Thursday, July 10, 2025

The New Superman is too Political

        This is too political, is the cry of white people who have been trained by Faux News and rightwing propaganda to see everything through the lens of Fascist politics.

Pure Nazi Propaganda 
For decades rightwing propagandists have spent every hour of every day hammering into their audiences' head that proper apolitical viewpoints are inherently fascist, ipso facto the default setting of humanity and Homo politicus is a Nazi Edgelord, most likely named "MechaHitler".

Anything which deviates from this, is ergo unnatural politics or pushing the race card or woke DEI or whatever the newest attack du jour.  This is the entire agitprop message of Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) and Christopher Rufo, Chief Editor of The Fucking New York Times, and of course going back 20 years, what Laura Inazigraham meant with her Shut Up and Sing attacks on The (Dixie) Chicks and racist Shut Up and Dribble attacks on LeBron James.  

Now, this is nothing new, as the roots of this current iteration of Trumpublican Fascism draws deeply from the original 1930's version, as illustrated by Racist Ron Paul's appeal to Fascism in 2018, and is merely the continuation of the Reactionary political swing of the American (and European) Right to the successes of 19th century Liberalism and the Progressive Era of the early 20th century.

But, that's immaterial to the rightwing propagandists whose job it is to stoke Fear & Anger and spike their rabid followers cortisol and adrenaline every day and for Republicans who understand the American voter doesn't remember anything so the only battle worth fighting isn't the long-term bending of the moral arc of the Universe it's the daily pig-fucking, mud-slinging, shit-talking Republicans so excellent at.  Win today and understand the joy of being a conservative is having no memory.

So, as Republicans coalesce upon the Superman is too political line of attack it's because they have no fear their audience will know Superman was created by two immigrants of East European Jewish families, a direct result of rising of anti-Jewish fervor in Europe, of that time period.  Instead, their drones will take to Social Media to decry Superman and James Gunn and whomever the right wants to target today. 

Of course, Republicans every so often circle back and remind their rightwing drones of specific grievances;  as when they dredge up Hunter Biden's Laptop, or excitedly announce the reinvestigation of the cocaine a Trump official planted at the in a cubby at the entrance to the White House, or how eventhough there officially is no Epstein Client List, Hillary Clinton's Ninjas most definitely assassinated Jeffrey Epstein when she held no office, and Epstein was held in a Federal Prison under Traitor Trump and had just been visited by Attorney General William Barr.

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