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O God, I just realized the parallel between Krypto and Ultraman.

They are both, respectively, Superman's dog and Lex's 'dog'.

Krypto is Kara's dog who he's watching both for her sake and out of his own decency, a sign of Superman's humanity. Ultraman is a clone created by Lex in a lab.

Krypto is misbehaved and poorly trained, while Ultraman is literally robotic in following orders and doing precisely as Lex says.

Krypto is an innocent life that Clark has to preserve, while Ultraman ends up being a 'rabid dog' that Clark has to put down.

They're both representatives of their owner's worldview but Krypto's excessive energy, his sheer life, ends up being an asset, while Ultraman's unswerving obedience ends up being a weakness.

James Gunn, your mind--

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And they'll twist reality into a pretzel to make it fit the Narrative.

The entirety of Twitter was braying like donkeys all week that the movie is "100% about Israel" and praising James Gunn for being "anti-Israel" and "anti-Zionist" but yeah, sure... suddenly you all pretend there wasn't a highly public victory tour from Hamas supporters when the movie was released and that Israelis could see that. Now it's all in their heads to the point they're telling on themselves for objecting to the movie because they accept the parallels you all made?? Do I have this right or should I have a few more debilitating strokes so that I can see the world from your point of view?

Which is it?? It's turning out your pockets all over again. We get to claim subtext and allegory and implication and, dare I say, dogwhistles, but the moment you put the actual name to it we say "Um when did they actually say that, wow, self report!"

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Tags I saw on a post about the Barbie movie that I saw and decided I would refuse to read more of. Presented without comment.

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How many of those takes have you actually seen, and how do you know all this about every person with those opinions?

Because the only specific one I've heard of was Fox News, and I immediately went "oh, it's bait, stupid, or stupid bait. Disregard".

I've also personally seen a few left-wing people say a major subplot was about the Israel-Palestine conflict in a left-wing way, which I also disagree with.

Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

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I don't get it.

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"this person is a genocidal zionist!!!" and it's just some jewish guy saying october 7th was bad (it is)

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I love how people taking back their ancient homeland they got kicked out of are "settler colonialists", when that's literally the opposite of reality.

It's interesting how the same Jews that were systematically murdered by Europeans for their ethnicity, magically became European colonizers when they rebuilt their own country in their historic homeland so they won't get murdered.

According to the antisemites cosplaying as human rights activists.

You know, the ones who are currently silent about the Druze, Christians and Alawites being murdered, raped and taken into slavery by islamists in Syria.

Unlike them, Israeli people are not silent and the Israeli government is helping them - the wounded Syrian Druze are being treated in Israeli hospitals right now, the IDF is actively backing up the minorities in Syria & preventing the terrorists from massacaring them, Israelis are raising money to send to families that were harmed.

Meanwhile, the "peace activists" are like "haha there is a fire in Israel lol hope they all die"

There are people who risk their life to save lives and there are people who don't have a life because they are too busy wishing death upon others. Supporting terrorists is the perfect activity for the latter.

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Also, Boravia were the unprovoked aggressors. They hadn't spent decades taking rockets at the other country (as far as we know). There was, conspicuously, no actual casus belli, just greed. And neither Israel nor Hamas map to Jaharnapur either.

The entirety of Twitter was braying like donkeys all week that the movie is "100% about Israel" and praising James Gunn for being "anti-Israel" and "anti-Zionist" but yeah, sure... suddenly you all pretend there wasn't a highly public victory tour from Hamas supporters when the movie was released and that Israelis could see that. Now it's all in their heads to the point they're telling on themselves for objecting to the movie because they accept the parallels you all made?? Do I have this right or should I have a few more debilitating strokes so that I can see the world from your point of view?

Which is it?? It's turning out your pockets all over again. We get to claim subtext and allegory and implication and, dare I say, dogwhistles, but the moment you put the actual name to it we say "Um when did they actually say that, wow, self report!"

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I like how when it came to Russian soldiers people were like "oh it's not the soliders fault, they're just doing what they've been led to believe was right. We should reach out to them and let them know what they're doing is wrong"

But when Israel defendeds itself against terrorists and civilians get killed because of said terrorists it's "death to the idf"

Obviously Russia and Israel aren't comparable situations but since people seem so keen on that comparison here's some comparison on the treatment you gave the soliders

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>Rihanna

>Black lipstick

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as someone who got 2 concussions this year and inhaled toxic substances at the workplace i can confidently inform you all that all characters in the star wars prequels are absolved of stupidity. they're all dumb as a box of rocks but its not their fault that no one made them wear helmets in wartime. the introduction of SPOSHA (space OSHA) would reduce incidences of darth vader creation by at least one i just know it

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"But how can you justify a player character with a (non-disinherited) noble background in a dungeon-crawling fantasy game" well, the most obvious approach is a fantasy setting whose nobility practices cognatic primogeniture where, instead of "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes a priest", it's "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes an adventurer". From the player's perspective, it handily explains why the title comes with little material support from the family; from the family's perspective, there's an unspoken understanding that most of the spare heirs will be eaten by a dragon (or whatever), thereby simplifying the inheritance situation, and the few survivors will become great assets.

(There is, of course, the possibility that a surviving third son, having grown powerful and understandably harbouring some slight resentment, may return, kill his elder brothers with dark magic, and take over the dynasty, but in practice this almost never happens.)

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It is absolutely absurd to compare cleaning an apartment to the provable rape and torture Palestinians suffer in captivity.

Also, your side were the ones who bought up Palestinian suffering to downplay OP, so it's frankly bizarre how you're acting like it was OP doing the reverse.

Especially when OP explicitly said you can (and implicitly should) care for the suffering of both.

Which none of you three even managed to pretend to do.

You can admit something would be horrific to go through without calling it human rights abuses. That term matters.

This from team "let's wildly misuse 'genocide' and 'occupation' because they're emotionally appealing".

And more precisely, from someone who never acknowledges the "slavery" part of the claim.

There are loads of people who are trafficked and forced to be servants to others, around the world, against their will. They are unable to leave or refuse.

They are widely considered slaves.

She was kidnapped as political leverage but treated with a dignity of conduct Israel cannot claim, and it absolutely matters to the context of the occupation and resistance.

That's nice. How much "dignity of conduct" was Oct 7th? You know, the attack on a random music festival?

Indiscriminate rape and murder?

Frankly, if Israel was as bad as you lot pretend, Hamas should've just called their bluff and given the hostages back a long time ago.

Keeping them is just going to get more Palestinians killed, by your own side's narrative.

Not a single Hamastan I've seen has ever proposed that obvious solution.

Y'all hate to see people even discussing that the hostages exist. Or anything that happened on Oct 7th, at all.

“Noa Argamani was treated well!”

She was kept as a hostage slave in a wealthy family’s apartment, forced to clean it whenever they knocked without warning, for EIGHT MONTHS. Just because they fed her does not mean she wasn’t a hostage and a slave. Her mother also has terminal cancer and was afraid she was never going to see her again.

If you start justifying human rights abuses against women, Jews, and Asians (she is half Chinese) because they are Israeli, you were never against antisemitism, misogyny, or wanted to stop Asian hate.

You can support both Palestinian and Israeli civilian lives.