r/Invincible • u/mwthecool Omni-Mod • Mar 28 '24

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E07 - I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE EPISODE DISCUSSION

Episode 7 - I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE

As Mark attempts to salvage his personal life, a new villain arrives, presenting Invincible with his greatest challenge yet. Donald grapples with his past.

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u/igncom1 Mar 28 '24

Yeah we just have to become vassals to an empire that considers us little better then pets or cattle!

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u/Joeybfast Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Have you see what corporations are fighting to dump in our waterways. We are treated worst than that now.

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u/KorianHUN Mar 28 '24

That is a common sentiment for revolutionaries who are the most gullible martyrs of all.
If you trade one shitty situation for another you end up just as bad or worse. People thought the Czar was bad, they got Stalin mass killing them, starting with his best revolutionaries.

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u/Sockenolm Mar 28 '24

I agree with you in principle, but in this purely hypothetical and sadly fictional case where an alien species has the technology to fix all our problems from climate change over global inequality to cures for cancer, Alzheimer etc. I don't think past communist-in-name-only revolutions are a fair comparison.

We are currently headed for extinction, we'll take a large part of the biosphere with us, and there doesn't appear to be any realistic way of escaping the clutches of the fossil fuel industries at the global level and averting this disaster. Make that "mitigating". The "averting" ship has long sailed anyway seeing how many self-sustaining feedback loops we've already set in motion. Meaning in our reality, Invincible's and humanity's choice would be between extinction and survival. It really is that simple once the arctic is not only melting but on fire. A very different situation from the choice between a bloody revolution that only installs a different totalitarian leader versus slow change via democratic elections. We can't afford to act slow anymore with regard to climate change.