Yeah to be completely honest, I would have good intentions but also probably leave this world a burning wreck afterwards. To use the latest movie for an example, I would probably be part Superman and part Hawkgirl. I would be trying to do good but also I’m not an alien trying to get people to accept me and like me, I’m a native that’s sick of this shit. So I would also be dropping certain people from high places.

And I definitely wouldn’t not interfere with world politics. I’ve even thought about it. My first move before introducing myself to the world would be to find where all the nukes are, and hit everywhere as quickly as possible and leave them on the moon or something until I figure out what to do with them. Then I would get all of the ‘strong’ men and nazis and religious despots and traitors of the free world together in front of cameras and make a human centipede out of them without any surgery, and without a mouth or backside so that it’s just an ouroborous of its own shit.

Then I would just stick to crime fighting and ruining Lex Luthor’s day and shit and keep an eye as people chose new leaders. And if leaders that aren’t there to serve the people start taking over again, it’s ouroborous of shit time again. Or something worse.

I dunno, I think she fits in nicely with the rest of the reality TV stars, news readers and podcasters cosplaying as politicians. What were Trump’s actual credentials? Bankrupting casinos and saying “your fired” on the Apprentice?

Sounding more like a Snyderman fan than a Superman fan, to be honest. An elseworld story now and then, or an edgelord deconstruction or two is great but the fantasy is that Superman has all this power but still uses it for good.

Turning into a dictator is weak and easy shit. It’s probably what every fucking manosphere clown would do. While going “don’t blame me, it’s just my biology! Hurr durr! I’m simultaneously logic and rational and superior but also a fucking ape that can’t control myself! Hurr durr.”

What makes Superman special is that he has all of this power but still has actual morals and values and empathy without the only thing holding him back being the law.

Because they picture in their minds of the hivemind known as “women” only wanting tall boyfriends.

Pretty sure it’s this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(commentator)

Reading about him, it still seems like one big joke but that’s a hell of a long time and a lot of dedication to the joke. It’s all pretty absurd. The problem with this kind of shit is that it makes us all look like clowns because what should be obvious sarcasm or joking isn’t such a clear thing anymore. Not in the current era of stupid.

Found him.

Yeah this one could be satirical. Although it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days. And also, history has taught me that people who spend a lot of time making ‘jokes’ about it, often turn out to be only half joking. Like how online circlejerk communities seem to always turn out to actually just be a bunch of bigots hiding behind the ‘joke’.

There’s definitely another dumb asshole that I see around who also has (alpha male) in his username who I’m sure is quite serious. If I had a stolen screenshot handy, I’d post it.

Yeah exactly. This manosphere ‘alpha’ shit is insecurity and fear packaged as ‘masculinity’ by a bunch of jocks that think it’s gay to wash their asses. It’s an absolute sad joke.

Yeah South Africa is unfortunately generally socially conservative. And susceptible to magaland conspiracies. And I hate to sound like I have one issue but very patriarchal, whether you’re Afrikaner or Zulu. So I’d say knee deep in the manosphere shit too, which goes hand in hand with magaland conspiracies anyway.

One example of the gender divide is currently for the month of November, a group called ‘Women for Change’ are running a social media campaign where people are changing their profile pics purple, and are planning a general strike in about a week, to draw attention to the fact that a woman is buried in South Africa every 2.5 hours, and that rape and femicide are a plague in this country. Seriously, from babies to 99 year old women, none are safe.

And so of course, certain men responded to this by starting their own bullshit where they’re changing their profile pictures green. At first I thought it had maybe something to do with farm murders and men trying to play the victim olympics but it’s even scummier and lower than that. They changed their profile pictures green to cry that they’re “ATMs” for women. I dunno, I just think that’s kinda fucking despicable.

In fairness, there are (usually white) conservative women in magaland too. But I’m not going to beat around the bush when I say that you don’t need a magnifying glass to see how lobsided the demographics are in this regard.

I mean, considering that this is a successful meme on two different platforms and that there are multiple comments giving their own examples, I would assume that it’s a behaviour that a lot of people come across, regardless of your personal experience.

We live in a world where people who believe in jewish space lazers and think they’re going to get 5G from vaccines exist, and you find this hard to believe?

And of course, South Africans are having a field day regurgitating neo nazi talking points.

Imagine thinking you’re being ‘replaced’ by 153 people. Almost as ludicrous as believing they’re putting microchips into vaccines, which South Africans are all over too. It’s honestly embarrassing.

Also, I’m starting to think that a large amount of online trolls that spend their days attacking feminist and queer pages on mainstream social media are god damn fkn white South Africans. I’ve already seen people mention that they are some of the worst of the worst on Twitter.

I took it to be another version of this Homelander reaction. Basically a look of disdain and disgust. Spiked with a bit of superiority complex.

This particular image is just doing the rounds now because it’s from a recent Sweeney Todd interview, or whatever her name is.

The airport segments of traveling long distance are the worst. Especially if you also have a connecting flight somewhere along the way.

If I was taking my own stuff to watch, my go to would probably be comic book shit lol. Watchmen is a pretty good one that’s a relatively short one season show. Although pretty intense.

Not too sure of many other short and sweet series though. Apart from maybe new(ish) stuff that I’m gonna assume you’ve watched, like Fallout or Wednesday or whatever. What about Arcane? Haven’t played the game is based on but I thought it was good, and also not 5 seasons long so far.

Movies are always an option too. These days they seem to be averaging at 2 hours or more. Good time filler without needing further investment.

So does anyone know when this vote for the release of all the files takes place? Or is that still going to be after a few more months of shenanigans and tomfoolery?

Pretty sure it’s homophobia. Or just general conformist bigotry because it’s not like heterosexual couples couldn’t use the word too if they wanted.

Hope you don’t mind me replying to this comment again. I don’t want to make a new post about it, thought I might as well use a thread I started that relates to PieFed anyway.

I noticed that pinned posts are now working! The only difference now compared to a native Lemmy account is that they don’t have the thumb tack symbol. Hardly a major issue but thought I would point it out in case it helps.

Thanks again for this great app.

Yeah, Bruce Wayne is an eccentric rich guy in a city full of eccentric rich people up to their own shenanigans. And depending on the timeline or continuity, he doesn’t even run his own company most of the time, so wouldn’t necessarily be in the public eye all the time.

For Clark Kent, I’ve always loved the idea of certain key figures in the Daily Planet figuring it out themselves but keeping it to themselves. In the new movie, I very much got the impression that Perry White and Jimmy Olsen know. And IMO, ever since Lois figured it out herself in My Adventures with Superman, that’s the way it always should be from now and the versions where Superman keeps the secret for years and years aren’t the same now.

For me, the ones where it gets difficult to justify their secret identities remaining intact for long are characters like Static or Spider-Man that still go to school and live with their parents / guardians, and regularly slip away during trouble to regularly rescue their friends and family as their superhero selves.

Depends on a few things, including the viewpoint in question.

And my patience at a particular time because I’m not 18 and just discovering the world anymore and a lot of shit is the same old shit, even if it’s had a ribbon tied around it.

Some things that I’m more or less out of patience with are bigotry, right wing conservative conformists and supremacists, and monotheism. But I’m open to discussing most other things.

I’d be more inclined to ‘meet in the middle’ politically if ‘politics’ were about say how taxes should be spent, and not about who should have more or less human rights than who.

Just so you know, I had to look that up to make sure it wasn’t some medical condition or something wrong with it that I was unaware of. But you’re correct, it does indeed have a stoma lol.

I had this same issue and just tried force killing the app in settings, then clearing the cache. After that, my PieFed account is now working again. Hopefully it helps you.