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Code of Geass timePermalink On twitter.com
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Nina is a racistPermalink On twitter.com
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Raghava's blowing my mind rn they really teaching me 🥺Permalink On twitter.com
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I complain that Code Geass frustrates me because it's really my a aesthetic. Brutal totalitarian monarchy. Tons of death and rubble. Scifi trains everywhere. A sharp divide between the rich and the poor.Permalink On twitter.com
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Raghava correctly points out that the aesthetic means nothing. Why does the show think there's a divide? What does it propose to do about it? Code Geass coughs up all the wrong answers, sadlyPermalink On twitter.com
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Nina: *worried that scary Japanese people will hurt her as soon as she steps out of the settlement because she's a racist Hwite* Show: "So anyway they call get kidnapped by scary Japanese people"Permalink On twitter.com
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Why is every Japanese civilian who suffers in this show a nameless civilian, whereas the Britannians who are kidnapped are all Lelouch's close friends and classmates?Permalink On twitter.com
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There's a hostage situation rn where the Japanese Liberation Front has taken some Britannians hostage. The general rule of thumb for me is if you have a group names "Liberation Front" or "People's Army" they are the good guys whether the writing recognizes it or notPermalink On twitter.com
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Like this one here. Her body language is like that because she's worried about the hostages. But as a revolutionary wouldn't she also be worried about the JLF successfully advancing the cause of national liberation?Permalink On twitter.com
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The show is literally too busy sobbing over white people to realize what its story isPermalink On twitter.com
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"We're just a resistance group." ?Permalink On twitter.com
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"We're not a resistance group." ??Permalink On twitter.com
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He says they're "Knights fighting for Justice" which seems a) not really true b) kinda like a semantic difference herePermalink On twitter.com
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Suzaki, worst character, says: "I have faith in the system." The show essentially removes left-wing thought from its political map. Instead drawing a line between conforming to a group or challenging the system aloneOn twitter.com
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Unfortunately Code Geass's political set-up is much too similar to real world conflict for this to be excusable. Like, no we still have colonizers here and the solution is liberation and communism not "bein urself" lolPermalink On twitter.com
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The JLF starts killing hostages, and the show expects us to see the colonizers as the reasonable of the two sides here.Permalink On twitter.com
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Suzaku participates in the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians and he's still presented as a valid philosophical voice in the show, but the freedom fighters kill one civilian and the show says "welp they've gone tooo faaarrr oh noooo"Permalink On twitter.com
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is this a gun? a sword? what's happening here?Permalink On twitter.com
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How come the Britannians have specific people in the crowd they care about but the JLF fights for no one we know? Like if Cornelia is in it for Euphemia, why isn't Kusakabe of the JLF in it for his wife and kids from the ghetto, who we can see?Permalink On twitter.com
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The show is supposed to be a political drama about both sides but one side is clearly missing here and it's THE MOST IMPORTANT SIDEPermalink On twitter.com
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Empire: *treats Suzaku like a disposable pawn* Suzaku: "harder daddy"Permalink On twitter.com
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she literally calls this man a slur the person who said a slur is friends with the protagonist and our point of empathyPermalink On twitter.com
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Thank God Code Geass isn't about like, Black liberation or Korean liberation because hoooly shit that'd be bad lolPermalink On twitter.com
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Maybe the JLF guy literally executing Nina is a bit much, but it was a writing choice to make his reaction that in the first placePermalink On twitter.com
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(tho if Nina died nothing of value would be lost)Permalink On twitter.com
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Nina: *says a slur and is racist, immediately faces consequences* Code Geass: "Wow how sad" Why is the show dictating the right way to respond to being called a slur anyway?Permalink On twitter.com
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Bringing back my favorite quote from Black South African student revolutionary Steve BikoPermalink On twitter.com
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This is getting a little ridiculous now her family does genocidePermalink On twitter.com
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why would Lelouch start killing members of the largest left-nationalist resistance group in this world?Permalink On twitter.com
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Lelouch: "Euphemia. You were willing to sacrifice yourself for the commoners" They're not he commoners in this case. The students are all rich, white settler-colonizers. The "commoners" in this world live in ghettos and are subject to ethnic cleansingPermalink On twitter.com
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aw who's a scawed widdle wacist white woman?Permalink On twitter.com
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revolutionary centrismPermalink On twitter.com
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I've never wanted an entire *anime* to read Fanon before this is weirdPermalink On twitter.com
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Every time my man Lulu uses the word "eleven" he signals he's admitting that he sees Japan as rightful Britannian territory. He sides with the colonizers in using this word. He has no interest in national liberationPermalink On twitter.com
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In fact without having seen the show I will guess that Japan doesn't see liberation at all. Lelouch just takes over Britannia and keeps Japan as Area 11 as its new ruler (don't spoil me)Permalink On twitter.com
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This thread is longer than I thought it would be. This is one episode btw, episode 8 So Lelouch goes on this rant where he says he opposes both Britannians and Japanese nationalists who attack unarmed people. Essentially saying he's against "one-sided conflict"Permalink On twitter.com
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But in practice what this means here is that he's only interesting in protecting people who don't organize to defend themselves. He wants you to be a damsel when he saves you, or he'll kill you himself. It's a paternalistic """anti""" colonialismPermalink On twitter.com
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The show also doesn't understand that in parallel situations, violent revolution is incredibly popular among the most oppressed.Permalink On twitter.com
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Whether it's Hamas or revolutionary India or the Panthers or even this summer when the majority of black people supported burning down the Minneapolis 3rd precinct, violence is popular. The people who'd like Lulu's weird centrism are middle class Britannians, usuallyPermalink On twitter.com