Each step is the speed-run to the next, in no particular order. Also, this kind of exposure is what I get for journaling, isn’t it?

J/k; I only work myself to exhaustion over specific tasks, and never for money.

Train-wrecks have consequences. These panels just kinda … exist.

Fifthagon.

This isn’t a promotion. Captain Morgan and Jack Daniels have rarely been so maligned.

Kill almost anyone besides those you are being told to kill, yes.

Goddamnit, I had this amazing idea that the word substituted was actually “Train”, and my world was brighter for a moment. Then I read your comment. Boo!!

Nah, let her be. She’s just channeling a character. Not Chun-Li, but … a character. Maybe a brat, or a prostitute with too many clients who hate and want to dominte “that sort” of women, but lack balls in the real-world. Because let’s be real, who actually talks like that sober?

Friend gets points for not channeling something right back, like “just say down, bitch!”

Thus why he doesn’t get help. Probably threatens to eat the neighbors if he doesn’t come-home by a set time every night… like an abusive parent on all counts, now I think about it.

I think I’ve seen the things I’ve described happen with my own eyes. Yes, all of them, including gay men getting “shot down” only to reply to the other girl beside them “what? but she does! she has really nice tits!”

Also, people are inherrently contradictory. Its really amusing watching people claim strangers they don’t know, and fictional characters no less, are more consistent than that.

If she shot him a nasty look, I won’t argue that’s unwarrented or inappropriate, but that’s not what’s portrayed.

I find the fixation of randos(most of us, abparently) on assuming “you” is referring to them and only them off-putting, myself. I can be having an on-going conversation, start a sentence with “you” and get interrupted by a third-party going “WHAT!?” …

I’m such a paragon of getting this right, and a successful parent, that it happens in my own house, when they know good and well I’m capable of shouting names across the house at volume sufficient to make the whole neighborhood understand what I’m saying, so why do they assume a barely-audible “you” from two-rooms over is meant for them? Is it me?

For your second point: That’s precisely why I default to addressing counter-arguments to the collective “you”. Can’t expect anyone to digest the arguments if every scathing word anyone might not like is addressed to specific individuals. I won’t pretend to be happier and more content with having to make such arguments than anyone else should be, and if anyone wants to claim a specific piece to take personal offense to, that’s their perogative.

I do try to lay out a path away from such outcomes, but the road involving any concessions or self-reflection is narrow and treacherous versus the highways full of land-mines that somehow look more inviting. Apparently the “toll-gate” hands you a beer and a blind-fold with pretty flowers on it or something.

/end-rant/pontification: I myself am lost in the woods, and the land-mines are really pretty some days.

We already reconciled, thanks.

Not to back-track everything I just said, but the fact its only the crazies and greedy mercenaries firing the bullets is itself almost as bad as all the dead kids resulting from all the inaction on the part of the rest of us.

I applaud no part of this incident more than I do that NO kids were harmed this time, admitedly that’s basically a USian miracle. Thirteen bullets and no kids taken out? US Military stats over recent decades call that “not even one for thirteen shots?” SLACKING.

They seriously went from supposedly avoiding civilian cassualties, civilian casualties equals terrorism, to “one dead terrorist, we promise that one was a terrorist bad bad man, is worth a hundred dead civilians”, but you or I are supposed to be upset about bullet-holes in the home of an elected official, and we should feel bad that our country-men are so un-couth.

Am I supposed to recognize your name or something? I don’t see any mod-flair, but even then “look at my name” is a weird flex outside of pay-per-plate donor parties and, say … Epstien Island.

Oh wait, you think it matters that they only doubled-down on your take, didn’t author it, and you yourself haven’t bothered to clarify your own vague-booking. Sorry kid, the conversation moved on.

Okay, so I went and changed “you” to “they”, twice. You happy now?

Yeah, leaving just the note. Maybe smashing a window?

… but if you had called out just the gun-fire, my earlier reply might have needed such nuance. As it is, you called us out for … doing anything at all? Damaging some property? Boohoo. How the property damage was done is immaterial, besides “guns bad”.

LEGEND

Not saying the shots were super-necessary, but let’s be real, somehow these elect-a-critter forget their addresses are public-record, and it shows.

More data centers helps … what, exactly?

Wait, you think I’m ALSO not complaining about the author setting up pure rage-bait with the least context possible in order to leave interpretation open to the broadest available set of people who will get upset and pontificate at eachother?

… but at the same time, the audience has seen hundreds of these. How the fuck are y’all not bored of ignoring all but the most self-serving narrative by now?

Lastly, bitches do be that way - I don’t even have a problem with it. Y’all want to applaud both the girl (possibly)trying to make another girl jealous, and the girl getting jealous, but villainize any man who exists in their space with enough spatial-awareness to notice their efforts.

THAT DUDE COULD BE GAY OR SINGLE, notice the one lady’s style, upset her by not giving a specific performative response or keeping his ugly eyes elsewhere, and the girl he’s walking with would still give him shit both for using his eyes as she herself almost certainly has for what evolution put them there for, and for not backing her take that “that thirsty bitch needs to put on more clothes”.

People are allowed to be thirsty. Policing eachother’s gaze is no more laudable than trying to control the competition’s attire, and all fall short next to either the guy or the girl having the sincerity to shout “You go girl!!” The worst barely-concealed thirst offers versus all that is discretion and a lack of effort.

I read it as she’s working against her own intentions, but whatever. I’ve seen women flirt like this, so the pushback and consistent lack of variety in the comments I see on these scenarios in comics always blows my mind.

Honestly, the bothering to call him a pervert is more attention than he deserves from her, and only his companion’s anger likely to actually bother him, but I’ve seen this done both “hey lady, your guy sucks” and “hey lady, your guy says I look better than you”, nevermind the occassional bar unicorn, but bars are their own alternate dimension I’m no good at navigating.

On the other hand, TIL Gaze-in-passing is “negative attention”. Taking it verbal like-so is escalation, and just as likely, if not more-so, to be meant to make his companion insecure as have anything to do with actually chastizing him. Y’all are at least as gross as the incels for assuming this is about shaming her for how she’s dressed.

Where’s the mirror, or a fourth person with real integrity? Seriously, why not all three? I see not-one Left-of-Center, non-child-rapist-enabler portrayed here…

Oh wait, a shit-lib made this, didn’t they.