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It's also "I would [do something once that gets me branded a hero]" vs "I would [do something every day that makes me average]". You shouldn't need praise and adoration to be a good partner.

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Yes I like fictional characters a very normal amount. Don’t look at my blog.

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#Love him

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*shaking movie directors by the shoulders* NIGHTTIME AND OTHER FORMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS CAN BE IMPLIED WITHOUT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE

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Spider-Men

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Superman is a contender for one of the most expensive movies ever made, with a combined filmmaking and marketing budget of $350million+. So far it's grossed over $400million in the box office. It is rife with product placement. It makes the tiniest allusion to a real conflict, but leans so hard on plausible deniability that 90% of people will not recognize the messaging.

It's liberal activism 101. Do next to nothing, pat yourself on the back. I will never give flowers to a mega corporation for using real issues as a marketing gimmick.

I'll take this version over Snyder's Superman because this one is truer to the original character, but I will not act like this movie does anything for the causes it references.

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Just saw Superman... It was like watching a 2h AMC ad.

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I need you to explain that point because from where I'm standing it seems like a wild misinterpretation of what I've said.

I'm not worried about "reject modernity, embrace tradition" at all. My comment has to do with the utilization of Indigenous knowledge as a thought experiment without engaging critically with existing systems.

ecological problems of colonialism also have more to do with the exploitative nature of colonialism than with foreigners lacking an elf-like connection to the land imo

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This is why I have so much beef with the way that research with Indigenous communities has become such a hot topic in academia. 9 times out of 10, researchers will attempt to construct an entire novel approach based on half-baked ideas of Indigenous knowledge taken from datasets that aren't large enough to be representative samples. It's happening in security studies, it's happening in international relations, it's happening in business, it's happening in biological sciences, it's happening in law. The idea that traditional knowledge is something inaccessible to the rest of us is incorrect - Europeans once had those connections to the land, too, but imperialism/capitalism and the relentless pursuit of expansion for profit naturally alienates us from our environment.

ecological problems of colonialism also have more to do with the exploitative nature of colonialism than with foreigners lacking an elf-like connection to the land imo

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I hate to break it to you all, but the military is the closest thing that a lot of countries have to socialism - for a lot of people it is in fact a way out of their living situation. You also need to learn that the majority of military jobs are not combat roles, they're support roles. Stop fighting individuals and start fighting the government that wants to strip people of rights and options so it can force them into an institution that will ship them off to fight in a war they didn't start.

another glorious day of not joining an imperialist military and not invading someone else's home and not getting shot in the head by a guerilla resistance fighter :3 god this is literally sooooo easy if u aren't a bitch

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Jessica Jones gave us the most beautiful set of complex female characters not just in the MCU, but in most of TV. Trish is Jessica's moral compass, but she's also a recovering addict and heavily manipulative as a result. Jessica is a mean, ungrateful misanthrope, but she's also heavily traumatized. Jeri is especially bad - she's actually evil. In a lot of scenes, she's portrayed as parallel to Killgrave. And yet, we see her fall so many times and look so pathetic, and a little part of you still feels bad for her.

Idk I kind of love it when women just suck as people.

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THE BEAR | 1.01: SYSTEM Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie Jerimovich Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto

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ironheart + text posts (1/?)

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More than this, the state should not have the right to kill people with impunity. Judges are unelected officials, meaning they're not accountable to voters. Politicians are elected, but erode the democratic system when they become capable of ordering deaths on political grounds. The death penalty is the most extreme case of something that should not be on the table as a function of the state, but the fact that your ability to secure human rights is dependent on others having the same rights is true across issues. That's why it's the basis of liberal democracy.

If you want climate protections but laughed when Appalachia was underwater last year, you don't really believe in climate protections. If you want prison reform but don't want MAGA to be rehabilitated, you're not really for prison reform. There's a difference between consequences and the erosion of human rights on the grand scale.

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

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Zelma = best character

Regan Aliyah as Zelma Stanton in Ironheart | 2025

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BRIE LARSON as CAROL DANVERS The Marvels • dir. Nia DaCosta