r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 1d ago

A prior discussion about this, iirc, noted that Texas was chosen to make it less overtly political, but I haven't seen the movie.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

The movie is fantastic btw. It's a love story to war journalism and an actual fantastic depiction of what civil war here would be like.

One of the few movies I've watched repeatedly.

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u/loneSTAR_06 1d ago

You’re one of the few people I’ve heard have as high opinion of that movie as I do. I love it, but basically everyone else I know hated it.

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u/Least-Prompt-212 1d ago

To me, the apoliticality was completely immersion breaking. The degree to which I was cognizant that the story being presented was written in a context where it was actively avoiding offending portions of its audience by not addressing the politics of the most political setting you could pick was just too much.

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u/confirmedshill123 1d ago

But the whole point of the movie was that the sides didn't matter, and barely any body even knew what the sides were. They were constantly asking what outfit the people were with that they end up interviewing and it's still a mess. I thought it was perfect.

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u/Xyllus 1d ago

agreed, best movie of the year

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u/rabton 1d ago

I took it on face value as "enemy of my enemy" and that all that really matters is the US was boned regardless of who was teaming up. Like after the events of the movie, Texas and Cali end up going after each other and the war gets worse.