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He isn’t wearing any scope in the scans with which I made that argument. He actually dropped it before that when the explosion took place. He was wearing the scope on the same eye he’d trained to cast the Genjutsu. This can be seen in several scans:

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So much nonsense in two posts. What in God’s name are you people smoking? Do you folks care to pass it along in the name of charity? Let’s dismantle this one by one. 

1) Naruto lived in the red-light area and was raised around hookers, bad men, and prostitutes! Huh? What? Which manga have you people read? There isn’t a panel to support this claim. Not a single one.

Yes, Sasuke re-Invented Lee’s Taijutsu move in one day! Yes, you read it right! He reinvented it. You don’t believe me? Here you go:

Kakashi: It looked like the techniques he used prior to the Shishirendan were DERIVED from Gai’s fighting style … 

And that’s not all: he served, protected, and promoted the very same system all of these people died to. Then why’s he so sad, and what’s even the point of his character? He’s not moral, so when his wankers pick “morality” as the defining division between him and the other characters, it never stops being insipidly farcical. He’s never given a single insightful statement in the entire manga. Not one. “Those who abandon their friends are worse than trash!”? His entire character works aggressively against it. Literally his entire character works against it till the last panel and beyond (he’s the one who let off Orochimaru and didn’t do a thing about the Elders’ Council, not Naruto, people responsible for his “friends’” miseries) and in favor of the previous statement, “those who abandon the rules are worse than trash!”, to the point where he’s willing to kill people for the same system that took everything from him. Why make this statement at all? … and this is celebrated … why? Why’s his character championed for standing for literally nothing but fascism? Is this character what people define as “good”, a guy who stands with the same state that killed everyone he “supposedly” loved, compared to Sasuke (whose clan’s genocide isn’t something he’d ever understand) who chooses to actually do something about the injustices? So, basically, he’s exalted for being a benign fascist? And I haven’t even touched upon his aid of Shikamaru in his comical revenge-crusade over a man who died on duty! What the fuck is this fandom? This is so funny!

Ps: I’m going to add a little more after looking at the notes as they’re a symptom of what this fandom and entertainment industry in general suffers from, a great dissociation between how victims actually behave and how caricatures behave, and Sasuke isn’t the caricature here. It’s a large part of the media propaganda, as well, that shows imperialistic soldiers in a softer light: look no further than the many films Hollywood has made to soften the veterans, war criminals, image. The issues lie with the consumers: the audiences have this general “idea” about genocide, mass-slaughters, or slavery, etc., but since they’ve never experienced it or anything close to it, they try and use the highly faulty, childish, and absurd “relatable” lens to gauge a person’s reaction to intense trauma. “How would I react to it? Man, you bet your ass that I’d smile like Kakashi! Fuck you, emo bitch, Sasuke!” That sort of thing, and as these silverback keyboard warriors (who weep quite hysterically over their “anxiety issues” in many a post) would never experience anything of the sort, it’s the sort of argument that they hold onto, but would never lose! As a result, you’ve got the many juvenile responses that you’d expect from the outstandingly cringe-worthy fandom that’s too far up its own back-channel to understand that the social ostracization they experience (over fairly trivial first-world socio-cultural issues in comparison to genocide) isn’t what a genocide victim would go through. Here, Sasuke’s trying to make Kakashi understand as to how he’d feel if so and so happened; Sasuke’s appealing to his empathy. It isn’t even that complicated.

The scene’s fairly neutrally framed; however, you can guess the sort of responses it’d garner for a victim whose plight Kakashi would never understand as not only he’s never experienced genocide, but he’s also stood with the system that perpetuated this; and to top it off, he does it with a … smile, the greatest trick to caricaturize the character that’d always appeal to the audiences you’d have in mind. The scene’s neutral nature, as a result, is tilted in Kakashi’s favor due to the effect he brought to the panel; as Kakashi’s dealing with his trauma with a “smile”, he’s a better man. As Sasuke isn’t, he’s an emo, bitch, whiny, etc. The usual. That’s also why he resonates a lot with the crowd that play their empty identity-politics rather than the crowd that understand social, cultural, or economic marginalization in the countries that aren’t predominately … white. It’s an interesting facet of media as it’s not just true here, it’s true for what resonates with these consumers in general: you’d see these same issues in the political landscape, time and time again, where victims of white state-sponsored terrorism are maligned with the same framing that’s taken as such by the audiences that are … consumers of news that comes custom-tailored with protagonists, villians, and heartfelt resolutions, the same ideas these people require from their fictions. The word “terrorist” didn’t gain traction in many white countries for nothing.  

There are two main issues with Sasuke’s interpretations among the readers who hate (let’s face it, it’s never just dislike) Sasuke or love him: “he was power hungry, so he didn’t deserve power” and “his love for Itachi made no sense, so he’s not completely well-written”, and due to these two reasons, there’s a “fault” in the characterization, apparently. Is there? 

The entire defense-force for Sakura, Naruto, and Itachi (throw in Kakashi and Shikamaru, too, in the “they’re not like the others” trope basket) that you read in many a post (on tumblr, reddit, or otherwise) drips thickly with the dominant political rhetoric in the poster’s own country; and as tumble, reddit, and what have you are generally populated by American (and Western, to an extent) posters, it isn’t surprising to see their American Jingoism bleed into every fictive and non-fictive media aspect they engage with.  

The fact of matter is, people only “care”, in very loose terms, about lives till the military industrial complex and their political messiahs (look no further than the cult that surrounds Obama) state that they’re expendable; they care about oppression, suffering, and exploitation till it’s “one of them”; and they care about saving lives, dispensing (questionable) justice, and supplying aid as long as “it’s our people, not theirs”. And candidly speaking, it’s a matter of inevitable irony that states (nations as a whole, in fact) would veer into naked contradictions the moment that they’re allowed to avail that chance. It happens at every social juncture. It’s nothing bizarre; it might be the one social aspect that’s a constant in its absolutes.

And these “contradictions” create messiahs—or rather, I’m of the firm belief that you can never create a national hero, messiah, or champion without these sharp dichotomies: cults that form about charismatic leaders; compartmentalization of villains within heroes and their performative “moral dilemmas” that all share the same result; and pride in the machine that’s designed … just to kill. This has never been about “morality”; there’s no “nuance” in a regime that’s fueled by violence, fear, and aggression; and there’s no layer to a state that’s built upon that apparatus—states are as single-minded as they can be; and in a system such as that, a saint (like Itachi, as that’s what he’s deemed to be) would be forced to kill due to the will of the masses. Will of Fire is just that, a dogma that requires little nuance.

A culture of violence won’t generate a just world. In a world like that, every leader’s charisma is sellable; and behind that is yet another murderer; only now, the system sanctions that price; therefore, the word nuance (a word that’s been driven into the dirt by the buffoons at large) is a vague concept, as state’s actions ought to be judged on the basis of historical materialism and dialectical materialism, provided that you believe in the idea of moral values. If not that, a jab at determinism would condense a lot of this argumentation into an understandable principle: cause and effect; what goes around, comes around; and a fire stater would soon find the flames blazing at his doorstep. 

That’s why Kishimoto, crushed by public pressure, Shōnen Jump’s demands, and schedule, opted for an easy route: a “big bad” villain against all the states that are seemingly, but not truly, “good”; and the funny thing is, that’s all what humanity has done and is doing; superhero movies personify national (and sometimes, the world) problems and then you get to see them punch all your problems away. (Japanese media has this trope in nearly every popular narrative: Final Fantasy series, in particular, swims in it.) Sasuke and Naruto, turned into superheros, did just that. Kaguya might have a face, but she very much is still a faceless entity without a past, present, or future. What matters is that she’s … a threat your heroes have to battle it out against, send away into the moon, and save the world! That was a lot easier to accomplish than having Sasuke win, transcend, and bring about a change … that would’ve been violently radical for the “finer” western sensibilities and their unshakeable adoration for tardy incrementalism. After all, today, it’s one baddie to punch; tomorrow, another would appear; and then another a day after; so on and so forth.

And it’s that “so on and so forth” that keeps the military machine alive and well and turning. Sakura, Kakashi, Naruto, Itachi, Shikamaru and the lot are not good because they value goodness, espouse its mores, or Lord forbid, represent it; no, they’re good, because in this fandom’s humble opinion, conceived from their favored political parties (sans ideology), good equals less bad. 

Therefore, as in their views, Konoha Shinobi (or any soldier, fictive or otherwise) are “less bad” than the “bad” the current political-climate defines, they can sleep well at night, hold a higher moral position, and claim victory. When, in reality, this is nothing more than that old realpolitik cliché: one trolley problem at a time, a pathway to national glory!

That’s why the fandom, quite desperately, pretends that Itachi’s like this “dream American messiah” who showed us as to how hard it was to tightrope between sainthood and devilry through bailing out Leaf against a just coup, participating in butchery against a marginalized clan, and carrying out terrorism at the drop of Leaf’s hat; and then the fandom fellated him endlessly for it.

However, the reality is that Itachi’s justifications didn’t necessarily have to convince all and sundry; it’s that his manufactured charisma, political philosophy, and actions resonated with the readers. The Uchiha Clan turned into a calculus for Leaf, its denizens, and its machine—a political principle that’s been a constant in carving out regions in our world. 

You can state T*birama is prejudiced, bigoted, displayed heavy bias when treating with the Uchiha, discriminated against them, profiled them, and you know, these are widely accepted notions even within the pro crowd, with just a few exceptions, but the instant you use the most fitting and all-encompassing term to describe his political stance, which is "racist", people lose their minds over it.

So you can freely use any synonym of your choice, even pull out a well-curated phrase that constitutes a full on definition of the term "racist", but you can't actually explicitly say the damn word because people will throw a wobbly.

And it's quite sad because, in lieu of this, you realise that it's near impossible to instate constructive discourse on this theme: once a T*birama stan, always a T*birama stan.

It's just far too delicate a matter because, and even understandably I'll add, nobody wants to be associated with a racist character, let alone enjoying them: supporting a character that has racist attitudes, in their minds, equates to being racist, so instead of simply accepting their fave as is, flaws and all, fandom ends up lacking the courage to appreciate him in all his exhaustive characterisation — therefor, the violent knee-jerk reaction to it is to vehemently deny such allegations and do absolutely anything (and I quite literally mean anything) to disprove the accusations.

Politics to these people are mere aesthetics, the en vouge facet of participatory liberalism, and “we’re the good guys!” game and not a contemplative stance on the friction between ideological divides, why they occur, and how the can lead to progression. A good example, or the illustration of his phenomenon, would be Leo Strauss, creator of the Neo-Conservative (neocon) movement. Inspired by Gun Smoke, a Television-Show set in the lawless world of the Old West, he deified the idea of heroics, actors that can assume the role of heroes, and evil that needs to be vanquished for a nation to thrive, stay untied, and be free of "seflish desires" as he'd called it. Here, the birth of new American Nation took place, one that believed in the national myth of vanquishing evil as a force of good. Sounds familiar? If it does, then it is: it's the story of every hero, real or imagined.

If you look at Tobirama, he reads the exact same way: a national myth (will of fire) for the masses to stay united; evil (Uchiha or any disruptors of stability) that needs to be vanquished in the name of good; and a conservative vanguard (his little troop of hyper nationalists) who’d lead their nation (Leaf is a state, but let’s keep it simple) to glory. Is there any difference between Strauss, Tobirama, Zahwari, or any other neocon whose ideology stems from notions of nation/state supremacy and its deification in the annals of state heroics? 

What Tobirama did, like Strauss, was to break apart the story into easily digestible pieces, one that a common man can understand: heroes, evil, and glory in vanquishing that evil. That’s how he created will of fire; that’s how most rallied behind him; and that’s how he got away with placing down the fundamentals of atrocities, obfuscated them somewhat behind this children's tale. Why? Because the notion that your collective is a force of good allows that collective to bypass the complexities of systematic racism, oppression, and brutalization. Everything is washed down into black and white tones, and a common man doesn’t have to think too hard, mull over much, and contemplate very long on the vagaries between ideologies that create friction in the first place. A friction that’s essential for growth, progress, and betterment as a whole.  

The world, then, turns into a battleground where sides have to be picked, evil has to be branded (COH is branding in every sense of the word), and battles have to be fought to cut the hydra's head at its lair. Then and only then can a collective stay a collective, fight for a common cause, and come away with riches; and in the process, deliver freedom to the masses. That's why Itachi is more liked than Sasuke; Ashura is more liked than Indra; and Senju are more liked than the Uchiha. It isn't that they don't have any ideology to offer; it's that theirs is one of friction, one of complexities, and one that goes beyond the binaries. And beyond these two extremes, the myth ends, and when that ends the nation has nothing left to stay as the collective. It breaks apart at the seams, and that's something Strauss realized. Tobirama, too.

The Uchiha are your pot-shakers, trouble-makers, and challengers of this simplistic narrative Tobirama has sold to the fictional masses and the readers that align with similar philosophies in their realities: good shall prevail; evil shall be defeated; and glory shall be ours! And with this simplistic view, armies (populaces everywhere) are easy to galvanize and keep the myth alive for as long as possible.

It's not a coincidence that Tobirama is considered separate from Danzo's fanaticism, when the reality is that he laid the very foundations on which Danzo (and Orochimaru) and the Elders' Council built their future. That's like suggesting that the person who created the blueprint, building, and precepts to function in the building shouldn't be held accountable for any mishaps, just the people that come afterwards and follow the precepts down to the last detail.

Danzo, basically, is Tobirama with his mask off: there are no inhibitions as Leaf has left behind its precarious past that was fraught with danger that arose from flimsy treaties and shaky foundations. Pretenses had to be kept up. With uncertainties came more care; but even during that time where caution had to be exercised for Leaf's own safety, Tobirama and his Senju bro fashioned a legacy that pushed the world into a lethal conflict through the distribution of powerful weapons: one for me and one for thee!

The fact that he opened the door to bilateral relationships through nukes should ring alarm bells for everyone; but not this fandom; and the reason goes back to the neocon mindset: good guys versus the bad guys, a philosophy that was repeated during the Cold War, which is being turned to again, the fall of the Soviet Empire, and the subsequent war on terror; and every single time, the enemy was reduced to the "great evil" that had to be vanquished, create a tale of heroes for the masses. If you don't believe me, just read any news, watch any political discourse, and listen to the general public and their savior politicians talk about the issues; and you'd realize how pitifully simplistic their notions of good and evil are, a bifurcation in the world, a good side that they happened to occupy via destiny.

That's why Tobirama's ideology is something that resonates with them: it's simple, creates an evil to be defeated, and a myth to be upheld for supremacy. It offers a shared legacy to people to fall behind, adopt, and find salvation as a collective. A state/nation's large ego that's capable of assimilating their smaller egos, granting them more purpose beyond mere segmental social realities.

Sakura Fandom is viciously guilty of this, locating her salvation in the paradise of nuclear family, a career, and an opportunity to vanquish the evil that was Sasuke; their fix-it Fan-Fictions (FFs) are plagued by this repugnant intellectual bankruptcy that bullishly keeps everything nice and simple, centered, and not too radical at the expense of every theme that tackles the horrors of the military industrial complex in canon; however, she, apparently, "deserved" better for putting in the work to make this system flourish whilst not being rewarded the chance to exact punishment on Sasuke for slighting her "honor" as woman, a citizen of the state where the "good guys" flourish; but she wasn't allowed to be good, you see, not allowed to get even and flourish like her male counterparts. Can you read this with sincerity and tell me that this isn't Tobirama's doctrine, only with a wash of the dreadful neoliberal/pop feminism to give it a "women rights matter!" spin? You can't because it's exactly that, the "good guy syndrome", a national myth, only that Sakura was "robbed" of the chance to display this goodness, this violence that Sasuke so deserved! (Kill Your Heroes is exactly that, distilled down to even simpler bits, an ideology so pitifully stupid that even Strauss would blush in shame over its minced shambles.)

The neocons created a fiction, an illusion, a distortion of reality in which they occupied the place of good; and overtime, that myth, that fiction, that distortion became their reality. Tobirama, too, did the same, and in time, his distortions considering the Uchiha, Leaf's place as a force of good, and its myth turned into his realities and that of the masses that occupied Leaf. The fans cling to what resonates with them. It isn't that Tobirama sold his ideology well (Lord knows that the guy isn't exactly a charmer). Not at all as it's a very simple and almost childish "good versus evil" mantra; it's that it's what they understand.

That's why they very desperately seek out deflections for his very clear, very simple, and very effective policies. In that they're effective because they're simple, understandable, and easy. And in that race to absolve him of his vile doctrine, they use Danzo as the scapegoat, refusing to answer the simple question: which new policy did Danzo implement? Danzo, in his entire tenure, introduced no new policy regarding the Uchiha. Tobirama created the village's system, its infrastructure, and all the segregation policies. (Yes, the population movement occurred in Tobirama's time, not in Danzo's.)

Danzo didn't invent a Jutsu created from human experimentation; Tobirama did and Orochimaru simply refined it. All the ghastly images you see in Orochimaru's secret labs? Tobirama liberally engaged in them. Danzo didn't lay down the COH fearmongering; Tobirama did. Danzo didn't create the Police Force and all the political policies that isolated the clan, choked out their political influence, and branded them as "ticking timebombs"; Tobirama did. When Tobirama is the primary creator, influencer, and formulator of the aforementioned, how does that place the mark of evil on Danzo and not him? This argument is bereft of logic.

That's why Itachi is considered sacred and Sasuke isn't, a boy who only meant well as he's one of the good ones, of the good guys, of the good nation against all that's evil in the world. Once you establish this awful narrative that one side is just good, then everything that they do is good. And once you establish that the side they stand against is evil, which it has to be as forces are always singular, then everything they do has to have an "evil" caveat, a selfish agenda, and an arrogance that's rooted in the hunger of power.

What lies within the national myth is sanctioned: its mass-butcheries are lesser evils; its prejudices, unwitting mistakes; its victims, collateral; its political fuck ups, little mistakes; and its thirst for more and more power to maintain the myth, a right that's needed for the good ones to remain good as, without it, we all go over to the "evil side", allow the evil forces to win against good, and let them take away our national myths for their own nefarious purposes. And that's why everything the Uchiha do is magnified by comparison: their right to resist is an unlawful hunger for power; their killings are evil as they're no longer performed in the name of national myth; and their quest to value their sovereignty is an act without value before the state sovereignty that's supreme. This is the us versus them, good versus evil, and right versus wrong repeated over and over again in various flavors; yet all of them meet at the same destination: a desire to preserve the national myth of heroics; it's us against the world; and the charge to right the world of its wrongs is ours! (These arguments have been and are regurgitated word for word by the proponents of the Socialist Evil, war on terror, and freedom through democracy; the actors change but the precepts remain unshakeable.)

So it isn't that Tobirama is wrong or that what he did was evil. No, it's that his philosophy is that of simplicity, one that the readers associate with, a reality that's so familiar to them. It's a neocon's best dream, and the readers are helpless because it's a dream that they've shared, a myth that they sustain, a reality that they find easy to imagine.

Left is about loosening of these structures. The more you loosen them, or your political ideology does, the more to the left you are. In fact, their complete and utter destruction for the beginning of a stateless world is…the most extreme radical left. You understand what I'm stating? The destruction of state machinery, its complete and total annihilation, is the end-goal of radical left. (The main contention between Marx, Engels, and Lenin and Anarchists was that the latter didn't agree with the former's method of a transitional state; however, both agreed that humanity ought to end up at the threshold of a world where states no longer exist; the former still fully advocated for "smashing the state" completely and through violence at that; Marx words that we shall not make excuses for the terror aren't just for show.)

You people are full of neoliberal, illiterates takes that do nothing but present this fluffy image of revolutions in hypotheticals, when revolutions are very bloody. Extremely bloody. Countless lives are lost as a result of them. A state won't ever hand over its reigns, deconstruct its structures, and let go of its hierarchies…if you just play nicely. Revolutions are just that, smashing, dismantling, decontextualizing of the state in the material world, not hypotheticals; and as the state will use its power to quash opposition through a counter-revolution, a revolution has to meet it at its own terms; and guess what that is? Ding-dong, it's violence! Wow, horror of horrors! Violence can be used to take down a system that employs violence to sustain itself from top to bottom?! Never before seen human ingenuity, I tell you. Seriously, are you people under the impression that the state or its "well-meaning" denizens aren't full of contradictions, logical inconsistencies, or cognitive dissonance? That's what holds the status quo in its place: it's an amalgam of contradictions that can't be reconciled without the state having to meet its due end. Heck, it's called status quo as it can't reconcile its lack of equilibrium with the illusion of equilibrium it's supposed to espouse. What the fuck are you people even talking about anymore? Are you new to how people function?

Why do you want state actors to denounce the state? Why would they? Why should they, in a world that directly sustains them? It's like I'm taking crazy pills here as this entire rationale…is utterly stupid. Sasuke, Madara, Nagato, etc., endeavoring to tear everything down and bring it to a level of nascency isn't nonsensical. That's the only way the system can end. I'm...going to stop. This is literally raising my blood-pressure.

Things wrong with Konoha:

The Uchiha Clan has faced decades of xenophobia because of the actions of one man. Rumors that they’re all genetically deranged were spread, they were ostracised from village’s internal affairs. After the Kyuubi attack, they were sent to live in the outskirts of the village under constant supervision which is just humiliating.

Konoha government ordered the genocide of a whole ethnic race without a trial because the said people got enough of the xenophobia which the state encouraged. 

Hyuga Clan practices slavery in broad daylight. I don’t even need to explain why this is a horrible violation of human rights.

The government glorifies fascism and blind nationalism. Heck, leaving the village is punishable with the death penalty.

ANBU. ROOT. Do I need to say anything more?

Danzo committed treason against the village by cooperating with Orochimaru and ordering the Uchiha Genocide behind Hiruzen’s back. He’s also responsible for many crimes against humanity. Nobody stood up to him.

As far as we’ve seen, the village doesn’t have a fair, independent judicial system. Hokage’s word is the law. It doesn’t take a genius to see how this can lead to stupid or morally wrong decisions.

One’s suitability for the Hokage position seems to be mainly determined by their strength level, not by their political wits or morality stance. This and the previous point make sense for the militarian world of the Shinobi but the issues such a system can very possibly lead to still remains.

There’s no democracy, it’s the Daimyo and the council that chooses the Hokage. It’s also not hard to see favoritism since many Hokages are from prestigious clans, are blood-related or have other close relationships with each other like the one of a master-discipline.

And many more I forgot or didn’t realize

Things wrong with the entire Shinobi system and other specific villages:

Jinchuriki practice all around the world is wrong. It turns babies into nuclear weapons for the village without their consent and the said babies face social stigma for the rest of their lives.

The entire Shinobi system supports the existence of child soldiers and the world’s economy relies on the inhumane deeds committed by Shinobi.

In many parts of the world, the Shinobis are viewed to be tools rather than human beings with emotions and basic rights. This leads to many morally unacceptable emotional training methods practiced on children.

Daimyos are completely unnecessary. They exist just to exist. One can claim they live in comfort as the Shinobis lose their life to protect them.

Small nations continue to be seen inferior to the Big 5. They still don’t have the right to represent themselves at the Kage Gatherings.

Nations only look out for their own gain, the biggest example of this being Kumo which attempted to kidnap Kushina when she was an academy student and steal the Byakugan. No nation came to terms with their past wrong-doings in the series, peace between these selfish parties is simply impossible.

Bloodline limit owners are objectified and face xenophobia. Examples are Kumo’s attempts to steal power, Kiri’s orders to wipe out clans with bloodline limits, Uchiha Massacre etc.

And many more I forgot or didn’t realize

Issues that were properly handled in the series

None

Nothing

Genuine nothing

Many issues written here weren’t even acknowledged by the narrative, the same narrative even tried to justify some. The ending didn’t show us any radical reforms or satisfying political discussions.

No, stop. Neither the Shinobi Alliance nor Hiashi’s “but Hinata and Neji are equal now!!1!” mean anything. The former is a temporary peace against a common enemy with no deep political context. The latter is an off-screen cop out. I don’t care about Boruto series mumbling about world peace and stuff either. Show. Me. Permanent. On. Screen. Changes. With. Politic. Background.

And as you have realized, I titled this “one of the many reasons” instead of “the one reason”. We can count more reasons as to why Naruto’s ending is by far among the worsts fiction history has ever witnessed. Heck, we can argue the series started to go shitty was before the ending or it had always been bull to begin with too.

Then why do pros insist we hate the series because we’re just butthurt about ships?

I dislike both NH and SS but ffs, they are the least of my worries about the ending.

This series spreads Kishimoto’s disgusting far authoritarian right, fascist views which glorify blind nationalism to impressionable children. Even to this day, in the fandom, you can see idiots who argue that the Uchiha Massacre, A STATE-SUPPORTED ETHNİC GENOCIDE WHICH IS A FUCKING CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, was just. Are you fucking kidding me? Are you seriously fucking kidding me? Are you for real, genuinely fucking kidding me?

sasuke is someone who’s been through a lot. he went from being the second son of the uchiha main house, to the last uchiha alive. aside from their murderer, that is.

sasuke woke up one morning as an 8 year old thinking it would be like any other day. the day ended with everyone he has ever known or loved dead. he was left as the sole survivor of a genocide. not only did he have to come home to see all the dead bodies, but he was forced to watch the whole thing happen from start to finish via tsukiyomi, a mangekyo ability that puts the person through 72 hours of psychological torture in the span of seconds. all this by the hands of the person who he loved and admired the most.

and as if that wasn’t enough, he was essentially left alone. completely unattended. sasuke received no support, no treatment, NOTHING after itachi committed genocide “to prevent a war” apparently. and just when he starts reaching out to form new bonds, just when he started getting closer with his team, orochimaru and itachi come along and set him back.

When Tsunade deserts she is left alone and Jiraiya seeks her out to become Hokage. But when Sasuke does it he is called "as bad as Orochimaru" by Jiraiya.

When Shikamaru seeks revenge, he pays tribute to Asuma and Team 7 supports him. But when Sasuke does it he's immature and Team 7 want him to give up his revenge.

When a ninja joins the akatsuki, he is left alone. But when Sasuke does it, he's hunted down to be killed.

When Karin joins the akatsuki, attacks a jinchuriki and infiltrates the Kage summit, Sakura takes pity on her. But when Sasuke does it he must be eliminated by her.

Meanwhile, Madara's father asks for his opinion on a possible 3v3, but when Madara says otherwise, he's like "Wow, not bad, alright let's go home".

Tobirama invents a jutsu that requires human sacrifices, a fascist regime that others copied, and creates an event wherein kids butcher each other for a step up in rank in front of a bunch of rich assholes, on top of saying blatantly racist shit, specifically to the child of said race whom he helped genocide. While Hashirama enabled and endorsed all of this, doing NOTHING about it, enforced it, and turned one of his wives into a fucking nuke for said regime.

The Uchiha clan meanwhile, cares deeply for and looks out for their own since the beginning. Madara lost all of his brothers, most of whom before they were 12, and the last one he loved dearly, but he still tried making peace with those who killed them, but when he learned that they were up to no good he still tried to look out for his people. Fugaku spent decades fighting for his families and clans survival, despite all of the pressure he faced, even entrusting his and his clans legacy to his youngest son. Sasuke was an obedient, duty-bound, clan-orientated child, who kept to himself, studied hard, did what he was supposed to do, never caused trouble, wanted or demanded special attention, he, during his time in Cell 7, looked out for his teammates as best he could even risking his hide for them (even though they both absolutely didn't deserve it), he went out of his way to avoid collateral damage in his endeavors, even freeing Orochimaru's prisoners without any ulterior motives, he was among the few people who saw the flaws in the fascist shinobi system and sought to do away with it.