Lmao, wut??? Like the old saying goes, you shouldn't call it a comeback when he's been here the whole time.
Kind of what I was thinking. I think if I want to be charitable he's not saying he can't write at all, or even that he can't write capeshit, but that he can't write from the optimistic perspective that these larger than life symbols can inspire us to do good and be better versions of ourselves. IE: Alan Moore was right all along (what a shock).
What's sad is that it almost seems like his immediate instinct is that he has to phone in and fake that optimism because that's the limits of the genre he's working in. Personally I hope he does some soul searching and realizes that a cynical turn for his voice is entirely acceptable and not necessarily a decline.
Get ready to repost these fucking numbers ad naseum every single time a liberal tries to scapegoat leftists.
Their next cope when they realize the math doesn't math enough to blame leftists is gonna probably be to blame the millions of voters who sat this one out rather than doing their civic duty and voting for Harris. The obvious response to that would be that we could have just as easily had President Claudia De La Cruz if we're just allowed to add non voters however the fuck we feel like but while it will be fun to dunk I don't see that getting through to them. Something something can only be failed.
They’re running the same excuses as 2016. It’s the Stein and other 3rd party voters that made Kamala lose
Votes are still being counted but when all is said and done: that excuse might hold even less water then it did in 2016. Obviously in this community we all recognize that the premise that "a green vote is a vote stolen from a democrat" is complete bunk...but it is at least true that if you gave Clinton the green votes in 2016 she would have won the election. Is that even gonna be true in this situation though??? This seems like a pretty clean sweep.
I care! Happy Birthday comrade! Sorry the world is in a dour mood!
Not a chance. Libs worship power and procedure above all else. More than for any other material reason: they hate Trump because he violates norms and etiquette. Even against Trump Jan 6 is a bridge too far because as good at mental gymnastics they might be: even they can't square the circle that to do a Jan 6 is to challenge the very foundation and legitimacy of the American system. The Jan 6 crowd may have done it for the absolute dumbest possible reasons but they have no such scruples.
In reality I think there's probably not just one reason you can point to. Inflation, refusal to do a primary, abysmal campaigning, et al. All of it is probably a factor to one extent or another.
End of the day the one thing I do hope all of us on this site can agree to is that whatever the actual material reasons for it: the Democrats absolutely unquestionably deserved this loss.
You could have posted it like a year ago and it would have been appropriate.
Cowards disable your trigger button. Auteurs let you create time paradoxes!
Pretty proud of how this turned out. My partner went as Chappell Roan so it made for a good bit.
Supreme court Justices also....just sayin.
There's a lot of aspects about it I really like...but as a complete piece...it's just not there for me. Take Luke Skywalker's cynical turn for example. On paper: fucking love it. There's that meme going around showing young and old luke with young college philosophy graduate and jaded Marxist professor.
But like...if you're going to have earnestly eternal optimist Luke turn cynical it has to be from a failure of that optimism to have positive results rather than a failure to follow it. Luke being tempted to kill kylo ren makes sense to me....but I don't get how he concluded his entire philosophy and worldview was wrong when by his own admission it was a "moment of weakness" where he almost did the most contradictory thing to his own philosophy that he's ever done. If anything I think that whole fallout would have made him double down.
So much of the movie is like that. Good pieces in isolation but none of them quite work.
That being said: it's the best by far of the sequel trilogy. Rise of Skywalker is a dumpster fire. Force awakens is a pandering cynical cash grab with nothing worthwhile to say or add that gets progressively worse every year.
Last Jedi feels like it's made by an actual artist with something to say....even if what he's saying just doesn't quite hit.