Uhh, it's like seeing those before and after pics of a beautiful girl who had her face burned off.

Batman used his wealth to create a cave-dwelling, cosplay family including a circus acrobat who regularly punch evil clowns and startle the police commissioner. Abuse of the proletariat is acceptable if you're charmingly eccentric.

And not real.

Yah. That's also partly why I thought last year's Joker movie was lame. They reduced one of the best characters ever into a boring incel.

You shut the **** up.

I liked it but not so much because it was an interesting portrayal of the Joker but because it was a pretty good movie. Like, I was waiting the whole time for them to connect the character's journey into becoming the Joker but that never quite happened and so I was left with just appreciating the movie as something comic book inspired rather than being an actual comic book movie.

Honestly I find myself not liking the Nolan Batman movies as much as I used to cause as good as they are and as neat as it was to see such realistic superhero movies in the wake of all those corny early-mid 00s comic book movies, in 2020 they seem kind of bland.

No. I don’t remember whoever the **** that is.

He's a hundreds-year-old eco-terrorist who wants to drastically reduce the human population so that the earth can heal from pollution and deforestation who has assembled a cult following of fanatical assassins that see him as a messianic figure due to his using evil pits of nebulously supernatural liquids (Lazarus pits) that sustain his life indefinitely while also slowly driving him insane.

Except in that movie where he's just an old guy with some ninjas who just kinda wants to destroy Gotham cause it's too corrupt for his tastes and he's Liam Neeson so it more or less works anyway even if it isn't as cool.

I'm sure Batman could get Gotham to go green if he tried. But he doesn't.

Blame the incel writers.

Nah. You should play some Soviet Jump Game with me, see if you can find me.

Still on a Chromebook, champ.

Dang. Well I'm streaming again.

And another reason Batman is awesome is cause one of the Robins started out as a homeless smoker with a Poison Idea poster who tried to steal the Batmobile's wheels (and the Joker ran away).

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Hitler was no Jew.

Well he was very successful none-the-less.

Where'd that rumor come from?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost...ish-597966/amp


Study suggests Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandfather was Jewish

I have no idea. Idgaf. Surprised anyone made it through that rant. I’m feeling positively murderous today.

Not really the scientific consensus though.

I always enjoy your rants. Don't go overboard with the murderousness though.

I 2nd this.

I had this argument with my friend the other day. Telling him that communism is the most congruent economic system with true libertarianism with the least amount of government. He wasn't hearing it because 'wikipedia says blah blah blah about China and Soviet Russia'.

I said I didn’t need a history lesson. I understand that **** but don’t care. Stalin put the pedal to the metal.

To what? What the **** did he do?

He was a working class man by origin who ran a fierce campaign that was not threatened by counter-revolutionaries. In an equivalent situation in America, Bezos definitely would not survive. Nor would his family. And no one would dare say ****. Wouldn’t even have a ****ing funeral.

Ok which one of you is actually this guy on YT.

Who ****ing cares?

And that accomplished nothing except put the means of production in the hands of different rich people.

That's nice. If all you needed to set up a utopia was revenge killings then Nazi Germany was a missed opportunity.

What paperwork? Were you a non-filer?

maybe not in your case, but one form of direct democracy is voting directly on policy initiatives. It's this form that people would point towards in a country like Switzerland, for example. So I don't think it's really mutually exclusive with the idea of a nation state.

As for unweildy, it doesn't seem less workable than the kind of completely decentralized global order you are speaking of. If anything I'd say the opposite is true.
Even if the current system is unsustainable long term, that doesn' necessarily mean it can be replaced with just anything

I'm not even saying "that could never happen" I'm saying I don't see it personally. The moral imperative collapses for me when you aren't presenting a true option out. It's very similar to me to when libertarians say taxation is theft. And so what if it is? I believe that any form of advanced society is and has always been built on top of a foundation of coercive force. I'm happy to discuss other possibilities, I just won't accept them unquestioningly.

that was the idea in the Soviet and Soviet-esque societies too. I actually have some strange type of sympathy for that impulse on some level as well but it goes without saying that totalitarians never willingly relinquish power once they get it. So the dream that it's a stepping stone to true democracy is just that - a dream. It's much more likely that democracy is yet another stepping stone to authoritarianism.

That’s all true I figure.

We need a Bond villain to set off a nuclear holocaust that doesn't quite kill everyone. Only a Bond villain can be trusted to make the right choice.

Nah, what we need are hostile aliens from another star system to hate unconditionally. It's the only thing that would motivate and unite humanity at a global scale.

Hating aliens got Donald Trump the presidency though :drummer:

"The Space Force tells me they're rapists. And some, I assume, are good squids."

I've been told some dolphins have been known to rape

Starting a petition to change the team name to the Miami Rapists

Dolphins, otters, ducks, all rapists.

Jaws is looking a lot friendlier all of a sudden.

Female duck vaginas are actually evolving to prevent rapist ducks from getting them pregnant. It's a bit weird but has to do with the fact that ducks have corkscrew dicks.

Feminist ducks.

*male ducks evolve tentacle penises*

*female ducks evolve multidimensional vaginas*

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