anarchyinblack replied to your post “Transformers fans! you know freedom is the right of all sentient...”
My friend I do believe you have missed perhaps the entire point of Megatron as a character.
I... don’t think I did. I mean, I haven’t watched every property with him in it. There are certainly different Megatrons, each written by different writers with different intents behind them. But regardless of how mean, nasty, and abusive Megatron can be to his own underlings... he is a fantasy villain. He does not actually discuss anything or anyone in our real life-- or if he does so, he is an extremely incompetent metaphor. He exists primarily To Sell Toys.
No matter how Donald supporters say they are anti-status-quo, what they mean is that they are pro the status quo of a white guy in power and hate that Barack Obama, a black democrat, has held the WH for 8 years. The only threat they possibly have in common with decepticons is their militarism, their refusal to compromise and their threats of sedition. But they are not rebels; they are privileged parties angry at the parity others have been granted and seek to break down social progress we have made in the past few decades. They do not want establishments like the police, like the military, to change, and they are not impeded by these establishments. To the point of having 11th hour FBI support. Donald supporters are not rising up against anything. They are already here and are bitter that credibility has been taken from them since it was acceptable to publicly lynch black folks and beat gay and trans people in the daylight.
I mean, we all have our personal interpretations of whatever series in the franchise we find formative but I am 85.9% sure that the Decepticons would abhor a Donald Trump. He does not embody anything that I think they celebrate, and even his desires for control and violence are opaque, bungling, and demagogue-like for the interpretation of privileged parties. I would not trouble even Starscream with his nonsense.
