Has anyone checked Jack Smith for adamantium claws?
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What does it mean if the X-Men are out to get you?
Probably that you are secretly building killer robots, that will take over the world in the future.
I'm going to be honest but Trump blaming mutants was not on my bingo card. Is it X-Men variety or more TMNT?
Is Swamp Thing a mutant? It'd explain Trump wanting to "drain the swamp"; maybe he was being literal?
Omg, Trump DC villain confirmed? lol
But not a supervillain. More of a secondary, background villain who takes orders from someone higher up.
Every time I hear "Swamp thing" I think about this wonderful song.. Please...enjoy: https://youtu.be/r6XFX7vP8i8
Oooh Nooo.
Swamp Thing is actually an Earth Elemental.
there had been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Swamp Things since the dawn of humanity, and that all versions of the creature were designated defenders of the Parliament of Trees, an elemental community which rules a dimension known as "the Green" that connects all plant life on Earth.
It’s the Warhammer 40k variety and we’re all about to get bombarded from the heavens in the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind for tolerating their presence on Holy Terra no less.
I can't prove it but it really, really feels like this is his way of grabbing the transphobic voter base of the right without actually saying something direct about transgender people. He uses words like MUTANT and lets his potential voters read that however they want, because he knows that voting group is pretty much the only ones supporting Desantis, who seems to base his entire platform on hate and fear.
I am just imagining him giving a speech about how professor X is with the “deep-state” lol
The trans kind :(
https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Absolutely disgusting language.
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"REALLY BIG FUNDRAISING, EVEN GREATER POLLS, SINCE THE RADICAL LEFT INDICTMENT HOAX WAS INITIATED BY THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS! THANK YOU"
Goddamn. That dude is going full-on Looney Tunes.
it's like he's playing "guess who" board game, blaming everyone but himself and making sure everyone gets a shoutout
Exactly. I also raised my eyebrows when he recently started calling people far right lunatics.
lol bruh, that's your camp xD
Is this a Deadpool 3 leak?
Dehumanization is a page straight out of the authoritarian handbook.
I learned how dangerous dehumanization is when I went on a tour of the Holocaust Museum in DC. (SIde note: I recommend going there. It's not a "happy" place to visit, but it's an important one. Give yourself half a day for the museum and half a day to mentally recover. )
At one point, you can go through or around one of the train cars that transported Jews to the death camps. I walked inside and stopped. The plaque had said how many people were crammed inside, but I couldn't mentally fit that many people in the train car.
Then, I realized my mistake. I was trying to fit PEOPLE. Even though the people I was trying to fit in were imaginary, I was still treating them like people. Once I tried fitting human shaped objects into the train car, I could easily fit that many.
Once you dehumanize a group of people, the door is opened to do anything you want to them because all societal guardrails for the treatment of your fellow humans are removed.
Relevant Pratchett passage:
There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,” said Oats.
“And what do they think? Against it, are they?” said Granny Weatherwax.
“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
"Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
"It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes . . .”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things . . . ”
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett gave the world so many wonderful things, this definitely being one of them.
I wish that we still had him, even if he would hate what the world is becoming.
Absolutely, the man was a treasure. At least we still have over forty books of his wonderful world to enjoy and explore. He is sorely missed though.
How long until conservatives try to cancel Marvel for spreading pro-mutant propaganda?
Well, X-Men has already been compared to the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community so really they should already be upset at them.
He hasn't been shy about talking about trans people. He's guided by the applause lines, constantly a/b testing which ones get him a bigger response, and since the ecosystem of the right has been building us up as the new bad guy, the crowd loves to be reminded that they should be mad about us.
Lol not everything is about you.
Nobody seems to know what Trump is talking about.
Yup. Lots of things aren't about me. But the parts about vilifying trans people are inclusive of me.
Definitely feeling some hostility that isn't really necessary here.
Yeah I don’t know if it’s just the way text can be read, but that commenters comment is very uncalled for. I mean trans people didn’t ask to be made the forefront issue for all these political candidates and “news” stories. They were thrust into the spotlight by republicans and subsequently demonized as is the conservative way, I mean literally they use the same scare tactics as their gay scare culture war bullshit. Implying that people can be turned trans and that it doesn’t really exist but is a fad, just garden-variety bigotry that comes with their culture war bullshit. And your mad at this person pointing it out? Make it make sense
We're going to build Sentinels and Xavier is going to pay for it!
Thanks, I hate it.
This poor guy would love nothing more than to be able to demonize the people he truly despises: the poor, white, rural people who form the base of his support. Whether or not he goes to prison, the ultimate curse that has been inflicted on him is that he will never get the respect of people he himself respects -- the well-heeled upper-crust to which he nauseatingly aspired with warped attempts at imitation like the gaudy entrance of Trump Tower. To his everlasting torture, polite society will never have a kind word for him, so he's damned to touring what we in America call the ruby-reddest parts of "red states" and there to accept the adulation of crowds he does not respect or like. Imagine the tension of holding these two things to be true at once: "these people are stupid as hell" and "these people love me more than anyone." I wouldn't wish that kind of agony on anyone but Donald Trump.
"THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS..." He loves that alliteration even if it makes no sense.
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Tone down the maliciousness a bit, and Trump would be a good inspiration for Alpha Complex's Friend Computer.
Yeah, but he couldn't get anything more than Orange security clearance.
Big green mutants with fangs are attacking Trump
Storm(y Daniels)
He HAS to be poorly programmed AI, right?
Can't be. There not a single trace of intelligence in this rotten orange meat ball.
Good point lmao
This unfortunately is a new dog whistle for trans individuals :(
See here: https://www.politico.com/video/2023/04/11/florida-republican-calls-transgender-people-mutants-881289
Disappointed but not surprised :/
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