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1. "Them's Fighting Words!"
( bound to annoy someone )

2. In furtherance of the censorship thing...I don't like it when people censor art just because it doesn't support their political world view or sensibility. Does art work that further's the alt-right piss me off? Yes. But I won't censor it.

Like I stated above, if I want the freedom to express myself, I need to tolerate the other guy's freedom to do it too.

I also have issues with myopic interpretations of art, where the critic perceives the art in one way and critiques it to further his or her own political agenda, when conflicting interpretations do and can exist. In other words, I feel they come across as a bit self-righteous in their world-view, and didactic. I don't like being told how to view a piece of art or work of art or told how to view it. It gets my back up.

"I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying. While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen year-old audience, today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century. The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with an numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum. The superheroes themselves – largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster – would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks."

-Alan Moore.

This annoyed me. Mainly because I've read Alan Moore's comics and he comes across as just a tad hypocritical and self-righteous.

Also, I don't entirely agree. There's quite a lot of depth in the Iron Man films and the Captain America ones -- both of which can be interpreted as anti-gun, anti-weapon, and anti-fascist films. And Avenger's Endgame and Avenger's Infinity War definitely could be interpreted as anti-war and anti-fascist. As too, could Wonder Woman. Less so Superman, Justice League, and the Nolan films -- although those too did have an anti-violence message in them.
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3. Regarding the Impeachment Hearings -- which I knew would eventually happen after the Doofus got elected, just not when -- I've grown frustrated with how the media often portrays them (outside of the NY Times which for the most part is doing an unbiased analysis that I can read without wanting to throw a temper-tantrum).

One of my biggest frustrations is well, that nobody seems to understand that "Due Process" is not a requirement here. It's not. This isn't a criminal trial. Due Process only comes into play if you are on trial for a crime under the criminal justice system. The Senate is not a traditional court, and the House isn't one at all. All this is - is depositions. Collecting evidence. Which isn't the same.
There's no due process in a Civil Trial either. This is why OJ Simpson lost in the Civil Trial and not the Criminal, different laws apply.

I found a decent article that attempts to explain the whole thing -- which is confusing:


Impeachment Process

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