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  • Obligatory “Fuck ICE” naturally, but this one is particularly jarring. For 3 reasons-

    A) “from a pick-up truck travelling in the opposite direction”. What. Tha. Fuck. They are drive-by pepper spraying brown people without pulling them over?

    B) Goes without saying at this point, but everyone in that vehicle was a US citizen.

    C) DHS straight up lied, denied that anything happened in that parking lot, at all. When it comes to ICE misconduct, the Federal government’s official stance is “pics or it didn’t happen”. Which is a good reminder for everyone to film these animals constantly.

    I want to ask, “When will this insanity end?” But of course I know the answer. When the American people make it end and not before.


  • Do we mean an actual job, or can it be a cover? Terry McGuinness of Batman Beyond, to the outside world apparently had a job as a PSW for an elderly rich guy.

    If we have to stick to actual “I need to do this job to pay the bills” - I believe Squirrel Girl was a nanny for Jessica Jones and Luke Cage and was like, actually doing that job for much needed cash. Nanny is a pretty normal job.

    But in both those cases, the fact that their employers were superheroes might ruin the “day job” thing. So, I’ll go with Frank Castle as my actual answer. Now, Frank doesn’t always have a job of any kind. Frank and stability don’t mix. But when he is working, usually between killing sprees, he works normal blue collar jobs. Construction in the Netflix show. He worked the line in a Meat Packing Plant for a while in the comics. Hilariously, he worked as an overnight security guard for awhile, which is a great set up for the unluckiest burglar who ever lived.

    Lastly, I want to throw out one VERY strange example in my favourite superhero - Moon Knight. Moonie has something similar to Dissociative Identity Disorder. Maybe. Look, when an Ancient Egyptian Moon God of Vengeance sets up shop in your head, it’s complicated. But the point is, Marc Spector’s job was soldier, but blood money wasn’t usually how Moon Knight paid for all his toys. Billionaire Stephen Grant, another one of Marc’s personalities bank rolled everything, seduced beautiful women and was genuinely useless at everything else. Does it count as having a day job, if you literally become an entirely different person to go work in the financial sector?


  • I’m late to this party but I always like to chip in on Luigi threads:

    1. That other people were inspired to kill CEOs by this killing is irrelevant. I mean, it’s debatable that it’s true at all. But even if it were, that feels relevant only insofar as this is a jury trial - and thats not a bug of a jury trial, it’s a feature. Public sentiment doesn’t really get a say outside the 12 folks in the box.

    2. There is a serious chain of evidence issue with the supposed murder weapon. Body cams are turned off, (improper) when Luigis bag is taken from him, and according to filings, that bag wasn’t searched until back at a local station over 30 minutes later. That strikes people as suspect as it’s outside normal procedure for cops, who would normally search a bag right away during the arrest. The cops were alone with that bag for 30 minutes prior to “finding” the gun. Most unbelievable, they expect us to believe that someone capable of this killing, and producing an inherently disposable 3D printed “ghost gun”, then failed to ditch it and carried it across state lines? He couldn’t find a garbage can to pitch it in over 24 hours later?

    3. People say Luigi couldn’t be the adjuster because of the height/build difference between him and the security footage of Brian Thompsons shooting. I find this less convincing as the footage is extremely unclear. But I will say at the very least, nothing in that footage has been brought to my attention that supports Luigi being the shooter. No shill pundit or sweaty former prosecutor desperate for their 15 minutes has got on TV and said “See, here’s what the prosecution is going to point to to build their case.”

    It would seem to me, that Luigi is a troubled young rich kid who wrote some critical, if meandering, things about his frustrations with US Healthcare, got accused by a McDonalds employee who was financially incentivized to see a suspect, had evidence planted by some cops hoping to catch this rising folk hero before anyone else got any ideas, and then got railroaded by the most corrupt DOJ since the Gilded Age.



  • I forget the title but there was a Superman game on original Xbox that gave Metropolis a health bar, Not Superman.

    Beating up bad guys, stopping disasters and completing missions helped the city survive. Getting hit meant a few seconds where you were inactive and the city might take more damage.

    It was a pretty inspired idea honestly. I don’t think the game was excellent but good design choice.