Hey anon! Sorry about that! Thanks for telling me to tag it this time, I tried to answer once before, but I’m super shitty not tumblr savvy so I’d be extra embarrassed if it got lost all over again!

At its most basic core, Absolute Justice is the idea of collectivism *BUT* solely as it pertains to Justice. I’m going to get into some major philosophical concepts, so I apologize to anyone who feels this is too basic, because I’m not sure we’re all the on a same page yet. One Piece is an amazing series that starts kids young with some very difficult concepts, and so even a lot of the adults or graduate students haven’t been introduced to some of this shit that you can really dig into with One Piece.

^ Most of that is about Property ownership. Now, as a Native American whose upbringing and heritage HEAVILY emphasized the rejection of materialism in favor of spirituality and connection to love, family, [nakama], etc. it tends to get a dismissive brush-off from me and the Shakespeare quote of “More to heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your imagination, Horatio.” etc. Nevertheless, to put it into JUSTICE terms:

Rather than worrying about property, this is a war over lives. The marines are at war with pirates, trying to protect the citizens, and Absolute Justice has a specific way in mind of how to do that.

This goes DEEPLY into personal choice vs. State choice as well. One Piece is a series that HEAVILY emphasizes the good that comes from individualism and even when what you must give up is shown, you can’t help but feel individualism is still worth it. – Mah, that might be my personal interpretation because I’m so heavily individualistic that if Oda’s characters WEREN’T so heavy on the individualism, I never would have gotten started, much less come so far, but I think it’s extra poignant when you consider when and where he comes from as an author too. While authors, artists, and all creators, are allowed to be a bit more wacky historically, it still takes a HUGE amount of guts to go as far with it as Oda always does. He can definitely afford to now, but that, if anything, makes him more like Luffy, spreading ripples and empowering others to follow their dreams and individual liberties.

At what point does my freedom of expression infringe upon your right of comfort?

This is why I get so pissed off when people dismiss Oda’s work trying to help the okama community in Japan. He’s greatly on the side of “Fuck off it bothers you, I’m going to do what I want, be who I am, and maybe that means being flamboyant, and maybe it means something else, but who are you to decide that for me?!”

I love Bartolomeo NOT when he was revealed for a fanboy.

No.

I loved him most when everyone else was outraged that he was being gross.

I said, holy shit. That man is my hero. You’ve got a bunch of spoiled brats trying to be appeased by the dictator with blood and violence so they don’t violently turn on him (gross) and then THIS GUY comes along and mocks ALL OF THEM for it, showing them how disgusting and pathetic they are. I. Love. Him. My friends (a few of them, a lot of them even) were pretty outraged! They were like “ODA why do you have to be so gross?!” And I just laughed and laughed more. My brother said, “Imagine if after all this time THAT was Sabo? The fangirls would flip out at the change.” THIS is punk art. Not feminist art: MASSIVELY NSFW:

Which I find EVEN MORE HILARIOUS. But not in the way it was intended.

A friend once tried to explain the difference to me between punk, and just being an asshole. A punk kicks over a trash can and doesn’t pick it up to make a statement about his rage and the state of the world we live in. An asshole sees this and does the same. The results looks similar, but the first one has a statement. The other is just copying the results to try to look cool, and in so doing, shows themselves as an asshole. (Note: if by some weird quirk of fate/coincidence/luck some in GG is reading this, please remember most of Anti-GG are just assholes. They HAVE no statements to make, just copy others.) It’s difficult to determine this just from the work alone sometimes, and art critics frequently have to guess and just assume everything is a statement (ART) but let’s go into the two examples above:

Bartolomeo vs. feminist artist. Yes, both are marketing/making/USING offense as a means of, quite literally: peeing on culture, and they both have the same kind of pathetic audience (hipsters… No, I kid. Barty has bloodthirsty bourgeois who want to see pirates killed, maimed, or beaten senseless. The feminist has hipsters. For the sake of translating real world vs. One Piece, let us argue their commonalities as part of translating their place in the world, class, systems, time, and culture, however.) but the biggest difference is in that Bartolomeo’s statement is successful. How can such bloodthirsty monsters be okay with wholesale slaughter, yet object to a man peeing? No, let’s take that further, Bartolomeo COMPLETELY takes the piss out of the whole “violence is culture,” and MOCKS IT. He MAKES a mockery of it. So much so, even Hack, the Revolutionary Fishman get annoyed at the sheer disrespect. And that’s the point, the disrespect. Because Bartolomeo DOESN’T respect this fight. He’s not in it for glory and fame like Cavendish, he’s not it for a name, he’s not in it for the devil fruit like Jesus Burgess, he doesn’t HAVE to take it seriously, that’s the whole damn awesome nature of his devil fruit.

Fuck, that’s why I love Rebecca too. Because NOT killing, and NOT letting herself be injured is EXACTLY what pissed off all the coliseum watchers and other fighters the MOST. Because Bartolomeo and Rebecca are UNTOUCHABLE. OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING. That’s some HEAVY shit. It’s beautiful, but you REALLY have to look at it from a huge wide angle lens or you’ll never understand the contextual picture.

Now let’s look at our lovely feminist performance artist. Where Bartolomeo successfully FREQUENTLY punks the fuck out of his audience, to specifically show them their own hypocrisies, and make a mockery of their entertainment, the feminist artist….. does not. Were it a statement of the ugliness of classism and they very poor’s struggle for food, and how in the end, it’s all shit, yes, all shit – she only preaches this to people who already are of this mindset and therefore have nothing to learn or see from it. Therefore, disrespecting the audience becomes fetishistic in nature, both of her own, and the audience’s, and then feeds into one another, completely with MY humor utterly from watching the audience as they try understand wtf they are doing there, with their lives, with their identities, and all simultaneously agreeing that rather than concede the emperor is running around naked and humping his statues, he is perfectly fully clothed, making a genius of a monkey statement, and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

For a director who grew up absorbing culture as -THE- means to convey ANYTHING, this is quite fascinating, hilarious, and a touch sad – which of course enables more laughter. As one of my favorite not-One Piece characters once said, “I laugh at the world because otherwise I’d have to cry.” True story.

So the insult to the stage as a medium does arch my eyebrow. You cannot simultaneously try to perform grunge, dada, and make Marxist feminism statements while both respecting the stage, and disrespecting it. You you can’t disrespect consumerism culture while utilizing it. You can’t make a statement about the poor while failing to help them. As for “feminist art,” well, it’s all shit – according to the performance piece. There’s an attempt to glorify the beauty of feminism that fails to capture the realism, but even the attempts to capture the realism… fail to capture anything. And so instead, it all becomes flinging poo at one’s own audience. And tragically, but HILARIOUSLY the audience goes “WOW WHAT BRAVE ARTISTRY.” And that is why Bartolomeo is punk, and our feminist artist failed utterly.

And on a purely secondary meta level, it says yet more again, about Oda and our culture. For yes, while our feminist artists’ messages were failed to be conveyed properly or even successfully, and her piece showed a lack of understanding of the medium, her audience, and the wider culture she wished to criticize with her grunge and attempts at dada. She did convey one thing very well though, “It’s all shit,” but sadly that too was lost on our audience’s attempt to find meaning in an otherwise meaningless void that needed more exposure to more culture. This is what is all so hilarious from a meta standpoint, and INDEED, watching other people try to understand how to process it is TRULY the better/best part about this nonsense because it says so very much about them and where they are coming from as a person and their views. So too, is the case with Bartolomeo. In real life, many people had the same reaction as the fictional audience. Which in my own truly sadistic way, egged me on applauding and saying “GO BARTY GO!!!!” He is my crazy Rainbow Star, even if in my head, he will only be Birdie-kun-lite because Marco is Birdie-kun the first. Don’t ask.

Now; THAT all summed up; what the major malfunction does any of this have to do with Absolute Justice?

Everything. Everything and all of it.

It is extraordinarily difficult to put value on art. Is popular art more valuable? What if it just has very rich and vocal fans? What if it affects the rest of the art world, or even the major world as we see and understand it? What is the value of One Piece as a series? How many lives have been changed and benefited from this?

Art is hard.

I can’t draw a straight line. Literally. I can’t do art. I can criticize and understand it pretty much INSTANTLY. But I can’t make what I want at all. Which is why I do film as its a merging of stories and art I can capture and/or get help with. All the same, art’s entire purpose is adding meaning to that otherwise meaningless void.

I’m a functional person. Which might be why I suck at art. But it’s also one of the reasons people classify my brain/personality as more “masculine” in nature than feminine because I always care more about how things work (or not) than design. Almost to the point that it’s a detriment – and it was in Color Guard trying to find a uniform that was cheap enough, but still showed us together, and was something either unisex or not so feminine I wouldn’t be able to withstand trying to wear it. GO FIGURE.

Again; Absolute Justice.

In theory, Absolute justice is about that war of pirates vs. Marines. This is why we see the marines lined up just when Luffy get’s his first wanted poster and before he hits Loguetown. Because Absolute Justice is about the collectivism, not the individualism of justice. If you go back through the art pieces, both Bartolomeo and the feminist were trying to make statements about the effects of collectivism on mob mentality and the sheer hypocrisy of it. On a VERY VERY VERY OVER THE TOP META level, you can argue the feminist did succeed, because her audience’s reaction proved it, but sadly, you cannot in good faith argue it, because the audience reinforcing the collectivism rather than outrage is only later. Yea art….

Both individually expressing themselves WITH individualism FAR outside their collective cultural norms, both go so far as to pee literally on those cultural norms (yeaaaa art!) but wherein Bartolomeo is flagrantly punk and proud of it, literally ENJOYING AND REVELING IN THE HATRED THROWN AT HIM, the feminist attempts to be taken professionally…. even while mixing goop and vaginal fluids on the floor. Yeah. It’s sort of like if Miley Cyrus instead of riding her wrecking ball naked, cut her jeans, peed on the stage, and asked to be taken seriously, and instead of being laughed at by grown adults going “child stop, please, this is embarrassing on so many levels,” all agreed, “Well of course darling, your actions as an artist don’t change your right to be respected as artistically serious.” In wanting to be respected, you already consign a piece of your individualism and how much you can “do” to your audience, and likewise, they too, enter a bizarre collective agreement which entails entitling you with respect despite some absolute absurdity back. Ergo, the utter failure to convey individualism, because she was also either unknowingly, or unable to connect the dots, using collectivism to her own advantage and therefore, unable to truly express an individualist idea, no matter WHAT it might have been. Enter again: My hilarity.

In context of justice, this is seen often with Smoker’s rebelliousness, his utterly individual forms of expression, his complete and total disregard for ALL rules, social, or otherwise, and instead only morals take top precedence for him – WITH an understanding that sometimes there are too many factors to easily account for, and therefore, “cookie cutter codes of conduct” don’t fit most appropriate situations. Akainu is allowed more forms of slight individualism, provided it still meets the standard codes of conduct, rank, and collectivism.

Let’s take it further.

I waxed philosophical at great lengths about how difficult it is to see the effects of art, and artists. Even more difficult to understand their true value, whether to an individual to whom they might be priceless (Luffy’s hat) or to a society they can have a huge effect on only when the artist is gone (Van Goh.)

So too, it goes with a life. This is why It’s a Wonderful Life is such a classic. Because it’s so easy to underestimate the little things we do and what effects they can have on society or the world. One life can do a lot of good.

Absolute Justice is the idea that one life can do a lot of harm.

How many pirates killed how many citizens for what? How many people died because of Hitler? Was it really Hitler? If he had been a painter, would someone else have taken his place in Germany? In France? In the world? If you had a time machine, is it morally wrong to kill Hitler?

What if you have to kill innocent citizens to do it?

What if you have to do it way before he harmed anyone?

What about Stalin or Mao Zedong? Do they really bear responsibility for hundreds of millions of deaths, or don’t their followers, their “crew”, the SOCIETY they made help bear some of the blame? If you could prevent Mao Zedong in China, by killing Mao Zedong and his whole village, would you?

I wouldn’t.

I’m like Smoker. Or Smoker is like me. It gets confusing. Point is, I don’t know those ripples. I don’t trust my capacity to know the consequence of every human life.

I started off as a pacifist when I was younger. I wouldn’t fight back anyone. Not bullies, my abuser, no one. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt. I didn’t want to hurt anyone. I didn’t want to fight. I ran away to trees and read. My father was an army chemical officer, and he got frustrated. He used to be a pacifist too, even more than my mother. He only joined the army as a medic and chemical officer because he wanted to protect and save people. But he joined the regular army slowly because of his own conscience.

All over the world there are people who cannot defend themselves. Who are weaker than their bullies, who are not strong enough, who need help just to stand back up. Later in life, when I DID start fighting back, my friend used to tell me, “No, there is never any reason for any force ever.” And I shook my head. I can’t live that way anymore. I found my reason to fight back.

I didn’t care when I was bullied, but I thought it only affected me and those closest to me who worried about me but so it goes. I didn’t realize how bullies worked. Until I saw my little brother getting bullied. And I snapped. Because bullies don’t pick social outcasts to send a message, or even make it harder for them to make friends (although sometimes they succeed in doing both) they do it because outcasts are more vulnerable. Bullies are weak, they’re kind of pathetic. They’re just taking out their own issues on the weakest target around. So I didn’t care that the bullies were bigger than me or more numerous or anything. You don’t fuck with my brother. So I put all my Dad’s attempts to train me to fight back to good use, and DID. And I started fighting back a LOT, because when I fought back for myself, I helped OTHERS fight back for themselves and they’d thank me for it, and I was GLAD to be able to say, “Don’t let them stop you, if they try, I’ll kick their ass and show them what it’s really like to fear.” Basically I became Smoker with the baseball bat with nails. Except slightly more Ace like since I either used fist, color guard saber, and like I said, Dad’s ex-army. + I had a lot of rage issues to work through.

Absolute Justice takes that thing with bullies onto a larger scale. You see it a LOT in the United States right now – IF you know how to read the news between the lines.

There are a lot of cops who are being trained along the lines of “kill an idiot to protect you and your own, because they are absolutely a danger to society and going to kill someone else.” It’s not automatically racist, but it’s the easiest thing in the world FOR racists to take advantage of and use it to their advantage, AND there is an automatic bias to seeing classism in it. Upper class no matter who and what race they are, are not as likely to do anything except 1) crimes of passion 2) shit they can get away with 3) white collar non-violent shit.

Yes, the system is rigged against you. Stay woke.

There’s more I can go into it, but back to Akainu and Absolute Justice. The idea is that one criminal who has already murdered say, five hundred people, could DEFINITELY go onto murder 5000 people, if not taken care of asap. You this a lot in Enies Lobby with the marines firing on their own ships. You even see it when Akainu killed the innocents of Ohara in case a scholar had sneaked on board. – I GENUINELY do not think he thought there was a scholar on board, I think he didn’t want word of what they were doing to Ohara getting out and spreading like wildfire against the government as that would cause a HUGE rallying point for revolutionaries – SEE ALSO: Robin is LOVED by the Revolutionaries.

The theory is, save the world by killing Hitler before he can cause WW2. I don’t agree with it, being as I am, individualist, and therefore believe you DO NOT KNOW what will happen between then and now, but I respect that it has an attempt towards order in chaos, rather than just straight up lies and taking advantage of chaos and manipulating to stab in the back – ala Blackbeard.

Why then kill marines who fled Marineford?

I wish to god Toei hadn’t been fucked up by earthquake, tsunamis, and deciding “Nah, let’s save money by outsourcing to cheaper companies which won’t even be consistent one episode to the next because speed & saving $ > quality,” but anyway…..

It’s one of the most important parts of Marineford. The WHOLE WORLD, the FATE of the world, the SHAPE of the world, was ALL set in motion at Marineford. Law wasn’t kidding when he said he broke the gear.

Whitebeard was respected even by his enemies because of his strength, but even by justice, he did NOT kill, except those who killed his own. Politically this even handicaps the World Government! Because if the PIRATES look like GOOD guys, the marines are FUCKED in convincing the public forever “No no, pirates are all bad, for fuck’s sake, they’ll murder you and eat your babies and rape your sons, just turn them over to us so we can kill them and put them out of society’s misery!” Indeed, the Whitebeard islands were VERY loyal to him because he protected and helped them so well – which is a similar political maneuvering happening in Japan with yakuza. And newspapers? Are the wild card there and in OP world. (In US… eh search my tumblr with the tag for “ethics in journalism” I’ve actually had some faith RESTORED in American journalism since GamerGate, but there’s a reason I’m chomping at the big for more people to use deepfreeze.it a lot of them are pathetic and they’re hurting YOU to do it.)

But even though Whitebeard had the power to destroy the world, he didn’t. H wasn’t reckless. He created stability with it.

This is against EVERYTHING Absolute Justice is about. It isn’t necessarily that there are no grey areas in absolute justice, that it is all black and white and easy – it isn’t! It’s that where Smoker prefers to think DEEPLY on the grey areas and not rush into things until he’s had a chance to try to view it from as many sides and perspectives as possible, Absolute Justice says there is NO TIME FOR THAT, and action to stop criminals MUST take precedence over EVERYTHING else.

I’ll admit, I’m surprised to see someone like Fujitora, who believes in trying to protect civilians above EVERYTHING else as a new admiral, either replacing Akainu or Aokiji’s spot. I can only assume Akainu did not pick him personally – OR if he did, then it was not for that sense, so clearly opposite Akainu.

I also find the name themes REALLY telling. Before we had Sengoku & Buddha, which is duh. But Red Dog Akainu, Blue Pheasant Aokiji, and Yellow Monkey Kizaru. All of which match the story of Sengoku. But Kizaru’s nephew Sentomaru reminds me of the legend of Kintaro. And Purple Tiger is certainly an interesting one. Keep your eyes out for the next Admiral, and anyone else with a similar theme. White Hunter and Black Cage too. Eventually Smoker’s going to have to come to a choice and I don’t think he’ll like it. Even worse than Marineford. And it’s either going to start, end, or BOTH some serious shit, especially with himself.

In any case, Absolute Justice is a wartime philosophy about killing criminals before they can kill you or others.

And even if you break down REGULAR justice, to just separate it from pure revenge, isn’t that what any justice is about?

Absolute Justice says absolutely kill Hitler as a baby. Fuck it, you KNOW what he’s going to do, YOU SAW IT. Kill him, and be a hero. So what if it’s a baby? It’s HITLER.

Absolute Justice is very much about ends justifying the means.

So what happens when they don’t? What happens, when you shoot down five of your own ships, kill hundreds of innocent marines (to weak to be soldiers???? says Stalin and Lucci….) and fail to get even the ONE pirate you were aiming for.

This might also be why Mihawk doesn’t advise hunting rabbits with cannons.

Back to Marineford. Whether you feel the ends justify the means or not (they don’t) killing one’s own soldiers in order to NOT give them a way out, is a tried and “true” tactic of Russian soldiers…. and is one of the biggest reasons Stalin is recognized as responsible for more deaths than Hitler.

As a practitioner of a combination of Sun Tzu’s Art of War and Alexander the Great’s multi-faceted campaign to take over you know, the world, wasting troops like this makes me twitch. Before I found my reason to fight, my reason to punch down bullies, I always empathized with Ulysses S. Grant because it is REALLY hard (FOR ME) to pursue a fleeing enemy and say “Yeah now is the time to take advantage of that.” I mean, NOWADAYS if I was in the ring alongside Barty while he was peeing? I’d have to fucking get over there so I could take a moment to hold my sides from laughing so hard and not endanger myself into getting my head cut off. So no, I wouldn’t be aiming at his back either, but I think the only type of person I could really bring myself to drive a dagger through their back would be Blackbeard and maybe some of his crew. I’m not much an assassin. I like shooting, I like sniping, In video games, but IRL? I could never snipe someone, I’d be too shaken up with “And if I miss?”

Men fight their hardest when they cannot flee. I can link both instances where Stalin and Nazis were killing their own on back lines so that it was basically “Don’t fear the enemy, fear coming back here much more.” but it’s some pretty gruesome shit. I’m American, so understand I’m not trying to be prejudiced, and my Dad has TRIED to explain the tactical advantage of this to me MANY times over, but… fuck man, to say the Americans who saw the aftermath of this shit threw up and were sickened and that’s why there was such a long thing of both Nazis and commies as insults UNDERSTATES it.

But even more importantly (to me), contrast it to Whitebeard. He opened up a gateway for everyone who wanted to go. He said out right “There’s your exit. You’re here because you want to be. If you don’t want to be, don’t be.” Because he never meant to force his family to fight to retrieve Ace, most of them just loved Ace that much. And I’m DEAD certain that it was a huge part of what Whitebeard and Marco wanted to show Ace, that even if they couldn’t reach him, he was loved, he was loved by those HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. “You did good, kid.”

Take it back to the World Government. No one, I mean NO ONE, is with the World Government because they love it. They’re there because it exists, because it works for them, because they fear it or the consequences of not having it. Akainu is many things, but he’s NEVER an idiot. He’s VERY politically savvy. He knows EXACTLY what kind of face the marines need to show the world. They can’t have marines running away. They need blood-crazed marines advancing even when the pirates retreat. They NEED to show they will route even the STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD and everything in between, so regular citizens won’t worry, don’t feel like they need to join the revolutionary army and help, don’t QUESTION things, and just as planned: celebrate the death of the, “Monsters.”

Absolute Justice is absolute. It is an ideal that cannot, WILL NOT, MUST NOT, take into account 1) Individual circumstances 2) Individualism period –> as it so vehemently contradicts/is at odds with the collectivism & the fascism of the Nationalist Socialism of Nazis & the Communist Dictatorship of Stalin (in which both societies were structured so that individuals were not recognized as deserving of certain rights/privileges, and they could be forfeited depending on multiple factors well outside the individual’s realm of choice) 3) wider frame perspectives, 4) the multitude of variations that can change the ground on which you stand on. – This is not to say Absolute Justice is not adaptable, but that is is inflexible. Once something is decided as “for the best” it MUST be done that way and anyone saying otherwise is a traitor.

To which we come back to, bear with me, #GamerGate. Because if anyone has the patience to get through all that, please understand, this is why I can never give up. This is what we fight against. Right now more and more there is an ever encroaching attempt at conformity in Western society. It started that way in Russia too. And other places. I am left-wing. I DEFINE crazy liberal. But that’s just it. I’m truly about the liberal part.

What is freedom?

What does it mean to be a dreamer?

To stand against a crowd that says “no the emperor is garbed in the most stunningly magnificent clothes I’ve ever seen, and anyone who says otherwise is just an idiot who will be arrested and thrown in jail,” and to say “Okay, I’m an idiot, lock me up for it, but he looks buck fucking naked and trying to ride a horse statue to me.”

At what point can someone else say “That’s offensive!” and to which I’d say, “Well then don’t look, or don’t listen to me, I’m just some chick pointing out that guy’s dick.”

What point can they be scandalized that people are running around in public naked? There are laws against that. Because you know, it upsets people… and stuff. How strong do you have to be to knowingly go outside fully naked just to wear a sign with what you want the press to notice, that they aren’t listening to the people anymore, just each other? And will getting arrested for that protest help? How many of you does there have to be? How drastic must you go?

I’ve said it a hundred times, but at this rate I figure it’ll be the one thing people quote of mine after I’m dead. I kind of hope so. If you can’t get to know a person as an individual, you’re fucked up. Race, features, personality, gender, sex, orientation, class, education, language, personal preferences, you name it. If you’re both trying, and you’re still the one focused on bullshit they don’t care about, you’re the fucked up one.

Absolute Justice doesn’t care who you are. Just what. Criminal, or in the way = death. In Film Z, Aokiji mentions he HATES this song. And I can see why.

You are not allowed a self a sense, a sense of “other,” just your duty. Just the justice. The obligation of a soldier. To live and die on the sea. It’s beautiful… and heartbreaking. That was Zephyr’s problem, of course. Pirates not only took everything, his identity, his arm, but even his family. And rather than finding solace in justice, he was forced to try to accept that the pirate using that to boost his career and name was indeed rewarded for it and given protection from Zephyr. Melting down the New World? I can see why it might sound attractive to him at that point.

Aokiji’s “Lazy” justice is his cop-out for admitting he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know, it’s all fucked up, maybe it can’t be fixed, but no one has the right answers yet certainly, but he knows it isn’t killing endless parades of civilians and marines in the hopes that it’ll dwindle pirates’ numbers, because LOOK AT IT, it’s not working, and it’s only making the Revolutionary Army stronger as more people just want to get out of the way of slaughter for nothing. At least the Revolutionary Army suggests freedom not for oneself, but for others.

Smoker’s “true” justice is taking time to find the truth, to try to figure it all out, and when all else fails, taking the hard route, knowing it hurts, knowing it sucks, knowing there are consequences, but that’s the way the world is. – Obviously this resonates with me.

So as to why I mentioned GG again, because it isn’t that those we fight believe in absolute justice, or any kind of justice at all, it’s that they wear the jacket of justice, pretend to be for Absolute Justice, but when it comes down to it, they’re out for themselves. Some people have said this is pushing them to Republicanism – which I’m not even going to get into right now, but I will warn, while it may seem like at least those pirates are open about what they want, some of those wearing coats of justice are like Buggy’s prisoners, but without bothering to put an X through the back. This is how Galdino saved Ace’s life. When you’re in a war, everyone looks the same.

And that’s the problem, isn’t it? That’s the problem with thinking like “There’s no bad tactics only bad targets.”

No, it’s a bad tactic if you’re not able to aim it properly. Period. That’s the problem I have with doxxing. Because you aren’t the one planning on calling them to be obnoxious, you’re banking instead on the fact that you know there are others out there obnoxious enough who will. That’s a cop aiming a gun into a crowd hoping it hits the right person. “But a crowd is a bad target,” yes, aiming recklessly is a worse tactic, because you can’t control it.

Our enemy banks on making us the “bad guys,” just as Akainu profits from it. Akainu can only continue Absolute Justice so long as people back him on it. Period. That’s just reality. But even if they knew about him killing his own marines or the harshness involved, like did Akainu REAAAAALLLY back off of Aokiji because of “nakama” or did Kizaru save Aokiji for that reason? Was it a trap? Did Akainu cheat? Who knows, but I certainly do have some skeptical questions. In any case, even if the public knew all of Akainu’s dark side to Absolute Justice, I don’t think they’d turn on him. It’s like (forgive me for this reference but again, bear with me:) George W. Bush. No matter how much he fucked up, he portrayed a strong image and conveyed strength and told people what they want to hear about protection. Akainu does that EN MASSE and even more skillfully because (again, forgive personal clouded vision but:) he’s way more competent. They know he’ll do what it takes to see his jobs done, that’s why they wanted him more than Aokiji. Period.

The lesson here for #GamerGate is to stay individualist – but UNITED. People try to point to our individualism as a weakness, because it is our singular greatest strength, and they try to say we can’t be together without taking responsibility for ~~~other anons~~~ because ~~~they~~~ opposing us don’t have to worry about that because they’re totally not (sic) trying to enact a collectivist conformity that punishes anyone stepping outside what the dictators who seize control decide upon as rules.

Fuck that.

Luffy’s greatest strength in his crew is that even though they are a team, they all can do their shit individually, or not. This gives them room for EVERYTHING. It gives them room to say “RESCUE THE BABIES” and entertain them and lead them outside into the snow, fuck shit up with Law and Smoker…. and go RIGHT BACK IN AGAIN, while others are off exploring and fighting dragons (Fuq the what?) Us too. We can just be ourselves. They’re fucked.

But it’s why I have to go bigger and can’t settle for just “Well they gave some disclosures,” not ever. Because this shit is right at the top of my organization, and it’s a long fight but it’s only building.

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I can go on about justice for like…. volumes and volumes of books. And throw in some One Piece and political ground and individualism and art, and this will never end, but I THINK that about sums it up as best I can. If there’s more, ask me questions ;) And don’t worry, I love a good debate! So definitely reply if you want! Or use this as a springboard for your own discussions, I’ll love it.





****Sub-note: Tangentially related to Absolute Justice. I get asked a lot if I think Smoker knows Bartolomeo since he seems to have been a criminal and around Loguetown, yet Smoker never lost anyone before! ENTIRELY PLAUSIBLE! But I think Smoker wouldn’t actually mind Bartolomeo that much! Bartolomeo is a subversive punk, yeah, but lbr, so is Smoker. I literally wouldn’t be surprised if Smoker bought Barty drinks every now and again for info on the other brats of the region. Especially since Barty is way more kicked puppy, and WAY LESS puppy-kicker. He acts growly and tough because he HAS to, but again, so does Smoker. Inside they are squishy happy fanboy puppies. Smoker is probably going to be jealous that Barty got to hang out with HIS not-executed hero, and Smoker didn’t get to hang out with Roger ever, and then he’ll get his revenge by pointing out he and Luffy are old prison mates by now :|

On the Absolute Justice note: so why isn’t Barty still in jail, nor even in jail when Buggy held his mock execution? Like I said, I don’t think Smoker minded him. And this again goes to Absolute Justice vs. True Justice. True justice HAS to concede that not all pirates are the worst, that citizens and lives in the here and now you KNOW you can do something about have to take precedence over even a niggling suspicion that someone might accidentally/on purpose bring about the end of the world. Plus I’m not kidding about how much I’d be laughing my sides off at Barty doing that in the coliseum. I LITERALLY would not be surprised if he even made Smoker laugh once or twice on rare occasions with some dumbass super punk shit to the upper brass or Loguetown nobles. Smoker is NOT well-liked in Loguetown. Even the civvies call him a monster. Enter Bartolomeo who is all about “Fuck ya’ll I do what I want, where I want, when I want, and if you don’t like it, you can suck my pierced dick~!” and yeah no, I literally wouldn’t be surprised at all if Smoker not-so-secretly didn’t hate Barty. I mean the man’s DF is all about PROTECTION too. If he wasn’t so hard core on the “Fuck ya’ll I’mma smoke my weed and play an accordion, I bet you’re jealous now, yeah? YEAH?” he probably could have EASILY been one of Smoker’s G5 guys. I mean… Closest to Straw Hat or not? Those dudes adore Smoker. And they are all punks. Most of them are pretty much criminals…. and “disgrace of the marines” FITS, you know? And the more they’re punks? The more Smoker is comfortable being himself. THAT SAYS IT ALL.

Absolute Justice would have Barty killed as an obvious menace to society. True Justice says “Let’s have a drink, and you can tell me about your nose ring. Doesn’t it hurt if other punks try to pull on it like this?” You get the picture. True Justice = Don’t get fooled by appearances. Absolute Justice = They were an inevitable casualty of our war on the enemy. (whoever they are)