Repugnant comments in response to someone comparing Iran to Ghorman. Libs truly cannot have a modicum of humanity with the third world. These same people will say “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” when asking you to support the people who bombed Gaza to rubble. A LOT of Ukraine flag bio posting in there as well. People saying Ukraine is the real perfect victim cause their government has never hurt anyone. Yeah 8 years of bombing schools and arming literal nazis was just nothing, just epic wholesome shit. They want to pretend to be anti-fascist cause they watched a show, but they will worship actual fascists in a second
I said at the time that the choice to make the Ghor French-coded belied the fact that they couldn’t imagine making audiences empathize with “imperfect” victims or even minority coded victims.
It is a dead-end, not radicalism or a call to action. These people jack off to “I have friends everywhere” signs cause they recognize a fellow consumer, but they will not recognize the legitimacy of states opposing the west.
personally I hold it against the fans not the show
It can be both. Beau willimon spent time in Ukraine and said it inspired ghorman, so it’s at least partially on the creators own liberalism
sometimes what you read into the text was written into it
I watched a lot of reactions to the massacre. The two most common comparisons people drew were Gaza (genocide) and the maidan false flag snipers specifically. It didn’t take much for people to see empire as Russia. Tragic tbh, truly a show for 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 posters
Superman (2025) stands alone
I don’t hold it against the show itself, but I do think it dampens the show’s radicalism or at least speaks to why it was never gonna be a real watershed moment.
I think that’s simply too high a bar to clear in our hyper fragmented media emvironment. What would that “watershed moment” even look like? It’s our job to change the world, not a damn Star War’s.
Exactly, and what bothers me is how many otherwise wellmeaning leftists don’t get that.