And it was presented as if the heroism was at odds with his ethnicity.

And I mean big struggle since Amazon is an American company and the executives are unlikely to remember that Britain had an empire during the Cold War.

I think the big struggle will be how do you have Bond without the British Empire.

The Craig Era leaned into the US-UK tension w/ the War on Terror melieu. But we're now post-War on Terror & the Special Relationship has cooled.

Bond is the stilleto up Britannia's sleeve. But can she use it?

Studios gotta take The Simpsons writers' mindset about continuity.

Continuity doesn't matter beyond the characters' motivations and personalities, every story should just be built around "What would X or Y do in this situation."

Canon only exists to establish personality and motives.

And Bond's TARDIS is embodied in Q.

Offensive holding is one of the go-to penalties to ignore to protect gambling faves.

There's something about the performative wearing of suits by these fascists that's really off putting. It's like they're wearing them as a form of national costume.

My single flight out of Dulles was 20 years ago and I was either spared or forgot the experience.

Peak mid-century automobile delusion.

Especially Ring and Nextdoor (Which was released the following year).

Every time I go in for a specific product (besides prescription medications) I just assume they won't have it. I've yet to be wrong.

Exactly. The folks I'm talking about reject any and all reform.

Hell I had somebody once tell me that Biden IRA was corporate socialism because it didn't have the gov't directly building infrastructure.

To the point that you reject all calls and attempts to reform them?

Burning institutions to the ground means you have to build something afterward. And that takes time. Time in which folks ain't being helped.

Reform lets you help folks now while fixing the underlying problems.

There's a significant group of people online who just want to burn institutions to the ground, but cloak themselves in leftist and progressive language.

They'll always reveal themselves at times like this when calls for reform are strongest. Or when institutions are actually helping people.

Our cultural derision of "finger pointing" as inherently immature is a huge factor in why our politics is broken (and schools and businesses).

If you're barred from assigning culpability you can never actually address bad faith actors like the GOP.