Oh fuck they’re reinventing “positive christianity” lol
AsLeftAsTheyCome
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It’s almost always the people that have the least doing the most. They deserve so much respect.
The pope never excommunicated hitler, so I guess they’re sticking to tradition.
I really agree, especially about the art style. I've had some mixed feelings about the direction the art style started to take in Wano. Sometimes it worked for me, but other times it just felt a bit wobbly and rushed. Here, the actually unfinished work makes the story feel more intense and uncompromising, especially given the subject matter. I wouldn't mind if Oda leaned into this style a bit more, though I doubt that'll happen. It is always incredible that One Piece can handle so many drastically different tones so well and I'm not sure that anything approaching this style would be workable for the majority of the story.
CW: SA, CSA
It's been a while since I read Amazon Lily, but the differences in how Oda handled allusions to SA in Boa Hancock's arc are kind of interesting (though I do think they make sense, at least narratively). Boa Hancock is probably my favorite Medusa allusion in fiction. I love how Boa refuses to compromise until Buffy earns her trust and I really liked that she was the one that got to tell her own story. This isn't really possible in Ginny's case so it makes some narrative sense that her story was told from Kuma's perspective. I do appreciate that she freed herself, I think that factor helps to establish her agency as a character for me. I'm also glad that Oda focused the rest of the chapter on Kuma and Bonney's relationship, rather than exploiting the tragedy of Ginny's enslavement and death.
Absolute banger.
This analysis is on par with that Keemstar tweet.
That Gugino guy was cool though. I'm pretty sure he was shoved over by riot cops, completely unprovoked. This guy is like his evil inverse.
What if they threw them at you while shouting "Opa"? What then?
They could also help humanize the wrong type of people and we can't have that.
on behalf of some Jewish patients
Yeah, that was one of the first things that made me suspicious. This kind of thing is rarely organic, it's almost always christian zionists and large, well-funded hasbara groups using jewish people and the trauma of the holocaust as a shield for heinous foreign policy.
Thanks for the research and the link! This is really helpful.
Hundreds of complaints were made about the removal of the artwork, but it has still not been restored
Of course these complaints are only ever effective in one direction. 
We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.
This leans a little bit too hard on westerners having basic empathy imo. The rest of the world already tends to side with Palestine, that just hasn’t really helped them that much (so far).
Kuma is probably the best of the rare good dads of one piece.
The callback to the burning of grey terminal was great imo. Becori replicating the “cleansing” policies of other countries is unfortunately a pretty direct reflection of history. It is this type of detail that really elevates one piece as leftist fiction though. Grey terminal was just explicit agit prop.
The different responses from the public in Sorbet kingdom vs Goa was really interesting to me. Goa seemed much more physically stratified by class, so that may be why the burning of grey terminal didn’t met the same public opposition that the burning of the south did in Sorbet kingdom.