• Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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    Batman would definitely be pro-Israel. Joker doesn’t give a fuck, but might go pro-Palestine purely to fuck with Batman

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      In the Injustice storyline Superman stops a drone attack, implying that in the regular universe America just like in the real world also kills tons of civilians with drone attacks but Superman lets it happen.

      The DC heroes are not saviors of the planet, they’re saviors of Western countries.

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        The DC heroes are not saviors of the planet, they’re saviors of Western countries

        That’s all comic book heroes. If there was an afghan superhero who destroyed drones or a Vietnamese superhero who lurked the jungles, they would be classified as evil monsters and face the full might of Avengers and Justice League

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    seeing the bat signal illuminated in the night sky, batman rushes to his bat-email and drafts a letter to nyu demanding the immediately expulsion of several freshman students

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    "[thing i like] is [pop culture protagonist], [thing i don’t like] is [pop culture villain]

    this is my worldview, and no amount of “theory” or “getting dunked on” will ever change it"

    Head empty, no thoughts. Lobotomized by liberal media consumption.

    • Lucien [hy/hym, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Honestly, that was my take-away too. Like, yeah, of course batman would be pro-Israel. He’s a billionaire fuckwit that gets his jollies beating up poor people rather than flying a dick-shaped rocket to space. Same energy, though.

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            Are any of batman’s villains poor? Thermian arguments aren’t when you interact with a text. His villains are constantly spending money on gizmos or contraptions, the bigger question to ask is why the stories are so grim, or wy a character who has at various points been seen as good to the people been made fascist.

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              Most of the day-to-day mooks and goons are thieves, escaped prisoners, the usual throwaway “criminal scum” types. It can’t be ignored that many many of Batman’s fights are against stereotypical depictions of street criminals who in the context of reality, are overwhelmingly poor. The assertion that many of the super villains aren’t poor is true, but in turn many of those are clearly not mentally sound. Over his decades of depictions Batman has definitely not always shown care or empathy towards this fact. In some depictions they acknowledge that his method is not a solution to any of these problems and he could use his money, power, and influence to try to make systemic change, but him individually beating the tar out of these people isn’t solving the problems, aside from one of the mentally ill or poor villains having their hands on a bomb (or whatever) in that particular issue. It’s a legit critique that is raised in-text many times that to some degree he does get his jollies beating up poor people

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                “hmm, I’m poor and starving. Gotta work with the guy who gassed a movie theatre, no other options.” In the same way we can judge poor people who join the military, we can also judge the fictional mooks who side with serial killers instead of holding up a gas station or joining one of the heist-themed villains. I guess there is the problem of a million different depictions and some do try and fix problems and others just like beating people up.

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    Jesus was a Palestinian refugee born into a Roman military occupation. I have a feeling his position on Palestine would not be warm to the occupation.

    And at least he was probably a real person that actually existed at one point.

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    Oh God, can you imagine a comic where Batman hears about this genocide and his reaction is to blame Hamas for the deaths of Gazan civilians?

    (What’s left of) A Gazan family begs the Justice League on a monitor for help and Batman asks them if they condemn Hamas before terminating the line because they’re still begging for help without condemning Hamas.

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    Really depends on which Batman and which Joker we’re talking about here

    joker-dancing supports Palestine obviously

    joker-che also supports Palestine despite being so misunderstood

    Jared Leto Joker not only supports the IDF, he’s done several tours of duty despite not even being Jewish

    Jack Nicholson Joker supports Palestine, or at least he should but he’s a boomer

    Joker from the Harley Quinn cartoon supports Palestine

    Adam West Batman supports Palestine

    I could go on