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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-rome-once-filled-the-colosseum-up-with-water-and-staged-epic-mock-sea-battle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/colosseum_01.shtml
Good assessment. People forget that most of these gladiators are captured soldiers from defeated battles against Rome. Although it's true that to fight in the Colosseum you had to be some of the best bunch of Gladiators, many still died during the games and didn't fight as a team when Lucius tried Maximusing them together. Lucius even mentioned that he was no General so his experience or somewhat lack thereof comes into play, saved only by his father's genes.
Praetorians are trained in Roman tactics while when the rush happened, Lucius was not leading them and directing them. They were just bumrushing the Praetorian formation where they acted dumbfounded when they were being charged.
It was decent, good is Gladiator. Everything felt a bit rushed to some degree since the runtime is shorter than the first movie. The audio sounded horrible on the sword clashing for some reason in IMAX.
Which ones? I only see Astrid as a black (mixed) but she looks fine in the screenshots. Her skin is a shade pale.
Ah corruption, it's only corruption if the left does it and nothing wrong when WE do it. Their excuse? Why you hate wahmen? It's a wonder how society survives let a lone an empire with so much corruption taking place. Oh well, eventually when this destroys the nation within is just the human aspect and how history flows. No one this type of stuff just repeats no matter the timeline.
Funny thing is he won't run again for senate. That means the findings must be damning and he doesn't want it released.
But the right HATE diversity (especially the equity part) therefore goes against God's creation.
They allude to it. Saying women should be kept far away from battle and the men are supposed to do the dirty work. What is a woman to do then but wait at home, do nothing? They'd be making dem sandwiches and patching the hubby up after giving the ravishing smecks he rightly thinks he deserves after a hard fought battle.
The lot of them seem to be complaining about the same issue. If you watch enough of them it sort of become formulaic on the dream movie they want to see.
True but there are still house seats being contested with very close margins.
Wouldn't matter since it's California which is always usually blue from the small spots they concentrate in.
The problem is that it takes THAT long? I would've been fine with a week, but they seem to take up to 4 weeks to count their votes. Even Texas doesn't take that long and their population is about similar in size (30.5 vs 39m). Texas may take a couple of days so I was lenient for California by a week. It's almost like they need to check the people they sent mass mail-in ballots to aren't dead or something. They really need to find a quicker process.
Thanks. He doesn't do any kissing with men, does he? As long as that isn't present it should be okay, I think. I heard they supposedly cut out a scene with him lip smacking a dude.
No, I am wondering if there any LGBTQ stuff in it because if there are, my friend doesn't want to see it because it goes against his magical fairy faith.
I don't mind those kinds of reviews if they told what happened with pictures and documents to show for it. Like a comparison of movie vs reality but it's not a complaint but a story telling comparison.
Double agent? No way he'd turned criminal after taking down a heavy organized crime gang in the first one.
And now they insulted their luxury buyers (unless they don't care about commercials).
Maria Ressa’s points:
1. Autocracy is about power and money, not about ideology
2. Beware of bottom up attacks on journalists through social media (journalist = criminal)
3. Beware of top down attacks through legal cases, tax audits, vindictive government agencies
4. Do not normalize autocratic behavior
5. Hold on to democratic values
6. Be transparent
7. Stay committed
8. Not about taking sides, but on the side of facts
9. Hold the line: defend the Constitution
10. In some ways a corrupt government is easier to deal with, as everything is transactional
11. Build community, engage with the real world
12. Crowd funding to address challenges
13. We are factionalized through social media (it connects as well as corrupts us and separates us), has led to people electing illiberal leaders democratically
14. Collaborate
15. Reach across the ideological spectrum to like-minded people who also care about democratic values
16. Embrace your fears
17. Imagine worst case scenarios and workflow them (through drills)
We need to hit III first before we can backtrack to II.
And if it comes true? What will your excuse be then? C'mon show the usual hypocrisy here.