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please-read-the-manga · 2 days ago

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One thing I'll always find funny is Tobirama trying to make this random plea for the democratic process to keep Madara (and the Uchiha) out of power due to his own prejudiced fears.

And then doing an absolute 180 on all that when he's in power so he can self-select and field promote his own student (but of course not Kagami 'one of the good ones' Uchiha lol).

Where did all that talk about public discourse and democracy go, king? Think of the social contract, Tobirama! The separation of powers!

#Tobirama Senju #anti tobirama #Hiruzen Sarutobi #anti konoha #naruto founders #naruto #not serious #Also 'hashirama grow a spine when calling out your racist brother challenge' level: impossible ...#Democracy was deadass a one-time excuse for Tobirama to justify his prejudices; he did NOT believe in that shit when it didn't benefit lol.#And democracy doesn't even work in this universe because their governance only 'exists' because the feudal oligarchs (daimyo) permit it to.#OR did they honestly try democracy Tobirama's way only for the daimyo to shut that down so now it's this undemocratic appointed by the -#- current Hokage then 'approved' by daimyo set-up? Much to contemplate.#Not to grant Tobirama anything here but the analyst in me does need to caveat that TECHNICALLY in the first panel they're in peace vs the -#- second... but like we know the Leaf doesn't do democracy lol they just groom Senju-approved 'Will-of-Fire' bootlickers for the job.#Unironically if we take 1st panel genuinely I think Tobirama might actually agree -#- with a lot of Enlightment thinkers but he'd still disagree in so many other ways haha.#Could be a fun future essay idea - especially wrt how the principles of democracy can be violated and corrupted.#Also this isn't entirely serious because I do think it's funny and characters can (and should in some cases) be hypocritical for the pur-#-pose of storytelling. Just fyi.#Hashirama Senju #I'm sorry you caught a stray in my tags Hashirama lol.

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