hopefully in my lifetime we will have another opportunity to give some kind of protection to trans people and actually make it happen, in the meantime know who came before you and how they survived some bleak ass times and adapt their methods for the contemporary pressures

If the planet is to survive, degrowth is necessary. Consumption must be reversed. We have to unmake choices that have been "inevitable" for centuries.

It has to be possible, or else millions of human beings die.

GenAI is not quite so dire a threat, but it is the same species of problem.

I do! I tried very hard to learn more a few years back, but was met with many dead ends. I'm glad there are more serious efforts by better equipped individuals now!

Also I didn't play Other M and don't factor it into my interpretation of the character

Anyway. Can't wait to get back to learning about the giants this flashback was supposed to be about.

Ah yes. "why hasn't Garp quit the Marines" has finally been answered. One of the great mysteries. Unfortunately, he seems unaware of the potency of the rank-and-file as a potential revolutionary force. Which is odd considering, y'know, who his son is. Is Garp even aware of Dragon? Like, as a person?

So this is the prequel I actually want to follow, and I wish more of the flashback could have been about this.

If you'd like an entirely different comparison, though, consider: Teach is the last survivor of a doomed warrior race, thrust into the world after a massive catastrophe, and forms a whole separate identity for himself... he's also basically GOKU. Oda shows his influences, but never as expected.

OH and Blackbeard is frequently implied to carry multiple "selves" within him, much like Smeagol/Gollum oh no I may be onto something here.