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Perry wondered if there were any cultural connections to the shooting, considering the violence in the movie, and asked if that needs to be a bigger part of the discussion. Kim said that he saw the movie, and drew a parallel between the world of Gotham City and modern America.
'The Dark Knight takes place in a failed state' because elites are corrupt, law enforcement's corrupt. But the thing that really marks it as a failed state is that the state has lost its monopoly on violence. And in that situation, right, you have vigilantes like Batman, you have organized crime, you have terrorists. And what the movie depicts is that it's very difficult in a failed state to tell what is just and unjust violence, right?'
Kim said that 'it's not too much of a stretch' to suggest that within the context of the Aurora shootings, 'we approached a failed state.' He brought up the fact that the shooter obtained his weapons and ammunition legally, and then addressed the rise of vigilantes in failed states.
'When you have people like George Zimmerman encouraged to vigilantism because we've cut all these police forces, you have the shards of a failed state so I think that's a very profound, a very profound, sort of reflection, a dark reflection, really. Do we want to live in that night?'
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MSNBC finally got something right. Four more years of Obama, and the USA will definitely be a 'failed state'.
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What insanely stupid analysis.
Whenever things like this happen, people look for some sort of grand explanation. There isn't one.
Sometimes crazy and/or evil people can do really crazy and evil things. And, in a free society, it's sort of easy to do because we aren't a police state.
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''U.S. Close To 'Failed State ''
So you're saying ' Replace the President?'
Extreme liberals are childlike, and explaining the situation is understandable for them if you use comic books.
Chicago is certainly a highly corrupt, dangerous, failed city. 18 shootings in Chicago overnight.
Rahm Emanuel has no clue, and Obama is nuts if he moves back into his Rezko Estates mansion next year.He should move to Martha's Vineyard and open up Barry's Ice Cream Shoppe and take some time off, maybe oppose Cuomo for the nomination in 2016.
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You have no concept of what a failed state is.
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Rush to lack of critical analysis is as lame-brained as rush to judgement.
To fall down on the side of 'Eh'sh!t happens' is the height of 'Look at me! I'm an ostrich!'
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Are all the people at MSNBC idiots? Just answered my own question, never mind.
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It's surprising that the conservatives wouldn't also agree with at least some of Kim's analysis. Chronic high unemployment, class warfare, radical anarchism should all find prime breeding grounds in our current political climate, on both the far right and the far left.
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Don't know about that but our foreign policy is no different than that of Sudan's
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It is 1:00 pm EST and if I made a drinking game of comments that mentioned nothing in the actual article, this comment would cause my liver to leap from my body and punch me in the face.
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Ah, MSNBC continues to be the Truman Show network, preventing any trace of reality from entering into its broadcasts. They really need to put more guests from The Nation on the air ' no one better to uphold MSNBC standards.
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The interesting thing about Batman is that he doesn't have super powers and he doesn't use a gun. As as matter of fact, in The Dark Knight Rises, he kicks one out of Catwoman's hands and tells her 'No guns.' Ironically, though, she uses a blast from the Batpod (motorcycle) to save Batman's life.
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