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Shooter
2007 · Film · 124 min
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
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Not a recent movie, but it was mentioned in Shooter, a Mark Wahlberg film from way back when
And Anna Nicole married for love
(Great line in the movie Shooter"
I don't know, I doubt it - he was a survivalist recluse. He had three kids that were all homeschooled - and he was an off-grid-living person who lived in the woods on his homestead and his kids were "odd"....
Think of that guy in the movie "shooter" with Markie Mark... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/
He lived like this guy did in the beginning of the movie.
There is a french saying I first heard back during the 2008 crisis: "It's urgent to wait".
I liked it, consicously waiting might be exaclty what one should do now. Don't rush, wait, and move once you have to.
Like the line in the movie "Shooter": "Slow is precise and precise is fast". Just rushing things now because of reasons can do more demage than good.
EDIT: Typos
You...don't know much about intelligence agencies, do you?
Time to watch...let's see..."Scandal", "Snowden", Canadian TV show "Intelligence", Shooter...those are just the "fictional" accounts.
> The Chinese have a "face saving is the most important thing" culture, and the US does not. Think of it more like the tribal regions of the -stans: China is metaphorically ready to do some honor killing over this in a way we can't grok.
Please, can we ditch the outdated stereotypes? The Chinese govt uses the parallel tropes to the US ("we've suffered under years of foreign domination" "Here we're on an anti-corruption campaign so you don't have to suffer under unnecessary taxes" etc. And funding local SoEs to keep the jobs flowing).
Is make America Great Again any different? "Other countries are laughing at us." "We never win any more""We're going to bring back coal"
I just picked MAGA because it was a recent successful platform. But consider dispassionately: 15 years ago a small bunch of bandits killed 3000 people and cause a few billion in property damage. IN return the US has spent trillions killing people who had nothing to do with it in order to to restore its honor. Movies from Rambo to Shooter to anything by Chuck Norris are simply ways to pander to loss of face.
Of course there are differences between the two but let's stick to facts.