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He’s literally an alien from another planet. He was sent here because he lost his home planet. He’s always been an immigrant/refugee. Do these people have a single brain cell between all of them?
I say this a lot, but conservatives either have very poor media literacy, or are happily lying to further their agenda. Sometimes both.
I had one guy try to tell me he was probably legal.
He also came here as a child.
He also fought Nazis. And turned the KKK into cartoon villains.
The story’s only been around 86 years. Relax.
No, they squished that brain cell when it caused them pain.
I’ve slowly distanced myself from political communities so now I see nonsense like this and wonder what’s going on out there.
The new Superman movie basically had the message of “Don’t be a shit person”; people are outraged.
lol, like every Superman media ever? Superman is super, man. He’s always stood up for the little guy, the underdog, the (dare I say) immigrant.
Superman is literally a Christ figure. He’s basically a god, he loves humanity, and he constantly sacrifices himself to save us. Naturally, the religious right hates him.
Every superman media save for the Snyder films.
lol, you could have said this at any point in the last 50 years and I would have believed you completely
Well you see, the movie’s message was “Don’t be a shit person, including to brown people”. You can probably tell what got conservatives so outraged.
James Gunn said Superman is an immigrant, which he of course is.
But I guess some people thought he was born in the USA.
hopefully superman 2’s message is “immigrants are better than racists”
The bad guys have a military to gun down brown unmarked families to take over a neighboring country.
Zionists: and I took that personally.
If they are going to bitch that much might as well make Superman gay
Isn’t that what the pink kryptonite does?
Make a movie about his son, who’s canonically bi
I thought his only “son” was his clone.
And if it’s a clone, that means Superman is also bi.
There was this bs controversy about someone in a comic book not being straight:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/entertainment/superman-comes-out-bisexual-jon-kent-cec
Looks like a headline from a fictional news segment in The Boys
That’s the one that conservatives thought the villain was the good guy, right? I’m not sure if that’s a thing that really happened or just a satire of conservatives famously poor media literacy.
I’m not sure if that’s a thing that really happened
Yeah I think you’d be right to be suspicious. There’s at least as many people who pretend to think something dumb on the internet for the lulz, as there are people who actually believe it.
Trolling is a art form.
In the show, the conservative population eats it up.
If conservatives IRL don’t get that The Boys is making fun of conservatives not understanding satire that’s a bonus.
Ohh is that where the ghoul kellyann ended up? She’s aged poorly.
I wish it actually had been super woke since it’s getting so much flak for literally just being Superman.
Fantastic movie though.
Really was a great movie. Telling who thought it was political, and who hated it.
At this point anything that doesn’t literally praise
HitlerTrump is considered woke, so Superman was super woke.
An alien form outer fucking space being called an immigrant is apparently bad in the minds of brainwashed crazy people and the ghouls brainwashing then.
The word woke is badge of honour at this point.
It’s chilling just how accurate that is.
If you showed that image to people in the 80s and 90s, I guess essentially pre-9/11 america, when I was young and taught america was called “the melting pot,” it would feel like a joke rather than a warning.
America has never been a melting pot. Every new group of immigrants to this country have been horribly abused and hate crimed. Not just brown people either.
The thing I find funny, is the “twist” with his parents sending him to Earth to conquer it is something conservatives could jump on to help their anti immigrant stance. But whatever. It’s not like they have a set of values they fall back on to make sure their ship is headed in the right direction.
That’s the twist they went with? Isn’t that just the plot of Dragon Ball?
That’s the twist they went with?
Yeah, Gunn went with the old Twilight Zone plot, but the message got damaged in the crash so Clark thought “to serve man” meant to be helpful, and never learnt to cook.
(Plus, after growing up with the best versions of Ma and Pa Kent I’ve ever seen he wouldn’t for a second have accepted the real message and he’d still have acted exactly the same way as he did when he believed it told him to help; Lara and Jor-El might be his biological parents, but his real parents, the ones who educated him, were always the Kents.)
That’s the twist they went with? Isn’t that just the plot of Dragon Ball?
Dragon Ball Z.
The plot of Dragon Ball is Journey to the West / boobs are fun / Toriyama forgot, let’s do fights.
Really shows how the US truly is a backwards country.
Superman … who is a literal alien immigrant … is probably immigrant? Really!?! No wonder the Superman writers dumped using “Truth, Justice, and the American way”
If the US ever wants to become a normal country it will have to ban fox news and all like it
No, news organizations shouldn’t be allowed to lie to you, yet fox news literally sued (and won) for the ability to do just this
At this point, fox news is far enough that it should be labelled a terrorist organization and anyone working there should be arrested and jailed for life for trying to destroy US democracy
As a non-American it just surprises me so much that Fox News can fool so many people, especially when “critical thinking” is touted as one of the things kids learn in school, as pictured in popular media like TV shows and movies. 🤷♂️ It’s just so obviously propaganda. You can tell by just the way they behave. You barely even have to listen to what they say. 😆 (But doing so surely makes it all the more crystal clear.)
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
What is that quote from? Sounds interesting.
Also from 1984:
“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”
When I was in school we read Animal Farm, but instead of 1984 they had us read Brave New World. It seemed like a more accurate commentary at the time. Just everyone blissfully unaware and high on “soma” and trivial entertainment. Bread and circuses as it were. Crazy to see what a sudden turn to 1984 we’ve taken in just a few months.
We ended up with the worst bits of both.
