Russia can't effectively retaliate or prevent the transfer from happening without going to war with NATO as a whole. They're getting their shit kicked in by NATO's summer garage sale right now. If they went up against the real thing Moscow would be NATO property before you could say "nation building".

They want to charge an amount that's high, but low enough that paying it will be the cheaper option

Roddy's character isn't racist for not letting keith david's character say "fuck you I got mine" and ignore society's problems. If you think forcing the working class to open their eyes and see that they're being exploited by a class they'll never be a part of is wrong, then you're in no position to be crying racial oppression. "Let the minorities be scumbags too" is not anti-racism.

John carpenter protags aren't supposed to be the pinnacle of human courtesy. They're supposed to be realistic depictions of john everyman being dumped into the main conflict. They're assholes because people who are forcibly burdened with saving the world aren't going to be happy about their lives being destroyed. They make dumb choices because the new conflict they have to face isn't something they're prepared to deal with. They have to learn to be a hero as they go. How those characters act is how most, if not all, people would react if placed in their shoes.

I feel like the character bothers you because you were expecting more of a competent self insert character like in modern dystopia movies, while john carpenter says "if you were forced to save the world, you would wish you could go home and watch tv instead, and you'd suck at it the entire time you're saving the world".

I wouldn't exactly call it good but Hardware is set in a mad max sort of world with a little cyberpunk blood in it. The third act is kinda dogshit but its got a fun aesthetic to it. The guy who played porkins in star wars is in it as a harvey weinstein kinda character that gets a pretty entertaining death.

"Switching to your left nut is faster than reloading"

That's why when I enjoy star wars, I get my enjoyment from either extreme logistical pedantry like above or from "haha the crossbow dog put the shiny robot's head on backwards". There's too many holes to take it seriously anymore.

Well as far as han solo is concerned, there were only a few thousand jedi for all the 10,000 systems and millions of people on each of them. There's nowhere near enough jedi around for everyone to have seen them using magic force powers. The empire probably removed most of the recorded evidence of them doing good for people, meaning all he'd have to go on is stories people tell by word of mouth. And I've heard tons of stories of people being cured of disease by a religious minister's touch, and I'd sooner believe the sky was green than believe any of that without scientific evidence to back it up.

In an unprecedented turn of events, a politician claimed to hold a set of beliefs and then actually backed up said claims with his actions. Politics will never be the same.

Sending Germany into massive debt over losing a war is why they became a problem in the first place. Not to mention that without Germany on their good side the only thing protecting them from getting buttfucked by Russia is whatever's going to be left of Ukraine in a decade.