imagine if you were born with the
ability to fly morph your body or reel
yourself that'd be pretty amazing right
you have natural abilities that no
normal human has in fact you actually
aren't a human you my friend are a
mutant in the x-men comics and movies
this is seen as a negative thing if you
are a mutant you are generally hated by
pretty much everyone on earth you and
your kind are freaks Outsiders people
treat you as if you're a monster
a main theme in the x-men comics is how
being perceived as different makes the
lives of mutants dangerous the conflicts
that erupt especially in the movies are
between two factions the Brotherhood of
mutants led by Magneto who presses for a
Munich domination over mankind and the
x-men led by Charles Xavier who want to
work for peaceful cooperation with
humans instead x-men is a pretty
transparent allegory to the civil rights
movement and the ideological difference
between Malcolm X and MLK and how to
achieve equality in relation to white
America their dynamic is what inspired
these two characters in the first place
and much of the themes of the original
x-men issues but if we're going to take
this mutant oppression seriously it
begins to fall apart when you remove the
real-world tie-ins of segregation and
the Holocaust we have a scenario where
there is a minority race of genetically
diverse and powerful people whose
abilities they're oppressed for
primarily can be used for fighting back
that's why as a thought experiment I
have a scenario what if in an alternate
timeline mutants were actually real if
they were just like they are in the
comics and movies I don't mean the
entire lore of the Marvel Universe
included with that just beings with
incredible power being born randomly
into human populations how does this
realistically affect society now wait
Cody mutants can't possibly be real how
do we know well Billy I'm saying Billy
because Jimmy's gang old this is just a
thought experiment for fun a break from
everyday life around us in this
alternate timeline mutants are real a
mutant can be born to to non-music
humans the first thing to realize is
that in this new world there's a
prominent minority of people that have
extraordinary biological
these in the comics and movies it's
explained that people have an irrational
hatred of mutants it's painted as a
level of ignorance misunderstanding
mutants when you look at it from the
allegory of the civil rights movement
yeah makes sense but in real life if
mutants did exist people have every
right to be terrified
this oppressed mutant dynamic begins to
fall apart when mutants are the ones
fighting in all of these stories cities
being destroyed not by humans but
mutants just fighting each other imagine
how many people die just from the whim
of a Munich fight 90% of mutants could
just be normal people without abilities
most of humanity is afraid of the
mutants that can destroy everything just
by fighting a drunken fist fight between
guys isn't going to destroy a block but
with mutants it just might they don't
fight using weapons they are weapons
this is because it's comics and that's
interesting but also leads me to ask the
question why are these people oppressed
Homo sapiens are smart but we gotta
admit we're fleshy week and clawless put
a human in a cage with a chimp and the
chimp will win because chimps are
stronger there are very few animals our
size we can clobber to death without
weapons which is why we have them in the
first place our knowledge to build
knives guns bombs that's our advantage
over animals in the scenario throughout
human history there are a race of people
born naturally stronger than the weapons
we craft they don't need guns they shoot
fire or ice or whatever the hell
apocalypse always does these powerful
mutants are a minority even within the
Munich community but they're a strong
one which is why in the comics mutant
scientific name is homo superior even if
90% of mutants were like gas man or just
had a weird itch you still have a
population of living weapons naturally
strong enough to take down entire
governments decide Wars crackdown on
protest in a realistic scenario society
doesn't look down on mutants they
worship them both literally and
metaphorically they're basically gods
who can attack whoever even in the
comics we have occasional stories of
mutants just conquering kingdoms by
themselves royalty leaders of Nations
the
highest class of people got to where
they are because of war in this
alternate earth those aren't humans
they're the mutants the comics made the
argument that out population meant the
mutants had to stay in hiding but we
have real world historical equivalents
that prove the large population can
still lose look at the British in India
or whites in South Africa its who has
the power not the population mutants
have the natural ability to defeat
humans beat them back easily
so civilizations throughout history
don't rise and fall because of armies
but between which munich ruler or mutant
minions is the strongest societies live
in fall based off of the power of a few
people because there's no way humans can
fight units alone especially with just
fears so humans are just stuck in the
middle of a constant munich fight look
at ancient Egypt or the Maya you see
rulers who are already regarded as
higher than man it's not shocking to
guess mutants would be seen as higher
religious figures or at least superior
ones the strongest and most powerful
mutants shape history mutants are the
highest in every society on earth
because they simply can be anyone who
opposes them humans live their lives as
a slave race of weak people who out
populate but can't do anything no Billy
don't take this as criticizing the x-men
franchise or the writers who crafted it
I understand it's simply a comic in
movies these oppression elements drive
the story this is simply a thought
experiment for fun meant in no way to
change how the franchise is I don't know
everything about Marvel's x-men so don't
kill me for it this is Cody of alternate
history of so it's November now
Halloween is over the dudes are gone and
people are already moving on to
Christmas but we don't have to why move
on in fact why not combine both presents
that are spooky Cody you're a genius
thanks Jimmy it wasn't my idea though
it's lootcrate
whose theme last month was horror Cody
you're a sellout stop it they're gonna
find out I got the DX version which is
actually a bigger crate and you get more
loot see what I did there there's a
comfy sweater with the ghost face from
the movie scream in the painting scream
darn that's clever a coffee mug based
off the walking dead and a tiny bloody
person inside because nothing wakes you
up in the morning like this face and
miniscule mutilated people the chainsaw
from Evil Dead it's not a functioning
chainsaw it's a power bank to charge
your phone but you know a statue from
the thing this pin issue of delirium
magazine and an art print of Evil Dead 2
so many things my phone actually always
dies because I forget to charge it so
this chainsaw might actually be very
useful for me so will the power bank the
deadline to get all this neat stuff is
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oh hi contract obligated bill it was
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