This world we live in….17213

Originally Posted by southerncross
@Nuffsaid111 maybe someone told him something like when someone spoke to Starlin all those years ago.

I'd get a actor to sign a book if the comic was based on the actor or the tv/movie he did

An example that I don't have is having Bruce Campbell sign a Army of Darkness comic

Originally Posted by ticktocktyler
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Originally Posted by Davethebrave
There is plenty I could write on this topic. I choose not to but will instead say that everyone has the right to see the world through their own eyes and act accordingly.

I tend towards a view that we should progress while not de-contextualizing or erasing the past. I also will say that I hope other countries apply the same principles in the future as many of these topics are portrayed in a highly skewed fashion (US centric). Most countries are decades behind where the US is today (and note that I am Canadian).

I see the US erasing its past every day. Take the Confederate monuments down the past is being further whitewashed. To some, the things are a reminder of slavery and some vicious, subsequent racism. To others, it's a reminder of how this joint was actually built and keeps thinking people from getting ahead of themselves.

A lot of people are against critical race theory. I am personally all for laying out the facts. It isn't even complicated. What went down is what went down.

The US is very into erasing its own history plus any other indigenous peoples history that happened to be here before the Mayflower. Just bulldoze it. Plow it under.

I'm not certain what you are looking at concerning the US. A lot of us are looking at Canada like it's a better deal.

The trouble with people "everyone having the right to see the world through their own eyes and acting accordingly" is they are really negatively impacting a lot of other people when they do it. Especially here. They actually DON'T have the right to "act accordingly".

This loudness and outright ignorance I am seeing here on a daily basis. This lack of any intelligent dialogue and compromise for the good of all. It's non existent. I believe functional illiteracy has never been greater here. People's ignorance - WILLFUL ignorance - is at fever pitch here.

They ask me "Well, aren't you PROUD to be an American?" Not really, no. I know how the thing was built. Nothing to be proud of there. Enslaving one race brutally and just as brutally decimating hundreds of others? Not proud, no. I didn't have any hand in it anyway, so....

I don't want to be associated with what's going on here these days. And just you wait for the next election cycle if you want to see chaos. This isn't a political thing I'm writing, now. This is a shapes of things to come thing I'm writing here. It's gonna get fugly.

Originally Posted by Davethebrave
Or the power for promoting actions that could drive us towards WW3.

The “ruling class” isn’t motivated towards nuclear war. Perhaps the threat in the background but not actual war.

The dominant internet rhetoric is an echo chamber of misunderstanding and misinformation.

You reference manufactured consent, which suggests you’re directly or indirectly familiar with Chomsky. If so, you might note his own take on the situation.

In times like these the internet gives disproportionate voice to casual, uninformed observers-turned-activists. Much of what is being promoted as actions towards peace are in fact recipes for pushing us to the brink of global war.