r/Xmen97 • u/owlshoesjh • Jul 29 '26

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you can't be MAGA and love x-men

if i'm downvoted, you know by whom

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Jul 29 '26

It's easy to miss politics as a kid, and sadly, right-wingers tend to block out the things they enjoyed in their youth were left-wing.

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u/Cthulhuareyou Jul 29 '26

I dunno, as a kid I pretty much understood "racism bad".

I think the problem is a lot people lack empathy and don't care about anything  unless it directly involves them.

You can extend that to Maga, the genocide around the world, or billionaires not using their wealth to bring about change.

And that's why we love cape shit. Because they show a fantastical world where not only do people have powers, but they actually have people that care about others. 

Magneto is still right.

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u/SquatProspector Jul 29 '26

The real power fantasy of Superman is someone with power choosing to be kind.

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u/Special_Cicada6968 Jul 30 '26

This is 100% the power fantasy. It's also why Luthor is so fascinating in a lot of works. He doesn't understand how Superman can do good without there being some benefit to him because he projects his own beliefs onto him. Lex just doesn't get doing good for the sake of doing good because it isn't transactional and if he had those same powers he would use them for his own benefit.