@aescling no cat i meant what the fuck does this comic mean

@Lady Communism Bad Because Totalitarianism

@aescling “Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost.” well which fucking one is it, a thousand dissidents or one ghost

@Lady a ghost comprising a thousand murdered dissidents??

@aescling bold of this story to think a thousand dissidents can ever form a single coherent anything

@Lady @aescling generally in my experience when theres a lot of rumors about something some of those rumors will contradict eachother

@Satsuma @aescling yes but usually i do not place those contradictions in direct apposition within a single sentence, as though one flows directly from the other in a logical fashion

@Lady @aescling yeah a ‘some say x, some say y’ type phrasing would have made a clearer signal of ‘mysterious but frightening’

@Lady @aescling like the reader obviously knows the rumors arent correct bc we know who batman is, therefore the rumors are just supposed to be signaling the perception of batman as an unknown figure / force of nature

Except their phrasing did a bad job at that

@Lady to actually engage with it, there is heat a pretty textual message that men are fundamentally selfish and will abuse and exploit everyone in service of their goals if given the power to do so

@Lady which is not a good story either lol but

@aescling i mean that’s at least a marxist story; that’s why the bourgeoisie can never be lasting allies of the proletariat

@Lady by men i mean the story means DMABs specifically

@aescling okay so a radfem marxist story

@Lady yeah

@Lady * is at least