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Oracle’s credit rating drops to one level above junk | Ed Zitron
Tech journalist Ed Zitron explains why Oracle's stock is suddenly in freefall, and how it relates to the WBD/Paramount deal.
@thefingerfuckingfemalefury I love that trying to buy WB has pretty much bankrupted the Ellisons.
Okay so, I know everyone and their mother has seen this panel. And it is very funny.
BUT. Now that I’ve just come off the original Teen Titans run, they all seemed quite progressive (for the time), Wally included.
This could be gleaned from:
Opposition to war during the Vietnam war era
Opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric
Aiding the reclaiming of stolen land from native peoples
And even the less plot-relevant but still pervasive themes of tolerance and acceptance, both of then-modern culture and the hippie movement. Silly, I know, but genuinely contentious.
So I’m not quite sure why it was established that Wally was some hard conservative. Maybe this was always a thing? While I’ve read a lot of Wally in the context of team books, in Titans and later in the 90s JLA run, I’ve never read much in the way of his solos. It just doesn’t strike me as consistent.
There had been a bit of friction between Kid Flash and Red Star in his only previous appearance. Kid Flash made it clear he didn't trust a Communist "superhero".
So I think they're just amping that up a bit, to add a little depth to Wally, who had never really had that much done to develop his character in the past. (NTT #21 is the first time I think any Titans discuss their religious beliefs. When asked if he's religious, Wally replies "I guess so. I don't go all the time, but I believe." and Dick says that "I haven't thought about it much")
His conservative phase didn't last long but then, it was something like 1982 and Reagan was on the ascendant, so perhaps Wolfman felt a less liberal POV was an interesting way to go?
The only other time I can remember Wally's conservative characterization coming up is to contrast with the liberal Pied Piper in his solo book. Especially when the latter came out of the closet, right while Wally was in the middle of a homophobic diatribe.
I'm not quite sure I'd call it particularly homophobic, especially for 1988, and the first actual coming out as gay said out loud in a Big Two mainstream comic We'd had subtext and hints all over the place of course (Byrne with Maggie Sawyer, Claremont with... well.. everyone) , but even Marvel's Northstar wouldn't publicly describe himself as gay until 1992 in a far more laboured and tortuous story than this one.
So Wally is being a bit of an asshole definitely, but more out of outdated assumptions, than actual ingrained homophobia (at least the way I read it, YMMV of course)
Wally's discombobulated reaction is hilarious (and one I think many people who come out get from at least one person), and it's clear Piper knows that Wally isn't being homophobic,, juts a little surprised and he'll get over it, but that doesn't mean Piper didn't LOVE being able to blow Wally's mind like that.
Oh yeah, for its time it isn't that bad. They were going to include the f-slur in children's movies for the next few years, so Wally's little bit about gay supervillains isn't really going that far.
That said, I think it's still fair to call it homophobic. Even by the standards of the time: Wally clearly realizes the things he's said are pretty insulting to his friend, which is most of the reason why he's so eager to get out of there. So even Wally, at this moment, understands that he's crossed a line. Hartley, for his part, has probably dealt with worse.
Honestly, the word I regret using is "diatribe". A diatribe is more of a monologue, and Wally is clearly trying to include Hartley in his little "Which supervillains are gay?" game. The fact that he doesn't take the hint that Hartley doesn't want to play this particular game is part of what makes the whole scene so fun when Hartley decides to change the script on him.
Those are eminently fair points :)
Yeah, it's not like every gay guy knows every other gay guy. (And this isn't the 30s. Not all supervillains are gay in such a way that it explains their evil tendencies. That said, the fact that nobody in Hollywood knew what "gunsel" meant will never not be funny.) Wally had..a long way to go at this point.
this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap
recently I saw a bunch of posts going that Wally to a certain extent abused Bart and it kind of shocked me because my view was that, Wally was a dick to Bart but it was in the same way cousins are dicks to each other.
Am I reading something wrong?
oh is it time for this yearly discourse again? to put it simply: no, i don't think wally abused bart. it's true that theirs is a complicated and adversarial relationship even at the best of times, but to elevate it to one of deliberate abuse is...well, not all there is to it, at the very least. like, neither of them can even understand the other's perspective about their respective lives / problems and it takes a while for either of them to reach the point a frank conversation about their reactions to each other can even be had. not to mention, there's a lot of moments across a lot of different series wherein wally opens his mouth to insert his own foot in his mouth re: bart. wally is constantly frustrated, snappish, and he tends to verbalize a lot of unkind opinions about bart both to his face and to others. like let's not beat around the bush: wally is very much a dick to bart. BUT it's a complete misnomer to suggest that their relationship is always in the pits or that it doesn't ever improve. on more that one occasion, bart will deliberately seek out wally to hang out with and talk with. wally acknowledges his mistakes with bart and tries to do better, even if he's still sometimes irritable and dismissive of him. (which to be honest, is kind of just wally's base personality anyway). but they like each other! sometimes. depends on the day. are there a lot of hurt and unspoken feelings there? duh. of course. but no, bart is not the fanon!tim drake of the flashfam he's just a regular kid in a new, unstable environment that everyone is struggling to adapt to and so are acting in some unsavory, not-so-perfect ways as a result. which, to clarify, wouldn't absolve them of the consequences of those decisions, but to call it abuse? idk about that.
also, here's some other posts i made about their relationship previously: post 1 + post 2 + post 3
am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat
He's not a trillionaire anymore; SpaceX was grossly overvalued.
Cara Delevingne has made history as Playboy magazine's first out 'proud' lesbian, as she spoke of her romance with Minke in the accompanying
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Yes, that, obviously, but really? It took this long?
<3 We need to make up for lost time here <3
In other news, Playboy is still a going concern.
Genuinely shocked by this information.
Good to know <3
So much of the world is so boringly sexless these days
Anyone doing their part to make it hornier and pervier is my kind of person <3
The question is how the models are treated. I mean, there is a Marxist argument that they'll always be treated poorly since labor's not getting the lion's share of the profits and any employer/employee relationship is inhernetly unequal, but that literally applies to any private-sector job.
Okay so, I know everyone and their mother has seen this panel. And it is very funny.
BUT. Now that I’ve just come off the original Teen Titans run, they all seemed quite progressive (for the time), Wally included.
This could be gleaned from:
Opposition to war during the Vietnam war era
Opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric
Aiding the reclaiming of stolen land from native peoples
And even the less plot-relevant but still pervasive themes of tolerance and acceptance, both of then-modern culture and the hippie movement. Silly, I know, but genuinely contentious.
So I’m not quite sure why it was established that Wally was some hard conservative. Maybe this was always a thing? While I’ve read a lot of Wally in the context of team books, in Titans and later in the 90s JLA run, I’ve never read much in the way of his solos. It just doesn’t strike me as consistent.
I mean, to be fair "USSR bad" was the bipartisan consensus for the entirety of the Cold War. It was two empires fighting over the world, not one empire versus one resistance.
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Which of course Marv would’ve likely utilized to crate some spicy drama in this issues once they bring back Red Star as it related to the actual of it (Kovar trying to peacefully bring in a lover of his who was secretly poisoned with a virus by sinister rogue Soviet agents that could’ve jeopardized the US, the Titans mistaking it for an assassination order which leads to Wally spearheading the strike against their ally)
And plus it fit in well enough with Wally at that time being somewhat the malcontent of the team, Akin to how say Wolverine was for the X Men
Thankfully after this and once Wally becomes the Flash himself, he gets much better
Also, Wolfman thought Wally was too OP. (Which he is, even before Mark Waid.)
It's not quite like X-Men. X-Men is an inherently political book; it's actually about antisemitism? (e.g., mutants are hated because they're "too powerful", the old Ben-Gurion and Begin metaphor that is Xavier and Magneto's relationship, Magneto's efforts to create a mutant state, etc.)
Okay so, I know everyone and their mother has seen this panel. And it is very funny.
BUT. Now that I’ve just come off the original Teen Titans run, they all seemed quite progressive (for the time), Wally included.
This could be gleaned from:
Opposition to war during the Vietnam war era
Opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric
Aiding the reclaiming of stolen land from native peoples
And even the less plot-relevant but still pervasive themes of tolerance and acceptance, both of then-modern culture and the hippie movement. Silly, I know, but genuinely contentious.
So I’m not quite sure why it was established that Wally was some hard conservative. Maybe this was always a thing? While I’ve read a lot of Wally in the context of team books, in Titans and later in the 90s JLA run, I’ve never read much in the way of his solos. It just doesn’t strike me as consistent.
I mean, to be fair "USSR bad" was the bipartisan consensus for the entirety of the Cold War. It was two empires fighting over the world, not one empire versus one resistance.
The Terminator Comes To Riverdale in Archie Vs The Terminator this autumn by Rory McConville, Steven Butler and Lily Butler from Dynamite
They’re just fucking with me at this point.
I mean, won't be as jarring as the Jay and Silent Bob crossover they apparently did last year or something.
PLEASE TELL ME THIS PANEL IS SOMEHOW REAL XD
Apparently it is, haven't been able to find much from the comic itself though.
Betty Cooper ballbusting Archie Andrews
Somewhere, the creator of Riverdale is wishing they thought to include this XD
I mean, they did give John Goldwater a credit, but I knew it was going to be bad when the first episode had Archie sleeping with Ms Grundy.
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair B
This relates to this guy, FYI.
Brendan Carr says reports of California AG Rob Bonta's interest in a CNN sale are "a bit of a tell that this really isn't a legitimate antit
Like, is he really so arrogant that he doesn't care how hugely corrupt he looks?
I mean, the reason why the Paramount shareholders are suing the Ellisons is because they know that there's going to be a day after Trump is president where everyone who assisted in his web of corruption is going to be liable for prosecution, is this guy really so oblivious that he thinks he can do stuff like this (and threaten to take away broadcasters' licences for airing critical news reports about Trump) as if he's going to be around forever to suck up to?
Like, Mayor Quimby in the Simpsons is less comically corrupt than this man.
The FCC is a worthless dogshit organisation in general honestly
One of the many MANY reasons you can easily tell that DOGE was bullshit is that their approach to "government eficiency" didn't involve just firing everyone who worked at the FCC and shutting it down completely
"Can you imagine a world WITHOUT the FCC????"
The FCC does have a purpose, basically making sure television, radio, and cell phone signals stay within their assigned frequencies. (Without this, basically your cell phone wouldn't work.) But then you get to the censorship, which is utter dogshit. (Still thinking Janet Jackson's boob is just a boob.) And like all government agencies, they only do their job so long as they're not being bribed.
There is more of Absolute Green Arrow to look forward to!
AHHHHHH THATS AWESOME :D
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR <3
I'm starting to figure it out. The multiverse wants certain people to exist. That's why there were so many post-Crisis Supergirls, even though Kara never existed (until she did, of course). Green Arrow is one of those people, and if Oliver is dead, well, someone else will have to be Green Arrow.
Honestly it’s a missed opportunity that Lian never got the opportunity to meet her little brother in canon
And that's the thing. I'll argue that the Titans kids are worth those family heartwarming moments, and that justifies their existence alone. (Hate to put it that way, but Didio was killing them right and left, so, there you go.) But especially with Lian because plenty of people want to get at Cheshire (and yes, I know, they did that storyline).
Bruce Wayne's favourite children:
The nostaligia-fueled version of Robin Dick that exists in his head
Jason Todd's corpse
Cass
honestly im very tired of peoples inability to recognize stereotypes that stem from sax rohmer novels i think white people especially owe it to asian people to do a cursory reading of the premise of fu manchu novels and read the characters are associated with them just so they can get their heads out of their asses and stop blindly reading fu manchu and fah lo suee reskins without any critical thought
like an asian daughter trying to get away from her evil dad or trying to usurp her father with the help of white men is a anti asian stereotype i need yall to know that. the daughter who is actually good and is just a helpless victim of her father and she needs help from a white man to either get away or kill her father is a racist stereotype. Id take it a step further and say that even if its not a white man getting help from any outside force to usurp or run from her father is in fact racist. An asian woman falling in love with a white man and that white man basically making her realize that she shouldn't be following her father is racist it comes from Daughter of the Dragon. It comes from Sax Rohmer. We need to recognize that its a thing. We need to be critical of how we talk about characters that fall into that trope
if you reblog anything from me I wish it were this. the anti asian stereotypes from sax rohmer novels are so prevalent in literally everything its difficult to find anything with Asian people that doesnt have at least a few. especially comics
Hell, Ra's al Ghul was heavily influenced by Fu Manchu and other yellow peril-era characters of that sort.
He's literally fu manchu. like so many aspects are literally the same. so many parts of him come straight from fu manchu or other sax rohmer novels. its not a heavily influenced by he was originally and it continues on to this day.
I mean, there was the zero population growth movement of the 70s, which is his entire motive. (Ra's wants to reduce the world population to half a billion to protect the environment in his early appearances.) That's different from Fu Manchu.
But yeah, it was fairly obvious, there's also some James Bond influences. (Talia is a composite of several Bond girls and dragon ladies. Which one is dominant depends on the writer.) The comic book industry does not do original thoughts very well.
In the 80s, Cheshire definitely fell into the dragon lady trope.
Can you tell me what fu manchu's motivations are since they're supposedly distinct from James Bond villains based on him?
Fair. But I did think the ZPG motive was unique at the time. I like Denny O'Neil, but some of his material has aged poorly.
Have I mentioned how much I love it when vigilantes (particularly the Bats) beat up the cops? Not just because of my personal belief that ACAB, but sometimes it can feel like street tier heroes are just cops in masks, or military-adjacent. I love it when the narrative makes it very clear that they are acting outside of the law and they know it, and the cops aren’t always in the right.
"Swear that you will fight against crime and corruption..." Police corruption just makes crime worse.
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