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I’m going to try and be more professional this time around
Idk how you look at modern fascism’s climate policy, which is just “green energy is gay,” and conclude that is somehow the driving force here and not an expression of the same mix of reactionary nostalgia and toxic gender politics that has always driven fascism.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Idk how you look at modern fascism’s climate policy, which is just “green energy is gay,” and conclude that is somehow the driving force here and not an expression of the same mix of reactionary nostalgia and toxic gender politics that has always driven fascism.
Planet X might have been retconned to not kill magneto, but it still essentially killed him off as a driving force in the narrative, and he took Xavier with him. And i can’t help but feel that krakoa might have been a more interesting story had the two of them not been as involved.
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Planet X might have been retconned to not kill magneto, but it still essentially killed him off as a driving force in the narrative, and he took Xavier with him. And i can’t help but feel that krakoa might have been a more interesting story had the two of them not been as involved.
It was, and frankly, it was a big flaw for me out-of-text that folks like Scott, Ororo, Logan, and Emma who had spent the last twenty years of comics as leaders themselves, in some cases ordering Charles and Erik around, were suddenly just going along with their cult.
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It was, and frankly, it was a big flaw for me out-of-text that folks like Scott, Ororo, Logan, and Emma who had spent the last twenty years of comics as leaders themselves, in some cases ordering Charles and Erik around, were suddenly just going along with their cult.
It’s sort of funny how, despite the Xorneto twist being in Morrison’s October 2000 pitch, none of these ideas underlying it were. Funny what one discovers in the artistic process.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s sort of funny how, despite the Xorneto twist being in Morrison’s October 2000 pitch, none of these ideas underlying it were. Funny what one discovers in the artistic process.
The unfortunate reality is that the fascist tones of the Kirby era are part of magneto’s appeal. We want a champion who’s capable of taking “us vs. them” to its logical endpoint. And as all-powerful and unashamed of herself as Jean Grey is at the end of New X-Men, that isn’t her.
Magneto blows up Manhattan and his legacy while high on literal weaponized nostalgia, and that's comics, baby!
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The unfortunate reality is that the fascist tones of the Kirby era are part of magneto’s appeal. We want a champion who’s capable of taking “us vs. them” to its logical endpoint. And as all-powerful and unashamed of herself as Jean Grey is at the end of New X-Men, that isn’t her.
By the time of Planet X, Xavier has even agreed to step down from the institute in favor of Jean, somebody who spent the run learning to accept all the parts of herself, no matter how uncomfortable it made other people. Unfortunately, Magneto happens. bsky.app/profile/itsv...
So we - and the young mutants of New York - create a Magneto who can be right. A Magneto who says, "Punch a Nazi if you have to." A Magneto who says, "Some of them will never accept us, so stay ready", which gradually morphs from "Some of them" to a hardline "They"
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
By the time of Planet X, Xavier has even agreed to step down from the institute in favor of Jean, somebody who spent the run learning to accept all the parts of herself, no matter how uncomfortable it made other people. Unfortunately, Magneto happens. bsky.app/profile/itsv...
Of course, an underplayed part about Morrison’s X-men run is that Xavier more or less abandons respectability politics over the course of it. He accepts Cassandra Nova outing him as a mutant. The New X-Men spend their time fighting threats to mutants, like Cassandra and the U-Men, not other mutants.
But, one thing is true. Over the past few decades, the respectability politics of Xavierism - if the marginalized they can be good and useful, their oppressors will allow them to assimilate - is wrong
And if you're locked in a binary, if Xavier is wrong then Magneto must be right
And if you're locked in a binary, if Xavier is wrong then Magneto must be right
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Of course, an underplayed part about Morrison’s X-men run is that Xavier more or less abandons respectability politics over the course of it. He accepts Cassandra Nova outing him as a mutant. The New X-Men spend their time fighting threats to mutants, like Cassandra and the U-Men, not other mutants.
Didn’t he lead the league in usage rate? Maybe the triangle made it harder to send doubles, but those doubles are still much easier if you have one dude who can just follow the ball at all times because there’s a useless schmuck on the court.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Didn’t he lead the league in usage rate? Maybe the triangle made it harder to send doubles, but those doubles are still much easier if you have one dude who can just follow the ball at all times because there’s a useless schmuck on the court.
And that’s Jordan most of the time!Sure, when he passes it you’d have the player just follow the ball, but that’s still a lot tougher to deal with than four-on-four.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
And that’s Jordan most of the time!Sure, when he passes it you’d have the player just follow the ball, but that’s still a lot tougher to deal with than four-on-four.
96 defense rules don’t prohibit just leaving Elon unguarded and doubling Jordan the whole game, which is absolutely what they’d do.
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
96 defense rules don’t prohibit just leaving Elon unguarded and doubling Jordan the whole game, which is absolutely what they’d do.
They’re cooking!
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
They’re cooking!
It is a given though, it’s essentially asking “could the 96 Bulls have won many games playing 4v5”.
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It is a given though, it’s essentially asking “could the 96 Bulls have won many games playing 4v5”.
He’s making fun of him for having an African middle name
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
He’s making fun of him for having an African middle name
Like the reign five years ago
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Like the reign five years ago
I get it, you would pull the trolley lever. Not everyone would!
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I get it, you would pull the trolley lever. Not everyone would!
Last six years more like
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Last six years more like
No that’s not true, sorry, most people have red lines they won’t cross even if they would be the lesser evil.
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
No that’s not true, sorry, most people have red lines they won’t cross even if they would be the lesser evil.
That certainly is the consequentialist position on all this!
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
That certainly is the consequentialist position on all this!
Gaza non-voters were largely not doing it to punish the Democratic Party. They did it because they saw voting for a party assisting in a genocide as an evil act in itself. I think that’s probably true, even if in this case it was the lesser evil.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Gaza non-voters were largely not doing it to punish the Democratic Party. They did it because they saw voting for a party assisting in a genocide as an evil act in itself. I think that’s probably true, even if in this case it was the lesser evil.
That’s a question each voter can only answer for themselves. Personally, I voted for Harris, but I think “she’s part of an administration that is actively funding genocide” is a perfectly fine red line for people to have, particularly since she never said she’d stop doing that if she were elected.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
That’s a question each voter can only answer for themselves. Personally, I voted for Harris, but I think “she’s part of an administration that is actively funding genocide” is a perfectly fine red line for people to have, particularly since she never said she’d stop doing that if she were elected.