• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Wait, what is this about? Are you saying that there are some people who can’t figure out that homelander is the bad guy? Can you point me to one of these people?

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      5 months ago

      Just go look through any The boys discussions and you will find those that think he is just doing whats necessary. There you have been pointed.

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        5 months ago

        Just go look through any The boys discussions

        I just had a discussion about it with my friends, some of which are conservatives, and none of the people there were confused as to him being a bad guy, so you’ll have to be more specific than some vague waving around in the air.

        That being said, I get that people might side with him. Just like people side with the joker and Tyler durden. But how do you know they’re conservatives?

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          5 months ago

          Go away troll. No matter what I say you will just come back with some other lame question. Go read the threads and find out. I’m out.

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            5 months ago

            You’re inability to defend the claim is not my fault. It’s easier to call me a troll than admit that maybe the claim is straight up bs.

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              5 months ago

              Of course there are some conservatives who think homelander is the good guy. Some percentage of every group is just f****** stupid.

              But if you’re looking for examples, the top comment here is an easy one. There will of course be more out there because conservatives aren’t some monolith who all have the same opinion. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBoys/comments/1djocb4/comment/l9cld4p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

              Of course that’s not representative of all conservatives. The ones you know are probably very fine people.

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                5 months ago

                Of course there are some conservatives who think homelander is the good guy. Some percentage of every group is just f****** stupid.

                Yeah, agreed. I shouldn’t speak in absolutes. There are probably also people from the left who think he is the good guy.

                But I agree with the sentiment of that comment itself: they idolize him because he does what he wants. I would also add that he projects himself as outwardly strong, which is another train they probably admire. But I don’t think they are confused into believe this is the good guy. I think that thread is actually pretty good evidence of what I suspect - that this isn’t really a thing - because the only thing in that thread that points to any type of evidence is that picture. . .which is certainly open to a ton of interpretation outside of “Homelander is the good guy.”

                My guess as to what has happened is that some people were idolizing him for his projected strength and arrogance, kind of like how they idolize Trump, maybe even tongue in cheek a bit, and people thought “only conservatives could be that dumb” and then it morphed into “conservatives think Homelander is the good guy.”

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                  Ah yeah. The term “good” is overloaded. I don’t think anyone thinks he’s good morally. That would be next level stupid. But I do think some people think he’s ‘good’, as in they idolize him.

                  That said, I don’t even understand the conservative platform anymore. It used to be small government and let people do what they want. But now all the conservatives I know want to use big government to stop people from doing what they want.

                  I think the old conservatives are now “fiscally responsible liberals” maybe?

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                    I don’t think anyone thinks he’s good morally. That would be next level stupid.

                    It’s literally the meme by the OP that conservatives are “discovering” that he is “bad” and the top level comment I responded to claiming that it needed to be explained to them and they couldn’t figure it out. And that was my question, if anyone could actually point to someone being this stupid. Which is why I think this whole “conservatives think he is good!” is, well, almost next level stupid.

                    It used to be small government and let people do what they want.

                    That’s what they used to say but it was never actually the case. I’m not sure how old you are, but “cancel culture” was something that existed long before left-wingers abandoned liberalism and took ahold of it, as conservative christians did it all the time. It just had to be rebranded when the left took it over and did it far more effectively.

                    On top of that, I remember when I was first convinced that gay marriage should be legal. I thought “man, this is actually a very conservative position that the government get out of the business of dictating what two people can enter into this contract.”

                    The “small government” has always just been an excuse to cut taxes.

                    But I agree with you that Trump has pulled them completely off the rails.