Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-28702329-20180621120402/@comment-31598739-20190924025421

DraculaCronqvist wrote: Boysmith2003 wrote: DraculaCronqvist wrote: Zodazzle wrote: I still don't get why people think Funny Valentine is a dictator when he's literally the president of the USA. If he was a dictator he wouldn't be ruling a form of government that allows for impeachment. People often confuse dictator with fascist. Funny Valentine is not a dictator, but he is most definitely a fascist. Also, the amount of Valentine-fanboyism in this threat is sickening and a perfect example of both American cultural Imperialism and the "Draco in leather pants"-trope, because in no objective (read: sane) point of view is Funny Valentine anything other than a vile villain of the highest order. Fascisim is by definition extreme nationalisim and patriotisim to the degree of jingoisim. Valentine's no fascist, he just wants his country to prosper. The whole point of getting the Saint Corpse was to make sure that power never wavered, even long after Valentine was dead. That's not evil, that's heroic. This is factually false, however. Valentine wants his country to prosper at the explicit expense of all other countries. That is an imperialistic / fascist move. His goal is to gather the Holy Corpse parts to push all bad luck away from his nation onto the rest of the world. That would make untold billions suffer. That's not heroic, that's barbaric. Last I checked, Love Train's range doesn't apply to the whole world. In fact, I don't remember it ever being stated that the range of Love Train is on a global scale. Sure, when someone attacks the lights of Love Train they are redirected to any part of the world, but only when the lights are harmed.

If this is true, then really the only advantage Love Train gives is total protection to one to maybe other people, but nothing else. If anything, this would just be used as leverage on other countries, not disaster being brought on. It could literally be interpreted the same way that the arms race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. was.