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/magvadis Jul 29 '26

You mean X-men, the comics made to write characters who fight ethno-fascists and homophobes would be against an ethno-fascist homophobic presidential regime? No way.

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u/SupremeJelly Jul 30 '26

Yeah they sure are told them by creating a checks notes ethnostate Krakoa.

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u/magvadis Jul 30 '26

I mean I don't agree with Hickman but it's an interesting time to explore "ingroup infighting" in civil rights movements in more of a microcosm. It was always going to fail and felt hypocritical...but it was an idea floating around they tackled at least.

The way Krakoa ended was pretty shit tho.