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Yeah that isn't a shock at all. Millar maybe isn't right wing but he's at the very least that kind of contrarian libertarian that actually is just right wing
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Taken in by Tucker Carlson pretending to be surprised major news companies are just taking marching orders from the uber-rich. It's amazing how eager some people are to advertise their stupidity.
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There's this clip floating around of Tucker Carlson just serving Ben Shapiro arguing that traditional signifiers of progress like buying a car and a house have become unattainable for most college graduates and that workforce automation will destroy American families and he's just...right about everything. He's a Fox News talking head, regularly foments hatred against immigrants, transpeople, etc., and is just plain evil, but I can see someone without much familiarity with American news media being duped by a short out-of-context clip of the curtain briefly being lifted.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:55
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Yeah, I don’t expect Millar to be aware of Carlson, he seems to be an unknown outside the US unless you’re very online and keyed in to American media/politics. Like wasn’t there just some massive issue with the BBC? I have no idea what’s going on there and would have to research the issue, and I only know something’s up because I follow a number of brits so it ended up on my timeline.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Yeah, I don’t expect Millar to be aware of Carlson, he seems to be an unknown outside the US unless you’re very online and keyed in to American media/politics. Like wasn’t there just some massive issue with the BBC? I have no idea what’s going on there and would have to research the issue, and I only know something’s up because I follow a number of brits so it ended up on my timeline. Feels like there's a new one every week, but the latest I know of is that Gary Lineker (former footballer and sports commentator) criticized the government's immigration policies comparing them to 1930s Germany, the BBC suspended him, and pretty much everyone who could afford to do so walked off in protest.
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Bruceski posted:Feels like there's a new one every week, but the latest I know of is that Gary Lineker (former footballer and sports commentator) criticized the government's immigration policies comparing them to 1930s Germany, the BBC suspended him, and pretty much everyone who could afford to do so walked off in protest. They also decided to move a David Attenborough nature documentary to their Online service only, because it could be offensive to the right-wing. Can't be mean about Daddy oil! And their (Conservative party donor) prime-time news host had to resign from a bunch of charities because she dismissed (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson's father breaking his wife's nose in a violent attack as "it only happened once" during a debate about giving said Wife-beater a knighthood. The BBC is hopelessly compromised by the Tories. BooDooBoo fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Yeah, I don’t expect Millar to be aware of Carlson, he seems to be an unknown outside the US unless you’re very online and keyed in to American media/politics. Like wasn’t there just some massive issue with the BBC? I have no idea what’s going on there and would have to research the issue, and I only know something’s up because I follow a number of brits so it ended up on my timeline. As a european, I just barely know who Tucker Carlson is, and I follow US politics pretty closely, and i'm interested in what the right wing is doing there. It is not at all surprising if Millar doesn't know who he is. Also, Ultimates was satire. The fact that people don't seem to understand that a writer can write characters who are bad people, without being a bad person themselves, is a bit scary.
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I feel like if you're gonna write a fawning post about someone you saw for five seconds on the internet, maybe you should do maybe do a cursory googling first. Just to make sure you aren't being a complete dumbass.
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Mar 22, 2023 12:09
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Our right-wing TV and radio commentators including Tucker regularly call for imprisoning and killing anyone who doesn't look or act like them. Whatever is happening in alot of Europe pales in comparision E: which leads to massacres that they then pretend they had nothing to do with.
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Kchama posted:I feel like if you're gonna write a fawning post about someone you saw for five seconds on the internet, maybe you should do maybe do a cursory googling first. Millar was interviewed by YouTube personality The Critical Drinker a few months ago, and it was funny watching Drinker feel out Millar's positions in the Pop Culture Wars only for Millar to smile through and give responses like, "Every generation feels ownership over their favorite series and characters, but it's the next generation's job to keep evolving and making new stories for their own time" (paraphrasing). Maybe Millar would hate on the woke mob sjw soyflakes more if the fallout wouldn't hurt his media deals, who knows.
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someone posted a clip from the critical drinker somewhere on these forums and it was the worst 30 seconds of put on grating personality this side of pewdiepie jesus christ
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Don't you love when someone makes drinking a core facet of their personality?
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Shageletic posted:someone posted a clip from the critical drinker somewhere on these forums and it was the worst 30 seconds of put on grating personality this side of pewdiepie jesus christ Every now and then until I finally blocked his channel YouTube who spit one of his videos at me because I watched, I dunno, Cosmonaut Variety Hour talk about MCU stuff and it was just a typical CG-esque douche except Scottish and sounding like he was constipated.
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Soonmot posted:Don't you love when someone makes drinking a core facet of their personality? It's only a matter of time until someone makes a youtube channel called the Drunken Beard and welp never mind because I looked it up before posting and it exists but doesn't at a glance seem particularly chuddy so I guess its good that it won't get used by some EVS acolyte I guess
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Part of why I love hate twitter. There’s a dude arguing with Tom that Kal isn’t a refugee, he’s an adoptee. The audacity.
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 The current legal definition of "refugee" in the US only covers persecution, not fleeing an environmental disaster like one's planet blowing up.  Yes, we are that horrible.
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Mar 22, 2023 22:32
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Actually Superman is an illegal alien (literally). Checkmate liberals.
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It must have been difficult for him to get financial aid for college. I guess Ma and Pa Kent paid his way?
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Rental Sting posted:It must have been difficult for him to get financial aid for college. I guess Ma and Pa Kent paid his way? He went to college in the 30s, it was free for everyone. Actually I don't know if original Clark Kent went to college, I'm assuming the modern version did, because it's basically impossible to get a job as a newspaper reporter without a degree, but I don't think that was true back in the 30s.
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Oasx posted:Also, Ultimates was satire. The fact that people don't seem to understand that a writer can write characters who are bad people, without being a bad person themselves, is a bit scary. You greatly misunderestimate our stupidity, I'm afraid.
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Skwirl posted:He went to college in the 30s, it was free for everyone. His college girlfriend was a mermaid. Those stories were from the 50s but give him a few years and that would be in college in the 30s.
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Rental Sting posted:It must have been difficult for him to get financial aid for college. I guess Ma and Pa Kent paid his way?
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9 months is maybe too implausibly long for one continuous snow storm
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Mar 23, 2023 00:45
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site posted:9 months is maybe too implausibly long for one continuous snow storm Kansas
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site posted:9 months is maybe too implausibly long for one continuous snow storm You don't show for a few months and if you were trying to hide it you can probably get to 6 or 7 months before it became obvious. Or you claim he was a premee. So like a two or 3 month time where everyone is snowed in. Absolutely has happened in rural Kansas before.
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Endless Mike posted:In at least one version of his origin, he crashed on the Kents' farm during a snow storm, so they just claimed he was born during that and got him a birth certificate and Social Security number. It's 092-09-6616 Gonna do some secret identity theft on Kal-El.
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Could also just say he was a foundling, which he was. Pretty sure mystery orphans can still be legally people.
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Endless Mike posted:In at least one version of his origin, he crashed on the Kents' farm during a snow storm, so they just claimed he was born during that and got him a birth certificate and Social Security number. It's 092-09-6616  Random Stranger posted:Gonna do some secret identity theft on Kal-El. Where's How Wonderful? Goons are trying to farm kiwis in a Kansas snowstorm over here! They's conspiring. hearty LOL that Endless Mike knows Superman's social. Impressively nerdy. Hahaha, awesome
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disposablewords posted:Could also just say he was a foundling, which he was. Pretty sure mystery orphans can still be legally people. Foundlings can be taken away by the state. It's safer for the Kents to claim that Clark is their natural born son.
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site posted:9 months is maybe too implausibly long for one continuous snow storm It's fine, because The Manhunters caused the long snow-storm. I've not read that comic for something like 30 years, and still remember that factoid.
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B33rChiller posted:
I had to look it up! I just knew that there's a published number for him, though it was apparently from the 50s so might not be canon anymore.
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Endless Mike posted:In at least one version of his origin, he crashed on the Kents' farm during a snow storm, so they just claimed he was born during that and got him a birth certificate and Social Security number. It's 092-09-6616 Social Security didn't even exist until 1936, and to this day foreign nationals can get a SSN if they work in the US, as well as draw benefits from paying in. Pre-1996 you didn't even need permission from DHS. Also home births were not strange or unusual in the 1930s and there was no big huge rush to get a birth certificate because it didn't really do much for you. It wasn't until World War II that they became necessary as proof you were a natural born citizen to work in factories contributing to the war effort. There are lots of stories of people having to have someone go with them to attest to their birth to get a 'delayed birth certificate' as adults because they were born at home and their parents just didn't bother. So yeah noone would've blinked an eye about old John and Martha Kent showing up with a baby six months later regardless of weather. Adoption was considered a bit of a sensitive subject, original birth certificates would've been sealed by court order anyway, people really did leave babies on doorsteps at times, and in a small town everyone would've just nodded and smiled and accepted it without too much fuss.
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https://www.genealogybank.com/newsletter-archives/201307/help-needed-cracking-genealogy-brick-wall
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In the earliest version (Action Comics no.1, pg.1) the Kents find him, drop him off at an orphanage, then return an unspecified amount of time later to adopt him. We can assume the orphanage did whatever processing would have been appropriate for the 1910s (assuming he's in his 20s as of publication) in the interim. It probably involved a lot of fumigation, and... I dunno, phrenology?
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After The War posted:In the earliest version (Action Comics no.1, pg.1) the Kents find him, drop him off at an orphanage, then return an unspecified amount of time later to adopt him. We can assume the orphanage did whatever processing would have been appropriate for the 1910s (assuming he's in his 20s as of publication) in the interim. It probably involved a lot of fumigation, and... I dunno, phrenology? man that is a risky move to get some paperwork done. You gotta get back there to pick up the kid before he gets loaded on a train to be sold off somewhere
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I know it is Max Landis, but in American Alien, wasn't it basically an open secret about where Clark/Kal-El came from in Smallville and the town also helped forge a birth certificate for him? Or at least that is what I took out of it from what I have seen.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:https://www.genealogybank.com/newsletter-archives/201307/help-needed-cracking-genealogy-brick-wall pretty good but feels like it's tipping it's hand with Kal/Cal
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