Prediction: this is going to go down like a head shot in a neonatal ward.
@cstross on one hand... Yay diversity. On the other hand... Read the room?
@cstross We have a superhero? 🤔
@paul @cstross They definitely need a Space Laser somewhere in that movie, that she operates.
@cstross Alex Jones is going to lose his shit over this one.
@BonehouseWasps @cstross is there anything Alex Jones does not lose his shit over? It's his signature move.
@I @cstross He seems fine with fascism. But point taken. 😆
@BonehouseWasps @cstross even he choked when Kanye started talking about his buddy Hitler in the studio...
@I @cstross Years spent taking calls from the very worst RW weirdos has given him an immaculately tuned sense for when someone's saying the quiet part out loud. And he couldn't just talk over Kanye and quietly drop the call. Jones could hear his advertisers leaving him. It was quite the moment.

@cstross They changed the subtitle away from that some time back (Brave New World is still dogwhistly, but not in quite the same extent and direction), so not sure how much I currently trust this?

Film's going to bomb (..) though.

@cstross let me guess, her superpower is committing genocide and getting away with it because she was actually the victim? 🤦‍♂️
Sabra and Shatila massacre - Wikipedia

@cstross The meeting rooms with all those people always having #goodIdea​s™️, are they in one building and is it an isolated structure?
@cstross I don't suppose she'll be the villain...
@cstross Ouch. (Just your "prediction" line was bad enough.)
🤮

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Maybe she rips Netanyahu's head off? It would arguably be a defense of Israel.

@cstross just fulfilling the MCU mandate of defending the status quo at all costs

@cstross Oy gevalt!

In the 80s I had a black cat named Sabra, very bitey, and scratchy kitty.

@cstross hey, she could play a sort of Stormfront of MCU, just a little odd at first and they we learn she is full blown etnonationalist with a plan to cleanse the whole planet.
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What are her powers? Just asking!
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Disney exec 1: "No one is watching Marvel anymore, what do we do?
Exec 2: "Add an Israeli superhero."
1: "How will that help us gain viewers?"
2: "It won't, but when no one watches we can blame anti-semitism."
1: "Brilliant."

@cstross i applaud your facility for dysphemism.

(also, yeah, yikes)

@cstross also New World Order is a title that frightens me... An order built on genocides?
@cstross it will be fine so long as the Hulk it there to put her right ..