Today I Learned

V for Vendetta had a similar message. V was really not all that much better than the people he was fighting. He tortured the fuck out of Evey in order to get her to do his bidding. I'm sure it pissed him off to a huge degree that people started adopting Guy Fawkes masks as an actual symbol of revolution. Moore chose that mask for a reason. That reason is that Guy Fawkes was both fighting oppression and trying to turn England into a theocracy.

There’s like a dozen in this very thread lmao

Moore hates idol worship. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d personally fist fight anyone that idolized him.

Rorschach was very conservative and anti sex, much like the maga base. The attractive thing about that is that there's a clear right and wrong.

Later on he'd rather be killed than to admit ozymandias being right. His diary field the hateful marginal right-wing maga-crowd that had their anger taken away by the world peace that had materialized.

I was about to say the same thing. Pretty much the only thing I can think of that he has a positive view of is the hand puppet he worships.

And to his credit, he freely admits it's a hand puppet.

What I came in to say. He's a curmudgeon. A genius, but not the most personable.

Have you never seen Anonymous before? They are a revolutionary group whose motif is the Guy Fawkes Mask, which is a symbol that comes directly from the character V from V for Vendetta, who wears one because his mask "is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof". Anonymous has done a lot of notable things, both good and bad, such as going after the Church of Scientology and trying to take part in the pandemic riots, and it is in response to some of this that Alan Moore has brought up the revelation or fact that Anonymous, he would tell/inform you, is excessive and misses the point, distorting his vision for social action, with him implying the same exact objection about Luigi Mangione and those who support him years later. He made characters regardless of good and evil, not models of it (heck, V admits at one point he sabotaged a train just to get his hands on real butter to go with his breakfast, an unmistakably "this must be an anti-hero" move, but everyone wants to focus on things like the "what they did was monstrous, so they made a monster" justification that wasn't meant to be taken as the doctrine it became), and he did not intend people would weaponize use of it as a platform, though most people are only aware of the initial remark of praise he gave Anonymous for combating the Scientology, which is what made it to the encyclopedias.

How old are you? I'm mid 30s and grew up with stone for human weight, and kg for everything else.

LBs never (except baking from old recipe books), and pints for beer only.

I never know where the cutoff is for us lot.