The Punisher was the only hero hunting real villains
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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.
I don't care whether he's a statist or not, my impression of him is he's more into protecting the constitution and concept of freedom than the people those rules were meant to protect. Would he care if the entire white American population are replaced by Africans and Mexicans but it was done constitutionally and they all have American citizenship? When Biden legalizes transition for children, would he follow orders to defend those clinics? Obviously you know the character better, what kind of government policy would drive him to quit his government job and go rogue and actually fight against it? He has to have a red line somewhere right?
Literally the entire arc of the Civil War storyline is him refusing to acquiesce to a government program to mass register and regulate all super-heroes.
Conveniently happened during the bush era, I doubt the writers would create such "fighting for freedom against the government" arc if it was Obama that signed the patriot act. He was fighting the other meta humans that tried to arrest him right? or did he directly attack the institutions and politicians themselves? So government intrusion into super heroes' lives is his bottom line, but everything upto that was acceptable right? This doesn't go against my original statement that he'll support degeneracy if the government can spin it in name of freedom. The civil war arc was obviously presented as him fighting for freedom, which I never said he's against.