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When he ends up making friends with literally everyone and then doing things on their behalf, it pretty much ends up being that, by default. It's not a save the world mentality, but when you're helping and saving that many people, you pretty much are. You're going through serious mental gymnastics here to try to say Luffy would only help a select few people, when we know that isn't the case. I mean, anyone who seems like a genuinely decent person he will befriend. And I never said he sought out to do these things; they kind of fall into his lap. But if it's in front of him, he's not going to turn away someone in need or tell them to go fuck themselves. This has been a pet peeve of mine all along. So it makes sense it would come up again when the arc's villains get off scot free, which happened just recently, and we are also reflecting on the arc in general now that it's ended. This happened the first time with Eneru and I was fucking livid. When Goku was a kid, he straight up killed people. He gave no shits. One of my major criticisms of his character as an adult is his stupid merciful bullshit, which annoys me to no end. There's not really any explanation for why Goku changes his policy on this after he grows up, either. Well, maybe Chichi took away his balls. Makes as much sense as anything else. Or the kind-hearted and naive nature of his childhood extended to the point where he would be aware of what he was doing and stop himself from killing his enemies. Did he grow up or mature somewhat in this way? I mean, he destroyed an entire army as a child, him and Yajirobe fucking ate that one Piccolo henchman. Difference between wanting and happening to kill. I'm not sure Goku intended to kill all the people he did as a kid... well, maybe sometimes, but point is, he gave no shits. Not sure how I am going to get used to it if I haven't gotten used it by now. I had been used to the earlier policy of the show where a villain would either die or be imprisoned, or, at the very least, if neither of these happened, we were allowed to think that COULD have happened, because we didn't have shit like "OH BY THE WAY ENERU IS LIVING ON THE MOON NOW." So, I got used to things when they were being done properly, before Oda's abrupt reversal. I mean, if you want to make it so it doesn't look like the hero is a psychopath or whatever, why do we need to see that character ever again after they've been beaten? Let us think they died. Let us think the World Government threw them in jail shortly after the Straw Hats left. Let us think whatever. But no, we find out these characters are still around, for some reason living mundane, mild-mannered lives, and not trying to start shit again, because... because. It's stupid. Like I said, if you don't want to have the killing thing, just leave it to our imaginations. There's no reason to show them again. I know Oda likes to save characters for later, but just because he can, doesn't mean he has to, especially not in every case, and especially not in cases where it makes the story worse and undoes the satisfaction of villains getting defeated.

I educate myself plenty. There's plenty to be learned if you just look, read, observe. So you discriminate against people that hate ISIS and MS-13? Okay, then. If you want to sympathize with criminals and terrorists, be my guests. And even the ones that aren't criminals, are siphoning off benefits, taking jobs, driving down wages. We can barely take care of our own people, much less people that illegally break into our country. These illegals are treated better than our veterans. It's sickening, disgusting, and those days are over. You obviously didn't read the article. Pure democracy results in mob rule and tyranny of the majority. It leads to the majority voting away the rights of the minority, for example. Not really sure how it shows favoritism since the most populous states are still important. You obviously don't know much about history or the form of government this country has, and why it has the form of government it has. It's not a democracy, and there's good reason for that. And as I said, you wouldn't care at all if Hillary won the electoral and lost the popular. So spare me this bullshit. I had gone on record as saying I wasn't following government and political stuff as closely for a while, because I was getting sick of the bullshit. I think I'm entitled to that. That election went on forever. Doesn't mean I didn't follow things closely before that time, and after I got over being burned out, I started following closely again. Well, they don't have to provide ID so what is to stop them from voting? And this is to say nothing of all the dead people that voted and people that voted in multiple places. http://www.fairus.org/issue/noncitizens-voting-violations-and-u-s-elections

Yeah, I don't see that happening with Moria and Hogback, lol.

Again, not sure what you have been watching. Luffy and the others have definitely set out to do things to help others, in ways that wouldn't necessarily benefit themselves. I mean, Eneru is a pretty prime example of this. Not sure about grudges because again he attacks people who hurt his friends. This can be after the fact, after he's already saved them. So I wouldn't really say it's not a goal. You're making it out like Luffy is a sociopath to anyone who isn't on his crew, which is ridiculous. I mean, Luffy's IRL friends list must be in the Guinness Book of Records! And again, what's to stop the enemy you don't kill from returning and visiting even worse pain on the people you left behind and helped. Many of the arcs' villains could in theory do this very thing, or at least do it to someone else. It makes everything you did pointless. Crocodile was at least thrown in jail. Arlong died or maybe got arrested after they left. Kuro hopefully dead. But after a certain point they all get off scot free. It's fucking retarded. What kind of story is it where your villain gets no punishment and is free to wreak havoc as soon as they get finished licking their wounds?

I'm sure, but like you said, it's not like he's holding back to stop himself from killing them, either, and he probably wouldn't care if they died or feel bad about it. And sometimes, when it comes to protecting someone you care about and/or yourself, you have no choice but to kill the person. You know, self-defense, as it were.

I wouldn't say that since he clearly cared about those people and vowed to help them. Hell, was doing to do it just to help Brook at first. And there's been plenty of other times where the Straw Hats intervened when the didn't have to. I mean you must not have been watching the whole show if you think Luffy doesn't care about these people in these different places they visit. Same goes for the rest of the Straw Hats.

I follow all the news as well. You clearly aren't paying attention or have selective standards or listening, or don't believe the plans he has or what he is doing is actually being put into action. It's clearly all just made up, right? Or perhaps you just simply don't believe that what Trump is doing is going to work. Which is fair enough. We'll see though. I mean, what Obama was doing clearly wasn't working. It's idiotic to do more of the same.

Not only that, but while liberals supposedly support diversity, they abhor diversity in beliefs, values, opinions, etc. Just look at Mochi just now. You dare go against them on anything and you're the worst kind of evil on the earth. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. That's not going to win anyone over to their side. You know if Joe Lieberman ever got the nomination I'd probably vote for him. Not sure if you realized, but this country isn't a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. Having pure democracy leads to tyranny of the majority and mob rule. Things for example, like prop 8, which I'm sure you weren't in favor of. This is also why we have the Senate and the House. House is proportional representation, Senate is equal representation. Things like this and the electoral college make it more fair. And something tells me you wouldn't be complaining it if it went the other direction. http://www.economist.com/node/15127600 You really need to educate yourself and be careful of what you are wishing for if you think getting rid of the electoral college is a good idea. And again, if it was an election on pure majority, Trump would have adjusted his strategy accordingly and still won. And let's not forget all the illegals that vote Democrat. That's why they want amnesty. It's more to have an indefinite welfare under-class that lockstep votes for them and keeps them in power than actually caring about these people. Let's be real. Not racist to oppose illegal immigration, either, given what those people do to this country's economy, jobs, wages, and its citizens directly, not to mention most Hispanics oppose illegal immigration.

He killed that metal dude at least. So... he doesn't care if they immediately return and undo all the progress the Straw Hats made in said arc. Okay, then. That's retarded.

The hatred is all invented in his head. He gets off on these masochistic fantasies, I swear.

You're delusional. It's not even worth arguing with you. And these sort of false accusations, hysteria, and character assassination are exactly why Trump won, and you're only pushing more people to his side with this idiocy. You're not self-aware and you've learned nothing from the election results, this much is clear.

You evidently didn't see the meeting with the manufacturing CEOs and some of the other stuff that's went on. Trump is bringing back jobs and will continue to do so. It's a quick video. Point is, he is getting us better trade deals, getting companies to play ball and stay or come back to America, getting rid of regulations that cost us money and jobs, etc. I'm not aware of any racial discrimination, but as I said already, I believe the bathroom thing is a misstep. Though if I'm not not misunderstood, the Obama directive wasn't even legally binding, was it? Securing our border and making the country safer and getting rid of illegal immigration will only do wonders for jobs and the economy. The same goes for protecting us from radical Islamic terrorists. No one is going to want to work and spend money if they don't feel safe. So yeah, there's been a jobs plan, and he's carrying it out. I don't get the weed thing, either, since again, that's not even supposed to be a position Trump holds. War on Drugs should be ended. Redirect those resources elsewhere. Oh yeah, there's big infrastructure spending planned too. We saw the folly of not doing enough of this with that dam that just failed. And after that, they plan to reform the tax code. What is radical to you might not be radical to me. And I do agree there have been some missteps. But, it has only been a month. We'll see how things go.

Drake & Josh were comedy cancer to begin with. And weren't Youtube Poops a thing like 12 years ago? No way in hell am I clicking that.

You can beat someone to death. It's quite possible. And the way he's left some people... damn. And I don't know how the hell anyone survives some of these fights with Zoro, not just because of his personality and bloodlust, but because of the attacks he uses, oh, and he uses FUCKING SWORDS. It's a dumb code if Oda does have such a code. Well no, but they do help people if they happen to show up somewhere just as the shit is about to hit the fan and people are in peril (which happens almost every arc), so going by that logic, it doesn't make much sense to just beat them up and leave, when said villain could return and undo everything they did to help those people. Doesn't sound like something that would be in character for them, either.

Perona was cute, man. Love her. I think she's more redeemable than the others. Especially if she joined Moria at a young age and she felt indebted to him or whatever. The only guy I remember them killing "recently" was when Zoro killed that metal sword dude. And he did kill that samurai... though he was already dead. Zoro is the one I see the least likely to grant mercy. I mean, he pretty much gets off on fighting and killing people. But yeah, it's not satisfying for a villain that's defeated to just live and fight another day. You mentioned Batman, and again, they're not supposed to have a no-kill rule, and we can chuckle about how One Piece will never end, but it's not like American comic series that literally will never end; there's no reason to preserve these villains for future story arcs. They're done. Kill them or at least lock 'em up somewhere. It's annoying. I mean, Eneru... fucking Eneru man... after all that shit he did... and he gets to live on the moon? What the fuck kind of result is that? The least that should've happened is he died going mad with that ship that ended up burning up in the atmosphere or crashing, or he asphyxiates in the vacuum of space or some shit. *SIGH* At least I can take solace in the fact that the scene showing Kuro later on apparently wasn't in the manga.

I dunno they definitely have bloodlust in some cases. You saw how they went after the Franky Family. Which, this is something I do give the show credit for, even for all the light-hearted, largely positive nature of things, it doesn't do the whole REVENGE IS BAD AND CAN ONLY LEAD TO YOUR OWN SELF-DESTRUCTION BLAH BLAH BLAH bullshit. Fairy Tail didn't do that either, which I liked. Also, if you don't put someone down for good, they can come back to cause problems for you in the future, or harm someone else.

Obamacare already increased costs and lessened choice for those already insured, fucked up and rejiggered things completely. I know it fucked up things for me and a lot of other people I know. Only people it helped were those too cheap to buy insurance or the ones paradoxically too poor to afford it yet somehow couldn't medicaid. The Republicans were supposed to have had something in place to replace it, should they finally be able to repeal it. If they haven't come up with anything in all this time then that's pretty stupid. Ryan was supposed to have something. I don't know. But, if all else fails, Repeal and Replace may become Repair and Rebrand. I mean, they already said they were going to keep the good parts of Obamacare, whatever those are...

Honestly the the bathroom thing and the weed thing both seem like colossal missteps. I don't get it. Especially since Trump himself is not supposed to have any issue with weed legalization or medical use, at least. It's a waste of resources and causing a distraction. People are talking about this stuff, and no one is talking about economic nationalism and the other messages the administration wants to get out.

Well, we have social media now, which we can use to shame them and shine the sunlight on their shittiness. If that doesn't work, the least we can do is tell everyone not to buy the discs and everyone who bought them to return them. A hit to their pocket book might convince them to change their tune. And if it doesn't, at least they get punished and no one else ends up with busted releases. I can't see this company getting by with this, though.

Hogback was already an evil creep, on account of him just being a doctor "for the money," or whatever, and well, having that creepy crush on that girl. I'm sure he would've ended up to no good somehow, even if it wasn't exactly like this. He also said he was tired of helping people and hearing them begging Hogback to save their loved ones, and that it wasn't challenging enough for him or something, which is another reason why he joined Moria. Dude was fucked up.

Random indeed. Leaks, haha.

So, Brook comes from a time before Gold Roger and his exploits. I'd like to know more about that era.

Even going by crazy One Piece character design standards, still doesn't look human. He's got horns, pointed ears, and fangs.

Yeah, no way that guy was human. Unless that all came from Hogback's alterations. Moria does have stitching on him. But I dunno, he looks pretty vampiric and demonic to me. I don't think it could all come from Hogback working on him. Of course, Hogback himself is like a mash-up of a vampire and a mad doctor. Pretty much. Not that they're much better.