No, no, no… That’s socialism

Socialism is when anything happens, and you can’t tell me who gets rich off it

I think the libertarian left quadrant is the only valid one, and it’s become very obvious at this point

The global economy is this monster of debt and overly clever math that is actively collapsing, there’s no fixing it, and even if we did somehow, each boom-bust is exponentially larger than the last one

And if you take the economy out of the equation, it’s a really simple question. Do you want people to suffer or not? Are you pro-horrors beyond comprehension, or do you prefer less suffering?

So yep… We should all be calling them the billionaires at this point

Well, the cars themselves weren’t racist though

Progress!

If you got laid off for your ethics, it’s probably a good thing in the long run

Would you rather have a rough time now, or slowly be hollowed out inside over the course of years before you get screwed over anyways?

Ethics don’t help you, but lack of ethics catches up with you. For most people, they don’t even benefit much before the other shoe drops

Self examination. Question and challenge your beliefs constantly. Dig into anything that makes you uncomfortable especially

If you’re not growing, your views are not getting closer to the truth. There is no end point, only growth

What do you mean? Any AI can replace any knowledge worker. You just fire the worker and say AI will do it, easy

Look around… Running a corporation isn’t about doing things or making things anymore, it’s about the stock price. And consulting companies have convinced investors that layoffs are so hot and rich

If you haven’t noticed, the quality of everything has been plummeting since COVID. They don’t care about tomorrow problems, just extracting as much wealth as they can before it all comes crashing down

Ugh…I hate every part of that

I picture Superman as crashing into Kansas in like the '30s, maybe with a bit of a slippery time scale. No way it was in the '90s… But I don’t know enough about Superman to argue the point, I just find the idea really unsettling

Well, more like I think he predates the surveillance state, and by virtue of growing up in Kansas he’s an American and no one would consider thinking otherwise (all of this legal/illegal nonsense is pretty new historically)

I’m not trying to split hairs, but I like to spread reminders that people live where they live, and the idea you can live in a county illegally is inhuman

It’s not real, so empathy is not required. Cartoons often have horrifying implications if you look too closely, because they’re not trying to represent reality

If you’re putting yourself in the place of the mother pig, you’re zoomed in to far. The absurdism is in the situation

Think of it this way, if the reason for the child dying was making some parallel to something real, like splitting the family due to deportation… That’s something grounded in reality, it would be horrible

But there is no situation where doctors turn children into meat as a service. The premise is absurd. There’s no danger a real person would ever go through this, this is pure fancy

The mother’s reaction isn’t to laugh at her pain, it’s to let us sit with the moment and let the joke land

That is a weird aspect… Like the mental gymnastics required to subvert the actual message of Jesus requires so much magic and hundreds of years of killing anyone who read it unguided

Well I’d take the destinations on the Shinkansen for wherever I’m going now…

I mean… I don’t think the paperwork is going to account for spaceships. So… Put the spaceship in the barn, say you found him out in the field, and there’s no fraud

Lies of omission don’t count when you’re dealing with the state

Doesn’t mean the Kent’s didn’t lie, just that they might not have done anything fraudulently

I mean… They kind of didn’t though

In major cities, sure. Even smaller ones will have Indian places. But they’re proportional to the amount of Indians in an area

Because there’s a big difference… Everyone can go to a Chinese restaurant and confidently order. Everyone knows what sushi is, even if some people don’t eat it. Thai foods are less known, but the menus are very Americanized, so you go once and you get the idea

I know the good Indian restaurant back home, but I only know the dishes by color. Lots of naan and wet dishes… They were good, but I couldn’t tell you what they were. And if the sign says Indian food, I don’t know what they serve. So I’ve only been to the one place

Vindaloo and curry? That is everywhere, but I’ve never had an Indian version of it. The British spread vindaloo and curry spread itself

At this point, he’s probably over qualified

But he’d get my vote

How can a baby give false pretense though?

If you find a baby in a field (hiding the spaceship, let’s just leave that quiet), what happens next?

A baby cannot bear false witness… It’s a baby. The parents can, but that doesn’t necessarily affect the baby’s citizenship status

Trade it out for the assumed situation…a Kansas teen gave birth to the kid and left him in a field. This is an American with no documentation… But they’re assumed to be legit by their age. And so they get documentation

And yeah, Superman doesn’t match that situation exactly, but it looks the same from the outside. The state won’t know the difference

Ultimately, there are no illegal people. All these roles are made up… People live where they live. The system is the problem, not the people

Is it fraud though? Not necessarily… You could just say “I found this baby, and now it’s mine”, and if it’s young enough it’ll get birthright citizenship

But this is mostly splitting hairs… But more fundamentally, I don’t believe people can be illegal for existing, so I’m never going to say someone is.

But would Superman get deported if they knew his history? MAGA people are saying they’d deport Jesus if he didn’t come in “the right way”, you tell me

IDK, I’m not that into comics, especially DC

I think they just declared him their son (which is a thing you can do if they’re still X months old) and got him an SSN and birth certificate. If you have an at home birth, you have quite a while to legitimize it

There’s some room for interpretation

He entered illegally, but also didn’t have a choice… But he’s also stateless, which is very bad and very messy

But then he was adopted by citizens, which grants citizenship… Assuming you go through the process. Which varies by iteration of Superman, but generally I think they just said he was their biological child

He’s also an abandoned baby, which means he could get birthright citizenship by virtue of being found on American soil… We just kind of assume random abandoned babies were born here, because what other option is there? Making people stateless is an international human rights violation

But ultimately, he’s not human. He doesn’t get human rights, just like how non-human persons don’t have rights (even if they have certain protections). It doesn’t matter if an orangutan puts on a tie and gets a 9-5 job, even if they could speak and showed the ability to integrate into normal society… At this time, non-human persons are not legally recognized by the US

So… His situation is significantly more tenuous than some of the people getting deported right now. But he probably would have clean paperwork, because the state doesn’t know the details of his origin and his adoptive father was smart enough to hide it from the state

Plus… Like, definitionally, Superman was not born on US soil or to American parents. He doesn’t have birthright citizenship

He’s a literal alien with a fake identity, at the very least he’s an immigrant, in every canon

I think Chinese food spread was more organic, they helped each other immigrate, shared recipes, and acted almost like a franchise in how new restaurants were chosen in unserved areas and given a general playbook

And then the Thai government did it more formally, Korean culinary movement copied the success (or maybe the other way around)