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They are not highly paid, but they have great benefits, especially the rather shady though well earned disability program. I guess it is just another way of deferring compensation and annuitizing to make ends meet.

Again, I concede I haven't seen it but will when it comes to tv. And if these obvious cultural misappropriations are your thing then by all means have at it.

No, you're right, I don't, I haven't seen the movie. I did read the originally translated Homer books twice, once in high school again as an adult.

My comment has to do with the obvious progressive staffing decisions for the main characters.

I mean, Helen is ugly and butch instead of soft and beautiful; Menelaus is small, comedic and young instead of the old bull warrior he is described; and Paris is a 100 pound trans instead of the warrior Hector's younger brother. It's off putting and unnecessary.

If you dig this kind of degraded misappropriation in the arts then by all means have at it. I just find all the obvious race/sex swaps tiresome at this point. That's no way to treat a classic.

What next, Shakespeare's titles but now - wait for it - Julius Caesar is a snarky black lesbian and Mark Anthony is the 100 pound trans?

frick all that ... if these film makers want to make a woke movie, then write a fricking woke story as the platform. Why make a mockery of a classic but for the progressive desire to tarnish everything we normies revere.

>> ... and serve as a highly adaptable platform for air superiority, homeland defense, and long-range strike missions <<<

Obviously, our next gen is always awesome to behold, and the craft itself looks incredible.

As for its best possible use, if they're really ready to roll then let's put it on Iran right now.

If not, then a homeland defense interceptor works for me too.

Yep. They are of a type.

No one on the right gives a frick about race. It's boring, repetitive, and only used so a few hustlers can gain wealth and influence.

In this case, however, both Homer and contemporary critics - Sappho and Euripides to name two - make clear that Helen was beautiful, fair skinned, with white arms, with light hair and eyes, so why but for the sake of moron wokeness would anyone cast it this way? This actress literally does not fit the playbill.

If you want to screw with the story to this extent, why not just grow some actual creativity and make a different movie?

I have not, I only watched the original trial from afar (I was working myself at the time) but my then-lady was glued to the news reports and dragged me into it OJ style, and from what I saw and heard he seemed guilty. The facts, evidence and frankly his utterly bizarre, dismissive behavior led me to believe so. Am always willing to consider actual new evidence though.

Agreed in large part. It does appear, however, that Marco Rubio and now deceased Sen Graham have not been on the take when they could have been.

Unfortunately, all of the prominent Dems appear to have been the inside-trading, lying, money-grubbing whores we have all long suspected.

ETA: and so have most Republicans, to their great shame

I have no problem with any of that personally

It was no McRib lol