Ah, the rare lesser spotted SFW Oglaf.

World of Warcraft ruined Warcraft.

Capitalism ruins franchises.

Quick search doesn't give me a source.

What's this from, and how long ago was it published?

Interesting if you read about it, while many were found guilty I think only a woman is being sentences to death while many men are just getting a decade in prison for their involvement in it.

If she was the ringleader, sure... I guess (not that it makes the state's murdering of folks alright). But odd that she gets death while all the men don't even get 20 in jail.

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.

It is disappointing.

She says he's no longer recognisable as the man she loved, but if she'd spoken much to his first wife she'd've been given all the details on how messed up he was.

I like that your argument against Anarchism is that people are selfish and greedy, so having a system where individuals have huge amounts of power and wealth and can get what they want is better.

Because (many) Anarchists would say that humans being selfish and wanting more for their own benefit is (one of) the most important reason(s) for stopping humans having power and control over others.

Tell me you're an American who has never left North America without telling me.

Yeah, I always think that more than a NSFW binary there should be three or maybe 4 options.

• Totally safe for work/public
• Suggestive
• Actively sexualised nudity
• Hardcore and/or very kinky
• Violence and gore

Maybe other folks would do it a bit differently, which is probably why we're stuck on the binary.

Thants.

She might not need sympathy, but in a conflict between artists on one side and record labels and private equity on the other, for me at least who I'm backing is pretty easy.

Better she has them than the other side, and no one has to buy a new copy. It's not like a video game release where they kill the original server.

The French are, understandibly, less willing to overlook Nazism than anglophones.

Then again, no one should be overlooking Nazism.

Seems like a good question for Randall Monroe, if he hasn't already done something similar.

Pretty sure that "dead by 50 thing" includes all the infant mortality.

I bet he's also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.

I took this to be about MCU specifically, so I'll skip the first two Spiderman film continuities.

Homecoming - the villain is a lower class guy who has been screwed by the fallout of the Avengers and is making money to improve his family off of it. He is somewhat sympathetic, but the moral of the story is trust in the authorities because a well meaning guy will fix the hiccup in the system, and responding to systemic issues with force is wrong. Could be argued the real villain is Tony Stark.

I did not see the remaining MCU Spidermen, but they look to focus on more otherworldly Meta-continuity forces.

Black Panther - the villain is an extremist with a point. Killmongers desire for revenge and modes go too far. He should be better, like the royal family are. Luckily Killmonger inspires the legitimate authority to make a choice to do more and be more benign. Maybe he just should have trusted in the legitimate authorities all along and stayed inside the social bounds... Which had not made change until his use of force and theft?

I have seen the Iron Men, but not recently enough to engage with.

Civil War: the authorities want something that is controversial, but it turns out they weren't the legitimate authorities, but secret Nazis trying to bring harm to everyone. The legitimate authorities had folks best interests at heart and fix everything. Could go either way, since forming a terrorist cell to fight authority is pretty radical.

The Thanos films: Thanos' malthusianism is presented as bad, but not actually as wrong. There have been plenty of ways at this point to show that Malthusianism isn't accurate, (and wasn't actually an original part of the character) but it was put in here and not debated or shown to be wrong in itself, just "bad that he did it". Malthusian ideals are strongly linked to right wing ideologies (as well as some nutty far left ones) that have been ascendent in relatively core right wing parties in the last 20 years.

"Fish" isn't a real type of animal, it's a term of convenience for similar looking/acting things that humans have lumped together.

Its taking that back to the medieval level of "whales are fish"... Which ignores that key difference of them breathing air and not having gills.

Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture.

Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products.
For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product.
Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.

Despite being wrong, Fukuyama's inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.

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.

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

Oh, you went to Australia once. I'm sorry.