• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    Ok, now…

    … where is the actual Punisher, when you need him?

    You know, the vigilante anti-hero who murders corrupt power tripping cops?

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        6 days ago

        Even in that fiction, they make it pretty clear he is a criminal. He understands he is stepping outside the law and subject to the same justice as those he attacks.

        Even if certain police seem to miss the entire point

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        6 days ago

        Well that sure is weird, if I didn’t know any better, I would have thought he was some kind of unofficial mascot of corrupt power tripping cop types.

        Maybe its some kind of inside joke for their reading club?

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                  5 days ago

                  From the TV show “the boys” a show that isn’t exactly nuanced in the fact that homelander is a very, very bad character. So much so that the shows entire run is about killing the guy. It’s about superhumans and how absolute power, yada yada. But they’ve been very vocal about homelander being a stand in for trump.

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            6 days ago

            Ah, I see I’ve been so sardonic that its now time to clarify that I am (and have been) being cheeky.

            I know.

            … they’re all fucking morons, strongly definable by a lack of self-awareness so strong that it becomes anti-self-awareness, grandiose delusion.

            And by ‘their reading club’… I mean the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc.