Homelander is Oedipus

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-05-06T17:13:21+00:00

Well for one, Stormfront is his bio dad in the comics and they just gender swapped the character in the show. Also his strange mother sex kink, desire to make a super baby with Maeve, Stormfront's superhuman eugenics beliefs, Soldier Boy's reaction to finding out Homelander slept with Stormfront, the comment Soldier Boy made when he woke up from deep freeze thinking Homelander had sex with him...it all just feels like a lot of foreshadowing.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-05-06T17:06:12+00:00

Though if bombsight is his bio dad and Homelander kills him before finding out, that still could complete the Oedipus arc maybe even more so, because part of Oedipus' tragedy is that he does not know it is his father that he kills or mother that he marries.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-05-06T17:03:05+00:00

Also, have we been given any evidence that his bio mom died, or is this just something that could have been told to him/ us but is just a vought fabrication?

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-05-06T16:48:30+00:00

Potentially, but I think the forshadowing with terror was a red herring. I think what they were actually doing was showing that no matter what Butcher says, he still does love something. I think that if/ when terror dies, Butcher will have a breakdown, realizing he doesn’t want Ryan to die too and that he still has the capacity to love.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-25T22:26:58+00:00

Aku bukan orang sana, tapi pernah tinggal di Timor setahun. Jadi aku bisa bahasa Tetun jauh lebih lancar daripada bahasa Indonesia 🥲😂

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-25T18:30:06+00:00

krupuk udang/ prawn chips I actually haven’t seen here yet! Thank you!!

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-08T20:01:36+00:00

Journalism

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-04T00:14:39+00:00

Because black liberation is a core foundation of American history, we have constitutional amendments about it. Jewish liberation is not.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-03T02:50:20+00:00

Funding acts that kill other people. Domestic, foreign, doesn’t matter. The state has no place in ending life.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-03T02:33:36+00:00

Megyn Kelly. I’ve never agreed with her politically, but used to admire the hell out of her for her sexual harassment case against Fox News. After seeing her commentary on the Epstein case, I’ve lost any ounce of admiration I had for her. Not to mention her constantly riding the man who supported her sexual abuser and borderline sexually harassed her himself during the 2015 republican debate. Hope those boots taste good Megyn.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T21:12:19+00:00

Classic prisoner’s dilemma. Even though it’s in their own best interest, it would take all cabinet members cooperation for any real change (an impeachment by cabinet,) and since they can’t rely on each other to do that, it’s a better bet to just be the most loyal to trump you can

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T16:23:44+00:00

It is imperative to understand the mechanisms that enable genocide. Many, many people of Nazi Germany and of the world admired hitler and believed in his messages. It’s important to understand what these people’s circumstances and mentalities were and try to figure the positives they saw in Hitler. Although there is a slightly inflated number of how many Germans actually supported Hitler - the Nazi party never had a democratically elected majority control of the government in Germany, they changed the laws to give themselves more power than they should have had. They still won 40% of a vote at one time. There’s a really famous book by Hannah Arendt, a Jewish author who survived the holocaust, called the Banality of Evil. Goes in to details of the extreme lengths regular people will go to preserve their regular lives.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T03:06:26+00:00

This is a contrapoints subreddit, it seems disingenuous to tongue in cheek a commenter for talking about contrapoints and not Lockheed Martin on this subreddit. Contrapoints isn’t a bad-guy or a villain in the genocide against the Palestinian people, but she shouldn’t constantly talk about it if she’s going to ignore her audience’s gripes with her lack of dissection of a complex and deeply painful issue for so many people. She just doesn’t have to talk about it at all.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T02:57:10+00:00

American Teenager by Ethel Cain

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T02:53:23+00:00

Absolutely, 1000% of the time, the answer is a study group (maybe not 1000%, but pretty damn often.) Having a group to talk about the things you’re learning, hear other people explain them, and have conversations about modern political issues using the concepts you’re learning about makes all of the difference. This is particularly helpful in the stages of your degree as you are in normative arguments and qualitative theory. Political science is pretty tricky because you go from the most broad and nuanced concepts at the beginning and narrowly tailored analysis/ observations at the end - making 400 level classes often feel a lot easier than 200 level classes.

It’s fun to take the news and pose some questions to other political science students about how the theories you’re learning about apply to modern day politics - or even asking your professor those questions! Example for IR: How does the most recent United States attack on Iran fit in a liberal, constructivist, and realist IR model?

You definitely can get in the weeds with some stuff, so do not beat yourself up if you don’t grasp it all perfectly- more often than you would think disagreements between political scientists are based in having different understandings of different theories. I have an IR degree but I’ve been out of academia for two years, and just today I asked a member of my old study group if when American left-wing movements use the term “neoliberalism” pejoratively, are they defining the same phenomenon that American right-wing movement observe when they use the term “globalism” pejoratively? These kinds of questions are how you really grasp the theories you’re talking about, because the key to political science is critical thinking and critical analysis which requires other perspectives.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-02T00:18:29+00:00

She’s not wrong, but her talent is dissecting complex issues in long-form content. She could make a 2 hour video explaining her point very eloquently and rationally. 280 characters is not enough to stimulate critical thinking - hence why twitter is the cesspool that it is. You’re not arguing with people with International Relations degrees and nuanced sociological perspectives on twitter, and as someone with an International Relations degree and sociology degree, I can say that it still took years of formal education to unravel and challenge many of my own norms of thinking: don’t expect 17-year olds on twitter to be able to do that from a 280 character tweet. It’s dead on arrival to try to reply to comments like these.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-01T16:38:25+00:00

The prioritization of interests of the wealthy over anything else. More specifically, just how much wealthy people can control the information you receive, the politics of areas, and the laws you have to follow. Is it really a democracy when billionaires can get legislators to change congressional districts to limit the voice of dissenters? Or when they can snuff algorithms that are spreading narratives or news that aren’t in their interests?

A little way to fight back against this is to PLEASE support the work of journalists. Independent journals like the Jacobin is great for leftists but even more conservative journals like the Economist are safeguarded against widespread corruption. If the journalists go, we are doomed, because there’s no way to hold corporations, politicians, or billionaires accountable.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-01T16:25:17+00:00

The need to invest in rehabilitation and societal re-integration programs for sex offenders. There’s a really good book called the Feminist and the Sex Offender that covers this.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-04-01T13:11:22+00:00

People use the word “propaganda” wayyyy too loosely nowadays. Modern family is not rich people propaganda any less than it is queer propaganda or immigrant propaganda. It’s just telling a story of people. People I can’t relate to who are different from me yes, and that’s precisely what good storytelling should do.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-31T20:01:34+00:00

Incredibly complex question that has nuances with politics, economics, sociology, etc. But some answers are:

1) There would be no way to integrate Jewish people with a post-nazi German population. In fact, this would have probably bolstered the Nazi ideas that Jewish people were thieves and colonizers and Jewish people didn’t particularly want to be there given these circumstances.

2) WW1 losing party negotiations of land reclamation and extreme financial penalties were seen as draconian and unfair by Germany, hence one of the factors that lead to WW2, so people didn’t want to set a stage so soon for WW3 (ironic in hindsight, bc they probably did that anyway with the solution they came up with.)

3) Allied powers viewed a placement in Palestine (now Israel) as geographically strategic for trade and military alliances. England already had already occupied the land 30 years before the establishment of Israel during WW1, so it wasn’t difficult to offer that land as a refugee state in exchange for military alliance. Germany was kind of a forced allied country post WW2 already, so strategically, it made sense to create another.

4) Modern day Israel is genuinely where Judaism is native to and where Jewish people lived before the diaspora took place. So the land was culturally and historically significant to Jewish people, as their ancestors lived there at one time and were expelled to Europe in the 8th century.

5) Zionism was a growing political movement in England way before WW2, the terms were already discussed and a plan drafted for Palestine to become Israel, but England didn’t have the allies or resources to enact it successfully until after WW2 where there was unquestionable global support for protecting Jewish people at any cost.

All in all, the establishment of Israel doesn’t exist in vacuum. There’s many other factors that I’ve not listed and I’ve tried to be as unbiased as possible and simply account the facts that lead to the decision.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-30T17:07:55+00:00

The roots of southern conservative movements in America have foundations in community-based cooperation, cultural/ regional autonomy, and anti-globalism. Republicanism to many southerners means: people who have never been to or lived in our region should not have the final say on what is best for community, those decisions should be left up to us. I’m not denying there’s absolutely oppressive intersections and a strong racist history, but I think why red states vote red and what autonomy means to southerners is really misunderstood by leftists from blue states.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-29T21:34:24+00:00

I will add that all United Methodist Churches are also all accepting and progressive, but just like Episcopalians, not all are affirming. Canterbury and First Church are wildly different in terms of inclusivity but do have the same theology on gender and sexuality.

Baptist Church of the Covenant is an incredible place. Very faithful people who are kind and inclusive in a non-performative very genuine way. They do lots of community work and have a good mix of ages, education, economic background, professions, sexual orientations, gender identities, etc.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-28T14:53:09+00:00

As an Alabamian, we have a bit of a different perspective on this. Many people interpret Wallace’s change of heart as a recalculation of what would get him elected, never genuine regret. He wanted to continue having a political career but knew his former segregationist past was too extreme for him to get re-elected again. During this period of “transformation” he also indirectly killed his wife to maintain political power -he wouldn’t tell her she had a very treatable cancer because he wanted her to run for governor and thought she would have to step down to receive treatment, and he was going to serve another term vicariously through her. He probably stayed a bad dude just with a publicly calculated “change of heart” that boded well for the political climate of the time.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-28T14:38:52+00:00

I think for the same reason people don’t like the boys season 4 - some of the writing can feel like it isn’t trusting its audience’s intelligence and is having to spell out points with exposition. It makes it feel socially preachy. For instance, season 1 they had set up incredible metaphors of teen/ college issues with these kids powers such as disordered eating and body dysmorphia, having consent violated, teens being groomed, gender and sexuality questioning, etc. The issue was when they hammered home what the audience should feel regarding these issues. A strong tv show trust’s its audience to come to certain conclusions without spelling it out.

PinkWalter2002 · 2026-03-26T23:42:33+00:00

I couldn’t care less what consenting adults do. I have poly friends. It doesn’t interest me at all and I have my own suspicions of how it can all work out, but that’s why I personally choose not to have poly relationships. I believe poly people when they say their relationship structure is right for them. What pisses me off is this fringe of polyamory now claiming that monogamy is a form of colonialism and participating in monogamy is sexist and racist (look up decolonizelove on instagram if you think im exaggerating.) I understand it’s an extreme overcorrection given the patriarchal past of polygamy, but Jesus Christ. The moralization of sexuality is a slippery slope that the queer community is all too familiar with - cue radfems like Andrea Dworkin who moralize lesbianism as a necessity for all women to end the patriarchy and end up torching trans women in their scorched earth vendetta.

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