Democratic leadership should whip this vote, but Democratic leadership has no power to cut ICE funding, because Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress. If every single House Democrat votes against the DHS budget, it will pass if every Republican votes for it, because math.

When Schumer says Dems should focus on affordability, social media leftists say he's not condemning Trump enough. And when he condemns Trump, they say he's out-of-touch and ignoring working class economic issues. I don't even LIKE Schumer very much but the double-standard is so appallingly obvious.

Martin Luther King Day is coming up and we're going to see both the left and the right quoting him out of context to fit their political agendas. The left misuses his "white moderates" and "silence of our friends" quotes as much as the right misuses his "content of their character" quote.

…and give Trump more of a reason to start arresting Dem congressmen and throwing them into deep holes of a prison? I swear people aren’t beating the allegations on wanting Dem congressmen leading the charge on a leftist-J6.

Anyways, first movie of 2026...All You Need Is Kill. Depicted in bright colors against a cosmic horror-y threat in a time loop, yet accentuates the limited time we all have to make a difference in our own lives. (using trailer 'cause can't seem to find GIF) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpX...

…a general reminder use GW changes the lore and setting all the damn time, so so what on there being a couple of female head swaps? Like, they brought back squats/Votann with they previously said “nah they’re all dead”. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Yeah this was a long time coming. The fixed timeline stuff was neat in theory, but it was always going to create issues later on down the line. www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

Yo, for anyone still at @animelosangeles.bsky.social , found someone’s collar sitting in the lobby/entrance hall area of the CC. I’ve dropped it off at the Lost and Found.

*peeks over in Threads* …the fuck is going on? What’s with (apparently) every non-American going “why don’t you Americans just DO something?!” Smells like bot activity.

Time to finally end the +20 years of eternal shame over not having the comics-accurate suits in a non-Easter egg capacity. (…also Cyclops getting his late dues over “The Wolverine: feat. The X-Men” franchise) youtu.be/kH1XlwHQv9o?...

Certainly explains why tankie rhetoric always boils down to "Why aren't you, specifically doing something to bring down the system RIGHT NOW." and act as if killing a few people at the top will solve everything forever.

The current state of Robin Hood adaptations is just so bland and forgettable, that TIL there was a 2018 movie that starred Taron Egerton…that I had never heard of and don’t recall anyone at the time talking about it. Might as well try *something* different.

“No, no, no… When I said ‘Workers of the world, unite!’, I meant YOU. I’M going to sit on my ass posting on Bluesky until YOU win the revolution FOR me, so that I can then give a big speech where I take credit for everything. Now get out there and die for my... I mean, OUR glorious cause!”

…welp, time to stay off BlueSky for a bit.

Using the word “slop” to describe something has always really bothered and irked me because of the whole elitist connotations surrounding it. But yeah, the word “slop” needs to be retired because we have driven it through the ground and straight into the center of the Earth.

It’s so much like when people keep using “it’s AI” as a term for something they don’t enjoy and discredit the work put behind it. That and “Slop” are like the cynic’s version of 6-7.

…anyways in my theater, this trailer provoked a “reaction” in the audience. Via surprise and interested whispering. So it really is even simpler that the Steve trailer was just bad, and not “the general public is ready to move on from the MCU”. youtu.be/1clWprLC5Ak?...

Just saw someone describing Death Note and Evangelion as "Unc Slop." ....i think the word "slop" is dead.

I wonder if anyone's ever bothered to inform this person which party FDR belonged to, and the process by which he gained the power to pass the New Deal.

And it wasn't just the big corporate news media. It was the left-wing podcasters, Youtubers, and social media influencers. All their ratings went down in the Biden era. All of them had an incentive to trash his accomplishments and bring back Trump.

I think the "Avatar has no cultural impact" people need to realize they're on the losing side of the argument. "It makes a billion dollars but leaves no cultural impact," y'all, millions of people are seeing the movies every single time, is that not cultural impact in of itself?

Well today I had ask interesting choice of a double feature: blue cat aliens with some angry fire ones, and the other about the Southern detective checking in on a northeastern church.

*sits down for Avatar 3, Thor - Avengers: Doomsday trailer comes up* …yeah I dunno what the fuck people are talking about with the whole “My theater got no reaction, Doomsday is DOA!!!”, cause I got *a* reaction via interested murmurings. It’s like personal anecdotes aren’t proof of anything.

*looks back at all of the Discourse surrounding Trek ‘09, Into Darkness, TFA, and TRoS* …but do people want him out? And that’s without getting into the blame he gets for creating the legacy sequel!

Captain America? Weird science Fantastic Four? Weird science Starfire? She's just an alien, and, like, does that actually make her a superhero if all Tameranians can absorb and emit energy to make zappies? Respond with your thoughts in the comments (this is a youtube video)

More superheroes who are just normal guys who luck into something we got Captain Marvel, Billy Batson I guess the X-men were "born" with superpowers, but their superpowers are all around that whole metaphor about race and racism, which...ya know...people critique that and I see it

anyway, what they're really talking about is The Incredibles, because The Incredibles is a fucking weird movie

Like, Spiderman Spiderman is pretty close to a Batman, down to having gadgets and gizmos and stuff. You can make a Batman that is a Spiderman, him being a billionaire isn't actually that relevant.

Like, stories where superheroes are just born with powers are kind of the odd ones out - the most famous one is Superman I guess Batman is, from a "realistic" perspective born with powers since only an independently wealthy guy could become a ninja, but I can see a Batman who is more like Spiderman

i know most people are joking when they grouse about how superheroes are inherently fascistic because they're about how some people are born amazing but, like... Most...superhero stories are about normal people who get exposed to Weird Science and get fun powers that they then use to help people

To all the film buffs who tried to convince the general public to stop watching MCU movies ‘cause they’re bad for cinema…congratulations, you’re fucking up. 4.3 million views in 5 hours, and over the most Nothing teaser trailer.

…apparently that’s going to be a long while, ‘cause the trailer’s already got 3.7 million views after only being out for 4 hours. And you can’t sincerely say the majority of those views are hatewatches, lol

Even without getting over the concerns of the business practices surrounding this (not that it matters, the thing’s only been up for two hours and already at +1.7m views and counting), as a trailer there’s just…not much to consider. Other than “Steve’s back!” youtu.be/UiMg566PREA?...

*sides X-Men, people who are born with powers, but are not treated better* Wut.

It’s really because people are mad that the movies they like aren’t getting MCU level money at the box office. Like, specifically I think people are mad movies like Sinners and OBAA didn’t get Lilo & Stitch 2025’s +$1 billion.

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER! The power of anonymity almost certainly guarantees this. ALL groups are compromised, from irony-poisoned nihilism to more-moral-than-thou idealists. Some are just blinder than others because they've been buttered up about how "funny"(sic) &/or "good"(sic) they are.

Whenever some lefter-than-thou rants about how much they hate Democrats, I just wanna say, "No, you hate POLITICIANS. You hate the sickness of power-hunger shared by absolutely everyone in the Controlling Everyone's Lives industry. Focus your hatred on the party with all the demented psychopaths."

Don't you know it's wrong to want to be happy and improve your life if something bad is happening anywhere else in the world?! /s It's basically a secular version of Catholic guilt.

finally, a solution for the sophisticated warhammer player who wants to spotlight the crown jewel of his fine wine collection

What do you mean it’s now been a decade since TFA came out???? (Seriously, it feels like one of those movies that only came out a few years ago)

I’ve been falling out of love with Filmtube specifically because more and more of their fans are beginning to take their opinion as gospel and not engaging with movies on their own terms. Disagreeing with the opinion of Filmtuber you respect in good faith is a very normal thing to be!

After that CBS News "Town Hall" last Saturday....

…and time to see if it inexplicably makes +$2 billion and everyone online is left wondering who these sincere Avatar fans are that keep pumping up those ticket numbers up, lol

Oh actually, saw it a few weeks ago, but Zootopia 2. Thematically, it's another movie that unintentionally Speaks to the Current Political Moment, and is beautifully rendered as you do with Disney Animation. But the storytelling...felt like it was leaning too much on Telling rather then Showing.

It's such a colossal mental sickness to whataboutism a massacre. To learn that a bunch of innocent people got murdered and immediately think, "how can I twist this around to make it about MY pet issue?" And it's a uniquely online sickness. No one barges into funerals yelling "MY grandma died too!"

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

Gods I miss that period of late 90's-early 00's 2D animation so much.

...uh? Did we watch the same movies? 'Cause the franchise is rife with Silly Shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1rJ...