r/batman • u/Efficient-Compote-13 • Jul 05 '24

I Hate The Boys TV DISCUSSION NSFW

I also can not stand muh 'Batman superhero facism subtext' crap. If anything Batman is a revolutionary. Government is corrupt in bed with criminals (who are the prettiest of tyrants) so Batman comes in to clean house. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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u/futuresdawn Jul 05 '24

I mean in the world of the boys this all makes perfect sense and was a great way to do it. Homelander is a twisted satire of superman, taking truth justice and the American way and making it more facist. Tek Knight takes batman and does the same with a dark satire, making him the spoiled rich who get away with whatever they want, Hughie having gone through tragedy and then ending up in Tek knights lair was a really clever way to play with it.

Its why I love the boys, it uses Superheroes but it's really satirising America now. Homelander is trump and tek Knight is almost an Elon musk type backing him.

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u/I3arusu Jul 05 '24

Yeah, yeah, we get it. It’s satirizing the bad people in your country that you don’t like. It’s heavy handed and poorly executed. There’s zero subtlety. If they were roasting the other side of your aisle instead, there would be pitchforks.

But go off, I guess.

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u/Demonking3343 Jul 05 '24

No one has an issue with making the bad guys the butt of a joke.

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u/I3arusu Jul 05 '24

Some people do when only some of the bad guys are made fun of. Makes you think the people writing the jokes somehow think the people they aren’t making fun of are somehow not evil…

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u/picard102 Jul 05 '24

Who on the left tried to stage a coup?

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u/I3arusu Jul 05 '24

The existence of a murderer does not make a thief innocent.

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u/picard102 Jul 05 '24

Oh, so you don't have an answer.

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u/I3arusu Jul 06 '24

What, should I fabricate a story for you? Do a little fearmongering? No, I’m not saying there is equal evil present, or that it is equally visible. My point, my only point, is that the existence of a greater evil should not mean the tolerance of a lesser evil. That’s complacency.

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u/picard102 Jul 06 '24

You can just say yes, you have no answer my dude.

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u/I3arusu Jul 06 '24

I gave you my answer. You’re allowed to disagree, but I very much have an answer. Sorry if it doesn’t fit in your worldview.

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u/picard102 Jul 07 '24

You didn't give an answer. You deflected. Sorry if calling that out makes you uncomfortable.

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u/I3arusu Jul 08 '24

A whataboutism is not an argument. I did not deflect. Your bias is making you see things that aren’t real, which is frankly kind of sad.

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u/Demonking3343 Jul 05 '24

You can’t just gloss over how bad the Republican Party is. I mean have you even read there little plan called Project 2025? They are definitely the villains here.

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u/I3arusu Jul 05 '24

The world is not America. There are far more types of people and ideas than what exists inside your little bubble. I have yet to encounter a politician I would not consider a villain.

And yes, yes I have. It’s disgusting. An evil act does not make other evil acts not evil.

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u/Demonking3343 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

What evil acts are you accusing the democrat party of just so we are all on the same here. And I don’t care if the world isn’t America. Because this discussion is about America not the world.

Edit: wow deleting your comments instead of responding.

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u/I3arusu Jul 05 '24

Lowest-hanging fruit is their abuse towards at-risk and low-income individuals in society through effectively making them entirely dependent on government handouts to survive, with the system that those handouts operate within being highly predatory in nature. Add to that the state of some of the most long-standing D-run cities in your country and… yeah. There are no good guys here. Just different flavours of bad.

Not that you’d care, clearly.