And then, of course, Terry wasn't created solely to one-up Batman. A recurring theme for the series is how Terry has a lot to learn, but he's also got his own perspective and talents that bring something new and different to the table.
Absolutely.
My favorite part of "The Return of the Joker" was Terry getting flustered by Joker calling him a fake, and having Bruce in his ear saying "Ignore him and power on through" but then realizing "Hey-- I like to talk, too" and mocking the hell out of the Joker.
Batman Beyond is perfect example of how to use "the mantle" of a superhero to introduce a new character and not end up with shit like Fem-thor or Ghostbusters (2016).
Of course, it helps that it was made by the same people who made Batman TAS, so they had the respect for their past works by default. That's the missing ingredient that causes everything Disney touches to crumble to dust.
Perfect summation.
Remember that Marvel and Star Wars are Disney now, so this most certainly applies.
Yeah. I get that cross pollination won't happen if there are multiple sites that the user base flees to, and that's regrettable...
I also look at the way centralized control through admins and mods turned into a prime target for ideological subversion, and think that trying to subvert 100 small diasporic reddit clones will be much harder than subverting one site ready to do an IPO. There are downsides to decentralization, but resistance to subversion is an upside worth considering.
Wait? .win is bannin... oh. It's reddit.
I get your desire to hold out, fight the good fight, etc. You seem to be forgetting how deeply and thoroughly Reddit's been subverted.
It's enemy territory, and you weren't hiding your power level. What did you expect?
I know you've caught your fair share of being told to be less white, too.
The way that being intelligent, well-spoken, and well-read has become 'acting white' in the black community is a symptom of real problems that can't be addressed by altering a math curriculum.
When you're importing & indoctrinating future voters, a 'threat to democracy' is a threat to your expected power.
It's not about electoral integrity, which would be an actual threat to democracy-- it's about their power being threatened.
Yeah, the certification mills have been debased to the point where the degree isn't worth the time and lucre required to obtain them. I'm a big advocate of the 'sweat equity' type of stuff Mike Rowe's been doing. Developing a work ethic and real life skills trumps a debt-fueled degree 9/10 times.
Absolutely agree.
The way it was taught to me is that there are civil liberties and civil rights, with the liberties having a 'shall not be infringed' constructions, and the rights being the ones granted via government forcing them to be so.
Nowhere in that education was it taught that natural rights are granted by virtue of being, and everything the government claims to do for you, it does to you. Especially when it tramples on your 'civil liberties.' For example, Andrew Jackson after the Supreme Court ruled against him: “John Marshall has made his decision now let him enforce it.” The trail of tears followed.
Veiled force underlies everything.
You have the scraps of natural rights that the government deigns to not take.
It's worth remembering that.
It's important to note that most Atheists are/were also Anti-Theists.
The way society encourages Anti-Christian behavior means that lots of Atheists stall out and get stuck in their hate for religion (Christianity in particular.) They wind up defining themselves through opposition-- and it's usually rooted strongly in emotion.
Until these Anti-Theists abandon hate for religion, they can't reason their way through any Theological question. It's nothing but knee jerk & rationalize. 'Reason' is nothing but camouflage for these types.
Anti-Theists like JSG will grind that axe rather than think. Their hostility towards others' beliefs moves the locus of control right outside their person, and makes them worse people because (oh irony of ironies) just like fire & brimstone zealots--- they condemn because they cannot accept that which they don't approve of. It's pure Intolerance.
extinct Mesoamerican murder cults.
"All the Aztecs ask is that you put a little heart in your offering."
Dark humor aside, the blood rites of the Mesoamericans are terrifying examples of what happens when protein becomes scarce. If you ever wondered why soy creatures seem so bloodthirsty and unhinged, protein deficiency could be one of the root physiological causes. Evolution makes us nasty and aggressive when malnourished because doing so has earned our ancestors meat and other nutrients.
I don't expect that hypothesis to get grant funding, though. It goes against the 'eat bugs, live in a pod' & 'own nothing, be happy' narratives. Can't fund anything that points out their future would be engineered would result in aggressive malnourished misery.
I think there's one in the Pharaonic Royal Line who's a Nubian, but given how stylized the art of that era is-- he'd be presented as black in murals by virtue of being from there alone. Plus, 1 in 4000 years hardly counts as a trend.
Even the plural is a lie in "But muh Kangs!"
Pretty sure the guy in the twitter vid doesn't know or care about any slavery other than the American Black experience, so that's the context.
I'm certainly aware of other contexts for slavery, but both the guy complaining and the media will pretend they don't exist. They aren't particularly relevant to the American Black experience, either, except maybe for Liberia.
Why do you think they're contextually relevant when I was talking about American chattel slavery in reference to American pejoratives?
This is totally backwards from the etymology-- which is rooted in slavery.
'Motherfuckers' would be the term slaves used to describe slave masters who slept with women who had a slave husband, effectively cucking them. Imagine the fury of the slave, watching his wife get fucked: "That motherfucker" is the sentiment.
Here's the incident's context: https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1514133261009625091
The black man isn't really complaining about being called a motherfucker; that's equal opportunity usage of a word whose etymology says it should be used against whitey-- it's not racist, it's egalitarian. The black man is actually complaining that he's supposed to be 'controlled'-- that's the racism. Someone called out for him to be brought under control, and he complained and cried 'racism' because he was out of control and got called out. He's only using the profanity as an excuse to raise a fuss.
Can't hold a black man responsible for being out of control, not in Cali-- that's the real racism.
Failed Game Dev. Failed Congressional candidate. Fails at passing as female.
Wu's a D-list celeb who's famous for being a failure, at best.