My GOD, you’re a joyless pedant.

Yeah, I get what you were saying. Leaving aside the incoherency of that argument (independence for whom? from what? Southern independence was explicitly predicated on white supremacy), it’s still hilarious that you’re (rhetorically) surprised that the most famous symbol of something would be associated with that…

This is a pretty good comment, but this leaped out at me:

A... whistle?

Hey, if they can put Howard the Duck in a movie, they can put Squirrel Girl there, too. Keep your eyes peeled for a bucktoothed woman with a bangin’ booty and a CS major, I guess.

Regarding point 2: I believe that is, in fact, what the Rust makers have done here.

Regarding point 2, I believe that's what the Rust guys have, in fact, done.

Welp, they seem to have influenced a few thousand internet a-holes into making death and rape threats, so there's that data point. :-/

My god, you have the patience of a saint. Salute!