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Re:The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near you... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:04PM (#41594550)
There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys

https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights

Little blurb

  …who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar signs. it just so happened that one of their clients, Marvel Comics, was importing its action figures as dolls.
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  So Sherry and Indie went down to the customs office with a bag of XMEN action figures to convince the US government that these mutants are NOT human.
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Re:The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near you... by throwup238 on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:10PM (#41594626)
As if Marvel canon wasn't confusing enough already, now customs is involved? Sheesh.

Are we going to get a Troy Miller origin story? Bit by an improperly declared radioactive package, he dedicated his life to defending our borders from the Guild of Calamitous Import.

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Re:The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near you... by AStonesThrow on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:13PM (#41594652)
Life Contradicts Art?
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Re:The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near you... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:18PM (#41594725)
That was mentioned in the show. X-men is all about wanting to be accepted as equal human beings and now the creators are going to classify them as non human to save a buck.
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