I also like how Anon literally said:
He could have compromised at any time but decided "my way or the highway" and then shot people who disagreed. DEAL WITH IT.
As if Team RWBY didn't LITERALLY TELL IRONWOOD TO HIS FACE THAT HE WAS GOING TO DO WHAT THEY WANTED OR THEY WOULD ATTACK HIS FORCES AND DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO PREVENT THEM FROM SAVING LIVES.
How is that anything less than "my way or the highway??" Ruby wasn't willing to compromise! She wasn't even willing to let him peaceably fly off with the MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE INCLUDING A MAJORITY OF MANTLE'S CITIZENS while she 'parted ways' to go down and help the rest of Mantle. She just fucking ordered her followers to commit treason and deliberately trap millions of people in Salem's warpath because Ironwood did not immediately defer to HER WAY.
And even if people want to wave that away as a 'poor uwu innocent baby who only *seized complete control of the fate of the world on a whim and then cried because she didn't know what to do with it* because big mean scary MAN wanted to save millions of people and she's too young and uneducated to realize that's a good thing,' there's also the fact that Ruby emotionally abused Oz for lying to her and keeping secrets from her, but she's obviously fine with telling those exact same lies and keeping those exact same secrets from others, sooooo it's wrong to not immediately trust her, and it's wrong to not let her have enough information to make important decisions, but it's totally fine for her to make those decisions when they affect others - another sign of "Ruby's way or nothing."
And then there's also the fact that she LITERALLY TOLD QROW IN V6 MULTIPLE TIMES THAT HIS CHOICES WERE TO FALL IN LINE AND LET HER DO WHATEVER THE HELL SHE WANTED FREE OF PROTEST OR ADVICE, OR FUCKING GET LOST. Because she wanted to sabotage a public communications tower, hijack a military plane, and attack Kingdom defenses. And this was obviously a fucking terrible plan, but Qrow wasn't allowed to say so because that would go against Ruby's way, so she threatened to show him the highway.
It's fucking ridiculous for people to accuse Ironwood of "being unwilling to compromise," when we saw in V2 that he completely backed off and deferred to Ozpin's judgement, which is why a historian and four first-years were sent to apprehend Torchwick's forces, instead of the military, and in V4 he deferred to Winter's judgement, which is why he withdrew his forces from Remnant and put the embargo in place to begin with, and in V7 he deferred to Ruby's judgement, which is why he was willing to work with Robyn to capture Watts and Tyrian.
But Ruby was unwilling to compromise. Ruby was unwilling to budge. Ruby spent the entirety of V7 keeping crucial secrets from Ironwood and telling him critical lies, while constantly yelling at him for Going For Both by splitting his resources instead of "Going for Both" by waiting for a magical miracle to fix everything with no effort. And then Ruby told Ironwood to his face that he had to defer to her judgement, or else. And when he chose 'or else,' she ordered her forces to oppose him, attacked his forces herself, gaslighted Penny into believing that Ruby was the only person who cared about her in order to keep Penny's power away from Ironwood, broke into his command center DURING A CONTINENT-WIDE ATTACK SPEARHEADED BY LITERAL SATAN, stole launch codes, seized control of and prematurely launched Amity Tower, and sent a fearmongering propaganda message out into the world in which she announced that Ironwood was no longer trustworthy, before sitting out the entire attack and sipping tea until it was over, and then DESTROYING THE CONTINENT HERSELF ON PURPOSE, thus launching millions of innocent people into mass homelessness and poverty... All because RUBY was unwilling to compromise.
She could have compromised at any time but decided "my way or the highway" and then attacked people who disagreed. DEAL WITH IT.
Also, yeah, it's fucking ridiculous that people will, in the exact same post, act like Ruby is the single Divine Authority who must be given her way in all things and to doubt her is to Sin, so that they can demonize anyone who doesn't take HER way and ends up on the highway, and then they'll also say "but she's just a poor uwu innocent helpless baby who shouldn't be expected to lead" and use that as a SHIELD when people criticize HER actions.
Which is it? Is Ruby the Divine Leader who Always Does What's Right and is Meant To Rule Remnant, thus her decision to Punish Unbelievers is her Divine Right? Or is she a teenager who doesn't have a fucking clue and that's why she hasn't made a single good decision since the train crashed in V6? She literally cannot be both, no matter how many 'miracles' the Hand of the Author drops into her lap.
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