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“If you’ve been reading this blog for a few years, you may recognize that I’ve swung further to the ‘freedom’ side of needle.” — I have, and it has reflected the mantra on my website: “I came for the quality, I stayed for the freedom.”
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“It is violent enough to make you shudder and close enough to fascist art to make your skin crawl. It celebrates all the things the Fuehrer loved [...] and all as it purports to be a movie about freedom.” — Paul Byrnes invokes Godwin’s Law on “300″. Hmm.
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(On Byrnes) I agree.
Perhaps there’s a dogwhistle somewhere that I missed, but what I saw was a cinematic feast and a [historically inaccurate] presentation of an awe-inspiring event in the development of western culture.
To respond to it ad hominem suggests that Byrnes is in deep denial about [western] society’s dependence upon military strength.
{{ OK, off soapbox now. }}