Turns out a longtime friend of mine who I lost touch with a bit for the last few years has been in a relationship with an ex taxi skin who was in a pretty hard-core fucking gang. He's got tatts still. When another pal saw them he went off about how ashamed he is of it and how that's not him anymore and blah blah blah. This is a guy who was in a violent right wing street gang. He hurt people. Don't throw a fucking pity party when you can even bother to get your nazi tattoos covered up. You've gotta make at least an attempt at reparations, if he's not spending more time volunteering to make up the damage he's done than he did doing hate crimes, fuck him.
This comment may be too fringe to make sense, but like literally every plot in FFXIV involves offering forgiveness and redemption to the villains. All of them. Regardless of how awful they were, it always just turns out that they were misunderstood or misguided and it turns out we should actually make allies with them
When Pony Hitler showed up in Friendship is Magic, she used the local customs of forgiveness to rise to power and almost entirely overthrew the existing state.
When she was defeated, no more of that. She was sent to literal pony hell.
When pastel ponies have a less leaky justice system than Steven Universe, that's really something.
This ain’t Steven Universe, I am not obligated to forgive fascists for something they’re not even sorry for at LEAST.
People need to be taught early on, that it is acceptable to NOT forgive certain people.
That’s always bugged me, there’s no shortage of smarmy assholes who eagerly tell you that “respect is earned and not given.”
But western culture seems mortified of the idea that instead, it is forgiveness that is earned rather than something people are entitled to.
Turns out a longtime friend of mine who I lost touch with a bit for the last few years has been in a relationship with an ex taxi skin who was in a pretty hard-core fucking gang. He's got tatts still. When another pal saw them he went off about how ashamed he is of it and how that's not him anymore and blah blah blah. This is a guy who was in a violent right wing street gang. He hurt people. Don't throw a fucking pity party when you can even bother to get your nazi tattoos covered up. You've gotta make at least an attempt at reparations, if he's not spending more time volunteering to make up the damage he's done than he did doing hate crimes, fuck him.
This comment may be too fringe to make sense, but like literally every plot in FFXIV involves offering forgiveness and redemption to the villains. All of them. Regardless of how awful they were, it always just turns out that they were misunderstood or misguided and it turns out we should actually make allies with them
When Pony Hitler showed up in Friendship is Magic, she used the local customs of forgiveness to rise to power and almost entirely overthrew the existing state.
When she was defeated, no more of that. She was sent to literal pony hell.
When pastel ponies have a less leaky justice system than Steven Universe, that's really something.
If it helps, she got to share space in pony hell with her long-time pen pal and fellow villain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtirbU9qnkI
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Even if they're sorry, that's not really enough for me. That's just like...I can tolerate you living level of acceptance
I want to imagine a Steven Universe character named Brick lmao