• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Nobody understands Superman, especially most of his writers.

    Dude is alien Moses created by two Jews during the Holocaust. His arch nemesis is a billionaire/the president. C’mon.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      has there even been a plot line where the system in so corrupt, superman has no choice but to become a villain to safe the world.

      ie he didn’t have the “consent” of the us president.

      probably happened when lex was president.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    Couldn’t he just take all the billionaires and fly them into the sun or smth? I don’t know if that alone would fix things, but it’s a start. Also literally no downsides.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Oy dumbass, “yeah” is already slang for “yes” that came out in the 1800s. So the word is technically “yes”, but “yea” is an optimization of slang.

      I’d say study language better but no amount of money can fix being a dumbass egotistical asshole.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      It is interesting that Superman’s archenemy was an incredibly wealthy businessman. That seems to be the exact problem with our world today (there’s just many more of them).

      • Obinice@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        The more you look at the villains in all the TV, movies, and books growing up, the more you realise they’re mostly evil capitalists.

        It’s weird that Hollywood etc would green light so many movies about how rich people like themselves are evil, and teaching kids to fight against them.

        The rich landlord is going to close the community club hall! The rich businessman is trying to have us killed to cover up his chemical spills! Etc etc.

        If it’s not a literal alien from another planet, more often than not the bad guy is just a literal normal capitalist.

        And yet try to use the lessons taught in every piece of media you ever watched as an impressionable child, and you’re told that your anticapitalist beliefs are “extremist” and you’re dangerous and must be stopped.

        Weird eh?

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Do people really write “yeah” as “yea”? Why isn’t that pronounced like sea or pea or tea?

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, sorry guys, but these sorts of things aren’t really Superman’s department.

    Uh… You could… Hmm… You could try asking Mr. Terrific.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Bullshit. Superman can totally stop global warming by simply pushing Earth further away from the sun. Similar to how he sent the whole planet back in time by just turning it backwards.

      And I guess he could just beat the fuck outta the ceos of every major corporation, too. It worked against Lex Luthor.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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        8 days ago

        I think I remember he once built a giant shield from asteroids to block the sun during a large solar flare. That would be an easier way to cool the earth.
        Also, the earth reversing direction was not what caused time to reverse. Time reversing is what caused the earth to reverse direction (just a movie visual clue).

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        D:

        W-why The fuck would you want that!? He’d literally be effecting the orbit of a whole ass planet, you have no idea the kinds of consequences that’ll bring! And it wouldn’t even solve the pollution problem!

        Superman isn’t supposed to mess with time either. That is the type of shit that gives Lex Luthor’s arguments against someone like Superman a point!

      • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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        8 days ago

        1 turn = 1 day

        Completely artificial plastic was invented in 1907 - 118 years ago.

        1 year = 365 days

        118 years x 365 days = 43,070 days

        So 43,071 rounds should do it, and then just clonk Leo Baekeland over the head or something.

        • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Oh no, you didn’t account for leap days. I believe there’s been 30 since 1907, so you’ll need to add to your total, and maybe a few extra buffer days to make sure everyone knows why you’ve done this so that no one else invents completely artificial plastic either.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Isn’t superman pro free will

    He will protect against threats but if you fuck it up your mostly on your own

    • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Does superman think humanity chose capitalism? If Superman landed in 1600s Europe, would he think humanity chose feudalism and help put down peasant uprisings? 1700s Haiti, would he help stop slaves from stealing or enacting violence against the French?

      • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        When it comes to the economy, capitalism with a heavy dose of regulation is the best option we have right now.

        Attempts at communism have failed miserably and just led to dictatorships.

        Unless you’re proposing something better than either of those?

        • MrNesser@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          Oddly a form of communism would work but only in a post scarcity society where all your needs are met.

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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            8 days ago

            Aren’t we already living in a post scarcity society in terms of economic output? Our only real limit is currently that we are using up natural resources too fast, but that would be greatly mitigated by cutting down on billionaires and a couple of other extremely wasteful activities.