#Vigilante Justice

[davidaugust]

[saggernooseai]

[mitsmebinch]

beautiful line up tumblr. good job

[surfium]

Why are we surprised at vigilante justice in America? Seems like a feature and not a bug to me

[suppotato123]

Hey can we please stop fucking threatening the McDonald’s employee who snitched on Luigi Mangione? The cops offered a huge fucking reward for his capture that they literally did not pay. The McDonald’s worker is getting just as screwed as all of us. They’re not a “class traitor” they’re a person who was just trying to do the right thing, and maybe have some extra cash in this shithole of an economy. Like it’s fine to be sympathetic to Luigi, and understanding of his motives, but threatening a fucking McDonald’s worker is not fucking helping his cause or anyone else’s.

[bookdenofsin]

He's so

✨️Babygirl✨️

[dewgongs]

just some doodling on whiteboard:)

[ballinandcantgetup452]

Can we stop calling The Punisher a hero?

I'm sick and tired of the glorification of The Punisher. Frank Castle is a sick man whose happy place is being in a war and it doesn't really matter what or who he's warring against. He never started this crusade for revenge. If it was for revenge, then he would've gone home like 3 weeks in to Punishering it up.

Frank Castle is not a hero. He’s not some tough-as-nails, misunderstood anti-hero. He’s not some tough teeth gritting vigilante with a heart of gold. You're thinking of Wolverine. No, he’s a murderer. Plain and simple. That’s his whole thing. That’s what he does. That’s all he does. He doesn’t fight for justice, he doesn’t save people; he kills. And yet, people still put him on this twisted pedestal, like he’s the symbol of the moral gray and justification. And I’m so sick of it.

Yeah, sure, this is the Marvel Universe, where logic bends, where guys in tights throw buildings and teenagers can swing between skyscrapers like it’s no big deal. Ethics get fuzzy when you have gods and mutants and billionaire playboys. But what Frank does goes beyond all of that. Because Frank Castle is a bad man. A sick man. A man whose entire life is wrapped up in a never-ending war he never really wanted to end.

He lives in a van or warehouse full of guns and weapons, and he’s still out there, free, because he's too violent, too ruthless for anyone to deal with. Nobody stops him. Nobody can truly stop him. Not because he's some anti-hero with a tragic backstory. Once again, you're thinking of Wolverine. It's because he's a walking, talking, killing machine who’ll unload a clip in your face before you even think about it. People think he’s a badass. They think he’s cool. No. He’s a psychopath. A man who is only happy and defines himself by being in the middle of a war.

Don’t get me wrong; I like the character. I really do. But, I read his comics the way you might watch a true crime documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer. You’re not rooting for Dahmer. You’re horrified by him. But you’re fascinated. You’re trying to understand what makes a person tick when their clock is so broken. That’s The Punisher. There’s something raw, something almost cathartic about watching one man wage his own war against crime with no empathy, no mercy, just a hell of a lot of ultraviolence. And yeah, everyone gets in that mood every once in a while.

But here’s what gets me: people out there, actual people, glorify this. They paint his skull on their cars, their jackets, their walls. They act like he’s some kind of symbol of tough love or real justice. But Frank Castle would hate that. He’s said it himself — "Captain America would love to have you. I would not." He despises anyone who sees him as a role model because he knows what he is. He’s not confused. He’s not conflicted. He’s not trying to be a better person. One more time, you're thinking of Wolverine. Frank Castle is a monster.

And he knows it.

So let’s call it out. Call out the people who put Frank Castle on a pedestal like he’s something to aspire to. You wanna read a tough teeth gritting vigilante? Go read Frank Miller’s Batman or Daredevil. You want someone morally gray, someone who actually grapples with the weight of what they do? Check out Moon Knight. But if you want to peer into the mind of a deeply broken, deeply dangerous man, then yeah, read The Punisher. Just don’t fool yourself into thinking he’s anything other than what he is: a guy who likes to kill people, who lives to kill people, and who’s damn good at it.

Frank Castle is not a hero. And he never will be.

[cyber-geist]

Fanart for Vigilante Justice by AppleScentedLazers on Ao3. I've been reading this fic since before I had ao3 and was on fanfiction.net so frankly this fanart is way overdue. These three sketch page/art page references took me a hot sec but they were well worth the effort hope you all like!

[symphonicdemise]

"Perhaps it's time a new list was made. Of everyone who sends hateful things to those who are undeserving."

[eeriansadowtwopointoh]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jazz (Transformers), Optimus Prime Additional Tags: Arguments, mentions of past character death, Mentions of canon typical violence, References to Sexual Assault Series: Part 2 of Best Served Cold Summary:

Optimus is angry about the lengths Jazz is willing to go to in order to protect his mechs. Too bad.

[thekimspoblog]

Reminder that it's not just Luigi Mangione...

[saggernooseai]

[bandwidthzero]

There is, in fact, nothing morally inconsistent about "people should be killed when their continued existence negatively impacts the greater good, but I distrust the state and its agents to carry this out justly or properly." If you suppressed your desire for a cheap gotcha and actually did a little analysis, or, hell, even supposition, you could proooobably guess the basis for this widespread sentiment. This is some Human Motivation 101 shit, and it's kind of rich that it apparently manages to go over your head while you jerk yourself off to being oh-so measured and capital-R reasonable.

So, you distrust state institutions to serve justice, but trust some self elected John Doe to act as judge, jury and executioner? That's the same consistency of anti vaxxers who think all scientists are fraud but a random internet guy is voice of reason.

So, yes, I understand the sentiment, but that's a sentiment of a lynch mob. Even if the victim got what he deserved, vigilante justice is always wrong. More inocent than guilty people fell victim to it.

[surfium]

So conservatives only love rebels when they're fighting for the confederacy huh?

[lawenta-elar]

So, who's next?

I've seen a lot of anger bubbling up after the assassination of the UHC CEO. Anger at the for-profit healthcare system in the U.S., anger at capitalism, anger at the wealthy. Lots of cheering at the death of a villain, lots of treating the suspected shooter as a folk hero, even a saint. Necessary conversations happening all around.

And a lot of people expecting the next CEO death with glee. Celebrating that the rich, too, may now live in fear.

To those folks I say... have you ever interacted with people online?

No, not those other people on the opposite side of a debate you can dismiss as either evil or stupid, I mean people nominally on the same side as you who are nevertheless, well, either evil or stupid. Those who are terminally incapable of understanding nuance, those who jump to conclusions, those who are frankly deluded. The extremists.

For every group of people bigger than a hand-picked circle of friends, there are some such idiots.

These are the people you're urging to pick the next victim.

Yeah, I know you can get behind the shooter. Whether it was Luigi Mangione or someone else, he chose his target meticulously. Brian Thompson sat atop a veritable mountain of death and suffering. He was directly responsible for it and actually worked to make it worse. There was no legal way to make him face consequences for any of it because Brian Thompson was a legal kind of mass-murderer.

Vigilante justice doesn't get any more just than that.

But you, with your nifty moral values, aren't choosing the next target.

Who is choosing the next target is some idiot with a gun who sees that some other guy with a gun got fame and adoration because something something healthcare something something rich people bad.

The next victim isn't someone like Brian Thompson.

The next victim is a rich person's child, or someone who works in the insurance industry at a low level, or a healthcare worker who merely brought the news of denied coverage. Because the truth his, most people who tend to think the best way to solve their issues or their society's issues is with a gun aren't deep moral thinkers.

A lot of them are simply angry and want to kill. Some want fame.

So, maybe find better channels where to steer your justifiable anger than this "kill the rich" rhetoric?