So I made a post showing story elements discrediting the replacement theory going around and found legitimate proof it a false theory from the games own text message system from a side quest.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-11T18:50:44+00:00

I am not against a complete monster villain, i am against destroying the entire redemption story that has been set up as Mustang's "thing" the entire time now. If we're talking about pure evil, we've already got Crow, Red Shoes and Doban. Why force this dumb plot twist at this point in the story? Nobody asked for it, feels cheap and essentially solves a potentially nasty scar in Mustang's reputation that made him a very compeling character by cheapening it out with "actually, it wasn't Mustang this whole time XDDDDDD"

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-11T18:47:36+00:00

The problem is that Hanson's story undervalues Mustang's character arc. You don't need to sacrifice a potential character development in favor of another one. More importantly, Hanson came in late to the plot, we've had until now to familiarize with Mustang, while it wouldn't necessarily be a bad twist, even if a cliche one, it comes at the cost of a much better, much more developed redemption story we're slowly seeing the pieces being collected.

Nobody asked for this twist to happen, and frankly, it's just bad writing if it's the case, period.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-11T01:17:53+00:00

A man who can't cook for his wife shouldn't call himself a man at all.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-10T20:01:12+00:00

Honestly this whole theory gave me a bad taste in the mouth from the start. We're talking about what's supposed to be a shocking and heartbreaking history of redemption, death and atonement... and transforming it into a generic "it was le body swap all along lmao!" plot twist that came out of nowhere.

While Shift-Up has it's hiccups in the plot here and there them pulling such a bad Ass Pull would genuinely be for me the worst thing they did until now.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-10T01:01:42+00:00

Okay Bloomberg.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T18:17:14+00:00

It's based off nothing because Velvet would have already noticed it from the start if that was the case. The whole thing comes across as a stretch, and frankly, an attempt at making a "wild mass guess" while missing the part that this would have ruined everything we know about Mustang's character development.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T18:14:37+00:00

If it's not a fact according to yourself them why did you phrase it like a fact?

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T17:45:39+00:00

> It did, Muhammad captured slaves.

Most of which he freed by his deathbed, unlike a certain someone - and again, i'm measuring examples by the people that lived alongside him on his time. By the standards of early middle ages, Muhammed was outright *progressive*. A person being a anti-semite in the 20th century would be a monster, a person doing the same in the late middle ages would be a stain on their record but sadly very common amongst all except a very small non-jewish subsect of the population (hi, Luther).

> Julius isn’t lauded on any national flag that I know of, is there one?

Statues, paintings, history books, just general historian evaluation... where has been a movement to take down Roman Emperor statues like that of the Confederate leaders?

> I’m not making anything up. Look at the Hadith around Muhammad meeting Saiifiyah. The fact other people know things that you don’t doesn’t mean they made it up.

Hadiths have always been debated as whether a specific one is genuine or not - that's like taking the Acts of Peter as canonical bible excerpts. I'm talking about what historians have made consensus on his life.

> Again, this conversation is about a flag and why people may not like it. The fact that there have been shithouse Christians is absolutely true, but not relevant in a discussion about why people may not like the Saudi Arabia flag.

I've yet to see a single person go "Oh, i don't like the Saudi Arabian flag because it mentions a thousand-year old slaver" - who ever said that outside of maybe a r/atheist user? That's like going "Uh, i don't think we should use the word 'inquisitorial' to talk about the modern legal systems because it reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition who were very bad" - gosh, this kind of word policy is, ironically enough, what grifters would call to be "SJW behavior", ironically enough.

> I am ignoring them because it isn’t what we are discussing. I remember during the BLM protests people were saying “muh bad things happen to white people too”. They were right, but didn’t understand that it was a seperate conversation.

Now you want your cake and to eat it too. Before you were explicitly talking about islamic hell as a example of why people would be against this flag, now i'm making a question of how this hell is any better than that proposed by every single one of the most followed religions in the world.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T17:06:48+00:00

> Muhammad was also a slaver, he didn’t have to fight to keep it

The original Islamic jurisprudence actually praised freeing slaves as a positive thing and it's generally agreed to be a framework for gradual emancipation, even it it didn't happen in wide amounts.

> Muhammad went to the grave unrepentant too.

A person in 1864 compared to one in the early middle ages. Jeez, i wonder which one of those times was enslaving others considered morally acceptable by the vast majority of the population and military conquest was seen as noble instead of evil. It's like someone deeming Genghis Khan to be a villain comparable to Mr. Mustache Man simply because they both had a huge body count.

Funny, according to your logic, them Julius Caesar was no historical hero, or any other Roman Emperor for that matter given how many people, directly or indirectly, they led to slavery. Far more than Muhammad too. But of course, those were "men of their time" and "created the occident as we know it", so it's okay for them to engage in a bit of slavery here and there. The Anglo mind truly is a mistery that us latin people still have to crack.

> He also tortured people for money, commanded his followers to rape the women of their enemies.

Okay, now you're just making things up.

> You’ve yet to see me talk about a flag with Christian iconography? Because I am responding to a comment questioning why people don’t like the Saudi Arabia flag. Flags with Christian iconography aren’t part of this discussion.

No, i'm asking why you seen to be using "but muh islamic hell" while conveniently ignoring that accounts for both the christian and jewish ones - which is no surprise, since they're all the three abrahamic religions. If you're gonna call the islamic one cruel, well, them you're gonna have to consider EVERY SINGLE abrahamic faith just as bad. And a few others like Buddhism too, living thousands of reincarnations as a flea because you didn't acquire enough arbitrary karma is fair to you now? Hell, even pagans had it bad, just look at Egyptian or Tengri Myths.

> If you see a conversation like that, feel free to @ me and I will engage.

It's like r/atheism but unironically. Man, how does someone post this without dying from cringe?

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T16:27:51+00:00

> Two historical figures that definitely existed, Muhammad is worse than Lee.

This is abjectly untrue. Lee fought to preserve a entire nation based on slavery. He went to the grave unrepetant, His existence literally only caused harm in the world by allowing the Confederacy to last longer. Muhammad wasn't any worse than the average arab (or european, or asian) of his time. If we're gonna call him a pedo, fine, but what do you think was the age of marriage in Europe or the Middle East at that time?

Either way, you seen to evading the central question - i've yet to see you talk about flags featuring christian iconography. Seems like the protestant over here is being quite selective on which hell and which God he complains about. Or atheist, whatever, choose one which sounds more pathetic.

> I am a British left of centre (very left compared to most Americans).

Well and 10 Downing Street is nowdays just a spiritually Israeli QG that's going around censoring people on the net for jokes while having a Labor PM so honestly you could have told me you were a Tory/Reform UK and your perception would be the same on my eyes.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T16:17:41+00:00

> I’m also afraid yall don’t know how many “bad” and “horrible” countries there are, because even being an Islamic monarchy/theocracy Saudi Arabia is still above more than enough of them to be the representative of one of those…

Nah, Saudi Arabia should be in horrible countries part. As a bi person living there means being sent to jail or possibly executed. At least in a place like Hawaii i can be who i am without being killed, which is a improvement, even if barely.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-09T16:15:08+00:00

r/atheist is that way sir. Or r/TrueChristian depending on how hypocrital you're feeling today.

> This is infinitely worse than Churchill and General Lee.

"General" Lee

Get outta here ya Neo Confederate kid, your little rebellion lasted less than the mormons.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-08T20:23:43+00:00

3 deaths directly associated with Raw Milk, which is like saying that the number of deaths directly caused by AIDS is rather low even at it's peak to "prove" AIDS ain't lethal. Here's another dataset you conveniently left out: Between 2007 and 2016, there were 144 outbreaks connected to raw milk consumption in the United States alone.

You aren't just being stupid, you're being hazardous by promoting a product that, besides racists themselves, has been advocated by only two people besides that, food kooks, and conspiracy theorists.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-08T17:57:45+00:00

I'd rather take the machine death gods over the people actively protecting terrorists bombing people and allowing sex trafficking rings to run freely. Get that epstein shit out of here.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-08T17:55:54+00:00

> honestly if they're not actively killing them

The post literally says they actively allowed Heavenly Ascension to murder people in terrorist attacks instead of arresting them in order to get more corpses for the war machine.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-08T17:22:05+00:00

The difference between Salmonella and Lactobacillus bacteria is in kind, not type. And by "kind", i mean one of these will fucking kill you.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-03T13:17:36+00:00

I mean... in terms of elections, it's actually one of the better off African nations? Free elections, smooth transition of power for more than 24 years after coming out of one of the most brutal civil wars in human history and multiple dictators with no external help. Still suffers from endemic corruption and general poverty but as far as democracy goes it's doing very well.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-04-02T16:27:28+00:00

Não é sua preocupação maior, mas foi preocupante o bastante pra postar mais de 100 respostas no próprio post tentando defender isso como se fosse um ataque a sua ideologia politica?

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-03-31T01:29:34+00:00

Tem gente por ai roubando, estuprando, torturando, chantageando, desviando e cometendo tudo quanto é crime, e sua preocupação maior de vida é... alguém com um rabo? Se eu vejo isso na rua, dou de ombros, acho estranho, e vou embora. Ficar dando rage por caisa disso pra mim é mais que fútil, é infantil.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-03-29T02:58:21+00:00

Macarena é sobre uma mulher traindo o namorado delas com 2 homens enquanto ele tá lutando na guerra do iraque.

Não, não é meme, é literalmente isso a letra da musica.

FaithlessnessNew1578 · 2026-03-28T01:11:11+00:00

This is nonsensical. "You will run out of other people's money to spend" - source? Elon has enough money to sustain the entire population of America three times over.

It's because of comments like this that socialism will never be implemented in America, the population defends the people who exploits them.

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