There's a big difference between the mythic framing of King Sacrifice stories - in which a hero or heroine chooses to die in order to protect and save others where there is no other choice in-story except by sacrificing those others instead - and this sort of "flawed tragic character must die so the protagonists get…

The Onion has long since given up trying to outdo reality, and the Pythons' skits are now simply prophecies of this our time, all Brexit and Trump prefiguring…

No, some poorly drawn frog original character from 4chan (I think) — but it would be funny to start a counter meme with Muppet Pepe.

If you read "elite" as "thinks they're better than me and looks down on me (because they think I'm stupid)" then it makes sense that random teacher struggling to make ends meet is an elitist, while 2nd and 3rd generation billionaires and born aristocrats who hobnob with literal royalty are not.

There have been other regimes, both right AND left, that made bank by calling college professors and teachers and people who could read and write "elitists" and "enemies of the people," and it never ended well.

For as long as even nice liberals in every nation in the West are content to regard the lives of foreigners, especially ones who aren't white, as less valuable than their own, it will go on, as it has always gone on either overtly or as a shadow war, through proxies or otherwise deniable/ignorable means. (See also:…

Fair play ignoring the fact that FDR was willing to be an abusive tyrant when it was politically beneficial to him, for all his 'liberalism" (which, like Nixon's support of the EPA, was intended as a bare minimum solution to prevent a REAL revolution from the Left making any significant changes that would harm his own…

No, he killed foreigner bystanders, not American citizens, which incidentally is what every American president has done, regardless of party, even the saintly Jimmy Carter, because not enough Americans, even liberal ones, think of foreigners as real people.

Wonse had a glass of water.

Ftaghn.

On the other hand, Obama didn't put Muslim-Americans into interment camps, either.

Same guy who let Pan and Jupiter Ascending go to wide release, and made his rep managing theme parks after getting his MBA at Berkeley and doing tax prep for a while — obviously he's looking for a YA film franchise that can be used as the basis for roller coaster rides like Harry Potter, and a tax writeoff if it flops…

Also they never listen to audiences even when we are telling them loudly what we want or don't want — "SHADDUP WE KNOW BETTER WE HAVE THE MBAS AND THE MONEY, YOU'RE GONNA COME TO THIS BLOCKBUSTER AND PAY FOR IT AND LIKE IT— WAIT, WHERE DID EVERYONE GO? WE HAVE ALL THIS SWAG IMPRINTED WITH FANTASTIC FOUR TO GET RID…

Also it subverted the pulp trope of "exotic enemy woman falls for hero, but dies sacrificing herself to save him because we can't imply interracial romance OR women whose agendas don't revolve around romance" in a way that was both refreshing and honest

Simmons did a good job as someone who could be either a lawful good or an evil-but-thinking-he's-lawful-good technomage in Legend of Korra.

"You brought fists to a gunfight."

And they used to put intermissions in long movies, so you could both pee and refill your bladder…

Police in the US often have pipe bands due to history of Irish/Scottish heritage in the early years of policing in America, so that at least makes sense.

It lost to dark horses Zootopia and Jungle Book, so they're flying on a wing and a prayer now.

You just stick wheels on a board, right?