AsLeftAsTheyCome
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There really isn’t a funnier condemnation of the American justice system than Alan Dershowitz. I understand that any “justice” system under capitalism is a farce and an abomination but even under those conditions, how the fuck did this guy become a successful lawyer? Everything that comes out of his mouth is either repulsive, incriminating or both.
Everyone knows that it’s not really a genocide unless the people committing it agree that it is.
“Interacting” with the sun is just skin cancer, especially for mayos.
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.
Oh fuck they’re reinventing “positive christianity” lol
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.
When you call for the destruction of Israel (this is Anti Israel)
Absolute banger.
Sure is convenient that the genocide being committed by the "better" freak is the one that they aren't directly impacted by.
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