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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

This is peak absurdity. You have a being from another planet, the being is sent from another planet because his planet was about to explode. In a last ditch attempt he was sent to earth by his parents. It surely sounds like a person who could be identified as an immigrant, illegal alien or asylum seeker.

Did Covid make dumb people even dumber? Ignorance certainly is bliss..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 57 minutes ago

These people want to be evil but hate being told that they're evil, so anything with an anti-evil message must be "woke".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 46 minutes ago

Funny thing is I've been calling Superman an illegal immigrant for decades. All of the sudden it's not a joke anymore. It's a friggin comic book hero for crying out loud.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

I dont know how legit was the research methodology, but I did read a paper somewhere that even asymptomatic covid decreased peoples QI for a measurable ammount.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

Did COVID make dumb people even dumber?

No, they were always that dumb. They probably just projected themselves onto Superman because he's a strong white man and clearly strong white people cannot be illegal immigrants because that breaks their pathetic little power trip fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Anyone who just read the headline needs to actually go read the article. It's not very long. Not that the headline is misleading, he absolutely said those things, but the whole thing is just the most deranged rant. Cain somehow got from being mad about changing the slogan to "truth, justice, and a better tomorrow" to immigrants want to make America into Somalia in two moves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 52 minutes ago

They didn't go woke Dean, you aged to be a shitty person.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

DUDE! In the 1940s they called Superman an immigrant... HE IS A FUCKING ALIEN!

Also he was an ILLEGAL alien! His escape pod landed outside some childless couple's farm house in the mid-west, and bless their hearts the first thing they did was adopt him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

whoever that is made a mistake of opening his mug.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He's the Ripley's believe it or not guy, and had a superman series that didn't do well for like 3 or 4 seasons. He's super right wing and super douchey sorta like the dude that ruined Andromeda Kevin sorbo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Like Sorbo, Cain is a fraud who only turned into an ultra-right God-botherer because it was a convenient way to hand-wave away a tanking career and find a new one being a (washed up) celebrity mouthpiece for a messianic death cult.

No, Hollywood didn't stop calling because you're a walking meme about corny 90s television. Its because they're all woke homosexual Satanists and who hate real American conservative Christians who tuck-in their t shirts and have missionary-only sex with their wife.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's shitty because I liked Andromeda but it was Kevin sorbo that killed the storyline and made it... whatever it was that last season.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

Remember when they had to define woke for some court case? The definition was something like acknowledging that there are inequalities in society. Superman's whole schtick is that he's morally good and has a ton of power but doesn't resort to authoritarianism. That seems pretty "woke" to me, too.

[–] hperrin 29 points 7 hours ago

He’s literally an illegal alien. Like, according to every definition of the words.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago

Ex-Superman Dean Cain can fuck off

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

Sorry, I forgot you existed Dean Cain.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo - two people who would get their asses kicked by the characters they played.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, literally all people would get their asses kicked if they got into a fight with either super man or hercules

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I would just pray to hera that zeus wouldnt shut up about how hercules is his favorite son and how he cheats on her constantly. I would feed superman non stop blackpill content until he just leaves the planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Getting myself involved in the family drama of the greek gods? I would probably rather just take my ass kicking.

Gonna be hard to black pill a super human, that is very handsome in all the conventional ways, who was raised by good parents. He would probably just try to get you into therapy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Meddling in the affairs of Mt. Olympus is a good to get turned into animal. Or a monster. Or impregnated by Zeus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Also Zeus would probably have minimal qualms about transing your gender so us guys aren't particularly safe either. Though that's more of a Norse thing weirdly enough since I'm pretty sure Odin, Thor, and Loki all turned into women for various reasons.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago

Acrtion Comics #1 ...Lets see:

  • Superman persuades the Governor to stay the execution of an innocent death-row inmate (p. 3-4)
  • Beats up an abusive husband (p. 6-7)
  • Dumps some rich sex-pests out of their car (p. 9-10)
  • Intervenes in a corrupt lobbyist bribing a DC Senator (p. 11-end)

"When did Superman become so WOOOooooOOOke????"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Every once in a while I'm reminded of what an absolute dipshit one of my fondly remembered actors from childhood is

[–] HugeNerd 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I kind of enjoyed Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Yep they all seem to go batshit insane sooner or later. Really sad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Cognitive decline leading them to adopt ideologies that don't require them to think too hard

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I saw a YouTube short the other day of Bruce Campbell talking about how there's this stereotype in acting where the good-guy actors are all pieces of shit, and the bad-guy actors are all the nicest people you've ever met.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

It's kind of true for horror. Kane Hodder and Gunnar Hansen are/were very gracious to fans and really seem/ed to enjoy being icons of the genre.

Most of the actors I've met who played a lead role in horror movies tended to be bitter and snide towards the fans. A lot of weird spiritual delusions, too. The amount of times I've stuck listening to how they can see real ghosts or how horror can negatively effect my aura and shit like that from these people is fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sadly, it's profitable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Red Son is the only correct version of Superman.

Everything else is bourgeois revisionism.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What else would superman be? Are you gonna change the lore so Krypton is a small town in Kansas?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

And that Lex Co. is strip mining it for a rare earth mineral, now the CEO is going to run as president because of those pesky environmentalists… wait !

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago

Everyone this movie matters to already understands Superman enough not to be bothered by the comments of some has-been actor who clearly never understood the character he portrayed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Kal-El is an anchor baby!!! lol

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago

Dean Cain was in one of the 'God's not Dead" movies. That tells you all you need to know about him.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 14 hours ago

Die in a fire, Dean.

[–] Jinarched 96 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 69 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

An Illegal alien at that. He can't even claim Birthright Citizenship, if we still followed the Constitution I mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

He can’t even claim Birthright Citizenship

Canonically, I believe he was still technically gestating in the pod before he arrived. So he's more of an Anchor Baby.

[–] Binturong 3 points 9 hours ago

Who? The only things I recall about that show were real, and were spectacular.

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