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The Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates, a fictional group from One Piece, symbolizes freedom, friendship, and resistance to oppression in the anime.
I know nothing about One Piece. Is this accurate?
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They don’t explicitly say that in the show, but those are some of the core values the Straw Hat Pirates have. So yes.
no they actually do explicitly say that in the show.
it's in drum island. it's roughly what the old doctor told chopper it meant and then luffy agreed.
Pretty much
I recently started the anime. Yeah. Pretty accurate. Luffy (main character) wants to become king of the pirates but has an ethical code similar to a knight-errant. His crew is very much the same. In one arc, they all risk their lives (including one of them who was still recovering from near-fatal wounds), initially because one of the crew was enslaved as a child by pirates that murdered their mother.
So, yeah. Pretty accurate.
the association with social liberation politics and the straw hat jolly roger only gets stronger as the series goes on
The Jolly Roger of the Straw Hat Pirates, a fictional group from One Piece, symbolizes freedom, friendship, and resistance to oppression in the anime.
There it is
[…] symbolizes […] resistance to oppression […].
Well we can't have that, it might undermine the supreme leader.
Somehow I dont think this fits in NotTheOnion. The Onion has been pretty decent these last few years, and reality is showing itself to not even be good satire. This seems to be more of a phoned in Onion article at best.
Many online users initially assumed the act of flying non-national flags was illegal.
Did they? That's got to be a pretty bad sign for national dignity.
Anyway, it's a good choice of flag.