To crush your enemies, See them driven before you, And to hear the lamentation of their women.

Conquer the things stopping you from what you want to do. This can be poverty, people, or circumstance. See those things that you have beaten lie at your feet, and revel in the outcries of the things that you now have bested.

When I got to know my gf’s mom and realized I didn’t have massive levels of stress and anxiety around her like I do with my mom.

Yep. You literally see it all over the place.

‘I personally did not get 100% of what I wanted including free puppies for everyone, so I’m never voting again.’

Sweet, so now you get 0% of what you want, instead of 50% of what you wanted. Congrats. Have fun with that sense of moral superiority.

Obama had an entire republican party and Joe Libermann stopping medicare for all. Blame Joe Liebermann, not the guy who tried to get it done.

Biden had one of the thinnest congresses in history, yet his ledger is still full of progressive asks. That apparently isn’t good enough, because he didn’t get you 100% of what you wanted.

This is the entire problem. You expect 100% of what you demand, and when you don’t get it, you’re ‘done’ and don’t want to participate anymore.

Thank you for highlighting this for me.

Yeah I’d agree to all of that.

Sweet. Democrats had plans for a lot of those things, and you guys stayed home and now we have a Nazi in the white house.

So far it’s been pretty good personally.

I work in stunts, and started training with a new stunt team that does some pretty cool projects. I’m not a member yet, but I keep getting invited to trainings and communicating with people in the team, so it’s been going pretty good. They have a few films announced for the upcoming year, so, hopefully I get to work on a few of them!

The left cannot message, because every liberal has their own individual hierarchy of what the top policy issue should be.

And the left cannot accept that peoples’ priorities are not the same.

Sure, the Israel stuff is awful. Do you see these people complaining about Myanmar, or El Salvador, or any of the other human crisis areas in the world? No. They aren’t. They’re complaining about the hot topic item and being slacktivists online, then convincing themselves that making a statement by not participating will some how get people to pay attention to them.

I’ve seen it since the 2000’s, and frankly, I’m fucking sick and tired of terminally online liberalism. It does nothing but complain and then offers no solutions to actually get anything done.

‘We want ranked choice, we want better healthcare, we want better education’ blah blah blah then they sit at home and let a Nazi win. Twice.

Like, have fun riding your moral high horse down to the cattle cars. I hope it was worth it because the democrats didn’t prioritize giving queer pets more representation at shelters or some shit.

‘Rigging the primaries’ as in picking the person who had the most votes?

Cmon man. Did the dems play politics? Sure they did. Do you honestly expect people who are part of an established party to not rally around a candidate that has been a steadfast loyalist in the party for decades, who championed the original version of public healthcare, and instead, rally around a dude who says all the right things but can’t legislate for anything?

This is letting perfect be the enemy of good.

They’re also coopting far left groups to further their goals as well. Lets not kid ourselves.

Where do you think all the ‘don’t vote because X’ reasons suddenly came up a few months before the election in leftist circles?

Easy. They got enough progressives to care about it to not vote, and now that wedge issue is done and they have total control over the government because somehow, Israels actions are the fault of Democrats.

Simple as that.

Precisely. They almost solely are responsible for him. The news companies wagged the dog for clicks.

A man of culture I see.

You think the guy who could never form a single coalition to pass any major legislation is a good choice?

No offense but that’s dumb.

Bernie has good politics but he’s a horrendous politician. Standing off to the side saying the right things, and never getting any legislation passed, is not being a leader. Part of politics is getting people on your side.

He tried to come in and tell everyone he wanted to be the team captain, while never playing a single inning for the team he was wanting to lead.

Are you shocked that people who played on that team didn’t want him to be the leader?

I totally blame the media for a massive part of it. Biden has one bad debate and the news talked about it for over a month.

trump literally did the handjob dance and stood there doing nothing for 40 minutes, and it was out of the news cycle in 24 hours.

The news is why he got elected both times. Which is why I refuse to watch news anymore.

Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.

I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it’ll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.

The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.

Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.

This movie came out during the time of ‘gritty live action’ source material and instead decided that it wanted to be a live-action anime/cartoon.

If you watch it and expect it to be like a cartoon, it’s a perfect film. If you want something ‘deeper’ than that, you’re not going to enjoy it.

I love this film!

Film fans have zero grace when it comes to this franchise.

Lets examine a few things, and talk about why quality dropped off.

Chapek and his blundering accounting decisions from hell

Chapek told Marvel to effectively double their output of productions, without giving them subsequent staff, creatives, and resources to keep their quality control they had (for the most part) maintained over the course of 25 some movies. Ask yourself, how is Kathleen Kennedy (wrong nerd rage target) Kevin Feige and the storytellers at Marvel supposed to maintain quality while having effectively double the work.

You’re all probably adults, and have had more work tossed on your pile than you can handle. How many people here can honestly say they kept the quality of their work up when they have had staff turnovers, more responsibilities, and increased output? I’m guessing none of you, and if you’re saying you kept it you’re a liar.

Marvel was kneecapped from a greedy accountant. Not the creatives fault.

Covid

Here’s also a big one. Any of you guys work in film and television? I do. And I can tell you, we all had to learn, from the ground up, how to shoot movies again while following a bunch of TSA level security theatre charades on set. So from Covid, issue number one. We can’t shoot the way we have shot movies for over 100 years anymore, lets see how this works out. This happened in all films during this pandemic as well, not just with Marvel. But oh just you wait, there’s even more Covid bullshit that fucked Marvel up.

Release orders and shooting orders were all changed around multiple times because of the pandemic.

What’s the one key thing that Marvel has had that no franchise before it had? A concise A-line through all the films weaving together a bunch of movies (and now shows thanks to D+) into a singular cohesive story. This was taken away by shuffling the release order (which is an understandable solution studio side of things, because they need movies to come out even during Covid), but still, a studio decision not a Marvel decision.

Untimely outside events

So another sad part of this is that outside events really hampered the MCU as well. Chadwick was supposed to be a really large part of the next phase and he unfortunately passed, requiring extensive reworks to multiple projects. On top of this, John Majors also had a major controversy which effectively killed off an entire major villain arc (and good for them, did it mess up some films? Sure, but I’d rather them can someone than pull a Spacey and ignore the scandals).

Added thought

For a lot of people, the shows were too much. Totally get it, but what I respect is that they tried numerous formats, styles, run lengths, release schedules, to see what people liked and what people didn’t like. The only one universally disliked was Secret Wars, and there was some actual good ones. too. Again, I get it, but I do respect that they at least had the balls to try different things and see what works and what doesn’t. Looking at Daredevil, I think the future in this part of the franchise is very bright.

Is there some fatigue for Marvel? Sure. But to act like they aren’t popular, or that they’re just ‘bad’ now is just a sophomoric view of the problem, why there’s a problem to begin with, and where the franchise is going as a whole.

Ok I’m going back to my scotch now.

I live in LA. You can find apartments here for cheap if you look.

The whole reason southern California and the Bay Area are both expensive, is because they are some of the most desirable places to live in the entire country.

Simple as that.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

We gave the gov’t 80+ billion dollars in taxes. Texas took 70 billion from the gov’t.