This is the real rule. “No backsies” just improves the game play.

Somebody lied.

Yes, because rule by the bourgeois will always tend towards a more authoritarian level than Socialism.

My open tabs across two windows all need to pass muster or be closed at the start of the week.

They usually number between 4 and 12. But mid process might get up into the 30s.

And let’s not forget all the mammals (excluding the obvious homo sapiens) and birds that engage in same sex sex acts and/or parenting.

They even rewrote Thanos to have those Malthusian undertones, originally he just had a bone for Marvel’s legally distinct from DC’d genki goth girl personification of death and wanted her to notice him.

Hear, hear!

I think so and agree with you.

I’ll add that I think Ollie gets a better treatment with it than Bruce, and Marvel’s Tony who is a bit of a dick, do. (Pym and Incredible both manage to keep inventing game-changing things that never change the order or structure of society or economics, which is relayed to where I’m gonna go but also different in some ways).

I haven’t read a lot of Green Arrow, but have enjoyed what I have.

I do remember reading one story that began with Ollie volunteering in Africa working on water infrastructure (not sure if he was also funding things). He takes actions allowed within the confines of the editorial line to fit the views his character espouses.

But to keep relatablity any never ending story, i.e. the soap opera for boys of serialised comics, will tend towards the status quo of our real world. They can’t show us a better way to live, as how we live needs to be the normal and mostly ideal. So Genosha must fall, Metropolis must be a normalish city, and Gotham remains close to a platonic ideal of the upper-middle class’s view of crime infested 80s New York. (Not the original, but seems to have shifted to it from the gangstery 1950s it once was in pre-modern Batman).

Edit: I think this is also actually in part what has led me to become more a fan of Superman as I get older.

Turns out he has a superpower, and it is the ability to be environmentalist, anarchist-leaning, and billionaire at the same time.

Yes, folks can and do.

But Hollywood likes to good wash the current status quo, so let’s ignore PayPal’s union busting and censorship policies, bombing civilians, systemic racism, and take it up to 11 in a fictional future.

Or maybe I’m just jaded by the biggest fans of “purgey” settings being right wing folks.

I always assumed the Purges were set up by a far right government to legally kill anyone who tried to organise against them.

Send goon squads (not the new ones) to smash up and kill coops, local farms, unions, uncooperative lawyers, journalists, etc.

不得不这样。人口太多呀。 -_-

I liked to respond with examples of how British Government, amongst others, always use having too small a population as an excuse for the same things. Chuck in some examples of bigger or smaller countries having a crack to show it’s just selfish government reguritation.

Not hundreds, mostly just since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.

And some of Israel’s neighbours were making moves, but the continued much disproportionate retribution of ethnic cleansing Israel has inflicted on the Palestinian people (and Beta Israelies) (and Hannibal Protocolling Israeli civilians on 8th October) is an atrocity that “a right to defend itself” does kit even begin to cover.

(Edit: Hamas does need to end its shit too, but the weaker side of a violent conflict can never afford to be the one to put down arms first.)

Originally, “literally” was never a word but through thousands of years of evolution and adaption it came into being, miraculously, as the “literally” we all knew and loved between the time of our birth and 2006.

When “literally” quite literally evolved a new meaning in the 1800s used for emphasis to replace the empty definition slot left by the dropping of the the 15th century meaning of “in regards of letters or writing”, many of Literally’s fans jumped ship.

These days Literally wanders from town to town, playing gig off of the commonly used meaning with the salt of the earth types, while from the ivory towers comes but spit and scorn.

But you can help, for as little as 2.50₩ a month you can help finance Literally’s return tour as being used to mean “with or regards to letters or words” and help elevate this star from hard times of having to rely on the plebians for usage. After all, is not a frequency band of 5, but exclusive use by academics not more worthy than band 6 used by all? If you agree, your views, snobbery, and financing can make all the difference.
Help a word stick to it’s archaic meanings today. Because if the world isn’t like it was when you were 15, is it really worth living in?

Sounds like daddy needs a workers revolution.

Just slice of married-family life.

Things like this occur and are relatable, or so I’ve been told.

On the one hand, you’re right and I know it. It’s the power fantasy over structural and social solutions/cooperation.

On the other hand, some are more fascy than Superman:

• Batman (general ignoring of structural issues, the even heavier glorification of vigiliantism over most capes)
• X-Men (if the gay, persecuted minority stuff gets occluded, and possibly due to those a lot of the villains)
• Green Lantern (might be wrong here, but seems to be space cops with a strong link to US military. I’ll assume Nazi-coded villains to make them seem more heroic.)

The tension of violent and peaceful activism is a history long one.

That knowledge and thought coming through is probably why Black Panther is, in my opinion, one of the best MCU films.

Unlike many Black activists however, the Wakandan Royal Family - like royalty in Africa - did not experience the bulk of racism in the Americas. Which might be why their step towards “coexistence” is to fund some community centres, which while important and having a powerful, Black, African nation would do a lot of psychic good - the racism in America isn’t really shown and the focus is on Killmonger’s dad being assassinated by T’Chala’s father. (iirc.)

You’re right in that it is more thoughtful overall, and less fit to this discussion, than most MCU films.

Ironically Superman is one of the least fascy superheroes, at least when written by anyone who understands the character.

If only there was some record of US military budget being spent on making these films and limiting the way that the US and it’s armed forces could be portrayed in these films… Surely not.