WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]

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  • He rejected his promotion, because the top brass are all fascists who take orders directly from the rich ruling class? Well, great, now he can take orders from those fascists instead.

    Oh fuck

    He would have let Kobi die too, if it wasn’t for shanks.

    Oh fuck

    At Hachinosu, he only “protected” a handful of his hand picked unit, who were only in danger in the first place, because of him.

    They volunteered to go there to protect Kobi. That seems like the artist actualizing the premise of Garp’s character. So they were in danger because of him pointing to justice they believed in, not that they got placed in needless danger. Without a critique of power, he finally demonstrates, perhaps even with post-Marineford regret, that he wants to protect other marines (other named characters critical to the plot that is).

    Explain to them how protecting the guards of Auschwitz actually takes priority over joining the revolution.

    Lil Kobi living under Alvida seems like he had a perfectly rational understanding of pirates being assholes. So wanting to not let others do what she did was a worthy reason to join. I doubt too many of them start with the understanding of the celestial dragons nor the slavery inherent. Maybe, if you include the tribute they likely had to pay to the WG they would put 2 and 2 together, but many places seemed more imminently afraid of pirates. It is a limitation of the world building in my eyes.

    If Dragon’s revolutionaries ever get characterized as having many ex military types who reject slavery and subjugation then we have a party and a hole in Garp’s character.

    But as I try to tease apart the world building, the character as written, and his failings I’ve been convinced. Actually it is easy to hate Garp for doing so little to help the Marines he supposedly sticks around to protect in Marineford and being passive in garnering influence for the dream he supposedly carries. He deserves every bit of slander Mihawk gets for spawn camping the East Blue instead of going out and chasing his dream






  • Oh God, that read on the surface to me as some kind of race mixing law. The idea that you’d legislate to try and prevent me from happening would be cringe.

    But it’s almost exactly the opposite

    China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion law, which comes into effect next week, is designed to create a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, including Tibetans and Uyghurs.

    It formalises longstanding policies to promote Mandarin as the language of education, official business and public space while criminalising “violent terrorist activities, ethnic separatist activities, or religious extremist activities”