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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sadly not a new issue for Superman. His backstory was even retconned in the comics for a bit to have his spaceship give birth to him so he could be born in America.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago

...anchor baby, too: brought along his uncle, his cousins, his dog, his monkey, his robot...

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What? When? I'm not a Superman fan, but even I know he was born on Krypton or whatever his planet was, and his parents were royalty I think, and they sent him to Earth as a baby to survive, where he was raised by farmers to be a GOOD YOUNG AMERICAN WHITEBOY but then he discovers his powers and thankfully his parents were actually good people and not goddamned nazis and he goes around helping people and fighting his greatest enemy, Lex Luthor that bald guy that represents capitalism whose name is way too close to the Christian devil.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

So he's an anchor baby? The reason we need to repeal birthright citizenship?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I'm seeing comments on Facebook telling me "he's not an immigrant, he's an alien from space". I'm so confused as to how they don't consider someone from a different planet to be an immigrant