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You compare very different situations. As I said, Somalia was in shambles, with famines. To paint an accurate picture, you'd also have to show Somalian warlords stealing food from the population, shooting civilians and organising clan wars. Do you think they could show that? In 2 hours? The subject of the movie is brotherhood. And the real story of these boys was a story of brotherhood. The civilian casualties are terrible, but Somalia was in shambles and needed the international help from the UN (and the US). We can't compare the US army in Somalia to the nazis. That's just very very unfair.

Have you ever asked them its definition or did you just assume they don't know based on their anger/looks/perceived side of an argument? People often underestimate the intelligence of their neighbours (or rivals). If you took the sum of people's opinion about their neighbours' (or rivals') intelligence, you'd see a painting full of morons. If you took the sum of people's opinion about their own intelligence, the picture would be different... These type of biases are well documented actually (but people can also be harsh with themselves in other criteria/situations). Everybody has these type of biases. ----- Anyway, regarding your question: CRT is a sociological theory, that has its roots in racist ideologies (the same as those formulated by Francis Galton). Unlike the name suggests, critical thinking is absent of this theory. In that respect, it's not really a theory (there's no falsifiability), but more of an ideology. Some of its proponents talk like cult leaders. While it calls itself anti-racist, CRT postulates that most sociological phenomena can be explained through the prism of race, which is the definition of racism. So, it's a racist antiracist ideology.... while this seems to be a antilogy, the reality is that words aren't properly used by CRT's proponents. Another fundamental axiom is that the world is divided between oppressors and oppressed. For CRT's leaders, the oppressors need to be recognized by an easy sign (it's need to appease the tension generated by the fear-mongering axiom). For them, the sign is skin color, which again makes it a racist theory. This is coated with highly moral content, which makes the pill easier to swallow for many. I can go on, if you're interested.

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It's probably a speed run. I like to watch these. There are lots of speed run on DS3. They are impressive!

There are civilian losses in the movie, but it's not the main topic of the movie. BTW, if you really want an accurate representation, you also have to add scenes of warlords taking food from starving population (BTW, maybe they show it, I've last seen it long ago). You'd also need to show clan wars with very violent skirmishes. Tribalism is an essential part that needed to be shown, with scenes of harsh hate between tribes. Why didn't you note the absence of these scenes too? Somalia was (still is) in chaos and the US were mostly trying to help. It's not the US army that was in Iraq. Far from it. You're a CRT and gender theory follower, right? You know that the leaders of these cults demand you judge western men harshly (and even harsher if they are cisgender heterosexual white slim country men and other nonsensical criteria they invent every day to tear people apart with hateful rhetoric)

Then you were wrong in 2001. The US military have made many mistakes (Iraq 2003 being the worst), but Somalia was not as "black and white" as you think. The fact that these boys were Western men doesn't make them automatically guilty of everything...

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I feel bad for young men and women in the West today. They live in a harsh environment, not physically threatening (they are probably one of the safest generations against physical hazards), but psychologically challenging. They live in an era where the media tells them that they are inherently bad because of their gender, their race, their orientation, etc. The media is massively using fear, deception and charlatan/fake knowledge (CRT, gender theories, etc.) to generate hate clicks or abiding clicks. Division is the new business model. Young'uns can't get enough of their basic psychological needs (and with the politicization of the entertainment industry, catharsis is harder to find). They'll either go through a lot of suffering or they'll create a very harsh backlash (a counter-revolution possibly).

I agree, all of these events hit patriotism hard. It also hit "Western culture" which is now getting more hate from Westerners than outside the West. Brotherhood/solidarity/patriotism (these are similar notions) are fundamental needs for human beings (specifically men, because they usually lack these feelings that are scarcely provided to them). If these needs are denied to them, they will either psychologically starve and find something else (hopefully a non-destructive substitute, but it's not always the case). The entertainment industries (gaming, movies, TV) could provide these substitutes. But if they don't (and focus instead on Woke dope), then young'uns will starve or get bad substitutes.

I also think that BHD is an awesome movie. Sure, there's a form of promilitary discourse in the movie. But we're not talking about Iraq (where the American screwed everything from A to Z). In Somalia, things were very complex and though all this operation turned out to be a stain on Clinton's work, I wouldn't judge the US very harshly for that period. I do understand why the US (and the UN) were here. Help was needed in Somalia. Children were really starving (a real famine). When this movie was released, most young men in France loved the US. It was the country that made all the movies we liked (Star Wars, Predator, Terminator, basically all the good sci-fi and action movies). Brotherhood, action, huge stakes: that's what most young men need. It's like a fundamental need (like eating, drinking and having sex). It brings a feeling of transcendence, that is fundamental need for your brain (just like women need to see solidarity, maternity and love - BtW, that's not a stereotype, this field has been studied by many psychologists). Today's crisis for Western men (and women) is mostly due to the lack of transcendence. Anyway, the French started to really have anti-American feelings after 2003 and Iraq (the most stupid war by your most stupid president). Then it calmed down, but now, with the Woke, I see many French getting repulsed again by American culture (left and right alike - we're not as politically torn as in the US).

While it's true that US army has made several bad operations (the worst being Iraq in 2003), the Somalia operation was justified based on what they knew back then. The world is not black and white, with the bad guys always being those with the skin colour you don't like (it was the black 50 years ago and now it's the whites). BTW, you might want to look at the history of African ethnicities/tribes. You will find a lot of racism in Africa. Much more than you think. Racism is not white people's monopoly. Far from it.

Not at all. It's not a fantasy. It's based on a journalist book. It's promilitary, yes, but the US army and the UN were needed back then. You forget that the US army and the UN were here to ensure that food was distributed to the local population. Somalia was starving due to a growing famine and international food donations were stolen by Somalian warlords. The pictures of starving children were heartbreaking. I was a very little kid, but I still remember this. At our school, we fasted for a couple of lunches to save rice for the Somalis. IIRC, the movie depicts the civilian losses (which you can also attribute to Aidid - who is not exactly a saint!!), but it's not the subject of the movie. It's a movie about brotherhood and solidarity. I know it's hard to understand these value with your 2022 glasses (because civil wars seem to be boiling everywhere), but these are humanist values, that everybody needs.

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Black Hawk Down is an awesome movie. I loved it. It was the time when the American entertainment industry was at its peak. Great stories, movies with soul, heroism, respect. It was doing a lot of service to the US. Now that the American entertainment industry has been dumbed down, I feel that there are lots of Anti-American feelings growing everywhere.

@SympathysSilhouette I won't forgive this theft. Biden f*** us. So, I know that "his tweets are nice", but I don't care. This guy is a crook. And woke is the cover-up for crooks. I know Kamala Harris came to France to fake-apologize while using a fake French accent (see here), but that's not an excuse. That's adding insult to injury.

I don't care about Rogan. He was wrong to say these slurs. Period. But it's still economic warfare from American companies against Europeans. Have you heard of Alstom and how it got bought by GE? Or the story of the French-Australian submarine contract that was stolen by the Americans? I don't care about Woke morals. It's always the cover-up of some disgusting commercial manipulation. Europeans are naive. Our companies are getting f*** by disloyal commercial practice from American Companies using Woke to screw us.