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bemildred

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2. Oh my.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 07:54 PM

Mar 2016

"The hero in American culture, meanwhile, was always a moron with a big gun who learned everything he needed to know from cowboy movies. The climax of pretty much every action movie from the mid-eighties on involved shotgunning the smarty-pants villain in the face before he could finish some fruity speech about whatever."

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