Freauxzen

Is Wondo no longer the great USMNT villain?

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It’s like fifa enjoys the controversy.

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First time eh?

I mean it's good news but what a bad way to do it.

Either overturn it or not, by not publically overturning the call with a reason, it can be viewed as home cooking.

Fifa, always shooting itself in the foot.

But should still split their salaries with the USWNT

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Marvel isn’t killing a child.

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They faded Peter in Infinity War.




To be fair, I think captured children storyline leak sounds a little more credible.

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US should do the same

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As someone who works at AI company and has been involved in software and tech for nearly 2 decades.

No. That is a terrible idea.

Go read some Iain McGilchrist and get back to me.

Does it actually age well? I've never watched it. Felt it looked too high school drama-like.

I could tell you that I'm upset, but that doesn't do any good. I could also tell you "Well it's politics," or "Democrats do it too," but that also passes the buck.


At the end of the day, people who seek to enrich themselves by skirting/breaking the rules, are always going to do that. It's not a left or right thing.

People who don't care and want someone else to pay their way, are going to find a way to do that. This is also not a left or right thing.

And people that follow the rules, are always going to get taken advantage of. Always. This is also not a left or right thing.


Most tax payers do fit into that last bucket, or they lack the power to do #1, and lack the laziness/have too much self worth to become number 2. And it's group 3 that powers both. They will always sacrifice and work, no matter what Groups 1 and 2 take from them.

There are always outliers, People from Group 1 that are actually honorable and follow the rules and somehow find success without cheating the system. And there are those in Group 2 that actually lack the ability to get out of it. Even if you are successful, and in Group 3, you typically will have a long road to gaining significant wealth unless you have some stroke of luck - inheritance, lucky job, etc.

There are a lot of people in Group 3, and they have enough collective power to flip the table over and change things - but they follow the rules and are generally too comfortable to do it. So without that, Group 1 does whatever it wants - Group 3 even empowers them to do it. And Group 1 uses Group 2 to retain power keep Group 3 down.

And this has nothing to do with Trump or this action. I voted for him and would probably vote for him again. But you, the OP, are just playing the game to lose. You're probably, I'd expect, in Group 3 like me. You pay your taxes. You cut minor corners maybe, but probably not enough to really be taking advantage of someone, and you want to separate us and point at Group 1. You might be a democrat with a soft spot for Group 2, which is very misguided and believe that only republicans are in Group 1. They aren't - hello Nancy Pelosi.

The problem is you want to fight me, not them. Unless we actually work together, there's absolutely nothing we can do about Trump and what he may or may not have done. Or what Nancy Pelosi did or may not have done. Nothing. We are both stuck, following the rules, paying our taxes and pointing the finger at each other. Awesome.

Good role, bad role, good acting, bad acting, Cage rarely looks bored. That's a feat unto it itself.

He's a great actor. It's not like I would choose him for any role, but there are a lot of roles where he is one of a very short list of people that could do it well.

See Bad Lieutenant 2, Adaptation, Mandy, etc.

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I think you can have a successful female superhero movie but you've still got to aim it at men, or at a bare minimum don't make it hostile towards them.

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This isn't REALLY about something made for men and made for women.

One of these two things is true:

1) They like money. So they want to take something that has an established fanbase, that is fantastical and fun and easy to build - that's kind of what comic books are/represent - and believe that by changing that thing they will both keep the old audience and draw in new fans.

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2) They don't like tradition/the patriarchy/takle your pick. Superhero movies are kind of now an established and relevant vehicle for entertainment, but they espouse the wrong values, and by changing them, they can attract a new audience, influence the original audience, and change the meaning behind this shared cultural thing. They think they can make money on the backend because they will create new kind of cultured people and new fans are a by-product.






Some folks in here will say, "They just want to make a Supergirl movie," and I just don't think that's true when you end up gutting it's meaning/intention. And that goes for all of these modern "adaptations."