"tHeY rUiNeD sUpErMaN, mAkInG iT pOlItIcal"
"tHeY rUiNeD sUpErMaN, mAkInG iT pOlItIcal"
This will be another reason for the traitors to piss and moan.
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Convicted of multiple crimes.
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It's not like he raped a minor or something like that.
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On one hand, I'm very pleased with what seems to be a good and relevant message in mainstream media. I haven't watched the film and I doubt I will, but I support it wholeheartedly if it is about what people online say it is.
On the other hand, it's kinda sad that the best and most digestible recent Western production displaying prosocial values is a comic book film. 😓
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Comics are our modern day myths. It's not surprised the most digestible messages would be through them.
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Tell us more about how sharing values through narrative and myth is sad.
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I think, if we are taking the message at face value (which might not be the best idea with a religious dude, but whatevs), it's not sad that it is being shared through narrative and myth, but that this is the best we can find with values we care about.
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It's the lack of depth behind it and the evidenced collective arrested development, but it's better than nothing for those who have no knowledge of philosophy and/or Scripture (or the maturity and intellectual competence to process it). 🤷
It's like having to teach an adult to boil an egg when, by then, they should understand the basics of cooking at the very least, but even worse cause we're not talking about something as easily replaced, this is ideology and attitude which are foundational for people and society at large. But, like I said, I'm glad someone is teaching folks to boil eggs!
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Comic books, more often than not, have always been pro-social values, and largely pretty progressive. The movies water some of that down sometimes, but it's always been there at the core.
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One of my favorite moments in comics comes from the 1970 Green Lantern / Green Arrow run. Green Arrow rescues a kid from getting run over by a train, and rather than celebrate the victory, he laments that the city didn't have a park where this kid could play safely. He considers running for mayor, and the rest of the Justice League talk him out of it.
As a kid, it was the first time I saw a comic look at the reader and say, "Yeah, these capes really are just fantasy. If you want the world to be better, you can't leave it to other people."
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Lex luthor looks much healthy compared to real life criminals. Like trump and his friends are unhealthy compared to lex luthor. And lex luthor is smart and knows what he is doing. Unlike trump who does whatever he thinks, without consulting anyone regardless whether the decision taken will affect the economy, etc.
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Lex wasn't on the Epstein files at least.
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Well why won't he release the Ra's al gul files then? 🧐
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"Truth, Justice and the...what?!"
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Funnily enough, the "American Way" bit that the average non-comic book reader thinks has always been a part of Superman's motto, and that conservatives whinge about when it's not in there, is not only not a part of the original motto (which which was just "Truth and Justice"), but has actually rarely been a part of it, and almost never in the actual comics.
The first use of it came about in 1942 during WWII in the Superman radio show. This is after the US finally entered the war and basically all media became hyper patriotic. It should be noted, though, that there was a comic strip titled “How Superman Would Stop the War” in Look magazine from Feb. 1940 in which Superman carried Hitler and Stalin to the League of Nations HQ to be sentenced for war crimes. This comic earned Superman's creators hate mail and death threats for suggesting we should be involved in the war at all. So, American hypocrisy was, of course, alive and well.
Similar to that wartime patriotism, during the height of the Red Scare in the 1950's, the Superman TV show starring George Reeves reused the tagline to play up the American-ness of Superman.
It wasn't used again until 1978 with the Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve. This is probably where the tagline really cemented itself into the general consciousness of the country due to the movie's popularity with a wide audience. But even then, it wasn't used again until 1988 in the Ruby Spear's Superman animated series (not to be confused with Superman: The Animated Series from 1996) and one line of dialogue in the Superboy TV show.
And even after all of that, it had not appeared A SINGLE TIME in the comics books until it appeared on a patriotic cover in 1991, 53 years after its first usage. And even in that issue, Superman is not an America-centric character, but both demonstrates and verbalizes his commitment to helping and representing the entire world, not just the US. He rescues a foreign president and says, "I believe in everything this flag stands for. But as Superman I have to be a citizen of the world. I value all life, regardless of political borders.” 20 years later, he actually formally renounced his American citizenship, saying, “‘Truth, justice and the American way’––it’s not enough anymore.” This received much controversy, as you'd expect.
But there are many other variants on the tagline and those variants, collectively, are far more common than the "American Way" variant. “Truth and justice" (Fleischer animated shorts, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) “truth, tolerance and justice” (Superman serial, starring Kirk Alyn) "truth, justice and freedom” (The New Adventures of Superman) “truth, justice and peace for all mankind” (Super Friends), “truth, justice and a better tomorrow” (Superman: Son of Kal-El), etc. Even some tongue-in-cheek references to the controversy like “Truth, Justice… and other stuff” (Smallville), and “Truth, Justice… and all that stuff”(Superman Returns).
And none of it was ever meant to be anti-American. Several writers have chosen to use the the American Way tagline in recent years in the comics, and there has been zero pushback from DC for it. But it is not the standard and should not be treated like an expectation.
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This was a great read. Thanks!
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Osama bin Laden is bending over in superman's face!
Superman? Political?
I wanted to see if I could find this as a poster, but it only comes in 11" x 10" 😕
Looks like the original was a 12x18 book cover in 1949:
https://www.dc.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored
You might be able to take the 11x10 version and get it sized up at a print shop!
Just print it yourself. Tons of poster printing services online for cheap. I used PosterBurner last time and it was good. But probably others are fine. Not a promotion. Just what I used.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/AuraSR-v2
Can use this website to upscale the original image so it's higher resolution.
Huggingface has all the AI photo upscale models so check out others if you don't like the results.
Some others below.
https://huggingface.co/collections/John6666/spaces-for-image-upscaler-upsampler-resizer-66823815bdfb5af9bf875f84
Don't use the "upscale your image for free" sites because they're just garbage ads on top of these open source models.
The poster website will say what minimum resolution they need to print usually. So just scale it until you reach that. Zoom in to the photo though and make sure no weird artifacts appear. They'll be more obvious once printed.
Good luck!
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Reminds me of this video made by the department of war after WW2. Americans today should watch these videos
There is a vast, deep ocean of things Americans should be strapped into a chair and forced to watch. We can start with motherfucking saturday morning cartoons where they clearly showed who the bad guys are and what it means to be a bad guy.
I am utterly baffled how we all grew up watching the same damn shit and took such vastly different messages from it. Were there kids booing every time the turtles beat Shredder? Were there kids getting pissed at Mr Rogers for saying everyone should respect each other?