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If I remember Geoff John's run, the central power battery collects all the willpower in the universe, which is where the rings draw their power source, and then the green lantern's willpower is how they use the ring. It's basically why people who aren't qualified to be lanterns can sometimes use the ring weakly, it's powered by a collection of willpower, but they don't have the willpower to use the ring well, I also remember Green Arrow saying using it to make constructs is incredibly draining even for simple things, so the batteries allow the Lanterns to reserve their willpower for creating constructs rather than powering constructs.

Yeah, that's why with things like comics where there are so many writers and so the characters change (or get butchered with poor writing) so often I fully understand people who choose to have their own interpretations of what is and isn't canon, because how else can you square the way Captain America becomes a fascist arm of the state any time he's in an X-Men comic.

I'd argue for three classes: the living as a protected class, undead that haven't developed intelligence (newly resurrected or something yet as the menial workers, and once they develop intelligence they become high-class. Separately, I would argue as an eternal kingdom they should have good environmental politics and a focus on sustained value rather than the value extraction most humans do, as the undead have to exist on a longer timescale.

I wasn't trying to do a "west is bad", I brought up the NATO Chairmen as I am more familiar with them, though I should have provided examples of Soviet recruitment, I was trying to reinforce the person you responded to's point that "the worst of the Nazis received no punishment". I was also trying to correct your claim of "most SS and higher ups were directly hanged / shot / or killed themselves", by providing examples of prominent Nazi higher ups who were recruited, which your comment now helps to reinforce as you provided Soviet examples of recruitment sparing them in addition to Western recruitment. The main takeaway is that beyond scientists, even Nazi leaders who were deemed "useful" were forgiven by the Western powers and the USSR. I think most people understand why leniency was used for a lot of the Nazis in lower positions (even if we don't agree with it), as otherwise at minimum a significant portion of the German population would have to have been arrested/killed, but the focus of the other commenter and I were attempting to condemn the leniency extended to SS, Nazi higher ups, and many of the scientists by, as you remind, both sides. I apologise if I came off as too confrontational in my previous replies, I misinterpreted the final section of your original comment as bordering Nazi defence/sympathy, regarding you implying almost all of them faced justice and calling the rocket scientists "regular scientists", and your use of the 'R-slur' to insult someone who left a perfectly reasonable comment, though I see now you just like to finish replies with an insult.

I focused on the other part and completely forgot you tried to diminish the crimes of Nazi rocket scientists, who created direct weapons of war, by conflating them to any scientist that uses fertilizers, vaccines or chemicals, what is wrong with you?

Adolf Heusinger, a chief in Nazi High Command and Johannes Steinhoff, who was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Luftwaffe in World War 2 both were the Chairman of NATO. Another person who served in the Nazi Army and became NATO Chairman was Wolfgang Altenburg, albeit he was conscripted in 1944 at the age of 16. However, even if he is excluded, two high ranking Nazis, especially one as high ranking as Heusinger became the Chairman of NATO. High ranking Nazis receiving important positions in the governments/militaries of western nations or West Germany itself is a clear sign that a considerable number of Nazis avoided any responsibility for the war. Let alone the large amount of Nazis at lower ranks that survived the war, if this many high ranking Nazis faced no consequences for it.

Fully agree with you regarding how fanfics (and things like Civil War/Krakoa) distort the characters. However, I've always found the X-Men and Xavier weird as his whole thing to me seems to be trying to have his mutants be "model minorities" which just doesn't work in civil rights. It only starts gaining real influence when the separate, armed wings of resistance (in mutants' case, the brotherhood) generate fear of the consequences in the oppressors. Like, to me, Xavier never seemed to offer any real resistance to mutant oppression, just kept telling mutants not to fight back and to wait for a better time, like a CIA plant.

I think it means when something "lights a fire under you" and essentially means it motivates you to do something (normally implied as getting off your ass to fix it). I can't come up with any other meaning for it.

It did just say above this that by indulging in his desires he weakened his own path by making it impure.

It was saying that the existing Five Poisons Palm manual doesn't go beyond it and he didn't know if it was incomplete or just doesn't pass that stage. That's why he was trying to improve it himself with stronger poisons.