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arcane spends the first season highlighting how brutal and unforgiving the piltover occupation of zaun is its objectively and cartoonishly evil there are almost no redeeming qualties for it but it all shifts when jinx does the piltover equivalent of 9/11 and the messaging shifts from brutal occupation and conflict to the characters not being able to cope with trauma so they now commit facism

jinx and zaun are constantly shunned by the show while caitlyn and piltover are so quick to be forgiven

but in the end its okay because they find a common enemy and obviously the biggest enemy is collectivisim

the show is so hilariously amercian and lib it is not even funny

caitlyn gets to win the girl but jinx gets so guilty that she tries killing herself multiple times and ends up faking her own death and escaping her only family

i am genuinely so fucking pissed

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

i think there's a bit of misinterpretation going on here, the season 2 Piltover 'occupation' of Zaun was not a fascist takeover by the city. Both Piltover and Zaun were becoming a colony of Noxus. Kiramund and her cops literally start wearing their insignia. She's the chosen collaborator of an imperial occupation like Khedive Muhammad Tewfik, not Mussolini.

the movement from this plotline to the alliance in the end is extremely rushed and inadequately set up, I don't think one person is really capable of single-handedly instigating their own colonial domination, and then revolting against it. But anyway the anticolonial struggle melds the national bourgeoisie and working class movement against the occupation, in an expected way, this is not a 'fascist' corporate movement against an external enemy. In fact, the enemy 'collectivism', when it was transparently harnessed to serve empire looks more like fascist false collectivist pretenses than Piltover cops and Zaunite guerillas making a truce to fight an imperial incursion.