the comment i was replying to was about post-9/11 and the comics, and saying that america was united at that point and there was no internal rage. my point was the comic writer is not american, so that doesn’t really apply.

It blows my mind when Americans are like “why are their so many school shootings and masacres” yooooo. Maybe you guys shouldn’t have guns be super available to the public no? It’s insane viewing it from an outsider stance.

That’s true, they even use the phrase “Democrat run cities” when referring to Chicago, NY, LA (apparently tRump just said it about Milwaukee). But, all large cities in the US are democrat run, even in the reddest of red states.

The other one that’s becoming common is equating homelessness with crime. I understand that SF and LA probably do have problems with homelessness but so do all large American cities. But it’s pretty amazing that they’re convinced people in Appalachia or the rural south (rural America in general) that poverty=crime. 

Tell me about it! I not only work in San Francisco, I work in the TENDERLOIN, largely considered the roughest part of the city, and based on the beliefs of folks who don’t live here, you’d think I spend every moment of every day dodging bullets while hopscotching over feces and needles*. In 30 years, I’ve literally…

i’m dying laughing at you defending this like your life is on the line.

It’s just another form of political ‘othering.’ The only people who can confirm anecdotally that their cities are safe aren’t the intended audience of these claims. They want people who don’t live in large cities to think they aren’t safe there and that if they go, they’re going to be shot - because if they do go and…

It’s so funny to me when I see conservatives online talk about how New York is such a shithole and you can’t walk down the street without tripping over used neeedles or getting mugged and it’s like... you know this city wouldn’t be so wildly expensive to live in and be one of the largest tourist destinations in the…

Crime is a good example of an issue that we always interact with according to perception rather than data. Why is it that people that live no where near these cities are the ones raving about rampant violent crime? 

Not at all. You can like or dislike a person without it being about race.

I think you missed the joke.

No. It doesn’t. “Drive them to the sea”(there is no evidence this was even used btw) doesn’t imply genocide, anymore than “drive out the invaders” does. It can mean to defend yourself from those who are attacking you, which is what was happening to the indigenous Palestinian population. 

The precise origins of the phrase are disputed. According to American historian Robin D. G. Kelley, the phrase “began as a Zionist slogan signifying the boundaries of Eretz Israel.” Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov notes that Zionist usage of such language predates the establishment of the State of Israel in…

And even though there’s 512 possibilities, my fucking router’ll still assign two of the eight devices hooked up to it the same fucking IP. 

Only complete MORONS who are terrible at math think the world was in any way better 5 years ago (or even 4 years ago, that you conveniently skipped over for reasons we all know why), than it is today.

Then don’t watch, dummy.

The Boys was a comic book by Garth Ennis satirizing superhero tropes. It’s not simply a “funhouse mirror of Marvel and DC” and no, Garth Ennis is not a Trump supporter as obviously neither is Kripke. Ennis is Irish. I actually can’t think of a respected comics writer or showrunner who is. If you’re a Trump fan and…

Talking about the COMICS of the boys being the rage against bush and bush era politics. Are you unwell? 

Which goes to even further prove my point. The Boys is a send up of super hero tropes and capitalism, not Kripke’s personal vehicle to work out his issues with the Republican Party.

It really is fantastic that they specifically used TDS to define what the show is doing when the show makes no mention of Trump, but does point out the level of crazy and hate the conspiracy theory groups have.