45 minutes ago, Tania82 said:

Well, in movies she seems want the family. I think only Batman was the sex symbol

 

I never saw the movies.  Hmmph, usually Batman is too weird/depressing to be considered a 'sexy' superhero.

  

In the comics Harley Quinn's relationship with Joker is shown only in their partnership in crime and romantic on the surface.  Kind of like Bonnie and Clyde or the robber couple in "Pulp fiction".

 

I am actually a fan of the idea of a difficult Harley Quinn & Batman romance, this is theme of the White knight comics.  I would prefer if it was done way better than in the comics though.

No, Batman with Harley no. I don t like that idea! But Batman has got love relathionship with Catwoman, somebody else? Poison Ivy too? 

In some mediums, (like the Batman Arkham games) Batman is depicted as being friendly but wary (of getting doubled-crossed) with Poison Ivy.  Also some versions of Poison Ivy have a small amount of attraction to Batman.

 

Batman and Catwoman is the most common romantic pair, however it is very undeveloped in the comics.  Most of what does or does not happen will be left to the reader/viewer to decide.

I also like how Harley Quinn is fine blonde chick when the makeup and outfit is taken off lol.

50 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

In some mediums, (like the Batman Arkham games) Batman is depicted as being friendly but wary (of getting doubled-crossed) with Poison Ivy.  Also some versions of Poison Ivy have a small amount of attraction to Batman.

 

Batman and Catwoman is the most common romantic pair, however it is very undeveloped in the comics.  Most of what does or does not happen will be left to the reader/viewer to decide.

The yes/no/yes/no love relathionships are interesting in books, comics, films... but biring in true life to me: I couldn't stay with somebody with that ego narcissist who treat to make depeable the other one!

 

Who is the psyquiatra who was interedting in Batman in 3rd film? Is in comics too? And the journalist, Vicky, is in the books too?

 

I think Harley and Joker is star couple in comics, but big not in real life. I think they are in too drugs(alcohol) and madness, mental ill and crimes. But I like that antiheroine, she is deep like doctor but crazy fool like clow

 

 

On 4/18/2022 at 1:45 AM, Matt! said:

 

 

 

He looks better in his super villain costume....

Spoiler

 

 

(I know, I know, it's mean.... but let's say I did it in the name of "social justice". I guess I'll have a free pass this way )

Honestly, Trudeau is terrible. He's pounded democracy in Canada like no one else (he eroded the freedom of the press, licensed journalism, fostered distrust in the banking system, used the police to persecute opponents and peaceful protesters, openly admires dictatorship...)

 

The only reason why he gets a free pass is that he says he's liberal (aka the liberal privilege) and he looks non-threatening (but he's a heartless hind).

 

 

On 4/18/2022 at 1:44 AM, Matt! said:

 

Vote for LeMacaron, don't let LePutin win! 

 

I don't think this will play any role in the vote. Everybody relatively agrees on this issue: Putin's invasion is terrible, but Russians are not all bad and we must try to keep a "midway" position (while defending the Ukr). There are disagreements on the sanctions, but it's more a question of risk/benefit analysis.

 

There's not "Pro Putin" on one side and "Anti Putin" on the other. We're not the USA... it's not a "black and white" vision of everything. And our voting system is not a 3rd world country's like the US.... mail-in ballots are forbidden and we have voter ID (thank God!)

Third world country voting system... What kind of modern state doesn't ask for voter ID and allow mail-in ballot?

10 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

I don't think this will play any role in the vote. Everybody relatively agrees on this issue: Putin's invasion is terrible, but Russians are not all bad and we must try to keep a "midway" position (while defending the Ukr). There are disagreements on the sanctions, but it's more a question of risk/benefit analysis.

 

There's not "Pro Putin" on one side and "Anti Putin" on the other. We're not the USA... it's not a "black and white" vision of everything. And our voting system is not a 3rd world country's like the US.... mail-in ballots are forbidden and we have voter ID (thank God!)

 

 

What will matter during this vote are:

- consumer power purchase

- law enforcement issues

- immigration / integration issues

- environmental issues

- what happened during the last two years of pandemic

 

5 years ago, Le Pen lost by huge margin. Whatever happens this year, her score will be higher :

- Partly because some people think that safety, immigration and macroeconomics issues haven't been addressed in the past 20 years.

- Partly because lots of people have been shocked by the lockdown policies (and the multiple change in positions) during covid. Lots of young folks don't understand why they've been jailed after the 1st lockdown (the 1st time, everybody agreed, but then the consensus started to break during the 5 following lockdowns, cufews, mandates, etc.)

 

(and that's not my opinion, that's what I see and hear every day)

 

 

 

On 4/18/2022 at 12:51 AM, Cult Icon said:

 

Social credit sounds like confucianism on steriods, like the world in Demolition man lol.

 

An aspect that I don't like about Chinese/Japanese/Korean culture is how they take the work ethic to the extreme, to the point where people have very little free time, devoting all their time to work with a little left over for family/friends.  Even as students they study 50% harder.

 

This can be seen in East Asian owned companies, the work ethic demanded at all levels except the top is too high, the majority of people are like worker ants with their individualism suppressed.  All that rapid economic growth is on the backs of people who work twice as hard as "less successful" countries/cultures.  

 

What is this life worth if most of one's time belongs to someone else?

 

 

Asian culture has a big emphasis on the collective (vs. the individual). The collective is key there. That's linked to this work ethic you talk about. The smothering of the individual is what will make the Chinese Communist Party fall (maybe in 10,20, 30+ years...)

 

The West used to be a perfect balance between collective and individual, but in the past 20 years, it's become massively individualistic, which is quite destabilizing for folks. Too much individualism (what we call the "McDonald's society" in France) makes people empty, then they crave for transcendence and collective goals.

 

Woke is one of the answer to fill this void and it's a BAD answer because it's just a "everybody vs. everybody doctrine". Big companies might think Woke will help them sell products, but I think that it'll foster their demise and the resentment of many people against the USA.

 

But that's just my opinion, the opinion of another random guy on the internet....

 

 

 

China, the country that Trudeau loves.

 

You disagree, you get hit or jailed.  You cough, you get erased or jailed (in the name of public health of course). You think, you get jailed. You are Uyghur, you get killed or "re-educated".

 

But hey, their tweets are nice and they're a "left wing" dictatorship ("left wing", so that's OK for the press.......... )

 

 

Shanghai residents crying. It's heartbreaking. But the media barely gives a sh**.

 

 

On 4/18/2022 at 5:51 PM, Cult Icon said:

hahaha

 

 

Elon is one of the rare "celebs" who has both balls and brains.

 

That's rare. The rest of them are either "they/them NPCS" or cowards.

@Matt! @Stromboli1 

 

There's just one competition left now in this subforum? What happened to the others?

https://www.bellazon.com/main/forum/97-bellazon-competitions/

33 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

What will matter during this vote are:

- consumer power purchase

- law enforcement issues

- immigration / integration issues

- environmental issues

- what happened during the last two years of pandemic

 

5 years ago, Le Pen lost by huge margin. Whatever happens this year, her score will be higher :

- Partly because some people think that safety, immigration and macroeconomics issues haven't been addressed in the past 20 years.

- Partly because lots of people have been shocked by the lockdown policies (and the multiple change in positions) during covid. Lots of young folks don't understand why they've been jailed after the 1st lockdown (the 1st time, everybody agreed, but then the consensus started to break during the 5 following lockdowns, cufews, mandates, etc.)

 

(and that's not my opinion, that's what I see and hear every day)

 

 

 

 

@Matt! What do they say about French elections in the Swedish media?

 

2 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

Asian culture has a big emphasis on the collective (vs. the individual). The collective is key there. That's linked to this work ethic you talk about.

 

I would say traditional Asian culture/confucianism emphasizes FAMILY to extremes, far more exteme than western religious life. This is #1.  This goes far beyond community/collective, although that is important too.  The FAMILY is everything, the individual counts for very little.  What makes the family rich is done at heavy cost to the individual.  There is a tradition of ancestor worship in East Asia which is linked to the reverance to family.  Kind of like the Mafia, but without the crime...

 

So you see Asian-Americans do everything to make their parents and family proud, and never really live the life that they wanted to live in the first place.  If they fail their family and do not live the life that their family wants them to, there is a profound shame.  Think of the high Japanese suicide rates for example.

 

The life choices that are made tend to follow in predictable patterns as a consequence.  (eg. STEM- Asians do it not because they like it more than others but because they want to make money).  There is a reason also, why Asians have very high saving rates and low consumption patterns.  To be wasteful with money is to shame and weakened the family.  Without USA/European consumption, they wouldn't have much of an economy.  So China is getting rich off the West's decadence and their own extreme hard work.

4 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

The smothering of the individual is what will make the Chinese Communist Party fall (maybe in 10,20, 30+ years...)

 

This type of extreme hard work seems to fade in 3 generations (basically after the next generation grows up in affluence).  In the US I have heard that the 3rd generation East asians are Americanized and no longer have the strict values of the first and second generations. 

 

I heard that Japanese, while still having high work ethic is considered somewhat more "relaxed/spendthrift" than Koreans and Chinese.  The Japanese are zero growth/low growth economy/society now after decades of high growth.  They got the 1st world living standard before the other asian societies.  It's now China's turn as they are the "hungry" ones willing to slave away their whole lives, to make a few hundred more Chinese billionaires..!

 

A big issue in China is their "lack of creativity" particularly compared to the "Americans", leading to educational reforms and so forth.  I think it is obvious that high creativity requires taking big risks and being indvidualistic..., basically not a family-friendly personality type.

 

The CCP is involved in directing state capitalism, for maximum economic growth.  IF China even enters zero growth or negative growth then the CCP is in trouble.  And if the Chinese elite becomes incredibly corrupt, like the Soviet Union starting from the mid-60s onward.

I prefer back my avatar to my interesting trilogy, 50 shades, best vibrations. I have my had in psychology interestings, not back crazy only because some bad people be ill.

15 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Third world country voting system... What kind of modern state doesn't ask for voter ID and allow mail-in ballot?

 

So you can vote your candidate as many times as you want!