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  • To finish the quote on her CIA relationship, since context is important:

    In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, published a report that Steinem and others put together on the Vienna Youth Festival and its attendees for the Independent Research Service.[112][113] Redstockings raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the CIA, which Steinem denied.[114] Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.”

    Honestly I figured the context would clear things up, but the rest of the quote makes her come off as an apologist for an organization known to play as dirty as the KGB, and especially during that era. However just because something is funded by an entity such as the CIA doesn’t always mean that the organization is part of, partner in, or even a willing partner with something like the CIA, same with the KGB or its descendants, espionage operates on leverage, and it all depends on what kind of hold you have over the “asset(s)”.












  • Marvel already has the beginnings of that, and that’s not the issue, the issue is the lack of quality, the lack of continuity, and that Sony just seems like they’re trying to milk their ownership of the Spiderman properties while also inflicting damage to the intellectual property.

    Like let’s say someone tries to remake Morbius, or it goes back to the MCU and Morbius joins the Midnight Sons, it’s going to damage the next movie, even if Blade, Ghost Rider, ans others are involved, people are going to he expecting another “Morbin’ Time!” rather than what should be a much darker toned Marvel movie centered around the occult.



  • I mean I haven’t read Spiderman consistently for just about twenty years, so I know a lot has changed, but Madame Web always seemed like a minor addition to the Spiderman universe, not super popular, she’s no Deadpool or Venom, a character capable of leading their own franchise, so maybe, just maybe Sony is desperately pulling Spiderman characters and movies out of their asses and expecting people to go along with it.

    Meanwhile even hardcore comics fans like myself think these movies are bad ideas and if “Morbin’ Time” was any kind of example, and I was initially excited for a Morbius movie as he is a good character and part of Marvel’s Midnight Sons team, but the movie was garbage and I don’t know why but it just seems like Jared Leto ruins any well-established character that he touches.

    I was also not a fan of the way Sony is doing Venom, whom is a strong character that can carry a franchise, but requires some Spiderman interaction to explain why he looks like Spiderman, the movie wasn’t horrible, but I’d have rathered have something that was part of the MCU instead.

    So with that said, we still have Kraven coming down the pipe, another minor Spiderman villain, and I have zero enthusiasm for that movie as well.

    All in all Sony f’d up this deal, they should have done profit sharing with Marvel and just added this stuff to the MCU rather than flooding us with shit movies with second tier characters that nobody asked for.







  • the man told her in a very aggressive way he would be waiting for her when she finishes her shift

    What kind of coward threatens a diminutive woman like he’s the school bully setting up a fight like it’s 3 O’Clock High? Guess i answered my own question with the bully observation, but like seriously, did he feel like a big man afterwards? What a bitch-made mofo.

    All of the other comments are right, security should have thrown these dumb asses out and trespassed them as soon as they starting issuing threats, hospital staff have far more than enough shit to deal with than some yokel shitheads throwing childish tantrums cause they couldn’t get their way.