Thread by @JuliusGoat

Ted Cruz apparently thinks the out-of-touch liberal entertainment industry identifies with .... the villains of the stories they tell?

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1356378635779911680

I mean it's such a common thing with real-life right wingers to identify with the villain—from Old Man Potter to pre-epiphany Scrooge to Nathan Jessup to Gordon Gecko etc—that I guess at this point Cruz just takes it as a given that of course we're meant to identify with Thanos.

Anyway, pretty rich talk coming from a guy who has, along with his party, been actively working to use a pandemic to generate a mass kill-off of vulnerable American citizens, and blockading any effort to provide any sort of prevention, alleviation, or relief.

I would be FASCINATED to hear Ted Cruz's takeaways on the politics of Watchmen in particular.

A story of an evil environmentalist who kills a bunch of heroic police officers just before they were about to restore Tulsa to its past glory I presume.

For Republicans and (all too many) Democrats that accept Republican framing, the problem "our economy will destroy our ecology, resulting in massive shortages for humans" is a problem solved not by changing the economy, but by getting rid of humans.

https://twitter.com/MistyGComics/status/1356572708058902530?s=20

Anyone who finds Thanos sympathetic is somebody who would solve the problem of "too many mouths to feed" by killing half the people rather than increasing the amount of food, even if given limitless power.

Which is what Ted Cruz is.

Cruz is the sort who would use a time machine to go back and invest in Zyklon B.