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Author, artist, giant nerd. I used to make beer, cider, and mead professionally. Starting an artist-first folk/americana venue in Durham, NC. He/him.
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For free?!
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Wow yeah, that does feel a little too on the nose.
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Ah. The full Robert Downy Jr. range.
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But a true villain would do both! As real life is showing us today.
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It's fantasy. We can make it happen.
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To be fair, Bruce Wayne inherited his wealth as a child so the potential is there that his father was the exploitative jerk and that Bruce, raised primarily by Alfred, could have actually grown to be a thoughtful, good, manager of that wealth but 🤷♂️
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Give me a post-Gotham Batman where he's donated most his excess wealth to UBI in Gotham and then acts in vigilante justice to dismantle the Gotham police department and reform Arkham Asylum.
I don't want may Batman to be gritty or violent or bloody.
I want my Batman to be GOOD.
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I guess in this era of total dumpster fire madness all I want is a fantasy hero with money who actually does the right thing with that money. To be a hero with the mask on AND off at the same time.
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And to be clear: He could do BOTH. There is the Wayne Foundation which is great!
But it's mostly a front for his activities. It's like how Elon Musk "solved world hunger" by donating to the Musk Foundation instead of the World Food Program.
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Provide assistance to poor neighborhoods? Build low income housing? Fund programs to create jobs? Literally clean up the streets? Fund public safety and mental health programs?
Wrong. Enact macho bro fantasies by enacting vigilante justice with expensive military toys.
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Kudos to Bill Finger and Bob Kane who accurately predicted what a billionaire playboy would do in a crime riddled city that needed help.
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That's the purpose.
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All that said, go punch a Nazi. You certainly aren't wrong.
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Don't get me wrong - it's important to see the similarities! But I think the Nazi comparison is actually distracting from what they actually are that we don't have a convenient name for yet.
And to that point I think it fails to encompass the whole problem and exists as somewhat of a distraction.
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Gotta say that I've been having a generally frustrating time with Civ 7 from a gameplay/UI standpoint but(!) the narrative moments, the crises in general, and how they develop - and this one in particular - have been outstanding. I laughed out loud when the crisis was "The Bourgeoisie." Incredible.
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I gotta know. Does this happen a lot?
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Almost if* damnit
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It's almost as often these fools aren't actually good at business or, like, how they make money. As in, you need customers with resources to actually spend money on the flammable electric cars you want them to buy. 🤔
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You'd think for a group of shitbirds that have predicated the last 50 years of their policy choices on the hilarious myth of trickle down economics they'd understand that money does actually flow in a direction and it is UP.
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So if NIH funding drops then so does the income of landlords, grocery stores, manufacturers, and support companies. That, in turn, affects the workers and suppliers of those companies and on and on and on.
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The Chairman of the Kennedy Center isn't even a federal employee. It's an independent 501(c)3. That's not a thing.