If you have some time, I'd love to hear what you guys think about this documentary. It's about an hour and a half. I'll summarise if you don't have time, but I recommend watching it just for the interviews and apologies.



It's about a man named Joshua Blahyi, a born-again Christian minister in Africa responsible for the death, maiming or rape of over 20,000 people during the Liberian civil war. During this time, he was known as "General Butt Naked", a notoriously vicious man known for running into battle completely naked with only a cutlass and a rifle to cover himself. He would run into villages, rape the women, bang babies heads against rocks, and maim the grown men by cutting both their hands off. Near the end of the war, he went into exile, coming out 10 years later as a reformed, born-again Christian preacher. The documentary follows him from village to village speaking with some of his victims from the war, and asking them for forgiveness. Some of the stories are harrowing.

About halfway through the documentary, he voluntarily puts himself at the mercy of the TRC, a commity designed to try war criminals from the Liberian Civil war, with Blahyi being close to the top of the list. He admits to everything and claims that he came forth of his own volition to demonstrate his guilty mind and desire for forgiveness. He also talks about his peaceful crusade to apologise to all his victims. As a result, the TRC recommends amnesty for him, a pill many of his victims find hard to swallow. He starts to receive death threats in the mail, and fearing for his own life, stays at a refugee camp outside of Ghana for his safety, leaving his family and disillusioned followers behind to a life of poverty, drug abuse and sickness.

But the kicker here is the way he speaks to people. Maybe it's a cultural thing, I don't know, but I get the feeling that these people are just incapable of emotional honesty in their tone and body language. Blahyi only expresses remorse or empathy for his victims in his words; he imposes his apology on people, blocking their path if they try to walk away from him. At one point, he confronts a kid who saw his whole family killed at the hands of Blahyi's men, who begins to ball his eyes out at the sight of Joshua. After hearing his apology, the kid grants Blahyi forgiveness. Butt Naked in response, offers him an emotionless, one-handed hug so he doesn't have to drop his hat on the floor.

What do you guys think.

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Quote from: audrey on April 24, 2017, 06:17:27 PM

making super an anime series was a mistake

they should have kept the movie format and expanded the story in the same way they are for the manga. it would space out the story nicely as well.

A movie for each saga?

I'd be so down for that. I can't deny that I'm enjoying the Super anime though. I see its issues but it doesn't really bother me. It's just more Dragon Ball for me to just chill back and watch.

that's what it was supposed to be. that's why bog and rof were movies first. the goku black saga could be its own thing, too

you're incapable of critically looking at a lot of things that would compromise your interests

Oh I can look at things critically. Dragon Ball does have a lot of problems but it doesn't really stop me enjoying it. I guess I can look past stuff like that.

you're not looking at it hard enough, then

i mean, i don't understand how goku's shitty fucking character direction in the anime wouldn't bother you, simply because it has the dragon ball trademark -- even though it betrays what originally sparked your interest

i feel like flaws and fuck ups should bother you

I only ever do that when making threads, and that's like once every couple of months to begin with.

making super an anime series was a mistake

they should have kept the movie format and expanded the story in the same way they are for the manga. it would space out the story nicely as well.

damn i really want super saiyan goku black to be in xenoverse 2

Anyone else following the manga? I think the U6 arc is better in it aside from SSG returning over Kaioken, and I think the Black arc is worse, like seriously

Spoiler

Goku and Black never fight in it

https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/dragon-ball-super

ssg is the dopest transformation though

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Leafs in 2018

You fuckin' know it my boy

Leafs For Prison 2018

makes no sense

most people want to be subjugated, not just women. it's just that, for women, it's more acceptable to be subjugated, and for men, they're looked down upon if they don't subjugate women and weaker men. it's all instinctual, tribalist, survivalist bullshit we should strive to eradicate.

jive only sees half the picture because he doesn't try to pick up guys the same way he does girls.

class, easily

velox youre not even attractive here

female verb and class got me feelin a certain kind of way

I know it's been forever since the last anarchy.

Nintendo Switch. The way of the future.

I don't know, I just feel that 17/18 getting stronger through training feels extra cheap and undeserved in comparison to Freeza and Boo.

They were never heralded as prodigies or destructive forces prior to their cybernetics, and they have no special skills or attributes not exclusive to their characters' original form. They were regular people given power, and that's all it's ever been. And also, I do remember the original implication was that the absorption model was only inferior in initial power, and that its advantage over the other model (17/18's) was that it could increase it's strength when they couldn't. Where the hell was 17 when Super Boo attacked and killed all life on Earth? It's just lazy writing.

All he said was that he fell.

He had a way to fall.

Neil Davidge >x10 Jinnouchi > Marty