Did I miss anything?
Returning from vacation to a world which looks very much like the one I left.
After a blessed week on vacation, much of which I spent in my favorite place on earth, which is my favorite in no small part because the internet and cell phone service is kind of spotty, it's time to check in and see if the world reset itself since I left.
So far, it doesn't look like much has changed at all, and I’m honestly wondering if I should just get an AI to write the same thing every few days with slightly different wording.
To wit:
Donald Trump is still Donald Trump.
Russia is still Russia.
thinly disguised, and sometimes undisguised, antisemitism continues to have its best bull run in decades.
very online #resistance libs remain awful.
Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party members continue to have their faces eaten by leopards.
Epstein still killed himself.
Nico Hulkenberg remains the F1 driver with the most starts without a podium excuse me what now?!?
And stupid culture war nonsense remains very much a thing, this time about the new Superman movie:
MAGA influencers launched a movement to boycott the new Superman movie in response to director James Gunn proclaiming the story is inherently political.
Superman is set to be released on July 11. During the press tour leading up to that release, Gunn spoke to The Times of London last week in a wide-ranging conversation about his career and his newest film. It was in that profile piece that Gunn revealed the political undertones of his film.
“I mean, Superman is the story of America,” Gunn says. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”
The interviewer added, “I ask if he has considered how differently the film might play in, say, blue state New York — aka Metropolis — and Kansas, where Kent grew up?”
“Yes, it plays differently,” Gunn admitted. “But it’s about human kindness, and obviously, there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.”
In response to Gunn’s interpretation of the movie, Fox’s Laura Ingraham claimed Superman was “another film we won’t be seeing.”
She wouldn’t have time anyway, what with catching up on Kevin Sorbo’s filmography.
Gunn has a good point about Superman being an immigrant, but as Sonny Bunch notes, he’s about as assimilated and “all-American” an immigrant as you can get. (Not sure where the timeline stands at this moment, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t even know he was anything other than unusually strong Kansas farm boy Clark Kent until adolescence.)
Really, there’s something here that liberals and conservatives can take away from the Superman story which supports their views on immigration and integration, but then I remembered it’s 2025 and we don’t do any of this “compromise” or “mutual respect” bullshit anymore.
As for the story of an immigrant who hasn’t integrated well into his host society, well…James Gunn himself produced it so he should know.
