“WandaVision” was Not Perfect. It Had Some Writing Errors And The Narrative Would Have Been Better

you talk about communism but what do you think of freemarket capitalism?

I don't like pure, unfettered capitalism any more than I do absolute socalism. I prefer capitalism or more capitalist systems than more socialist systems but that doesn't mean I'm for 100% free market capitalism.

I believe regulation is needed at times. "The market" reacts, it doesn't preemptively stop things. If a kind of candy has crack in it, addicting the consumer, the market hasn't stopped a portion of people from getting addicted, it only serves to stop it AFTER the fact and by then it is too late.

It also can have an issue with monopolies. If any one company manages to get a stranglehold on any one market, be it due to expensive start up, the collapse of their major competitor or merging with their competitor, then the lack of regulation can keep that company at the top.

New start ups would be faced with near impossible odds as there'd be no protection for their product, so PepsiCoke Inc could buy out somebody trying to compete with them. Or get their recipe and sell their own 100% same product at a loss until it drives the competition out of business, since it's expensive to produce soda on a large scale.

It has issues with location. If a company is dumping waste into a river that causes a town to get sick, there's zero explicit pressure to stop that if they sell their product outside that area. If some Illinois podunk town gets wrecked will the New Yorkers consuming that product care? Isn't that exactly the issue with China now, where people are happy to buy iPhones made from (essentially) slave labor?

And then there's the issue with cartels, which capitalism encourages because non-competition and price fixing at a bottleneck overly rewards the companies engaging in that practice. Sure, it means everyone gets a slice of the pie, but they all get to get more pie than if they fought one another for customers.

A lot of libertarians believe that capitalism, unfettered and free market, could solve a lot of issues. But they operate on a similar line of thinking as communists; they assume everyone will play fair, which by human nature there will be people who don't. There are people who are going to violate the NAP (as much of a meme as it is) and put their finger on the scale.

Both extremes of capitalism/communism are utopian ideals. As always, there's a balance to be had. And that's why I don't consider myself a capital L Libertarian, I just have some libertarian ideas.

I prefer a mix. I like my country's universal healthcare, I don't mind taxes but I wish they were lower and, overall, I want to see a scaling back of government control. But I still want there to be some government presence for things like industry regulation, various protections and laws, like copyright/patent laws.

Kaine and Silk talk about Father’s Day - Spider Man Unlimited

okay… I’ll just make a new post with the update, since the animation is not working properly and I don’t wanna risk of accidentally deleting the old blog. (why is Tumblr so hard to use) All right so this is Brad from Lisa the Painful game. Suggested by @witch-gamer Feel free to suggest too of any indie close-eyed character you want, MAYBE I can add them in the group!

Rusell Dauterman’s X-Men Costume Variants

I was just reminded of the fact the writers actually made Bucky and Sam BREAK John Walker´s arm over that stupid shield (Stupid as in the comical importance it is given in the show when it could have simply belonged to Sam from the beginning without the bullshit drama, there, I said it) minutes after Lemar died and John is clearly in a vulnerable state of mind. 

Ehem… wtf? I love Sam and Bucky but I hate this moment so much I am just going to imagine it is as canon as Steve going back in time and abandoning his friends and Sharon to be with a married woman (Meaning, I am in denial, these are not my Sam and Bucky).

Of course most fans don´t care (More like, they actively celebrate it) because John just killed a man (Which doesn´t stop those same fans from feeling bad about characters with as much blood on their hands, but that is another issue), but these are supposed to be the heroes of the story, the moral compasses to contrast John´s impulsiveness, which I admit is a huge character flaw, to show how much “better” they are than him. And yet they can´t even wait until John is in a more balanced mental state to go for the shield?

Don´t kid yourselves, this may be a cool “yaasss finally!” moment for most of the biased audience, but in my eyes, it just portrays Sam and Bucky as not caring about either Lemar nor the flag smasher that was just killed in place of Karli. They just jumped at the first opportinity they had to grab the shield when it was probably going to be taken from John later by the government anyway, as if it was all they cared about. 

They acted like petty schoolchildren fighting over a toy and were willing to physically harm someone who had fought with them and even saved their asses one time when it was not their friend who had just died in front of their eyes. They showed no compassion whatsoever, and I hated that decision from the writers on Sam and Bucky´s behalf.

You want to talk about how John didn´t deserve the shield? You want to talk about how Steve decided not to kill Tony in the end of Civil War? Fine, John is too impulsive and emotional for the shield, and I agree that flag smasher should have been arrested, but how about the fact in this scene neither Sam nor Bucky acted as compassionately as Steve did when Wanda blew up a building accidentally, for example? Different circumstances and levels of culpability, I agree (Like, it is hard to find a 100% similar scenareo, Wanda´s situation was a complete accident, but one she caused and killed lots of innocents), but Steve did what was best for both the victims by calling for emergency services, and for the person responsible. He continued caring for Wanda and worrying for her.

And no, it wasn´t done for “safety” reasons, what use could it have been to take the shield away from Walker when he had already taken the serum and was a “weapon” himself? (As far as I can remember, he had already taken it, correct me if I am wrong, but if I am wrong then this is much worse for the writers, as it would then make no sense that it took so much effort for Bucky and Sam to break his arm) It is clear the anger was directed at the flagsmashers, not random civilians, and the fight had already finished, there were no flag smashers around. 

Sam and Bucky broke John walker´s arm to get the shield because they wanted it, as simple as that, they cared more about an inanimate object (As much symbolism as it has, that is all it is) than any of what had just happened,  more than the deaths, more than John having just done something  terrible, more than his pain over losing his friend that very same hour, more than anything else. Of course I blame the writers and am outraged on Bucky but especially Sam´s behalf (Didn´t he counsil traumatized soldiers, what gives?), but following my own logic, in universe, that is what happened, and I just can´t see how is is that they are much more worthy of the shield than John himself.

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I think about how the last thing we heard Lemar say to John was “think of all the lives we could have saved that day if we had that serum”

And then when John got the serum, he couldn’t save Lemar’s life

But when that truck with the hostages was going to fall, John, with the strength of the serum, was able to grab onto it and keep it from falling — yes he ultimately couldn’t pull it from the edge but if he hadn’t kept it from falling, Sam wouldn’t have had the time to get there to grab it

In the end, John did exactly what Lemar thought they could do with the serum: save lives

Mustafa,JESUS.

His new bio😂

For people just finding out about Ali,he used to be a cop in Chicago but left after realizing how corrupt the system was.

Can you share that interns tweet?

1. Sam Maggs claims credit for naming Rivet

2. Intern at the time (now programmer) calls her on her bullshit and brings up how much of a toxic element she was (in a polite tone).

3. Maggs has to backpedal about being the one who named Rivet and pivots to "I'm angry because it was a team effort" when, in reality, she was clout chasing.

4. What Maggs hasn't done is address is she's been lying and trying to steal credit from the person who actually came up with the name for at least a 5 months.

November 2021. She was called out on March 2022. She's a shitheel who is purely out for herself. And remember, she left the project (possibly fired because she's toxic) 1.5 years before the game was finished, with other writers taking over for her.

Which means that anything she said about Rivet as a character is null and void. Her claims about both named Rivet and that Rivet is actually gay are both attempts at grabbing attention.

Why, you ask? Because the game she just finished working on, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, was just released and nobody is talking about it. She's desperately trying to farm clout and look progressive to get invited to some other project because that's how she operates.

She jumps from project to project, acts like a toxic bitch, leaves halfway through and then tries to act like she was a bigger influence on the game than she actually was. She's a leech.

Nobody should hire her, period.

Edit: She was stealing credit for at least 5 months, not 16. I have no idea why I put 16 down.