Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.

I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it’ll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.

The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.

Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.

This movie came out during the time of ‘gritty live action’ source material and instead decided that it wanted to be a live-action anime/cartoon.

If you watch it and expect it to be like a cartoon, it’s a perfect film. If you want something ‘deeper’ than that, you’re not going to enjoy it.

I love this film!

Film fans have zero grace when it comes to this franchise.

Lets examine a few things, and talk about why quality dropped off.

Chapek and his blundering accounting decisions from hell

Chapek told Marvel to effectively double their output of productions, without giving them subsequent staff, creatives, and resources to keep their quality control they had (for the most part) maintained over the course of 25 some movies. Ask yourself, how is Kathleen Kennedy (wrong nerd rage target) Kevin Feige and the storytellers at Marvel supposed to maintain quality while having effectively double the work.

You’re all probably adults, and have had more work tossed on your pile than you can handle. How many people here can honestly say they kept the quality of their work up when they have had staff turnovers, more responsibilities, and increased output? I’m guessing none of you, and if you’re saying you kept it you’re a liar.

Marvel was kneecapped from a greedy accountant. Not the creatives fault.

Covid

Here’s also a big one. Any of you guys work in film and television? I do. And I can tell you, we all had to learn, from the ground up, how to shoot movies again while following a bunch of TSA level security theatre charades on set. So from Covid, issue number one. We can’t shoot the way we have shot movies for over 100 years anymore, lets see how this works out. This happened in all films during this pandemic as well, not just with Marvel. But oh just you wait, there’s even more Covid bullshit that fucked Marvel up.

Release orders and shooting orders were all changed around multiple times because of the pandemic.

What’s the one key thing that Marvel has had that no franchise before it had? A concise A-line through all the films weaving together a bunch of movies (and now shows thanks to D+) into a singular cohesive story. This was taken away by shuffling the release order (which is an understandable solution studio side of things, because they need movies to come out even during Covid), but still, a studio decision not a Marvel decision.

Untimely outside events

So another sad part of this is that outside events really hampered the MCU as well. Chadwick was supposed to be a really large part of the next phase and he unfortunately passed, requiring extensive reworks to multiple projects. On top of this, John Majors also had a major controversy which effectively killed off an entire major villain arc (and good for them, did it mess up some films? Sure, but I’d rather them can someone than pull a Spacey and ignore the scandals).

Added thought

For a lot of people, the shows were too much. Totally get it, but what I respect is that they tried numerous formats, styles, run lengths, release schedules, to see what people liked and what people didn’t like. The only one universally disliked was Secret Wars, and there was some actual good ones. too. Again, I get it, but I do respect that they at least had the balls to try different things and see what works and what doesn’t. Looking at Daredevil, I think the future in this part of the franchise is very bright.

Is there some fatigue for Marvel? Sure. But to act like they aren’t popular, or that they’re just ‘bad’ now is just a sophomoric view of the problem, why there’s a problem to begin with, and where the franchise is going as a whole.

Ok I’m going back to my scotch now.

Oh I’d all but guarantee that.

That they could sell the units to people who had Air BnB accounts

I live in LA. You can find apartments here for cheap if you look.

The whole reason southern California and the Bay Area are both expensive, is because they are some of the most desirable places to live in the entire country.

Simple as that.

You realize that not every user of a computer is a developer, right?

TIL asking you to actually create art instead of prompting it, is elitist.

🙄

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

We gave the gov’t 80+ billion dollars in taxes. Texas took 70 billion from the gov’t.

I live here. Shit’s better here than any red state I’ve lived in that’s for fucking sure.

Do you live here? Or are you just another conservative who shits on my state without having ever stepped foot in this place.

Way too many of you think you’re the ‘average person’ in this world.

Honestly good for them. They aren’t ‘meatless meatballs’ they are something else.

Yeah, it’s called ‘go buy fucking art supplies and learn yourself.’

Why are you entitled to ‘art?’

If you want something, learn to make it yourself, or better yet, find a way to pay someone to make it for you.

He had one bad choice and one meh choice. There was plenty of progressive legislation in Harris’ platform. These people didn’t get 100% of what they wanted and sat home like entitled children.

I voted against the fascist, thank you very much.

Apparently, that was too hard for you.

I hope that you enjoy your moral superiority as you’re rounded up by trumps gestapo.

Precisely.

You want people to push for progressivism by… doing nothing.

Congratulations. You’re a slactivist. This is why people in the democratic party refuse to take progressives seriously.

You don’t get 100% of what you want, you huff your little noses, and take your ball and go home. Then you have the gall to snipe from the sidelines when you have no skin in the game.

People that act this way are just as guilty of our current situation as trump supporters.

I just skim stories and catch a general idea of what’s going on for this reason.

‘Is this something I can actionably do something about? No? Then don’t worry about it.’

Yep. Israel pushed disinfo, Russia pushed disinfo, and the republicans all pushed the same shit, and people bought it hook, line, and sinker.