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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:41:43 JST Paul Cantrell

   ME A DECADE AGO: Superman is completely unrealistic. People would •never• just straight-up elect a comically evil billionaire to be president.

   ME NOW: Superman is completely unrealistic. They made Lex Luthor •way• too smart.

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     Darrin West (obviousdwest@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:54:09 JST Darrin West

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     @inthehands They made Superman way too patriotic and apolitical. If his job is to stop supervillains, he’d surely see Lex or others manipulating the voters, and would then interfere in politics. Thereby reducing human free will.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 04:56:28 JST Nazo

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     @inthehands Literally it's the Penguin running for office today...
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDG8buhL6Jk
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFJaoGHz5p4
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG_v-biESQQ ("It's a pleasure to hear plain talk...")

     A literal criminal, openly being criminal, yet somehow he convinces people that he's smart and that the good guys are evil.

     If someone (I think Robin?) hadn't played a recording of him talking in private about tricking people he probably would have won. That doesn't work today....

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     alejandro (trollkatt@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:20:12 JST alejandro

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     @inthehands Even Lex Luthor doesn't seem as cartoony a villain as either Musk or Trump 🤷♂️

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 01:20:12 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • alejandro

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     Yeah. For starters, I believe they always gave him a sort of sympathetic back story — instead of just “he was just born with a wretched heart.”