[I am not trying to convince you here; just to offer an alternative perspective if your question was not rhetorical. Thanks for your patience if you took the time to read this.]

Some organizations shouldn't try to be hip.

I too lived through the 1990s, and King Missile’s point was that the group of outcasts was *still a group*. It’s still a club. Just because you don’t call it a club doesn’t mean it isn’t a club, with all the shibboleths of any other.

Any shared social experience is a club. Even being anti social lets you believe you’re “one of the anti-social people.” Context, motivation, and ideology are irrelevant. You’re trying to be argumentative (in a friendly debate way) and and that’s cool. Find your people, everyone needs a club.

Yeah, this turned into “Marvel would never” real quick, which spectacularly misses the point. Who cares whether it was an MCU casting director or her agent or someone else in the industry? All three of those people feeling able to say “Stop being publicly queer” is a sign that homophobia is alive and well. Rushing to…

In the words of King Missile,

trying to say you dont participate in a “club” doesn’t exclude you from being part of a trend, cuz any kind of ideology is a trend, whether a lot or few people interact with it, it doesn’t matter as long as people interact, no one can escape, cuz even isolationists are interacting with the trend of isolation although…

Have super-cool friends, sure, but those people were, in my experience, not in clubs, or organisations, or societies, or any kind of organised group with any kind of discernible features

Did you enjoy a particular kind of music? Did you watch a particular cartoon or play a particular game that your friends also enjoyed? Those are clubs. Any shared social experience is a “club” in this context.

“You’re a ten year old kid who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club.” That’s basically every human, and we need to provide better clubs for people to be a part of.

Not feeling bad about David Koch dying at all.

Ding dong, the douche is dead. One down, one to go. Fuck em both.

As a person who rides and has had a getoff before, I see exactly what I did wrong. I didn’t have a bottle of Smartwater there with me at the time. Lesson learned.

“Concentration Camp: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.” 

Right on Art Spiegelman! That’s how you stand up for your ideals. More people should be like Art. 

How are you gonna tell Art Spiegelman, a man famous for a book detailing the suffering his father experienced in Nazi Germany, not to make a comment on modern day fascism in a book about early 20th century fascism? That’s a slap in the face (and a seriously bad look for Marvel, treating an industry legend like that).

It's worth noting as well that Perlmutter is one of the Mar a Lago members essentially running the VA from the shadows, in blatant violation of all ethical norms and actual laws.

You’re right!

Is it fun to try and insult and talk down to people when you apparently can’t match the reading comprehension skills of a fifth grader?

It’s disappointing that in this day and age “apolitical” means “don’t piss off the old white guys in power”. It would be nice to say that comics are a medium that should be free of politics, but they’ve always commented on society, at least to some degree, and calling out evil isn’t politics, it’s observation.