Post by trashcanman on Jan 30, 2015 23:21:04 GMT 2
So anyways, all the rage has been obnoxious propaganda documentarian Michael Moore supposedly claiming that snipers are cowards after the popular Clint Eastwood film American Sniper blew up. The movie was based on the life of a a real Navy SEAL, who are not really what you'd call a coward. They're kind of the most badass, highly trained, and experienced killers on the planet, you know? So this shit went on for weeks and I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about. Here's Moore's Tweet:
Now you English speakers out there may notice that Moore's statement was that "we were TAUGHT" snipers were cowards. And this is likely true since German snipers raped our shit in WWII. When you're getting owned, the other side are always cowards. Like they're supposed to come out and handcuff themselves to you for a knife fight like in Michael Jackson's "Bad" video. It's fucking WAR. This statement is just pointing out standard patriotic hypocrisy rather than proclaiming our most skilled soldiers to be cowards Anyways, he follows it up with the poorly advised observation that snipers aren't heroes. I happen to be on Stan Lee's side here in believing that heroes save people. You don't become a hero by killing people who pose no clear and present threat. But snipers very much can be heroes if they take out a guy threatening innocent people, as SWAT members do. But seeing that Iraq is a country who has never once in the history of the world posed a threat to America, no, sniping people there is not heroic. Fair enough, Mikey.
The media did an amazing job blowing this up into a massive thing, though. They've twisted it into this whole Moore vs. 'Murica thing, fondly recalling when Eastwood threatened to kill Moore if he ever comes to his house from the stage of some festival or something in response to the cringe-inducing scene in Bowling for Columbine where Moore howls his righteous sorrow over some little girl's death by gun all over an elderly doddering Charlton Heston, who clearly wants nothing to do with the blubbering moron ambushing him in his own home. But it's kind of funny how a pretty innocuous tweet can be twisted out of context and made to look like something it isn't. Moore is actually on record as saying he enjoyed the movie, though.
And let's not forget that Chris Kyle (the American Sniper in question) wasn't exactly a prize pig himself. He's a proven liar who wrote that he punched out Jesse Ventura in a bar (Ventura sued for defamation and won), killed dozens of American citizens in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (which pretty much everyone associated with the military says is insane), and -in direct contrast to the movie where he's apparently tortured by the lives he's taken- loved every minute of the war and wishes he could have killed more "savages".
I'm calling this one a push. Moore is a self-aggrandizing idiot who may be right about a lot of things, but he consistently goes about expressing it in the wrongest of ways, and Kyle was hired assassin who loved his job and talked insanity. If Kyle was still alive, I'd suggest they just fuck and get it over with. But I'll definitely watch American Sniper when it hits Netflix, which is more than I can say for whatever Moore's doing so I guess Eastwood's getting the last laugh.
Now you English speakers out there may notice that Moore's statement was that "we were TAUGHT" snipers were cowards. And this is likely true since German snipers raped our shit in WWII. When you're getting owned, the other side are always cowards. Like they're supposed to come out and handcuff themselves to you for a knife fight like in Michael Jackson's "Bad" video. It's fucking WAR. This statement is just pointing out standard patriotic hypocrisy rather than proclaiming our most skilled soldiers to be cowards Anyways, he follows it up with the poorly advised observation that snipers aren't heroes. I happen to be on Stan Lee's side here in believing that heroes save people. You don't become a hero by killing people who pose no clear and present threat. But snipers very much can be heroes if they take out a guy threatening innocent people, as SWAT members do. But seeing that Iraq is a country who has never once in the history of the world posed a threat to America, no, sniping people there is not heroic. Fair enough, Mikey.
The media did an amazing job blowing this up into a massive thing, though. They've twisted it into this whole Moore vs. 'Murica thing, fondly recalling when Eastwood threatened to kill Moore if he ever comes to his house from the stage of some festival or something in response to the cringe-inducing scene in Bowling for Columbine where Moore howls his righteous sorrow over some little girl's death by gun all over an elderly doddering Charlton Heston, who clearly wants nothing to do with the blubbering moron ambushing him in his own home. But it's kind of funny how a pretty innocuous tweet can be twisted out of context and made to look like something it isn't. Moore is actually on record as saying he enjoyed the movie, though.
And let's not forget that Chris Kyle (the American Sniper in question) wasn't exactly a prize pig himself. He's a proven liar who wrote that he punched out Jesse Ventura in a bar (Ventura sued for defamation and won), killed dozens of American citizens in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (which pretty much everyone associated with the military says is insane), and -in direct contrast to the movie where he's apparently tortured by the lives he's taken- loved every minute of the war and wishes he could have killed more "savages".
I'm calling this one a push. Moore is a self-aggrandizing idiot who may be right about a lot of things, but he consistently goes about expressing it in the wrongest of ways, and Kyle was hired assassin who loved his job and talked insanity. If Kyle was still alive, I'd suggest they just fuck and get it over with. But I'll definitely watch American Sniper when it hits Netflix, which is more than I can say for whatever Moore's doing so I guess Eastwood's getting the last laugh.
