• Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Being able to separate “the bad ones” looked so much easier as a well-off white person in the 70s and 80s, hell even the 90s.

    Can’t really distinguish them anymore.

    I’d say either the punisher would recognize that police forces nowadays need completely demolished and rebuilt from the ground up, or he’s just a poser who doesn’t actually hate corruption, he just dislikes seeing upsetting news on TV.

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      Again, showing no knowledge of Punisher. He’s a “blow up a drug lord and look who’s on payroll” kind of guy. Not a “sit around watching TV to get angry at” kind of guy. It’s just as easy now as it was then. He’d download that list of 50,000 ICE employees that leaked a few months back and go ham and ask questions later kind of guy.

      He absolutely would be out blowing up ICE prisons in the comics if that wasn’t potentially business suicide for Marvel right now.

      Edit: to clarify. Blowing up the corrupted ones is his way of arguing things need to be rebuilt

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      A lot of old (and new) comic book heroes and fantasy stories and Disney tales are like this unfortunately. The structural tropes that honestly most stories use and rely on are quite messed up. It’s really rare to find an actual good story these days, free of major problematic values or tendencies, and finding stories free of even minor problematic issues is even rarer.