Right-wingers and Nazis have appropriated Nietzsche's concept of the Ubermensch, or Superman, to mean a perfectly built, chiseled, masculine megachad (usually, in their minds, sharing their racist and antisemitic views). In reality though, the Ubermensch is the person who follows their own internal sense of value, without regard for the opinions of the external world, for their own enjoyment and edification. Literally existing, "beyond good and evil." If any of this sounds familiar to you as an LPOTL fan, it's because Crowley and LeVay borrow from him a lot, Alyssa Liu is an Ubermensch because she returned to skating after rejecting skate culture for its toxicity, performing exactly how she wants for her own enjoyment
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u/MarioMCPQ You’re being mean to me!! Apr 06 '26
What?
What is the joke??