I'm not gonna say "more power to him" because it's corrosive on society, but at the end of the day, most of the time, a gig is a gig.
@womzilla @mightygodking okay cool. so, like, what is he lying about, as opposed to being a philosophically lazy jingoistic idiot about?
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@chaosprime@mightygodking You're going to force me to read the damn thing I'm criticizing, aren't you? :-( -
@chaosprime@mightygodking Ok, here's an outright falsehood: "In the 1970s...nobody really altered the superhero formula." -
@chaosprime@mightygodking There is no way Dixon is unaware of O'Neal & Adams's GL/GA or of the Punisher, Marvel's first murderer superhero. -
@womzilla@mightygodking yeah, that does seem like a self-serving handwaving away of facts for the sake of a pat narrative. -
@chaosprime@mightygodking It deliberately overlooks decades of stories about Superman being Superman for all the world. -
@womzilla@mightygodking yeah, this thing of treating "truth, justice and the American Way" as more than the tagline of the TV show = lies.
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@chaosprime@mightygodking Note the essay was inspired by his adaptation of Amity Shlaes's book of lies about the Depression.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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