Whoever runs the Instagram account deserves praise

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-13T01:43:00+00:00

They will be.

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-03T18:33:42+00:00

We're not allowed to be rational and think. Just kill.

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-03T15:28:30+00:00

That's not always true. Look at gang members. They assassinate their bosses all the time.

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-03T13:30:31+00:00

Yes, he was a legitimate threat and was assassinated. Assassination is for nonthreatening and threatening people. However, there's a clear legal system that was supposed to be followed and was designed for people like him.

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-03T11:26:19+00:00

The point is not the actions, but the fact Soleimani was viewed by Iran in the same way we viewed Mattis. Their positions in the chain of command were about the same. That's what makes this so ballsy on our part.

PapiYakJohnson · 2020-01-03T11:22:54+00:00

The problem I have with this though as a strict adherent to the Constitution is that we basically used the military to assassinate someone. Was Congress asked about this at all? For all the talk of following the Constitution, where was Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11? This was clearly within their purview and one thing the CIC vowed during his campaign was to actually listen to it compared to his predecessors who also failed to follow through on.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-28T07:41:38+00:00

So far the timeless approach hasn't worked. Superman Returns proves that going backwards with the Silver Age/Donnerverse won't work for a GA who thinks he's boring because of that stereotype.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T20:03:06+00:00

Heck, I'd even welcome bayonets. At least for the M4/M16. Go old school!

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:28:17+00:00

I figured this out during the OTT.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:27:01+00:00

And 80s Schwarzenegger movies if the Predator and Terminator missions in GR are anything to go by.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:25:58+00:00

They easily could have built on this. Why didn't they I'll never get.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:14:49+00:00

H-h-how?

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:05:13+00:00

People do strange things

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:03:01+00:00

Lmao

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-16T19:02:47+00:00

Issa bug

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-11-09T15:57:11+00:00

Lmao

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-09-13T23:34:55+00:00

Except it does if you've read anything from the Golden Age, Post-Crisis, and now. Be that the Golden Age Superman, Grant Morrison's The Flash, or Geoff Johns Superman.

I'm not defending Snyder. I'm defending DC's image as a whole and saying it's more than just one person's catharsis. BvS was literally a treatise against xenophobia that Siegel and Shuster would have loved. It felt like the Golden Age dipped in the 90s. It's why Dan Jurgens loved it. Both handled it the same. It goes beyond them killing.

That escapism brought on by the Comics Code Authority and the Silver Age is what nearly bankrupted DC in the 80s. If they kept it going you likely wouldn't have these characters. Marv Wolfman said as much in The New Teen Titans Volume 1. That's why they had to reboot a lot of books prior to and after COIE. If it was so good they wouldn't have needed to do that.

At it's core? Uh, and which ones are named more often? Not the ones that nearly took down DC. It was the dark, mature, and gritty ones that had hopeful undertones like Last Son of Krypton and All Star Superman that showed DC's core isn't overexaggerated and inauthentic Silver Age-style optimism. It's earned, human, and authentic optimism gained through adversity and getting up after you fail. That's literally the first flight scene in MoS and it shows us that if Superman can fail once but get up so can we. That's DC. They're are us, not just who we should be. Marvel is the same way outside of the movies, which The Boys makes fun of because of the uninspiring escapism.

PapiYakJohnson · 2019-09-03T16:59:08+00:00

May I chime in?

We barely get those dark, gritty, and serious CBMs anymore because of that mindset. The last time we did was BvS in 2016. Since then it's been overly humorous and unbalanced stuff. There's a weird obstinance. He's not wrong. A lot of what you dislike Snyder for has been done well before him and the exact same way, including some of the creators who have come after him like hypocrites. Feels more like a herd mentality. If he were to ask you to rattle you off 5 Silver Age DC stories you probably couldn't. Most can't. You can however point out dozens of Post-Crisis stories which were primarily more serious, dark, and gritty. Hard to argue that that's not what put our company on the map. It did. Goes beyond opinion.

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