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[-] Da_wud@lemmy.world 128 points 9 months ago

This is literally the point of The Boys. What if normal greedy people held the power, what would that look like if they were superpowered.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

Even in The Boys, the real evil came from their corporate overlords.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

More specifically capitalism. Pretty good show.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

They do hold the power tho

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Europe: "Why do Americans hate natives and black people?" after raping Africa for its resources.

[-] Rozauhtuno 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unlike Americans, Europeans would never create systematic forms of oppression....... except with migrants, and Arabs, and Romas, and Samis, and other Europeans.

[-] Jordan_U@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Roma.

G* has always been a slur.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

England doesn't really have any room to talk.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

They never got Ethiopia...

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

They never got Thailand...

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 9 months ago

Unexpected Bill Wurtz

[-] ferralcat@monyet.cc 10 points 9 months ago

Americans: "Stop with the what-aboutism arguments when they apply to us. Others? Sure, I'm fine with that."

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 50 points 9 months ago

Didn't USA come up with both characters? One in the 1930s and one now? More of a sign of the times I say.

[-] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

To be pedantic, Supermen was created by a pair of Canucks and The Boys is the brainchild of an Irishman.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Joe Shuster (Superman's original artist) was Canadian, but Jerry Siegel (the original writer) was from Cleveland.

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Because we were still fucking great back then.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

You never were. Genocide of native Americans directly to 300 years of African slavery.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

I meant to say so fucking great. I understand why I'm getting down voted. That was the point I'm making. This country has always been a worthless fucking shit hole since day one.

[-] amotio@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I have a feeling that your original comment would benefit from /s

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Oh well I give two shits if people are downvoting me lol

[-] DagonPie@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Actin like the US isnt the only country to kill natives and have slaves. Every country is bad. We just have to try and be less bad as time goes on. But that seems almost impossible with who runs countries.

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[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

We were never that great. We got to where we are through exploiting the natives land and through slavery. Also rampant sexism and homophobia to name a few. But if you don't give a shit about any people in those categories, i.e. only care about white people and even that mainly just white men then sure I guess we were great back then.

[-] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

USA participating in WW2 is one of the greatest net goods in history at the cost of millions of lives. Cant argue it was citizens sent into involuntary massacre. Neither can you argue how the most evil and horrible empires got dismantled then or eventually.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings." - Nelson Mandela

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

We are all Hamas on this blessed day

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago
[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lmao I thought your reply was a joke on Israel calling everything Hamas. You were serious? Lol

[-] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Can't attest to their intentions but "speak for yourself" would be the continuation of the ken m "we are all x on this blessed day" meme, whether or not that's what you were going for.

[-] rbhfd@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Oh, absolutely. Was hoping for a "I am all Hamas on this blessed day".

For the ones not in the know:

Source of the Ken M meme

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Damn I didn't know the original meme 😔

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[-] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What does a terrorist group sacrificing Palestinians for the palaces of their leadership who assault and kill people in an international music festival dedicated to peace have to do with a famous politician and anti-apartheid activist who did his best to do things the right way? Stop gaslighting with terrorist apologism.

[-] paperemail@links.rocks 7 points 9 months ago

The joke works because the Israeli government called South Africa the “legal arm of Hamas”. Politico

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Damn if these groups are all really Hamas I think we're gonna have to re-evaluate our assessment of these "Hamas" folks

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

waaa you can't just crash our party we're holding in a genocidal ethnostate right beside an open-air prison waaa

Lol. Lmao even

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago
[-] Kase@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wtf, I can't believe this is real.

Also- 1969, nice.

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago

Wait, if homelander is 'murica does that make this part 9/11?

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

Fuckin diabolical.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Eh... Most of us see our country as somewhere in-between now a days.

[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show

[-] A_L1FE@lemmings.world 17 points 9 months ago

You should, it's a great show if you are not against a realistic version of the injustice league.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

"realistic" eh

Think it's more a blunt commentary on celebrity culture than anything else

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

It's actually pretty great

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 9 months ago

The best part of this is that's the worst version of Superman who was definitely going to turn evil.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

At most this one

[-] pifox@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

Kind of a shitty mix of both.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

More like him (with the Nuke guy watching his back).

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