what a big boy he is.

The US has elected Beavis and Butt-Head.