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Sgt_choke_n_stroke @lemmy.world

1y ago

Dont be fooled by cable news

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This is literally the point of The Boys. What if normal greedy people held the power, what would that look like if they were superpowered.
- Even in The Boys, the real evil came from their corporate overlords.
  
  More specifically capitalism. Pretty good show.
- They do hold the power tho

Europe: "Why do Americans hate natives and black people?" after raping Africa for its resources.
- Unlike Americans, Europeans would never create systematic forms of oppression....... except with migrants, and Arabs, and Romas, and Samis, and other Europeans.
  
  Roma.
  G* has always been a slur.
- England doesn't really have any room to talk.
  
  That was the joke
- They never got Ethiopia...
  
  They never got Thailand...
- Americans: "Stop with the what-aboutism arguments when they apply to us. Others? Sure, I'm fine with that."

Didn't USA come up with both characters? One in the 1930s and one now? More of a sign of the times I say.
- Yeah. The Boys is literally a hot take on current America. And it's awesome. People that think this meme is clever have never seen the show. It's basically the entire point of the show.
  
  This being the entire point of the show is the reason this meme works at all ?!
- To be pedantic, Supermen was created by a pair of Canucks and The Boys is the brainchild of an Irishman.
  
  Joe Shuster (Superman's original artist) was Canadian, but Jerry Siegel (the original writer) was from Cleveland.
- USA participating in WW2 is one of the greatest net goods in history at the cost of millions of lives. Cant argue it was citizens sent into involuntary massacre. Neither can you argue how the most evil and horrible empires got dismantled then or eventually.
- Because we were still fucking great back then.
  
  You never were. Genocide of native Americans directly to 300 years of African slavery.
  
  We were never that great. We got to where we are through exploiting the natives land and through slavery. Also rampant sexism and homophobia to name a few. But if you don't give a shit about any people in those categories, i.e. only care about white people and even that mainly just white men then sure I guess we were great back then.

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings." - Nelson Mandela
- Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!
  
  We are all Hamas on this blessed day
- That's rich coming from a fucking terrorist himself. Dude blew up civilians too. Guess he knows what he's talking about.
  
  This is why kids these days think terrorism is based

Or like this:

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_221
- Wtf, I can't believe this is real.
  Also- 1969, nice.

Wait, if homelander is 'murica does that make this part 9/11?
- Fuckin diabolical.

Now do your country.
Edit: so far GB and Canada have a sense of humour
- https://imgflip.com/i/7v216d
  
  I'm just waiting for the Swiss Army Man version of Britain.
  
  Lol love it
  
  Well played.
- Canada to Canadians:
  A Mountie standing between all the world’s major conflicts blocking the worst of it, in the background there’s a stack of Olympic hockey medals.
  Canada to the rest of the world:
  Aren’t you guys like, a part of the US? Anyway I put sugar in your tea for you because that’s how the Americans like it.
  
  Canada to indigenous peoples: Homelander.
  
  Canada in Brasil: lets fucking destroy the amazon.
  
  Canada to the rest of the world:
  Krombopulous Michaels: "oh boy, here I go killing again!"
  
  We like it as tea flavored simple syrup actually. Idk about Canadians though, probably the same right? They’re basically Minnesotans with funny accents
  
  Holding shields of maple leaves and bacon
- It doesn't work when the citizens hate the country more than anyone else does already (France).
- u mad?
  
  Lol no. Are you upset cuz I want to see memes about other countries too?
- Already trying to both-sides the narrative before even knowing who the other side is, because all you’re interested in is deflection.
  
  lemmings need to calm the fuck down, not everything is an attack.
  
  Dude. You need to get out of your basement.
  
  🥱

Eh... Most of us see our country as somewhere in-between now a days.
- Yeah, this meme is fine, but it also goes the other way. Media runs off negative news and fear, and what the rest of the world is seeing is our media.

Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show
- You should, it's a great show if you are not against a realistic version of the injustice league.
  
  "realistic" eh
  Think it's more a blunt commentary on celebrity culture than anything else
- It's actually pretty great

The best part of this is that's the worst version of Superman who was definitely going to turn evil.

At most this one

More like him (with the Nuke guy watching his back).

Kind of a shitty mix of both.

Ron Desantis looking like Homelander.

he's coming to mk1!

Lol

If you want to go to a truly just country then visit [----------] redacted for to lack of existence

neither for neither.
I dream of Christopher Reeve as an ideal America. I see Bizarro Superman as the reality.

Did you pull this meme out of 1957?
- The bottom guy is Homelander from The Boys

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