#conflct

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1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do…

David Kilcullen is an experienced Australian military professional. He is a senior advisor to the US Military. In this book, Kilcullen describes the recent Western conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq as relative anomalies in the progress of future wars and conflict. He focus on the Urban, networked littoral. Giant coastal slum cities will be the most likely theaters for modern warfare. Dramatic…

Review: Out of the Mountains – The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla – by David Kilcullen

David Kilcullen is an experienced Australian military professional. He is a senior advisor to the US Military. In this book, Kilcullen describes the recent Western conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq as relative anomalies in the progress of future wars and conflict. He focus on the Urban, networked littoral. Giant coastal slum cities will be the most likely theaters for modern warfare. Dramatic…

like first of all, yes you can. the hallmark channel makes like 370 million a year selling you stories with literally no substance for 3 months out of the year

second of all, no one is asking for every story to be hallmark story. i see this shit a lot in the marvel fandom, aimed at people who are still upset that Tony Stark died. I see it other fandoms too, especially when it comes to conflict. people love to climb up on their high horses and lecture others on how a story has to have conflict because conflict is an integral part of human experience. 

the first avengers movie is still the third highest-grossing superhero movie, after the endgame and civil war. It brought in $1,518,812,988 while the winter soldier didn’t make half that amount. (and I would argue, in length, that the civil war and endgame were both worse movies overall, except that the hype built by the iron man franchise and the first avengers movie built up expectations, which were then not met. but you can’t un-buy a movie ticket, or un-watch a movie, as much as I wished to do exactly that after endgame)

the first avengers movie had conflict, misfortune, death. it dealt with some heavy subjects, and it had its share of tense and uncomfortable moments. it had an actual fucking war with alien creatures. 

but no one left the theater feeling shitty about themselves, the fictional world they were just a part of, or the characters they met

in short, no one is asking for perfectly sanitized, happy-go-lucky movies. we’re just asking not to feel like shit after we finished watching one. and since the first avengers movie accomplished just that, no one can say it’s impossible or unprofitable

Judge Regrets Not Giving Him Jail Time

Judge Felicia Mennin feels she may have made the wrong decision in granting Tekashi probation. After learning of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s disaster-ridden video shoot with Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Felicia Mennin regrets not throwing him in the slammer. Mennin sentenced Tekashi to a more lenient probationary clause, likely convinced…