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Lex Luthor literally becomes president in many versions of the Superman cartoons.
The idea of a rich billionaire with a narcissist Messiah complex with a bone to pick with heroes and actual helpful people that becomes popular and eventually the US President is practically a trope. Apparently this generation has forgotten the message.
Like the way some people see cyberpunk, it’s not so much that they forgot is that they missed the point completely. They see an author warning about a dystopia and they just want the shining neon lights. Or as Confucius put it “when a wise man points at the moon the fool examines the finger.”
At least Lex Luthor never called Superman a pedophile after saving children.
Slade / Deathstroke is sweating at this comment.
I mean, by any objective measure Luthor is a much better President than Trump.
Lex Luthor is as a concept, a corrupt self serving villain who readily sacrifices his underlings to get ahead. But gains popularity and power anyway.
The difference is that in the cartoon universe, they had to make up a believable reason why the US citizens would vote for Lex. Ex: invented a Kryptonite power plant or something.
In the real world, it turns out you can just demonize immigrants.
The analogy I’ve used is that Nixon’s Southern Strategy was like beer; Reagan’s rhetoric was like grain alcohol punch; Bush Jr. fed them straight whisky; Trump gave them meth.
Hey bro, why you gotta post the thing I was getting ready to post?
should have called dibs
Lol maybe you’ll be first next time!
You assume the people who learned the message forgot it rather than the people who failed to learn it continuing to vote without understand the repercussions of their actions
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. The story has already been told. It’s just not funny this time
Step up your game. Imagine becoming a president, grifting as hard as possible, then when it all comes out prison would be all but inevitable… unless next president pardons you right as he assumes office.
this is Yeltsin, and the next one was Putin
You mean Tiger King?
Rob Schneider in “Trumped!”
i want to see rob schneider in “jail”
The guy didn’t take his position with violence. What’s going in America to make the majority of people support this guy?
Liberty requires justice, justice requires truth. You can undermine the justice system like Trump and Putin have by attacking truth directly. Foreign and domestic propaganda fills most people’s heads following the Russian method to overload with frequent bullshit to obfuscate truth. It’s especially harmful to those most prone to influence with bullshit backed by paid actors to attack truth.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube
‘“The company never disclosed to the influencers or to their millions of followers its ties to RT and the Russian government,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Wednesday.’
This right here is the correct answer. The average American is a little bit stupid but generally speaking, the reason why we are is because our education system sucks shit and we are bombarded with conflicting misinformation from literally all angles, constantly. Foreign actors lie to us just as frequently as our own government and corporations do. Truth has become a precious and rare commodity and is frequently discarded out of hand when it is found because the education system hasn’t taught most of us how to challenge our own assumptions.
Most people aren’t stupid, they’re misguided. As in, led astray, purposefully.
The majority don’t. Like a third of the country voted for him. Which is still bonkers, but it’s not a majority
That’s assuming 100% of non-voters don’t support him which definitely is not true.
It’s more true than not. Also, even just in counted votes he got less than 50%
The guy didn’t take his position with violence.
Well he did try that first.
Stupidity
So, like of Michael Douglas’ character didn’t die at the end of Falling Down and they did a sequel? I have a hunch that a lot of MAGAts actually consider him the hero of the movie.
So like trumps future bio pic?
Too unrealistic for Hollywood, too realistic for Bollywood, just right for Ancien Aliens!
yeah, imagine…
