Submitted 21 hours ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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The best part about the entirety of this comic is that Nazis are the exception to Batman’s “No Killing” rule. He straight up murders a dozen Nazis before a priest stops him.
It’s about time Nazis see that the world feels the same about them that they feel about others.
Nazies aren’t people.
All people are people. Dehumanizing someone is a great technique for authoritarian regimes, but should be resisted by everyone else.
Saying they aren’t people denied the evil that humans are capable. By calling bad people inhuman, it allows us to forget that we are able to choose evil.
There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy fascism.
You cannot discount how many modern American fascists are pulled from the ranks of the unemployable post-industrial underclass. How many people are signing up for ICE strictly for a paycheck? How many signed up for the National Guard or enlisted in our imperial wars overseas for the GI benefits? How many people could have been EMS or construction workers or ag workers with a paycheck that covered cost of living or white collar schlubs doing email jobs, but are instead getting handed tasers and zip ties and an unlimited license to do violence to their neighbors?
What an extremely Nazi thing to say…
Just watched Inglorious Basterds yesterday, it put a smile on my face seeing those Nazi clowns turned into Swiss cheese
you should talk to someone about that
More like chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before.
It’s on the list with my 11 year old this weekend.
The best part about the entirety of this comic is that Nazis are the exception to Batman’s “No Killing” rule.
It’s curious, because Batman’s always been tinged with reactionary politics. You’ve got your Eco-Terrorist in Poison Ivy, your Unfuckable Migrant Gangster in Penguin, your Smug Ivory Tower Elitist in Riddler, your corrupt hedonist politician in Two Face, and your Psycho Carny/Gypsie/Vagrant in The Joker. The Feds are all useless or complicit. The Arkham Asylum is all Hugs for Thugs (when they’re not doing Clockwork Orange shit to turn supervillains into weapons of the state). The only person you can trust is a billionaire vigilante working with the silent consent of a handful of “Good Cops” who turn a blind eye to his paramilitary crusade.
Writing Batman as “Anti-KKK” really loses track of the origins of the character. This guy basically IS the KKK, or at least some Disney-fied crime-fighting John Galt.
Writing Batman as “Anti-KKK” really loses track of the origins of the character. This guy basically IS the KKK
Imma need you to exfoliate
Nazis are Western “team killers”, everyone hates them, lol.
Fans of Asmongold are NOT people
I don’t know who this is but I will blindly follow your dehumanizing fellow brother!!
TLDR A streamer that lives in filth and says used the sun beams from his window causing a dead rat to smell as an alarm clock.
There’sa pretty great modern comic I got from the library: Superman Smashes the Klan. Tells a story about a Chinese family moving into Metropolis and getting marginalized, has some good hero moments as well as identity moments for Superman - who, of course, is not from America.
I’d really love it if we had more modern media that sets aside the “complex, humanized villains” trend and just has Nazis as villains to get decimated.
What’s really great about that comic is it’s a loose adaptation of a 1946 episode of the Adventures of Superman radio show called “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” wherein Superman also takes on the Klan.
Klan membership went down after the broadcast aired, partially because fathers couldn’t really explain to their kids why Superman wanted to fight the Klan.
It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening the Klan, and it’s on YouTube.
This is kinda unrelated, but you were mentioning some of the identity moments in the comic. I really appreciated how they did some similar commentary in the new movie as well and, since I had never seen those themes focused on in Superman, I did some research into the history of immigration commentary in Superman.
Anyway, that’s how I found out there’s an adaptation from the 1980s where the life pod carrying Superman actually just contains DNA which it then assembles into Superman, all so Superman can be an American-born citizen. The 80s were one of the decades of all time.
It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening the Klan
That’s interesting, because the Klan was fairly weak by the 40’s. It peaked in the 1920s (something like 1 in 3 white Indianans were members in its heyday, to the point where Klan chapters would have baseball teams), but there were some huge political scandals and infighting over embezzlement that absolutely demolished the Second Klan.
“It doesn’t bend that way!”
“It does now”.
He twisted the elbow the same way the swastika was twisted for hatred.
I can’t get over the fact that there was a White Power Ranger.
There was also a Black Power Ranger.
What’s your point?
All lives matter energy
Black ranger was part of the OG rangers. White ranger was a Johnny come lately hanger on. I thought this as a 13 year old kid when that season came out.
And the blue one was gay, got a lot of hate from the other actors. Yellow one was Asian. 90s was weird man.
Wasn’t it just an American carbon copy of a Japanese show?
The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.
Redubbed I think, at least in costumes.
And now he has a lifelong financial debt to a Wayne industries related hospital.
Unfortunately this is an alternate Batman, where Wayne Industries doesn’t exist.
Although…I would love to see an issue where this Bats just goes to town on the health insurance industry. I wouldn’t put it past them either if they were willing to publish this thinly veiled allegory for MAGA being Nazis.
That looks like a great reinterpretation of the character. Thanks for pointing this out!
Huh, a Joker billionaire by Scott Snyder?
This might be worth checking out, thx!!
In the absolute universe Darkseid takes away the hero’s “light”. Superman grows up without his adopted parents, wonder woman without the Amazon’s, and batman has no money. His mom is alive though.
I gotta read more comics …
I agree.
Bro just wanted to share the stoke for the upcoming snowboarding season. What a shame.
POW!
I feel they really missed the opportunity to throw in the old school pow! bubble to cover the strike, of course making sure it’s all super white.
I don’t really understand white supremecy from a fundamental level. Like, genetically, we’re pretty crap. If there were racial selection on the character creation screen of life, I wouldn’t have rolled this inferior shit.
You are thinking about it way more than any white supremacist does
There are no biological races in humanity. Nothing that can be compared to dogs for instance. On top of that “white” as a biological marker to define a group makes as much sense as “tall” or “small hands”, ie: none.
We humans are pretty varied lot, people have wanted to create categories for ages and have done so, but those are social categories.
Don’t claim some races are inferior to others, you are only encouraging them.
White people are great at getting rheumatoid arthritis too!
With your logic, enlighten us to which race you’d choose to be? A “Master race” if you will.
transformer. fucking transform into a godamm tank would be sick.
I’m tempted to say something famous like the Indy 500, but I think I would be a simple 5K
MotoGP
Thats why they are the way they are. They know the only way they keep the power is doing shady ass shit.
No. Most racists are not people in power, and having “inferior” white skin (not a downgrade, just a sidegrade for the combination of northern latitudes and agriculture) applies to a lot more people than just the racists.
The reason that they are the way they are, is that it’s an easy outlet for the anger caused by probably a myriad of reasons, some common, some more specific to the person in question. I’d be willing to bet that financial insecurity caused by neoliberalism is pretty high up on that list for many, and that’s why the actually powerful people like to promote racism to divert the anger elsewhere.
White people are better at drinking milk and absorbing vitamin D.
Spending all day inside and sexually abusing cows, that’s what whiteness is good for.
nice racism.
this goes hard. may i screenshot?
What are they gonna do if they say no and you do it anyway?
You can also just download the image.
This is Absolute Batman, just read it. 13 issues so far.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 hours ago
Notes the tankies getting triggered by liberal violence against klansmen.