If Mort Divine ruled the world

CNN in full damage control about the memo still. "Democrats say important info left out, big nothing burger". Ironically, even if everyone important was informed of the details of the origin of the intel or was ignorant of the funding source, the bottom line is best case the DNC corrupted justice in pursuit of an election they still didn't win - and went broke doing so.

That memo was so lackluster though. I don't understand how I can put my faith in a memo from a dude with an agenda rebuffing a farcical dossier compiled by another dude with an agenda. If they really wanted to win people over, they should have just published source documents to dismiss any gas-lighting especially in the case of a gross miscarriage of justice.
 
DNC fucked shit up. GOP is currently fucking shit up and Trump is most likely complicit in some kind of shadiness. I'm waiting for Mueller. The point of the memo is to discredit the FBI. If we're tearing down our institutions, then this is mayhem and I can say "fuck Trump, fuck Trump, fuck Trump" without any concern for consequence. That doesn't seem, to me, to be a practical position. So I'll await Mueller's decision. If he says Trump's in the clear, then I'll believe he's in the clear.
 
If all they say is that Trump is "shady," there's nothing we can do with that. They need to come up with substantive evidence.

That won't stop me from criticizing the president, but it will clear up some uncertainty.
 
If all they say is that Trump is "shady," there's nothing we can do with that. They need to come up with substantive evidence.

That won't stop me from criticizing the president, but it will clear up some uncertainty.

I'm interested in seeing what happens in 2020. The DNC is broke and in debt. Trump and Bernie are the two strongest currently visible respective candidates and both old as shit. Politically things are getting stupid. I've got political reservations about going back in the military but I've basically already committed. Gonna be commissioning this year. Hope some retard doesn't put another Maybus or Rumsfeld back in charge of things.
 
Assuming the Trump presidency doesn't take a major downturn (in which case the DNC doesn't need much funding), I think Gabbard could run on a Sanders-lite platform with his endorsement and win. If Cory Booker is still black in 2020 he could potentially swing Michigan and Pennsylvania back. And I really hope Zuckerberg runs, that would be hilarious.
 
That's an older article, does the movie actually include all of that? Props to the director and/or screenwriter if it does.
 
Isn't Black Panther a black nationalist/continentalist fantasy? That's how I've always understood it, at least. If the alt-right sees Black Panther as their new hero, then I'd say they're ignoring the historical circumstances that gave rise to black nationalism.

Which doesn't surprise me, so whatever.
 
Isn't Black Panther a black nationalist/continentalist fantasy? That's how I've always understood it, at least. If the alt-right sees Black Panther as their new hero, then I'd say they're ignoring the historical circumstances that gave rise to black nationalism.

Which doesn't surprise me, so whatever.

It might have something to do with other superheros being universalists.
 
If I understand what you're saying, then it's along the lines of what I was thinking. Basically, superheroes offer readers an opportunity to identify with an absolute position on something, typically through an identification or association with a particular set of values. That's their cathartic function as fantasies. Critically speaking, they allow us to confront the conflicting manifestations of our values, but only if we choose to view them that way.

This isn't a criticism of superhero narratives, just an observation. Black Panther seems, to me at least, to be a fantastical exploration of black nationalist politics.
 
I can see how white nationalists might see it that way, but I doubt black nationalists do.

http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-anti-semitism-black-nationalist-unite-714434

An ideological alliance between white and black nationalists makes some sense on a political level. Both groups want to form a country without the other one in it. But for Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, both groups are also united by their deep hatred of Jewish people.
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Segal, who’s been at the league for more than a decade while studying extremists, also noted in a recent blog post that the camaraderie between white and black nationalists goes back decades.

George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi party, attended a separationist speech by Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, and was quoted as saying that he was “fully concerned with their program” and that he had “the highest respect for Elijah Muhammad,” the Nation of Islam founder. Segal also notes that the Ku Klux Klan leader “David Duke has also tweeted agreement with Farrakhan, and in 1985 Farrakhan met with Thomas Metzger, a former KKK leader, at an NOI rally in San Diego."

For many, Farrakhan is a social justice leader and should be revered despite his anti-Semitic views. But for Segal, any shred of Farrakhan’s credibility went out the window the second he entertained collaborating with the alt-right.

“Anybody who had any skepticism about the anti-Semitism in NOI should put that skepticism to bed now that he seems to be open to dialogue with white supremacists,” he said.

Segal doesn’t believe these commonalities will manifest themselves on the streets or in a united organization. But, he noted, “it’s entirely possible that they would both be on a podcast together in this moment in time.”
 
I was referring specifically to the film. Black nationalists and the alt-right won't unite over a film whose premise is separatism, since unity and separatism are mutually exclusive. The extent of agreement is: "We don't wanna be around you fuckers," and the other group says "Good by us."

Black nationalists themselves are often militant and incredibly intolerant.

I agree with all of this. No one is uniting, other than in agreement that separation is a good thing.