MountingSuspicion

I'm not acting like there's only one country in the world and nothing in my comment would suggest I think the US was omnipotent and wonderful, unless you think racism and Islamophobia and turning against other countries is somehow wonderful.

If I see a post that talks about how too many parents are giving their kids tablets, my first thought is not "there are so many places where no one even owns a tablet, stop generalizing". This is a random meme, not a manifesto on global issues. The term millennial isn't even used globally and often different countries will have different ideas of what a generation is and what to call it. In South Africa some "millennials" would be part of the "born-free generation", in Northern Ireland you might call them "Peace Babies", in china "Post 90s". Terms from the US might make their way abroad, but "baby boomers" certainly was not a phenomenon in every country. Getting upset that someone is using a US made term in a meme in English on a site where the plurality of the traffic is from the US is a weird choice. I don't know if Ukrainians consider themselves millennials but it seems like people who did at least some sociology have made the following divisions: the Soviet generation (age 60 years and older), who were 30 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed; second, the transition generation (45–59 years old), who were educated and launched in the Soviet Union; third, the post-Soviet generation (30–44 years old), who were educated in independent Ukraine and have little memory of the USSR; and fourth, the young generation (18–29 years old), who have no memory or experience of the USSR.

Again, I don't know what is the most popular term in Ukraine, but it's clear that generations mean different things to different people and using millennials in a US centric way is pretty standard. It's not our place to act like we can use our sociology names for social cohorts globally and have that be reasonable. So if anything the use of the term to describe US sentiments (or other countries that feel like their experience aligns closely enough) is a good way to honor other countries and cultures agency and autonomy.

I don't know how old you were during 9/11 but it was an awful time to grow up. Out of nowhere you were being bombarded with messages of hate towards of nebulous group of "others". The country overnight decided that unabashed Islamophobia was in vogue (previously there was still hate but not as outright). Think the Asian hate during covid but ramped up to 11. Your country was changing (at least from a young persons perspective) and all the sudden our allies were not to be trusted (remember freedom fries?). The US became embroiled in what was ostensibly a forever war for no reason.

It wasn't the worst thing, but people were going to war again and that was very clear and very scary. The financial crashes probably take the spotlight since they affected a lot more Americans directly and it's possible that everyone knew someone who lost or had to leave their home, but 9/11 changed the country in unmistakable ways and it was scary to watch and then have to witness the fallout without really having much understanding and certainty no agency. I don't think the meme is saying all of these things are equally bad. Just pointing out that these were major events and possible inflection points in history that didn't break in favor of justice.

I'm happy to trace this issue back to the founding fathers, but Bush v Gore was the beginning of the end in my opinion.

Regan was awful, but how did Nixon get elected before that and so on? At a certain point there's a direct line between compromises made during the drafting of the constitution and where we are today. I don't know where we can realistically draw the line. They saw the problems back then, even warning against two party systems.

What happened with Sanders was just evidence of an already compromised system, and thinking about it now I don't know that much would've been different. The Trump apparatus was already firmly in place.

Oh lol. I thought it was clear but now that I reread it it's not. I'll edit in that it's not what I was looking for. I think it is exactly what it was billed as but I would not have seen it by myself. It felt more down to earth and that's not what I go to superhero media for. I want big moves like watching the unraveling of a superhero mind controlling an entire town or the decimation of the home of gods.

People will probably disagree, but I think this would've been great as a show and falcon and winter soldier would have been better as a movie. I am not a fan of Bucky in general though so I think I might just misunderstand what people want out of the character.

Loki the show was a real disservice to Loki the character. I'm always surprised when anyone has good things to say about it.

All of the shows except wandavision seemed to range from bad to utter contempt for the characters and/or the audience. After their string of bad shows and movies I was really hoping to see something epic and exciting. It wasn't that, but it also wasn't marketed as that. The shows managed to take an epic saga and make it feel small in my opinion. This feels like it tries to take something more personal and make it big.

I'm not complaining about the price, but you can definitely complain about the price regardless of how often you go. I don't go to Disney every year but I can still say it's overpriced.

I was just saying that if theaters are hurting for customers I understand why. If people are spending $60 just on tickets for a family of four they are probably not going to be going very often. We don't go very often and we make a whole event out of it and don't spend much more than the $60. People that buy popcorn and snacks for everyone at their local theater end up spending as much as we do and we get dinner and drinks out of it. Unless there's a discount running or the theater is a specialty theater like the one I go to they don't really offer a better experience than you can get at home for the price. The only draw imho is that the movie is new and nowadays things hit streaming pretty shortly after release. Generic theaters just don't offer enough for the price and the evidence is that they are failing. People loved having movie pass so it seems like there's still a desire to go, just not at current prices.

As someone who also didn't have movie snacks until I could pay for them myself, I think part of it is that snacks add to the experience. If I'm paying for my family to go to the movies it's supposed to be something nice. We have movie nights at home and buy popcorn in bulk so we can all cuddle up on the couch and snack to our hearts content or pause if someone spills or needs the restroom.

I go to the movies once every few years now and it's always for a big blowout movie where we can dress up and we go to a fancy theater that does food service and has dedicated layzboy style seats. We went and saw Barbie and all wore pink and got themed food/drinks at the theater (pink lemonade and Barbie-q-something). It was fun and imho that's the kind of theater experience worth having. I don't really remember seeing movies as a kid with my family but I'm sure we'll all remember this.

I think the idea of spending $60 for a family of four to sit in silence together and then leave is just not as appealing unless they get the "theater experience" of the addons. I'm also not one complaining though because I generally don't care about seeing things in the theater and I don't really know what it's worth to people who would enjoy it. I do understand that it doesn't feel worth $60 though.

Valid points. Thank you for your insight.

Would you mind elaborating why it's a bad fit? No shade to Lemmy, but if anything I feel like that would be a worse fit. People always talk about how the best part of Reddit was the niche subs, and a big issue here is that now instead of one small community you end up with 50 communities that all have one subscriber each. Also, there's a lot of reposting and cross posting to the same community on separate instances. Instances on what is functionally a more social network like mastodon make more sense, so you could for example have all players of a specific team on an instance just for that specific team, or government employees on a government instance. Make up and beauty influencers could for example be all on another instance, making their work easier to find.

I was never on any microblog sites though, so maybe I don't really understand them.

OP is a bot or basically exclusively using ChatGPT for posts/comments. I would suggest not engaging with them. They are not here in good faith.

This is a bot or someone using ChatGPT for all their comments. Do not engage with them. They are not here in good faith.

It is pretty clear to most people that they are not saying someone posed as a McDonalds employee. I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse, but in case you or anyone else is misunderstanding, they are suggesting the following: A cop/fed illegally obtained his whereabouts. They follow him into a McD. The cop/fed goes up to McD employee and says "you should call in a tip there's a big reward". They don't mention they are a cop/fed to the McD employee. Now that there is a record of "an anonymous tip" they have an on the books explanation of how they located him without having to disclose how they actually were able to track him.

I'm not saying that's what happened, but you seem to have repeatedly misunderstood so I'm just making it clear.