I was watching some X-men video on YouTube and it occured to me that Superheroes are the embodiment of the good guy with a gun mentality. But leftist seem to love heroes but hate firearms. I did a Google search and plenty of others have made the same connection. Wondering what the board thinks about it?
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Superheroes have always been "Vigilantes handling things, usually because the normal law enforcement and people of everyday society CAN'T." So you wouldn't be entirely wrong.
Not as comparable to today's society, where law enforcement actually CAN handle most of the dangers, but WON'T, and then decide to invoke the full force of the law on people that actually do try to stop the dangers.
Anarcho-Tyranny is a bitch. They punish those that defend themselves against criminals, because they're the ones most likely to defend themselves against the government too. No reason to search out who might oppose them, when they can let the criminal element act as a natural filter.
Yeah that's how I felt about the white boomer couple in Missouri standing their ground and protecting their property from violent BLM goons with their firearms. All it takes to keep a mob of cowards at bay is confidence and a few guns.
And of course, for the crime of embarrassing the fuck out of the justice system that deliberately failed the people during the summer of love, that couple was lawfared until something stuck as to make an example out of them.
Not just 'good guy with a gun,' but outright vigilante. They're not the cops, and they're not acting defensively. They go out looking for bad people, or to stop bad things. They take it upon themselves to go out and stop troublemakers, and protect what they care about. And, although not universal, they largely reject the existing power structure. They're all about responsibility, sacrifice, and self improvement.
On the one hand, it's very odd that some outright Marxists appreciate that. On the other hand...maybe it isn't. I think, deep down, a lot of leftists still have the same drives, but just suppress them because it's easier than striving to be better. So, it seems contradictory, until you remember how fucking miserable a lot of leftists are, and how they're not fulfilled by their current lives, reality, or ideology.
You see the admirable personal traits. They see superpowers and idolize the power being wielded.
Comic book heroes are frequently warped into retarded illogical characters and people idolize them. Like batman and the common "no killing" schtick. Then with heroes like superman, sensible people see the effect of a good upbringing leading to a moral man using his powers for good. Leftists see an all-powerful man imposing his will on the world, feeding into their desire to be subservient.
Hence, Superman: Red Son
Power. It all comes down to power. Anyone who pays attention to leftie shit knows that that they would all love to be the person putting bullets into wrongthinkers. What a wrongthinker thinks is not important, only that they think wrong and a leftist gets to put a bullet into their head.
Part of the dichotomy is that I too want to use bullets to solve the stupidity of the left. And of course these people are brainwashed to never EVER question their programming because they are always simply correct. The left sees THEMSELVES as the heroes and that makes us the villains in their minds.
Look at the crusade against Trump rn. They aren’t above putting crates of ACME dynamite in the courtroom just to “stop his evil regime”. It’s so fucking stupid
It reminds me of that faggot Joss Wedon. He hated the Punisher and said it was unrealistic that he never killed any civilians accidentally meanwhile he’s fine with mutants that can level buildings and shoot atomic lasers never causing any collateral damage.
Ah yes, Joss "80 pound underage girl demolishes a minotaur, barefoot" Wedon thinks the punisher is unrealistic.
Superpowers are often likened to gun ownership.
My Hero Academia goes into this mindset with the villain-hero conversation in the mall, how everyone with a power goes about idly, when at any moment, one could go off the deep end, no regulations, no controls. (But they don't because they live in a high-trust society).
Marvel had the whole "mutant registry" thing, AND the semi-related Civil War whole thing, and both are clearly blatant allegories to gun registries.
So the writers of the comics are definitely aware they're spreading "good guy with a gun" messages.
The difference being that in a world of superpowers the average man's ability to defend himself is dependent on the whims of fate, mutation, gods, or a disastrous science experiment.
In the world of guns the average man's ability to defend himself is, for now, dependent only on the stock of the local gun store.
One of these is much more likely to be a fair shot than the other.
Yeah there does seem to be a component of classism and elitism to the left's love of heroes. As if the heroes are ubermensch and above the rest of us.
Which again seems to push back aganist a lot of leftist ideology.
They started as war propaganda fiction.
They became vigilantes borne out of the zeitgeist that wanted retaliation against the forty year black crimewave that erupted in the mid fifties.
The concept of vigilante justice lends itself to telling good stories and being able to shoot eye lasers or throw a dumpster at bad guys is simply cool. It's doubtful that leftists really put much thought into it, they only pretend to do that kind of thing when they're posturing on the internet.
The Comics Code didn't like guns much, either.
Only bad guys used them to kill, and any killings had to be avenged, either by the law, or supernatural means. Sometimes both, in Cain's House of Mystery and comics like that. Gold Key had all kinds of genres. War comics would be kind of the exception, but I probably didn't notice the mechanics of it all at the time.
And that was put in place by Lost Generation guys who would be considered ultra-far-right-wing today ...