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Let me know when you see Republicans try any. I haven't seen it during my lifetime, but hey, there's always this time 🙄

I'm still mad it basically kicked the DnD movie out of theaters. If it wasn't for all the hype for Mario, I think the DnD movie would have done a lot better, but that's partly their fault for choosing a terrible time to release a movie - a week or two before the biggest video game franchise of all time releases their movie.

The problem is no one is ever going to put in the work and prep production effort that Jackson and his team did. It could be made better and more modern, but will it in our current environment? No, all the practical effects would be replaced by CGI, all the armor and costumes for the tons of extras would just be CGI, the extras themselves would be CGI, and it probably would be packed with meta commentary and jokes. Just look at The Hobbit compared to Lord of the Rings. It doesn't work without all the effort and pre-production, and I don't think we're getting a studio to ever make that bet again. It was pure luck we got it the first time.

I like this criteria. I'm using it.

But Wonder Woman isn't MCU...

Never even heard of this movie, but I'm convinced.

If you didn't love the first one, I doubt you'll like the others. I haven't read all of them yet, but everyone I know who has read them all always started by enjoying the world of the first one first.

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I've always found the religion excuse to be a scapegoat, an excuse to not try for peace. The fact is that people care about a lot of other stuff above religion, including food, shelter, water, quality of life, self-determination, hope, etc. The Palestinians would 100% make peace if they can have those things. People with differing religions live in the US, the UK, and all sorts of places. Hell, they lived fine together in that same area during the Ottoman Empire and before. There are even plenty of Christian Palestinians, too.

Sure there's a lot of animosity now, but I bet in one generation of living together, they'd be mostly fine. Just look at the differences between the Civil rights in the 60's, where you had various violent black liberation groups, Malcolm X saying the rift could never be healed and black people should make their own place in Africa, etc. And then there's the 70's and 80's, where you started having the black friend in every movie, to today, where we had a black President. It's not perfect, even now, but way better than the Palestinians in Gaza. Just let the kids go to school together for a few years lol.

Now there is a couple religious issues that will need to ironed out, but that's where a strong, neutral hand is required. And i think a one state solution even helps some of those. Such as with a one-state solution, everyone gets Jerusalem and shares it. With a two state solution, you have to do this weird thing where ostensibly no one gets it, even though Israel has all the power over it.

Right now, they want mutually exclusive things in that Israel wants all the land and Palestinians want to live in the place they've lived for generations, as well as food, water, etc. Palestinians will shout from the river to the sea, but they've shown willingness to settle for a 2 state solution plenty of times before. On the other hand, Israel has no reason to similarly bend. But, if Israel didn't have so much power because of the US, their position probably wouldn't be so inflexible. They couldn't afford to be, and then maybe we'd see some compromise.

I agree that the US would probably hurt more than help, though.

I'd love to see this tried in a court of law some day.

"Look judge, people kill each other all the time. I don't know why we're making such a big deal out of this. Geeeesh. Bunch of whiners."

Anyway, people criticize the US for this stuff all the time. The whole idea of the left is to learn from and evolve and grow past those horrible roots.

I mean, preferably. And then give them a vote, too. But then I believe in a one state solution.

It's better than just keeping them all in an open air prison.

Who? The Palmach? At least they didn't try to ally with the Nazis like Lehi.

Holy fuck. That article has some damning parts 😮

It's definitely possible. South Africa managed it. All the black people didn't kill all the white as soon as they got democracy, and in fact, white people kept a lot of the power, land, and money after lol. You just require a strong Constitution, international support and diplomats at the table, and a peace and reconciliation commission to push peace and moving forward over revenge. Create strong protections in the Constitution and some UN oversight for a bit and you should be fine. Have the new government, now a coalition of the former Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority government, work together with the international community to remove Hamas. Have all that international aid build up the run-down Palestinian parts of the country, like in Gaza, so they stop having power problems, have drinkable water,and not bombed buildings. (The PA fought a civil war against Hamas before, and Hamas has less than majority support in Gaza, so plenty of Palestinians would fight them to keep peace if the quality of life without their interference was better.)

The only problem that I agree with is that Israel wouldn't accept it. It would need to be a secular government, accepting of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. But the whole idea of their state is based on Jewish power and being in that place specifically for religious reasons. Sharing power and land with the people who originally lived there basically goes against the idea of its founding. You'd need a US that's focused on peace in the region over power projection and who knows if that will ever happen. We'd need someone like Bernie to get elected, and a Congress with the balls to threaten to withold aid to them.

I will forever be mad about that. I was defending Man of Steel, while others shit talked it. I thought it was a great beginning for a Superman franchise. Sure he killed Zod, but imagine how this will change Superman to never want to kill again? But they never went back to do a solo Superman movie. Poor Caville was shafted hard by WB suits who wanted their own Marvel franchise.

Someone do one for FATE

Did they condemn Hamas with their last breath? If not...

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I agree. I don't think she's worse than any other liberal politician, and I think notably better than all but the most progressive ones (like better than Biden probably) . Her biggest sin (imo) is that she's not very charismatic. Like the opposite of Michelle Obama - who's very likeable and charismatic but has no political ambitions.

I don't mind them being pinned and cluttering up the top for a week or two, but that's just me.

Oh that's awesome! I've also got a Kbin account so that's good to know.