This is literally the point of The Boys. What if normal greedy people held the power, what would that look like if they were superpowered.
Even in The Boys, the real evil came from their corporate overlords.
More specifically capitalism. Pretty good show.
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They do hold the power tho
Europe: “Why do Americans hate natives and black people?” after raping Africa for its resources.
Unlike Americans, Europeans would never create systematic forms of oppression… except with migrants, and Arabs, and Romas, and Samis, and other Europeans.
Roma.
G* has always been a slur.
England doesn’t really have any room to talk.
That was the joke
I didn’t notice that the last sentence is outside of the quotes.
They never got Ethiopia…
They never got Thailand…
Unexpected Bill Wurtz
Americans: “Stop with the what-aboutism arguments when they apply to us. Others? Sure, I’m fine with that.”
Didn’t USA come up with both characters? One in the 1930s and one now? More of a sign of the times I say.
Yeah. The Boys is literally a hot take on current America. And it’s awesome. People that think this meme is clever have never seen the show. It’s basically the entire point of the show.
This being the entire point of the show is the reason this meme works at all ?!
To be pedantic, Supermen was created by a pair of Canucks and The Boys is the brainchild of an Irishman.
Joe Shuster (Superman’s original artist) was Canadian, but Jerry Siegel (the original writer) was from Cleveland.
Ah, I stand corrected.
USA participating in WW2 is one of the greatest net goods in history at the cost of millions of lives. Cant argue it was citizens sent into involuntary massacre. Neither can you argue how the most evil and horrible empires got dismantled then or eventually.
Because we were still fucking great back then.
You never were. Genocide of native Americans directly to 300 years of African slavery.
I meant to say so fucking great. I understand why I’m getting down voted. That was the point I’m making. This country has always been a worthless fucking shit hole since day one.
I have a feeling that your original comment would benefit from /s
Oh well I give two shits if people are downvoting me lol
Actin like the US isnt the only country to kill natives and have slaves. Every country is bad. We just have to try and be less bad as time goes on. But that seems almost impossible with who runs countries.
You weren’t the only ones, but you sure did it the most.
We were never that great. We got to where we are through exploiting the natives land and through slavery. Also rampant sexism and homophobia to name a few. But if you don’t give a shit about any people in those categories, i.e. only care about white people and even that mainly just white men then sure I guess we were great back then.
Meh, we were great at many things, and horrible at many things. Life is grey, not black and white.
Every nation on the planet has sins. I’m not minimizing America’s; they are grave. But across the world, throughout history every parcel of land was taken, and every nation has at one point exploited it’s people. It’s childish to imagine any nation/culture/people is clean.
Certainly not agreeing with the “back in the good old days” rhetoric. As you point out, “the good old days” weren’t so good if your skin was the wrong color, or had polio, or didn’t want to serve in a war, or many other reasons.
Colonialism is definitely a unique sort of evil. If you don’t think that I’m sceptical that you’re particularly broadly read.
The scale of atrocities committed is just beyond comparison, like the most hardcore genocide in ancient times (that we have evidence of) was against a single city. In colonialism we are talking about continents.
Huh? Various ancient peoples led continent wide conquests. In the new world and the old.
I’m not saying modern nations are “better”, I’m saying human nature, the process of power, and the means of acquisition are uniform through time. Further, nearly every section of territory we are discussing was “conquered” multiple times.
Of course there were less people there hundreds of years ago, that doesn’t change displacement/ acquisition/genocide/ etc
So genocide is the key word. A lot of conquest did not involve the displacement or extermination of entire peoples until colonialism.
Conquering a place was largely “so you pay tax to me now” prior to colonialism, at which point it became more “so you are subhuman and need to be exterminated or bread of of existence”
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela
Yes, but why would you listen to what Hamas has to say?!?!
We are all Hamas on this blessed day
Speak for yourself
Lmao I thought your reply was a joke on Israel calling everything Hamas. You were serious? Lol
Can’t attest to their intentions but “speak for yourself” would be the continuation of the ken m “we are all x on this blessed day” meme, whether or not that’s what you were going for.
Oh, absolutely. Was hoping for a “I am all Hamas on this blessed day”.
For the ones not in the know:
Damn I didn’t know the original meme 😔
Oh Ken M, will you ever learn?
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The joke works because the Israeli government called South Africa the “legal arm of Hamas”. Politico
Damn if these groups are all really Hamas I think we’re gonna have to re-evaluate our assessment of these “Hamas” folks
I can get behind defending Palestinians and denouncing the false equivalence Israel is promoting against them by equating them to Hamas, but I can’t get behind defending Hamas, unlike lemmy.ml which has no problem removing any criticism of it like my previous comment.
waaa you can’t just crash our party we’re holding in a genocidal ethnostate right beside an open-air prison waaa
Lol. Lmao even
Actually, what I said was
What does a terrorist group sacrificing Palestinians for the palaces of their leadership who assault and kill people in an international music festival dedicated to peace have to do with a famous politician and anti-apartheid activist who did his best to do things the right way? Stop gaslighting with terrorist apologism.
You lemmy.ml shills and terrorist apologists can go, misrepresent it, and remove it again.
Both are none of the American business.
As a serious note, what has happened on 7th of october was most definitely known beforehand by Israeli government and was entirely under their control, if not staged by them in the first place. Unless you don’t know, the gaza strip is (unlawfully) blockaded from all sides, including the sea, with rigorous checkpoint inspections to make sure that absolutely nothing goes in or out without Israeli knowledge. There is a huge fucking wall on the border that’d make Trump jealous, patrolled 24/7 by a whole battalion of armed forces and equipped with the most state-of-the art surveillance equipment, capable of tracking every single bird flying over Gaza. The only way a bunch of bozos on bulldozers could even approach it undetected is if Israeli intentionally removed security and disabled surveillance over some parts of the wall.
That’s rich coming from a fucking terrorist himself. Dude blew up civilians too. Guess he knows what he’s talking about.
Or like this:
Wtf, I can’t believe this is real.
Also- 1969, nice.
Now do your country.
Edit: so far GB and Canada have a sense of humour
I’m just waiting for the Swiss Army Man version of Britain.
Lol love it
Well played.
Canada to Canadians:
A Mountie standing between all the world’s major conflicts blocking the worst of it, in the background there’s a stack of Olympic hockey medals.
Canada to the rest of the world:
Aren’t you guys like, a part of the US? Anyway I put sugar in your tea for you because that’s how the Americans like it.
Canada to indigenous peoples: Homelander.
I think this is our official statement on indigenous genocide:
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Canada in Brasil: lets fucking destroy the amazon.
Canada to the rest of the world:
Krombopulous Michaels: “oh boy, here I go killing again!”
We like it as tea flavored simple syrup actually. Idk about Canadians though, probably the same right? They’re basically Minnesotans with funny accents
I should add when I went to Europe all the cafes kept explaining that I wouldn’t like their tea or just adding sugar because I sounded American to them.
It was weirdly insulting. Like the kind of thing that’s not really an insult, but feels like one.
Brisk or Arazona iced tea are fairly popular, but I mostly set prior just having iced tea without sugar.
I know a fair number of Minnesotans who say they’re Canadian when traveling to Europe. The accent and culture is similar enough and generally people have more positive stereotypes about Canadians, lol.
The tea thing is weird though. I’m originally from Florida, where iced tea is sweet tea, I was dismayed the first time I ordered iced tea in Minnesota and it was unsweet, and the barista pointed me at sugar packets- no, the sugar won’t dissolve properly in cold tea!
Every time I go south I wonder how people down there are still alive. Between the sweet tea, biscuits and gravy, pork cracklings, boudin, and kolaches, I feel like I have to take a nap whenever I eat a meal.
Yeah I’m actually a northerner and you don’t think there’s too much of a difference between Ohio and Kentucky culturally until you order iced tea. I like it unsweetened, but even the sweet tea up here is less sweet.
Holding shields of maple leaves and bacon
Peameal bacon
It doesn’t work when the citizens hate the country more than anyone else does already (France).
u mad?
Lol no. Are you upset cuz I want to see memes about other countries too?
Already trying to both-sides the narrative before even knowing who the other side is, because all you’re interested in is deflection.
lemmings need to calm the fuck down, not everything is an attack.
Dude. You need to get out of your basement.
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Wait, if homelander is 'murica does that make this part 9/11?
Fuckin diabolical.
Eh… Most of us see our country as somewhere in-between now a days.
Yeah, this meme is fine, but it also goes the other way. Media runs off negative news and fear, and what the rest of the world is seeing is our media.
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And not even improving the lives of its own citizens. Literally just causing as much death and destruction all over the world as possible just to profit a couple of military and oil corporations and their owners.
Thank you for your service o7
Would probably be more impactful if I had seen that show
You should, it’s a great show if you are not against a realistic version of the injustice league.
“realistic” eh
Think it’s more a blunt commentary on celebrity culture than anything else
It’s actually pretty great
The best part of this is that’s the worst version of Superman who was definitely going to turn evil.
At most this one
Ron Desantis looking like Homelander.
More like him (with the Nuke guy watching his back).
Kind of a shitty mix of both.
