æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

fite me (homoerotically)

been using Signal this whole damn time but nobody i talk to uses Signal ever

the Android 12 messages app is nice actually

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when you write [sic] after a post and then realize you made a typo

https://twitter.com/eleth_art/status/1467181034676670471

https://twitter.com/CatWorkers/status/1467536007843229699

bruh.

spider-man is So Cool

(non union–workplace managers need not make us apply)

(or, if you’re a manager somewhere, give me a union job)

for international disabled people day, give my spouses money, and help me organize a union

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.

?????

think the US state and the Communist Threat; think the police and BLM Rioters…

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

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)

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

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.