This is me. Deal with it!

At one point, Buggy was responsible to be in a trade meeting by himself. This is the aftermath of one such meeting.

Crocodile looks up from his papers of his desk as the clown was marching in the room and went straight to the mini bar. Mihawk saw this too, and his eyebrows shot up when Buggy fixed himself a glass of whisky...

And drank from the decanter.

Crocodile: ... so. How did it go with the Mokim chief?

Buggy: (finishing his swig) let's hope his child is a better chief than he is.

Mihawk: (visibly winced) that bad?

Buggy: (dead eye stare) if an intelligent thought crossed that man's head, he'd shoot it for trespassing.

Ha, that's good 🤣 It took me a while to figure out which joke to use, but I think this one works.

After another such meeting that Crocodile trusted Buggy with, Buggy walks storms into the room, grabs the half-empty wine bottle that Mihawk was enjoying, and goes to pour himself a glass.... Then changes his mind and drinks from the bottle.

Mihawk: "That was the last bottle, and I was enjoying it, Clown."

Buggy:(finishing his swig) "Well, make Croco buy more. He owes me after that shitshow of a meeting."

Crocodile: "It can't have been that bad."

Clodsire and Quagsire cake to celebrate my birthday, happy birthday to me! 🎂🤎🩵

It's really nice to make something just for me, plus it's harder to feel existential dread when I'm smiling at how cute my buttercream Clodsire turned out, look at my boy 🥹

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

México City was "modernized" to be appealing to tourists, not functional to people living on it. We have a housing crisis, gentrification issues, several problems with public transportation, and the government has tiptoed around those to prioritize appearances.

Madres Buscadoras, groups of mothers that search for their missing family members, have been ignored and criminalized by the president, attacked by cops guarding the stadium, alongside other protesters like farmers, teachers and students. Students and reporters were arrested without explanation, threatened with violence (women with sexual violence) and then released.

Adding to this, the number of missing people in the country is 133,000. Twice the capacity of the Azteca Stadium. Families tried to raise awareness by pasting posters with the faces of their missing people around the stadium. The governor of Ciudad de México sent workers to take them down.

To avoid "showing a bad picture of the country" streets around the stadium are being closed, hours before the games, in order to deter protestors. People living in this area (like myself) are unable to move freely.

Our president, Claudia Sheimbaum, on one of the morning reports, said México is happiness, said we don't have issues, criminalized the protestors and said they want to show a bad picture of México. Avatar fans actually compared the report to this same scene, the "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" scene.