zeke5123a
2d ago
But this largely makes sense if those other countries didn’t have tariffs on the US to start with. But they do have tariffs and thus it comes across to me as rather hypocritical (ie fuck you for doing the very thing we do).
zeke5123a
3d ago
What are facts? I’m serious. Who gets to determine what is factual? Haniana believes the media doesn’t lie because in the end he accepts that they by and large get to determine what is factual. This position is prima facie absurd and therefore Haniana is absurd.
zeke5123a
7d ago
Zegler has a weird chin and sometimes looks, for lack of a better word, a little retarded.
zeke5123a
9d ago
Yeah true. Problem for them is people just don’t like the paradigmatic young woman of the Modern Audience.
zeke5123a
9d ago
The original of course didn’t shy away from beauty being good. But to your point vanity was bad. Yes Snow White was fair but also good hearted — she wasn’t consumed by her fairness. She inspired everyone around her to be a better person. She didn’t need to be a girlboss; the original Snow White was the paradigmatic young woman — fair, looking forward to building a family, kind, nurturing, and inspiring others to be better.
The modern iteration is…an activist
zeke5123a
9d ago
And the Valar always made claims about not doing something until they did.
zeke5123a
9d ago
Zegler isn’t ugly but next to Gadot Zegler looks like a soft 6. Relative casting matters.
In short, the problems from Snow White are:
- It tells a story most people won’t like
- It doesn’t execute that story very well
- Live action remakes are tired by this point.
- Bad PR as the lead actress trashed the beloved source material and attacked a decent chunk of the audience.
zeke5123a
9d ago
Fair. I read “it” as meaning stories that avoided saving the world whereas OP likely meant stories it to mean stories that focused on saving the world.
Funny enough if you look at the totality of middle earth stories even if Sauron won it wouldn’t be lights out. Morgoth won at one point and the valar intervened.
zeke5123a
10d ago
Isn’t LOTR kind of saving the world? The whole theory is that if Sauron gets the ring, it’s over for the free people of Middle Earth.
zeke5123a
10d ago
Your theory doesn’t make sense. This was an all stock deal. It shouldn’t give liquidity to Musk.
zeke5123a
11d ago
Sure but the idea is in the context of “men and women are equally strong” which even those tropes suggest is not true (because of course it isn’t true)
zeke5123a
11d ago
Why the only time? First you can always go back. Second, maybe getting laid will inspire you to get laid without paying for it
zeke5123a
11d ago
But isn’t the trope accepting that the smaller guy can’t physically compete so he has to figure out another way (eg out smart his opponent)?
zeke5123a
11d ago
I guess — never found those stories reasonable but then again I played sports.
zeke5123a
11d ago
Take for example “Biden was once competent.” Famously Obama said don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things. Has Biden been right about literally anything in FP for years?
The initial post was pure aesthetic (ie Biden, a long time Washington guy, is “very serious” and therefore competent).
zeke5123a
12d ago
Yeah I just don’t know how people can look at men and women and think “physically pretty similar.”
zeke5123a
12d ago
Sure it’s possible. But given his general history not sure that’s the most reasonable interpretation
I don’t know. Competitive news environment? But going to ancient sources of wisdom I need to know that I don’t know. That is, I need to know the media is wrong. I don’t need a solution. Because it is better to know you know nothing as opposed to now things that just ain’t so.
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