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        When he uses a squad to break into Bill Paxton’s sleazy getaway spot where he tries to seduce Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s followed by this scene:

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          I think it’s right when he sees someone’s about to hurt her, so he hurts the guy or something, and the guy ends up getting kicked in the balls by Curtis. The scene ending with some awesome “action helicopter” cam of the extraction completed, home boy limping back to the heli holding his balls, “Son of a…”

          It’s such a well directed movie with perfect pace too. Even when it goes over top, it makes just enough fun of itself for doing so.

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              Haha, I chucked it on last night after typing this comment. There’s so many scenes where characters have no place being there but they are, because it’s just the public dealing with an action hero.

              My partner hadn’t seen it before.

              “There’s no way he’s about to jump the building with a horse… Yeah, I was gonna say. A horse would never do that.”

              “But that’s the point. You’re so into the action hero stuff that you didn’t notice they played a screeching rubber SFX when the horse stopped.”

              😙👌

              Even Curtis’s line, “I married Rambo…” is another subtle joke in an otherwise action flick that has all the usual action flick appeal.

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        It’s where the squad attacked bill paxton when bill was trying to convince Jamie Lee Curtis to leave the country. They cut the trailer in half, bill fell on Jamie and arnold flipped his shit, made this face.

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      It’s one of the most hilarious things to me, just a masked face with Arnold’s lips making Arnold groans. That scene was gold, fuck that whole movie was gold

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        that whole movie was gold

        Indeed, I miss the James Cameron golden era when he was pushing cinema boundaries and not pumping out the nth iteration of Avatar

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        Except for that weird strip scene with Jamie Lee Curtis. That did not age well.

        I watched True Lies again a few years back, and that scene made me cringe hard.

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      Yeah it is. I saw that movie for my 12th birthday and it still holds a special place in my heart.

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    An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.

    Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of this.

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    It’s even better because when they do get paid if they leave before their 5 years they have to pay back their bonuses INCLUDING tax.

    So they’re kinda paying for the privilege of hunting minorities. Really sick to think about.

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      ICE had a signup bonus (dunno how much, $4000, I think?), and nobody received it yet.

      The guy who is ‘famous for not paying’ is Trump, who has a history of being in debt/not paying his debts off.

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        Specifically not paying contractors. He would regularly hire contractors for jobs at Trump buildings/companies where it was x% up front and x% on completion. Then when they came for the completion percent he would just not pay and make them take him to court. Sometimes he paid, but other times they just couldn’t afford to litigate as long as he could so they’d get stiffed.

        Edit: USA Today Article because citing your sources is important: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/

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        Afaik the bonus promised is 50k, which is a bit more significant. Leads to people joking that they’d like to join, get the bonus and then just not do the job.

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          The government legit removed student loan repayment programs from a lot of agencies and gave them to ICE like those dipshits will ever use them.

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          Signup bonus is different from retention/quota bonus. Signup bonus is all him

          But the big one, the retention bonus can probably be pushed off long enough to blame democrats and/or not paid because they’re not making their quotas

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        It was way more than that- like 50-70k…

        *Edit* never mind me, apparently that was a retention bonus, different thing

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    Pedos are like that. Diddy is well known for never paying anybody, which is why 50 Cent was given all of that footage.

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      Ya know, I don’t keep up with the rap world. The only “diddy” songs I know are a song from the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack, which uses a Led Zepplin sampled song as the basis for the song, and a collaboration with Lincoln Park where he uses a their entire song, with him replacing their lyrics with his own in which he calls all women bitches.

      So my view of him from my vantage point is that he’s unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.

      I know even less about 50 cent’s music. I don’t know a single song. I just know he got famous around 2007 for getting shot 7 times. But any idiot can get shot. Just ask Brett.

      That being said, outside of music I know diddy used to host parties in which he needed 10,000 bottles of baby oil.

      50 cent on the other hand I’ve been told got the creeps from diddy, and that led to some confrontation, which left 50 cent with a grudge. Then he said he felt happy taking diddy down, and was happy there were no more parties.

      So even though I will probably never listen to a single one of his songs, and even though I can’t imagine how or why I’d ever spend money on 50 cent, I can still say I at least respect the fact that he saw diddy as a creep who needed to be taken down. I can respect that. Even if the music isn’t for me.

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        I’ve never listened to any of Diddy’s music. All I know is everything that’s been revealed. Another important fact is that he paid to have Tupac killed for a million dollars. Funnily enough, he didn’t pay that guy either. Also got Biggie killed. He’s a piece of shit.

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        50 cent on the other hand I’ve been told got the creeps from diddy, and that led to some confrontation, which left 50 cent with a grudge.

        Diddy invited him to come shopping and then tried to pay for everything and didn’t let 50 pay for anything. 50 recognized that Diddy was trying to trap him with favors and using social graces as a way to take advantage of 50.

        It’s like a meta-analysis of politeness in society by two people who are excellent at reading others.

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        So my view of him from my vantage point is that he’s unoriginal, and needs other peoples work to survive.

        I’m a huge rap fan and this is 100% correct.

        Although, not for the reasons you listed. Having a huge hit that leans heavily on an obvious sample of an older hit song isn’t necessarily awful. But the guy writes corny shit, is a terrible rapper and is just not very talented. He built an empire off of surrounding himself with amazingly talented people and exploiting them in the worst possible ways.

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        Unless I missed something that collaboration is jay z and Lincoln park. I assume it’s points of authority/99 problems?

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          The only other things I can find are that, allegedly, Linkin Park sampled a Biggie song (Until it Breaks, allegedly sampled “Who Shot Ya”, but when I listen to them I don’t hear it. Maybe it’s actually just a lyrical reference not a true sample?)

          Also Chester’s son Jaime Bennington has gone off on a lot of rants against Shinoda and other LP members and seems real salty about the band continuing now. He accused Shinoda and other members of Machine. shop records of attending two Diddy parties in 2004 and 2010. And one time Diddy tweeted out that he liked LP and they re-tweeted it. So… Everything seems pretty innocuous to me.

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        Also 50 cent has a couple alright games. They aren’t great but honestly for a celebrity game they’re only outclassed by the Riddic games.

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        In hiphop a beatmaker is typically separate from the rapper. And outside hiphop, music writers and lyricists are often different people, plus covers exist (including those changing the lyrics). So him using others’ music is the least problematic thing about him.

        ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ is considered a classic, but its entire music track and the vocal melody of the chorus are lifted from Stewie Wonder’s ‘Pastime Paradise’.

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    Wait, are they really not getting paid? Dont get me wrong id rather see them just lose the job and or get deported (to the bottom of the ocean), but if they arent getting paid that a lil karma at least. And funny.

    Also please dont lump A’nold in with those scumbags.

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      They’re probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years “service” so they’ll all be out of a job before then