Best nuclear themed movies?

I remember only one black kid at my school in the four year groups, probably 700 students and I don't remember any Asians at the time and I don't remember any more as the years rolled either, this was through the 80s leaving in 91.

I wouldn't be stretching it to say that my mother quite possibly never spoke to a black person until my wedding, she would have been 72 then. My wife's maid of honour is black and my wife's two best friends are also black.

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Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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The real frustrating thing is that the ones fully onboard the Trump train and its core values are the ones least affected by any of it. Rural farmlands primarily.

One of the reasons I get so annoyed listening to feckin idiots thousands of miles away labeling all Americans the same when the reality is very different as we saw at the weekend with the parade and protests.

I have barely met a Trump moron yet and the ones I have met are mostly the wifes family and they are ultra religious and just not worldly wise and will never travel more than 50miles from home for the most part.

Even sadder, those folk are the ones banging out 5+ children so the US is already lost, it will become more one sided over the next 20-30 years, especially now the blueprint has been set.
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Living in a large, posh suburb of a big city this week and drove to a mall 20mins away and it hit me - I hadn’t seen a black face all week. Restaurant and hotel staff, construction, gardeners, even a street window cleaner all white. Didn’t think that was possible in modern day America. Full of surprises.
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Let me guess, Alaska? Even the bears are white.

When the wind blows

Scared the bejesus out of me

The nuke scene in terminator 2 will always haunt me, very well done and aged well in terms of effects

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I used to live in North London where it was probably 30% White, 30% Asian and 40% Black and then went on holiday to Salzburg where it was 110% White and looked like an aryan dream. One day I went to a big shopping mall and then a black guy was just walking through on his own and when I say everyone stared at him that’s an understatement. It was so uncomfortable.
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We’ll just imagine what the locals said when a scruffy uncouth wife beating Australian walked through …

Salmon Fission in the Yemen

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Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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Worth bearing in mind that the MAGA coalition isn't just the rural poor. Plenty of wealthy people, and comfortably well-off people in working class trades. If you voted Trump you were more likely to be old (though young male voters are increasingly into far right politics), more likely to be white, more likely to be evangelical, you'd be less educated, and you'd consume less news.

Never seen On The Beach. Just read the book whilst on holiday, and I didn’t really get it, tbh.

Is it supposed to be Shute’s vision of how people might actually deal with the inevitabilities of nuclear holocaust, or a parody of the same? Seemed to fall somewhere in the gap between the two for me, and didn’t really work as a result.

Would be interesting to see how it was interpreted by the filmmakers.

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Living in Australia at a time like this is very interesting. In Europe you always felt in the centre of the world and if it all ‘kicked off’ you’d start worrying quite a bit and rightly so.

It just feels all so distant and it’s very easy to take less of a serious view of all of this even though it’s very serious. Places like South America must also feel this ‘those crazy people thousands of miles away can fack off’
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I was in Seattle and San Francisco in April-May and in those liberal, progressive cities it was easy to forget that MAGA is happening. I think that's part of the problem. Fascism doesn't always feel like it's happening to you.
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I guess in the same vein, you also don't really understand first hand why these extremist political views take hold in certain places because we don't live in them. If you're desperate enough you're much more likely to be hoodwinked by swindlers, religious leaders and facists sadly.
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Worth bearing in mind that the MAGA coalition isn't just the rural poor. Plenty of wealthy people, and comfortably well-off people in working class trades. If you voted Trump you were more likely to be old (though young male voters are increasingly into far right politics), more likely to be white, more likely to be evangelical, you'd be less educated, and you'd consume less news.
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Yes definitely. Although there are also an awful lot of people who voted Trump because they've legitimately been failed by what's come before. He's obviously just as bad if not significantly worse but I get what brought them to that point.

I still haven’t forgiven you Robb