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Showerthoughts

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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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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I agree his biggest problem is the writing, because in reality, he'd be the best person to fix the problems (as you say)... outside of his freakish inability to kill irredeemable trash.

Though that's why he sucks so bad when reconciling everything back to reality. He absolves the rich of fixing problems because not even the "cool" insanely rich and very willing philanthropist Batman can fix a single city let alone a country, and heaven forbid killing irredeemable trash!

He's inadvertently a perfect example of how blind capitalism and boundless optimism are absolute braindead garbage perspectives.