Tucker Carlson has a gay son?
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Easily one of the most irrelevant Supermans to play the role.
Christopher Reeve would likely have approved.
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I mean… look around… it’s currently realistic.
And many Americans are full of shit, too.
Or laibach…
But if one is being honest about history and the present state of affairs in this country, it is not. And it never was. Do you think that those on the other side of the American rifle see America equaling a better tomorrow?
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The Tulsa Massacre would be particularly significant in that context. “Less than a decade ago, and less than a day’s drive…”
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Pair it with a reissue of Red Son…
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Tell that to the MAGA folks maybe.
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The “Superman telling kids that many Americans come from far-away places” PSA was much less hypocritical than the “Captain America warning kids not to use performance-enhancing drugs” PSA.
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The closest story I am aware of is in Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier. A love letter to the Silver Age of comics, it also scratched off the gloss coating to show some of the ugliness of the reality of the era.
Among the many stories, it re-imagines Steel/John Henry (who was one of the four Supermen during the Death of Superman story line) as a vigilante against the KKK in the south. It’s… dark.
Nitroclycerin pills? Also, as I understand it, bi isn’t the same thing as gay.
The old slogan and other images of Americana in general has the duality of lofty ideals and championing of rights, as well as the stark reality of constantly falling short of those ideals and perpetrating systemic oppression.
There is a lot of crossover, and with biphobia within the LGBTQ+ community some bi people choose to call themselves gay. There are also some older people who call themselves gay, even when in an opposite sex relationship, like Tom Robinson.
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And literally AS WE SIT HERE TYPING, one party is blocking attempts to keep our country an even marginally democratic one!!! Like LITERALLY TODAY that happened. 
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F–k 'em. Supersnowflakes.
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I’ve seen that argument made, in the context that this change shouldn’t happen. Others were quick to point put that in practice, “The American Way” has generally not been to strive for a better tomorrow, and that even if it had been, it’s not universally thought to mean that. “A Better Tomorrow” means exactly what it says, to everyone.
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Everyone says that. It’s not uniquely American to want a better tomorrow. (Even Fascists: they just have a different idea as to for whom it would be better.) The idea that only America is “working for a better tomorrow” (or even that “America”, however you define that, even is doing that thing) is ignorant and delusional.
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Eh, I kinda like The American Way, but I’m an idealist, and that may no longer represent the next 10-20 years of american politics depending on how things go in 2022 and 2024 and beyond…
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This is DC, how many reboots have there been since 2011?
And to this Australian, that whole “…and the American way” always grated
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“peace” is no longer part of our vocabulary
it’s a non-concept, like dividing by zero
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The irony being that Dean Cain’s Superman said “I fight for Truth, Justice, and… Well, let’s keep it at Truth and Justice for now” while smirking in the first episode of Lois and Clark…
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Ruining the childhood of the geeks.
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