Die Hardy

Die Hard is, in fact a Christmas movie. I mean, c'mon "Now I have a machine gun ho-ho-ho" - how can you get any more Christmassy than that? [Narrator: you can't]  Don't believe me? Watch the trailer:




I'll also submit that Die Hard 2: Die Harder is a Christmas movie. after all the movie didn't occur on Arbor Day now did it?

But more importantly, Die Hard is not recognized for another thing that it is - a mini-documentary of sorts. For instance

The ethics of journalism.

If you recall how Thornberg blackmailed the Mclane/Gennaro housekeeper to get an interview with minor children to push his narrative then you wouldn't be at all surprised that CNN would threaten to dox a person to keep them from posting memes it didn't like.

The competency of bureaucratic  police departments

The deputy chief of police constantly ignores input from folks on the ground, because he firmly advocates a top down system, and often blames others for his own mistakes. If you think this is fictional then ask police administrators (especially in larger departments) what they think should be done to lower the rate of violent crime, then contrast that to what the bulk of their patrolmen say. Oh and while you're at it, see if you can find any tales of them passing the buck. It shouldn't take long.

The competency of the FBI.

Their fictional representatives don't seem far off the mark from how the real life FBI screws things up. The Miami shoot-out, Waco, Ruby Ridge, encryption mistakes, flawed forensic analysis; here's a list of 10 FBI fails compiled a few years back, and here's a more recent listing of mistakes made by those fabulous G men. Given what I've seen of Comey and Mueller,  the fictional agents could have been even more arrogant and condescending without straining credulity. If Agents Johnson and Johnson (no relation) would have lived, they'd likely have got a lateral transfer then a promotion after the fibbies blamed Mclane for screwing up their well thought out plan.

The progressive reliance on experts.

In a top down system there has to be faith that the masters possess knowledge superior to that of the servants. So the press trotted out an "expert" to inform viewers that the hostages would be experiencing "Helsinki Syndrome" (by which they mean Stockholm Syndrome). The anchor man demonstrated his intense knowledge of geography by almost instantaneously getting the countries of Sweden and Finland confused, and the next scene showed that there was not a whole lot of Stockholming (or Helsiniki-ing) going on. But don't be a science denier, cause experts.

So it's not just a Christmas story, but a reminder that progressives hate you, and when they attain power they'll use it against you (and to cover up their mistakes). Oh, and also, if you attend a Christmas party in a high rise, no matter what keep your shoes on.