[smsm42]

Trading a set of small villains which sometimes get (insufficiently) punished for one super-powerful supervillain which never gets punished for anything doesn't look like a good deal to me. Yes, Darth Vader used to choke his underlings who misbehaved, it doesn't exactly make him a good guy.

[jmyeet]

The "set of small villains" is in fact basically every CEO and major shareholder. Corporate power is almost completely unchecked and both parties are completely owned by these corporations.

$1000 insulin only exists because the government has been bought and paid for to create a legal monopoly. This is state violence against people who need life-saving medication.

[mrguyorama]

We still haven't sent either Trump or Clinton (either) to jail. How do we not already have the supervillain system? Some of Trump's admin genuinely believe that the president should be above the law, and other's in the republican party agree

[smsm42]

"Boo outgroup" partisan fluff aside, nobody actually genuinely believes that. And the powers of US president, while great, are nowhere near the dictatorial powers of Chinese Communist Party and its General Secretary. It doesn't mean US federal government isn't grotesquely overpowered (it is) or partisans don't abuse legal and regulatory system for partisan purposes (they regularly and routinely do) - but it's not nearly close to the system China has where anybody who crosses the Party will be murdered or imprisoned or pushed outside of the country without any recourse. We do have some elements of these system, but on that road, we are still way behind China - and maybe we have time to turn back, if we wanted to.