Hey folks - remember the popularity of John Wayne

[JackRiddler]

13. Oh the poor mass murderer!

I'm so glad someone made a nuanced, complex film about the conflicted feelings he may have had while murdering people in a foreign country.

(Which he didn't. His tortured soul is the film's fiction. Kyle's actual memoir is clear about how unconflicted and proud he was of his obedient participation in the U.S. government crime against Iraq.)

It doesn't matter that you can read "anti-war" messages into this apologia for the U.S. war of aggression. Good for you for reading the subtext. Meanwhile, how do you think the majority of the audience is taking it?

The propaganda campaign on television is much more important than the movie, because it will reach ten or more times as many people. People who don't want to see the movie are still getting the message several times a day, unsolicited, through the media.

The message of the propaganda is maudlin, un-nuanced and clear. Hundreds of movies are released every year and I would never pay American Money to watch such a film.

According to the propaganda on TV, the mass murderer who killed all those people resisting the aggressive invasion of their country was a sincere, Christian, suffering guy.

Meanwhile, his idea of how to help a soldier with PTSD was to take him to the gun range! The recipient of the treatment went nuts and shot Kyle dead.

Normally the only prize they'd be giving for this would be the Darwin Award.