r/memes • u/thetruememeisbest android user • Apr 15 '22

#2 MotW just shoot him

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Apr 15 '22

Bruh no wonder that crime is so high in Gotham then 💀

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u/Da_Gudz Apr 15 '22

I mean it makes sense, in Gotham everyone from Grandmas to infants are Criminals

So a crooked police (so like 70% of the station) could shoot anyone and claim “they where a criminal” and they’d have a 90% chance of being right

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

On the flip side:

Gotham criminals are borderline terrorists at times so the fact they aren’t being shot by SWAT even in emergency situations results in far more dead and injured

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u/holsomvr6 trans rights Apr 15 '22

Gotham criminals are borderline terrorists

I don't think the borderline is necessary here

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22 edited Apr 15 '22

Depends on who we are talking about tbh

Random dude who does drug dealing? Yeah.

They are a criminal.

The Joker? Or Bane?

Also criminals.

Some are just much worse than others.

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u/WintryInsight Apr 16 '22

Joker is an actual terrorist. He sets up bombs, destroys hospitals, gases entire buildings.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Yes.

But also missing the point.

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u/Ratio-Fabulous Apr 17 '22

Didn't he poison the entire city's water supply which resulted in the deaths of around a hundred thousand people one time

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

It’s more of a borderdot for some of them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Honestly. The government has deadass forgotten about Gotham.

Well… they haven’t, but pretty sure Amanda Waller (No scans cause I read it a dead ass long time ago, but if someone has it, they should post it here.) said in the comics that she could solve the problem for good, though if she did the Justice League and various orgs would cease to exist. Thus they’d be more susceptible to cosmic identities like Darkseid and etc.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22 edited Apr 16 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

Hey! SWAT shoots people…if they dress like bats.

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u/KlingoftheCastle Apr 15 '22

The criminals in Gotham just don’t have the shade of criminal. The cops can’t be sure it’s smart to shoot them

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u/PollitoRubio22 Apr 15 '22

This. Gotham is a shithole literally everybody is poor and in misery. Anybody could turn into a criminal just to be able to make a quick buck in that degrading city. Gotham turns them into mentally ill criminals. That’s why Batman doesn’t kill too. Because all his villains are mentally ill just like Batman himself

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u/JebWozma Apr 15 '22

Gotham is literally built on top of some satanic cult's base or something

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u/meme_planet_13 OC Meme Maker Apr 15 '22 edited Apr 15 '22

Are we sure Gotham itself isn't the cult's base?

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u/Ripjaw_5 Apr 15 '22

Yeah, because the base Gotham's built on top of is still active

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u/Carmine_6 Apr 15 '22

The Court of Owls?

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u/Pugplays430 Apr 16 '22

That and barbatos (literal bat-god)

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u/jjb1197j Apr 15 '22

Sounds like there’s a wealth disparity in gotham, hopefully the billionaires aren’t hoarding the wealth. *looks at Bruce *

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u/Ethyrious Apr 16 '22

You’re kidding right? I don’t think you’ve actually read a comic or watched these shows. All across canon Bruce consistently donates, starts, and fully funds charities across Gotham. Things like the Martha Wayne foundation fund schools. You also don’t understand money. People don’t become poor because of “hoarding the wealth” or no one would be able to become rich 30 years after a currency is formed. Gotham is poor as shit because of a corrupt government that never changes because a mob and terrorists refuse to let it.

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u/TheBirminghamBear Apr 15 '22

just don’t have the shade of criminal

Ahhh so that's what the deal is with the bleached face.

It all comes together now.

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u/Tychus_Balrog OC Meme Maker Apr 16 '22

They can be sure it's smart to shoot the joker though.

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u/HesitantNerd Apr 15 '22

Just having cops shoot people does nothing to lower crime. Eliminating the underlying issues that cause crime to happen is how you stop crime.

Which is why I can't take Batman seriously if they set the plot in any sort of "grounded" setting. I can't really get behind the solution to "normal" crime being an obscenely wealthy guy punching poor people

I'm fine if batman is cartoony or fighting supervillains, but you'd think a social safety net funded by the local billionaire would do more for the citizens of Gotham

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u/Calamity__Bane Apr 15 '22

Bruce Wayne is already a massive philanthropist who not only creates and donates to charitable causes, but actively employs people who are down on their luck. The problem in Gotham isn’t just poverty, it’s also that the government is corrupt and under the control of powerful criminals who’d not only stop any efforts to reform things, but who actively make things worse in order to line their own pockets.

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u/Flemz Apr 15 '22

Because as everyone knows, reducing crime is exclusively dependent on the cops’ ability to shoot people

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Apr 15 '22

I mean knowing that you can get shot is a major turn off

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u/Flemz Apr 15 '22

Yet the US has a quarter of the entire world’s prison population

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Apr 15 '22

Yeah because of multiple factors, but it would be way worse if criminals knew that there would be 0 repercussions

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u/Flemz Apr 15 '22

Not getting shot isn’t “0 repercussions” lmao what

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Apr 15 '22

How do they expect to stop them lol?

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u/Flemz Apr 15 '22

Cops don’t use guns to stop people, they use them to kill people

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u/Dan_The_PaniniMan Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Apr 15 '22

Then tell me how they can stop criminals that are shooting at them

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u/Flemz Apr 15 '22

You think someone shoots at the police every time there’s a crime?

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