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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on May 5, 2015 22:51:38 GMT 1
When i first caught wind of this, I could not find much corroboration for it. Joss Whedon has closed his twitter account down. He gave a public reason for it having to do with not wanting to put much time into it but it seems like it may have been more of a hate filled backlash over his portrayal of Black Widow. The tumbler crowd really reminds me of the story, "The Scorpion and the Turtle." Joss has been a stalwart and public feminist for longer than most of these fuckwits have drawn breath but they turned on him immediately and viciously for the apparent reason that they interpreted Natasha Romanov's comment about her being a monster and sterile in the same conversation as her thinking she was a monster because he was sterile. Not the many people she killed while an evil assassin. Not her upbringing which was specifically designed to turn her into a murderer (all brought up in the same convo) but because she was made sterile. that link is a listing of tumbler twat twit posts directed at him since the movie came out. These people need to get a fucking life. they keep doing this to their friends they will find themselves alone in their echo chambers and loved by no one. *facepalm* Poor Joss. And I really hate how people apparently came down hard on him for the "Prima Noctis" comment from Tony Stark who was just being Tony Stark. Goddammit. People need to just enjoy the movie and understand that Joss writes People. He writes real people with real emotions and real self-doubts - and I honestly thought the portrayal of Natasha Romanoff was very believable as a woman who hates and fears what she was trained / manipulated / altered to be. Her sterilization was a traumatic experience for her, and her assassin training made her fear herself as a monster. Why not air both traumas in the same cathartic conversation? Anyway, people are assholes and I feel bad for Joss for this whole Twitter-attack on him.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jul 13, 2015 5:40:05 GMT 1
In the Darwin Award thread I posted a story about how a dumbass put a Goddamn mortar on his head and touched it off which ended up killing him. Here's his mother's response... bigstory.ap.org/article/832204f808dd4caa885c03f76ce2d571/mom-man-who-died-fireworks-accident-says-rules-too-laxTL;DR version: Mom says that "fireworks laws are too lax and we need stricter rules". My answer: "If your idiot son hadn't decided that putting a motherfucking mortar on his head and touching it off was a good idea after fucking EVERYONE told him not to do so, then he was too stupid to live and proved it. Your son was a fucking idiot and died an idiot's death. Don't blame society for his stupidity."
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Post by jklinders on Jul 13, 2015 14:26:19 GMT 1
My answer to this is...Maine. it's basically the New Brunswick of America and that is not a compliment. That is also coming from someone born in New Brunswick.
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Post by jklinders on Jul 16, 2015 10:23:45 GMT 1
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-confederate-flag_55a6b506e4b04740a3dec7e2?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592Try to ignore that it's from Huffpo. A bunch of high schoolers greeted Obama with the Confederate flag. Now if you want to be willfully ignorant and actually believe that the modern use of that flag is about states rights go right ahead. I draw the line at chestnuts like this one I pulled from the article. The only black men who were even allowed to fight in that war did so to oppose that flag. That flag was raised a second time against blacks during the civil rights movement in the 60s. I know that the start of the Civil War was a very complex series of economic factors but no one should be disingenuous about the fact that the use of slaves had a lot to do with it. never mind that the north was fueling their own economy with the use of barely non slave workers in the height of labour oppression in the industrial revolution. blah blah blah. Fly the damn thing off your own land or your truck or whatever if you please. but that symbol of national and racial division has no place on public land. I can't think of another country where the flag of the losing side gets equal billing to the national flag anywhere or any time.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Jul 16, 2015 15:52:59 GMT 1
As I keep saying, that flag wasn't even the official confederate flag. It's not about heritage if it's not accurate.
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Post by herrwozzeck on Jul 16, 2015 18:24:11 GMT 1
The only black men who were even allowed to fight in that war did so to oppose that flag. That flag was raised a second time against blacks during the civil rights movement in the 60s. I know that the start of the Civil War was a very complex series of economic factors but no one should be disingenuous about the fact that the use of slaves had a lot to do with it. never mind that the north was fueling their own economy with the use of barely non slave workers in the height of labour oppression in the industrial revolution. blah blah blah. I actually had a friend on Facebook who compared the Confederate flag to the Swastika. Her argument surprised me, actually: she framed it as "yeah, sure, it has a history, but it has a specific association that was attached to it by a bunch of cretins that is removed from that history, and that's why you shouldn't fly it". I'd argue it's not really that similar since the Swastika had a way different connotation than the one it does now, but it's still an interesting point that's raised.
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