Found this on a reddit-logo post about Superman: Red Son. Clicked on the person’s profile to see more and surprise surprise their account is suspended.
The replies have some interesting takes too.

In particular you see it in Red Son Superman’s approach to justice and punishment, how he values a person’s utility to society far more than their free-will or personal beliefs. Arguably mind control is better than capital punishment and forced labor as practiced by stalin before him, but it still comes from the same desire to beat people into obedience as though they are misbehaved dogs.

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  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    conditioned against reason

    I saw a summary of Red Son by some anti communist, and I don’t get it… the USSR is portrayed as evil but the US literally starts TWO wars with the USSR for no reason. Communist Superman literally fights against realistic, material threats that threaten his countrymen, and frankly, the world (to the extent that the US military literally has superpowers), whereas normal Superman media is just him fighting intergalactic alien armies that decide to take over earth which causes everyone to stop giving a shit about anything else - shit that don’t matter at all outside of cartoons.

    Also Bruce Wayne being some poor, starving gulag prisoner is extremely funny. It’s the equivalent of making fan fiction where Bezos is a hobo