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Conversely, if you understand TADC as a story to take every single aspect, moment, outcome, and detail totally literally rather than in tandem with the thematic signficance it communicates. Or were looking for a more lore-driven story. Or were hoping for a more rounded exploration of its world and characters, a hollistic dive into the premise it sets up rather than a story barreling towards a specific end goal/a very pointed thematic stance. You're gonna end up disappointed with what you got.

And this is not a moral judgement, I don't think any expectation is at all more correct than another. I actually think my last point is probably even the most fair stance to have. Especially if you don't engage with any secondary material and just look at the show itself, since it doesn't totally establish Jax as a core focus until later in its run. Some storylines do feel very sidelined.

Thunderbolts has a few moments like that, and I'm annoyed but not surprised at how many people miss it.

- Val talking about the Red Hulk and how there are no more reliable heroes. Sam defeated the Red Hulk, put him and two other bad guys in jail, prevented a war. Yet here is the villain of Tbolts subtly calling him an unreliable hero. This statement is never checked by the movie, letting it stand as a "true" statement to audiences - especially those who didn't bother seeing Cap 4.

- In fact, even Bucky repeatedly doubles down on the silly notion and message that nobody else would show up, even though Sam has been showing up for three years in universe as Cap, and is rebuilding the Avengers, which Bucky knows about.

- not Sam related, but Val also makes a straight up Aryan joke about how she had Bob dye his hair as Sentry. This is also never checked or challenged. Just figured I'd mention it. It goes well with the racist tones of this movie.

- Sam is never called Captain America, but there are SEVERAL jokes about how Walker used to be Cap. Sam is referred to by name multiple times in the post credits, but never as Cap.

- if you want some more charged things - the movie includes several black characters, and impacts several characters who are black but not depicted on screen. On screen: Congressman Gary, Olivia, Ava. Gary gets screwed over by Bucky, Olivia gets screwed over by Walker. In both cases the emotional journey of the white ""hero"" is centered. We don't get to experience sympathy for the black people in this movie who get screwed over. Ava is part of the blunderbolts, but she gets screwed over by the narrative - she has a few lines and moments, but is left out of merchandise and overshadowed by every single white person on her team. Which is everyone else in her team. The movie also mentions Sam, who gets screwed over, but we focus on white people being annoyed with him or sad about the situation with him. Again, a black character is negatively impacted, but not the focus of where the movie wants the audience to invest sympathy. And then there are the Wakandans, who Val has harmed, yet they are neither mentioned nor is the harm done to them by the white protagonists' choices acknowledged or depicted.

- this is Sam Wilson's only mention in any project outside his own, and the movie uses that opportunity to put him down. And the fandom eats it up. Tbolts stans by and large conceive as Sam as in the wrong, because they take the movie's "yay the white terrorists get to be avengers down" moment as triumph and not a bad in universe outcome. This has led to a noticeable increase in racist commentary about Sam Wilson.

- I'm gonna repeat it here: the movie refuses to call Sam Captain America, and belittled him as "having the shield", which implies that him having it is the only thing thst gives him any leeway. It is condescending, it is nasty, and it comes from Bucky, who cannot be arsed to stand up for the person who HE WANTED TO BE CAP.

I means it's honestly unlikely they did x, y, and/or z. Most call out posts are just bullshit lies or so taken out of context that they're just as fraudulent as a bullshit lie.

However, if they did? A callout post is useless. It's utterly pointless.

A callout post does nothing but:

Isolate the supposed perpetrator, making it impossible for them to stay in a community that would otherwise be able to go "Hey bro/sis/sib, that was fucked, let's talk about it and fix it".

Puts a spotlight on the possible victim that prevents them from recovery or healing.

Creates drama that creates damage for all parties.

And that's if their was any truth in the post.

A callout post that's just a bunch of garbage though? That:

Isolates the victim of the slander, leaving them volunrable to attacks and harassment

Feeds into transphobia both generalized and specific to the victim of slander

Creates infighting, gatekeeping, and policement of the community

Often forces people who had nothing to do with the initial drama to take part in a now ever delevoping drama, which creates more callout posts, more slander, more harrasment, and more attacks on community members. Most often effecting the most marginalized members of out community.

Forces people to view content that is often triggering and demands that they make a moral statement about it, while trying to process or cope with the content.

Creates room for Terfs, tehms, radfems, and transphobes of all brands, to stick their ugly heads in and go "see, I was right about the trans cult, do you see what monsters they are".

happy pride from captain america

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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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