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Chili con Carne is a way I've heard in 'tex-mex' (Texas mexican American cuisine) that's essentially Spanish for 'Chili, with meat'

Do you guys also watch Trek-likes when you feel you've watched the other true Treks too recently, like toss in some Orville when you want classic Trek but just finished Kirk and Picard?

I disagree on such a wholehearted level.

'He's had serious pull in the democratic party for almost a decade' - do you mean 8 years ago when the DNC yanked his spot and went full force behind Hillary, and then relegated him to a 'radical leftist' camp away from the core groups like Schumer and Pelosi?

He's been on the fringe of the party for as long as he's been in the party. Consistently standing up for issues that are later accepted. He's CONSTANTLY fighting for human rights and taking stances too far left to be mainstream, making all of the pushes seemingly moot because he can't get bills to the floor in a republican congress because SOCIALISM and he can't get bills to the floor in a Democrat congress because we never get to have one, and when we do, they say they're not 'bi-partisan enough to pass across the aisle'.

Is he effective at getting laws passed, no. Is he a solitary and stalwart voice of reason almost every. single. time? Yes.

A BiteForce attack, of course.

They were saying that, if you at least voted, you've lifted a finger.

I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn't matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop 'do you know who i am' and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.

They changed the setting to Mexico (kept most of the set design choices) changed the names, and added guns.

I like Yojimbo and cowboys enough that I'll watch both

Oh fantastic, no one else posted this concept yet

So, I think there's an important connection there you're touching on. Samurai and cowboys occupy the same space in media, and I'll give you some examples.

Someone else mentioned the movie, but Seven Samurai, a HIGHLY influential and well received film from japan in the 50s, helped inspire The Magnificent Seven, a key cowboy film from the early 60s.

The film Yojimbo (please watch it if you haven't, it's just very well done, really funny, have to get over the 'movies had NO real soundtrack back then' problem if you're not used to old films) is like watching The Matrix AFTER you've already seen the slow-mo and 'i know Kung fu' tropes in movies. The man rolls up into town, two sides opposed and neither really 'good' but innocents in the middle.

What were called 'spaghetti westerns' in the past due to the Italian directors at the time, a majority chunk of those movies utilized similar filmography techniques and plots. The kids who watched those westerns also watched samurai films (cheap movie is a cheap movie on a weekend night) and the concept sort of melded over time to where the Ronin of Japan and the Lone Ranger of America are two flavors of the same steel-wielding hero.

The way samurai in movies revere their swords, talking about the efficiency of a weapon, the artfulness or it, all VERY similar to how revolvers took/take a center stage for western fantasies. Add to that the individualism of the west, the rugged nature of a traveler with a weapon, the tie-in of 'honor' in both cultures, the 'only lawmen can have a weapon in city limits' laws that were featured in the America AND Japan at that time.

Super neat

I think therea a lot of little racism along the way that inadvertently affected whites as the middle class dwindled and the number of poor whites increased.

So, all rooted in racism, maintained by classism, I'd say.

Then I got a job with some snooty highborn, had to hunt rabbits with the fuck, ran into a group of 3 soldiers and then got my ass handed to me so bad I restarted from a previous save to re-learn the combat.... i love this game lol

This guy skips nose day

Silence after a source is my favorite thing about discussions

Sees the article, sees the claim, sees the rebuttal, sides with brain worm man?

I gotta get off this rock.