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Several years ago now, in 2019, I think it was, Sunny Bunch, who's a movie reviewer.

You're right, said, been at the free beacon, and I guess he's at the bulwark now.

And he's a great movie reviewer, although I don't always align his views.

He's always very insightful.

So he's essentially one of the things that Sonny has taught me and just listening to him on his

podcast and in his writings is how you and I may like or hate a movie and a movie

reviewer is not necessarily there to judge it as a good movie based on you or entertained

by it, but other things. Although I just, I want to be entertained. And if I don't like it,

I don't like it. But nonetheless, he wrote a piece in 2019. I was thinking about it because

of a news headline over the weekend.

And it is essentially how environmentalists are such good villains.

This is part of what he wrote. Radical environmentalists have really been taking it on the chin at the multiplex.

They are perfect villains for our times,

well intended enough to often seem somewhat reasonable, but meddlesome busy bodies whose hopes

and dreams are to radically reduce standards of living in order to affect some utopian scheme

or another that will return the world or worlds to an unsullied Eden.

Thanos, the victim and protagonist, really, of the $2 billion grossing mega hit Avengers Infinity War,

was basically an omnipowered Paul Erlich, whereas the comic book version of Thanos sought to kill half the

universe in order to prove his love for an anthropomorphized death, the film version was driven

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