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@Time_For_Reason
The only sustainable foundation for a functioning society is a firm grounding in objective reality.
Northern Hemisphere of Earth Sumali Ocak 2009
307 Sinusundan205 Mga Tagasunod
@TimothyDSnyder Destroying Russia's largest source of drones is an unorthodox strategy for aiding them in war.
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The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.
Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien
Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.
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@WeAreCanProud Perhaps he's talking about efficiencies of scale with MAID?
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Mark Carney says your life is more affordable than it's been in a decade.
What do you think of his assessment?
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@v01db0rn @wokal_distance When only your fixed view is valid, a lot of reality must seem skewed.
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@Time_For_Reason @wokal_distance No, it isnt absolutely not valid and the grifters are perpetuating this skewed reality to anger their fans into loyalty.
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Celebrities do this thing where they get paid millions of dollars to be famous, and then ruining the promotional tours for their movies by trying to sound smart by parroting paint-by-numbers woke social critiques from 2016.
Variety@Variety
#Supergirl star Milly Alcock knows she'll face backlash by "simply existing as a woman in [franchise IP]." "We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself." variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@idreesali114 Bad take. China is doing nothing because they understand how this works. They were knowingly taking a gamble that the US wouldn't act in this way, but they lost their bet. Now the chess board shifts and they pivot to new long-term tactics, due to losing their bet.
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@GriftReport He doesn't deserve personal scorn but also didn't have to take the part. He made a cost-benefit decision and this is part of the cost. I think a lot of actors would not feel right playing a lot of parts, for reasons of respect for the source.
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I feel sorry for Paapa Essiedu (the new Snape in HBO's Harry Potter) after watching this
It's not his fault it's a bad casting choice.
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@v01db0rn @wokal_distance We all understand what's being said. But we can also see the motives and we know they're rotten. We've been through this so many times over the past decade, we see it coming a mile away. And that reaction is every bit as valid as the point she's making.
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@wokal_distance Grifters do this thing where they dogpile on actresses when they say fair and legitimate things instead of actually engaging or understanding what it is they said
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@wokal_distance It's a ritual. Cultural currency has been so warped around victimhood, & perceived privilege gets you the Children of the Corn treatment socially. I suspect they're all terrified of being accurately identified.
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@FAFOmyfriend @RyanSaavedra I hear you. I'd say it's not about philosophical principle. It's about a much deeper level of bottom-line existential pragmatism. At some level, civilization is being held together by unequal application of force, and we pretend it's otherwise at our own peril.
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@RyanSaavedra I still don't understand why we have the right to tell any countries they can't have nuclear weapons when we have them and are the only country in world history to use them against another nation.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran
It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch
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@roddreher Neglect of this issue for the past 47 years means there could never be a non-painful way out of it. Nothing that Europe is currently "suffering" from this is anything close to what would happen if this Iranian regime were allowed to reach North Korean levels of impenetrability.
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This is a good explanation, as far as it goes, but what it doesn't account for is the massive and chaotic negative effects on the world economy from having undertaken the operation. E.g., here in Europe, ppl are preparing for hard economic suffering from acts they had no say in.
Ryan Saavedra@RyanSaavedra
Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch
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@fandompulse I think they're walking a fine line in some areas, but it seems their intentions are in the right place so it feels like it's going to work out. Nothing he's saying is really in conflict with the tradition of the show itself.
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Nicholas Galitzine on his He-Man character in the upcoming Masters of the Universe film:
"Without spoiling too much, I think there is a modernity to him that is really interesting.
It feels like who he is as a person is a handshake between what traditional masculinity and femininity are, and I think it is very exciting to be able to play that in such a huge studio movie."
This is a bad sign for this film isn't it?
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@SketchesbyBoze Lots of crazies in your replies here, but of course you are absolutely right. Whether literature, art, music, etc., there was a much stronger sense of acting within ongoing traditions. It's been arbitrary fragmentation since, with nothing of unifying cultural value replacing it.
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This might surprise younger people but in the ‘90s most of us knew how to read & were culturally literate. You could mention King Arthur or Citizen Kane and everyone knew what you meant. We were capable of writing essays. We had educational TV. We have lost so much, so quickly.
Dave@GamewithDave
People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today
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@JamesDiMichele3 @Nerdrotics @LadyGravemaster What makes her take wrong is it's selective. Keyboard warriors also flooded the zone to critique Nicholas Galitzine's body and whether it's good enough for the He-Man role. People know privilege pre-emptively performing victimhood when they see it, and they don't like it.
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@Nerdrotics @LadyGravemaster She’s not wrong though🥴 how many people have come out saying she is ugly and treating her unfairly before the film has even come out? Keyboard warriors are out in full force
GIF
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How to kill your movie in the crib.
Variety@Variety
#Supergirl star Milly Alcock knows she'll face backlash by "simply existing as a woman in [franchise IP]." "We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself." variety.com/2026/film/news…
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@Nerdrotics It would be unbelievably easy to make Star Wars, Marvel & DC movies with women leads that would be widely loved. They did it with the first Wonder Woman. A good story, aspirational, don't antagonize your audience. People know when motives are insincere.
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@DanFriedman81 It still surprises me that the industry had the universal success & goodwill of the first Wonder Woman movie as example & template and then just seemed to ignore it. It was right there, just do that.
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The audience that goes to the movie theater to see superhero movies is 70% male. If you make a superhero movie about a woman who is trying to “find herself,” the female audience will not show up for it and you will lose most of the male audience as well.
Even if this movie is good, it is probably going to do poorly at the box office. They should have made a Lobo movie with Supergirl as supporting cast rather than the other way around.
Hollywood fooled themselves into thinking “girl power” superhero movies were viable because Marvel got people to go see “Captain Marvel” by sandwiching it in between “Infinity War” and “Endgame,” when there was peak excitement around the MCU. That is not something that is possible to repeat, and the DCU doesn’t have the franchise excitement to get fans into theaters in 2026.
James Gunn@JamesGunn
This Summer, find your place in the universe. #Supergirl lands in theaters June 26.
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@wil_da_beast630 Yes, you're right. Even then, it seems like they could have picked artificial incentives that actually make them more money. But as a control mechanism, you're right, it's been very effective. Frighteningly so.
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@Time_For_Reason Artificial incentives: "How do you want your HRC score to look?!"
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This is absolutely astonishing.
One of the people who was instrumentally responsible for Wokism just admitted that it failed totally - on FOX in prime-time.
Gotta say...to figure out how to repair damage to YOUR company from the whole DEI era, check out unifiedsolutionsamerica.com!
Wide Awake Media@wideawake_media
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink—who played an instrumental role in forcing woke diversity quotas on companies—now concedes that the "woke era" was "a failed experiment".
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@sagesteele @chicagobulls @NBA But he said words! That's serious. It would be different if he did something unimportant, like beating up women & children or driving drunk.
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IF it’s true that Jaden Ivey has mental health issues, wouldn’t it be best for @chicagobulls & the league to HELP him vs cut him? Offer him resources? Just like the @nba did for Ben Simmons, DeMar DeRozan, Kevin Love & so many others. WHY ARE THE RULES DIFFERENT FOR JADEN? 🤔
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@notzeeunaliver @MoviesThatMaher That's an interesting way to say, "there sure are a lot of dumb people in the comments".
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The new teaser for #Supergirl shows us our main problem with a Gunn led DC Universe and the still awkward connections to the old DC Universe.
Supergirl having a Starlord level of music obsession mixed with the uninspiring cameos from characters who should be a physical presence. (They added more of him to combat this issue)
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
New teaser for ‘SUPERGIRL’. Trailer releases tomorrow.
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@MoviesThatMaher Gunn only knows how to tell one story, and it's now far beyond tired and wasn't really that great in the first place.
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