Yeah, it's amazing how many people think admitting to being an asshole is a flex.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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It seems like Superman is the hero we deserve to fight this fascist trash sitting in the White House and beyond.
We need more of these positive representations, and god I'm so glad that almost every hateful right-winger cannot be creative with something other than hate.
This movie gives me hope, but I cannot speak for you.
Yeah it’s really wild
Why batman is the worst superhero, just another billionaire...
Ironman is another billionaire.
Hollywood whitewashing billionaires...
We won't see a poor superhero anytime soon
this is what those people want.
Kidness is woke. And you know, woke is bad because reasons.
For all the right wingers who think woke, pro immigrant superman is a new concept, reminder that this is a poster from the 1950s
Interestingly enough zero black people depicted, or any other races but white - just one dude with a dark orange complexion like the Mango Mussolini.
Ethnicities. “Race” is a shit expression.
But it's three syllables shorter! That's like 75% of the syllables. Won't you think of the savings?
Agreed, but 'ethnicity' means something else, closer to 'national origin' mentioned on the poster. All the white people pictured may well be of different ethnicities, for example. 'Ancestries', perhaps? 'Different skin color'?
from this article:
Another story from 1953 called “People are People” has a Black youngster holding off an escaped lion until Superman can capture the animal. The owner of the circus the lion has escaped from wants to congratulate a white boy for his (nonexistent) heroism until Superman points out that the heroic young man was Black, and that the circus owner only wanted to congratulate the white boy because he was prejudiced.
Interesting article about the history of 'socialist superman' during the depression and the ideological evolution.
I like the Nathan Fillion comment during some red carpet interview when the interviewer was trying to egg him into saying something that would get rage clicks from one side or the other of the current political trash fire.
"its just a movie guys"
Superman was not a brooding edge lord until Snyder's take outside of specific story runs, and it is obvious that a lot of people don't know that.
Captain Hammer best superhero, who's with me on this
I so want a sequel to the sing along blog.
Dr Horrible has become obsessed with reviving Penny by turning back time. He doesn't care how many people need to die, because he believes he can "fix" things. But the risk of time travel is the destruction of the universe...
Captain Hammer, now knowing what pain is, has two choices, grow and overcome the pain, or continue to hide away...
And Penny. The multiple zombies, and clones, and computer simulations of Penny that were never "right". Well, she too has her parts to play.
That plot was already made by marvel, almost to a T
love it, but it won't happen.
Dr Horrible was released 17 years ago.
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