I’m rewatching a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood for the first time since I think it came out I guess. There’s two things that are striking me. One they all just stand around while bad things happen a lot, but I guess that’s just Anime. The other thing is I have no idea it was so long. It’s too long. I guess I remember it being like you know 28 episodes or something. This show is stretching so much. It should have been shorter.

edit Oh and one more thing, where are all the Alchemists? In a show called Fullmetal Alchemist outside of the first few episodes there aren’t any. It’s weird there’s not more running around.

I mean right now I think I’m at least 33% pie so…

Just put me on a fucking Iceberg already.

4 hours later and it still is wow. Shit I needed to buy a present for tomorrow

Pretty clearly the latter I think.

The only one this is punching is trump Administration so that explanation clearly didn’t do very good job if you didn’t get that

Why is it that on Lemmy every joke has to be over analyzed to death and have all the fun and joy sucked out of it? Can’t we all just enjoy a pun at times?

Another way to think of year five is that there was a terrorist attack on an unofficial school club’s field trip.

What an absurd comment. What an enormous straw man you’ve managed to build here.

Truly this is the mindset that scares me about the future. The idea that education and knowledge and preparedness should be discouraged. The idea that being able to look at and identify the trends of impending fascism should be discouraged. You’re like an anti-vaxxer. The disease of fascism Rises and you sit there without a mask.

Brother this is from March. Try to have a shred of self-respect.

No I don’t typically have much to reflect on from absurd straw man arguments.

I cannot even imagine the amount of mental gymnastics it took to try to justify making that comment.

Thanks

Well okay, even I’m a little stunned at how easily you walked into this.

So to summarize your comment there. You are an inherently Superior being. No matter what situation you were thrust into raised into whatever, you were better than other people. Kind of an Übermensch if you will. You’re just that much better than those others. Those others can be convinced to do evil because they’re inherently less than you. Those others include the entire people of Israel. They’re inherently less than you, the Übermensch. Interesting…

I’m not sure who on Earth you were quoting here (im guessing yourself) or what it has to do with anything we said. Absolution has never been our topic.

But since we’re asking questions I’d like you to go back and answer the question I asked a couple responses ago that you ignored. Your argument is that people who commit war crimes atrocities are special. Only certain select people do them. You’re not one of those people, you’re innately Superior to those people. And I just want to know again who those people are? How do you identify them? What makes them so inherently evil? How are there so many of them? Inexhaustibly throughout human history in every people and culture.

Before you answer that question though I’d like you to look at that quote you posted that I assume is from you. I noticed you said something in that quote. You said Netanyahu convinced the people of Israel of the same. He convinced them. How did he do that? I thought it was only certain people. I thought you couldn’t be convinced of things like that. Isn’t that the Crux of your entire argument? That only the other people are capable of those things? How do you convince a whole people? Surely you’re not going to make the argument that all Israeli people are inherently evil, so doesn’t that rather break your entire argument apart here?

That’s not even remotely close do anything I said.

However I wanted you to consider something. In our conversations you’ve shown yourself to be extremely judgmental, quick to anger, exceedingly hostile, inability to consider points of views of others, you’ve shown a sense of innate self-superiority, and an inability to empathize. If I were trying to describe the people most susceptible to being conditioned to commit war crimes and atrocities those are all traits I would absolutely list. You’re not special. Nobody is.

Literally no one is saying that. You sound ridiculous.

Listen I say this is someone who’s looking out for your own good. I want you to educate yourself on how easy it is for fascism to infect people. Read They Thought They Were Free. Understand that Nazis weren’t comic book villains. They were for the most part regular people that fell for the grift. That went along with it cuz it was easy. That you couldn’t look at them and identify them by their evil eyes. Because people that think Nazis were some kind of comic book evil villain instead of regular people who did Evil are people who are going to fall for the same thing. They don’t understand how easy it is to fall for fascism. They’re the reason fascism has overtaken the world again. Because they think it couldn’t happen to them.

What on Earth are you babbling about?

You’re not familiar at all with what propaganda is? What dehumanization is? What nationalism is? What capitalism is? That’s how.

How about I ask another question. Who specifically are the groups susceptible to war crimes. Point at them. Every single russian? How do you identify them? Every single American? Every single German? Every single British person? Every single person from sudan? War crimes and atrocities and the like are carried out basically globally by every people. You really think it’s just select people or do you think maybe it’s something that humans are susceptible to and we should guard against? Don’t be naive and assume you’re special.