Guardians 3 was good.

Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.

On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.

Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…

Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.

They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.

All good points except the Ranked Choice.

It’s somewhat of a poison pill.

On the surface, Ranked Choice looks like it would be a good idea, but when you break it down, it has some fundamental problems that are just as bad for democracy as First Past the Post.

This video is a great watch on the subject, it goes through all the problems in great detail, but the TLRW is thus, Ranked Choice is a flawed system, fatally so.

If you want to steal an election but make it look legit, Ranked Choice is your number one voting system. If you want viable third parties, Ranked Choice is not the voting system for you. It actually punishes viable third parties harder than FPtP.

A far better system in every way is STAR.

Done for, but also done to.

It’s that “Done to” that requires the largest showing of human decency now. After all, one of the first ways to make up for the wrongs of the past is to stop committing more wrongs.

Sadly, we have two old men to choose from. One of which feels really bad about the wrongs he’s committed, but still hasn’t stopped. The other feels no remorse at all, ever, and will gleefully commit worse wrongs, all while quoting Hitler speeches.

Basic human decency is relevant to the electorate. Well, to just over half of the electorate. The rest of the electorate seems to think basic human decency is a weakness that should be scorned.

TPP was a horrible treaty. The entire process was basically Hollywood and a few other corporate entities writing out their dream laws that were too horrible to actually pass any legislative body. But once it was in a treaty, they could hound Congress to pass said laws to “meet international obligations”.

They are indeed. But Palestinians are brown, so they don’t count.

We know that brown people don’t count because of how Israel has treated Ethiopian Jews.

The Russian skating federation does take doping seriously, they put a lot of effort into doing it and trying to hide it.

They’ve even made participation in doping schemes mandatory for all Russian athletes.

Are you currently working? Because if you are, then swallowing shotgun shells now, means that you have technically worked until you died.

The best thing to do is to quit and then go live in a van down by the river. If you can afford a van in this economy.

Except no. That’s not how it works at all.

Medical interventions must be better than placebo, and by a measurable amount, or else those interventions are not granted regulatory approval.

If they are not better than placebo, then (in the US) they get sold over the counter as “herbal remedies” or “alternative medicine”.

Do you know what the alternative to medicine is? Not medicine.

There were Zionists in Israel who were actually supportive of the Nazis, both because they hated the British that much, and because they thought that if the Nazis forced the Jews out of Europe, those Jews would move to Mandatory Palestine to take up arms and exterminate the Arabs.

The Stern Gang, otherwise known as the Lehi terrorist organization (and later integrated directly into the IDF as it formed) actually used Nazi race “science” to claim that Jews were a superior race and should exterminate the Arabs who lived in the area. The Stern Gang actually tried to field troops in support of the Nazis in Europe. They tried repeatedly until 1942. The Nazis said no.

Fun fact; Netanyahu’s political party formed in the 1980s, as a fusion of two other right-wing parties. The first part leader and Netanyahu’s mentor was a former member of Lehi, and as prime minister gave all surviving terrorists medals “for their service in creating the State of Israel”.

The other two paramilitary organizations that folded into the IDF were also full of terrorists.

Did you ever wonder why the population of Gaza is majority children?

Do note that the people of Gaza have been under a complete border lockdown for the last 17 years. Nothing enters or exists without the IDF okay. Including money for Hamas.

Even before the current genocide, 40% of Gazan households experienced extreme food insecurity.

Look at the original comment in this particular thread, It calls 20k deaths rookie numbers compared to the British atrocities.

Note how it’s talking about Britton, and by extension Canada’s past, and making the observation that Canada’s current reluctance to face the reality of a (friendly) country’s ongoing genocide is because Canada would have to face up to their own history of genocide, both when they were part of the Empire, and for decades afterward.

Take it from someone who was paying attention at the time. As bloody and horrific as it was, the fighting in Mosul was fucking laser guided precision compared to what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Israel is using massive bombs in areas that it tells refugees are safe. They bomb refugee camps and convoys. As in, directly targeting them, with bombs designed to cause as much collateral damage as possible.

And remember, the refugees are only camped in those places and taking those routes because Israel said they would be safe.

As to the “not being fair” comparing the dead children in different wars, remember that Total deaths of children in Iraq, for the entire 14 years of the conflict with ISIS, were less than died in Gaza in a single month.

That’s what you don’t seem to understand. That’s why we can easily call this a genocide in motion.

Add in comments by Israeli officials about “voluntary resettlement” in other countries.

It’s pure genocide. They’re literally saying “leave your home or die, surrender your land and property on the way out”. It’s exactly what the Germans said to Jews in the lead up to the Holocaust.

Okay, city fighting is messy…

Except the second item on the list,

https://edition.cnn.com/gaza-israel-big-bombs

Israel is using 2000lbs bombs in Gaza, using hundreds of them. These are not, in any way, targeted strikes. They kill civilians by the dozens.

In 20 years of war, the US only ever used 500lbs bombs in urban environments. Even that was often barbaric in the amount of collateral damage caused.

Also, are you calling the fucking Battle of Mosula frozen conflict?

That was some of the bloodiest fighting in the entire war, all of it urban. There were fewer children killed in the entire 9 months than there have been killed in 3 in Gaza. And not by a small amount.

It’s slightly more complicated than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations

And also, the Residential Schools were 100% Canadian.

Not that Canada was the only country to have them, no. I mean, the fault for what happened in the Canadian ones was 100% on Canada. They enforced the system with fucking Mounties, and kept those torture houses going until 1997.

Well, first of all is the idea that this level of destruction is in any way normal in war.

Take a look at this chart here. Those date ranges in the chart have some of the bloodiest conflict in each war, and yet on any given day only a handful of children would die.

Israel is killing an average of almost 150 children per day.

That’s why we’re calling it a genocide.

What face is on Canadian money?

Also, don’t look up the Canadian residential schools if you’re squeamish.

Yup, kbin for the win.

Just wish it had a mobile app…

I actually say the cheapest option is buying a good quality Safety Razor, and then packs of blades for pennies each.

It’s how I’ve shaved for years, and I’m never going back to the multi blade bullshit disposables.

Adli’s beer is usually locally sourced. I lived in Columbus OH for a time, and the selection was actually pretty good (depending on season).

I’ve also seen Aldi stock horrible beer, both in Columbus and elsewhere.