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i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .
One popular take on "deconstructions" of children's media I'll push back on is the idea that talking about how fucked up it is that a bunch of kids have to save the world is inherently pandering to adult audiences. Kids love it when kids' media is about how fucked up it is to be a kid who has to save the world – you've just gotta not be condescending about it.
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me: what year was this?
person: oh this was 2008
me: ah… the final battle year
person: of what?
me: bionicle
person: your therapist isn’t working
I'm not saying I could be the most corrupt umpire in the world. But I could definitely give the competition a run for their money.
I bet it feels really good to say "I will not elaborate." Unfortunately, I am a serial elaborator. Elaborations georg, if you will. Everywhere I go I am accompanied by six burly bodyguards whose sole job is to hold me back from situations where I might end up elaborating. I'd tell you more about them but they're about to pull me away from this post.
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it’s sexy to try and it’s cool to care. death to nonchalance
I am interested in the idea of Toa having different "specialties" or just ways of using their elemental powers even if they are all the same element. Like Tahu kind of inherently being prone to a lot more actual flame and blazing fire, but Vakama tending to express a lot more pure heat without as much flame (possibly related to having been a welder). Tahu could set a whole forest alight by spitting, but Vakama would find it easier to pick something up and make it molten in his hand without ever setting anything alight. and Jaller has gotten very good at boiling, for obvious reasons, and summoning a lot of concentrated power very quickly. Nokama can make it rain so hard you can't see through it in about two seconds, Gali can always bring water seemingly from nowhere no matter what quantity she needs, and Hahli has strong control of waves, tides, and currents. Takanuva uses a lot of beams of light and light-based attacks, but if someone like Solek or Tanma became a Toa, maybe they would be very skilled at illusions and disguises. Just Toa of the same element having a lot of variety in their expression of their powers based on their personality, experiences, and what seems to come easiest to them, the same way they could all specialize in different weapons. And then they get together, see other Toa using their power, and go "you HAVE to teach me that"
Been trying this in Twilight Break. Ahkmou's tactic for stone manipulation is seeking out weak points so that he can spend minimal energy breaking down structures. In fights, he relies on surprise stone pillars and lots and lots of walls. Meanwhile, Hewkii is all about projectiles, kicking and throwing boulders like he used to with kolhi balls, and he tends to go for athletic dodges rather than firm defenses. And Pohatu, is described as having a bit of a cross between them, where he works with the strong and weak points of rock to move and sculpt it, rather than break it down, and his rock kicks are deadly. He also uses his mask a fair bit more in a fight than either Hewkii or Ahkmou use theirs (though the latter has the excuse of his Rau not exactly being useful for combat).
Jaller combines a lot of what he's seen from Tahu and what he's learned from Vakama, switching between unrelenting fire and precise heat.
Hahli is nonstop beserker offense, never giving her opponent a chance to rest or regain their footing, while Gali has always struck me as one who avoids going all out unless she has to, preferring to use what she thinks is just enough power for her opponent (hence why her flooding an island to fight Icarix is so surprising because that was what she ultimately concluded was necessary and wasn't something we had really seen her decide to do before). Nokama always struck me as combat avoidant, preferring words and supportive measures of her team instead.
Onua is a gentle giant, who very much has that preference for other measures besides a fight, but when he does fight, he goes for unsettling and disrupting opponents; earthquakes, tremors, and sudden fissures all get used to keep his opponents from having stable footing. Whenua is an analyzer, and while he may seem similar to Onua in not charging into fights, it's because he's picking out how best to strike, often finishing a fight in one sudden cave or ground collapse. Nuparu excels in fighting above ground, going for traps by using earth to bind and immobilize foes; his mask along with his inventive tools and weapons make him great at ambushes and being unpredictable.
Matau and Lewa are exceptionally similar, with very energetic and often reckless movements that rely on speed and bringing them in close, all the while using their wind to directly attack. Kongu, however, is much more a distance fighter; he prefers using equipment and weapons, and his use of wind is more subtle to guide his shots. Unless he's sneaking behind an oblivious toa of shadow, in which case he just brings a concentrated hurricane down on their head.
Matoro was definitely the conflict avoider of the Mahri, and his use of ice was much more in support of his team or to assist in escapes. Kopaka, like Tahu, just goes in with overwhelming force (though he's a bit more discretionary of his targets) and utilizes cold almost constantly, even outside of combat. Nuju was, like Whenua (much to both of their chagrin) an analyzer, employing precise targetting and timing to get his attacks through defenses or to trip up opponents with sudden slips or freezes.
Kongu using the wind to shoot better and impossibly curve bullets and arrows *chef's kiss*
nazis aren't just bad cause they want to destroy the wrong people, nazis are bad cause they think destroying a people is justified
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aside from antisemitism the other core tenet of Nazi ideology is murder. the Nazis believed all problems could be solved by killing the people responsible. they thought certain people were inameleorable drains on society and everything would be fine if they were just dead. which is something i've definitely never heard before or recently.
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this is what i mean when i say 'violence is okay if the victim is someone i have decided is Unacceptable' is nazi ideology. because it quite literally is nazi ideology.
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no offense, but this is exactly what this post is about. there is NO group of people you are allowed to kill. the nazis also were convinced that Jews were 'where the hurt and oppression us coming from'. killing people is not the solution. killing people is never 'moral imperative'. we can acknowledge that billionaires have too much power, that they further oppression and bigotry, but playing the nazi's game is never the solution.
I was literally gonna add that if you didn't, op. The Nazis literally believed the Jews were the rich and powerful. They LITERALLY used this excuse.
people continue to believe that now, and it isn't only the conservatives.
also it's genuinely kind of frightening how many people jump straight to "if we kill all members of [group], it will fix everything!"
first off, killing billionaires wouldn't fix anything. their wealth won't magically redistribute itself, it'll go to their heirs (or just disappear because most of it is tied up in shit that is not actually tangible money in any way, shape, or form).
secondly, why the fuck is your first instinct "we should kill them"?why do you want to kill people? ever? there's definitely people i think we, as a global society, would be better off without - but fuck, i don't wanna kill them. i'm sure there are situations in which i would take a human life, and i'm equally sure it would haunt me til the end of my days. are you really considering what that would be like? or do you just wanna make someone else do it, so you have an easy, violent solution and you can offload the consequences onto some other sucker's conscience?
i think the casual ease with which some people discuss murder is fucked up, actually.
#like to be clear i do not wanna draw away from the antisemitism aspect bc that is very central to the post #but just. idk. it's so UNSETTLING how many people jump to "kill all [x]!" as a solution to problems
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yeah, what i wanted to make clear is the fact that those people ARE WILLING TO MURDER. they have an, as you said, unsettling readiness to resort to violence. and it is much easier to convince someone who is already willing to murder to murder, for example, Jews, than it is to convince someone who doesn't believe murdering anyone, no matter what they did, is right. with the right words people on the left who scream about punching Nazis all day long can get convinced to punch Jews. and some of them already do. it doesn't help if you know nazis = bad. that won't protect you against becoming one. you need to know *why* exactly Nazis were bad, and that's not just cause they killed Jews and Sinti and Roma and queer people (the latter being somehow the one that gets more and more focus these days despite their murder also being motivated by antisemitism) instead of, say, billionaires (and as already been said before, the belief that Jews have to much power and money is a common antisemitic conspiracy). the problem is also their WILLINGNESS TO KILL. THE BELIEF THAT KILLING ANYONE WILL MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
if you (general you, not you prev) really are anti-Nazi then you should learn from that and get rid of the notion that killing people is anything other than a last resort in moments of extreme crisis. the main focus should be on non-violent ways to archieve a goal. you want nazis out of society? then how about you try to find a way to educate young people that prevents them from falling into conspiracy theories? how about you start fighting antisemitism, especially your own? how about instead of belittling people and shoving them away if they say something you don't agree with, something that is antisemitic or racist or queerphobic or misogynistic, you try to educate them? if you're shoving them away you'll shove them right into the arms of people like Trump, if the only people willing to talk to them are right-wing extremists, they will also become a right-wing extremist.
You know what would have prevented the Holocaust? Not killing Hitler or any other of the high ranking Nazis, others would just have taken their spots. No, the best prevention of the Holocaust would have been to fight the prevailing antisemitism at that time. If the Germans hadn't been willing to murder the Jews, a whole people, because they believed all the antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews, then Hitler wouldn't even have gotten that far. The best way to prevent something like that happening again is to correct biases, both other people's and your own. The nazis were people, just like you and me, they were my ancestors, and just like they could be convinced to murder Jews, we could. But we can make it a hell of a lot less likely for that to happen by examining our biases and fighting against them, informing ourselves, and getting rid of the notion that any group of people should be killed.
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answering this here cause i think my reply above already says something about this.
for me there is a difference between acting in self defense or defense of others and murdering people cause you think it's 'right' or 'justified' or 'the solution to all the problems'
there's a difference between realising it might be too late for a completely peaceful solution and basing your ideology on murdering people. yes, the allies killed a lot of people in world war ii and thus defeated the nazis. but that does not make the murder of civilians less of an atrocity. 'bombing the shit out of germany' wasn't good just cause it got rid of the nazis.
and it didn't solve everything. antisemitism is still there. Nazis are still there. we can't even say that there is less antisemitism now, or that the world has learned from the events leading up to world war ii.
and 6 million Jews still died.
in an ideal world the Nazis wouldn't even have gotten in a position of power, they wouldn't have found so much support in the society, they wouldn't have been ignored for so long by politicians from other countries. in an ideal world the people in germany wouldn't have been so ready to rob and torture and murder their Jewish neighbours.
what this post is about is that, in order for something like that not to happen again, we need to be clear that the willingness to murder people in the name of 'the right cause' is the problem. cause what we have to be clear about is: these people are willing to kill other humans. and with the right words you can convince them to kill just about anyone in the name of 'the right cause'. and it doesn't even work. if hitler had been killed someone else would have taken his place, if you had killed all the nazis in 1930 you would probably have radicalised a lot of people, and just given them more 'proof' of 'a great conspiracy to eliminate the aryan race'.
you cannot eliminate bigotry with murder. this is what this post is about.
Nazism was a movement based on hate, and the opposite of that is not hating a different group of people. It is embracing love. It is embracing truth. It is embracing compassion. It is embracing nuance and education and cooperation and moderation and empathy. It is about embracing building and learning and creating better systems not tearing down and destroying.
this. thank you
in an ideal world the Nazis wouldn't even have gotten in a position of power, they wouldn't have found so much support in the society, they wouldn't have been ignored for so long by politicians from other countries. in an ideal world the people in germany wouldn't have been so ready to rob and torture and murder their Jewish neighbours.
Also in an ideal world all the countries that have spent the last 80 years patting themselves on the back for defeating Nazism and using the Holocaust as the ultimate proof of their own righteousness would have fucking not turned away Jewish refugees.
"Hey guys we killed the arsonist!" - guy who barricaded people inside the burning building and may have in fact contributed an extra gallon of gasoline or two.
Had a dream where I was in a Mario game irl. Sounds like a joyous, whimsical romp, right? But then jan Misali showed up and began telling me things like:
The game you are in is not a Mario game
You are in an unreleased Mario game
Mario doesn't exist
The game you are in is actually Kingdom Hearts
Each statement would change the dream as my perception warped around this new information. Eventually their nefarious actions resulted in the fabric of reality unraveling entirely and I awoke bewildered and betrayed. Why would jan Misali do this?
Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons
I'm entomologically evil. Im bad and I'ms bugs.
