Stuporman (2025) by JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Stuporman (2025)

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UPDATED: Thursday, July 31, 2025 17:45
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 8:19 PM

Well, this wokefest must be the worst movie version of Superman that I have seen - and also the worst version of Superman.

I had thought I'd seen all of the films since 1978 Christopher Reeves. But I guess I have not seen the Henry Cavill version - probably missed them to avoid Bafffleck.

I normally like James Gunn's work, ever since Slither with Nathan and Gregg Henry. But this version seems a flabby putz. Maybe his laziness is why he refuses to fight for Truth, Justice and The American Way. The timeline is revised such that Superman arrives on earth in mid-1990's.

Apparently, Libtards galore are whining that adopted children need to be classified as Aliens, and must obtain Visa cards to remain in USA.

Even the music score is the worst I can recall for a superduperman film.
I'm glad I waited until cheap seat Tuesday to avoid full fare.
The camera didn't show it, but I'm pretty sure Superman stepped on a bunch of ants and killed them - didn't seem to save a single one.

Sorry, some spoilers follow...

I was pleasantly surprised with the cast. Michaela Hoover is in this, and she was Nathan's 2nd fiancee. I'm not sure, I think she plays the blonde at Daily Planet. Apparently they met on GotG, along with other castmates Michael Rooker, Bradley Cooper. director Gunn, etc.
Uber hottie Angela Sarafyan plays his birth mom, Couldn't quite place Bradley Cooper as his birth dad, but Pruitt Taylor Vince plays Pa Kent.
Nicholas Hoult plays Lex Luthor, but acts like he's playing Spock. This version of Lex channels Obama, starting wars all over the globe for fun (Russia-Ukraine, Gaza/Iran/Hamas/Hexbollah/Houthi Terrorists - Israel, India - Pakistan, China vs everybody, etc), and gaslighting everybody, claiming everybody else is committing all of the crimes that he himself is committing.

This version of Lois Lane is a bit smarter than Superman, but that is a low bar with this dunce.
Hawkgirl turns out to be quite likable.

2 codas. One brief one just after the main cast graphics, before the full credit scroll. Or maybe it was just a transition clip, not sure.
Then another at the very end of the full end credit crawl.
Nathan and Alan are in neither coda.

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Thursday, July 24, 2025 1:14 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Well, this wokefest must be the worst movie version of Superman that I have seen - and also the worst version of Superman.

That's pretty harsh criticism when it sounds like you haven't seen very much.

I never saw the Baffleck version or anything DC has put out in recent years except for (I think) Shazam 1.

I only saw 1/2 of the one with Kate Bosworth in her prime playing the most beautiful version of Superman's girlfriend on screen along with the great Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. I feel asleep halfway through it and never bothered to watch the rest of it. (Which reminds me that I DID see about 1/2 of the first Gal Gadot Wonder Woman and I did the exact same thing and never finished that one either).

And I saw all 4 of the Reeve's Superman movies growing up, with several of the coming out after I was born, and the 4th one just being awful, let alone released far past its expiration date at that point anyhow.

For me, it's probably a tie between Superman IV and the one with Bosworth and Spacey that was the worst. I think it would be quite hard to beat either of those. Can't speak at all to the Baffleck ones.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad was the "wokeness" level in your mind? Maybe compare it to a few other ones we've discussed over the years back when the media was cheering that all on, back in the world from longer than 6 months ago that is now dead?

Since it sounds like the only Superman movies you ever watched were from the Reeve's era, and from a time I will agree they were putting out some of the best and most timeless music ever put to film, I won't take what you have against the current soundtrack seriously. I couldn't recite a single note of a single song of any other version of Superman I've had any contact with other than the Reeve's movies OST.

Outside of that, give some examples of what you absolutely hated about this movie. What made you give it such a bad review specifically? Is there anything in the movie that would have made you hate it of your own accord had you gone in blind and weren't looking for reasons to hate it, or after already having reasons pointed out to you beforehand to look for and justify your hatred for it?

I know all about the "Truth, Justice and the American Dream" change. My take on that is one of "after I was about 6 years old and figured out that Santa wasn't real, there wasn't really any reason I should have believed in that hoo rah rah line as long as I did in retrospect.

I love my country and I don't want to see her disrespected by people who come here and disrespect it. I want her protected. I want her respected. But I'm not going to pretend like "The American Way" is a brand that we all need to be proud of on an international stage in 2025 either. Neither of those concepts are mutually exclusive.

Maybe if we stayed the fuck out of everyone else's business and didn't spend the last 100 years reshaping the world to whosoever's liking is doing the shaping... or if after all that meddling we currently found ourselves living in a thriving and happy world right now we could say a laughable line like that out loud in public without feeling embarrassed doing so in 2025.

But that ain't the world we're living in.

Everybody makes mistakes, but nobody ever learns from them until we're able to stop pretending like "Our Side" never makes them and it's only the other side that does. Until the day we wake up and we're living in Utopia, "Truth, Justice and the American Way" is just a stupid fucking line of propaganda, and just the flip side of any woke bullshit that we've been arguing against for as long as we did.

Let's just say my only grotch going into this movie would be that Gunn put that line in there just to change it and piss You off. It was something that was needless and petty and just a shitty thing to do to keep people arguing with each other about every fucking thing that doesn't even matter... like this movie.

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Thursday, July 24, 2025 8:38 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

I actually don't want to post spoilers, which would ruin the film for those who really want to see it.
Let me think about it.

I haven't seen much Superman?

Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill. Other than cartoons and TV, those encapsulate the actors playing Clark Kent since the 1960s. What other kind of nonsense are you gibbering about?

Gunn can get music done well. he did GotG.

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Thursday, July 24, 2025 10:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

That's about all the nonsense.

That Smallville show was huge at the time. I didn't watch it, but my brothers and my old man did. I think they all watched the whole run.

Might want to count that one because I think way more people were watching that than any comic book show the WB or whatever they call themselves today have put out in a decade or more. I think a lot of people consider that their favorite version and put Reeves in 2nd place behind it.

Not saying they're right or wrong. I loved Gene Hackman's Luthor, but I could see why it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. And you'd never get me to sit through 10 or so seasons of a 20+ year old WB show in 2025, so I'll never be able to give my piece on it.

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Friday, July 25, 2025 9:05 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I know all about the "Truth, Justice and the American Dream" change. My take on that is one of "after I was about 6 years old and figured out that Santa wasn't real, there wasn't really any reason I should have believed in that hoo rah rah line as long as I did in retrospect.

I love my country and I don't want to see her disrespected by people who come here and disrespect it. I want her protected. I want her respected. But I'm not going to pretend like "The American Way" is a brand that we all need to be proud of on an international stage in 2025 either. Neither of those concepts are mutually exclusive.

Maybe if we stayed the fuck out of everyone else's business and didn't spend the last 100 years reshaping the world to whosoever's liking is doing the shaping... or if after all that meddling we currently found ourselves living in a thriving and happy world right now we could say a laughable line like that out loud in public without feeling embarrassed doing so in 2025.

But that ain't the world we're living in.

Everybody makes mistakes, but nobody ever learns from them until we're able to stop pretending like "Our Side" never makes them and it's only the other side that does. Until the day we wake up and we're living in Utopia, "Truth, Justice and the American Way" is just a stupid fucking line of propaganda, and just the flip side of any woke bullshit that we've been arguing against for as long as we did.

Let's just say my only grotch going into this movie would be that Gunn put that line in there just to change it and piss You off. It was something that was needless and petty and just a shitty thing to do to keep people arguing with each other about every fucking thing that doesn't even matter... like this movie.

In Superman, Lex Luther's side (call it the evil side) killed only one good guy that I noticed, while Superman's side killed hundreds of Lex Luther's henchmen.

Does that mean that Superman's side was evil because they killed hundreds compared to Lex Luther's side only killing one?

In World War II, the German Nazis, the Italian Fascists, and the Japanese Axis (call the three groups the evil side) killed only thousands of Americans (call them the good side), while the Americans killed millions and millions of the evil side.

Does that mean the Americans' side was more evil than the evil side because they killed many millions compared to the evil side only killing thousands?

I know the American military's answer: It is good to kill all evil people (and nuke their children in Nagasaki) while it is evil to kill even one person on the good side. Nearly everyone on the good side (which is NOT the same as the American military, but there is some overlap) is horrified about killing evil people (and their children), which is why evil is still very alive and with us always, rather than rotting and being eaten by vultures.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 26, 2025 6:34 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

“Woke” Superman Versus MAGA Whiners—Guess Who Won?
It wasn’t Fox News.

By David Corn | July 25, 2025

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/woke-superman-maga-fox-ne
ws-trump-james-gunn/

There’s nothing like a $125 million opening weekend to overcome MAGA whining, and Superman just walloped the bad-faith culture warriors of the right.

The conservative movement has long relished ginning up moral panics to distract from more important matters, such as its never-ending assault on low- and middle-income Americans and its obeisance to plutocrats. The right resorts to culture warfare over abortion, guns, gay rights, immigration, and religion to win over voters who might otherwise recoil at GOP efforts to increase the power and wealth of corporate America and 1-percenters. And Trump and Co. have followed this playbook, with their crusades against wokeness, transgender rights, and demographic diversity. So when James Gunn, the director of the new Superman, told the Times of London that “Superman is the story of America, an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country,” cranky voices on the right leaped at the chance to accuse Hollywood of making Superman “woke” to advance a left-wing agenda.

Before the film hit theaters, Fox News informed its viewers that the new Superman embraced “pro-immigrant themes.” And MAGA pundit Kellyanne Conway, appearing on the network, huffed, “We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology on to us.” Fox host Jesse Watters half-joked, “You know what it says on his cape? MS-13.” For Fox, immigrant equals gang member.

No surprise, the MAGA pundits had no idea what they were talking about. The only pro-immigrant theme in the movie is rather basic and hardly objectionable. Superman (David Corenswet), an alien who fervently wants to help humans, is propelled by an elementary motivation: kindness. He is so empathetic that when his nemesis Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult)—in this telling, an Erik Prince-like character who’s an arms dealer and tech genius who has invented the “pocket universe” (don’t ask me to explain)—unleashes a 30-story-tall dinosaur-like beast (think Godzilla) in the middle of Metropolis, Superman insists on neutralizing, not killing, the monster so it can be taken to a sanctuary to be studied. Other superheroes helping him just want to blast it to smithereens.

There are certainly reflections of present-day crises in the movie. The film’s main tale is Luthor’s unrelenting attempt to destroy Superman, who stands in the way of Luthor’s diabolical schemes. One piece of Luthor’s plan is to delegitimize Superman, and he does this with the accusation that Superman is an untrustworthy alien who has a secret agenda to take over the Earth and claim as many wives as is needed to restore the Kryptonian race that perished on his home planet. In other words, this immigrant is an existential threat and a sex fiend. Luthor’s effort to demonize Superman does initially turn public opinion against the Man of Steel, showing how easy it is to other-ize and vilify a migrant.

The other callback to the real world is a burgeoning war between two fictitious nations, Boravia, an ally of the United States, and Jarhanpur, its neighbor. At the start of the film, Superman intervenes to prevent Boravia, which is being armed by Luthor’s transnational corporation, from invading Jarhanpur. But this leads to a superhuman created by Luthor defeating Superman in battle. Through the rest of the movie, the prospect of war looms, with Boravia’s high-tech army poised to slaughter the civilians of Jarhanpur at the border. It’s laser-guided weaponry versus pitchforks. And it’s nearly impossible not to think of the ongoing war in Gaza. Reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), Superman’s gal pal, tells him that his unilateral interference in the Boravia-Jarhanpur conflict raises questions of politics and morality. But Superman sees it more simply: What could be more important than preventing the bloodshed of war?

Gunn has pointed out that he wrote the script before the Gaza war broke out. He said that Superman “doesn’t have anything to do with the Middle East. It’s an invasion by a much more powerful country run by a despot into a country that’s problematic in terms of its political history, but has totally no defense against the other country. It really is fictional.” Yet the imbalance of power between these make-believe countries and the suggestion that one is poised to wipe out civilians in the other offers a strong example of art imitating life. No wonder Palestinian activists have hailed the work.

Put all the political chatter and sniping aside, Superman is a fun and smart take on an all-too-familiar story. It’s not a great film. The character of Superman—a tremendously non-dark superhero—does not lend itself to profound drama. This is no The Dark Knight with a brooding and conflicted hero (Batman) facing a nihilistic villain who seeks to illuminate and exploit the hypocrisies of modern society (Joker).

But Gunn does tease out for dramatic purpose the dilemmas and inner conflicts Superman/Clark Kent faces in dealing with both geopolitics and interpersonal relationships. The script is packed with creatively choreographed intense action scenes. Superman is confronted with challenges he might not be able to overcome—though you know he will. The side characters—particular superhero Mr. Terrific (Edi Gathegi)—are well drawn. The movie is infused with the same delightful sass that animated the Guardians of the Galaxy films Gunn previously directed. And, as you might have heard, the dog Krypto steals scene after scene.

Superman is a fine summer distraction for the tough times of the moment. You can munch popcorn and watch the ultimate good guy triumph over a villain who bears a resemblance to today’s tech billionaires. But if you want to look past the titanic fight scenes and gee-wiz CGI and be prompted to think about more, Gunn provides that opportunity, for Superman is a reminder of the pressing need to recognize and serve the basic commonality of our species—as sappy as that sounds.

It’s an antidote to the perverted political culture Donald Trump has forged. Since he entered politics, Trump has presented mean-spiritedness as an asset. In the White House, he and his henchmen have implemented and celebrated policies of cruelty. And Elon Musk, the champion of Big Tech libertarianism, recently belittled the concept of empathy, dismissing it as weakness. Superman is a retort to all this.

In the Times interview, Gunn said the movie “is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost…Obviously there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.” It’s a sad comment on our present circumstances that such talk can spur controversy—which makes Gunn’s Superman more important and necessary than the average summer blockbuster.

By the way, Superman, who was created by Jerry Siegel and Jospeh Shuster, each the son of Jewish immigrants, has always been woke:

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 26, 2025 9:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Shut up, faggot.

I've been posting in support of this movie the whole time. Nobody reads your clickbait bullshit anymore other than retards like you with too much time on your hands.

You've lost the culture war. You've lost everything. Nobody listens to anything you have to say on any topic.

All is as it should be again.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025 2:11 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

It is almost funny to see motherJones gaslighting us, yet again, for the umpteenth time, even now that their lies are unraveling.

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“Woke” Superman Versus MAGA Whiners—Guess Who Won?
It wasn’t Fox News.

By David Corn | July 25, 2025

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/woke-superman-maga-fox-ne
ws-trump-james-gunn/

... Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult)—in this telling, an Erik Prince-like character who’s an arms dealer ...

Luthor is an Obama-like character, constantly gaslighting the masses, and starting wars everywhere across the globe - while projecting his actual crimes onto his innocent opponents. So here motherjones gaslights us by claiming the Evil Barack Hussein Obama is really a private businessman.
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watch the ultimate
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good guy triumph over a villain who bears a resemblance to
all current Libtard Democrats.

And finally, motherjones tries to co-opt Superman by gaslighting any dunce gullible enough to absorb their woke pablum, that The United States Constitution was founded upon the woke ideals of unmerited grift (DEI and CRT), rampant Illegal Alien Invasion (Open, Unregulated Borders), unchecked Anti-Semitism, and unfettered Election Theft and Fraud:
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By the way, Superman, who was created by Jerry Siegel and Jospeh Shuster, each the son of Jewish immigrants, has always been woke:

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Sure, The Constutution was constructed to support the American Way of growing melting pot population of legal immigrants, merit-based endeavor and fruition, Freedom of Any Religion, and a government of, for, and by The People, just like the original Superman endorsed.

But, of course, the new Woke Superman is against The American Way. Maybe because he arrived when Clinton was in The White House, so The American Way is unrecognizable to him.

Is this how all Libtard Fake News Media are coping with their web of lies collapsing? Just double down on gaslighting, hope the masses are gullible?

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Thursday, July 31, 2025 3:03 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

How about just relax and remember that Superman is a mid superhero character with another mid-tier reboot that nobody needed in a genre that's basically on its way out like the Western and not worry so much about what little grotches you have against it because FOX News told you to have a problem with it.

You post shit like this and you make smarmy little cunts like Ted feel good and justified to continue on with their bad behavior.

You never even answered the question why you think it's woke. You bring no specifics.

Sounds to me like you're just complaining that it wasn't a direct word-for-word remake of the original movie. If the original movie is what you want to see, go watch the original superior movie.

At the end of the day, you appear to be the one who chooses to watch every movie under the sun that Hollywood puts out. I don't know why you do that to yourself, and I especially don't understand it when you're spending money in the theater to see mid-tier reboots and remakes of stuff you already know was great the first time around and you already know is going to be disappointing when compared to the original release.

If people stop paying to see reboots and remakes of good movies, they'll stop trying to make them.

In a perfect world, maybe they start making reboots and remakes of BAD movies. Movies that had potential but for one reason or another were FUBARed.

I think we can all get behind that idea.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025 8:36 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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How about just relax and remember that Superman is a mid superhero character . . . and not worry so much about what little grotches you have against it because FOX News told you to have a problem with it.

The New York Times came to the same conclusion as FOX News:

Opinion | ‘Superman’ Is MAGA Kryptonite

By David French | July 17, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/superman-adoption-maga-kind
ness.html

I’ve grown to dislike the word “assimilation.” When we talk about immigration, the better word is “adoption,” and it took a superhero movie to help me understand why.

That movie is “Superman.” Like virtually everything else in America, “Superman” got caught up in the culture war. In the days before the movie’s release, its director, James Gunn, warned that not everyone would love his film.

“I mean, Superman is the story of America,” Gunn told a British newspaper. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”

Let’s pause for a moment.

From the beginning, the Superman story has been a story of an interstellar immigrant who becomes so fundamentally decent and courageous that he is the fictional ideal of “truth, justice and the American way.” So when Gunn says that his story is about “basic human kindness,” the first thought I had was, “Yeah, sounds like he made a Superman movie.”

Cue the outrage on the right. In a segment on Fox News, the chyron read “Superwoke.” Jesse Watters, a Fox News host, joked that Superman was going to wear an MS-13 cape. Another Fox News host, Greg Gutfeld, said that Gunn was trying to build “a moat of woke, enlightened opinion around him.”

(When it comes to MAGA bodies of water, I think I prefer “moat of woke” to “Gulf of America.”)

A popular X account called End Wokeness, which has 3.7 million followers, posted a headline with part of Gunn’s quote about immigration and kindness and wrote, “Hollywood literally never learns.”

What should Hollywood learn? That kindness and decency are for suckers and the best place for Superman isn’t with his family in Kansas or in his Fortress of Solitude but rather behind a fence, trapped in Alligator Alcatraz?

I saw the movie on opening night. I have a longstanding tradition: I see every new superhero movie as soon as I can, on the biggest screen that I can. I enjoyed every second of it. It was funny, it was fun, and it absolutely celebrated decency and kindness. But as the credits rolled, I had a single dominant thought: “Superman” is a movie about adoption, and if adoption is woke, then consider me woke.

I’m going to share spoilers, so you might want to save this newsletter and read it after you watch the movie, but one of the pivotal revelations of the movie is that Superman learns that he was sent to Earth not to serve humanity but to rule over us all and to preserve the Kryptonian race by forming a harem of human women.

In most versions of the Superman story, including the 1978 Christopher Reeve “Superman” and the 2013 Zack Snyder version, “Man of Steel,” the titular character is sent from the dying planet Krypton explicitly to help and protect us. Superman’s parents are good and decent people who love their son.

That’s what you believe at the start of this movie as well. To calm him in times of crisis, Superman watches a partial video clip salvaged from the wreck of his spacecraft that seems to depict his parents as kind beings who direct him to serve the people of Earth. But the movie’s villain, Lex Luthor, and his allies recover the rest of the footage — in which Superman’s parents direct him to conquer Earth — and share it with the rest of the world.

All at once, he loses his sense of self. A mob gathers in Metropolis, and the same people he’s loved and served now scream for him to go. So he flies away, back home to Kansas, to his adopted family.

In many versions of the Superman story, his earthly father dies when Superman is a child. In this version, his father and mother are still very much alive. They embrace him, and his father tells him that only Superman can define his character. He is not destined to follow the path his biological parents set.

In a confrontation between Superman and Luthor, just when Luthor is trying to treat him as inherently dangerous and inescapably alien, Superman responds with a passionate declaration: “They’ve always been wrong about me. I love. I get scared. But that is being human, and that’s my greatest strength.”

In the movie, Superman did everything we could ever ask of an immigrant. He assimilated. But had he been adopted? By his family, yes, but what about by his nation?

Think for a moment of the immigrant experience. If you’re a child, you come without your consent. You find yourself in a place that you’ve never known. Even if you’re an adult and you want to make America your home, you start out in a state of isolation and vulnerability.

Is it any wonder that new immigrants often create or seek out ethnic enclaves? From the Irish and Italian quarters of cities in the 19th century to the barrios of the 20th and 21st centuries, immigrants can ease into their new life by holding on to remnants of the old.

We look at immigrants and often demand that they assimilate. Be like us, we say. Conform to our culture. And that’s usually an easy ask — after all, adult immigrants want to be here. They want to participate in American life. For children, assimilation tends to happen quickly. Immigrant children who grow up in America quickly become more American than they are Mexican or Nigerian or Polish.

Assimilation doesn’t mean abandonment. There are millions of patriotic Americans who are also proud of their national heritages. When the waters of the Chicago River turn green on St. Patrick’s Day, we celebrate with Irish Americans. Should Mexican Americans experience any less joy on Cinco de Mayo?

When I served in Iraq, I served with immigrant soldiers who expressed pride in their homelands but fought in one uniform under one flag, and no one in our squadron ever questioned where their ultimate loyalties lay.

But if we ask immigrants to assimilate, then our nation has its own obligation. We must adopt them. If we want immigrants to love us, then it is our sacred obligation to love them back. Nations can’t love immigrants as adoptive parents love their children, but there is a parallel: A nation can tell a person, “You are one of us.”

That doesn’t mean that we open our borders to anyone who wants to come. Of course we should regulate the flow of immigrants into our country. Too many people arriving too quickly can overwhelm social services, strain local economies and create the conditions for rivalry and conflict that destabilize our politics.

But our default posture should be one of open arms. We should take immense pride that people want to come here. And we should welcome as many as we can reasonably absorb. This is our national heritage, marred though it is by sometimes long periods of backsliding.

This is all very personal to me. I’m an adoptive father of an immigrant daughter. And when I watched “Superman,” my mind went back to one of the most important and touching moments of our lives.

In 2010 — when America felt like a kinder nation — my family and I traveled to an orphanage in Ethiopia to pick up our Naomi, our beautiful, precious daughter. Families who have adopted internationally know that there are really two adoptions that take place; one is personal, and one is national.

I’ll never forget either. The personal adoption happened when a nurse handed Naomi to us. Courts had already declared us to be her parents, but the adoption process is long and grueling, and you can legally become a child’s parent before you’ve even met. It doesn’t seem real until that moment when you first hug your child and she hugs you back. That’s a moment that imprints on every adoptive parent’s heart.

When you adopt a child overseas, America also adopts her as a citizen. When we adopted Naomi, she didn’t just become a member of our family; she also became an American. But that’s a cold legal fact. How can a nation love?

A nation loves through its people. In the movie, Superman can’t truly feel whole again until he feels the love of his neighbors. When did this nation love our Naomi? On Day 1.

After the five of us left Ethiopia — we’d also brought our two older kids — we arrived at J.F.K. in New York about as tired and emotional and jet-lagged as a family could be. I was nervous about going through customs. The paperwork for international adoptions can be astonishingly complex, and the slightest mistake can lead to very long delays.

I walked up to a very serious-looking immigration officer and handed him a pile of documents. He went through them carefully and looked up. But he didn’t look at me. He looked at Naomi, and his serious expression changed to a smile that radiated tenderness and warmth.

“Hello, little one,” he said. “On behalf of the United States of America, welcome home.”
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Some other things I did

On Sunday, I wrote about the Epstein files, and the astonishing spectacle that we’re witnessing as MAGA is tearing itself apart, and expressing concerns — serious concerns — about President Trump. Why would the Epstein files cause this chaos?

The Epstein story mattered so much in MAGA circles because it was a key element in their indictment of America’s so-called ruling class. Trump’s appeal to the Republican base isn’t just rooted in his supporters’ extraordinary affection for the man; it’s also rooted in their almost indescribably dark view of the American government.

Why are they so keen to burn it all down? Well, if you believe your government is populated by people so depraved that they’d participate in and cover up the systematic sexual abuse of children, then you wouldn’t just want them out of office; you’d want them prosecuted, imprisoned and maybe even executed. And you’d want all the power you’d need to make that happen.

And if you believe that the ruling elites would abuse children, then they’d certainly be the kind of people who’d gin up a Russia hoax or try to steal an election in 2020. People who are that terrible are capable of anything. And if you wonder why MAGA turned on the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice, well, it’s not just about the Russia investigation or the F.B.I. search of Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago. MAGA America also believed the F.B.I. was protecting pedophiles to preserve the status quo.

On the right, the Epstein story became the thinking man’s version of the QAnon conspiracy theory — the idea that American society was led by a gang of cannibalistic pedophiles. Whereas QAnon was rooted in the imaginary revelations of a shadowy figure who claimed Q security clearance, at least the Epstein story was rooted in some very grim, very real facts.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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How about just relax and remember that Superman is a mid superhero character . . . and not worry so much about what little grotches you have against it because FOX News told you to have a problem with it.
The New York Times came to the same conclusion as FOX News:

Yeah. And every one of you faggots have a problem with Sydney Sweeny's great jeans.

Shut the fuck up.

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