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Paramount cancelled Colbert to appease Trump, then just strolled into paying $1.5 billion to say he is exactly like Saddam Hussein.
The world seriously needs a guy with a flying dog and who wears his underpants on the outside to fly out of his comicbook and tell us all "Would it be hard for us to just *not* kill people? I know you think it's more complex than that, but it isn't."
I am so ready for an Act 1 of her getting into fights and crazy fun space adventures, and then an Act 2 of her being the saddest motherfucker in cinema.
The film version of her is predominantly based on the limited run "Woman of Tomorrow", which has a more melancholic version of the character, who under an heroic surface is aching with the grief of losing her planet. So I would assume her drinking and partying is in part a coping mechanism.
"This is idiotic." "This is hope." "'Hope' is a myth used to motivate men to do what they cannot." "Y'know, pal, you almost say that like it's a bad thing."
The world is full of Lex Luthors. They're not as smart and most of them aren't as rich as he is, but they hate Superman for the same reason he hates him; he's a powerful being who empowers others, which for them is a disgusting violation of the 'natural order'.
They weren't even being called genocidal, the film just shows a fictional country doing an imperialism and is expecting the audience to know that imperialism is bad. It's them that saw a comparison to Israel. Which makes one wonder *why* they saw a comparison to Israel?
I sometimes like to think that a virtue of science fiction is that it can be a mirror that shows the essence of things in our world but without the details that bias our judgement. If you left the cinema thinking Boravia was wrong, you then need to ask yourself *why* you think Boravia was wrong.
Hawkgirl certainly does something to someone that some people would be very upset about if they were able to interpret media.
Superheroes are all about people gifted with power by fate and them giving that power back. It's the antithesis of capitalism, where power is organised by wealth, which you get by depreiving others. Just as Superman is pure Superhero, Lex is pure Supervillain.
#Superman was a very, very silly movie in the best way possible. Will definitely be watching it again in cinemas at least two more times.
We do kinda get what those post-credit scenes typically give just in the regular last scene of the movie, with that character being introduced. Even then, it's only 'setting up' a movie we know is coming in the near future, meanwhile tying into Krypto, who has been in the whole movie.
Demolition Man is a kaiju movie. "Mothra/Wesley Snipes is attacking our city and we are powerless to stop them, they are too powerful/problematic for our conventional methods. We must awaken Godzilla/Sylvester Stallone to do battle with them."
Locals wouldn't dream of doing anything in the day. Why, when nights on Europa last 44 hours? If you deployed nearside you at least had Jovelight to help pick out the fissures and craters, but farside all you had above you was infinite stars, and they gave you nothing. #icewar #warforever
Is he basically saying that if you're an American who voted for Bush II, Obama, or Biden (in other words, the vast majority of voting Americans) you were dumb enough to vote for an idiot?
So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...
Guy Gardner would be the type of guy to go to a professional wrestling show and chant "What?"
Sometimes I feel that the exposition on the themes is too thick, but things like the link between Kal-El refusing to write with AI and Lois realising his power and heroism comes more from him than from the tech in his suit is pleasingly resonant.
The Absolute Trinity and what they're currently reading. #absolutesuperman #absolutewonderwoman #absolutebatman
I think the intention is to show that she doesn't start as her best self. We know her calling is to be a journalist, but Absolute Lois never developed that potential. I think her realisation she actually likes writing is an early sign that she has some self-discovery ahead of her.
Pure logic is what told the French before WWI that the Germans was not going to invade through Belgium.
As someone from a country that shortened its time as a first-rate power by decades through entering WWI with almost no strategy, planning with its allies, or even awareness that non-military options might still be usable, I hope for the US' sake they're not planning on the exact same thing.
She has made her wardrobe a dripless place.
2/2 Every time a Joffre or a Falkenhyn admitted it was impossible and told the political leadership their choices were either peacing out or bleeding out the other side first, they were dismissed. Matching ends to available means was unacceptable, after the casualties that had already been taken.
Painful thing is, the generals (at least, most of them) were trying to get out of the war of attrition and get the war ended decisively through manevour, like the Prussians in 1871, and they kept banging their heads into the fact that weapons and technology of the time made that impossible. 1/2
"Kleya" as a name for newborns/trans women is about to skyrocket. #Andor #StarWars
You gotta believe the last day of Biggs' life was spent hearing half of Yavin Base telling him his hick friend is a piece of work.
Not sure about that angle. It's shown Dedra is a thinker, a puzzle-solver, but when things get physical and the violence she inflicts on others comes back to her, she always crumples. Other, less culpable characters, like Bix, are put in similar situations and they prove to be stronger than Dedra.
The rest of Hitler's body was cremated, but his testicle survived to become Stephen Miller.
"We'll just give the world a shakedown, force them to loan us money."
GW seems aware that any space that accepts Nazis eventually drives out everybody who are not Nazis, and that their stores and their media would be no different. Call it profit-motivated, but at least they're able to recognise that fact.
Wrestling is incredible. It has these characters called "heels" that say and do bad things, but the audience knows it's part of the show so they still like it. I wish we had heels in other forms of media.
The people who need to read them the most are the ones who think they already understand what they're about.
I think we know how that any new zombie fiction would have to contend with disinformation about combating epidemics. The zombies overrunning earth because national rivals were focused on misleading each other's citizens about the effectiveness of quarantine and PPE would be fairly apt.
Volley fire would be a useful tactic against jedi/sith.
#ghostfiles #watcherentertainment
Historically, in many of the "lethality-focused warfighting cultures" like the one Hegseth says he wants to encourage, he would be expected to commit ritual suicide for the level of incompetence he has shown.
There are at least some white/Christian nationalists in the White House, but they have to compete for Trump's attention with the oligarch faction interested in its own agenda of extracting from the economy, as well as the mere flatterers who just amplify what Trump says and repeats it back to him.
Is half of the country just defaulting to "the army should round up all the Bad People and push them into the sea?"
It's immaterial whether the person they're punishing has actually done anything wrong, when they're part of a group that is "guilty" in a "more fundamental" sense. That's why Germany had to "defend" itself by invading Holland and killing Anne Frank; she was as guilty as any other Jew on Earth.
Less "figure out" than walked in on another country taking it to the logical conclusion, and having to send for literal bulldozers to get all of the bodies buried.
Is it a bot programmed to spam belligerent and othering comments, or is it a human programmed to spam belligerent and othering comments?
Plato argued the first step to true wisdom is admitting ones' ignorance. The inverse must also be true; thinking you're smart and you know more than the average person is essential to being a god-tier idiot.
The facts are that the Pope was an 88 year old man who'd just had an operation. But we're in an age of alternative facts, and the alternative fact is that J.D. Vance can literally kill people with how unpleasant he is to talk to.
If I had a nickel for every head of a church who died in my lifetime from exposure to the cringe of a rightwing idiot who somehow has political power
The people stupid enough to not understand what it means are the people who think the existing cabinet is the best thing since sliced bread.
Young men in America need to Switch 2 the Democratic Party.
We all thought that, after Nixon, they would've learned the President is not a god bestriding the world, that Power is never sacred. But no, they simply thought another Nixon will never happen again, that even if there are, they won't learn to avoid getting caught like he did.
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He arguably could've said "our meat products are too competitive, while theirs depends on overregulation." It's bullshit, but it's way to make his rhetorical point without sounding like a petty child.
The election was stolen, and the richest/smartest guy in the world, who has the President of the United States as his pet, wasn't able to find evidence of it happening as it was happening 🤔
I wish I was a snail, or a tree or something, so I'd be incapable of getting this.
I think Trump is likely to conflate challenges to his ego, i.e. frank criticism of what he thinks is possible, as threats to his power. Even if the military is unlikely to actually depose him, he'll have it neutered anyway because it's so used to a relatively unpoliticised relationship with POTUS
The charlatans would drug and swindle you with bigotry. I freely offer a principled, egalitarian hatred of humankind.
Misanthropy is going to save the human race. When you've accepted in your heart that most people - whatever race, religion, gender, where they're from, the job they do, etc. - are fucking awful, you've innoculated yourself against most of the worst beliefs somebody can hold today.
I am autistic, but I still once read in a book that people tend to like talking about themselves and what's on their mind, and I thought to myself, "Yes, that sounds reasonable, I should keep this in mind when I talk to people."
It's not fair. Why do these people get to be so old, so rich, and so often go to such elite schools, and have staffs of people to tell them what's going on in the world, and yet understand so little about anything?
Currently the American warboss, the largest ork, is trying to keep the Waaaagh going by telling all the other orks that there's enough krumpin' to go around. #nasdaq #warhammer
Are they, though? Are they innately, genetically more stupid than the rest of the world? Or do they just live in a system that has flaws which they are unfortunately obliged to fix?
These people go through life by being so exhausting to explain things to that nobody bothers to try and correct their ignorance, which they take to mean that they're right about everything.
Assuming an electorate capable of remembering promises, it is a little awkward to step down from "I will fix everything and make your lives better than they've ever been on Day 1" to "Obviously this will take some time and will require you all to tighten your belts a little for the greater good."
And are demanding it in the first place. Is an atom of extra effort being put in to get US citizens off of drug addiction?
I think I'd go vegetarian if I had to live in America. Certainly full vegan if they decide to make "raw milk" the new standard for dairy.
It's a thought-terminating cliche straight from the GWOT. "They want to bomb us because they hate that we have freedom!"
As we know from history, when great generals were absolutely confident that they could achieve decisive victory and total success, they rushed to start the battle just before sunset, when both sides would be forced to disengage.
I liked Obama far, far more than I like Trump, but in the end this is always what "Europe needs to spend more to defend itself" has always meant from both Blue and Red Presidents; Buy American weapons and field troops in service of strategies designed primarily to support American interests.
"AI creators" need to be oppressed more. If you think AI art is legit you honest to god need to be locked in a room with a pencil and sketchpad and only let out when you've passably drawn your own hand.
I presume his strategy is to feed into a perception among men (especially young men) that "mainstream" society/politicians villainizes and disrespects them, whereas he and Reform will "get them the respect they deserve".
Apparently, saying you'd like to piss on JD Vance's shoes is a "credible threat of violence" on Reddit and gets you a permaban.
You need to be more charitable, sir. It must be very stressful to run the Department of Defense and the largest military on earth while also trying to cut down on the booze.
And the reason the cost could be so low was because of the success of selling it to US allies abroad. Recent actions by the US have already led to cancellations of these orders, and greatly increased the chances of a European jet winning the global market of the 6th generation.
I can't put it any better myself, so I'll just copy you.
The kid at school using all the swear words his dad yells at the TV every night.
You don't need a sophisticated defence industry when all you need your military to do is funnel wealth into the pockets of your supporters and suppress domestic dissent.
I think Jon Stewart was the one who said America has become the Logan Paul of countries, picking fights with people it has no call for fighting. At least Logan Paul actually stepping in the ring "fought" Tyson, instead of having his mother bail him out of fights like Musk
Cults often recruit by isolating their targets from their existing relationships. If you can be convinced your friends are taking advantage of you, you're more open to whatever this cult is offering to "fix" your wounded ego. Tell me this doesn't sound like what Russia is feeding Americans.
I've started running, to help get my body in shape. What I've learned from my first run is that I hate running. However, I hate JD Vance more, so when the pain gets too much I will be sure to think of him.
I offer Canadians a #polandball rendition of the Shawinigan Handshake #tariffs #tradewar
The lion is for Britain, and the longship for Norway
With half our newspapers under Murdoch, I fear any direct talk of rejoining will be seized on to make partisan what needs to be a united effort with the EU. A campaign to join will be stronger if the EU first sheds its reputation for ineffectiveness against hostile powers and glacial bureaucracy.
I'll spend the rest of my life a humble man, knowing I once voted for this man. Both he and Farage can go bunk with Al-Assad instead of being tapeworms eating away at Britain's gut.
That is not how you draw a T, Marco Rubio.
If we somehow are able to help #Ukraine and #Europe forge an acceptable peace, we will treat some of the heroes of Ukraine with trips to Savile Row. Maybe they'll be well-dressed enough for the Americans then?
We can make up for this if we get the SAS to kidnap Musk and replace him with an indoctrinated clone.
Tariff-ic! #polandball
Europeans must provide a service to America: We let their politicians sit an internship at our legislative chambers, so they can see democracy in action.
A Peek Under the Iron Curtain (with thanks to Leslie Illingworth) #polandball
Renewable energy rn is still great for civilian economies, but a war machine without oil and uranium is like a body without a stomach. Luckily we've got Norway, Canada, maybe even Saudis (bleh...) looking for new customers.
Unless they do something very stupid and we have to go liberate them.
I am begging socialists who actually want to change the world for the better to come to peace with two things: 1) You will convince nobody of anything by treating them like they're idiots, too stupid to understand your ideas. 2) The USSR deserved to die.
Now I know what it's like to be Taylor Swift - a lot of rightwingers in America being weird and wanting our eggs.
If there’s one thing associated with powerlessness, it’s banks. It is a good thing for US power if we are no longer the bank of the world. I had my banker clean my apartment and wash my car today because he’s a little bitch.
Is Jon about to make that rarest of transitions; a Wilson becoming Binford Tools?
The only people equipped to survive Trump's America are organic permaculture hippies who've read Murray Bookchin. Even the guys building backyard bunkers and buying tinned beans and bullets are like fish in the middle of the Sahara, completely unsuited to the environment.
Finally got around to watching it, and you've convinced me, we ought to revere the laying of this cable, the dangers and maddening intricaces involved in tending it, as we do the Moon Landing.
