GarbageShoot [he/him] @ GarbageShoot @hexbear.net

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What they talk about the most is Israel and they do a pretty good job of that. I never understood why people are so revolted by it other than Felix being gross. There's basically no criticism you could make of their politics that you couldn't make of Citations Needed, e.g. if you're a Dengist you probably don't like how they basically never remark on China, but I've heard remarks occasionally from CTH and none from CN

Having ideals and aspirations is not what "idealism" means in the Marxist sense even remotely. Marx, if you didn't notice, openly touted his aspirations for the liberation of mankind.

You know, if Elon runs America into the ground like he ran Twitter into the ground, it could be better for the world even if it sucks for us . . .

Yeah, markets that involve people with the power to buy out politicians, not just Steve spending a fraction of his paycheck on Teflon Don's assured victory

Betting is polling like markets are democracy

I'm not talking about the work itself, I mean that psychologically the association was pushed by the artist, who is popularly regarded as the main authority on a piece, saying that "candidate embodies the spirit of my album". I'm speaking on the level of rhetoric here.

That said, it's extremely easy to find music from people who don't fellate reactionaries like that, even if they're still liberals or whatever.

Just cause the libs taint trends in music and pop culture like this doesn't mean it's bad

tbf the artist also tainted it with that association.

I've never heard that he was killed by anyone other than the Soviets, but I guess they do blame Stalin for a lot of things

I think this is a really shitty, passive-aggressive reaction to someone talking about family troubles

I think that the basic thesis here is fundamentally wrong, or at least it's clearly wrong sometimes. It's memed to death, but the anime girls these gooners get off to fundamentally don't look like human beings, which is made obvious by the fact that you can't actually coherently imagine one in the real world without either completely changing them or having an abomination on your hands.

"It's called art, sweaty"

In the loosest sense of the term, yes, but my point is that if you are able to make a really arousing cubist woman, calling it merely "an impossibly high standard" and not "some human-inspired thing that gets some people hard" is a confusion. Anime girls are just a more accessible version of that.

"why are you talking about anime when the gooners are mostly 'correcting' non-anime games?"

Because when you see how they correct them, it's clear that anime girls are a major reference point for them.

Like those artists that Miyazaki criticized, these people don't just have high standards, they are coming to prefer the non-human simulacra over humans, at least for their sex objects.

Come now, he's like the third strongest human, and the strongest (Krillin) said at the time that he would have been killed by the saibaman kamikaze too if he wasn't alerted to it by Yamcha's death. Also, it's not like that is in the same dimension as where he is by the end of Z, let alone where he gets in Super, since Dragon Ball is the worst media in the world when it comes to "number go up" power creep.

It is so infuriating needing to explain to people that Republicans can opportunistically tell the truth. They aren't just magical beings bound to only speak in lies like one of the twins from that riddle.

You are missing the point completely; Her political opinions are irrelevant here, it's her obsession with it and with browbeating OP about it. There are communists like that too (many of us have been that communist), liberals breaking that off are honestly doing something reasonable, even if they are politically incorrect in general.

I will admit that the sparseness of the text combined with the distance in time and space means it's not the sort of thing you can just throw on someone's lap like Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, but I think we ultimately agree.

Setting up a site in Tel Aviv is just begging for trouble given the relative success of the rocket attacks there.

I have no advice on Covid, but I just wanted to mention that the anxiety might be worth it, especially since the anxiety will go away eventually but the relationships should at least last somewhat longer if they are worth anything.

Mao does not actually say yell at people and burning all available bridges in self-righteous fits of anger instead of searching for ways to interact constructively with people is closer to being what he regarded as liberalism, being that it can be described as "venting personal spite". That segment, like most of them, only applies to intraparty affairs, but that's why I said "closer to". All he says about extraparty interaction is that you should continuously agitate and propagandize.

There's a uniting theme in all of the behaviors he highlights of a sort of moral flippancy, of regarding a decision as basically indifferent and then just picking the option you want instead of picking what is best. It makes sense to call this self-entitled version of freedom, where you are not obliged to act rightly but merely fulfill some set of requirements and then have free reign in the rest of it, "liberalism," because that is exactly what many liberal moral frameworks look like, especially the more politically-involved ones (like social contract theory).

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I got the "Kamala isn't Joe" line.

Right, she's moderately worse: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/harris-biden-the-view-00182883