Yeah, Bruce Wayne is an eccentric rich guy in a city full of eccentric rich people up to their own shenanigans. And depending on the timeline or continuity, he doesn’t even run his own company most of the time, so wouldn’t necessarily be in the public eye all the time.

For Clark Kent, I’ve always loved the idea of certain key figures in the Daily Planet figuring it out themselves but keeping it to themselves. In the new movie, I very much got the impression that Perry White and Jimmy Olsen know. And IMO, ever since Lois figured it out herself in My Adventures with Superman, that’s the way it always should be from now and the versions where Superman keeps the secret for years and years aren’t the same now.

For me, the ones where it gets difficult to justify their secret identities remaining intact for long are characters like Static or Spider-Man that still go to school and live with their parents / guardians, and regularly slip away during trouble to regularly rescue their friends and family as their superhero selves.

Depends on a few things, including the viewpoint in question.

And my patience at a particular time because I’m not 18 and just discovering the world anymore and a lot of shit is the same old shit, even if it’s had a ribbon tied around it.

Some things that I’m more or less out of patience with are bigotry, right wing conservative conformists and supremacists, and monotheism. But I’m open to discussing most other things.

I’d be more inclined to ‘meet in the middle’ politically if ‘politics’ were about say how taxes should be spent, and not about who should have more or less human rights than who.

Ok? This is actually now a different conversation because someone deciding that they don’t want to spend time with you or be in your company is not censorship, you fucking baby. No one owes you their attention or time. Or a ‘debate’ whenever you feel like it. And expecting, for example, trans people in a trans space to sit at the fucking table and sing kumbaya with people who think they are subhuman is just insane.

Also, who is the “they” that is censoring you? I’ve been on Facebook quite a lot over this last year and my feed is full of people talking about genocide. And feminist pages that don’t shy away from subjects like rape. In fact, here we are using these words right now, waiting for the man in black to come and make it disappear.

Unless you’re making a habit of going into spaces that specifically don’t want these topics and doing it anyway? In which case, you’re the asshole. Which would make you just like a maga that gets banned from a queer page for using slurs, then acts like their rights are being infringed because of it.

Whether you like it or not, its censorship. Ppl with opposite political views silencing eachother creating echo chambers of only ppl who align with them politically.

Personally I don’t buy this one as a problem. Pre social media, anarchists weren’t sitting around a table sipping tea with nazis, alt people didn’t have to put up with fkn jocks making the same comments about dyed hair and piercings that grandpa has been making since 1976 daily, if you want to the club and spent your time insulting all the regulars and staff and owner, you’d get your ass kicked out to the curb by the bouncers.

I think the problem is a certain crowd acting like they should have the right to just barge into whatever spaces they want and say whatever they want without any consequences. Life was never like that. And just because you’re free to speak, doesn’t mean that everyone should be forced to listen whether they want to or not.

Sometimes people who believe in jewish space lazers just need to be treated like the deranged fucking clowns that they are and not be given a seat at the table. The world would probably be so much better if these people would go back to whatever fucking holes they crawled out of.

Edit: I’m also going to start assuming that people who think the internet used to be this place where bigots could run wild saying the N word are all 12 years old. Because forum sites pre social media were iron fisted.

I think that not necessarily everything in life is a big buddhist style learning moment and sometimes we really do just dig our own holes. And I mean, there’s nothing to say that the person in this simplistic cartoon strip didn’t learn anything here. Maybe sometimes the lesson is just that if you touch the hot plate on a stove, you’ll get burnt.

Other bigger lessons in life probably look a bit different to this.

I’ve barely lived my life and I’m around half way through. There’s still too much for me to do and see. And people for me meet, my people now that I’ve got a better handle on who I am.

And not even all big cliché things like travel and love and financial stability and shit. But there’s also still music to listen to, movies and series to watch, games to play, books and comics to read.

Also, as a Sonic the Hedgehog child and Philip K. Dick and punk rock teen, days like these light a fire in me. It’s probably morbid but it kinda feels like I was born for days like these, which gives a sense of purpose and darker reason to exist.

That is awesome! I think I might do the same if a future opportunity presents itself.

Not any notable thing but I think I’m kind in daily life. Kind to the local hobos, to shop keepers, to random people I meet and chat with on the way, to animals. I don’t really have much of a real life social life at the moment but I don’t drive and walk everywhere, and meet all types on the road.

One more specific thing I can think of is the old dude in a wheelchair who goes to the local supermarket and buys cheap wine and gets shitfaced around the back almost daily. I often push him back home if I’m around at the time and he’s clearly not going to make it by himself. Once I came across him passed out in his wheelchair on the road, on his way home. This is basically every other day or week. Apparently the only other person that ever helps him is skater girl in the area, so plus one for the alt people I guess.

The person is your ‘self’ or your mind, the ground is your life, or experience thereof. The thing sticking out of the ground that needs investigating is the start of an addiction, or a negative life path, or a spiral of harmful thoughts and depression, or anything that stops your progress on the path of life and makes you start digging holes for yourself to get stuck in.

Finally one (hopefully) realises that their dug their own hole and sees the solution to get out.

Or something like that. I think that’s the gist of what I felt about this meme or cartoon strip or whatever. Thanks for the creative writing exercise lol.

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Ah I definitely understand the “preaching to the choir” sentiment, particularly here on Lemmy. I think that’s also partly why I’m fucking with mainstream social media right now.

But I mean in that case, might as well not share any political content here. Personally I wasn’t sharing it here to preach to anyone here. I think that sharing content here is more for showing things to like minded people. Maybe a reminder sometimes. Or something for them to look up or share to their social media or whatever.

I could’ve been a little less defensive, so I apologize. The platform where I got this from is a shit show where certain people literally defend this shit. Need to remind myself that I don’t need to automatically fight when I’m here.

I do not work with them nor am I associated with them in any way. I just shared this here and left more than enough details for people to verify for themselves if they still doubt the fact that religious right wingers tend to be scum with issues around children and with projecting their own actions and guilt onto others.

This isn’t some new groundbreaking revelation. That’s why the clutching at pearls over trans people was such a fucking joke. Because they’ve been turning a blind eye to kiddie fiddling priests and right wing politicians for decades now. And proved that christianity is a religion of conformity, not morality.

This is literally just more information for the people who have actually been awake at any point in their lives and aren’t just finding out today that right wingers are disproportionately involved in child abuse. So that they can know to keep children away from the man with the maga hat and tell their friends. So that the heat can be on the right target.

It’s why I’m being a bit hostile here. This to me isn’t really a conversation in good faith. It’s debating the validity of something that has been a problem for at least as long as I’ve been alive, almost four decades.

You could also go and check out the Reddit subs “not a drag queen” and “still not a drag queen” for documented cases going years back. You could just use your fucking memories of how far back the stories of priests diddling kids go, and how the USA south has a particular reputation for this. None if this is fucking new. Including the pedophile president that these fucking people all love.

Tired of ‘debating’ reality with debate bros that only have room in their heads for the last podcast they listened to.

Ok find them.

this kind of thing needs to be backed up with evidence

I don’t know about Instagram but going by their Facebook profile, you would have to be deliberately stupid to think that they’re just posting about random people being arrested.

There are 56 names on this list, as well as the individual articles about all of these individuals on this profile. Expecting someone to spoon feed you 56 different links, or more if you’re too much of a ‘skeptic’ to trust just one source for each of them, is a bit much. I’m sure you know how to use Google based on the information here.

And even if you don’t have a Facebook account and can’t see that content, and won’t make one, or any effort to see for yourself before declaring “both sides”, I’m sure that your Uncle Joe has a Facebook account.

And he sees this shit too, these pedo president worshipping pieces of shit are all over left wing and feminist pages letting everyone know clearly just what they think. They just don’t fucking care. Or they call it “fake news”.

So this isn’t for Uncle Joe, who would’ve voted for a turd fresh out of Donald Trump’s ass, with lips painted on, as long it gives him any excuse to use the N word and call trans people “predators” online. Feelings don’t care about facts for these fkn clowns.

This is for the people who aren’t ignorant, mouth breathing bigots, and who are capable of a little bit of their own initiative, in order to be armed with knowledge.

Oh absolutely you would be more than welcome. I think in this vision, it would be certain people that can hear what others can’t. And you would definitely hear them too!

Ooh this is a fun question. I would definitely go for speaking to animals. Human languages can be learnt with study in the real world but speaking to animals on more than just a basic level is magical or super powers type shit.

I get visions of living in a cabin in the woods chatting with my bird and squirrel and fox friends. And developing an understanding with the local bear to watch each other’s backs.

Or raising armies to help with the uprising.

Here’s also the tally for September:

1. Brooks Turnbow
2. Blake Bowser
3. Ronald Duane Kirby
4. Candon Dean Dahle
5. James Taylor
6. Dwight Merrell
7. Quentin Andrew Whaley
8. Lance Larkin
9. Travis Olson
10. Nicholas Bain
11. Steve Sumner
12. Randy D. Patrick
13. Jason D. Holwager
14. Ricky Horton
15. Angela Amburn
16. Jeremy Amburn
17. Elzie Rhodes
18. Larry Tennison
19. Gretchen Tennison
20. John White
21. Terry Black
22. Austin Rounds
23. Bobby Raney
24. David Roberts
25. Mason Halliburton
26. Wayne Sands
27. Kyle Brenchley
28. Jennifer Aree Myers
29. Benjamin Geoffrey Myers
30. Jackie Allred
31. Timothy Hart
32. John Paul Sheptock
33. Kelly Lee Selzer
34. Justin T. Weimer
35. Jon Reep
36. Chase Eubanks
37. Harliegh Hoffman
38. Jordon Hoffman
39. James B. Gosnell, Jr.
40. Jeffry Clain
41. Herbert Durwood Duhon
42. Austin Maddox

This has been going on much longer and I wish I had saved previous months. But I’m going to share this shit here each month from now on.

I think that it can help you find your people. If it’s something really mainstream like Breaking Bad or whatever, you might as say “I like icecream”. But when it gets to slightly more niche stuff that isn’t hogging 90% of the online conversation or airtime on the radio, I think you’re more likely to find people with similar interests or views or personalities to you.

Wealth vs wages? Cars require a substantial amount to buy, and then a decent liveable paycheck that leaves you something to play with for fuel and upkeep. Public transport is something more affordable for wage slaves.