So i just completed the full initial run of Ultimate Marvel, from Ultimate Spider Man #1 to Ultimate End. And ive got some thoughts.
First of all. I started collecting phsycially when i was a kid, around Death of Spiderman. The only ultimate comic i read was Ultimate Comics X-Men, which was one of those "your book got canceled heres this other one" for my X Men Legacy subscription. That quickly became my favorite book, despite hating Kitty, i really loved the reservation concept, the sentient seed. That whole piece, which makes it a crime that it really only lasted about 4 issues. Having read the entire series now. Hot damn were they obsessed with Kitty.
I wont go through the whole of Ultimate, other than that the transition from Vol 1 to Vol 2 of Ultimate spider man was horrible.
I will say, folks the cracks were there. All New Ultimates finished in 2014 and it is top 3 worst runs of any book ive ever read. Packed full of the "teenies angsting with shit art" the sitcom "oh hey im actually gay" lets break up for no reason oh were back togehter for no reason soap opera fest.
"Right wing" militia as a stomped villian that even the Scourge hates because "im not racist! I just kills criminals, and suggesting theres a demographic there is racist!"
The evil corporation is messing up the usually totally fine drug trade by POSIONING it. Yeah thats how you run a business, murder your customers.
I hate cloak and dagger, bombshell is the stupidest fuck after "black widow," and miles... it really shows you how much the writer matters. Miles' first run is as enjoyable as any other book ive ready. In All New Ultimates he reminds me why im racist.
I especially hate bombshells whiny drug dealer boyfriend drama. Its supposed to be totally radical, and its "real" in the sense thay yeah ive met people like her. But they were stupid retaded fucks, and i hated them too.
/rant
Most people really have no idea how far left the modern progressive has gone. They have gone so far left that even what used to be standard bearer progressive popular entertainment from 23 years ago would be denounced as far right now.
For example, tell a modern leftist a plot line of the Bartlett administration from the TV show West Wing, and see how they react. Use, as a case study, this scene, and the context thereof, to set up a Presidential ethics dilemma to a modern progressive. Leave out that it is the West Wing, make it about Biden, and see how a modern Democrat reacts.
They would hate the idea of the WH council demanding that the President appoint a fire breathing Republican as special council.
The Democrat administration shown in West Wing was ethical, valued the rule of law, valued dissenting opinions, and fired people for leaking to the press. The modern Democrat party does none of these things, and hasn't since LBJ, if not before.
I have the benefit of being politically aware for longer than many of you, and so, I can tell you that the 2014 rule should really be the 1960 rule, if not before. Activist and provocative content has been in popular entertainment for far longer than most of you realize.
No wonder it's fiction.
It’s how they see themselves, but only insofar as those behaviors are framed within the context of the show as righteous and good. The actions taken by the characters on the show don’t matter - those actions have no bearing on whether or not the characters (or the leftist viewers) are designation as good. The feeling of goodness comes first for liberals, and then they project their own chosen principles onto it.
It’s all backwards rationalizations is what I’m trying to say lol
Ah, the very final year of the blacklist. It had been crumbling a bit before that though, if they're willing to openly break it in 1960, seems like we ought to draw the line back a bit, maybe 50
It's always been infested though, they were just forced to hide it somewhat until the 60s.
There has been obvious communist infiltration dating back some 80 years. Hollywood was struggling with communist controlled unions back in the '40s. That is where the trope of Walt Disney being an antisemite comes from. There's so much one could write about it.
I will drop a link to Razorfist's video Hollywood Was Always Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo
I just realized that I assumed everyone who would watch that YT clip might not have seen the show. so, the context of the linked YT clip is:
President Bartlett, who has a form of Multiple Sclerosis, ran for president without disclosing that he had it, not even to most of his staff. People on his staff have figured it out, and the President realizes he won't be able to keep it a secret much longer, and that the Republicans in the Congress are going to hold hearings on it when they find out, so he asks the WH legal office what should he do.
I would agree that the rot began far earlier than we'd like to believe. But I think it's a function of human evil, rather than a concerted movement so to speak.
Leftism is the political and cultural manifestation of human evil. Envy, resentment, criminality, degeneracy, lethargy, gluttony, chaos - the dregs and freaks of society form a coalition with invading barbarian hordes in order to overthrow the prosperous preexisting nation. It happens when your elites become corrupt, selfish, criminal, and degenerate themselves - or are comprised of hostile foreigners.