Especially with all the “Republicans are not in charge” talk Johnson has been spouting. Just start doing things, rules be damned. They’re not being followed anyway, so just start doing what you want to do.
Invite any Republicans who want to join in, even if they want to argue against it, that’s fine, just show yourself working. Either make Johnson show up and actually run things, or run things without him.
For Batman specifically I think it starts as a way to clean up Gotham. He’ll quit just as soon as Gotham is cleaned up. But of course it’s a neverending task. Plus even if he cleaned up Gotham, how can he stop there? How can he stop when there is so much left to do.
But! That’s why I like Batman working with the Justice League and Superman specifically. He can never go back to being Bruce Wayne, he’ll always be Batman, but at least with Superman he gets his moments of comfort, however brief they may be.
Batman is cursed to be Batman and not Bruce Wayne. That’s his character.
I’m not against changing some aspects of his character. And as you noted other characters strike a balance. But those are other characters. If we’re changing too much of a character, maybe we just tell that different character’s story instead.
As for Spider-Man, that is a character who, depending on the story and timeline of that story, does try to strike a balance. In terms of being poor I think it’s a matter of being independent. Whenever he works for someone, they tend to want to do things their way. Even if he agrees or he’s doing what he wanted to do, there is still that layer of dependence.
To add, the election Platner is running in has their primaries in June 2026, general in November 2026.
Platner has A LOT of work to do between now and then to prove what kind of person he is and what ideas he has, but he also has A LOT of time to do it.
I understand anyone’s hesitation in supporting him. It’s a reasonable view. Platner may never recover from this. Maybe he can. Platner is going to need to work hard to overcome this. Other candidates may be better.
The psychological scarring is an interesting point, but that only works if you know why the snap happened.
By the end of Infinity War most of Thanos’s army and underlings have been defeated. Thanos then (within a few days/weeks) goes into retirement. So he’s not spreading word of his accomplishments or reasoning.
Carol mentions at the start of Endgame that a lot of other worlds need her help. So she could spread some information on what happened, but I’m not sure it’s going to really stick. You need the trauma of Thanos actually showing up (or his underlings and then the Avengers filling in the gaps).
The problem seems to be that consequences no longer matter. I say that to be a bit extreme, but it might hold to be true.
The NYC mayoral race includes Andrew Cuomo. He felt it nessisarry to resign based on allegations of sexual misconduct. Maybe it was worse than that, probably, but it further proves my point.
You can’t resign and then immediately run again. I guess from a strictly moral level you’re at least being honest this time, but you can’t just admit to things and then move on immediately.
For some reason you can just admit to a crime and then move on for free?
Technically yeah. On Monday at 20 days, it was the third longest, on Tuesday at 21 days, it ties for the second longest, and on Wednesday at 22 days (assuming) it will become the untied second longest.
But I think we’re going for the record, currently at 35 days, set during the administation of exactly who you think.
Inside out socks is the answer! The seam truly is evil and I can’t understand why no one else seems to notice.
I expect many of the “no socks” people would be happier if they just turned them inside out.
*(For anyone looking to try this, I’ve been told you need to start with new socks, you can’t convert right-side in socks to inside-out socks.)
So I’ve always felt this way about video games.
Can you imagine a kids first Mario game being Mario Wonder? That’s a twist on Mario games, it’s not the base Mario!? They won’t understand what makes it an interesting new game!
But the thing is, it’s fine. Everything new is old. Plus it’s the Internet, it’s impossible to actually sort out everything.
Like, what is Roblox? I know it’s some online game. Then I saw John Green play Roblox with his daughter. It was a dress up simulator. That’s Roblox?
Or how about the song Gangnam Style? I remember when that reached 1 billion views on YouTube. That was a moment. But then remember Despacito? When I first heard that song it was already at 1.2 billion views. How could I clearly remember the first billion views video, but completely miss it happening again?
Think about the entirety of history that happened before you. How did you sort that out?
I’ve watched every episode of The Simpsons and every Star Wars film and TV show.
Which kind of fan am I?
Logistically it would be hard to have Kimmel on The Daily Show this evening. Kimmel is in LA and Jon is in New York. Obviously a video call is possible. Obviously flights exist. It would be wild if it happened, but it’s not likely.
I agree with the pledge, I disagree Biden should have stepped down.
A full Democrat primary with a wide range of fresh faces and pitching their ideas for the future. The last election was the same old Biden versus the same old Trump. Sure we did get a last minute change and I think Kamala did an OK job but she should have had a much harder pivot.
Since the advent of the modern primary election system in 1972, an incumbent president has never been defeated by a primary challenger, though every president who faced a strong primary challenge went on to be defeated in the general election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_challenge
Which is exactly why everyone said it was Biden’s decision. A strong primary challenger meant Biden would lose. Should Biden have been convinced to not seek re-election sooner? Yes. But that’s still his decision.
The time for Biden to step aside would have been right after the midterms. Maybe behind the scenes Harris tried to convince Biden, but she clearly failed. Maybe Biden really was at the top of his game and no one saw it until his debate performance, but I’m not sure anyone really believes that. Publicly Team Biden said he was doing backflips around the White House, but of course when the public saw him he was your typical old man.
So… whos to blame? I blame the Democratic party/DNC at large. It’s clear to me most people who vote Democrat want someone more progressive. The DNC would rather play it safe.
That’s good to know. It just looked so weird. I knew what I wrote was also weird, but it felt less weird.
It’s funny to read yesterday’s headline, aka this quote, and then read today’s headline. Everyone is going to boo him tomorrow, please don’t talk about it. He was in fact boo’ed, let’s talk about it.
I guess funny is the wrong word. Insanity?
Not that I’m against new communities, any reason you made a new community instead of joining [email protected] ?
True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.
E. T.
I don’t care that it was rated P. G., they killed my friend and I was just as sad as Elliot. The tubes and the quarantine were absolutely terrifying to me as a child and even seeing clips nowadays gives sends a shiver down my spine. Just sadness and fear.
make use of old eMachines
eMachines was a brand of economical personal computers. In 2004, it was acquired by Gateway, Inc., which was in turn acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. The eMachines brand was discontinued in 2013.
instead of memories with my loved ones
thousands of memes
Maybe the memes are the loved ones. 😢
A 40 minute video about dishwasher soap is either,
Win. Win.
Tap for spoiler
Also it’s B. Great video.