SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
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SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)

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03 December 2015 at 07:37 PM
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Ya this definitely coulda gone a lot worse

Still want bibi and khameni buried under the jail


accidentally caught 2 minutes of cnn and saw a story about israel airstriking a group of palestinian children playing foosball, very cool!


do you ever get sick of sounding as dumb as victor?


Gentlemen, it has been a privilege 🍰



by #Thinman k

do you ever get sick of sounding as dumb as victor?

72 is better on topics he knows aka my penis.


i know all (except your dick), i am the allfather (plz don't send me dickpics)


and aidsman thinks he insults me, but victor is great, a legend of the docks.
no idea what he's mad about, and nor do i care


tell us about his penis 72



by 72off k

i know all (except your dick), i am the allfather (plz don't send me dickpics)


and aidsman thinks he insults me, but victor is great, a legend of the docks.
no idea what he's mad about, and nor do i care

hey 72, did you see that Biden claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals?


i did not. was this before of after he called a press conference to yell about how he literally saw many pictures of beheaded babies that were also raped or whatever and thats why we need to do a genocide?



a few days ago


lmao


pudding-brain joe at it again


by RT k

I'm probably forgetting a few

yeah, seems so. unfortunately

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/20/iran...


https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-mag...


on magneto and israel. an interesting read, particularly if you're interested in such things


by 72off k

https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-mag...


on magneto and israel. an interesting read, particularly if you're interested in such things

Xmen 97 is amazing! Magneto is leading the team! Definitely better than the boring Invincible.

"Never again.."

****ing iconic.

Didnt read that article but I def support Magneto.



Invincible rules you shut your whore mouth


by Chilltown k

Xmen 97 is amazing! Magneto is leading the team! Definitely better than the boring Invincible.

"Never again.."

****ing iconic.

Didnt read that article but I def support Magneto.

read the article (it's pretty good)

spoilers:

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“Throughout my life, I have repressed the rage in me until it exploded, or I have given it free reign over all decision,” Magneto says, confronting his old Kirby/Lee self on the road back to life. “But I cannot return to the world and return to the same path. I must change... So I acknowledge all that I have done. I admit all that I am. I own the shadow that is in me. And if this is the engine that drives me—let it drive me to a better world. A world for all who are hated and feared.”

For all who are hated and feared. “The true guarantee against ideologically-based extermination is not military power and sovereignty,” Evron wrote in 1980. That is, not in the building of more and higher walls, but in the “eradication of ideologies which remove any human group from the family of humanity.” Such a pursuit offers fewer opportunities to swagger and punish, and tickles no atavistic fancies. Yet it is, in its way, a far more grand and radical desire.

Change in corporate superhero comics is as much of an illusion as death, of course, and about as permanent. Any character development is subject to reversion, and rare indeed is the development that doesn’t get walked back somewhere down the line. But at this moment, this is what a reborn Magneto has come to stand for—not the wary and vengeful paranoia of “Never Again,” but the greater aspiration of “Never Again” for anyone.

If to be a Jew of the diaspora is to be, in the Kirby/Lee/Claremont formulation, a mutant, then this is what we must remember. We are not immune to hatred and fear, and we are not the only ones subject to it. And we cannot be safe until we create that better world for everyone, together. It’s a hard road to such a world, and haunted. It might, perhaps, be an impossible one. The judgment of Magneto is that all of us have to walk it anyway.


Pretty, pretty good article. They referenced his line!

by StoppedRainingMen k

Invincible rules you shut your whore mouth

Something about it doesn't click for me.

The animation, the dialogue, both felt off.

I'm a superhero junkie so it should be up my alley but I dunno.


Kristi Noem murdering a dog and goat with a shotgun.


1. who?
2. wat





Unfortunately the left is as impotent as they are microphallused

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