StuporTrooper

If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family.

“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Min

This is actually hilarious.

This needs more love.

Mayb I'll make a full post of it later for the whole pasta.

Here's the thing, you said "Azov are Nazis." Are they in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a political scientist who studies democracies, I am telling you, in political science, noone calls Azov Nazis.

:liberalism: We need a strong Republican party! They're reasonable people.

I would say that the magic pretty firmly falls in the magic realism category. As in, it doesn't matter if it's "real" or not because it's presented as real and the characters interpret it that way. Or I'm still misunderstanding magical realism.

Consider that their environment, I'm assuming you're from :amerikkka: or at least the west, has drilled into them since childhood that rugged individualism is what's morally correct. The concept of the superstructure and the base, that the superstructure is the combination of education/media/culture that drives into people repeatedly the message that competition is good and on a subtler level might makes right. The culture which valorizes success as material wealth and demonizes poverty is what leads people to be selfish and uncooperative. It is the sense of compassion and cooperation which has been killed by society and the elite have worked very hard to make it this way.

Cooperation for mutual benefit is human nature 😈

Kurzed gatz was crying in the comments "actually I'm a small business owner and I listed sources."

But we don't see any affects of that. The Metal Bending police aren't shown oppressing non-benders. The Council isn't shown making decisions that favor benders. They aren't shown doing anything really other than responding to the Equalists. It's a purely liberal understanding of government where representation is all that matters, aesthetics.

For instance the victory for non-benders is shown to be having an (I think elected) non-bender president. But what actually changes from that? Metal Benders are still the police, benders are still the military. My complaint is that they only show the surface level, which is why the Equalist movement feels so hollow.

Aang is kind of mid as a bender,

Aang was a prodigy as an Airbender, he became a master at the age of twelve and invented new techniques. He was mid at the other 3 because he hadn't had time to practice.

But I do agree with your overall point. Animes are usually good on this trope because they love the idea of training super hard. That has it's own tropes of bootstrapping, but I love how in the DBZ verse you can just do martial arts hard enough and learn to fly.