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The politics of Pokémon (lemmygrad.ml)

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Disclaimer: This is not a post about the ethics of being a Pokémon trainer, Team Plasma, etc.

But there is an interesting group, specifically in S/V: Team Star. From what I've seen, Star does appear to be somewhat left-wing, although it is kinda hard to place real-world political labels on a cartoon game made for U13s. I'd like to hear comrades' opinions on these things

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I made a post like this not too long ago lol

The issue is trying to figure out how exactly things work in the Pokémon world, most of it is speculative based on how little information we're given. It obviously exists in a capitalist world since they have monopolies like Silph or Devon in their respective regions. There has to be a government making laws cause there are police there to enforce them.

For S/V specifically, I'm not sure since it takes place in a school and doesn't have a lot of room for any explicit political undertones. There was a bullying problem and there was an attempt to stop it even though the issue seems to be more of a failure on the faculty's part than anything else.

P.S. Team Plasma was definitely wrong and was lame for trying to rehash an old philosophical argument that most likely had been gone over countless times. I mean really...there might have been some people who held views akin to Team Plasma but they were probably in the minority.