Didn't Alan Moore end up going off to write his own comics, with blackjack and hookers, because he never managed to reconcile the constrictions of the big publishers with his own political views?
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Yup, especially as a gay, sex scenes in movies have always been "I'm fine with straight people existing, but I don't want them rubbing my face in it" at best ... and it's rarely at best, with all the chemistry of a jar of nitrogen.
Then he gets into his Audi (everyone else is driving Audis too), and then out of his Audi, then back in his Audi, and so on. Audi.
And you missed the point of asking what Captain America did to ensure someone like Richard Nixon couldn't get elected again. Or Superman with Lex Luthor.
Of course there are other examples of progressive comics, but the mainstay superheroes aren't seen leading revolutions or improving political systems. They're working against change.
Superheroes fighting false information online would be nice. Or forcing public healthcare through government. Etc etc.
At their core, however, the classic superheroes work to maintain the status quo and support the existing power structures of when they're written.
At no point did Superman or Captain America stop American forces from invading a foreign country for example, or overthrow a medical insurance company.
The popular DC / Marvel ones certainly do
It was for government owned computers, they didn't want any pirated or virus-infected stuff, and at that point there was no way to lock down such a mish-mash of systems.
The software company (who also do things like run prisons these days) had given permission for us to run the software and given a set of fake data so we could go through the motions when talking people through things, but apparently that wasn't enough to get it on the list.
You should come and visit Spain, much more high speed rail and a similar quantity of seafood ;-)
A long time ago in a galaxy far away (before the internet was a normal thing to have) I provided over-the-phone support for a large and complex piece of software.
So, people would call up and you had to describe how they could do the thing they needed to do, and if that failed they would have to wait a few days until you went to the site to sort it in person.
The software we supported was not on the approved list for the company I worked for, so you couldn't use it within the building where the phones were being answered.
Well, Klingon food isn't for everyone
And unfertilised fish eggs, which are an Earth delicacy