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WeirdIndependent1656 t1_j020p9g wrote

Reply to comment by LyonDeTerre in [EU] The CIA are trying to kill Clark Kent and make it look like an accident. They don't know he's Superman, he's just a really good journalist and is getting too close to some things the government wants to keep secret. by Affectionate_Bit_722

Zero percent chance Superman isn’t successfully painted as anti American by conservative media. Zero percent chance the American people don’t back the state.

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TheWandererStories t1_j026q4n wrote

Conservative media definitely tries, but you comically underestimate:

A. The American left, and

B. (much more relevently) The popularity of Superman it takes year's of engineering by Luthors genius and incredible wealth to damage Superman's rep, the CIA has hours before they're entirely discredited by prize winning investigative journalist Clark Kent, with testimony from America's favorite hero

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LyonDeTerre t1_j022cn1 wrote

Maybe, one can dream. Counter:

A. Statistically, nothing has a zero percent change

B. Superman isn't real, and neither is the fictional America containing advanced tech, aliens and supernatural beings that he lives in

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Koifish_Coyote t1_j028xmb wrote

Superman, a national hero for decades, painted like that?

Something tells me you're a blueberry that only heard about raspberries.

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WeirdIndependent1656 t1_j02j824 wrote

A large segment of the American population immediately flipped pro Russia anti Europe when the news told them to. Don’t worry about decades of memories, Oceania has always been at war with East Asia.

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Funandgeeky t1_j02vlc6 wrote

How quickly did people turn on Dr. Fauci? Despite decades of service for both parties, despite doing his best to save lives, suddenly he's public enemy #1 for a lot of people.

Do you remember when a lot of right-wing pundits decided to make Mr. Rodgers their target? Apparently teaching children good moral, Christian values (he was a Presbyterian minister) was enough to make him hated in some circles.

And if we're making the Superman = Moses connection, in the story in Exodus, it didn't take long for the people to say "To Hell with Moses, let's worship a golden calf." Despite being the guy who literally led them to freedom, it didn't take long to turn on him.

That's human nature. Too many people want to listen to the proverbial devils on their shoulders. Or the real devils on television, radio, and the internet. And if those devils say it's time to turn against the hero, they turn against the hero.

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hightecrebel t1_j04jybw wrote

Eh, Fauci's public rep was crap after the AIDS response, and it wasn't rehabilitated in the press until COVID. He had a generally positive rep in industry circles, but any general press that came out before 2020 inevitably included the bungled AIDS vaccine.

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Koifish_Coyote t1_j02zar5 wrote

The important difference between your reply and the comment I replied to is that you recognize it happens on both sides.

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Rhazort t1_j040y6b wrote

America likes to think they would support Superman when they would actually support Homelander.

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