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They are only a sticking point for would-be kings and despots who successfully deceive and subjugate the masses.

In James Gunn’s “Superman,” the titular superhero is devastated when he learns that his birth parents sent him to Earth to subjugate humanity.

The charade looked like something out of a Western movie — American military subjugating yet another Native American tribe.

That’s still better than being subjugated to poverty and slavery for an eternity by a party whose members openly cheer the dismantling of education, social services and health care.

As Gilbert points out, in these movies, women are complicit — the theory is that they secretly want to be spied on, desired, subjugated.