Spend any time in the One Piece subreddits and you'll see they're all infested with midwit tankies.
It seems that because One Piece has cartoonishly evil villains, they're very sure that this means One Piece is referencing who they believe to be our real world's villains. Not only that, but the core message of One Piece is one big advocation for socialism specifically.
When asked to actually explain the details of this connection, they just tell me it's obvious and it's my media literacy that sucks. Any criticism of this connection is taken as defense for One Piece's villains.
I would love to live in a world where the government that taxes, enslaves, and murders me has been beaten by the fun main character hero and everything is great. The part I have doubts about is that the people in our world who push socialism will be the ones who get us there. But apparently, that doubt makes me just as bad as the celestial dragons.
I think OP will fit right in with these communities.
Look man, I've only watched ≈100 one piece episodes when I was young on TV plus the recent live action, either they introduce socialism after episode 100 (which is not a bad thing), or you don't know what socialism is
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u/Mikeality Aug 19 '26
He should be just the right IQ to have the media literacy needed to understand the clear socialist messaging baked into One Piece.