• @KevonLooney
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    43 months ago

    It’s fantasy for kids. There are constantly people getting hit in the head, with no sign of brain damage. In real life, Batman would be crippling people constantly, and he would die every week.

    Are the Smurfs an Anarchist commune? Is the Federation in Star Trek space Communism? You can’t give them labels from political science in the real world because they are fantasy. They literally have different laws of physics.

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      03 months ago

      It’s fantasy for kids.

      You think it’s kids being enthralled by the hyper-violence of all these super-creep movies?

      There are constantly people getting hit in the head

      So they minimize the real-world effects of actual violence? Gee - do you perhaps think that a society that is entirely dependent on hierarchical violence to maintain the power and privilege of those at the top might be incentivized to gloss over the violence inflicted on those at the bottom?

      You can’t give them labels from political science in the real world because they are fantasy.

      There is no constructed universe that isn’t based on real-world political thought. None whatsoever. The political subtext that shapes them is no less real that which you can find in the real world.

      • @KevonLooney
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        63 months ago

        Yes Batman movies are mostly for kids, as was the character originally. Did you want the latest Batman action figure for Christmas this year? Do you wear your Batman costume even when it’s not Halloween? Who do you think does that?

        Do you think all violence is inherently “right wing”? Do you believe that no left leaning government has ever started a war? Since you seem well versed in “real-world political thought”, you must have an explanation for the following conflicts:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War

        • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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          -13 months ago

          Yes Batman movies are mostly for kids

          Like this one?

          left leaning government

          Lol! There is no such thing as a “left leaning” government. The USSR - killed and imprisoned more leftists than the US has. The PRC - killed and imprisoned more leftists than the US has.

          Your understanding of what “left” and “right” even means is based on the hollow aesthetics fed to you by propagandists, so read this part carefully - when you become institutionalized power, you become the status quo right-wing politics exist to protect. That is what left and right is really all about.

          So no… the USSR and PRC’s expansionist and imperialist actions was not some “leftist” thing.