The meritocracy at work.

Superpowers, from a literary standpoint, can get a bit derivative and boring. It’s hard to feel the stakes of a certain threat when the protagonist of a story can just superpower their way out of it.

The Punisher flips the superhero trope by portraying what a true to life superhero would probably look like. He isn’t noble. He isn’t invincible. He has no enhanced abilities beyond his ability to leverage violence and a pathological determination to pursue his own twisted vision of justice. He is a walking result of severe emotional trauma, and his coping mechanism is inflicting pain and death on others.

As a superhero archetype, he’s very bleak. That’s what makes him relatable to a lot of people.

Dude you and me got different kinks entirely.

No guarantees. I know what I’m working with here, babe.

Rot slowly.

Conservative culture in general is beneath contempt.

I don’t want billionaire poisoning in my lead.

Feel free to pitch the idea to congress. It will cost somewhere in the realm of trillions of dollars to invade, occupy, and rebuild North Korea. We’re talking an occupation lasting decades. A full time military presence for the foreseeable future as North Korea rebuilds something resembling a functional democratic society.

Don’t get me wrong, their military would get absolutely bodied in a full on shooting war with any sort of NATO-esque military coalition. But they have a sizable entrenched force with more than a few functional nuclear weapons. It would cost A LOT of lives.

So, that’s the bill. If you think you can convince congress to go for it, go nuts.

Conservatives hate anything that reminds them to be better humans, because they aren’t.

If it puts the hyper racist conservatives against the conservatives who tolerate the hyper racist conservatives I’m all for it.

American conservatives are a truly pathetic culture.

Mostly the people who use it for anything other than job searches.

If you think fence sitting is the way to pull us out of the situation we’re in, maybe just sit out the next few election cycles, champ.

Ultra pregnant.

Wheeeee mental gymnastics.

In this scenario, some random ass folk deity. In all likelihood, nothing. Because there would no longer be a “you” and there was never “a thing to meet.”

Any supposed supreme deity who hinges the eternal fate of their own supposed creations on a wild ass guess isn’t one that is worthy of worship, adoration, or even basic respect. If a being with the sum total knowledge and foresight of literally everything can’t devise a better system that any random ass person off the street, I wouldn’t worry about it.

They either don’t exist at all, or they do and everyone is fucked because we exist in the playground of omnipotent super beings that are somehow also absurdly stupid. One of those outcomes is more likely than the other. I think you know which one it is.

You guys really don’t get it.

There is no scenario where they won’t blame this on everyone but themselves. It does not matter. Their end goal is violence. Full stop.

Fascists only relent when they are met with direct physical force. They will not move until they are afraid for their lives.

We can stop saying “evangelical ministry” and just call them “terrorist groups” now. We don’t need to abide by their pleasantries.