I had an idea for a movie the other day. A parody of how Americans view their actions in WWII, and how that view of the war has infected other nations through movies.
All the historic allied eccentrics (Jack Churchill, Digby Tatham-Warter, Audie Murphy, e.t.c) get put together on a supertroop tasked with killing higher-ups in the Nazi regime. As a recurring gag, whenever there needs to be bodies between the protagonists and certain doom, its The Soviets.
Not for all the T in Elliot Page
In fairness to X-Men, it was slop that made people engage with the idea of being a marginalized person.
Also Magneto's whole point is that there has to be a counterpoint of violence in order for Xavier's vision to be more palateable.
Everyone here is talking about the friendly guy down at the pub like he's a saint, but he's equally likely to be racist.
When you get right down to it, the algorithms are a lot like the monsters of Cthulhu mythos. They live just outside of human grasp, they guide our actions to their own intent, and trying to understand how they think is a gateway to madness.
This is triggering my supressed SubGenius training regimen.