The Punisher was the only hero hunting real villains
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Your position is that Captain America is an explicit statist who agrees with the government, and who's positions are based on government doctrine. You're ignoring policies because they defeat your point.
No I'm saying captain America is a boomer con that'll support or at least tolerate degeneracies as long as it's about "freedom" (often coincide with popular liberal opinions and liberal policies), whatever moral principles he has are subservient to "the freedom" of the day, whether it's decriminalization of intentional infection of aids, letting homos adopt children, or transitioning children. He's not going to quit after hearing Joe Biden's recent speech about trans children, he's not going to punch tranny man in women's bathroom (in states that explicitly legalized it). He may not agree with late stage abortion, but damn it, he's going to defend your freedom to do so!
Except you didn't say any of that. You're changing your position because you're wrong.
What you really have a problem with is Liberalism and Freedom. I'm not surprised that you've done this because it sounds like you are a literal reactionary; which means you don't know what Liberalism as a philosophy is, nor what is being referred to when they speak of "freedom" or "liberty". So you've simply taken up the position that Freedom is bad, that Liberalism is Communism, and that the Left are entirely right about every argument they make, you just need to take the heel position.
If you were actually informed about non-Liberal philosophies, you might actually be able to argue that Liberalism isn't actually very helpful to a society. But of course, making that argument about a character that literally embodies American Liberal revolutionary values is ridiculous (those values are why he's not a statist). It's like arguing Punisher should oppose the death penalty. You don't know what you are talking about: neither from philosophy nor comic books.
i said he'll support degeneracy if the government supports it, (as in made it legal), in name of freedom, because captain America isn't going to go against something that's made legal (assuming legislated under proper democratic procedures) even though he was supposed to be against it (because he's a ww2 era huwite male), that's the only reason I mentioned government, if something is not officially supported by the government and is against his personal believes, he would've no reason to accept it in the first place. i didn't say he's a statist, nor did I mean to say he's a statist, I was trying to say he passively supports degeneracy as long as it's done legally
There is literally no sense in any of that. That is still an argument that he is a statist.