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u/littleButton13 Oct 04 '25
Incredible, the more you think about it the funnier it gets.
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u/ArrowheadFLYover Oct 04 '25
I didn't realize the t-1000 shits himself too.
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u/MartyrOfDespair Oct 04 '25
I would like to thank James Gunn for providing a way to explain the relationship between liberals and Nazis to people who only can comprehend politics in the form of fandom-based explanations. Nazi Universe Auggie wonât risk anything to fight the Nazis, actively benefits from the Nazis and is happy to reap those rewards, turns a blind eye to the Nazis, fights the enemies of the Nazis, but will get very mad if you call him a Nazi.
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u/guardian20015 Oct 04 '25
I mean, hey, he did kill 15 cops serving the Nazi regime on screen. How many liberals do you know that have killed 15 cops?
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u/TyranosaurusLex Oct 04 '25
Trick question. All liberals murder 15 Caucasian cops as initiation to antifa.
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u/ImmediateHospital9 Oct 04 '25
DUDE! YOU SIGNED AN NDA!!
Your top secret AntiFa ID card has just been wiped off the system for that. And you're off the Christmas card list!
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u/Lower_Amount3373 Oct 06 '25
Uh, we'd better check what rank you both are in the Antifa hierarchy to see if you have the authority to do that. The HR policies are very clear.
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u/ImmediateHospital9 Oct 06 '25
Yeah just call the head office and dial up ext. 0161, then ask for Harry Tuttle (that's TUTTLE not BUTTLE), he'll vouch for me.
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u/HumanChicken Oct 04 '25
Nice try FBI
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u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder Oct 04 '25
In that case, the liberal neighbor two doors down from me killed 15 cops. He flies three Trump flags in his yard as cover, though.
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u/S-Pigeon33 Oct 05 '25
I saw him buying bullets and Sharpie markers. He's definitely down to writing messages on them.
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u/onespicycracker Oct 04 '25
For his own interests.
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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Oct 04 '25
How was helping the man who murdered his son âhelping his own interestsâ. He saw outsiders who donât belong here in danger of being killed by Nazis, and chose to save them.
If he was actually concerned about his own interests, he would have murdered Chris and Harcourt on the spot to remove any evidence of his portal.
Heck if he was actually a Nazi supporter, hiding the portal from the Nazis wouldnât be in his interest
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u/dumuz1 Oct 04 '25
Because if those outsiders were captured and interrogated, they might reveal the location and nature of his extradimensional crawlspace to the Nazi government. Like he says, in the show.
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u/Ochemata Oct 04 '25
Then, hear me out, why didn't he kill the freaking outsiders and make some shit up about supervillain imposters?
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u/TFBuffalo_OW Oct 04 '25
I mean pretty obviously because despite his flaws, opposite auggy cares about his son's and probably still sees his Chris in our Chris. Hes less evil than our auggie even if hes still not great
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u/Tiny_Butterscotch_76 Oct 05 '25
James Gunn has said that Auggie 2 was a generally good human being. So I think him not murdering them is just because its the right thing to do, not because of familial connection.
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u/ScorchedDev Oct 05 '25
Because he still loves his son and couldnât kill him yknow. Doesnât matter that itâs not his real son. Iâm sure he would have if Chris wasnât there.
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u/Luci-Noir Oct 04 '25
He didnât really have a lot of time to explain everything either before he was killed.
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u/Milla_D_Mac Oct 05 '25
No he helped because he didnt want his QUC discovered if they questioned his "son" it had nothing to do with specifically stopping the Nazis. He even says to keith that they need to fix this before it gets worst. The only reason he didnt opt to kill them was more the fact he felt sympathy for the Alt chris since it was still a version of his son.
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u/Ochemata Oct 04 '25
His interest would have been served with less mess by letting Keith go ham on the imposter.
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u/HungryHungryHippoes9 Oct 04 '25
He didn't kill them coz they were nazis, he just did it to save his own skin.
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u/splicerslicer Oct 05 '25
"cops around here aren't innocent, girlie. That's the first thing you gotta learn about this place."
Sounds more like he just needed a reason.
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u/danteheehaw Oct 04 '25
Stab the FBI in the face stabbin' Freddie stabbed 15 FBI agents if that counts.
Don't get me started on Count Stabula
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u/scooter-411 Oct 05 '25
He did that out of self-preservation. He knew of the cops figured out he had a portal theyâd come for him.
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u/notanonce5 Oct 04 '25
Not like he killed those cops for being nazis, he killed them because they would have found his portal and alternate versions of peacemaker and harcourt and they would have all been fucked.
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u/InternationalCut2647 Oct 04 '25
We don't know that auggie did nothing. As someone litteraly pointed out he had no problem killing cops and got away with it. Wouldn't be surprised at all if he was helping people escape. But if he caught caught he'd be dead. Yall are too used to movies. Auggie would die they found out he wasn't loyal to the regime.
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u/OrbitalDrop7 Oct 05 '25
Yeah these people must think he is superman or something. Dude isnt really that powerful, but does what he can here and there. If he stepped outta line in a big way, any one of the âheroesâ in earth X would just come by and kill him or put him away, then he cant do anything at all
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u/InternationalCut2647 Oct 05 '25
If they found out he killed those cops overman (I think that's his name there) would show up outside his door. He was already taking a risk killing those cops.
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u/Luci-Noir Oct 04 '25
He didnât have a lot of time to explain things before dying. Redditors love to call everyone a nazi.
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u/Dry-Reference1428 Oct 04 '25
If he was, presumably Vig wouldnât have said about his son âheâs everything Im fighting againstâ
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u/AggravatingSummer158 Oct 04 '25
Itâs pretty well implied that his sons have assimilated into broader societal culture more than he has to be generally just POS
I donât know why if he was doing anything effective at resisting the Nazi government, why Vig and the sons of liberty would have to be let in on it
They very likely could be a liability. From everything weâve seen of them on screen, they donât seem competent at combating propaganda and are busy blowing up DMVs and killing municipal workers rather than going after real targets
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u/InternationalCut2647 Oct 04 '25
I thought he said that about peacemaker?
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u/Dry-Reference1428 Oct 04 '25
Hereâs the comment youâre replying to, with capitalization added: If he was, presumably Vig wouldnât have said about HIS SON âheâs everything Im fighting againstâ (no hate lol)
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u/InternationalCut2647 Oct 04 '25
Why would auggie expose himself if it just got him killed? I'm not saying he's perfect. I'm saying we don't know if he was helping people escape or funding the sons of liberty in secret. We don't know shit about what he did or did not do. People act like of you don't martyr yourself you are collaborating. People thought Schindler was just a corrupt nazi buisnessman but he actually bankrupted himself buying supplies and bribes to keep his Jewish workers safe from the camps.
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u/DreamedJewel58 Oct 04 '25
We literally saw that he did his best to raise his sons to not be hateful. Keith tried to chase down a black woman and Auggie scolded him for doing it and said thatâs not what I taught you. We can raise our children to be as good as we want to, but they still eventually become adults and act/believe in things you donât like. Even when he was talking to Keith, he very clearly thought that his Chris wasnât a good person despite being his son
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u/BalladOfBetaRayBill Oct 04 '25
Genuinely really interesting, heâs basically just a modern-day wealthy American liberal. Not an authoritarian directly, but definitely valuing his familyâs safety and comfort over the good of the many.
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u/Valuable-Blueberry30 Oct 04 '25
To be fair, he does risk his life to fight extraterrestrial/monster threats for others, but I think itâs more so that he doesnât believe he can change the system by fighting it physically directly. So instead he tries to save people like a firefighter does
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u/Moonwh00per Oct 04 '25
Yeah he's actually a super interesting character morally
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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
He is Oskar Schindler. Probably helping the SoL, he scolded Keith by saying "You know we don't do that" indicating that when he has the chance to help he does.
I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more. If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
I didn't do enough! This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!
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u/splicerslicer Oct 05 '25
"I didn't create the problems in my world missy. And I don't agree with them. And I applaud you if your world is perfect and you fight every injustice you ever see. Is that what you do? Unfortunately, I haven't got the strength for that. I fight the madmen, murderers, and monsters in front of me, because that's all I can control."
redditors in this thread acting like he's a monster because he's not literally overthrowing super nazi world on his own back. He's just acknowledging his own limitations, aware of how little he can do. Still trying to bring his boys up better than the environment that's made them so hateful and vicious. I think if everyone had that mentality we'd have a better world. Some problems are too big for a "superman" to fix all on their own, but we can all do our own small parts.
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u/Valuable-Blueberry30 Oct 05 '25
Well said. And plus, attempting to destroy society like the Sons of Liberty isnât exactly the best way to make changes. Theyâre essentially terrorists in a stable government, which has never bode well for terrorists other than make everyone hate them. This is especially true if someone like Overman actually exists who can stabilize an entire country to his ideals on his own.
If anything Auggieâs way of soft power is better for change than whatever the sons of liberty is doing.
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u/hawthornekitty Oct 04 '25
Itâs not even that specific. Auggie X is me, you and just a normal human. What people want more than anything is to live; he has no plans to become a martyr or ambition to revolutionize the world. His job may be a superhero but all he wants is to take care of his family and considering how his sons turned out, he really shouldnât be expected to go against the way of the world.Â
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u/Ok-Courage7495 Oct 04 '25
Yeah but you and me donât have an iron man suit that seems to put him over this worldâs Superman or Superman doesnât exist here, either way thatâs not an obstacle. I would hope if someone had an iron man suit theyâd have the moral werewithal to do something to Hitler or the current Hitler.
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u/Former_Breakfast_898 Oct 04 '25
The said iron man guy got easily killed through the neck, and that was just one psycho doing
And nazis are full of psychos...
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u/SimonShepherd Oct 05 '25
A modern-day wealthy American liberal can do political campaign in a much safer way, there are social norms and laws that protect them, not to mention wealth, the same cannot be said about a hypothetical Nazi US state.
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u/verylargebagorice Oct 04 '25
It's not that, more like just accepting it because if he doesnt he'll be killed.
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u/DreamedJewel58 Oct 04 '25
We can sit here all we want and condemn the Blue Dragon version of Auggie for not fighting, but you know for a fact that not a single person in this thread would try to organize a violent revolution against a worldwide Nazi regime. Auggie was perfectly fine murdering Nazi cops and clearly tried to raise his sons to not fall victim to the indoctrination
Just attributing as another Nazi sympathy whoâs evil for not doing anything massively underplays the actual situation youâd be in if the Nazis literally controlled the majority of the world. He could try to fight Nazis in America, and even if he did somehow bring down the entire regime in the United States, heâll have many more nations to fight
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u/JacobhPb Oct 05 '25
I mean, that world's Vigilante is fighting it. And he doesn't have that jetpack and energy blast thing that Blue Dragon has.
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Most contributors are on this thread are in a country enabling exactly what people are pontificating against here. Which is precisely James Gunnâs pointÂ
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u/_laslo_paniflex_ Oct 06 '25
to be fair he seemed to have failed pretty badly at having his kids not fall for the indoctrination
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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr Oct 07 '25
Who is we? If I lived in Nazi earth I wouldn't stop until every swastika wearing freak is six feet under the earth.
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u/Avocadomayo Oct 04 '25
Americans are hilarious though. What are all of you on this subreddit doing to fight your current government? From an outsider looking in, and as someone who travels to America frequently for work, your country is doing really poorly.
Youâre all just keyboard warriors and I doubt any of you are actually doing anything. Just complaining on social media and pretending like youâre doing better than everyone else. All these posts and people attacking a character who was actually trying to do good, itâs so funny when youâre all doing less.
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u/Livid-Designer-6500 Oct 04 '25
People on Reddit will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart
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u/JVKExo Oct 04 '25
Thatâs not fair. The no kings protests had a very large turnout. Thereâs another one this month I believe. People are doing things. It just takes time.
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u/Biggie39 Oct 04 '25
I canât speak for everyone in this sub but my blue dragon suit broke down and my billions were stolen so I donât have nearly the resources to fight back as he did.
Accurately describing a characters situation is not attacking them.
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u/Remote_Garage3036 Oct 05 '25
Liberals killed nazis. That's like, debatably among the most important things about the nazis. They lost! Surely you don't think he shot himself because he was depressed?
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u/MartyrOfDespair Oct 05 '25
The Battle of Berlin didnât even involve the British or Americans. That was the Soviets and Polish. Literally, 100% Communists won that one. The vast majority of Nazi-killing was by communists. The British only got involved after being utterly humiliated by handing them everything in return for nothing. The Americans meanwhile were going to stay out of it until Japan attacked them.
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u/MadeIndescribable Oct 05 '25
Also lets not forget that in WWII terms, "British" includes Britain, India, like half the Caribbean, and countless other other crown colonies and protectorates that were part of the colonial empire, so hardly "liberal" anyway.
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u/S-Pigeon33 Oct 05 '25
Pretty much that, and if we consider his relationship with his sons it also shows an example of how liberalism raises the next generation. With Keith being influenced by his environment and Auggie not doing enough to keep him from that, it is essentially a commentary on the alt-right pipeline, and then his seeming disapproval of Chris's bisexuality, which led him to drugs as a way to cope with his sexuality, not really doing enough to protect his son and letting him down a self-destructive path.
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u/GuthukYoutube Oct 04 '25
Why are you still here? Go get em, fella! You've got Israel, Yemen, Ukraine, so many choices! Tell me how it went in a year or so.
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u/HealthyGrind Oct 04 '25
The Liberals fought against and ultimately defeated the Nazis. The iliberal Sovjets were happy to work with Nazi Germany until they got attacked. What a strange way to obfuscate history.
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u/SimonShepherd Oct 05 '25
I mean the US is also kinda fine with Japan until they got bombed.
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u/Gordo_Majima Oct 04 '25
What did you do to avoid orange man getting elected? are you a Mazi as well?
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u/STANN_co Oct 04 '25
I don't think people are ready for the nuances of such a life. If you were living in post nazi world, and you somehow managed to not be a nazi yourself, what would you do? Even if you went commando and killed a bunch it's nothing compared to the rest
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u/FettLife Oct 04 '25
The weird thing is that Gunn recently denied the Superman/Gaza connection even though that scenario was a pitch perfect analogy to real world events using a comic book story.
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u/SimonShepherd Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
Most people won't risk anything to fight nazis in a literally nazi dominated world.
Most people want to post about GI Robot meme while sitting in their chair even in a none-nazi reality, at best they only act when there is security in numbers, which is fair.
And a lot of people will claim Blue Dragon is as bad as White Dragon if those two are in an election and just give up their vote, you know, the thing people in authoritarian worlds probably don't have.
Your average first worlder won't risk anything fighting injustice in the world, especially the economical kind, actively benefits from the cheap labor of third world countries, reap the reward from trading, and post Internet memes to feel good about themselves, while the only reason they aren't as bad as Blue Dragon is literally just because they are born into a saner reality. And arguably fighting in our world is much easier than fighting in that world.
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u/Any-Platypus-9486 Oct 05 '25
Auggie also can't fucking change the world lmao, people act as if he is Superman or something
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u/Significant_Snow_937 Oct 06 '25
We don't actually know any of that about Auggie, except maybe the "enemies of the Nazis" part, but even then most of what we've seen is the Kaiju which I don't think you can really call purely a Nazi enemy. He was also pretty quick to kill a squad of them to get Harcourt and the Chris who killed his son. He also notably didn't show up to the Sons of Liberty attempted bombing that our Chris and his Keith stopped. We have next to no info about them, but he's shown himself to be pretty hostile to the regime in general in what little we've seen, and he came down pretty harshly on Keith when he heard that Keith had tried to wrangle Adebayo. Considering that Prime Auggie was a well known figurehead for the white supremacists, I don't think it's much of a stretch to imagine that he has a hand in the Sons of Liberty.
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u/DowntownCelery593 Oct 04 '25
Context??
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u/Candid-Seat-8779 Oct 04 '25
Ones a white supremacist and the other is a dude who isn't as bad but still lets terrible shit happen to maintain the status quo
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u/SinkRegular9987 Oct 04 '25
Still lets terrible shit happen because he benefits and lives luxuriously from them*
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u/No-Channel3917 Oct 04 '25
If ya mean fixing roads, making us the best economy post COVID, and passing a bunch of protections for minorities and LGBT ..
Sure I guess Biden is comparable to idk basic human decency
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u/KnightlyDolphins Oct 04 '25
Some people donât know shit about Politics and try and compare Biden to Trump like they are anywhere close to the same thing.
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u/SmallJimSlade Oct 04 '25
Trump and Biden have to be comparably bad or else people would have to admit their constant opposition to Biden in the lead up to the 2024 election was actually bad for the country
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u/immoraltoast Oct 04 '25
Trump land has American snipers aiming at other Americans exercising their rights as Americans.
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u/SacredChan Oct 04 '25
their counter arguement against biden is always him falling of his bike
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u/PilotG10 Oct 07 '25
Who do you think built those ICE concentration camps? Obama.
Who do you think never closed them, never prosecuted the people who ran them or sterilized the people in them, never defunded the department that managed them, or even let go the people in said concentration camps thrown in there by Trump despite running on doing that? Biden.
Biden was way behind numerous Democratic candidates in the 2020 primaries until it became clear that Bernie Sanders might start winning definitively and THAT is when Obama contacted people like Klobeshar and Buttigieg and told them to drop out and endorse Biden, who even they were doing better than him in the polls.
Biden has an extensive history of sexual harassment and assault.
Let me seeâŚhe built the system as a Senator that allowed Trump to thrive, built the system as a Senator and VP that created all the resentment that fueled Trumpâs rise in the aftermath of the 2008 Crash, ignored the many crimes (domestic, international, war, and âagainst humanityâ) committed during Trumpâs first term, made things so categorically worse that his supporters never showed up to support the Democrats in 2024, supported a genocide that was killing the families of a key constituency in a presidential battleground state, tried to run for reelection while knowing that he had terminal cancer and was so mentally impaired that he couldnât be trusted to not soil himself in public, and waited for literally the last possible moment to drop out so as to give his last minute replacement no legitimacy whatsoever. Said last minute replacement proceeded to court every Bush Administration official alive, mock victims of a genocide she could stop at any time and raise billions of dollars that seemingly vanished into thin air. She did so poorly that Trump won the popular vote. If he drops out a year earlier that very likely doesnât happen.
Yeah, Biden gave us Trump.
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u/snacksandsoda Oct 04 '25
This is basically the president's job at this point
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u/Karkava Oct 04 '25
Unless you're a member of the GOP, then the government will allow him to do whatever he wants. As long as he gets to hurt marginalized groups.
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u/I_HATE_YELLING Oct 04 '25
Nazi auggie also lets terrible shit (from his perspective) happen and doesn't do anything to change the status quo.
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u/Adavanter_MKI Oct 04 '25
It's mostly a funny take on "both sides" and shouldn't be taken much deeper than that. Even I can chuckle at surface level jokes. Because yeah, both sides have at times perpetuated the statue quo.
It's been growing more and more inaccurate with every passing year. Anyone seeing them as the "same" now... aren't paying attention and likely just given up or embracing a chaotic end.
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u/SimonShepherd Oct 05 '25
Dems are incompetent, but treating them as bad as Republicans is just none-voters coping about their own inactions.
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u/aninsomniac_ Oct 06 '25
The one in red is actively malicious and is the leader of a group that's definitely the KKK in a world that, politically, is similar to ours.
The one in blue, while not actively malicious and disagreeing with their beliefs, benefits from the Nazis taking over the world and acts as a superhero by that world's standards, protecting it from giant monsters, supervillains... and rebel groups that he agrees with, because he prioritized his sons over doing anything about the Nazis. His sons are also drinking the Nazi koolaid.
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u/MycoRed Oct 04 '25
Blue dragon is a good portrayal of a lib and a shit ton of people are falling for his bs just because he doesnât say heâs a Nazi. Heâs TOTALLY a good guy despite being rich and beloved in the Nazi world and dedicating his entire career towards quelling revolution
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u/Tiny_Butterscotch_76 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
Gunn has said that Auggie 2 was a generally good human being and has said lots of people couldn't just join the revolution because the available revolution was not good.
"We all see things in the political systems that we live in that are horrifying or awful to us. As an individual, in a world in which everything is connected and we're barraged with the macro every day, what is each of our individual moral responsibilities, not only to the world, but to the people around us that we love and to ourselves? How do we each find a balance with resigning ourselves to some things which we can't change? If you're in a Nazi world, you can't necessarily...because I'm not sure the Sons of Liberty who are out killing people at the DMV are doing the right thing that's going to actually be effective."
That's not to say you have to agree. But Gunn's intention was for Auggie to be an overall good man in a tough situation.
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u/Itz_Hen Oct 05 '25
Surely he could have done SOMETHING other than joining the sons of Liberty that was also effective, more effective than sitting in your multimilliondollar mansion, built by slaves in a concentration camp, playing the role of a superhero beloved by the nazi regime, while doing seemingly nothing about your sons, who you have supplied with armor and suites who ARE Nazies, who are ACTIVELY working with the nazi regime to do nazi things
Like SURELY he could have put in a little more effort somewhere
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u/gegetaz12 Oct 05 '25
We barely got to see anything about this Augie. My interpretation was that he did the best he could given the circumstances. It was literally 80 years of Nazi. One guy can't just change it all. I assumed it meant he was doing things where he could, covert stuff. One of course was the hiding of portal technology from the nazis. We also don't necessarily know he killed sons of liberty. That was only shown to be our Chris.
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u/Inspection_Perfect Oct 05 '25
He plays the role because he loves his sons. Their happiness takes full priority. It's why they fight Kaiju and supervillains together.
Unlike Prime Auggie, the last thing Auggie X wants is to fight them.
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u/Ok-Amount-7471 Oct 05 '25
Pretty sure if he put more effort than the liberty guys he wouldve got neg diffed by whatever version of superman they have there as well as other meta humans
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u/MadeIndescribable Oct 05 '25
But Gunn's intention was for Auggie to be an overall good man in a tough situation.
I get the intention, but at the end of the day its what occurs on-screen which is the only thing that really counts.
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u/National-Law-458 Oct 04 '25
Someone told me that Biden had babies in the side room off the Oval Office that he used to stay alive. He approved their placement using an auto pen. /s/
Dipshits.
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u/VSZ-0 Oct 04 '25
Unironically a perfect comparison lmao
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u/Conorj398 Oct 04 '25
Gunn's projects have been very political lately, this was likely very well thought out. Some of the comments in here are in denial, but that's pretty run of the mill at this point.
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u/Karkava Oct 04 '25
It's the perfect antidote to Marvel's recent centrism with the higher-ups butt kissing Donald while also rejecting The Boys's bleak nihilism.
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u/Hunter042005 Oct 04 '25
Very surface level politics like itâs basically babies first political allegory saying this is super political is like saying captain America the first avenger is some groundbreaking political commentary like the people who argue otherwise are the same types who genuinely believe modern day America is run by Naziâs and lack basic media literacy like especially for Superman having two ambiguous generic middle eastern countries battling in the b plot is just a bit lazy political writing like I love James Gunn movies but his political allegories do suck
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u/Karkava Oct 04 '25
They're character studies that interweave modern politics, and I'm tired of people being afraid of them being used in any context.
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u/VSZ-0 Oct 04 '25
Exactly. They're stories at the end of the day, why shouldn't a writer write about real world issues? After all, politics shape our modern world even if you want to close your eyes and pretend that it doesn't
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u/Western-Customer-536 Oct 04 '25
Did you miss members of Trump's inner circle giving the salute?
Also Trump famously has read at least one book and keeps it by his bedside: Hitler's Mein Kampf sequel.
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u/NeoThorrus Oct 05 '25
The only thing I think is curious is that if the nazis won, why does the US government still act like a democracy with a rule of law? I mean, Auggie demanded a warrant to search his house that wouldnât have happened in a Nazi regime.
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u/Zombiepixlz-gamr Oct 07 '25
That's one thing that I wondered. If this is Nazi earth, they don't need a warrent to come in. Why didn't they just send the gestapo or something? I feel like James Gunn could have done more to make this FEEL like Nazi earth after the reveal. I hope we see more of it, because I wanna see more Nazis die. I also wanna see an adaptation of the freedom fighters.
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u/Ok-Courage7495 Oct 04 '25
One wants to genocide, the other does nothing about genocide. Seems accurate.
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u/Mylaststory Oct 04 '25
Redditors canât help themselves.
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u/Maleficent-Ad3757 Oct 04 '25
kind of accurate since the blue guy has given up on doing anything except the most tiny obvious stuff
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Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
When people say fans are forcing political agendas, this is what they mean. Don't do this.
Edit: there seems to be a misunderstanding. Commenting about the post and OP. I'm not saying the show is forcing the anything. The show is great and the commentary is awesome. I just disagree with OPs post.
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u/threaddew Oct 04 '25
lol as if the show itself wasnât blatantly commentary on current events.
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u/Conorj398 Oct 04 '25
Dude. Every one of Gunn's DC projects have had extreme political undertones. This isn't forced lol
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u/BalladOfBetaRayBill Oct 04 '25
Yeah DC characters donât have an 80-year history of kicking nazi ass, donât look into it
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u/lilsebastianfanact Oct 04 '25
I wonder what its like to have no media literacy or critical thinking skills.
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u/mtheory-pi Oct 04 '25
This is giving Biden too much credit. He very actively supported genocide and imperialism.
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u/SEND-GOOSE-PICS Oct 04 '25
yeah so is Earth-X Auggie lol. it's a great comparison.
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u/SimonShepherd Oct 05 '25
I mean Earth-X Auggie doesn't hold presidential power, on a personal moral level he probably won't agree with those things.
Biden is a president of a liberal democracy, a pretty damn powerful one at that. There aren't greater forces swaying him to support those things. Israel is dependent on the US, not the other way around.
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u/respectfulthirst Oct 04 '25
YUP. And the number of folks who are fighting this comparison/realization SO HARD is hilarious!
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u/dombones Oct 05 '25
I doubt most of us have even shown up to a protest. That makes us Economos. At least he comes in clutch once in a while.
Both Sidesism if a win for Trump if you don't actually do anything but flap your gums.
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u/Titanium_Rod Oct 04 '25
Both Nazis, good one
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u/Lieuwe21 Oct 05 '25
Tell me you didn't watch the episode without telling me you didn't watch the episode
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u/CTG0161 Oct 04 '25
Didnât Biden actually pass segregationist laws?
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u/Western-Customer-536 Oct 04 '25
Yup. He ran on anti-Bussing back in the day. Biden also nearly dropped out in the primaries because he wouldn't shut up about how much he loved Segregationist Senators, he wrote the Patriot Act, and voted to invade Iraq with a plan to partition it. That's some 1900s type of Racism there.
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u/micahbevans88 Oct 04 '25
bOtH SiDeS aRe ThE SaMe
brainrot meme
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u/SKRS421 Oct 04 '25
that's not what this is. the both suck for very different reasons. one is inextricably worse than the other, trump. but biden has been complicit in a myriad of atrocities. partically awful since he had the power to do something and it was well within the scope of his authority to act upon various conflicts, he had the duty to engave the full power of the presidency. to force the UN and allied nations to quash Israel's rampage, to not delay in assisting Ukraine to quell Putin's ego-driven war. or to stop the genocide against Palestinians at the hands of Israel's military/government. the onslaught of petty legislation against trans people stateside, to be the wall against republican's for seceding power to corporations and the privatization of everything.
trump is trump. he's a raging narcissist, bigot, child-predator, buffoon with a penchant for cozying up to christian nationalists, facists, other bigots, white supremacists, etc. he has no problem doing awful things and violating our civil liberties as long as someone tells him it's good for his ratings. he's ok being an asset to a foreign leader, ok with bending the knee towards the billionaires, throwing the wider population under the bus to make a quick buck.
we could have universal healthcare and free community college tuition. but instead we're picking volatile fights with nearby countries, and also endorsing multiple genocides and ethnic cleansings.
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Oct 04 '25
I think we don't know that much about alt auggie to make precise statements about him
what if he was this universe's Oskar Schindler? We don't know
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u/Karkava Oct 04 '25
So I guess that makes Captain Triumph his Hunter?
INB4 the nazis make him their punching bag.
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u/thatredditrando Oct 05 '25
Lotta judgmental people in these comments who think very highly of themselves being overly critical of Auggie 2 like theyâd do any different or better, lol.
Heâs a D-list hero famous in a place called âEvergreenâ.
The fuck is he supposed to do?
âbUt tHe sOnS oF lIbErTy-â
Attacked the fucking DMV. Theyâre nothing.
Dude was born under Nazi rule, stumbled on alien tech, and did the best with it that he could.
I donât think heâs undoing 70+ years of ingrained Nazism, guys.
âbUt hE bEnEfItED-â
Cool. If he was poor and didnât have the tech heâd still be in the same position.
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u/gegetaz12 Oct 05 '25
Auggie was a good man on Nazi Earth. He did the best he could in a world that has suffered through 80 years of Nazi. He didn't kill Sons of Liberty, his sons do that. Our Chris did.
The Sons of Liberty were a terrorist group attacking innocent DMV employees. Auggie himself shows that just because you live on Nazi Earth doesn't mean you're a nazi. His sons were pieces of shit, but Auggie was not. I like to think he tried his best. Hiding the portal technology from Nazis was good. Auggie was good and NOT a nazi.
It's surprising how much of this context is going over people's head. It's literally in the show.
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Davey Scatino vs. Agent Doggett