#war is bad

[short-wooloo]

I feel like people miss the point of the "war is bad" message

What it's supposed to mean is that war is terrible, it's destructive, it ruins lives, it leaves scars, and you should only partake in it when there are no other options, because even if you win, even if you survive, you will not be the same, which is why the phrase used to be more commonly known as "war is hell"

But "war is bad" seems to have been construed by people in fandom into "any fighting is bad, if you fight you're morally terrible and impure, you should not fight at all, no matter what", this is annoying in fandom, as it often misses the point fiction is trying to make, but what's worrisome is when people apply this to real life, as I have seen people do regarding russia's invasion of Ukraine

And that's almost never the point of "War is Bad" works

Works like Lord of the Rings, Avatar The Last Airbender, Transformers, The Clone Wars, Halo (especially Reach), etc all have themes on how horrible war is, but they categorically do not say it is wrong to fight, what they say is usually along the lines of "war is terrible, and what makes it so terrible is that we have no choice but to fight, it would be ideal if we didn't have to fight at all, but we must fight, because not fighting is not an option, because not fighting, not opposing tyranny, conquest, and evil only allows those things to exist unimpeded"

#wooloo-writes #wooloo writes #war #war is hell #war is bad #lord of the rings #sw #star wars #lotr #avatar the last airbender #atla #transformers #tf #tcw #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #halo #halo reach

[thischristianguy]

Transformers #5 (2024)

Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spencer, Rus Wooton

#comics #transformers #daniel warren johnson #sparkplug witwicky #war is bad #war is hell #ptsd #optimus prime #blaster #bumblebee

[grammarpedant]

AUSTIN: Under the shadow of this war you find yourself wondering—for how long will there be empires? For as long as we breathe? Longer? Will the categories of our conquest outlast us? Or could there come a day for something else?

AUSTIN: We once dreamt that breaking free from our ancient home in the cosmos would allow us to escape the mass and pull of tyranny and trauma. We failed then, but Perennial chaos offers us another chance. Can we launch with such speed that we glide, graceful or imperfect, beyond war and pain... or is the truth more damning than that?

AUSTIN: Might we carry our own gravity with us?

— Austin Walker, PARTIZAN 00: The Divine Principality, 00:01:27

#might we carry our own gravity with us #austin walker #friends at the table #austin walker monologues #partizan #you can REALLY tell it's in dialogue with Gundam #imperialism #war is bad #Bandcamp

[nando161mando]

Better than Swifers ☠️🤣

#Better than Swifers ☠️🤣 #ukraine #ukrainian #wariscapitalism #waristerror #neoliberal capitalism #anti capitalism #capitalist hell #anti capitalist #capitalism #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #class war #war is real #war is hell #war is a racket #war is bad #war #military #military industrial complex #army

[jillyfoo]

Page 43: Big Spike and Mighty Moe Vs the Golden Wasteland

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #skycomic #that sky game #fan comic #webcomic #golden wasteland #sky ocs #skyfriends #golden wasteland spirit #war is bad #valley of triumph

[ruthimages]

#disco elysium #war is bad

[12ratsinagnomecostume]

Whenever people ask whether I am the Mom or Dad to my cat babies, I reply "I am their war lord. Together we have committed several war crimes. In my pants are our war plans".

#Not kidding this is how my sister refers to me in reference to my babies #cats #listen #war is bad #don't do it #Don't condone it #But #It gives me euphoria ok #And confuses people #enby #non binary #enby things #Enby shenanigans #That's not a tag? #enby memes

[moontoonhasnoboobs]

i am not knowledgeable on the israel palestine conflict, but it seems like its another case of history repeating itself

can we not fight about whether its israel or palestine? can we just not take sides and agree all war and violence is wrong? no one is in the right?

i don’t care who did what, both sides are involved, therefore they are both responsible

antisemitism is the oldest discriminatory prejudice, and i cannot tell if this is a result of that (it seems like it) and i don’t know how to feel

sorry if i offended anyone, i just needed to get this out. if there is anything you'd like to say about this subject, please include reasons for the actions if either side and how they retaliated

#war is bad #israel #palestine #antisemitism #i wont be making anymore political posts #mutuals if this bugs you let me know ill remove it #now back to out regularly scheduled shitposts hornyposts and other

[mentally-well-brit]

poets

imagine ur in a ww2 trench next to one of the great poets and ur just a bricky from croyden u try to write a poem but its just girlcringe and the poem-maxxing chad next to you laughs at ur rhymes in a perfect sonnet i'd run over the trench tbh.

#poetry #funny #britcore #ww2 #war is bad #poem maxxing #bricky from croyden #poet #student #validate my comedy

[ellie-sucks-girls-nuts]

the fact that there's not a Devilman VS Godzilla manga baffles me when both stories talk about the same topic.

#devilman #devilman manga #go nagai #godzilla #nuclear #nukes #war is bad #war is stupid #anti war

[im-in-a-love-cult]

If you're a world leader and you can't come to a civil agreement with another leader to the point you feel the need to start a war YOU SHOULDN'T BE A WORLD LEADER!!

#world leaders #presidents #prime minister #war #war is bad #fr #stand with palestine

[nando161mando]

The Empires Must Fall

#TheEmpiresMustFall #wariscapitalism #waristerror #war is a racket #war is bad #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #antinazi #anti capitalist #anticapitalistically #anti capitalist love notes #anticapitalista #anti capitalism #antiauthoritarian #anti war #war #global warming #earth #ecology

[technicallymaximumkitty]

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#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #war is hell #war is real #war is bad

[miraluking-respectfully]

MEAN TO HIM!!!

#they're called pumpkin toadlets and they're bad at everything because they're sososososooo teeny weeny tiny #they're so small that their inner ears don't work and they can't land their jumps properly! they are so little it makes them CLUMSY #and they can't hear each other's mating calls either!!! #WAAAUGGGHGH #animals #edit: i did not mean to post this to my star wars blog but whatever i'm keeping it

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Okay Walter White was actually pretty funny as a character bc he was so toxic that seasoned drug lords were like I cannot work w this man I have to put my mental health first

#like imagine you’re in the drug trade and some war criminal points out this musty old dweeb to you and is like #yeah that guy’s a real asshole #anti walter white #walter white hate blog #breaking bad #brba

[ruthimages]

#Golden kamuy #gk #war is bad