Actually, China just did a lunar sample return.
And no one took umbrage over what the researchers wore (cf.
this).
I know this opinion isn't popular here, but not being saddled with niggers, feminists, queers, and other gimme-gimme grievers will give East Asia an edge in sci-tech over the West. Diversity is NOT strength.
The "episodes" Chris promised:
Two shinning intellect discuss popcorn flick. Luke starts off by blocking someone bearing an inconvenient truth, that someone can actually love the Synder movies without being wrongthinkers.
Then comes the focus of the discussion: MCU, which is "very political":
It is saying something when Luke, of all people, has more insight than Bobby. "Hey this shit is just like an average D&D campaign that bears no resemblance to real life, how can it be 'political'?"
Bobby's reply suggests he is not as much a doofus as we usually take him as: he seems aware that the "politics" of
both the woke Democrats
and MCU are puerile and strictly ornamental.
Bobby said:
Partly because, while the maxim that "everything is political" is TRUE - *nobody* has internalized it more completely than Progressive Democrat Americans; for whom it means their FEELINGS about the world and their POLITICS about the world are one and the same and, additionally, that this way of looking at the world makes them MORE righteous and good than every other political persuasion because how they feel = how they vote = who they are = "Being Myself Is Doing Good Politics."
The MCU has the right "general worldview." That's it.
The good guys are diverse, redemption is possible, teamwork and collective-action are essential - but because they COMBINE unique exceptionalisms - soldiering and wealth and "being The Hulk" are good actually if you use them FOR good i.e. AGAINST bad. Everyone good should get along and assemble on the same team to defeat everyone bad - oh! And also sexism and racism SPECIFICALLY are very bad and we have specific guys who tackle that primarily, that's how committed we are. And so long as you're "not with the bad guys" that means your good so if it came to it you'd be on the side that came out of the portals in that last movie. You're on the right side, you made the right choices, voted correctly, picked the right degree track, used the right word in that social situation, etc.
As to the actual internal politics of the FILMS, narratively... I mean I'd say it's left-of-center/progressive in sense that it's broadly anti-isolationist, anti-colonialist and anti-racist. It's most interesting consistent ideological trait is being pro-found/post-nuclear family. Like the ONE note that damn near Every. Single. MCU movie keeps hitting over and over - almost moreso and with more variety than "Fast & Furious" is reifying idealizations of created family units among characters; often VERSUS the traditional type.
So when people get on about "The MCU is Neoliberalism: The Series," if they're talking about it's main values being "Borders and solitude are bad, everything should get on the same team and Friend-Families are just THE BEST!" ...okay, there's not NOT a point there?
"...so long as you're 'not with the bad guys' that means your (sic) good". No wonder manchildren find MCU so reassuring.
Don't look down on manchildren though; they might work for
Amnesty International!
+ + + +
On the side of DC:
I don't see much point in this argument; comic-book movies are trash and totally bereft of creativity.
"I've never been a proponent of eugenics"
Expert in gemology:
In
Bobby's Angels, someone trash-talked Nick Parrott.
Let's go back to the mentally-stimulating discourse between Bobby and Luke, which we started this episode with. A filthy peasant sullied Lady Luke's virtue and Sir Robert was roused from his sleep.
Bobby and his orbiters will make perfect trainers for Luke's AI; they are no smarter than binary code.
