Is it just me or are they taking a leftist route by portraying tyrannical government bodies, especially the US government, have to manufacture reasons to put supes in the army? And then the most recent episode, with the Nazi reveal, and white supremacist statement by one of the characters... idk

    • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, they were reciting a lot of typical tough on crime lines in that scene. It's exactly what a chud would tell you in the comment section under a news article about a crime investigation, and i think it was absolutely on purpose to have

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      Homelander

      talk like that. I generally get the impression that the script was written very recently and picks up on a lot of things going on rn. For example, Stormfront being from Portland may be

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      a reference to right wing militants in the Northwest.

      There's also some moments where i think "oh, this is probably in reference to BLM" and so on. And Senator Neumann ist definitely an AOC stand-in, Homelander mentions her dance video and everything.