Something something "great firewall".
Ericthescruffy
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Big piece of advice I would give is: pick up a new hobby. If you still enjoy your old/current hobby that's fine but during heartbreaks/breakups I found myself spiraling lot because they were fun things I did either with them or at least while we were together.
New hobbies necessitate new neural pathways which is a big help in getting shit off your mind.
Easy there Joseph Campbell. 
Okay, so I'm kind of speaking in ignorance because despite my embarrassing enjoyment of cape shit I haven't yet seen the movie...but I am curious. I actually accept the author's premise that Superman does have Jewish roots, but as we all understand here: Judaism and Zionism should not be conflated.
So I can't help but wonder then: if the name of the countries in question were changed... Just what gave it away to this writer that they were talking about Israel?
If you recognize that they were talking about Israel and Palestine because it was a bunch of armed fascistic bloodthirsty well armed colonizers massacring farmers and women and children... How is that not straight up telling on yourself?
Not in the literal sense, but the author is correct that the character has symbolic roots stemming from his creators. Just consider Superman's powers and his origin story as an infant sent, metaphorically speaking, down river as an infant wrapped in blankets to a far away land by his birth parents to avoid certain death.
Good instinct, adaptation is infinitely worse. I was gonna say: the movie is trash and blatantly anti Stalin and USSR but I think you're being a bit too harsh of the comic because I remember it actually being quite sympathetic.
Wait...did you read the comic or watch the shitty animated adaptation?
I saw a really great comment/take on a thread for the movie that pointed out: if DC had balls they would really contrast Superman's experience as an Immigrant with the black coded and/or presenting Martian Manhunter. Superman is white, conventionally attractive, and fully assimilates which leads to his story being emblematic about the beauty of immigration and the American dream...whereas J'onn often has to literally mask and hide his true nature to avoid Ostracization.
One of the punchlines of that story is that President Luthor eventually institutes a planned economy to fight back against Superman...so by the end of the story the conflict isn't even about capitalism versus socialism but whether or not the dominant ideology will be socialism with superman characteristic, or socialism with Luthor characteristics.
This kinda weird shit is a big part of why I love star wars. If it were cannon that there's a Chucky cheese style outer rim attraction with repurposed trade federation droids doing song and dance numbers it would be entirely consistent and on brand for the universe.
Hard agree. Hell even BB-8 is a really goddamn cool design.
Pretty proud of how this turned out. My partner went as Chappell Roan so it made for a good bit.
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It was an amazing time. I came. I saw. I got my ass kicked....and I might be going again next year!!!
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Its been said so much its lost all meaning but genuinely unironically: Absolute fucking legend.