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How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

Cause Americans are obsessed with Rugged Individualism.

If you are in trouble, you don't accept help, much less ask for it. You pull yourself up by your bootstraps and turn your fortunes around with grit and determination using nothing more than the loose change in your pocket.

Thats how anyone that needs help became nothing more than social parasites leeching off the rugged individualistic success of their betters.

Thats why Americans, on the whole, have all but erased empathy and good will towards others.

Its why 1/3rd of the country actively votes for weak, pathetic fascists who poorly playact as strong man. Its why 1/3rd of the country didnt bother voting, because they have no problem with fasciatic strongmen punishing the weak and the other.

The New Religion of the American Orthodoxy is basically "Fuck you, Got Mine".

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, it's amazing how many people think admitting to being an asshole is a flex.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

It seems like Superman is the hero we deserve to fight this fascist trash sitting in the White House and beyond.

We need more of these positive representations, and god I'm so glad that almost every hateful right-winger cannot be creative with something other than hate.

This movie gives me hope, but I cannot speak for you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

I haven't seen the new Superman yet. I'm going on Tuesday cause that's the cheap day where I live. I'm looking forward to it though. I found Captain America 4 cathartic, watching Captain America beat up an angry president. I think Superman will also be cathartic with what's going on in America

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Yeah it’s really wild

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

this is what those people want.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Why batman is the worst superhero, just another billionaire...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Ironman is another billionaire.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Hollywood whitewashing billionaires...

We won't see a poor superhero anytime soon

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Spiderman was just some orphaned kid from Queens.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

IronHeart. I don't know if Riri is dirt poor but her needing money to build tech is a major plot point.

And Republicans got mad and said it was disrespectful to Tony to acknowledge he needed money to build his tech.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Kidness is woke. And you know, woke is bad because reasons.

[-] [email protected] 93 points 15 hours ago

For all the right wingers who think woke, pro immigrant superman is a new concept, reminder that this is a poster from the 1950s

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Interestingly enough zero black people depicted, or any other races but white - just one dude with a dark orange complexion like the Mango Mussolini.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

from this article:

Another story from 1953 called “People are People” has a Black youngster holding off an escaped lion until Superman can capture the animal. The owner of the circus the lion has escaped from wants to congratulate a white boy for his (nonexistent) heroism until Superman points out that the heroic young man was Black, and that the circus owner only wanted to congratulate the white boy because he was prejudiced.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Ethnicities. “Race” is a shit expression.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Agreed, but 'ethnicity' means something else, closer to 'national origin' mentioned on the poster. All the white people pictured may well be of different ethnicities, for example. 'Ancestries', perhaps? 'Different skin color'?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

But it's three syllables shorter! That's like 75% of the syllables. Won't you think of the savings?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

Yeah you got the crux of the problem here! Let‘s correct people that are saying the same with a bit of arrogance to have a dopamine kick and then let’s make a fight about this so we are pushing the other person away

God why everything has to be so divisive these days?!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Interesting article about the history of 'socialist superman' during the depression and the ideological evolution.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I like the Nathan Fillion comment during some red carpet interview when the interviewer was trying to egg him into saying something that would get rage clicks from one side or the other of the current political trash fire.

"its just a movie guys"

Superman was not a brooding edge lord until Snyder's take outside of specific story runs, and it is obvious that a lot of people don't know that.

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