u/MrSluagh

The priest says he's clearly delusional and should seek psychiatric help, because a demon would never willingly set foot in a Catholic church.

​The demon says, "Well, it sure isn't my favorite place, but I really appreciate how it makes this guy squirm being that he's a Lutheran."

Season 5 confirmed everything in my original post and more: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/s/q3VhGkm5oa

In the final season, Black Noir frames the Deep, causing an ecological disaster that kills millions of fish and making them think the Deep did it. As a result, fish start seeking out the Deep for revenge. A hammerhead shark taunts the Deep and prevents him from saving a drowning man. In the climactic battle, Starlight throws the deep into the sea, where the water is churning with irate sea life, including a giant octopus that finally kills him.

Here's the thing: fish don't organize against a common enemy like that. If all sea life in the universe of The Boys are intelligent enough to band together against an ecological threat, what did they need the Deep for in the first place? Why don't millions of halibut rally to capsize fishing boats? How did a giant octopus (full name: giant *Pacific* octopus) find its way to the waters near Vought's headquarters in New York? How did all those sea creatures know the Deep was on that particular beach so they could all flash mob there at once, when he'd been thrown there moment's ago?

The simple answer: Deep brought them there. He only understood his powers in terms of "talking to fish", but they really went far, far beyond that. In the final season, the Deep was going through a guilt-driven psychotic episode in which he unconsciously summoned animals thousands of miles from their natural geographic ranges to kill him. What we saw was not the sea's revenge, it was the Deep's suicide.

Perhaps even more disturbing is the potential ecological impact of what the Deep was unintentionally doing over the last season. How many ecosystems did he permanently disrupt by drawing massive droves wildlife far from their normal habitats? In his psychosis, the Deep may actually have ended up creating a bigger ecological disaster than Black Noir did.

Every billionaire in the world (no trillionaires) is given a 1 million cubic foot warehouse in a location of their choice.

Each billionaire has a limited time to put as much cash as they can in their warehouse.

Any combination physical currency valid in sovereign nations is allowed.

When time runs out, each billionaire loses all their property except for the cash in their warehouse.

Round 1: 24 hour time limit

Round 2: 1 week time limit

Round 3: 30 day time limit

More like asworstos, amirite?

Make the split however you want

Flip coins, go by height, whatever

I've somehow managed to find a niche as a stay-at-home dad myself and that's always been my preference, but it's not that important

An individual with the freedom to raise their kids however they want within reason as long as they have kids is about as free as an individual with the freedom to pursue whatever career they can within reason as long as they have a career

On an individual level, either case is about as much freedom as an organic life form can ever expect, realistically

It's truly insidious the way modern civilization has such a strong normative expectation that everyone have a job, but it's viewed as actively archaic and cringe to suppose people should feel obligated to raise families if they don't have a drastically better idea what to do with their lives

This is what makes modern work fundamentally a form of slavery

Our economic system is not a collective effort meant to ultimately enrich and safeguard its citizens' bloodlines

Most citizens are here to be exploited for the benefit of wealthy families, and to regard raising children as a hobby to optionally find time for around their only real obligation, that of serving capital

If your biological imperative to reproduce is not treated as a need, if your boss feels free to tell you, "Well, if you couldn't afford kids, why'd you have them!?", if you are considered selfish for wanting to have a family, you are being preyed upon and having your bloodline strip mined

Say what you will, one thing traditional gender roles accomplished was to draw a line in the sand that if the ruling class was forcing more than half the population to venture out and toil for some ostensible greater good, that meant something was seriously wrong

Early feminism was more focused on winning greater respect for homemaking as a profession

Since the second wave, feminism has been increasingly subverted by capitalists, who are naturally enamored with the idea that joining the workforce is empowering, whereas being a housewife is oppressive

This sleight of hand where wage slavery is portrayed as liberating has had the effect of anesthetizing the natural and righteous human reaction to being bled dry wholesale

Obviously, most feminists like the idea of stay at home dads in theory

But as always, when leftists engage in identity politics instead of direct class struggle, the identity politics that succeed are the ones that serve capital

Somehow people have forgotten that "Work will make you free" was a lie

The prequels were better because they had a coherent story arch, a protagonist with a compelling internal conflict, and a strong ending

The sequels were worse because each installment went in a completely different direction and left loose ends the following installments never followed up on, the protagonist had no compelling internal conflict, no personal attachments to balance against the path of a Jedi, nothing she had to lose or sacrifice to answer the call to adventure, and the ending was a series of arbitrary MacGuffin hunts

The prequels aged well because despite shortcomings, they told a timeless story, but also didn't play as well in the 2000s because they were still if anything '70s science fiction movies and people were primed for something that felt as relevant as Star Wars did in the '70s

The sequels will age poorly because they were transparently designed to appeal to a very specific and contemporary notion of the "modern audience" from the 2010s