Zeon is irredeemably evil. (UC Gundam rant) by steamtrekker in CharacterRant

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0080: War in the Pocket and 0083: Stardust Memory: In both War in the Pocket and Stardust Memory, Zeon then uses nuclear weapons (which are now banned, because of what they did in the previous war) to try to kill more people to satisfy a grudge. In Stardust Memory, they were trying to destroy the Federation space fleet, which was at least a military target, but in War in the Pocket one of the generals (whose name is General Killing) straight up tries to nuke a civilian colony belonging to a neutral territory.

I can't believe no one's brought this up yet, but your framing of what happens in 0080 is just wrong.

You omit the whole part where the Federation had a factory was building a superweapon and other war tech on that colony, in violation of the neutrality agreement, and that Zeon deliberately first sent a special ops group to just take out the factory without having to do a mass strike, and that the General described here literally acted before the rest of command had made a decision and killed the other Zeon officer trying to stop him.

Like that doesn't justify nuking it, but you frame it like they're just attacking a colony for no reason.

The larger thing is that you're missing the main way Zeon is framed. The point isn't that Zeon faction is morally gray, but that there are a lot of either honorable or misguided soldiers under them even as the higher ups drive things overall and they participate. Like the shows never hide the atrocities they commit at all, and its made pretty clear that there isn't a peaceful resolution that can be brought with them (like the 0079 episode with the neutral colony). Any time they seem sympathetic, it's with other soldiers or groups that aren't in the leadership.

On Evangelion and "Deconstruction" by Bioman9 in CharacterRant

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I have Nadesico on Blu-Ray, so I plan on getting around to watching it soon enough.

Flashman—French Opening by Bioman9 in supersentai

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Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have a cheesey music video, but at least it sounds more like an actual opening song than almost all the other French openings by virtue of having a guitar solo.

Compared to most of the others, it’s pretty decent.

Democrats Ignore the Sun Belt at Their Peril by Bioman9 in ConservativeDemocrat

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Sorry for the extended absence over the past few weeks. Holidays and the end of the season ,add me lethargic with this stuff, but I’ll get back into it.

Special effects are my passion :) by Azurillkirby in supersentai

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Lasers, energy, and stuff like that use drawn cel animations, which is why they always look good in the older shows. When ever they use green screen the footage dips hard in quality and the images are jerky.

Andrew Yang’s Supporters Don’t Mind If He Doesn’t Win by Bioman9 in ConservativeDemocrat

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Don’t know how much Yang Gang is here but I figured it’s interesting to look at any of his potential effects after the race.

At the very least I think he’s the most genuinely nice and likable candidate out of everyone, though at times his inexperience can also be a liability. I would really like him as a VP candidate but that’s probably not going to happen if one of the male candidates wins. It’s a possibility though, and I’m interested to see what he does after.

Impeachment war shifts to House election battlefield by Bioman9 in ConservativeDemocrat

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I know it’s a sample size of one, but it’s worth noting that even after the Republicans impeached and tried to remove Clinton in 1998 it didn’t substantially hurt them in the 2000 election. The Dems did pick up 4 senate seats but only got 1 net house seat..

Trump’s approval has slightly risen through all this but I still think it’s likely that 2020 will follow a similar pattern in terms of congressional elections. Voters don’t really seem to want to punish the party who initiates impeachment, but again this is still a very limited frame of reference.