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I think what they were saying is that asmongold complained about wokeness for money (at least, that reading is more coherent imo)
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What's the connection between Britain and Room 101? Well, I guess they probably did a fair amount of torture.
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I remember reading a report by a Japanese think tank on the history of film in the dprk, where they described a film that had a fairly plain romance plot as being incredible because up to that point "state ideology only acknowledged love between the people and the Glorious Leader, not between individuals," which is just the most unhinged take.
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I know it's a boring answer that has already been given, but I really think it's just projection + making the book more marketable by putting a sex fantasy plot in it. I've never seen even a vague gesture at what the USSR would have had as an "Anti-Sex League", and the anglosphere is filled with them (and was even more so at the time), and it's objectifying Julia in a perfectly anglo fashion, i.e. a young maiden presses you, a middle-aged schlub, into cradle-robbing
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I don't know of a Gilmour song besides "Learning to Fly" that is actually enjoyable to listen to (though that one is v good, to be fair). It's pessimistic about musicianship in general to say someone as blegh as him is "medium talent".
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Makes a surprisingly good argument for how term limits are anti-democratic
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That's fair, there's pedo stuff in 3 and 4, I was just thinking of the "habit" Araki fell into of depicting eroticized assault of minors, which I don't think starts until 7.
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She's a Murata OC too, so there's all the more blame
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Hasn't Shigurui been finished for a long time? It's just the one fight and its backstory, not the whole original novel.
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"Extremely" is an exaggeration, just looking at the text
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I need to assume that you're basically accusing it of doing a Goblin Slayer, and I likewise need to insist that this is a very lazy reading. It is made very explicit that being a demon is basically a transmissible human health condition caused by medical experimentation. No one has been or seemingly could be born a demon (the only apparent exception are those sub-sentient fish creatures the jar demon spawns, but they also might just be an extension of him since demons are many times shown to have these sorts of connections to each other or separate parts of themselves), they weren't born out of anything but humanity, and the condition can even be reversed medically, though that discovery is of course late-coming. On top of all that, it is readily shown that demons can be good people who don't do murder, and indeed ~4 are shown to choose not murdering, it's just that the people Muzan picks out are ones who are more likely to give in to the desire to eat people. There are many things separating this conceptually from some sicko racial allegory like Goblin Slayer is.
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Did you read any part after 6? The content of 7, 8, and I think 9 in the very first chapter (I forget the age of the character assaulted there) make it obvious that he's fine with this sort of thing.
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Yeah, I mean, he's made her a series mascot while her design gets increasingly sexualized to the point that it's like a step below softcore loli. I really like the series otherwise, but the depictions of Tatsumaki that he goes out of his way to add make me uncomfortable. She's not like that in the webcomic! She's closer to being a sassy moe blob.
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It's worth noting that the first case, the one that all of Part 1 hinges on, is very clearly meant to be understood (eventually) as some sicko shit and Denji ultimately surrendering his free will to her in a proactive manner is unequivocally his lowest point, and it's clearly because of a combination of her grooming and her machinations to create and then destroy his positive relationships that he offers himself up in such a way.
I think the Reze is supposed to be his own age. Himeno you might be right about, but I think she doesn't actually find out his age until the morning after their aborted fling, at which point she lets it go.
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Are you sure that bad isn't baed and elephant isn't something else?
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These are literal translations of names mostly chosen for sounding at least a little like the country's name in its own language
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Well, the west doesn't recognize it as a country in the first place, so it's consistent.
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That some people would buy something does not mean the proletariat as a bloc supports it. Very many people think sports gambling on this digital industrial scale is absolutely fucked, and from a democratic standpoint, if the majority believe that, the thing to do is ban it. Moreover, even among the 19% of Americans who use these apps (and not all of them are devotees, mind), a meaningful portion of them are there because of advertising glamorizing the apps, and a fair portion are still there because they are addicts, i.e. it's not a choice being made freely. It seems like an obvious measure to present the options of banning or re-legalizing it with a discussion on things like gambling addiction.
As an aside, I am once again asking you to read Mao: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm#g9 . Once workers are given power, it is entirely possible for them to take action against the gambling that has troubled their community under the dictatorship of the owning class.
Based on limited information, I don't like all of the measures described there, but I think it's unquestionably superior to the previous state of things because what is lost were some cultural affectations and hobbies, and what was gained was freedom from both psychological and chemical addictions, along with food security, safety from banditry, lower rent, political representation, etc.
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Presumably ownership lapsed and some .world individual noticed and decided to own teh tankiez
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If they cannot explain why it happened, it is bound to happen again.
A few months ago I was listening to a podcast, I remembered it as Citations Needed but it could have been another adjacent one, where they interviewed someone from Electronic Intifada about NYT's journalistic malfeasance around the article "Screams Without Words". I've been looking for it and can't find it. The part that stuck out to me the most was the mother of a daughter who was used as a puppet for these lies saying "she was *only* killed" and talking about what a miserable situation it is to be saying such a thing.
After spending a couple days interacting with them, I have come to agree with the common sentiment hexbear already had that it's probably not worth trying to persuade a small number of steadfast neoliberals among those of us with limited patience, which includes myself. If I'm a wimp and you still want to go buck wild, of course. But the suggestion I got that .ee would probably be a better staging ground is at this point taken to heart. Since we are federated with them, I think the thing to do is make (appropriate, non-hostile) posts in .ee communities where the purpose of the comm adequately fits with topics that it would be useful to discuss. As with my last post, which was misbegotten, it's just a thought I had
There are a bunch of sicko neoliberals and insufferable redditors there, yes, but there are also some normal libs and a few comrades, and it seems like a good way to encourage lemmy generally to re-embrace leftism. I've been using an alt to talk on there and it's honestly not that bad. It's a little bad, but not that bad. I think if we just try to patiently explain ourselves, we have a reasonable chance of reaching people and shifting the general political alignment. Those of us who aren't up to dealing with ghouls (I am frequently included in this group) can just stay at home here and that's just fine. Anyway, just an idea. I would appreciate feedback.
It's a Josei-ish manga in which Kierkegaard has been reincarnated into contemporary Japan and decides to become a musician to communicate his philosophy to people. It features other reincarnations, notably John Locke, who makes my skin crawl because he's of course the father of liberalism, but his role in the story is positive enough. Mostly I just like the portrait of Kierkegaard and the silly references (and the author does include citations!). Also it's just something different from most of what you get, even if Kierkegaard in many ways ends up playing the typical Josei male lead. Also disclaimer: It takes like four chapters before he switches to electric guitars, so it's not really "Unplugged". I think he plays an acoustic guitar publicly only a single time.
idk, I was thinking about this a lot with the Chapo interview and how completely fraudulent the coverage of Israel was. It feels like we shouldn't let liberals get away with this shit by burying it in the past and pretending they always held more "moderate" beliefs. Even I had forgotten about the "putting Jewish babies in ovens" claim and I'm really fucking online about this mythbusting stuff (ask me about any story involving the DPRK). I think it got overshadowed by the "40 beheaded babies," which admittedly there is more memory of because the WH has struggled to get Biden to *stop* lying about it. There are some rare cases of people remembering these hoaxes, probably the best example being "Saddam's human shredder," where there is memory of how there was this hoax that mainstream news pushed and libs completely bought, while the next closest example, WMDs, is something that Democrats kind of just pin on Republicans despite Dems also falling for it/perpetrating fraud for it (just not for quite as long). I've got easily another dozen examples off the top of my head, but you get the idea. It's sort of the cousin of the retroactive invention of reality that we see with cases like MLK, how people pretend northern whites were broadly on his side and ridiculous shit like that, or even that he wasn't still hated by whites throughout the country at the time of his death, and it was the long-term impact of the campaigns lead by himself and others that ultimately forced even most of white culture to acknowledge his side as being that of justice.
No, it's not the one about how Democracy isn't Coca-Cola The main phrase of it was something along the lines of "The Communist Party must follow the people into the fire", that is, it must defer to the outcome of votes and the popular will even when it believes the outcome will be for the worse (presumably while expressing its own view) so that it does not grow out of touch with the people and instead gains trust and credibility from them in the long term. It's not on redsails, unfortunately, but I'm sure one of you all linked it to me in the first place.
From what I can gather, there's one Jew in the whole game (who I think is just called "Jew") and he ends up being a collaborator with a demon cult that seems to want to consume humanity. It doesn't seem like people really hold this against him long term, since he gets into more benign misadventures in the "where are they now?" montage at the end, but it seems like the most on-the-nose fash writing possible otherwise. I haven't actually played the game, partly because I was put off by this element of the synopsis, so did I miss relevant context? Even just a "fuck you guys for making a leper of me and then demanding my loyalty" type line?
I've seen a few times people cite Furr while disavowing him in a more general sense, but I have never seen someone here talk about specific problems with him and his work. I remembered this fact because I was looking up information on Losurdo and [found a little eulogy Furr wrote for him](https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/losurdo_furr070118.html) (which incidentally had the answer I was looking for, that Losurdo did not speak Russian). Furr seems like an absolute crank in terms of his general writing, see this text at the end of [an article he wrote refuting a Current Affairs article](https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/gfantiskopic0523.html): >I have been studying the allegations of crimes against Joseph Stalin for many years. My intention is to research every one of them. > >When I began years ago I thought that it would be only a matter of time – perhaps a year or two – before I discovered that at least one of these allegations against Stalin was true, could be confirmed by primary-source evidence. I was wrong. So far, after several decades of searching, I have yet to evidence that Stalin committed even one crime, much less the myriad crimes that Trotsky, Khrushchev’s men, Gorbachev’s men, and academic researchers have confidently asserted. > >I intend to keep looking. Perhaps some day I will discover at least one genuine crime by Stalin that I can truthfully say is supported by the best evidence we have. If and when I do, I will publish it and the evidence to support it. Which is just a villain origin story, though again I must say that every refutation I have personally seen from Furr (though few in number) made sense. So I ask again, what is actually wrong with him? Or has he merely inherited his own "Black Legend"?
So I've been putting off writing this for a long time and it'll probably need to be a series, but I've had a difficult time answering challenges from my friends who assert that China is either a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie or of the Bureaucracy (i.e. state capitalists), and that it's a competing imperialist power along with America (and they also say Russia but I can answer that one being stupid on my own). The problem with China Discourse is that there is a serious paucity of sources dealing with nuanced critiques rather than just "debt trap!" bullshit or whatever, since the objections of liberals and the objections of smarter ultras are very different. At the very least, the sources dealing with this Discourse are less accessible to me. But now I'm extremely bored and also recently saw Comrade [Queermmunist's excellent rebuttal against the claim of China doing imperialism in the DRC](https://hexbear.net/post/1987993?scrollToComments=false), which gave me some hope that Hexbear would be able to answer some of these claims with something at least plausible. The main objects of concern are the for-profit national businesses causing bureacratic class antagonism, foreign policy in the form of UN peacekeeping contributions, and straightforward imperialism at the base of its supply chain, along with miscellany like this: https://newworker.us/international/chinas-stock-market-a-lesson-on-what-socialism-is-not/ I don't know, it's all a mess and putting off ideological work causes problems. If nothing else, let this be a practical lesson to you: >To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. [This is one type of liberalism.](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm) It catches up with you and makes things worse in the end.
And they said we should just accept it on their credibility. I had the occasion to look this up again, so I thought I should post it for more than the shitlib I got it for (so now it's also for the three of you sorting by new at this hour)
No matter the account, it keeps popping up. It is very annoying because one time it was on autoplay and I had the misfortune of hearing some of it and you won't be surprised to find out that it has very little to do with real politics and more to do with simplistic courtly dramas that liberals love projecting into their enemies. I hate liberals. On top of everything else, they are just so fucking intellectually bankrupt that they don't even conceive of doing actual research before making totalling claims about countries they will never even visit or speak to an (even former) resident of.
I get that it's a revolt against the daimyo by everyone (within the Ikko-shu sect) from priests to lords to peasants, but what was their professed cause? The easiest one to find information on was the religious leader Rennyo, who seemed to have not actually supported the revolt but merely self-defense by the temples. It looks to me, though I can't tell for certain, like it was driven by yeomen and the like trying to resist consolidation of property into the ha ds of larger landowners. Does anyone happen to have sources for the professed beliefs of the militant Ikki?
It's not "good" and most of the "battles" are lame, but it's funny in most of its faults and occasionally very evocative in a way I can't imagine a modern action movie being. I did laugh out loud at the lengthy worldbuilding exposition getting impatiently interrupted by someone else who wanted to do other worldvuilding exposition. Really 95% of the movie is exposition, and that's because 5% of it is lengthy establishing shots and the like. Normally I hate endless Proper Nouns, but it works here because most of it is casual and, hilariously, a lot of it is mentioned once and never again. That impatient interjection I mentioned name drops the "CHOAM Corporation" I guess that's something in the books because it doesn't seem to be here! It was also a really bad idea to have Marty McFly demonstrate his combat prowess while refracted through a Roblox beta asset. They only use that shit one time later and it's in a very inconsequential way!
Most of us are used to reading histories written by anticommunists and trying to piece together truth from it. Here, I just don't understand, and I don't mean that in a "help! how can I explain this while preserving the axiom that Stalin was a good guy?" way, I mean that I don't understand how it makes sense at all for him to be killed, it seemed to be virtually entirely downside for the Soviets, both from Bukharin historically being a great thinker and from the way that it so damaged the international reputation of the Soviets under Stalin. It's made all the more confusing by the fact that Stalin *did* seem to not be interested in charging him, and then merely exiling him, before ultimately the Soviets seemed quite set on eventually killing him. It just doesn't make sense to me from any interpretation presented, like some vital information is missing.
It's in several spots, people basically saying "I've had a solid time except for all these nasty russian bots that we will soon outnumber!" No way an American disagrees with you, or anyone else of an Approved Nationality! No, it must be a pesky ruskie who managed to reach a computer despite not having any paved roads!
If you go to lemmy.ml it's just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It's sad. I strongly encourage users of this site who are so inclined to take a break from infighting to bully neoliberals over there.
It's not even a *bad* game as such, but fuck Nintendo and fuck whoever produced and directed it. It's not just lazy, it literally pushes back games as an art form. Yeah, some parts of it are cool and/or innovative (the dungeons are great), but the main questline overall and especially at the end is pathetic in the way that it leans on set pieces and cinematography as a crutch in a game that is supposedly centered on freedom. Remember like a decade ago when every single fucking game that was "good" was one that just pretended to be a movie that you push buttons to advance, and that produced a swamp of QTE bullshit and games that only exist for the cutscenes? That trend had clearly been receding in recent years even though Last of Us (the main example of that trend) is still quite popular. But Nintendo found just the way to revive it! "Hmm, games that pretend to be kino are old-hat, so what do we do to market to masses that we treat like slack-jawed yokels to impress as many of them as possible? I know! Instead of pretending to be kino, let's pretend to be Infinity War!" It's the same shit! It's just a fucking Marvel formula transplanted to Breath of the Wild's setting, with vapid not-even-scavenger-hunts to watch cutscene after cutscene where cool things happen that are completely disconnected from player input. Everyone knows that the beast ganon fight in BotW was dogshit. You know the dragon fight at the end of TotK? Literally the same thing! You get on a fucking mount and zoom around the big scary monster that doesn't actually do anything, strike the big glowing weak points along its body, and then stab it in the fucking forehead and it's done. But now, because it has some Avengers-ass "Oh, I recognize the thing!" direction with Dragon Zelda suddenly becoming [almost] an actual participant in the plot and Dragon Ganon shooting a billion fireballs that aren't even fucking aimed at you while you fly circles around him, now it's cool? Or because the fucking Force Ghosts pop in and contradict the rules about the dragon transformation being permanent so that Link can get his waifu as a *prize* for fighting the monster, but she has some voice lines so it's egalitarian! And don't get me started on having the bosses come back along with the Sages ("It's just like Infinity War!") to just fucking negate each other offscreen. Absolute horseshit that makes the Divine Beast business at the end of BotW look elegant by comparison. Fuck these fucking hack writers and their pandering bullshit that we will now get a thousand other games imitating. We're just going to get compounding dark ages of writing as paradigm after paradigm is added to make it worse and worse as these shitheads optimize the formula for selling both to credulous 13-year-olds and otaku 35-year-olds. I hate it. 7/10