Yes, he is. Because like most white dudes who inherited a bunch of money thanks to growing up in a society explicitly designed to divide a diverse population along superficial lines, rigidly stratify it, and systematically exploit the thus-subjugated underclasses to enrich the elites that developed that oppressive…

Oh look. Yet more evidence that Elon Musk is an utter douche. Wonderful.

Can I argue that the sky is not, in fact, blue, instead? It would be MUCH easier.

You think Steve Jobs wasn’t also a polarizing figure?

Yeah, but manipulating the value of publicly traded assets (stocks, cryptocurrency, etc.) via social media is basically Elon Musk’s main real skill - and likely most of the reason he’s out to buy Twitter in the first place.

Except it probably won’t, though - not really. The SEC is all but toothless these days - even when they nominally move to enforce the far-too-lax rules they supposedly control, the penalties they impose are nearly always chump-change to the people and companies they “punish”. Those few who get really smacked down are…

Why do you assume that Elon is sane, though?

I guess? But the whole point of those “n-figure” benchmarks is that each one is an order of magnitude larger than the last. 7-figures has a range of $9 million, 8-figures has a range of $90 million, etc. It’s just how numbers work.

Well, that ties back into unexamined assumptions on the part of both the artists and the audience: pale skin is pretty strongly associated with beauty in Japanese culture - and that is a characteristic of that culture unrelated to colonialism, as it predates the era of European expansion by several centuries. There is…

I dunno, I kind of see it as being considerate.

It’s agreed that ASM 2 and Spider-Man 3 are their worst takes but most agree everything else they’ve is just as good as the MCU at least. Two objectively bad movies out of seven is not a bad track record in the slightest.

(Thought of more to add after posting, but took too long to add in an edit)

I’ve done all 3 and can see reasons to justify them all. I can also cite pretty strong reasons why each of them either isn’t what it seems as presented by Starchild or shouldn’t really be possible at all. Depending on my mood, my preferred answer changes (though in truth, I still kind of hate the false simplicity of…

I’m SUPER-late respomding to this, but all the same:

...I hate when people just say shit and don’t know what they’re are talking about...

Spider-Man being IN these movies might draw mainstream views. The vast majority of non-comics fans will neither know nor care that these characters are frienemies of Spider-Man otherwise. And, as has always been true, the demographic of actual comics fans is so miniscule as to be indistinguishable from zero when it…

Maybe, but do we know that Jessica Drew is included in the rights Sony controls? I doubt she is - she has very little connection to Spidey’s cast of characters. She appears in Spider-comics occasionally, of course, and they’ve worked together on those occasions that they’re both Avengers (seldom), but she certainly…

Was going to say more or less the same thing. You can call Episode IX a lot of things, but “the final chapter of Star Wars” isn’t one of them.

Hm. Well, I don’t know if they’ve changed the colors of them in the last 15 years, but back in the 90s, green was the Soul stone, and blue was the Mind stone. There wasn’t a teal one, if that’s what you meant. Red was Power, purple was Space, orange (I think) was Time, and yellow was Reality.

Wow, that’s a deep dive into the past.