5. But between Conan pastiche & syncretic misogynist theology, there's some political/religious satire in Cerebus relevant to Trumpism
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6. There's a long storyline where Cerebus becomes Pope. And part of how he maintains power is via polarizing.
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7. Pope Cerebus does more & more extreme things, polarizing acts which lose followers but build a hard core of the faithful.
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8. There's a sequence where Pope Cerebus is given a baby to blesspic.twitter.com/N0j9sUxB47
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9. The blessing of the baby does not end well.pic.twitter.com/9czwhYyfbu
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10. Point made by this sequence is that killing the baby doesn't end the worship of Pope Cerebus, rather it intensifies allegiance of base
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11. Throwing (and killing) baby was precursor to Trump's own comment that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue & not lose supporters.
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12. Cult-logic 101: keep upping the ante with more absurd & cruel statements & actions, binding faithful to you as they defend these things.
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13. This seem prescient as well. The brash acknowledgement that this is all a con which brings in even more suckershttps://twitter.com/Hyper_lexic/status/715018184470827010 …
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14. Other point of comparison is disassociated personality: Cerebus, like Trump, refers to himself in third person.
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15. And of course the creator of Cerebus, Dave Sim, ended up a fringe far right sexist hermit, with a few culty followers.
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16. Like I said, someone better verse in Cerebus the Aardvark should pursue this line of inquiry.
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