I would argue that Winter Solider is where Marvel showed they could successfully shift their formula into broader genres, and then almost immediately abandoned that

I feel the need to point out that the Accords in Civil War is never about superhero registration. That doesn’t come up in the movie AT ALL.

I mean, it’s not 100% equivalent, but that’s sort of what Brandon Sanderson & Dragonsteel are doing / have done with publishing and audiobooks! So not so ludicrous, just...unlikely.

Great concept, but you’re speaking as if voters are sane and rational enough to vote in their self interest and in the interest of the country, and that racism and hyper partisan politics don’t exist.

For the past 10 years or so I’ve had this idea in my head of a CCC plan for the 21st Century, one that would solve both the problems of immigration and of infrastructure:

Even Jerome Powell said that the migrants have been the key to the growth in the work force , which was the key to the continued GDP growth and ‘soft landing’. Anyone who is not an idiot knows that the migrants coming in is a much needed thing for this country.

This country is literally built upon poor non-white immigrant labor that’s still doing all the “undesirable” physical labor jobs to keep prices low because white people don’t want to do back breaking for basically pennies.

There’s literally nothing a conservative can say that’s so stupid and demonstrably false that he won’t double down on it when called out. There’s literally nothing a conservative can say that’s so stupid and demonstrably false that he’ll be punished for it by his own constituents. This is the reality we live in: a…

Because you’re wrong.

Already done.

Turns out the therapist is mephisto

America is basically the racist old man in the nursing home, accusing the Jamaican nurses who clean his ass everyday of stealing his jello. 

Part of the toxicity of the MAGA crowd is the default assumption that anyone with a non-European surname must have questionable legal status, where there’s no evidence that any of the people in question have any less right to live and work in America than Melania and her parents.

If only maga conspiracy nuts understood momentum and inertia. Then again it is very clear they did not do well in science classes.  

The “they took our jobs” crowd will say it should have been legal US residents doing the work, but I dont see a whole lot of them wanting these god awful jobs. We run on immigrants being willing to do the jobs the rest of us dont want, and for the good or bad, being willing to do it for less pay than we would be…

I hope the readers here take note of the surnames and ancestry of the road workers who lost their lives here. Almost a year ago to the day (March 23, 2023) 6 workers were killed on another part of the 695 beltway when a car crashed through a work zone, and most of those workers were also from central America,…

There are plenty of places in the U.S. where saying orange man bad is indeed a courageous act (I suspect you may live in one), but I’d agree that it wouldn’t be courageous for Alex Garland to say it. It also wouldn’t be courageous for him to say water is wet, but I’d still find it strange if he refused to acknowledge…

Those who sit on the fence merely get impaled.

“Garland explained that it’s about political divisiveness in general and our insistence on ‘talking and not listening.’ He said there are politicians and people in the media ‘on both sides of the divide’ who are ‘wonderful’ and that ‘left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state’ and nothing…

I believe that Dril quote applies here: You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them.