'count during the Reconstruction?'?
I think putting it like that is okay, but if someone who has studied it would like to weigh in?
Absolutely. 100%.
A very subdued reaction, but he does have a hell of a poker face. I bet to empathic vision, he'd be lit up red and golden yellow, with a hint of jealous orange, all under a veneer of absolute self-control.
A good question. Let's hope Batman doesn't ask you about it if Lex makes any minor adjustments to his policies.
Ah, like most people, from the sound of it. Cat Grant also seemed to only have the basic summary of it.
And if Lex does take any action because of it, at least OL will know he's taking advantage of that insider information.
To wit: "I'm not supposed to talk about the Justice League taking over the world' being the exact wording. But given Lex's own assumptions, it's an easy interpretation.
The problem is that most of them are not lawyers, and thus really proficient in understanding any double-speak in the text. I wonder if Icon has seen this, and what he'd make of it, alien perspective or not. Isn't his civilian identity a lawyer, after all?
At how easy it seems to have been to convince Humanity to hand over their sovereignty?
And from the sound of it, even most of the League doesn't fully realise what whoever wrote this has managed to do.
Ah, no opportunity to leverage votes via public opinion, eh? Or more under-the-table methods...
As listed here, for example, as just one options set... Fortunately, they generally write enough checks and balances into this sort of thing to prevent abuse, I would hope?
Different country, of course. OL might have learned more about the English Civil Wars than he would have the American one.
And then someone seems to have added more than a few edits once people stopped looking closely at it, it appears.
Not nearly enough understanding of human nature, certainly. Though i half suspect if he really tried to understand humans, it'd make him a little upset or annoyed at our illogicality...
Not least because you made him this way. At least on the 'exposed to severe fear and given a fear-based Power Ring.'
Person's gotta 'eat', so to speak.
Supreme poker face. He's not the sort to start getting angry or panicking over something like this... Yet.
Besides, Lex can do his ranting and raving in the relative privacy of the Light's meeting rooms.
I suspect the faint glowing thing would have clued him in, unless Bats keeps it to a very low burn.
Just as he was starting to heal, too. Good work, OL.
Pity we didn't get to see more of that suit. Would bring back some nice memories of Batman '66 and the Neal Adams era. Or the modern 'Brave and the Bold' cartoon that homaged so much of it.
Probably be easier to get the League to recognise the matter after the fact and have them dismantle it themselves.
To be fair, if he's always disappointed, then his mood can't sink any lower.
And confronting batman is still a little beyond his willingness to poke his nose in.
And it can let Lex try and nudge OL away from the League and perhaps lead him into the light... I mean, there's not much chance of it, but if it makes him feel clever...
He's not exactly all that close to others that have expert knowledge on politics and sociology.
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There's always Georgia Sivanna.
That's not much better.
He is not that close to Luthor either.
I don't think that's modern politics..?
Satanus replaced Klarion. He was jailed prior to the antilife broadcast while Mammon was granted official dominion over hell by the angels. Mammon may still be masquerading as Satanus.
Brain, Luthor, Savage, possibly the white Martian K-(?), Satanus… No one else is coming to mind for Paragon. Truggs used to work with them, but he is working with Circe now, he was involved in that Demon Superman world stuff in addition to Anarky's mysterious superhuman forcefield guy. Assuming I sussed out correctly he was a Dial metahuman.
All signs point to this literally just being the standard paranoid spiral you get when you mess with Batman's mind.
I think Mammon is openly ruling Hell. Satanus is no longer a member of the Light (at least practically, don't know about officially) because he lost his magic power to an Omega beam and he's in prison.
I thought we clarified that you can't own Supergirls back when chipper Kara arrived?
That's... really anti-complementary. Like grievously so, I think.
I don't remember this individual showing up, when did that happen?
Ah, a talk with one of the few people OL respects unequivocally. Certainly respects him enough to be taking more of a 'What Would Superman Do?' tack to his planning, anyway. And hopefully he'll provide a voice of reasonable consideration for OL's concerns.
I get the feeling there's been discussion amongst the League that's been less than pleasant, by that reaction. Or maybe it's just because OL felt the need to go to Lex about this of all people...
And no, Clark himself doesn't count. And honestly, he's only talked to one reporter about this, and didn't use any names then.
Hey, you did ask him to tell you...
Good, he finally told one of the people most affected by it about his issues with it. A good start!
At least, not without spending billions of dollars and years of bureaucratic red tape that OL has cut through, as he noted...
Which is kind of hard with a people still recovering from months of weaponised depression and five minutes of magic therapy to remove it. Unfortunately, the world can't wait for the general public to get their heads on straight.
OL, this is not a fight, verbal or otherwise. Stop being so hostile to one of the nicest superheroes on Earth.
Even if you think you have good reason to be angry, that's no reason to take it out on him.An apt analogy, but the problem is, the people being given the reins aren't inclined to act in their own interests. They're generally not the sort of person to want to rule the world, no matter how much easier it would make some things.
...All right, so presumably it's all legal and above board. But do they really understand the implications?
...Mister Atom does understand humans need to consistently consume food, just like he needs nuclear materials?
I think Lex has enough on his plate with his own work (and the Light shenanigans.) Though I can just imagine the metaphorical soul-orgasm he has if the League said 'You wanted it? Go ahead, see how well you do.' ...It rather resembles Daffy Duck celebrating like he just got rich.
Or preferably multiple someones who can work in shifts and can agree on policies...
...I have to say that's a lot of trust, but Supes does do that with most people.
As long as he can keep any destructive impulses under control... Is it so bad to give him a shot?
Huh. That would be interesting, especially given that he'd have to commute from his world.
That depends on how well it handles someone who believes they are telling the truth as they believe it. And I'm pretty sure it's had trouble with that before.
...Then maybe you should make it a standard check. Though that still has a single point of failure. If Diana isn't available to employ the Lasso....
That just makes it worse. If none of you can handle the job... How badly could it get fouled up?
As people have been suggesting, perhaps...
It's more a case of being paranoid enough to expect that he will. Made worse by the fact that Batman is also paranoid enough to plan for that...
If nothing else, Batman does have a family to knock some sense into his Ring-shielded head. On any or all of those points.
No-one wants another Nabu incident, certainly.
If only to have some inkling of the next disaster he might be bringing them...
Ak-Var... That would be the Phantom Zone parolee? Good to see him adapting to life on a new world at least.
...That's something you really should be looking into, OL.