I like Waid as a writer but holy shit this woe is me she is disgusting
Always funny to see white liberals come to terms with what their neighbors believe.
My girlfriend works with somebody who’s personal email has 1488 in it. Whrn called on it the girl was like “yea its exactly what it looks like” Me explaining to her that person was a literal neo nazi, just like half the people she graduated with that she keeps insisting aren’t that bad, has been frustrating.
One of her girlfriends is a pediatric nurse that tried to get a religious exemption for the vaccines (she is not religious at all)
I’m just hoping we get to the point she stops calling me a misogynist if I say kamala was a dog shit candidate and the dnc failed us.
I think I finally broke through last night when she was like “how could they vote for trump when they have daughters” and I just kept reiterating they hate minorities and the concept of trans people more than they care about their own children.
American Fash also tend to believe without any awareness that they’re “Good people” and consequences only happen to “Bad people”. They often express shock, confusion, and outrage when, for instance, they are denied an abortion because they think that as “good people” they deserve it. Is there anything resembling rational analysis here? No. But that’s what they think and it goes a long way to explain why they’ll vote for things that will harm them; They believe those things will only harm their enemies.
Obviously there’s a long and integral dynamic of ‘good in-group / bad out-group’, but I’m convinced its further exacerbated in the US by the so thoroughly intertwined Christian aspect, particularly the WASPy say the right things, give the church money, and do what you like types to still be righteous.
Yeah. Fucking secular Calvinism is a huge obstacle. Catholics and I think Greek Orthodox both believe in good works whereas Calvinists think that good or bad is like a permanent thing you’re born with, then they go on to be completely incoherent by believing that your material wealth reflects your spiritual condition. And Americans have no idea they do it, it’s baked in to their racism and contempt for poor people and they have no idea it’s a religious belief.
Like, historians always talk about how we can’t understand the way that pre-secular society was completely organically integrated with religion, and we can’t understand how peoiple made no distinction between daily life and religious life and it’s like no, brah, you’ve got religious beliefs that you live every moment of the day just like 12th century peasants, but like 12th century peasants you just think those things are compeltely normal and mundane and don’t even notice them.
Yes, exactly. Calvinism was the term I was reaching for, thank you. Now was he the tiger or the spikey haired lad? I kid, I kid.
Like so much about American Christianity I find it to be such a bizarre inversion of the dynamics of more traditional religiosity. Rather than living a moral (and largely uncomplaining, obidient) life for the promise of eternal happiness in the next life, the American religious or quasi-religious seems to basically say ‘Live whatever hedonistic, selfish, piece of shit life you want! You’re still going to heaven so long as your monthly subscription doesn’t lapse!’
Maybe it just seems particularly bizarre to me as someone who partially grew up in a modern Quaker tradition (with guardians finding that after basically fleeing / drifting from other Christian faiths), which also has a loose, almost anarchist, interpretist approach to faith but does so in a way where the focus is upon thoughfulness, solidarity, and communication. The Calvinst streak seems like a bizarre inversion that screams, No requirements. Don’t think about it. Money down.
They think by supporting the fasch they’re part of the ingroup the law serves, not the outgroup criminals the law punishes.
superheroes, well known for only operating in societies where everyone is fundamentally good
And likes them.
These people are so divorced from reality it’s wild. Americans remain the most brainwashed people in the world.
The Protestantism in American Liberalism constantly shows itself. A belief in “goodness” that is totally internal to people and somehow supposed to transcend our material reality.
Basic goodness was shown in syria, yemen, iraq, Afghanistan, libya, etc?
But you don’t understand, he meant basic goodness towards people
That tracks. American super-hero comics are chained to the status quo and are never allowed to break it or dream of anything other than liberalism for all eternity.
It’s actually pretty sad because the genre has potential to be extremely political as we’ve seen with shows like The Boys and I’m a Virgo tho I think the Boys is too mired in liberalism and US domestic politics to actually do what a better show could do
The fundamental difference between a superhero and a supervillain isn’t inherently ideological but societal, this however will inevitably reflect the ideology of society
To be a hero in
or in 
or in 
is to be fascist or at least liberal and capitalistTo be a hero in
or in 
is to be a socialist and progressiveThose who are viewed as heros by one society or ideology will inevitably be seen a villain by another and there can be microcosms within these societies where divisions occur, liberals and conservatives within
will have their own heros and will view the other side’s heros as their villains because this is how politics and society worksThose of us comrades living in
are (by comic book superhero definition) villains in this society but the moment the revolution is successful we become herosI had a concept for a super-hero comic hwere the hero wasn’t one person, but rather a sort of spirit of class consciousness that would fall on a group of people all at once and they’d sort of just realize that they all had the same needs and goals and temporarily become really organized for as long as they needed to be, then it’d pass and everyone would be like “What the fuck just happened?” and they’d have dismantled a police station or somethinmg.
Captain Planet?
Definitely in that vein. Regular people coming together to be mighty
Oh my god its fukuyama fanfic all the way down. That fucker wrote maybe the only book with more of it than the bible.
NOT THE SUPERHEROES!!! ANYONE BUT THE SUPERHEROES. WE NEED THEM MORE NOW THAN EVER!!!
Captain America isn’t a documentary?
Very cool how every WASP liberal in america has suddenly become two steps away from posting slammer memes and speaking in maoist standard english
Nah they’re going to come up with some god awful Fascism with Democrat Characteristics if we can’t find some way to infect them. They have no idea how anything works, they think Communism and Fascism are the same thing and now that “Democracy” is failed a lot of them think Fascism is the only option so they’re oging to turn inward in despair, or try to invent their own fascism to compete with Trumpist fascism.
Fascist Standard English is indistinguishable from Maoist Standard English except that the tones are reversed.
MSE: Amerikkka (derogatory)
FSE: Amerikkka (laudatory)Lol so that means either outright racism or Communism-nationalism.
“I cannot write superheroes” was such a funny curveball to me lmao this is indistinguishable from a bit
I’m on and off with Mark Waid’s stuff. Age of Apocalypse was stupid and Onslaught (a fusion of Magneto and Charles Xavier) sounds like the creation of a kindergarten kid.
Both his Daredevil runs are good, and his Flash stuff is fun
I liked his Flash stuff as well. Don’t think I’ve read any of his Daredevil work
I read all of his second era of his second Daredevil run, the return to San Francisco stuff and it is really good. Totally breaks from usual Daredevil with him forcing himself to be happy and having no secret identity so he wears a red suit as a lawyer and DD. It digs into the self-immiseration element particularly when Purple Man’s kids show up as villains and try to drag out the old Daredevil in him.
Chris Samnee draws the whole run and is just perfect
Art from adversity, you hack.
Gonna tell my boss, “Hey sorry if I’m really shit at my job now it’s because of uhhhhh election”
What a drama llama.
