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27 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
We're off the trail here, but if you want an interesting snapshot of the intersection of disinformation and undermining the government, Larry Hama's take on Cobra in the Marvel GI Joe comics was weirdly prescient.

I'm serious. Man can write, even if it was a story to sell toys.
In the comics, Cobra as a terrorist organization was one part Boogaloo/Proud Boys and one part grifting hucksters.

MAN THAT SEEMS WEIRDLY FAMILIAR SOMEHOW
In the 1980's Larry Hama was writing the bad guys in a kid's toy comic book as a bunch of white American terrorists *and called them fucking terrorists* and was lauded for it to this day.

Stand in fucking awe.
It was both. The man who would become Cobra Commander felt like the country turned its back on him so he made it his goal to undermine and take over the country.

They did MLM, and PR and law firms. They did arms trading. They took over their own town.
LIKE I SAID WHY DOES THAT SEEM FAMILIAR washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…
This "economic anxiety" bullshit was not new. Hama knew. He's a smart man.

There he was back in the 1980's just laying out the roadmap for what the alt-right was going to be, all because some white dude felt like he didn't get his due from the American Dream.

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27 Oct
Does anyone else remember when the GOP lost their shit over the idea that absentee ballots from the military wouldn't be counted?

Yeah, well, now they don't need you anymore, GI Joe.
PEPPERIDGE FUCKING FARM REMEMBERS YOU MENDACIOUS GOP SONS OF FUCKS cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITI…
Anyone active or retired US military reading this: they needed you in Florida twenty years ago as a political football.

They don't need you anymore, so if you're overseas and your ballot comes in late, fuck you.
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26 Oct
Seriously, non-US people don't get this:

In the US, paying for "insurance" does not mean you don't still have to pay the doctor.

You pay your monthly premium, then pay a portion of the cost of a visit, and then pay up to a certain amount (several thousand) before it kicks in.
So if you broke your leg, you'd still pay whatever the deductible was.

If you have "just getting by" insurance like most of us, that could be $2K or $5k or $10K.

And that's if your insurance company chooses to pay. They can choose not to, and then you have to fight them.
Gonna say that again: in the United States, your doctor can make a diagnosis and a prescription and order tests and even send you for surgery, and your insurance company has can simply refuse to pay.

Legally.

Yup.

I know.
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26 Oct
It was incredibly stupid.

I know a lot of people don't care about this, but I wanna summarize one of the least self-aware moments in Trek (and that's saying something).
Okay, two sides: Cardassians and the Federation.

Had a war. Very bloody. No real threat to the Federation's existence but the Cardassians didn't believe there was any such thing as "war crimes." Long time backstory throughout TNG.

Then came the indigenous peoples.
After the war there was a demilitarized zone, and this weird cold war where both sides were putting colonies right on the edge.

Then a new treaty came out and some Federation worlds with colonies on them were just given to the Cardassians.

Just, y'know. Just because.
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24 Oct
Wait.

So, the Avengers game is failing, and to bring players back, Squenix offered ... Kate Bishop?

Really?

An arrow person?

Not, like, y'know ... She Hulk, or Photon, or even Tigra, but "I Can't Believe It's Not Hawkeye?"
And to cap that off ... they delayed her!

So they promise people something that's kind of "meh," and then they can't even provide the meh on time.

Bioware has been holding a "We're No Longer The Worst" party all weekend.
Look, you can stan Kate all you like, but at the end of the day she's an arrow person.

Arrow people are the silliest, yet somehow both Marvel AND DC have a dozen, each.

Meanwhile you got women who can shoot fucking microwaves just cooling their heels.
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24 Oct
Understand that generally every $1 needs to bring in a return of about $3 for a project to be considered successful.

The original $300 million budget brought in ~$700 million, and now they've spent even more on reshoots.

And they're betting on HBO Max to fill the gap.
HBO Max is $15 a month.

So they're going to need about ... 40 million people to sign up for HBO Max for the Snyder Cut to pay off.

Also HBO Max's international distribution is a mess right now, so those 40 million people will all need to be American.
Now, that's not an impossible number. Netflix has something like 200 million subscribers, right?

But you're expecting 40 million people to jump on for a director's cut of Justice League.

"I already saw Justice League."

Most people are not hardcore fans.
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21 Oct
This one's a runner up for WTFIWWY this week.

You gotta admit, this is clever. It was easy to fool the automated checkout and this wasn't even his first time doing it.

Know what stopped him?

A REAL HUMAN BEING DOING ACTUAL WORK local21news.com/news/offbeat/s…
The automated systems have cameras that supposedly watch you scanning things. (Walmart's system is notoriously bad, check the article.)

But you can fool it if you have a bar code for another item.
wired.com/story/walmart-…
In theory, you could make this scam even more bulletproof:

1) Photocopy the Kool-Aid UPC bar code.
2) Print it onto labels.
3) Palm the labels and stick them on the items.
4) Pay $0.25 for an entire bedroom set.
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