Ok seriously, people are still stanning for Bismuth?
“Oh but she wanted to just shatter the EVIL NAZI SLAVER OPPRESSORS uwu!”
Don’t try to sugarcoat it, because we remember what she ACTUALLY said, she said “One shot from this baby will shatter ANY GEM in the galaxy in the blink of an eye!” while grinning like Jack Nicholson just in case, then she said “HOMEWORLD GEMS won't be able to retake this planet when they're reduced to shards!”, and before that she described the Breaking Point as “the weapon that would've won the war”, so yeah even if her main targets were the Diamonds she was completely willing to shatter any gem that got in the way(her own allies and friends included), and she was gonna do it on a massive scale by mass-producing the Breaking Point, her ‘gamechanger’, for large-scale use on the battlefield.
Rose wanted to give a chance to all those gems still under the heel of Homeworld, Bismuth wanted to just kill anyone who was not already on their side.
Lapis(who was not even a combatant)? killed.
Centipeetle(who fought for Homeworld)? killed.
Those cute amusing Rubies? killed;
Those loving adorable Amethysts? killed;
Skinny and Carnelian and all of the Beta Quartzes? killed.
That funny brilliant Zircon? killed.
(Oh wait, not just killed, killed AND irreparably fragmented into horribly insane partial consciousnesses agonizing for eternity, so it manages to be even worse than mere death.)
And it’s also completely unnecessary because not only gems can be poofed and bubbled, so that they could be released and given a chance later, but it’s STATED that Rose Quartz’s healing tears were unique and that gave an overwhelming advantage to the Crystal Gems, who didn’t have to mercy kill any cracked soldier, so Bismuth’s plan was utterly needlessly cruel.
All of those Homeworld soldiers were not ‘oppressors’, they were victims of the Diamonds that didn’t know anything different, and the very point of the Crystal Gem Rebellion was to give a chance to know better, you do not liberate people from oppression by murdering them in cold blood.
And it was also counterpoductive because escalating the conflict with the Breaking Point would have resulted in Homeworld soldiers fighting back harder and making them more hostile, while should they accept to be ‘liberated’ by the very same gems that gleefully killed their sisters?
And if you want to read this as a parallel of real life struggles, let’s make it clear once and for all: this is not about being nice to your oppressors, this is not about “those limp-dicked liberals telling us don’t fight hate with hate uwu” or whatever strawman the Tumblr Discourse Warriors are raging at ATM, this is about the difference between those that are not willing to toss their own morals aside an those that are willing to engage in war crimes and atrocities in the name of an ideal, about the results of indulging in utopian “everything we do is righteous because we do it ‘for the sake of our cause(her words)’!” thinking, about the toxicity of simplistic Black/White militancy that has doomed left-wing movements time and time again.
...Oh right and she tried to kill Rose and Steven for rejecting her genocidal plans, because ‘Nobody's more "Crystal Gem" than SHE is’, just in case she wasn’t Gem Megatron enough already(down to the murder weapon on the right arm and getting stabbed by the youngling)...with the added bonus that, had she succeeded at killing Rose, the Crystal Gem Rebellion would have been doomed.
“Don’t you understand Optimus? We'd be enslaving Cybertron for the sake of our cause, to protect our allies, our friends, to free all cybertronians from the Autobot High Command's tyranny! I didn't want to fight you, but you left me no choice!”
