You know what? Fuck it, I am actually going to respond to this one because I am sick to death of these sodding political threads.
"Oh but One Piece has political themes!!!". Yes that is correct, One Piece does have some political themes. Oda has Caribou imitating an in-universe expy of Che Guevara, he has an obvious hate boner for nobles who abuse their privilege and he clearly dislikes racism and discrimination.
Two things though.
Firstly, themes are just that. Themes. They don't make up the entire fucking story. They are either little things in the background or they are the focus of an arc or a moment (racism in Fishman Island or whenever a Celestial Dragon pops up) before we get back to the fun stuff of pirates beating the shit out of each other, which is what people actually come to see. The themes are seasoning, they aren't the main feckin meal.
Secondly, nobody here actually talks about the political themes of One Piece. They talk about shit that just happened in the news. "The Queen's dead, some countries are having a war, muh US abortion, gun rights, oh look it's the latest Presidential election for some culturally European nation that used to have colonies thus the whole world must take note of it for some reason".
Even worse was some sod about two years back posting every single feckin news headline he could regurgitate onto this forum well after everybody had already seen it because most folk do in fact have a glance at the news. "Oh wow, some volcano blew it's top!". Geez, what meaningful discussion could be had about that? Oh that's right! Fucking none, it's a volcano, that's what they do, that's what they've always done and that's what they're always gonna do.
"Oh you could just ignore it."
Trust me, I've tried. I had a policy of placing everybody that so much as made a political thread onto ignore for a bit. Unfortunately my plan was destined to fail once a shit stirring Admin thought that watching internet apes slinging shit at each other is funny, he started making the threads and lamentably there isn't a way to put a staff member on ignore, never mind the fact that political threads occasionally pop up at such a rate where they literally fill the entire "What's new" page. I would have to ignore the whole damn forum at this rate.
Which then brings me to the question of why should I have to be the one doing the ignoring? Why can't all these political suckers go to an actual politics forum or just social media sites in general? It would be like somebody going to a book club and then doing nothing but playing music and watching movies at full blast and stating to all the book club members "Guys it's fine, just ignore the noise!!"
Lel, no. Piss off. You wanna play music then go to a music club and sod off outta the book club.
Finally, perhaps the only amusing but still pathetic part of all this. The majority of people I see on here involved in political "debates" don't actually want to debate anything considering the average reaction I see to these folk actually coming across written resistance from the dreaded "other side".
This inevitably devolves into chimpanzee shit slinging matches since typically neither side wants to actually debate, they want to be right and detest so much as the sight of the other side. They don't want to discuss, they want to win. They want to simp for whatever political ideology they have sold their soul to and would much rather live in an echo chamber.
Hell, we probably end up with all the degenerate political weirdos since they probably got kicked off of other forms of social media for being a friggen pest.
Like I said elsewhere, anybody that comes to a weeb forum to preach politics is a certified weirdo.
