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Benjamin Sapiens
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I don't feel like any of these are flaws at all.

Also, I'm pretty sure the current Robin is Bruce's son.

Even Kasich is a wingnut nightmare.

No, no, no, see, Jews are cool with God 'cause they're His Chosen People.

They love to use his "judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin" line to support their demand that everyone needs to be "colorblind" and that they "don't see race" and that anyone who speaks out against racism is the REAL racist because racism doesn't exist anymore and anyone who says

That's kind of ironic, since the very idea of the Holocaust was heavily inspired by the United States' sustained, systematic efforts to utterly destroy Native American civilization and, in many cases, to exterminate all members of that race.

The idea that the US-backed 2009 coup in Honduras was some kind of Allende-Pinochet crime against humanity is a little inaccurate.

"a key tenet of political realism is that the existing political system always - ESPECIALLY in authoritarian cases like the USSR - makes its leaders, not the other way around"

"We don't experience lens flare in real life, after all."

"Music in most Catholic parishes is more "On Eagles' Wings" (look it up) than "Miserere.""

With Judaism and (non-Mormon) Christianity, you can (if you're willing to be liberal and non-fundamentalist) pass a lot of the weirder, nonsensical stuff off as being not literally true.

"But there's something in me that balks from the sneering condescension directed at these movies. Like, I don't have to watch them."

The American Communist Party was the only party to take a stand against lynching in the early 20th century.

I've never even heard of brown mustard. What is that, like, fancy mustard?

"jingoism: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy"

That one was evil to a greater degree and on a greater scale than the other doesn't negate the fact that both were thoroughly and irredeemably evil.

"jingoism isn't a bad thing."

"Communism was and is a murderously evil ideology."

He also expressed a luddite disdain for and fear of technology and what it would do/was currently doing to society. Specifically, he called out the internet as a threat to, y'know, human creativity and whatever - that particular strip was basically the forerunner to all those uninspired cartoons bemoaning the terrible