https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPH SXUS0_1c

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really switched on my nuts

Mothman Prophecy is Richard Gere's best movie behind American Gigolo

He had me up until he started talking about how America used to be great. When was America ever great? After the revolutionary war when we were committing genocide against the natives and utilizing African Americans as slaves? After WW2 when we, along with the Soviets pushed the human race to the brink of armageddon?

No nation is ever "great". This is the biggest lie we've ever told ourselves as a society. Nations are nothing more than a collection of people and there are no great or small people- just people. People can do great things yes, but they can also do evil things. As nations we tend to do too much of the latter.
And why are Americans so obsessed with being the "greatest"? Why are other nations? It's not a fucking competition. This is life, this is humanity. We should be trying to be the best that we can and if we are, then it doesn't if we're the "greatest" or not. Let's drop the jingoist bullshit and start acting not like Americans or Chinese or Russians but like human beings.

>>81690923
Many Americans know this too, esp in the last 15 years as we've watched so many things go wrong that it is becoming hard to ignore. Endless wars of choice, ballooning deficits, the failure of our health care system (high prices, inhuman and terrible coverage), the illusion of democracy shredded (the plutocratic nature of our government is much more transparent now), blatant election fraud, etc.

Everytime Obama (who I voted for) gives a speech about this being the greatest country in the world I want to puke. He doesn't respect us enough to be honest with us. If a president said 'we have serious problems we need to work on' that would be great. But we never get that. We get baseless platitudes which assume we are too stupid to understand what is going on in the world while the real problems in this country go unsolved year after year.

>>81690903
90% of his stuff is shit though.

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American used to be great

Go to bed, Sorkin.

>>81691070
That 10% though.

>>81690923
Gets me every time

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>>81690882

> This thread

>>81690882
Would he have voted for Donald Trump? Also, is the current president in the series a Republican?

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>>81690923
>mfw I wrote for the sole purpose of annoying /pol/
>mfw it's still being passed around

>>81692108
Yup

>>81690882
>it's an Aaron Sorkin lectures to the American people in every show he makes but nobody calls him out because it's not really plagiarism if you only copy yourself

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S78RzZr3IwI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7jeuV3xXxUc

>>81690882

I don't get it. I thought when you screenwrite you aren't supposed to be all preachy and shit?

Can he get away with it because he's established?