Hypothetically, how would the story change if Jax knew exactly what she was doing to Ribbit and got her killed on purpose? She feels no remorse. In her eyes it was necessary to protect her secrets.
Would Pomni finally disavow her after such a morbid revelation, or would she still think she could fix her?
It’s common for a Jax defender to ask why we don’t hate Caine when he’s just as bad. And beyond the subjective, that Caine didn’t get on my nerves but Jax did, I had no rebuttal.
Then I saw this post, and it all clicked.
Jax was treated with dignity when she died. She was a monstrous piece of shit to everyone around her, and now that she’s finally gone they still coddle her. They built her a tent, they gave her a mural!
It’s sickening.
Jax deserved nothing. All she did was make the lives of everyone around her worse. When Kaufmo, her own friend died, she didn’t even give him the decency of showing up to the funeral. Jax didn’t live a dignified life, she doesn’t deserve dignity in death.
Seriously, what the fuck Pomni. Would it have been so hard to have them put on opposite ends of the mural?
(It’s tagged shitpost but I genuinely believe this)
People are just inventing reasons to not hold her accountable. She was a grown ass woman when she entered the circus.
“It’s over the top shonen violence, but fans want to frame Naoya as an abuser for his over the top shonen violence.”
“He bullies women for his issues, deep down he’s not like that.”
“Maki was violent against him too, why doesn’t anybody call her a sexist?”
“It was just a gag when he said any woman who doesn’t know to walk three steps behind a man deserves to get stabbed in the back. You’re weird for taking it seriously.”
It’s one of my favorite archetypes in all of fiction, and Jax just botches it so bad.
Jax is pathologically selfish. She would leave Ribbit to rot because she could reveal her secret.
She didn’t bat an eye at murder, driving a close friend to suicide, and sexual assault plans. So what would it take to completely sour her on Jax if she saw it in her brain?
As we learn in the finale, all the players are AIs based off of human brainscans.
Jax sees npcs as lesser to herself, to the extent of feeding them all to a giant sludge monster. But they’re both AIs, just different types. Different races of ai one could say.
Jax is racist.
These two antagonistic AI have more in common than you’d think at first glance. They’re both brainscans (Jax of Leeroy and Ultron of Hank Pym respectively) with Mommy issues and complicated relationships with their fathers. They’re even both animal themed! (Ultron was designed after an ant)
But if you put them side by side, it’s like comparing prime LeBron to a third grader. A third grader born without legs.
Ultron is a badass villain who’s an existential threat to the world and can fight the avengers by himself. Jax is a pathetic loser whose whole existence was one long temper tantrum.
Jax can’t even come back from abstraction. Ultron’s revived himself over a dozen times!
This is because Jax is only interested in women who are terrified of her.
In my experience with communists (specifically the western ones), they speak about “the revolution” like it’s inevitable.
But revolutions require winning the hearts and minds of the people, and it’s beyond me how communists expect any degree of success when they make their own ideology sound as appealing as rubbing your crotch against a cactus.
I’ve seen communists talk about forcing people into a life of grueling labor for the greater good of the planet, and scoff at people weary of parting with their luxury goods as selfish. It doesn’t matter how true you think that is, in the west any attempt to hamfist those ideals will make you a pariah faster than I can say Marx.
If I were to take a gander as to why, these communists enjoy making the assumption they’re bound to take power because it lets them think about how they can put their theory into practice. While on an intellectual level, I respect their devotion to theory, what good is it without a realistic plan to put it into practice?
If you can’t even see eye to eye with other flavors of communists how do you expect to court someone who hasn’t read a lick of Das Kapital? “It’s not my job to teach you”, does not an effective campaign pitch make.
Frankly, at least in America, the politically savvy thing to do would be ditching the name “communism” all together and call it something else. People might gravitate towards your ideas more if they weren’t anchored down by a word they’ve been taught to fear since the 40s.