Watching season 2 of the Punisher. This show is well made, but seems fundamentally disinterred in any possibility that the premise of a lone, angry white dude taking violent justice into his own hands might potentially no longer exist in a vacuum in modern society. 

The opening credits are a pornographic, slow motion exploration of an assault rifle firing a bullet complete with an unmistakably ejaculatory image of bullet and smoke exiting the barrel - and the whole thing seems completely sincere and unaware of utterly masturbatory it looks. 

Sort of a brief summary of the show itself, which mostly canonizes the titular character as a special kind of man who can do special things which mostly consist of being able to murder people and never accidentally murdering an innocent person.

It’s a nice show and says some useful things about how soldiers get treated when their usefulness is at an end, but this is definitely how every white supremacist shooting up a synagogue sees themselves and it’s pretty fucked up.

Also like a lot of far right stuff used the punishers logo. I saw a back the blue punisher sticker and shit myself at the implication of this.

It goes out of it’s way to emphasize the Punisher is pro-cop, that’s for sure.

Two stories from last month. First, in the real world:

A Police Union Is Telling Cops to Use the Punisher’s Logo Amid an Investigation Into Racist Social Media Posts

Meanwhile, in the comics:

The Real Punisher Wants Cops to Stop Pretending They’re the Punisher

Gosh, it’s fun when people completely fucking miss the point of things.