• @dragontamer
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    3 hours ago

    Lex Luthor literally becomes president in many versions of the Superman cartoons.

    The idea of a rich billionaire with a narcissist Messiah complex with a bone to pick with heroes and actual helpful people that becomes popular and eventually the US President is practically a trope. Apparently this generation has forgotten the message.

    • unalivejoy
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      1 minute ago

      At least Lex Luthor never called Superman a pedophile after saving children.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 hours ago

      Like the way some people see cyberpunk, it’s not so much that they forgot is that they missed the point completely. They see an author warning about a dystopia and they just want the shining neon lights. Or as Confucius put it “when a wise man points at the moon the fool examines the finger.”

    • DreamButt
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      21 hour ago

      You assume the people who learned the message forgot it rather than the people who failed to learn it continuing to vote without understand the repercussions of their actions

      • @Volkditty
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        555 minutes ago

        Hey bro, why you gotta post the thing I was getting ready to post?

        • @dance_ninja
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          113 seconds ago

          Lol maybe you’ll be first next time!