Update: Found it, it was British Prime Minister Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

"“Mesopotamia, … yes…oil…irrigation…we must have Mesopotamia. Palestine…yes. the Holy Land… Zionism. We must have Palestine. Syria. what is there in Syria?”

Margaret McMillan’s Peacemakers (2001).

It’s crazy that Walt Jr basically invented GoFundMe for medical expenses.

Weren’t Trans Ukrainian women trying to get out first because they were afraid they’d be made to de transition and be conscripts? Like, stopped at the Polish border because their ID’s said “male” and then sent back?

Sometimes I try to tell Libs that this Identity politics more often will be co-opted and weaponized into preserving the shit state of affairs we’re all chafing under, and this is a prime example.

Much has been said about how Comic Books are reactionary; the only ones who try to change the state of the world are naturally villains and the status quo is defended by the protagonists. I do, however, think that a world that has been fixed by do-gooders and as a result has less strife is a less interesting setting dramatically. Could you make a movie about Mr Fantastic curing cancer or doing geoengineering to mitigate Global Warming? On the other hand, if this current cultural moment is giving us horror movies and dramas via the inventory of comic book characters, maybe we’re going to get a weird biopic, something in the vein of 127 hours, The Aviator, or A Beautiful Mind, but with comic book characters. A kind of “man against society” conflict story where a guy in spandex under a lab coat struggles to make the world a better place while reminiscing about his strained marriage and protean relationship with Dr Doom as they repeatedly come into conflict, each both trying to force the world to meet their conflicting ideals.

John Krasinski is Mr Fantastic as directed by Terrence Malick.