Simple, effective. I like it.

Don’t forget nationalism.

It’s very telling that in a series all about the dangers of religious zealotry, racism, and fascism...you come up with “actually capitalism is the real villain!”

“Capitalism means the exploitation of the surplus value of labour of the working class to the enrichment of property holders.”

And apparently “late stage capitalism” means “a company recently did something I don’t like.”

isnt it also kinda partly saying “there is no god/greater deity that will hand you power, that can only come from within yourself” human transmutation seemed largely not to work because the methods they were using were not creating whoever/whatever they thought but were actually retransmuting themselves.

I honestly have to wonder sometimes what the heck people are learning in school.

And here I thought it was trying to explain why forbidden alchemy is forbidden.

This reads like a reach.

it’s pretty easy to read it as fascism

Wow, imagine how an actual critique of capitalism would impact you.

The first anime was edgelord trash, Brotherhood was an actual story.

You have to work really hard to make it an allusion to capitalism, while it’s pretty easy to read it as fascism. If you have to work that hard to make it mean something, it’s probably intended to be something else.

lol, what

and then the inevitable year in review where they dredge this all up again.

Nah

The First Amendment has no standing here - it does not regulate the behavior of private businesses.

Some states have tried with varying degrees of success to issue prohibitions on non-disparagement agreements, arbitration clauses, and some forms of non-disclosure agreement in the workplace but that also wouldn’t really…

Doesn’t the first amendment only guard against government interference in speech? I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to voluntarily agree to limit your speech as part of the terms of a contract with a non-government party. It’s the same principle as NDAs.

Dang, any other objectively false takes to make yourself feel like a special individual?