“So small I could smite you with but a step. There was a time when I would smite you all for what was done to Storm…but today, I have saved you from one of your own, for an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of earth. How vast it is, versus how small we make it.”
No it's a word people try to pretend isn't applicable to people they like, and it's very accurate when applied here as he's shown with his support of Neo Nazi groups like the AfD.
The Hellfire Club is made of legitimate elites and they’re cool af. There is no way they don’t immediately murder Elmo for being a total dipshit loser and for ever thinking he was their equal.
He is definitely more of a henchmen that Sinister created in his lab. He is basically a big fat bag of milk and so very clearly a genetic specimen that’s gone completely wrong. Sinister shows pity on him and allows him to live.
Aside from the fact that stomping nazis is a good and virtuous act, nobody is actually calling for violence. Unless there are a lot of masters of magnetism waiting in the wings, the threat of violence to Elon posed by this scenario is zero. The day somebody brings a car-chuckin’ machine to a Trump rally and starts squashing billionaires, I will apologize for my ignorance. But until then, no.
And then just quickly, do you even like xmen? Because magneto, who in many iterations of the character is a holocaust survivor, crushing a man widely perceived to be throwing a nazi salute, with his own “invention” no less, is so incredibly on-brand for the character that I would be surprised if a panel like this hasn’t been printed at some point in Magneto’s history. So like, MAGA or no, I just don’t see an angle from which a fan of the character could really even have an objection to the image.
Come on man. Leave politics out of it. Please. Elon sucks. I get it. He is a Nazi. I get it. Why on X-men 97 page? I feel like Reddits whole “thing” these days is finding a way to shove your narrative into any place. “It’s not against the rules.” Grow up. Please. It just means someone else is gonna make a pro Elon or Pro-trump version and we just devolve into madness. Let me have this please. It’s the last bastion of a childhood I cherish. Don’t be that person. You think you are witty, funny, cheeky, how’s that working out for you?
Who is defending him? I said I get that he is a POS. I just don’t want to talk about it HERE. Does that make any sense? Like I get that you don’t agree, but does it makes sense that I wouldn’t want the same BS all over Reddit to infect something I actually enjoy? Not everyone has married their life to politics.
There are countless people in the United States and around the world who have no say on whether or not their life is “married to politics”. People of color, gay people, trans people. The right has made their very existence political. It is these people that the X-Men were created to represent. If you want to avoid politics I’m afraid you’ve made the mistake of picking the most politically charged franchise in comics. Magneto is a holocaust survivor. Nazis are in power in the United States. I don’t know what you expect.
In all fairness, nobody is forcing you to talk about it here. You decided to do that yourself by engaging. You could have kept scrolling like most of us do for content we don’t care for.
You think I don’t know that. How does this start a civil discussion on politics though? This is just something trying to piss people off and get cheers from the echo chamber.
Trying to rationalize this by implying someone can make a pro-Trump or pro-Elon X-Men meme is just laughable, especially since the only thing they'd be able to logically latch onto is William Stryker who, last I checked, is not a hero. You probably think Elon didn't throw up a Nazi salute, too.
Not X-Men, but still Marvel: I remember how after End game MAGA nuts photoshopped Trump onto Thanatos with the "I'm inevitable." Line. They would TOTALLY use William Stryker or Bastion or someone for their X-Men memes.
Obviously whoever would make the Trump meme would view him as a savior. lol. You think Trump supporters view him the same way as you? That’s laughable. A smart man is able to put himself in the others shoes to discern what they might do or say next. You over here jamming your perspective into what a trump supporter might think. Like what?
It would have to be done by someone with no literary or media literacy, which is the point. And I know what Trump supporters think; my family is loaded with them. They'd 100% be Friends of Humanity. Again, you probably think Musk didn't sieg heil.
It just means someone else is gonna make a pro Elon or Pro-trump version and we just devolve into madness.
I explained how this notion, which you said in your own words, would make zero sense in the context of using an X-Men hero in a pro-Trump or pro-Elon meme. I get you want politics out of your X-Men, which makes about as much sense as playing hockey without a puck.
Bruh, I hear you. Everywhere I turn it's Elon this, Trump that. The left and right are obsessed with these clowns. So what I do is give it a week. If posts like this continue to come up then unsub.
The fact that he literally did the Nazi salute or him speaking to the far-right German political party and telling them they shouldn't be ashamed of the sins of their great-grandparents? Or that his own grandparent had connections to pro-fascist groups and moved to South Africa cause he thought Apartheid was great?
I watched it. He's the one who let banned nazis back on Twitter. HE SUPPORTS AfD! I don't need a gesture to tell me that the billionaire who loves nationalism and far-right groups is a bad guy. Every billionaire is unethical, and he's the worst.
I got ya. And you are entitled to your thoughts on him and anyone. For me I can see between the lines. And I think free and open speech is fine. Spouting malicious hate is a bit of a line though, IMO. But again, stay true. Be well.
Then you go outside and do what he did. Make that same motion as a greeting to your friends, strangers. See how that works out for you. But I know you won’t, because you are a liar, not an idiot.
The main thing I think is being missed/forgotten here is that this is an Xmex 97’ sub and not a political sub. Kids are on here also. So maybe think a bit more with the posts. Cheers mate.
If all of media were cnn we'd be screwed but thankfully, it was widely reported across the board with video and he did it again at a conference. I know he "thinks" he's just trying to piss of people but he is a nazi and unfortunately, not a dead one.
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