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interesting point about positive discrimination

Something about the barbie movie's ending being about how "women don't have to be perfect all the time why can't we just exist normally??" While simultaneously having the 2 Black barbies in the film being the president of Barbieland and a Nobel Prize winner....

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Preach. The movie is literally about how his actions WILL likely lead to the destruction of the planet and the extinction of our people. And people, in their zeal to feel left out of that somehow, are saying "yeah, but what about me?"

Strauss and Teller literally make it all about them, arguing down the road to the destruction of mankind out of petty need to be right over Oppenheimer.

What are you arguing for?

Go WATCH native American, Japanese, and Hispanic media. Share it. Do something. With every bit of energy you waste complaining that Oppenheimer is allowed to have a perspective, you could have hijacked his hashtag to promote something.

“Oppenheimer should at least represent Japanese voices” actual Japanese filmmakers have made dozens of movies about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including at least two anime films off the top of my head, that you would’ve bothered to watch if you actually cared about this beyond winning discourse points. Not to mention all the Japanese science fiction that is obviously inspired in some way by trauma over the bombing, including the entire genre of kaiju films. Do you really think there's anything those works haven't said that Christopher Nolan would add? Or maybe, in fact, the lack of focus there in Oppenheimer is The Point, since the real-life Manhattan Project (which the film is critical of) certainly wasn't consulting "Japanese voices"? (Like, perhaps that is part of the film's criticism of it???) Anyway, In This Corner of the World is a great film about the life of a young woman from Hiroshima in the waning days of WWII that you can currently rent for $1.99 on Amazon Prime. It's animated by the same studio that did Yuri!!! on Ice and it's based on a 3-volume manga that is also terrific and available both physically and digitally in English. If you actually want fiction that depicts "Japanese voices on the atomic bomb" I would start there. If you actually care about diverse perspectives in media you'd also care about the people making that media and look to what actual Japanese people are saying about this rather than expecting American and British creators to spoon-feed it to you.

#oppenheimer #the discourse

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Seein' too many Twitter refugees asking if they'll get in trouble for saying "kill yourself" to people and while no, you're not gonna get nuked from orbit, that is maybe something you just shouldn't be doing in general perhaps?? Maybe telling people to kill themselves is bad actually?? Some of y'all are wild, why is the first thing you can think to ask on a new platform if you can send one of the worst kinds of harassment to people?? Grow tf up and learn how to use the block button. It'll do wonders for your mood, trust me.

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Pros of having a brain that makes very fast associations: Good comebacks and jokes.

Cons of having a brain that makes very fast associations: that story about how you broke your foot reminded me of a fun fact about lizards.

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miguel and miniguel

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this whole oceangate submarine fiasco has actually led to a lot of interesting talks and debates about the grey area of human empathy vs the inclination to recoil at the bizarre behaviors of the ultra wealthy and how people struggle with both ideas and is actually very interesting to watch play out in different types of people

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free conversation ender for people who continue to willfully misunderstand source material and start inane arguments about it

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Daniel Craig: SNL bumper photo

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I wonder who that guy is...

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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(My immediate worldbuilding but is that it would be breathtakingly beautiful for Nightcrawler's and Angel's true world to be introduced through Wanda's afterlife. Because, you know, she's Jewish.)

just a gentle reminder that the MCU established that all afterlifes are real to the souls connected to them

Rocket will one day fly with his friend Lylla just as truly as Steven and Marc were fighting to reach the Field of Reeds, just as truly as Jane Foster was welcomed into Valhalla, just as truly as truly as T'Challa sought his Baba.

#wanda maximoff #wandavision #Gotg v3

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just a gentle reminder that the MCU established that all afterlifes are real to the souls connected to them

Rocket will one day fly with his friend Lylla just as truly as Steven and Marc were fighting to reach the Field of Reeds, just as truly as Jane Foster was welcomed into Valhalla, just as truly as truly as T'Challa sought his Baba.

#Gotg v3 #rocket raccoon #moon knight #thor love and thunder

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Guardians of the Galaxy, criminals: *save the galaxy*

Nova Corps: We have expunged your criminal records and hail you as heroes. Gentle reminder that murder is not okay.

Avengers, law-abiding citizens: *saves the world*

United Nations: Here’s a list of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and Bill of Rights that we plan to force onto you because a terrorist set off a bomb and you didn’t stop it.

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Well, yeah, that's half of their gripe: that even disabled characters aren't sympathetic towards each other. None of this is about "hating on the character." They resent James Gunn, the writer.

Which is why I point out that these characters aren't sympathetic towards anyone, so why would they suddenly care about little domestic comforts we care about? 🤣 Nebula has murdered an entire prison for witnessing Gamora. Why would she care about Bucky's comfort?

These aren't our friends. These are space pirates and assassins and marauders whose only redeeming quality is that "they aren't 100% dicks."

I mean, imagine asking the real historical Blackbeard the pirate, Edward Teach, not to be mean to someone specifically because they have the same injury. Oh, the piracy, raiding, and kidnappings? You approve of. But be nicer to people with injuries because their lives are hard enough.

LOL, nice talking with you!

Content warning for:

Ableist remarks, and violence mention toward a disabled person

Screen shots taken today:

James Gunn replies to a fan asking about Bucky's arm in the GOTG Holiday Special, and claims that Nebula (herself a disabled character with artificial limbs) "took a trip to Earth and tore it [Bucky's artificial limb] off his body because she was feeling Christmassy."

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This is truly horrible.

Not only is it graphic violence toward a disabled character for no reason at all, it also shows that this whole bit was pure Abelism from the start.

From writer's room to your screens, Ableist jokes for the sake of laughing at disabled people.

As fans it is up to us to say No, we don't accept this. We won't accept this.

Disabled characters and disabled fans deserve better.

MCU, do better.

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Using a mental disability to insult them about how people don't respect disabilities kind of proves their point. 😅

They aren't trolls as much as they are people exaggerating the worst things that have happened in their lives to evil, and then projecting it on the stories. Now, someone stealing their crutches or medicine gets turned into Nebula stealing Bucky's arm.

It's like how Dolores Umbridge is the most hated villain in Harry potter, because Voldemort maybe evil but more people have actually met a horrible professional like Umbridge.

But this would be like protesting the movies saying that Umbridge is so good at representing exactly what she is, that she shouldn't exist at all because it's too triggering for the audience.

Content warning for:

Ableist remarks, and violence mention toward a disabled person

Screen shots taken today:

James Gunn replies to a fan asking about Bucky's arm in the GOTG Holiday Special, and claims that Nebula (herself a disabled character with artificial limbs) "took a trip to Earth and tore it [Bucky's artificial limb] off his body because she was feeling Christmassy."

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This is truly horrible.

Not only is it graphic violence toward a disabled character for no reason at all, it also shows that this whole bit was pure Abelism from the start.

From writer's room to your screens, Ableist jokes for the sake of laughing at disabled people.

As fans it is up to us to say No, we don't accept this. We won't accept this.

Disabled characters and disabled fans deserve better.

MCU, do better.