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"
""Putin – Fuck – Putin – Fuck" shouted at Russia's Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia, among other things this evening after Azerbaijan restarted it wars of aggression against the people of Armenia today. Russia had gotten itself designated as "peace keeper" in the conflict, but didn't do nothing to keep peace once the aggression restarted."
now with hastily applied color because i love color, i do, but how the fuck do people speed fill shapes without having to lasso the entire outline??? idgi, procreate has that feature apparently yet a bitch does not have procreate money ssso. hm. literally the only thing stopping me from full color comics, like I JUST learned about layer lock coloring only 3 years ago. i know brush tool, eraser tool and CTRL + Z and thassall rly
I thought cancelling Khoreva was understandable but Kim and Nagahisa?? Unhinged. They've won the event before, they have personal ties to YAGP, it was in part YAGP which got them to the company they're currently trying to shun. Regardless of that it's so strange to invite them only to ban them from performing at the last second.
Technically, they were banned by the directors of Lincoln Center (the Koch Theater), which is run by a quasi-government agency. The Ukrainian Embassy and the Ukrainian diaspora in NYC threatened a mass protest outside during the event, so the theater refused to let them perform. The organizers of the YAGP could have moved forward but didt want to burn a bridge. It was such a dumb move. If they had not invited Khoreva, I think it would have been fine. But I think her participation was the tipping point.
I both 100% support Ukraine, but think this was handled very poorly.
""War is human nature" - show me the poor person that ever won a war? We fight wars for rich men who own everything, don't be blaming us when they happen - not one time has a bunch of broke Americans decided to just invade Canada for shit's and giggles. Even the private colonialism the US engaged in, in Latin America, was run by companies and rich men, not hicks with guns."