Yes, absolutely (I spent 2 years stationed there as well). The current situation isn’t “good”, but nobody has any better suggestions right now, and everyone more or less is capable of living with the status quo for the time being. We’ll see if that applies to Trump though.

It’s a possibility, but thus far all NK cyber attacks have been hands off/plausible deniability type deals. My worry is that Kim would feel the need for a more concrete, visible response to satisfy his generals.

Yes. This is “normal” going back decades. What isn’t normal is Trump. My worry is that somewhere between his whole bully/”alpha male”/etc bit being unable to quietly back off, taking this as a challenge, the whole Obama derangement syndrome bit of blaming Obama for not stopping NK’s nuke tests in the past, and his…

The first time I read it, I thought he was ranting about Abolitionists. In his mind, it’s probably about the same thing really.

Yep, just like his entire campaign he was paying money to himself, and having the federal government pay him for providing protection. It’s even worse now. That’s what’s so crazy about this, he’s using it as an excuse to line his pockets at every turn, but the Republicans turn a blind eye to it.

Personally I’ve been trying to forget I ever saw that movie, but it would probably take an ocean taker full of whisky to blot it out completely.

Hello! I am Minister of Fuel Transport for the exiled Prince of Western Bahamas tan. We are told you can maybe help with a problem that we have $100 million us dollars of gasoline in tankers but cannot move them to us yet. Of you can provide your fuel bank account details to us so that we can be moving this fuel to…

Tackled, tasered, and handcuffed. At least that’s what you’d get in the real world.

It’s almost like they could use having people with different backgrounds and experiences on their team that could have pointed out how awful of an idea this was.

I don’t think that putting a different actress in would have changed it, honestly. Instead we’d be getting Hollywood blaming it on casting a non-white female, rather than just female. -_-

I liked it, partly because it outdid my (admittedly low) expectations. I do think they failed to make the case to general audiences, and also that they didn’t spend enough time developing the whole cultural erasure aspect, or the consent bit. That is, it was clunky rather than smooth, which is an execution failure…

Yeah. It’s orientalism/appropriation/etc rather than Whitewashing. Bad, just not that specific flavor of bad.

The problem with Iron Fist goes back way before the creation of the TV series. That is, the core story of rich white kid stranded in Asia and learns mystic martial arts to become a superhero is the problem, not that a white actor was cast as such. (That doesn’t make it better)

By that logic we shouldn’t bother with movies made from books, comics, etc. After all, people already have the original. I get the frustration with how Hollywood gets things terribly wrong (I’m an anime fan of the non-dubbed persuasion), but having seen cases where other things, like superhero movies of late, have…

Right now I would kill for a bit of repackaged neoliberalism with light left tendencies, Justin Trudeau style, in the USA.

Depends on how many of their voters are Kylo Ren. 

I agree completely as well. I really liked how it played on a number of feminist themes as well, such as the references to consent, or lack thereof. Was it perfect? No, but it felt like a large step in the right direction. Perhaps it helped that I went in with low expectations given Hollywood’s track record, but...

It very much is a problem. The core of it is that when Hollywood casts some role that’s ostensibly race-neutral (suburban mom, businessman, etc) they almost invariably default to white actors. Actors of color are lucky to even get auditioned usually. It gets more obvious and egregious when a role that was non-white in…

Ithe also seemed to me like the ceo’s reaction was in line with the stereotypical “alpha male white guy” a**hole that is enraged that the person/people he viewed as his property dared to rebel and fight back.

It wasn’t in-your-face about it, no, but I felt it was definitely present. Cutter very clearly treats the Major as a “thing”, not a person. It’s classic dehumanization. I certainly wouldn’t suggest it’s in the same class as something like Get Out, but it’s still worlds more aware/better than Hollywood usually does.