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The inability to read a room is astounding.
I'm not Pokémon lore expert (my knowledge comes from Pokémon Go) but my surface level understanding of the Pokémon "vibe" is that it's mostly progressive as fuck (utopian society, androgynous Team Rocket representatives etc) and is the one I'd the least suitable lore bases for a MAGA-meme.
I suppose their audience doesn't give a fuck about that though so it makes it somewhat immaterial.
There's nothing really progressive about Pokemon lore.
It's pretty bog-standard anime stuff. Yeah, do good and help others but that's not exactly progressive.
Andro characters are extremely common in anime. There's also nothing progressive about that.
At this point, in the US political window, that's extremely progressive.
Do... Do good? Like.. With a missile?