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« on: May 26, 2016, 06:07:21 pm »
American sniper was definately inflated with extreme war movie propaganda. It did have the now standard message that war is really fucked up, but was very biased towards the American perspective. Regardless of the inaccuracy of the actual film it was still fairly based on fact, just ignore every specific incident and character in it as you probably should for virtually any war film. The biggest issue about Chris Kyle isn't the number of people he one-shotted, the amount of medals he received, or even the whole absurd idea that he had a personal grudge against a specific 'terrorist' who was killing innocent civilians whom he heroically takes out in the most dramatic fashion. No the message of his memoirs is that war is terrible and soldiers have a shitty experience after returning home, loads are mentally scarred and sometimes children loose their father to PTSD or depression.
Chris started giving therapy to returned soldiers in the form of trips to a shooting range with their peers, one guy he took to a range flipped out and murdered Chris and another discharged soldier. Rip.
Edit: college arbitration is a witch hunt. My sister has run afoul of a similar system for anti-bullying in
high school. Basically the school has a policy where if a student breaks the code of conduct they are required to exclude the self from the school.
It's bullshit, the school basically trying to absolve itself from any responsibility if there's complaints of harrassment, basically "oh well the bully didn't drop out of school so it's not our fault, we have a policy!"
And it's a witch hunt, if the student tribunal is just a bunch of teenage girls that don't like you anymore good luck with that.