Not only do you not understand what fascism is, you evidently don't have the first clue of what a democracy entails either.
Setting aside that kingdoms and monarchs are inherently undemocratic (not that they're the only members of the WG), please do explain how a regime that has ruled for 800 years while suppressing history, academia and other designated forbidden knowledge by means of violence and oppression, a regime that permits chattel slavery and indiscriminate murder at the whims of CELESTIAL DRAGONS, is a democracy.
That member states of the World Government operate some measure of autonomy within their borders does not make the World Government a democracy. Especially when all member states must pay Heavenly Tribute and deviating from what the Gorosei (or Im, rather) deem permissible can get you deposed or literally wiped off the map.
One Piece could not be more explicit about the World Government being bad news, yet here we are.
So it looks like you actually don’t understand what democracy and dictatorship are so let me clarify:
A democracy is a system of government where laws and rules are decided by a group of voting constituents all with equal say and power, which is exactly what the World Government is. Democracy is
NOT a system of government where literally everyone gets an equal say. By that definition, no democracies have ever existed in the history of the planet. The member nations of the World Government each have leadership who possess equal say in the laws and policies of the WG, regardless of whether or not their individual kingdoms are democracies or not.
A dictatorship is one where no one gets a vote, because the leader’s word is final. Again, this is definitely 100% not what the WG is because the laws are decided by vote of Kings.
You then go on to bitch about shit like censorship and erasing history which has nothing to do with what actually makes a democracy. There are democracies irl which do this shit too, lol…
And again, the debate was never whether or not the World Government is
good, the debate is whether or not they are
A) fascist
B) a dictatorship
but your defective brain confused the topics because you were too busy figuring out ways for your comment to give the impression that your head is farther up your own ass than is physically possible.
I wasn't talking about pirates, dummy.
The World Government doesn't reserve their violence exclusively for them, do they now?
You said the world government uses violence to quell “its opposition”, which is true. The World Government does use violence against criminals and Pirates,
not against civilians. You will say that Sakazuki killed civilians but Sakazuki did this
against his own orders. So your attempt to divert and distract from how wrong you were in the first place fails miserably.
Fascists banned books, suppressed information and dissent and persecuted academics, scholars, and other appropriate victims - all of which are things the World Government is guilty of.
Ahh yes, the classic “fascists did something therefore those things are inherently fascist” trait classic of those who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about and got all of their knowledge of fascism from a 10 minute YouTube video. So let’s clarify some things for you:
1. The world government doesn’t persecute scholars, they persecute criminals. The scholars of O’Hara were criminals as they were researching illegal information. The World Government doesn’t persecute any other scholars or academics aside from those researching the ancient kingdom. Fascists demonize intellectuals of every nature because intellectualism itself is counter-intuitive to a good fascist because like I said, all fascists are stupid.
2. The world government has no victims aside from criminals, who almost always become criminals by committing crimes and violence against innocent civilians. Almost always, O’Hara is an exception but 99.9% of the time, criminals in One Piece attack innocent civilians and these are the ones the World Government fights against. Once again, fascists do not do this. Fascists demonize completely innocent groups of people in order to make them enemies of a fantasy ideal state. You see the difference? The OP WG fights against criminals and people who attack civilians, fascists find weak and vulnerable minority groups to demonize and destroy for the benefit of their fictitious ideal state.
So no, the WG is not fascist. Authoritarian? Yes, not fascist. I hope you’ll be able to pull your head out of your ass long enough to read this comment carefully before hitting me with an unnecessarily self-righteous response that only makes you look like a hilariously overconfident scrub.