• prole [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    221·
    6 days ago

    This is incorrect. Donatello would clearly be a communist because he’s my favorite and I’m a communist. Plus surely he would believe in things like climate change? Scientific socialism???

    I think Raphael is just as likely to be a magat. Seems like the type who would say he used to be a leftist, but all the “gender stuff” forced him to be a Republican. I’m basing all of this on the original cartoon, though. Maybe the newer versions are different.

    Michaelangelo probably doesn’t even think about politics at all. Leonardo is basically Obama.

  • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Lies and slander! Turtles are wokists, at least in 2003.

    In the 2003 version of TMNT, the Turtles’ only human friends besides April and Casey are

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    the homeless people who live in the dump and are “led” by an old black man only referred to as “the doctor.” Casey is ambiguously brown and his mother wears (somewhat stereotypical) nativecoded clothes. April is the most oppressed minority (Irish)

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    There’s an entire ep focused on the turtles catching and beating “the trash man” who kidnaps homeless folks and forces them into slavery in his trash mine. (The cops refuse to help!) Besides April and Casey, the homeless people and black superman are the only humans invited to their christmas party in s2.

    There’s also another episode

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    where raph gives a fuckton of money he stole from the big crime gang to an old, blind woman who’s about to be evicted by the bank after her husband died.

    In another episode, the gang

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    prevents local far right militia H.A.T.E (Humans Against The Extraterrestials) from detonating a nuke

    Less related to the turtles politics, but there’s also an ep of 2003 turtles where

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    the gang find out theres an eldritch abomination underneath wallstreet that makes it the centre of all evil and takes over people’s minds

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    There are alt-right pipelines for each of them.

    Leo would become a police-lover with a podcast, Don would become antivaxx, Ralf would get into the Alpha/Manosphere content, and Mikey would go full Woo.

    EDIT: Splinter would go full Fox News Boomer, April would become an Influencer (and would frequent Leo’s podcast), and Casey Jones would join a militia (probably the Boogaloo)

  • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Raph is definitely wearing 90s wraparound sunglasses in his profile pic, driving a pickup truck in the burbs, and telling himself he’s one of “the good turtles.”