Beerus featured in US White House promo video

[JulieYBM]

This video was made by and for...well...let's just say a certain word Gohan used in the Boo arc. Now, I rather not say this word in mixed company but it should be noted that curse words in Japanese don't necessarily have the same connotations. The word could be bluntly translated but it could also be something along the lines of "fool" or "slowpoke."

Calling people susceptible to propaganda 'retards' isn't the win that you think it is. There's a better way to go about this than using a term that conservative bigots would sooner use themselves to describe an autistic person.

[Sensiblesaiyans]

No copyright infringement claim is going to pass or work as long as America has the biggest and largest army.

[dbgtFO]

Well no surprise
They want to be seen as cool and co-opted by anything and everything so including well known memes and iconography from popular and memetic franchises and using it to legitimize their imperialist conquests is to be expected.

In short the world is fucked and the rights holders can try suing, but it will be stuck in legal limbo, while the evil administration moves on to abusing others.

[BernardoCairo]

Like I've said, the only work from his that I'd be fine with people calling political is Sand Land, the rest of his repertoire straight up does not deserve to be called political.

It's not about merit, because being a political or not is nothing special. Being a political isn't necessarily better than not being one.
Several of Toriyama's one-shots deal with political themes. He based his stories on reality, which is political by nature. This doesn't mean he wanted to give the audience a "great lesson" or anything like that. But he constantly used these themes to enrich his stories.
Pink is the best example because the whole story revolves around it.

[lansing]

What is this fantasy world logic? Since we blew up their nuclear facilities a couple months ago, we can now sit back and let them rebuild it again?

So your solution is to keep bombing them until they stop? That sounds great until they, you know, don't stop. Which you are already explicitly assuming they won't. Where does that sequence of events end, and exactly how comfortable are you with it going there? This is the thing about genies: They don't go back into the bottle. Technological advances only ever get easier. If a country REALLY wants nuclear weapons, if they're totally committed to sparkle motion, it's simply a matter of time until they get them. A lot of time? Maybe. But still just time. Law of large numbers.

Even if this conflict results in regime change without our boots being on the ground, the country is still gonna lowkey want nuclear weapons, like every country with enemy borders wants them. Unless you want to be a complete psycho and glass the whole country (in which case you belong in a concrete box), you'd best prepare for the reality of a nuclear Iran.

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

[johnboy1]

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Christ, you sound like a child. I can only hope you are, so you have time to grow up. Life isn't an action movie, and "just kill them" is an appalling go-to response for international relations.

[Makaioshin]

Calling people susceptible to propaganda 'retards' isn't the win that you think it is. There's a better way to go about this than using a term that conservative bigots would sooner use themselves to describe an autistic person.

Now hold the fort...I've never used such a term. There is a lot of nuance when it comes to translation and my comment lies within that nuance.

[MasenkoHA]

What is this fantasy world logic? Since we blew up their nuclear facilities a couple months ago, we can now sit back and let them rebuild it again?

So your solution is to keep bombing them until they stop? That sounds great until they, you know, don't stop. Which you are already explicitly assuming they won't. Where does that sequence of events end, and exactly how comfortable are you with it going there? This is the thing about genies: They don't go back into the bottle. Technological advances only ever get easier. If a country REALLY wants nuclear weapons, if they're totally committed to sparkle motion, it's simply a matter of time until they get them. A lot of time? Maybe. But still just time. Law of large numbers.

Even if this conflict results in regime change without our boots being on the ground, the country is still gonna lowkey want nuclear weapons, like every country with enemy borders wants them. Unless you want to be a complete psycho and glass the whole country (in which case you belong in a concrete box), you'd best prepare for the reality of a nuclear Iran.

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Please touch grass

[LostTimeLord]

Sadly, this is not a new thing. In 2025, the U.S. government posted a video of ICE detainings set to the Pokémon theme. It's sickening.

If The Rebirth of Fusion!! Goku and Vegeta was released today, there would absolutely be a subset of people complaining that it's 'political' and 'virtue signalling' and 'made for activists and not fans' because of the sequence where Gotenks fights "The Dictator". But putting that aside, a work being non-partisan, or having mainstream values, or not challenging its audience, doesn't make it non-political.

And if the Trump administration reminds me of anything from Dragon Ball, it's the scene in Battle of Gods where Majin Boo is so stubborn and childish that he would rather put the entire planet at risk than share his dessert with someone.

[lansing]

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Christ, you sound like a child. I can only hope you are, so you have time to grow up. Life isn't an action movie, and "just kill them" is an appalling go-to response for international relations.

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

[johnboy1]

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

Killing your problems only creates more problems that you have to kill. Do that long enough and other people start realizing that YOU'RE the problem. That's how the real world works, as history has shown countless times. You can't carpet bomb the world into peace, and I defy you to argue otherwise.

[JulieYBM]

Engaging with users who do not have anything serious to say about serious feeds back into that conservative psy op to make the world insane by making online discourse as toxic as possible. I think that's important to keep in mind and why I also think certain users should just be banned instead of entertained for repeating the same dense bullshit over and over.

We're not going to win over a guy with the same repetitive behavior of being anti-intellecutual despite being kindly explained to why they're wrong over and over.

[Hellspawn28]

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Wow! How can write something so stupid?! Killing people and using violence should not be the answer for anything. War is bad, and will always be. You're the type of people who is a victim of pro war propaganda, who believes that killing is the best way to do stuff. People like you are the reason why America is such a barbaric nation. Telling people that invading countries and wars are good. And how awesome nuclear weapons are.

It's also America's fault for having nuclear weapons in the first place. Something that should have never been made.

[lansing]

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

Killing your problems only creates more problems that you have to kill. Do that long enough and other people start realizing that YOU'RE the problem. That's how the real world works, as history has shown countless times. You can't carpet bomb the world into peace, and I defy you to argue otherwise.

The last time I checked the Iranian people were crying and celebrating on the street in joy when we took out their leader. The same thing happened to the Venezuelan people when we kidnapped their president. Maybe it's time to get out of your fantasy world?

[Hellspawn28]

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

Killing your problems only creates more problems that you have to kill. Do that long enough and other people start realizing that YOU'RE the problem. That's how the real world works, as history has shown countless times. You can't carpet bomb the world into peace, and I defy you to argue otherwise.

The last time I checked the Iranian people were crying and celebrating on the street in joy when we took out their leader. The same thing happened to the Venezuelan people when we kidnapped their president. Maybe it's time to get out of your fantasy world?

If someone did the same to the US leader, would you consider a good thing just like what happen to them?

[Yellow Flower King]

I am absolutely proud of the absolutely great people who dont ACCEPT THE INSANITY. CALL OUT THIS INSANITY AND EMBRACE the idea that Trump is fucking deranged. That should be a statement said with great force.

[Hellspawn28]

Having characters like Beerus, Yugi, Deadpool, Master Chief, etc. for this just screams "This is my favorite fictional character, and they would agree with my political views". Imagine back in the 00s and telling people that the US White House would use characters from Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball, Marvel, etc for pro-war propaganda 20 years from now. They would think that you are nuts.

[johnboy1]

The last time I checked the Iranian people were crying and celebrating on the street in joy when we took out their leader. The same thing happened to the Venezuelan people when we kidnapped their president. Maybe it's time to get out of your fantasy world?

The people of Iraq celebrated when we toppled Hussein's government. Guess what? It didn't keep the war from being a terrible decision.

[ThunderPX]

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Christ, you sound like a child. I can only hope you are, so you have time to grow up. Life isn't an action movie, and "just kill them" is an appalling go-to response for international relations.

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

You understand that by this logic, all of this applies to the US too, right? You cool with our country getting nuked too?

[Koitsukai]

They will stop when they're dead. Everybody act tough until he saw his name on the Death Note.

Christ, you sound like a child. I can only hope you are, so you have time to grow up. Life isn't an action movie, and "just kill them" is an appalling go-to response for international relations.

Stay in your moral high ground all you want, but that's not how the real world works. You don't play Mr. Nice Guy with a terrorist regime.

DBS Goku starting to look like Dr. Gero on NZT next to you, little man.