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fullmetal-scar-simping · 3 months ago

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It's funny when someone responds to you claiming you're just repeating their point, meanwhile they missed the part where I talked about them failing to grasp that being upset about the Nazi association to Amestris while saying all fascism is bad and that the Nazi association means people have "misunderstood" the moral of fma and thus "proves Arakawa's" point is attributing ignorance to the critics while falsely claiming Arakawa's work as consistently anti-military (it absolutely isn't).

But I shouldn't be surprised.

#''the people amestris is oppressing is more like xyz nation than nazi germany so you don't get fma''#🤨#''anyone can join a fascist military'' lol it's the ''well meaning genociders'' all over again #see i would buy that arakawa was dissecting the way people's passive dogma around their nation's myths & propaganda #and their reverence for their military leads people to join & commit atrocities (which is true about the world writ large)#except arakawa spends far FAR more time humanizing and wallowing in the angst of these do-gooder fascists #while simultaneously only having one (kinda) named genocide victim who is propped up as the #''both sides/cycle of violence/retaliation is as bad as genocide'' horseshit #she herself wrote a story that exults soldiers esp via olivier armstrong & her pontificating about ''following good leaders''#and miles who shames the renegade genocide victim into agreeing that joining the military to change minds = good & solves fascism #but ok i'm just repeating you. the person who attributes anti-militarism/imperialism to arakawa & fma's text #why am i writing all of this in the tags? dunno but i'm too tired to care about formatting & editting this post #vent

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