LizstarNov 9, 2024
Kill Six Billion Demons continues to be the best comic I've ever read.
Show threadYzaNov 10, 2024

@Lizstar that last panel, i think about this a lot

it's one thing that bothers me about superheroes. "defenders of the status quo". pretty sure i've seen a youtube video about the MCU heroes titled something like that. DC has annoyed me more about that though. here's just one example, superman floats the idea of ending gun crime by just removing all guns. then he gets owned by facts and logic by the flash. each time one makes a point their correctness marked with checkmate

Show threadYza

@Lizstar the absolute liberal wishy-washiness of this infuriates me. Blind to systemic causes of gun violence, drug abuse, industrial wastefulness, the whole deal with cars... The league wouldn't have to jump to killing people who don't recycle, just directly pressure executives to not wilfully polute. make sure renewable energy is built in place of fossil fuels. but this is the mind virus: to do anything would require facism

all while ignoring that people aready are ruled over

Nov 10, 2024 at 12:07amWeb
Show threadYzaNov 10, 2024

@Lizstar I saw a study recently that found that public opinion has next to zero impact on american policy. we already have authoritarianism. superheroes could ethically address so many systemic issues by targeting these authoritarians, that being the rich and powerful, on behalf of the will of the people

but they don't

now, i'm sympathetic to comic writers. if superman changed th world too much it'd be less relatable to us. also batman would be out of a job

Show threadYzaNov 10, 2024

@Lizstar i get wanting to make an in-universe justification for it, but it always ends up infuriating to me, because of the real-world implications. also it kindof makes the heroes look like monsters

like how in one justice league episode they meet the justice lords from another universe: a justice league where the flash was killed so superman lobotomized lex to safe the world. rather than stop there, they just kept doing increasingly authoritarian stuff

Show threadYzaNov 10, 2024

@Lizstar murder is like pringles, i guess. you can't stop at one

funny thing is, that episode was written to explore why their heroes don't kill, but in it the 2 batmen debate philosophies. the justice lord batman basically wins. he makes a remark the goodboy batman has no answer to and the writers admit they couldn't come up with a counter argument either. almost like neither facism or just letting shit happen are satisfying solutions

Show threadYzaNov 10, 2024
@Lizstar sorry, i didn't mean to post so much
Show threadLizstarNov 10, 2024
@Yza lol no need to apologize, it's very interesting insights, and I agree