The Stupid Thread 2 (Part 2)

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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Or AI takes over many of the jobs members of gen Z could have undertaken

Computer science is where it’s at

Lot of young adults my age switching degrees and getting into computer science/coding.

? What’s this? I imagine it to be someone with good genes who can give rise to strong, healthy offspring. If I wanted to make this a usable term, I’d think it means this. I’d like to think this is what it means too… but I’m guessing the word you are referring to (that I’ve never heard being used to describe a person) is far more grotesque.

pornosexual is an orientation used to describe people who only get off to porn… doesn’t this just mean you’re either a single guy and/or you have a pornography addiction :facepalm:

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ThEy’Re QuEeR (not adhering to heteroNoRmaTiVe standards)

Get woke!

That’s what the Q is 2slgbtqiamsirp stands for

Msirp is prism backwards

Triangle!

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@startingagain

I fEeL rEpReSeNtEd!

What about you? Could you IMAGINE swinging around on webs like that? My shoulders would die within my first week of being spiderman!

For reference

Good disabled heroes are

  • professor xavier
  • daredevil
  • the legless guy who acquires the venom symbiote and becomes a superhero
  • cyborg
  • hawkeye

I’ve read sun-spider for the memes, and I noticed she was in the film “across the spider-verse” (albeit briefly).

Come to think of it, the new phase of marvel in it’s entirety sucks nowadays. Even though across the spider verse was a phenomenal film without any overtly obvious political agenda… there is a hell of a lot of subliminal messaging.

Gwen Stacy has a “protect trans kids” flag in her room with the trans colours. Gwen Stacy’s cop father has a trans flag pinned on his uniform… Myles Morales has a #BLM sticker on his bag… Gwen’s spiderman uniform resembles the colors of the trans flag (I actually noticed this during the movie). No over the top, preachy bullshit therefore it was easy to ignore and enjoy what was otherwise a REALLY good movie

But it riles me up a little bit… nowadays, why is ‘disability’ lumped in with the gay community? Can anyone explain this? Should mention sun spider is also a lesbian… because of course she is! There’s nothing wrong with being gay, or being a lesbian for that matter… but why not create a UNIQUE, original superhero as opposed to hogging existing caricatures and inserting attributes, characteristics or afflictions that writers wish for pre-existing characters to harbor… even though these characters (spider man and spider woman for instance) have never been disabled or gay to begin with.

Nowadays I see quite a bit of overlap between unrelated variables… almost as if ‘neurodiverse’, ‘disabled/genetic or acquired disorder’, ‘homosexual’ and ‘trans’ are somehow related? No… they aren’t…

Also, in the first issue of sun spider ( I am nerding out)… When the one kid offers her a pair of fully functioning, strong legs to work with… god damn she should have taken that offer up. She keeps complaining about being disabled in the comic… But she refuses the legs and refuses to dance with the boy because she’s homosexual and therefore the guy rages out and turns into doctor octopus, destroying Charlotte Webber’s (yes… that’s actually her name) high school prom in the process

JUST TAKE THE FUCKING LEGS GODDAMMIT! If someone offered me a pair of mechanical arms that were strong as fuck, could be attached without requiring lifelong immunosuppressant therapy and somehow these arms were fully usable i.e could be used to lift heavy objects without risk of tearing the arms out… I’d take that offer in a heartbeat… even if I had nothing wrong with me I’d be more than happy to try that out lol.

also @startingagain how are you doing? How’s the exercise program going? I’m spiderman!

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And another step in de-normalizing biological women. Now even strai… I mean, “gynosexuals” supposedly aren’t exclusively into straight women.

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I got into comics last year and quickly got back out. Vintage comics are too expensive and new comics suck for the reasons you pointed out (for the most part).

Comics used to give political meaning without having to force it in the reader’s face as a poor ass plot point. Think old school X-men: it covers themes of segregation, “othering” (which is kind of a woke term I realize that just means treating someone as subhuman), non-normative types trying to fit in and use their strengths to better society.
It accomplished this through the use of something critically missing in todays comics and literature in general: sub-text. No longer are things open to thought and interpretation by the reader because the narrative is going to tell you exactly what to think. And if you don’t 100% align with that train of thought, then you are some sort of -ist or -phobe whose not worthy of having someone head out your ideas/thoughts on the matter.
Write meaningful stories without retconning characters to become something they never were (heaven forbid authors include character growth) or introducing new characters for the sole purpose of having another social label class represented. Make the new characters compelling and if they also happen to be x, y, or z - fine. But using those as a plot point means you don’t have a plot.

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You can find the issues online so you don’t have to pay for anything

Can also download comics

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Better get used to it.

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Stunning and brave.

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I don’t really care as long as it’s not a retcon (I have no idea who this character) and it’s not used as some of major plot point where this character is nothing more than whatever she identifies as. I also have no problem with a trans woman playing a woman (if cis women take issue with it I understand why, but I don’t have a dog in that fight).

:arrow_up: I’ll take sentences I never thought would be typed for 300 Alex.

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I will be shocked and stand corrected if this is anything more than a virtual signal by Disney.

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That’s what I don’t get when these casting choices are obvious virtue signals (not saying this one is, but many examples in the past can be found) doesn’t that infantilize the actor a bit? Wouldn’t one feel they got hired for ticking some box instead of talent/ability? Especially if the character is written poorly?

Representation is good…done properly.

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Disagree here. It’s our society too. This issue will effect my sons, nieces, and nephews more than it will ever effect our generation.

Personally, I would think so, but it seem to me that the loudest on the far left don’t care so much about substance as they do exposure.

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For the most part, their whole identity seems to be wrapped up in being trans rather than being a good actor or whatever.

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Saw this one the other day:

When I play God of War, I don’t want Kratos to look like me. I want him to be the most badass unrealistic god-slayer that can be rendered.

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I perceive that some trans folks seem to think being trans itself is a talent / ability.

Examples of this are things like trans folks praising the fact that a trans person was elected to a position of law maker. The qualifications or positions of said person are rarely discussed, just that they are trans.

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I feel like linking the entire Titanic submarine thread here.

It is a wild ride haha. Insurance scams, flat earth, vaccines and autism…

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I bet it’s tame compared to some of the threads I’ve seen elsewhere. I’ve never seen so many people happy several men died.

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Read / skim the thread. It is wild haha.

I’ve seen this a bit on reddit. It seem to me that people are fine with rich people dying. Most of those people desire to one day be rich, but currently despise rich people. I don’t really get it.

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It is acting after all.

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