jesus fucking christ. that's gross. Also like I know libs dont follow even contemporary politics, but wasnt the USSR denied access to the LON? They sure as fuck where prevented from Munich but supes doesn't seem to care if its Czechs getting occupied by Nazis. Like its '38 or '39, and in his very first issue superman is beating up a lobbyist for trying to "involve the US in the war in europe" so what exactly is the Soviet's crime here? Not fighting yet when supes is actively keeping the US out of the war? He ok if the blood of Soviet Jews is spilled fighting Hitler, but not americans? It is enraging how the american mind never changes. they go from cheering Hitler, to then bitching that Stalin is Hitler's buddy for not fighting Hitler on his own after they condemned him for wanting their help fighting Hitler.
It's the problem with trying to have superheroes "fix" the real world. you have to stick to allegory and shit because otherwise you end up with lib shit like this. Superman Earth One had a similar thing in which Superman grabs a middle east dictator during an Arab Spring situation and essentially arrests him. Has a cool line out of context when the presidential palace is being attacked and there are gunshots and he says "those are your citizens casting their votes", but then he apologizes to the UN for doing all this. I cannot decide if JMS wanted to say that Clark was wrong for involving himself and that was a lib attempt at "oops american freedom bringers sometimes bungle stuff" or if it was him saying Clark was going against what america stands for and that's what was wrong.
Is this the comic where Hitler's "pal" that Superman is talking about is Stalin?
:side-eye-1: it’s u
My first thought was well :lenin-laugh:
This was likely during the war (the first issue came out in 1939), so I'd guess he meant Hideki Tojo.
Nope, it was Stalin
Picks him up and drops them both off at the League of Nations
lmao
The League of Nations then proceeds to do nothing, as designed.
Yeah, I just looked it up. That's disappointing but not surprising.
jesus fucking christ. that's gross. Also like I know libs dont follow even contemporary politics, but wasnt the USSR denied access to the LON? They sure as fuck where prevented from Munich but supes doesn't seem to care if its Czechs getting occupied by Nazis. Like its '38 or '39, and in his very first issue superman is beating up a lobbyist for trying to "involve the US in the war in europe" so what exactly is the Soviet's crime here? Not fighting yet when supes is actively keeping the US out of the war? He ok if the blood of Soviet Jews is spilled fighting Hitler, but not americans? It is enraging how the american mind never changes. they go from cheering Hitler, to then bitching that Stalin is Hitler's buddy for not fighting Hitler on his own after they condemned him for wanting their help fighting Hitler.
It's the problem with trying to have superheroes "fix" the real world. you have to stick to allegory and shit because otherwise you end up with lib shit like this. Superman Earth One had a similar thing in which Superman grabs a middle east dictator during an Arab Spring situation and essentially arrests him. Has a cool line out of context when the presidential palace is being attacked and there are gunshots and he says "those are your citizens casting their votes", but then he apologizes to the UN for doing all this. I cannot decide if JMS wanted to say that Clark was wrong for involving himself and that was a lib attempt at "oops american freedom bringers sometimes bungle stuff" or if it was him saying Clark was going against what america stands for and that's what was wrong.
Batman Earth One honestly had better politics
Yeah, even back in the day, people had a lot of :brainworms:
Imperialism is one hell of a drug.
But hey, at least the comic wasn't political.
Yup
Gotta remember that Superman is subject to the whim of the people writing him and many of them are painfully lib