It is from what I’ve read and interpreted, all Luffy does is just give the locals a fighting chance to save their country. Most of the time, the problem isn’t that a king exists but that some foreign entity like a pirate group, marines, world government is trying to take over an already vulnerable country.

The time when it actually is a bad king the kingdom becomes an electoral democracy run by the people headed by the those who fought for the freedom of the country. Oda makes sure that the people themselves have agency in liberating themselves and it isn’t some one sided savior complex. Even in arcs where it seems like the straw hats are doing everything Oda still manages to tie it to the people of the island.

Oda is also pretty lazy on skin tones and doesn’t want to spend the time doing them completely. It’s where Usopp and Blackbeard seem whitewashed in some official colored material even though they are supposed to have dark skin. Robin also suffered from this and the Toei anime adaptation just made her tan for the 1st half of the show which was later abruptly rectified in the second half of the show.

Also they are not monarchies in a sense because they are all under the control of the world government. They are essentially puppet governments that allow the WG to extract and hoard wealth while also giving the illusion of political autonomy/diversity.

undermine the world building

It doesn’t undermine it at all. It’s hard to answer this question without spoiling the entire series but I can just say that there is no choice of government within the OP world that isn’t a monarchy since the world is controlled by an empire which calls itself the “world government.” That’s to say, It’s not a coincidence that Luffy and co. keep stumbling into monarchies and leave them as monarchies. There is a world police force called the marines that enforces this social order and each “kingdom” (which are really just colonies) has to pay a tribute to the world government to simply exist.

The WG doesn’t recognize governments that are not monarchies or at the very least doesn’t protect them. The majority of the world is dependent on the WG’s military force of marines and intelligence agencies for protection from pirates. Those pirates were created from the conditions of enforced poverty and servitude that the WG set (the lumpenproletariat) while the working class inhabitants of the world have their labor value taken from them by the WG in the form of tributes. In exchange, the monarchs of these countries live lavish lives (nowhere near the level of the WG) and have slight autonomy in how their affairs are handled.

There exists a revolutionary army that wants to destroy the WG which would upend the entire social order that has been constant for centuries. Luffy is not part of that army since he’s a pirate, therefore he doesn’t do any organizing in these islands since that’s not his goal/role.

EDIT: In an interesting sense, pirates must exist in order for the marines to justify their control. It’s only when these pirates grow too powerful and amass territory that is independent of government control that they are considered threats which then justifies the hyper-militarization of the marines which continues the cycle until it reaches a breaking point and a revolution occurs like we have in the current narrative of OP.

Lemmy blahaj zone in a nutshell.

If I ever get called up I’ll just do a better call Saul and keep talking loudly about Jury Nullification.

They don’t even pay you that well for doing it. If you got a fat check at the end of the day maybe but its just paid volunteering.

Middleton said one of the Dali crew members returned home to South Asia because of a family emergency, also on the condition that he would return.

This man is GONE lmao.

Yeah AMD can drop the ball on discrete graphics to the point where even green company is better.

I’m not even shitting you when I say if you replace your GPU you should get a past gen Nvidia card since by that time NVK should be stable and the Wayland Nvidia nightmare will be over.

Or just do integrated graphics which sadly is the path of least resistance.

Ummm this is contextphobic.

¿por qué no los dos?

This is just the plot of a jojo episode.

I mean if your work can’t be read in a queer/trans lens then you what are you doing?

It also requires that two adults be present while the teen serves alcohol and for the teen to complete “training on prevention and response to sexual harassment.”

Hellworld country.

Watch a lets play of the game where it goes over all the different options you can take.

Elysium’s RPG element of probability based skill checks ruined the game for me because at the second half of the game it felt like I was just grinding for skill checks rather than enjoying the story. Maybe its a skill issue, but I didn’t want to play Elsyium for its RPG mechanics.

If you removed the CRPG aspect of it you basically get a 3D visual novel/point and click detective adventure which feels a whole lot better than save scumming bazinga skill points and level up stats. Thoughts were cool though.

Edit: Also the Windows version of the game had a horrid load time issue between level areas at least on my hardware. The proton Linux version had no such issue.

Maybe he just doesn’t know how to program same sex marriage into the game and he doesn’t want people to know. But these hexbear TANKIES are bullying this poor Polish dudebro for not being good at programming.

Tch tch. Expected nothing more from a TANKIE instance.

Nevertheless a USian politician will personally read this and increase the cop budget for another couple million.

You know, to stop the drug smoking gangs in front of the oligarch’s corp office.

Chromium ewww.

Is it like he’s looking out the window but he still can’t get away from criticizing himself?

Is it like he’s looking out the window but he still can’t get away from criticizing himself?