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[amesmonde]

For any Enzo G. Castellari #BronxWarriors fans; check out http://www.bronxwarriors.co.uk #1990TheBronxWarriors #EscapefromtheBronx https://www.instagram.com/p/CbkB7ClNaCD/?utm_medium=tumblr

[amesmonde]

#1990TheBronxWarriors (1982) #EscapeFromtheBronx (1983) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbgSwV1NWlJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[notesfromthedystopia-blog]

Week 10: Escape from the Bronx (1983)

“I love eminent domain.”

– President Trump

Trash returns in the sequel to 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Escape from the Bronx, this time intent on saving what remains of the Bronx from ruthless Manhattan land developers, The General Construction Corporation, set to take over the no man’s land and build condos on top of its ruins, leafletting the broken tenements with posters and flyers that read “LEAVE THE BRONX. SIGN UP FOR A NEW HOUSE IN ENCHANTING NEW MEXICO” and “GET OUT OF THE BRONX. WE GOT SOLAR HOUSES IN ENCHANTING NEW MEXICO WAITING FOR YOU”, but, instead, Bronx residents are set alight by the flamethrower-wielding astronauts of the Disinfestation Squad. Trash, a high-value target of the Disinfestation Squad, presumably because of his history of dragging police officers to death and his pistol’s helicopter-exploding bullets, is part of a rag-tag, rebel army of surviving Bronx gangs who shall not quietly into the New Mexican night and survive under the surface of the borough. When Trash ‘n’ pals decide to kidnap the president of the General Construction Corporation to stop their bloody eviction, the full might of the Disinfestation Squad is brought down upon Bronx, slaughtering most of the remaining gang members, before Trash blows up the leader of the Disinfestation Squad inside his armored van with a single, magic bullet.

The dystopia of Escape from the Bronx continues that of The Bronx Warriors: extreme economic disparity between rich and poor. Escape from the Bronx includes new details of the powerful Manhattanites manipulating the media as they induce a Bronx genocide (the lone investigative reporter is murdered and her photographer is also flamethrowered to death). The forced march to New Mexico is a ruse meant to deceive the poor into complacency, which falls to the wayside of violent gentrification.

Citizen Trump has a history of fighting to take private property from the unwilling, and President Trump agrees with him, stating “You need eminent domain. And eminent domain is a good thing, not a bad thing.” Embracing eminent domain, private property can be transferred from one unwilling private party to another predatory private party, with the government acting as the middle man, as Citizen Trump tried to orchestrate in 1994 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which would have seen the property of five businesses handed to Trump, had not the deal fallen through. Unsurprisingly, the arguments Trump makes about seizing private land for the public good, like building roads, hospitals, and schools, are never what his eminent domain efforts are for, which include wanting to (but failing to) seize a private home from a septuagenarian widow to demolish it and pave a limousine parking lot in its stead. In speeches, he talks about giving power to the people, but his actions are about seizing property from the people or, to quote Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, he “built a lot of his business on the backs of the little guy.” Of course, despite Trump boasting “no one is more conservative than me,” government seizure of private property isn’t a small government or conservative belief, as those snowflakes at The New Republic point out.

Trump proposes “tax holidays for inner-city investment, and new tax incentives to get foreign companies to relocate in blighted American neighborhoods”, demands “law and order”, and is a friend to urban developers. In other words, based on his history of betraying the poor and the working class and building his empire on their losses, “This could be called a gentrification policy.”

[kennywalsinger]

One of my drawers. #themutilator #troll #troll2 #popcorn #theboogens #savagestreets #theexterminator #blinkofaneye #escapefromthebronx #thunderwarrior #VHS #horror #exploitation (Taken with Instagram)