How about better mental health services besides an asylum that radicalizes them further?
WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE??
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Blackout@kbin.run 6 months ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It all starts to make sense if you view the story as satire
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
It’s kind of like American Psycho and Marvel had a baby.
Nom@lemm.ee 6 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Superman was penned in response to 1930’s anti-semitism and is literally an adopted refugee baby.
Stern@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean Harley was Joker’s therapist at one point so…
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah. Gotham’s brand of crazy is strong.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Bruce has tried to do this a few times actually but the court of owls is pretty much the in universe explanation for why Gotham never gets better. Just like the real world, it’s wealthy elites conspiring to make their lives better and the lower classes worse.
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
I expected this take in the xweet
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
This is the overarching premise of many of the modern stories. Systemic issues cannot be solved by a barely sane, generationally wealthy MMA fighter perpetually drowning beneath waves of survivor’s guilt.
Osito@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Never heard a more succinct premise of Batman lol
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In unrelated news Wayne industries blames “harmful and unreasonable” government regulations, threatens to move to Metropolis.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I want a batman movie where the moral is we shouldn’t rely on some billionaire to clean up the streets. But rather we should ensure Bruce Wayne is taxed enough so that there’s enough money for public services to support Gotham and it’s residents that crime doesn’t happen in the first place.
Jesus Christ Batman is just some rich Elon Musk type asshole isn’t he?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Black Adam was so close to hitting the point where Super Heroes protect the elite class and don’t care about the people
Then they just backed away from it and I was so disappointed
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
In many depictions he does fund social programs and whatnot, but it doesn’t fix Gotham being Silicon Valley for supervillains. Half his rogues gallery have doctorates.
Korne127@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I mean… Joker is as close as you can get to some moral like that? It’s basically a pure critique of this neoliberal and unsocial society.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
So I’ve not really read the comic books, but I’ve seen every movie and TV series and the one thing that sticks out in those to me is that every villain could have been stopped by Bruce Wayne (not Batman) if he stopped dressing up like a bat to beat up low-level thugs and took some time seriously examining his own companies. Either safety issues created mutants, or the oppressive culture drove former employees insane/radicalized them. The only person within the DC universe that sees this is Alfred, and Bruce never fucking listens to him.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I feel like “why doesn’t Bruce Wayne improve Gotham” is the comic book equivalent of “why didn’t they use they take the eagles to Mordor”.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Even a bit less than that, “eagles” aren’t affiliated with the war and it’s own neural third party. Whereas Wayne is in the same conflicts as Buttman. The most logical conclusion is that it’s just a hobby of a billionaire, an activity that does not involve reaching some goals, like less crime or helping people. Perhaps there is some sort of (rubber?) kink in there too.
(The above is mostly a situational joke that evolves from comic books early era - they needed a themed costume & a personal identity. And physically fighting crime was at the time seen like a “good solution”, and being super rich was romantic/good/attractive. Im also aware how much with how little to initially go on the later comics expanded on these issues & made them more realistic/Bruce a good person. Imho the best argumented reason for Batman & Bruce to exists within their universes are supervillains with superpowers, ‘patrolling the streets’ is just weird.)
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I mean, yeah. It’s certainly more fun to see him dress as a bat and beat people up. Imagine reading a graphic novel of just business meetings and shit. lol
Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think in some of the comics Gotham is literally cursed so it’s not his fault.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Should have learned magic with his giga-brain then.
Stern@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s curses, evil “leaking” from a evil bat god contained under the city, the semi illuminati of the court of owls, the lazarus pit undoubtedly leeching into the water supply and crazying folks up a bit, and the asylum likely being haunted.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Gotham is quite literally cursed to be a shithole. I think theres even a joke at one point that according to all statistics it should be doing better than Metropolis but isnt.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 6 months ago
But hen what would he do as batman
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
[slightly off topic]
The director of Star Trek II was unfamiliar with the show when he was hired. One of the things he did to make the Enterprise more realistic was to add “No Smoking” and other safety signs to the sets.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Which Roddenberry immediately had removed, as he felt that humanity of the future wouldn’t have addictions and bad habits thereby rendering the signs superfluous
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I respect Roddenberry, but humanity will always have its vices. Even at our best we will always have our worst be present.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
or just a decent social security net along with free housing
sirico@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Bruce Wayne “should I setup mental health and income support for the people like my father, or buy new toys for myself and some cosplay and cause them I life changing injuries”
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 months ago
porque no los dos
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I forget where I heard it but someone said batman is pretty much what you’d get from a libertarian version of defund the police, I’m not sure I’d rather the normal cops have access to his stuff honestly I think I would be better for him to keep it or only like a swat like team(getting swatted by them could more funny if you got frozen solid by a gizmo or something)
lobut@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Reginald D Hunter had a similar take: youtu.be/8l1PMVvfjDM?si=_d41X4hwUlunvVVG
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.
cynar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Isn’t it canon that he does that a lot already?
It’s just that it’s like filling a sieve with a tap. Unless you block the holes, you’re never going to get anywhere.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
My favorite depiction of Batman is the Harley Quinn TV show, where he (third season spoilers):
spoiler
Gets detained by Joker, who has turned into Gotham’s left-wing populist mayor, for evading taxes. ___
chetradley@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Love this season 1 scene: youtu.be/jI23PjBjQKM?si=skQMmXGhaTP0FISl
angrynomad@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Why is nearly every top level comment with obvious spelling errors?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 months ago
More OSHA means less money for Mr Batman’s alert ego.
And that is a line batman will not cross.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not like he didn’t have the money to create the organization. Gotham City is just one big glory fire to Bruce Wayne.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Weird how Batman is a billionaire & yet there’s always enough crime & problems to keep people Thankful for His Heroic Deeds 🤔
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
IIRC “The Batman” was about him figuring out he needs to do money things in addition to punching dudes.
gearheart@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s not what Gotham needs but it’s what it deserves!
maculata@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Fewer. Not ‘less’.
Wiz@midwest.social 6 months ago
Yeah that one always tweaks me too. I think it’s a listing battle.
“Fewer” for things that are countable.
maculata@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I know language changes etc etc but it’s a hill I’m prepared to die on.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Idk what a COSHH form is but my brain filled it in with hyperhyperbolic cosine
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
www.britsafe.org/…/what-is-coshh
Don’t get dead, get read on those lab hazards, m8.
ryo@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
Gotta watch out where you fall.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Need? Nobody needs a billionaire who dresses in leather and enjoys close combat with mentally ill people.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Could’ve just stopped after billionaire.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Billionaire vigilante who thinks and is above the law due to his wealth and power mostly accumulated through generational white wealth.*
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I dunno, Exile On Main Street was pretty good.