• Blackout@kbin.run
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    How about better mental health services besides an asylum that radicalizes them further?

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      It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The irony being that Superman was first penned by people looking for a hero and Batman is kind of a reactionary answer to him. Community building was never in the lexicon here. And that is why, I think I realise, I really dislike most classic comics. It feels like a response to a collective trauma. Something something simple answers to complex problems.

      (Edited for confusion on origin.)

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      Bruce has tried to do this a few times actually but the court of owls is pretty much the in universe explanation for why Gotham never gets better. Just like the real world, it’s wealthy elites conspiring to make their lives better and the lower classes worse.

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    This is the overarching premise of many of the modern stories. Systemic issues cannot be solved by a barely sane, generationally wealthy MMA fighter perpetually drowning beneath waves of survivor’s guilt.

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    7 months ago

    In unrelated news Wayne industries blames “harmful and unreasonable” government regulations, threatens to move to Metropolis.

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      I want a batman movie where the moral is we shouldn’t rely on some billionaire to clean up the streets. But rather we should ensure Bruce Wayne is taxed enough so that there’s enough money for public services to support Gotham and it’s residents that crime doesn’t happen in the first place.

      Jesus Christ Batman is just some rich Elon Musk type asshole isn’t he?

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        Black Adam was so close to hitting the point where Super Heroes protect the elite class and don’t care about the people

        Then they just backed away from it and I was so disappointed

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        In many depictions he does fund social programs and whatnot, but it doesn’t fix Gotham being Silicon Valley for supervillains. Half his rogues gallery have doctorates.

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        7 months ago

        I mean… Joker is as close as you can get to some moral like that? It’s basically a pure critique of this neoliberal and unsocial society.

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    7 months ago

    [slightly off topic]

    The director of Star Trek II was unfamiliar with the show when he was hired. One of the things he did to make the Enterprise more realistic was to add “No Smoking” and other safety signs to the sets.

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      Which Roddenberry immediately had removed, as he felt that humanity of the future wouldn’t have addictions and bad habits thereby rendering the signs superfluous

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    I forget where I heard it but someone said batman is pretty much what you’d get from a libertarian version of defund the police, I’m not sure I’d rather the normal cops have access to his stuff honestly I think I would be better for him to keep it or only like a swat like team(getting swatted by them could more funny if you got frozen solid by a gizmo or something)

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    7 months ago

    Bruce Wayne “should I setup mental health and income support for the people like my father, or buy new toys for myself and some cosplay and cause them I life changing injuries”

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    It’s not like he didn’t have the money to create the organization. Gotham City is just firefighter arson to Bruce Wayne.

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    More OSHA means less money for Mr Batman’s alert ego.

    And that is a line batman will not cross.

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    Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.

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      Isn’t it canon that he does that a lot already?

      It’s just that it’s like filling a sieve with a tap. Unless you block the holes, you’re never going to get anywhere.

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        Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.

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          Yeah this conversation pops up at least once a week, and Batman is so prolific that I feel people not understanding this is a literacy problem.

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      7 months ago

      My favorite depiction of Batman is the Harley Quinn TV show, where he (third season spoilers):

      spoiler

      Gets detained by Joker, who has turned into Gotham’s left-wing populist mayor, for evading taxes.


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    Weird how Batman is a billionaire & yet there’s always enough crime & problems to keep people Thankful for His Heroic Deeds 🤔

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      Yeah that one always tweaks me too. I think it’s a listing battle.

      “Fewer” for things that are countable.