i like to think they cast this dude while literally comparing all their headshots with this :wojak-nooo:
This guy just looks like a younger and less pickled Steve Bannon
lmao he does. Part his hair the other way and narrow the glasses, fill in the stubble
No absolutely they would be soyfacing about Capt America, Iron Man or Natasha turning a Russian agent into a paraplegic but this is like a “no u” as if Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Crowder, don’t look just like this guy.
Maybe some weird ones, but I don’t think people in real life would react to real marvel heroes the way they do when they’re fictional. It would be equivalent to being a Lockheed Martin fanboy.
I don’t think people in real life would react to real marvel heroes the way they do when they’re fictional.
Conservatives root for American Sniper.
Liberals root for American Intelligence Operatives saying "Take the shot" on the other end of the radio.
Strongly disagree. The boys is 100% dead on in how it shows the overlap between celebrity culture and corporations/military in the Superhero era. Elon Musk built his entire fraud persona around cosplaying as real life Tony Stark and he still to this day has fanboys ready and willing to fellate him. Just imagine if he had an actual Ironman suit. Lockheed Martin doesn't have that kind of figure head, largely cause they don't need to.
It would be equivalent to being a Lockheed Martin fanboy.
Those 100% exist. Liberals are fucking weird.
Sure but those are mostly weird 4chan chuds not liberals. Maybe also some of the liberal ghouls in office, but not their voters.
You know as well as I do that there’s a difference between hooting 4chan chuds calling for the execution of minorities and liberals who thought Obama was a good president and have a Ruth Bader Ginsburg sticker on their laptop
I think a lot of the time the difference lies more in the persona they choose to adopt than the underlying values
Maybe, but one of those groups wants me and my loved ones exterminated and the other doesn’t
There is a difference between bad republican liberals that openly want to kill the poor and the liberal democrats who would prefer it happen out of sight out of mind via institutional mechanisms yes. They are still all liberals though.
You are sadly, sadly mistaken.
Connect with some random raytheon and lockheed guys on linkedin and have your brain melted.
I don’t count people who work for Lockheed as your average lib lmao
If :my-hero: had the ability to murder his critics while flying around in a bazinga suit that made fart noises, some of his fans would die of euphoria just by watching.
The worst day in the history of humanity was when weird phrenologist chuds stumbled across the term "physiognomy"
Every guy who brings up race science shit in person is a dopey looking white guy like the one in the picture, lol
If Ted Cruz lost about 30 pounds, these two would be indistinguishable.
Wasn't the fash stereotype in the 2000s was that they were all morbidly obese rednecks? I know you have to be kinda prissy to be a hog, but those inbreds are the last place I'd go for beauty tips.
You need to control for confounding variables like income and race, but when you do generally voting republican is correlated with obesity. Which isn't shocking, there was a culture war against like cardio and food considered "healthy" (diet isn't exactly simple, but also isn't shocking that obesity correlated with refusing to eat veggies). Wait, I should clarify, maybe not against cardio, but for a while cardio seemed to be portrayed as effectively a "coastal liberal elite" or female thing, which is obviously going to turn a way a ton or conservative dudes.
Bleak monochrome ancient statues :geordi-no:
Updated garishly colorful portrayals of how the statues looked when they were new :geordi-yes:
They do, however, own calipers and yet they don't measure themselves with them.
My PC is on, my Twitter account is logged in. That's right ya'll, its calliper time!
I thought the whole point of this guy's "soyboy" style and behavior was that in the universe of The Boys, annoying capeshit fans and committed fascists have been made one and the same, because the capeshit is happening in real life, targeting communities they hate, and the supes are also public figures with deranged ideologies of their own. But that's not to say these types don't also exist irl
Like most characters on The Boys, there are multiple layers of metaphor some of which don't fit perfectly together but it does work
I've seen Matt Walsh make fun of other men for looking "weak" when I'm pretty sure an average high schooler could beat his ass.
Me after remembering the libs just ran and won on a blue Law and Order ticket: and even if that was a thing?
Besides the fact that there are plenty of soy chuds in the world, the least believable part of The Boys is fucking superheroes flying around the fucking sky, you dipshit.
fashlets unironically think libs aren't blood and soil nationalists too. like they really wanna be special.
Pretty confident he was married throughout the comics too.
The subplot feels out-of-place in a story about Superhero Rapists. Its more like something out of 7th Heaven or a remake of Look Whose Coming To Dinner. But lazy storytelling? It establishes a complex dynamic between MM, his ex, his daughter, and the new husband in which MM has a moral imperative that conflicts with a number of social imperatives towards the rest of the family. That's an interesting conflict to explore, and not one that they resolve out-the-gate with MM simply throwing kicks and punchies at everyone he doesn't like.
They didn't give it the time they needed, because its such a minor arc. But when the entire central cast is composed of divorced / broken-up white dudes, this doesn't seem to stand out.
But it’s not a complex dynamic, the new guy is bad and MM is justified in wanting to remove his daughter from the new guy’s presence.
The character isn't introduced as bad, he's just introduced as a liberal shmuck who has ingested a bunch of Vought propaganda. And because he's dating MM's ex, there's not much MM can do to remove his daughter from the step-dad without picking a fight with his ex-wife, something he wishes to avoid in no small part because it would be traumatic for his daughter.
MM’s ex-wife has chosen a bad partner, and endangers their child through her refusal to break up with the new guy.
MM isn't in a position to force the issue without becoming the kind of thuggish authoritarian he's explicitly against. Hence the complexity of conflict. The "Superhero" approach of flying in, announcing you know better, and beating up anyone who disagrees - no matter how deserved - is something to which he is morally opposed.
It could not be more divorced dad fantasy fodder if they tried.
The setup is a classic divorced-dad trope, but the character is designed in opposition to the trope. MM embodies a host of tropes more commonly seen in maternal characters.
The character is introduced as misguided, and then within one more appearance is going off on fascist conspiracy theory tangents.
He's not presented as a unique individual instance, but a token representative of a much larger social movement. And, from a storytelling perspective, removing him from the relationship functionally removes him from the plot which undermines the whole point of his introduction. He's supposed to represent a source of conflict, not a trivially solvable problem that you can moralize over later.
It is 100% the classic divorced dad trope
Its far closer to a divorced mom trope. MM fills a maternal role in the story and attempts to resolve conflicts in line with motherly characters. He's non-confrontational, risk-averse, compassionate, and empathetic.
The issue is that the show desperately needs like 3 extra episodes a season. That way you could show the decline of people like this into fascism, among other things.
They did that with stochastic terrorists last season in basically one montage sequence
Yep I remember that, but the issue is that Todd is a recurring character, not a one off
This, and how MM has an :obama-drone: poster above his :huey-wut: poster.
