Australian oral histories are the most accurate and consistent in the world. While the Library of Alexandria was burning down, Aboriginal Australians were preserving knowledge from tens of thousands of years ago. If you want to know what life was like 10,000 years ago, all you have to do is go talk to an Aboriginal elder.

We had 60,000 years of communism here in Australia

Most of that isn’t related at all to his superheroics.

Stane and Killian became problems for the world long before Tony became a superhero. Hammer was inspired by Stark’s superheroics, but Tony’s whole goal for that entire situation was to keep the Iron Man technology out of the hands of people like Hammer. With Toomes, it the federal government stepped in to take over the job and the city didn’t properly compensate him. He should have had a better cancellation clause in his contract with the city, Tony isn’t responsible for that contract. And Mysterio was exactly what Tony believed him to be. Seems like most of Mysterio’s goons were people mad they weren’t allowed to design weapons anymore. Quitting evil makes assholes angry, that’s not news.

The only supervillain I attribute to Tony’s actions as Iron Man is Ultron, and Ultron definitely isn’t a manifestation of Capitalism and the current world order. This comic is arguing that superheroes enforce the status quo, but I don’t believe Iron Man has acted to enforce the status quo through his superheroics. Your argument that he created those supervillains doesn’t convince Me either.

Actually, Tony, Pepper, and Obadiah together owned more than half of the company’s stock. Obadiah would have needed virtually ALL of the other shareholders to agree to such a lawsuit, and he decided to use violence instead of bothering with the headache that would have been. After he died, anyone trying to do the same would have needed to get Ezekiel Stane on board, while Tony and Pepper were consolidating their control over shares and offering a lot of money for anyone who wanted to cash out of SIA while it was still worth something. So yeah, Tony stopped that from happening by being good at business, it wasn’t just plot armour.

Well, no. In Iron Man (2008), Iron Man decides that Stark Industries will no longer be selling weapons to the government, and will instead be investing all of its money in clean energy. Then he solves all the wars in the middle east and kills a CEO.

I’m not joshing you, folks, that’s literally the plot of the movie. I rewatched it recently, that’s exactly what happens.

The Green Lantern?

I know a lot of white people in America who don’t care if Donald Trump is crowned dictator, because they think they’ll be fine. They want America to get as horrible as possible for the working class, because they think it’ll inspire the working class to rise up like Karl Marx said. They complain about the Democratic candidate in every election and say “not good enough, I’m staying home”. They think one starving Gazan child is a good reason to create a thousand more. They give “critical” support to Russia and the CCP, because they think western imperialism is the only kind worth opposing.

I know a lot of communists. There’s no overlap between the two groups.

In situations where a pronoun is grammatically appropriate I agree, but I don’t think apps should be using a user’s first person pronouns for them in the first place, so they’re just asking for the trouble. It’s their fault for flying too close to the sun.

I know why she backed Netanyahu. It’s part of the Democrats’ secret plan to destroy democracy.

The best thing we can do to prevent a Trump dictatorship here on the Fediverse is call out the people who’ve been conned into doing the Biden Administration’s dirty work of defaming minority candidates.

Very well, I edited it to say “degender” rather than “misgender”, but “degender” is a very niche word and I worry that you’ve made My comment less clear for the sake of pointless semantics.

I’m really lucky I found some ethicsluts who think My principles are hot

OP why did you post an ad for Xitter? There’s an ad for Xitter in the top right

The Next Great Cycling City: Oslo, Norway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmp09Fd07oc

Well duh, it’s Park Avenue

It’s not a specific mental defect either. It’s just a sophistic appeal to plausible sounding psychology speak. Psychobabble.

Psychology experts feel the same way hearing “sociopath” as engineering experts feel hearing “quantum capacitor” or “chronometric transistor”. It’s like when a hacker on TV says they’ve decompiled the mainframe.

Some psychologists have been charitable and decided the pop culture understanding is close enough to ASPD that it might as well mean ASPD, and I think they’re wrong. If laypeople want to be understood they should use the correct words. Using the wrong words has serious consequences when we’re talking about mental health.

Sociopathy isn’t a specific personality disorder, it’s just a slang term for ASPD used by people who want to sound smart by using big words. That’s why the writers of Sherlock loved it so much.

Squid game in real life!?!?!?

Sorry not sorry

I’m nonbinary, like if a man and a woman had a baby