All the power on earth and you're picketing instead of exploding oil executives with your laser vision...
exploding oil executives
I'd pay to see that movie. And I haven't paid to see a movie or a tv show in 15+ years.
I literally think the whole idea if protest as the way to engage in political change is a complete psyop.
It's perfect. It threatens nothing and everyone involved can be identified.
After the Iraq war protests I have no idea how anyone could think protests is a viable political tactic
I agree. Protests are only ever effective if they are part of a larger movement capable of doing bad stuff to those in power. Bad stuff can be everything from "hurting their bottom lines" and "ruining their reelection" to "guillotines". A few hundred people walking around with signs for a few hours and then going home doesn't change shit.
Yeah they are only ever effective when they're basically a show of strength of another different tactic. Maybe that's 'look at all of us we'll vote you out', or 'we'll stop buying your products' or yeah 'we'll roll out the guillotine'.
In and of itself tho it's nothing.
Some politicians can be worked on from the shame angle.
They number in the dozens worldwide though.
"Want change? Make sure you VOOT and peacefully protest" is most definitely an op. What better way to make sure the status quo continues than convincing libs that doing the most useless shit possible is effective?
It’s perfect. It threatens nothing and everyone involved can be identified.
Protests illustrate a large group of activists in your neighborhood who hold a particular view. They are a means of de-atomizing the local community and communicating popular support for a given idea.
Civil Rights marches, in particular, work to illustrate the size and composition of a movement. It's not just a couple of angry agitators. It's hundreds (or thousands or hundreds of thousands) of people in your area.
Past that, if your organization effort is so clandestine that nobody can identify its members, odds are it is also so small and so weak as to be irrelevant.
Aquaman literally threatened to kill anyone who polluted the sea
This is the best you can do with nigh-omnipotence?
Would be funny to see a DC Universe take on ocean ecology where they just kinda juxtapose it with the problems the real world has.
Considering that there are Cthulhu-like abominations in the oceans of the DC universe, it gets interesting very quickly
We need to go back to comics being written by immigrants with enough lived experience of discrimination that they've got a chip on their shoulder, and zero fucks left to give. I wanna see Superman fire every CEO into the sun.
Or, you know, this sort of shit.
Superman being at a protest kind of makes sense in some cases, if Mr Invincible Laser Eyes starts marching up and down the street campaigning for a specific law or policy agenda that law or agenda probably gets passed and he didn't have to hurt anyone or violate any civil norms to do it, but if Super Man wanted to stop climate change he should simply do it, it makes sense both within the fiction and the metafiction of how superman stories are usually written. Stopping a giant planetary scale environmental disaster is right up Superman's alley.
I haven't read anything from DC in a long time, but this sort of shit only makes any sort of sense if Jon Kent in this issue is orders of magnitude less powerful than superman usually is or is somehow more serious about the Prime Directive as it applies to earthlings than any Star Trek captain we've ever seen.
Superman absolutely obliterating the Amazon rainforest and several South American countries to stop climate change is some amazing irony.
Hot take: a superhero comic that centres organization and mass mobilization >>> Great Man solutions.
Not saying that's exactly what the comic is doing, but maybe they're moving in the right direction.
The thing is: super hero stories are almost definitionally great man stories. Hell I'm conspiracy pilled enough, especially in wake of the citations needed episode revolving around the iowa school, to think that they're at least in part an op.
Pushing collective action in a superhero framework kind of inherently frames it is a moral/idealistic concept rather than as a material imperative. Like...if superman can solve the climate crisis and he chooses not too because he wants normal people to organize...how is that different than a billionaire who will pay lip service to the climate crisis and efforts to stop it but can't be bothered to actually institute any policy change that might actually help?
Imagining an alt. history October Revolution with super heroes on both sides.
That's an interesting point. I think it would be cool to see a comic hero countering cointelpro bullshit so that way movements don't get ruined.
Not saying that’s exactly what the comic is doing
It's still a story about a literal Ubermensch.
Hard to make any comic - particularly in the DC universe - that isn't a Great Man story. Superkid being at the front of the parade doesn't really change that.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
FUUUUUUUUCCCKKK THE LIBERALISM IS TOO STRONG HOLY FUCK
Meanwhile Immortal Hulk straight up kills CEOs and literally smashes corporations.
In a world of superpowers, it's unfair to use them because some people don't have superpowers, so you should turn them off. Is there anything libs hate more than using power?
Is there anything libs hate more than using power?
Looking at homeless people
Young Superman is going to politely address the UN asking them to please cut it out with the fossil fuel use.
Assuming the Parliamentarian gives him permission to speak, of course.
