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reluctant to ask this but it would be a huge help to mirina and myself if we didn't have to worry about cooking for this next day or two while we're grieving for June and cleaning up his things. being able to order some meals would mean a lot
yr cat looks up what randos on the internet had to say about Superman: Red Son and its bad movie adaptation
The Soviet Inion favored Lamarckism over Darwinism and lost harvests because of it, just because they didn’t like that nothing you gain in life can be passed on genetically.
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while looking for reviews of Red Son i’ve seen a straightforward take about the hegemonic role of the superhero story in mass culture, where superheroes serve as secular saints, models of the individuals that the people are taught to expect themselves to be saved by; while i don’t want to say this is wrong i am much more interested in the ways that superhero stories have this apparently inevitable need to address the existence of power as a potential crisis by fabricating justifications for superheroes to both exist and hold power in the form of supervillains
yr cat looks up what randos on the internet had to say about Superman: Red Son and its bad movie adaptation
Superman himself tries to turn down the job, noting (quite correctly) that it isn't very socialist to choose a leader based on his inborn advantages,
i don’t think Marxism actually has any explicit opinion on this, actually. anyway in the comic Superman’s ambivalence was largely out of the fact that he was an alien to the USSR (never mind that, as i understand things, Soviet democratic forms did not care where you Came From so long as you are working there now, but)
yr cat looks up what randos on the internet had to say about Superman: Red Son and its bad movie adaptation
Luthor has established a meritocratic geniocracy where one's place in society is rewarded by talent and intellect, with himself in charge of course because he is the most talented and intelligent human to have ever lived. Basically both are fair, but only Superman's world is equal. One wonders what life is like in Luthorville if you DON'T have stupendous amounts of drive and ability (it might be alright, but it's definitely not as good as if you are part of his elite).
there is no textual support for this position in the comic whatsoever beyond the fact that Luthor is an egotistical shit raising the standard of living for the people of the US for no other reason than to Beat Superman. and that like, Luthor is ludicrously Intelligent. but anyway though there is no explicit statement that his governance dishes out material support in accordance with Merit lol. this dude’s just making shit up
yr cat looks up what randos on the internet had to say about Superman: Red Son and its bad movie adaptation
The main reason why communism is terrible is that you are stuck with the same leader, regardless if they are good or bad, and since Superman is immortal, he is going to be in office for a while.
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