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  • The whole movie is fucking incredible. One of my favorite lines from it is, “I’ve got better things to do tonight than die.” There is a whole other scene where they are getting slaughtered in a space battle and one of the Autobots, Arcee, says, “Cup and Hotrod just bought it,” and Ultra Magnus just dead eyes, “I can’t deal with that now.” The movie is fucking hardcore. It was my own version of Saving Private Ryan as a kid.

    Fun fact, Stan Bush’s “The Touch” was originally going to be the theme of the Stallone film Cobra. If you look up the lyrics, you can see that it was specifically written for the other film.














  • Infrastructure is a large issue. Border towns can become saturated, which will reduce living conditions, and when immigrants move to larger cities, they can often have trouble finding places to live. A lot of this can be because of a communication barrier. Sometimes that is because there are too few to translate, but there can also be educational issues. As much maligned as the US education system is, it is better than some others, and when your culture eschews school for an early start at earning a paycheck, communication in any language becomes a challenge.

    Many issues can be overcome, or at least minimized, by compassionate workers, which many that work with immigrants are, but there isn’t enough funding to get compassionate people where they are most needed. Supporting increased budgets at the border isn’t always about putting guns on the border, it can be about improving the infrastructure that helps get people where they need to be in more efficient ways. I’m starting to ramble, though, and I think I’ve given a partial answer to your question.