Homelander is actually Stalin you idiots
Homelander is actually Stalin you idiots
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The show about a ragtag group of revolutionaries fighting against the corporate-controlled weapons of war that harmed them and keep "order" is actually about how corporatism is just the wrong type of capitalism bro.
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Communism in books
Supeyamar: Yaed Son
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5tsreyamai: Yayeo 5on
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Not directed at you but if anyone sees this had the misfortune of watching that awful direct to streaming/dvd adaptation:
The comic is very very different and absolutely worth your time. The movie is more or less just another boring "what if superman but bad" take on the paradigm with the aesthetic of the ussr. The comic has a much more sympathetic view not just of it's version of Superman but indeed of the USSR and of Stalin.
Also there's the punchline that (spoilers):
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Homelander dating a full on actual WW2 Nazi.
COMMIES!-
Literally named STORMFRONT
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You mean like the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
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Communism is whent randian vommitting from the world's most oblivious fascist propagandist and an evil sadistic child-man who is literally an embodiement of America's evil.
Reject capewank, uphold moorist theodicy
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Theomachy. Alan Moore would definitely turn in to a snake then bite god right in the tits.
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Today I learned superhero worship and idolizing strongmen is Communist.
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Isn’t that what they actually believe..? Like the whole “sure communism in theory sounds great, but in practice it always is a totalitarian cult of personality” thing, y’know?
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Much like a theater, it's all projection.
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What "book" are they talking about lol, what modern communist writes utopian apologia or fantasy?
(not the genre of fantasy, I meant like, fantasizing about communism as a dream rather than a real historical struggle)
Autobiographies like Guevara's are based on actual historical realities
The Dispossessed comes to mind, and the subtitle is An Ambiguous Utopia
They're definitely not talking about the magic system in Das Kapital right??
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I'm a communist who's writing fantasy
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lol sorry by fantasy I didn't mean the genre or setting, but like Mary Sue type writing where communism wins just because the writer wants it to, bad choice of words there.
I'm trying to write some communist fantasy myself! I think leftist writers put in a lot of effort to understand the history and be realistic about it. I've never seen anyone just champion communism because it sounds nifty
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Orwell's Homage to Catalonia (I am 80% joking Anarchist comrades the CNT/FAI were pretty cool and Stalin fucked up)
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I know for a fact that the CHUD that made this has not ever read a book in their life. They just assume that books are bad and full of the things they don't like, like communism and women.
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Homelander poured all of America's milk into his giant Stanley cup.
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When the show features a Stanely cups as some bit then I am turning it off.
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I hate pop culture. I hate pop culture.
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There’s only like 2 instances of communism in the show
- The Sandinistas ambushing Contras, the CIA, and their superhero mercenaries in Nicaragua
- Soldier Boy being captured by the Soviets
Maybe 3 if you count the Pol Pot-esque “revolutionary” anti-colonial army that killed Kimiko’s family before grooming her into a soldier, but it was never stated what they believed.
There’s not even any metaphors analogies related to it
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I avoid anything with superheroes like the plague
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The Boys is actually a very good show. It's not your typical superhero fare.
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It’s your typical superhero flare but with extra blood and corporate hierarchy
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X-Men are good sometimes, depends on if Grant Morrison is writing. Watchmen is good.
But I don't blame you. It's all childish fascist fantasies with very rare exceptions
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I think pretty much all of Morrison's cape comics are great, though I wouldn't exactly say they're materialist or anything.
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Hate agreeing with a
emoji haver.Big
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My apologies. I'm right there with ya
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"I don't trust the gubmint" mfs love to trust the gubmint when they're talking about its enemies.
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So is the original poster a lib or a chud? Everyone is assuming chud but in my experience chuds tend to get that Homelander is a stand in for Trump, they just think Homelander is based for killing people
Maybe it's an age thing, maybe boomer chuds are different
He could be an anti-communist lib who thinks Trump is a communist Russian agent
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I don't even know. I saw this on a burner twitter account and this was recommended, so I'd say its a chud. I don't wanna go back into that abyss so I won't be investigating further.
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Did somebody say homander?
I haven't actually seen this show.
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Homelander is Cristiano Ronaldo. I will not elaborate further
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People the point is just that superman is good and homelander is bad. That's it. End of point.
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Communism in real life is hot? Nice.
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The only superman that ever saved the world in a tranformative, durable was is the Red Son superman. Capitalists shook.
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it’s tv. Do people expect it to start the revolution? Everyone sucks here
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reminds me of the opening to this short piece by Nia Frome, The Swerve
Any pop culture artifact is compelling to the extent that it taps into our real desire for change, justice, virtue, freedom, resolution, etc. But it can never go all the way down this road, it can’t consummate this desire, because that would be too threatening to the reigning social order.
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I'm not agreeing with it defending the meme, but I do feel like no-one has mentioned that it's not comparing communism to Homelander, but implying that communism looks good on paper but is infact evil in real life. It's got nothing to do with the coding of the characters themselves or whether Homelander is capitalist or communist.
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Damn, I don't really watch TV and I'm really lost here.
Am I missing out in a good Communist show?
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It's wild how media illiterate reactionaries are. He couldn't be more Fox News coded without literally having their logo on his chest with a Ben Garrison label. These goobers are going to go blind staring at the sun expecting the teletubbies baby to greet them.
"This white, blond, blue eyed man who mercilessly murders anyone that mildly inconveniences him, and considers regular humans vermin is clearly communist"
-Conservatives
The guy literally has superpowered sex with an actual nazi eugenics experiment while wearing an american flag cape. The show is not at all subtle.
"all Bad Guys are bad and therefore the same thing as all other Bad Guys"
That's pretty literally what they think communists do.
guaranteed that all these media illiterate chuds also believe that the humanities are worthless
To be fair, some of them aren't media illiterate, they're saying all this shit in bad faith. That quote about the absurdity of antisemites comes to mind - they know what they're doing.
I don't have me sartre quote meme on this phone.