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[kame-sennin]

Saying that "Blue Lives Matter" symbolizes "keeping your community safe" means you define your community as other cops, not the people you're supposed to be protecting. Again, a serious problem with thinking among cops, that protecting police comes before protecting people. A complete abandonment of any notion that the job entails any degree of sacrifice or risk for the people doing it.

Respectfully, you're the only one with misperceptions about the job of the police:

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17505/police_and_poor_people

 

[TalonJH]

Ya'll too deep. Your average person thinks of The Punisher as one or all of the following:

1.) Badass.
2.) Takes no prisoners.
3.) Don't want to hear the excuses.
4.) Payback god.
5.) Judge, jury, executioner.
6.) Might get punched if you look at him disrespectfully.
7.) Big guns
8.) Permanent plot armor. Scumbags can't kill him.
9.) You may start something, but he'll finish it and I will win.
10.) Takes whatever you can throw at him and keeps comin.


Basically an edgier variant of Judge Dredd. Most people neither read comics nor give a shit about his demons or inner conflicts. The surface is all that is needed, as these are shallow, surface people in the first place.

My wife's aunt's conservative gun worshipping husband idealizes The Punished for those exact reasons. He talked to me about the character because he knows I'm into comics. I try to be nice to him because he is my wife's family but he was dumbfounded when I mentioned he was an 'anti-hero' and partially satire. He just didn't get it.

 

[kame-sennin]

 

[TAJ]

The Punisher is a vigilante who kills with impunity and ignores the law while enforcing it on those he considers undesirables.

So I guess its use here is appropriate.

Would the Punisher do a drive-by on a kid? I don't think so.

 

[Hierophant]

Would the Punisher do a drive-by on a kid? I don't think so.

nah. but only because he'd lose all public support for his murder rampages, same reason why he usually doesn't ice cops

it'd make it harder for him to keep murdering

 

[Jombie]

I can't roll my eyes hard enough. It's less safe to be a pizza delivery driver -- Pizza Lives Matter.

 

[CadetMahoney]

So is Marvel / Disney going to do something about this or....?

Months later Disney be like "first we heard 'bout it" then go silent and not do anything.

Which is why they need a press to ask them directly if they're gonna do anything about it, force the ball in their court. Doing nothing now has consequences.

 

[Aztechnology]

Looks like Garrack or Gul Dakat from DS9

 

[petran79]

So is Marvel / Disney going to do something about this or....?

Dont think so. They'd see it as a promotion in a corporate sense

 

[Dead Man]

Well this shows a hilarious lack of self awareness. Fucking idiots.

 

[Forkball]

You've really got to re-examine your goals when you choose to represent yourself with the decapitated, skinless head of another human.

 

[DustyVonEric]

"To punish and enslave"

 

[Chie Satonaka]

I have no doubt this is real, but can I get a link to the story behind it?

I remember a story I saw awhile back where there were cops getting skull tats or something for every "justified" killing they had or something sick like that.

Edit:

Disregard. Google is my friend.

Disgusting.

 

[Peccavi]

"They've got skulls on them."

 

[Durrzerker]

When you start considering the Punisher a role model instead of a cautionary tale that is when you've gone completely off the fucking deep end

 

[Atraveller]

This is a very good book, more people should give this a read.

 

[Brazil]

Mankind's evolution has made it too easy for dumb people to live. In an ideal world these fucks wouldn't survive their first winter.

 

[Sickboy007]

Mankind's evolution has made it too easy for dumb people to live. In an ideal world these fucks wouldn't survive their first winter.

They wouldn't reproduce either due to their small dicks.

 

[kame-sennin]

I have no doubt this is real, but can I get a link to the story behind it?

I remember a story I saw awhile back where there were cops getting skull tats or something for every "justified" killing they had or something sick like that.

Edit:

Disregard. Google is my friend.

Disgusting.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/15/meet-the-most-decorated-detective-in-nypd-history/

He's also got '4x' tattooed on his trigger finger:

 

[Kinyou]

So is Marvel / Disney going to do something about this or....?

It seems like Marvel doesnt actually have a trademark for it. They did fight Molon Labe over the skull, but only because Molon Labe was trying to trademark it themselves


https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/11/24/marvel-vs-molon-labe-over-punisher-skull-trademark/

 

[TheOMan]

At this point it's not a question anymore.