R: 36 / I: 21
First of the bat: I agree with the message with this movie that the governments of yurop ain't doing shit to stop migrant violence. Idgaf about leftoid sensibilities about muh migrants bla bla. If the Warsaw Pact was still around, you wouldn't be seeing this lawlessness and I never understood leftists going bonkers on migrants as if they are not mostly reactionary lumpens that would fight communism on the ground that their tribal deity said sharing is evil or some shit. So you will not get me criticizing this flick for THE MESSAGE (critical drinker voice) but the irony is THE MESSAGE was delivered in a very strange fashion. It's almost as if the movie was not made to be art or agitprop, but as a controversy piece.
The movie is low budget and you can tell most of the money went to Armie Hammer's acting salary. The SFX are alright but clearly AI/Photoshop with some practical SFX in that police shoot out scene where faces of cops explode (literally) from PKM bullets.
You can read the synopsis on wikifedia, it's pretty accurate, I'll just summarize it in my own Sinbadish style.
This movie is meh
I only heard about this movie yesterday so I decided to watch it on Xitter for free because Elon(gated) Musk(rat) isekais himself as the MC. But I was like… how would the producers make money? So it's only up until saturday kek. Money always trumps ideology I guess.First of the bat: I agree with the message with this movie that the governments of yurop ain't doing shit to stop migrant violence. Idgaf about leftoid sensibilities about muh migrants bla bla. If the Warsaw Pact was still around, you wouldn't be seeing this lawlessness and I never understood leftists going bonkers on migrants as if they are not mostly reactionary lumpens that would fight communism on the ground that their tribal deity said sharing is evil or some shit. So you will not get me criticizing this flick for THE MESSAGE (critical drinker voice) but the irony is THE MESSAGE was delivered in a very strange fashion. It's almost as if the movie was not made to be art or agitprop, but as a controversy piece.
The movie is low budget and you can tell most of the money went to Armie Hammer's acting salary. The SFX are alright but clearly AI/Photoshop with some practical SFX in that police shoot out scene where faces of cops explode (literally) from PKM bullets.
You can read the synopsis on wikifedia, it's pretty accurate, I'll just summarize it in my own Sinbadish style.
R: 65 / I: 34
/bwh/
bump while high
this is a thread you can bump when you're high
BUMP WHILE HIGH THREAD
bwh/bwh/
bump while high
this is a thread you can bump when you're high
R: 34 / I: 3
>Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
>Or just walk away.
>AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
>It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.
>There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
>Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.
>But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.
>The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
>We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.
>And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
>Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
>The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
>Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
>This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.
>In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.
>And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.
>Linus
linus torvalds pro-AI meltdown
>I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.>Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
>Or just walk away.
>AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
>It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.
>There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
>Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.
>But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.
>The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
>We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.
>And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
>Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
>The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
>Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
>This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.
>In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.
>And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.
>Linus
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>Get musicians and working actors with zero voice acting experience to voice your game
>end up with what's widely considered the best voice-acted game in history.
really makes you think
>Get musicians and working actors with zero voice acting experience to voice your game
>end up with what's widely considered the best voice-acted game in history.
really makes you think
R: 17 / I: 4
Can't tell if this anime is even for or against smoking. Bunch of poop, piss, nyaa jokes and what not actually I appreciate how unhinged it is
Chainsmoker Cat
What do we think about this disgusting nicotine-addicted lumpen of a cat girl?Can't tell if this anime is even for or against smoking. Bunch of poop, piss, nyaa jokes and what not actually I appreciate how unhinged it is
R: 0 / I: 0
are you aware of the blatant FUD campaign happening
against PGP?
people are bringing irrelevant and wrong facts up about PGP just to call it insecure
somehow most (if not all) of them shill signal at the same time, some of them even suggesting whatsapp instead of PGP.
signal is a centralized IM app that requires your fucking phone number to register. they have huge aversion against 3rd party appstores and don't want any custom fork / implementation of "open source" signal client. somehow this is much better than PGP encrypted email over an anonymous network.
(taking gnupg as reference)
"it's old therefore it's bad"
it's continuously updated / modernized and uses a separate library for all crypto operations anyway. it even supports PQ crypto
"it's complex and error prone"
the main idea is very simple. you can read RFC4880 all yourself and understand it
"it has shootguns bla bla"
it is literally not possible to do a mistake and publish your private key onto internet without passing several confirmation dialogs and warnings yet people claim this is a serious issue about PGP.
any proper client should (and they do) restrict sending plaintext messages when PGP is selected as encryption method.
"no perfect forward secrecy bla bla"
perfect forward secrecy is implemented for an entirely different usecase and it doesn't even add a meaningful security. private key compromise implies all unencrypted messages resting on your device are compromised too.
"it does so many things bla bla"
this is what makes it good. a single program to manage your keys, sign and encrpyt. nobody would willingly use 500 different small programs to do one task.
"efail, bla bla"
fake incident
https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=start
are you aware of the blatant FUD campaign happening
against PGP?
people are bringing irrelevant and wrong facts up about PGP just to call it insecure
somehow most (if not all) of them shill signal at the same time, some of them even suggesting whatsapp instead of PGP.
signal is a centralized IM app that requires your fucking phone number to register. they have huge aversion against 3rd party appstores and don't want any custom fork / implementation of "open source" signal client. somehow this is much better than PGP encrypted email over an anonymous network.
(taking gnupg as reference)
"it's old therefore it's bad"
it's continuously updated / modernized and uses a separate library for all crypto operations anyway. it even supports PQ crypto
"it's complex and error prone"
the main idea is very simple. you can read RFC4880 all yourself and understand it
"it has shootguns bla bla"
it is literally not possible to do a mistake and publish your private key onto internet without passing several confirmation dialogs and warnings yet people claim this is a serious issue about PGP.
any proper client should (and they do) restrict sending plaintext messages when PGP is selected as encryption method.
"no perfect forward secrecy bla bla"
perfect forward secrecy is implemented for an entirely different usecase and it doesn't even add a meaningful security. private key compromise implies all unencrypted messages resting on your device are compromised too.
"it does so many things bla bla"
this is what makes it good. a single program to manage your keys, sign and encrpyt. nobody would willingly use 500 different small programs to do one task.
"efail, bla bla"
fake incident
https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=start
R: 3 / I: 1
can be mods, games themselves, translations, fanart, or even ideas etc
post about it here
Stuff you're working on thread
stuff that you're working on that is game-relatedcan be mods, games themselves, translations, fanart, or even ideas etc
post about it here
R: 7 / I: 2
Should I drop aspirations of being a conservationist? I find myself lucky enough to be able to go back for a second degree and have wanted to get a degree in biology since before I finished my first, entirely unrelated to that field (though much more marketable), degree. Everyone seems to be in love with environmental rape and collapse now and I can't muster much hope in regards to the importance of futilely trying to keep the various floundering ecologies of the world afloat anymore.
I'd resigned myself to the truth of environmental collapse but reading daily about how America has decided to kill another endangered species, actively, entirely without any remorse, has become more than I can handle.
I don't want to be doing shit in an office 'till I die, but I don't know if going back to follow what I'm actually interested and passionate about will yield much fruit, if any at all.
Should I drop aspirations of being a conservationist? I find myself lucky enough to be able to go back for a second degree and have wanted to get a degree in biology since before I finished my first, entirely unrelated to that field (though much more marketable), degree. Everyone seems to be in love with environmental rape and collapse now and I can't muster much hope in regards to the importance of futilely trying to keep the various floundering ecologies of the world afloat anymore.
I'd resigned myself to the truth of environmental collapse but reading daily about how America has decided to kill another endangered species, actively, entirely without any remorse, has become more than I can handle.
I don't want to be doing shit in an office 'till I die, but I don't know if going back to follow what I'm actually interested and passionate about will yield much fruit, if any at all.
R: 31 / I: 12
Transexualism cannot be resolved in capitalism (or at least it can't be in the modern day) because there will always be people who cannot access sex change resources such as bottom / top surgery, hormones and for trans women FFS, which are all necessary. Even in the hypothetical most 'accepting' world ever where everyone has their gender respected these necessary things cannot be given to everyone because there will always be colonized people since capitalism requires imperialism. Trans welfare will never be able to be shared to everyone, and today things like FFS remain achievable only to the bourgeois and the highest section of the working class, leaving most trans women to suffer.
Transgenderism is a pysop in order to prevent the movement to resolve the contradiction of sex. It takes away the truly revolutionary demand for sex change / abolition with a phony acceptance, which is really just harmful. Gender is a patriarchal idea. Toxic woke stabs me in the back worse than others do because to them the end goal is me being unable to complete my transition. It is pure bourgeois idealism that must be combatted in order to achieve true revolutionary transexualism. It is even more harmful to non-binary people because only through surgery will others actually perceive them as non-binary. They are trapped by CIA idealists in their biologically sexed bodies.
Revolutionary transexualism understands that now we have the technology to resolve the contradiction of sex, and the only issue is that it is not distributed fairly. We must dismember the bourgeois imperialists and expropriate and extract their body modifications to share with the people. Sacrifice the oppressors on the altar to progress and let us be free as we are splashed by the blood from their still-beating heart. Gender idealism must also be opposed at all times, because it is an obstacle in the way of our emancipation from wicked biology. Only once we have smashed the evil imperialists with the immeasurable power of the working class, the lumpen-proletariat and other allies, and the oppressed people in colonised countries, can beautiful socialist technology finally end our suffering through allowing anyone to be any sex expression they want, or non at all.
Part of this is also the reactionary 'naturism' among leftists. This is a reactionary trend that posits that nature must be worshipped like a god. Fuck that. If nature is a god I would give my life to give him a bruise. Dethrone the god of nature. This thinking says that changing our bodies is not necessary and we should be happy with what we have. NEVER ACCEPT WHAT YOU HAVE! ALWAYS FIGHT FOR A BETTER FUTURE! This idealism is also supportive of the genocide of billions of people in the third world since they don't agree with geo-engineering, which is the only way to prevent climate genocide. STAND AGAINST THE IDEALISM WHICH MURDERS COLONISED PEOPLE IN THE THIRD WORLD! The climate was destroyed by us and it can only be rebuilt by us, there is no god to save us only our own power.
This is the future which we must fight tooth and nail to achieve, not a decrepit bourgeois system where we are perceived by all as our birth sex, but they have to use the correct pronouns. That is unacceptable and it is pathetic that our people were psyopped into thinking that transition is impossible or doesn't matter by bourgeois agents (who always pass and have enough money for surgeries). It is us who do not pass and will never pass who have nothing to lose in this wretched society, and everything to gain through revolution. Sisters, brothers, and all siblings, stride together into the revolutionary technological future! CRUCIFY THE BOURGEOIS SYSTEM AND RESOLVE THE CONTRADICTION OF SEX!
The transexual demand
Transexualism is the capitalist expression of people who want to change their sex. It has only been able to exist in capitalism since it is only now we can change our sex. Before now there have only been "3rd sexes" or genders such as the Hijra. But these are patriarchal constructs and represent pre-modern economic forms. We should defend them when they are under threat from reactionary, patriarchal, or imperialist forces, but they are not what we should aspire towards. Transexualism is bourgeois in the positive way, but like capitalism itself it has become necessary almost since the day it started existing, and now we must move forward.Transexualism cannot be resolved in capitalism (or at least it can't be in the modern day) because there will always be people who cannot access sex change resources such as bottom / top surgery, hormones and for trans women FFS, which are all necessary. Even in the hypothetical most 'accepting' world ever where everyone has their gender respected these necessary things cannot be given to everyone because there will always be colonized people since capitalism requires imperialism. Trans welfare will never be able to be shared to everyone, and today things like FFS remain achievable only to the bourgeois and the highest section of the working class, leaving most trans women to suffer.
Transgenderism is a pysop in order to prevent the movement to resolve the contradiction of sex. It takes away the truly revolutionary demand for sex change / abolition with a phony acceptance, which is really just harmful. Gender is a patriarchal idea. Toxic woke stabs me in the back worse than others do because to them the end goal is me being unable to complete my transition. It is pure bourgeois idealism that must be combatted in order to achieve true revolutionary transexualism. It is even more harmful to non-binary people because only through surgery will others actually perceive them as non-binary. They are trapped by CIA idealists in their biologically sexed bodies.
Revolutionary transexualism understands that now we have the technology to resolve the contradiction of sex, and the only issue is that it is not distributed fairly. We must dismember the bourgeois imperialists and expropriate and extract their body modifications to share with the people. Sacrifice the oppressors on the altar to progress and let us be free as we are splashed by the blood from their still-beating heart. Gender idealism must also be opposed at all times, because it is an obstacle in the way of our emancipation from wicked biology. Only once we have smashed the evil imperialists with the immeasurable power of the working class, the lumpen-proletariat and other allies, and the oppressed people in colonised countries, can beautiful socialist technology finally end our suffering through allowing anyone to be any sex expression they want, or non at all.
Part of this is also the reactionary 'naturism' among leftists. This is a reactionary trend that posits that nature must be worshipped like a god. Fuck that. If nature is a god I would give my life to give him a bruise. Dethrone the god of nature. This thinking says that changing our bodies is not necessary and we should be happy with what we have. NEVER ACCEPT WHAT YOU HAVE! ALWAYS FIGHT FOR A BETTER FUTURE! This idealism is also supportive of the genocide of billions of people in the third world since they don't agree with geo-engineering, which is the only way to prevent climate genocide. STAND AGAINST THE IDEALISM WHICH MURDERS COLONISED PEOPLE IN THE THIRD WORLD! The climate was destroyed by us and it can only be rebuilt by us, there is no god to save us only our own power.
This is the future which we must fight tooth and nail to achieve, not a decrepit bourgeois system where we are perceived by all as our birth sex, but they have to use the correct pronouns. That is unacceptable and it is pathetic that our people were psyopped into thinking that transition is impossible or doesn't matter by bourgeois agents (who always pass and have enough money for surgeries). It is us who do not pass and will never pass who have nothing to lose in this wretched society, and everything to gain through revolution. Sisters, brothers, and all siblings, stride together into the revolutionary technological future! CRUCIFY THE BOURGEOIS SYSTEM AND RESOLVE THE CONTRADICTION OF SEX!
R: 16 / I: 0
Any cities with a good trans community and things to do that are still open after 7pm where I could find a roommate who will treat me like a human?
-Boymoding trans lesbian living in British Columbia
Best place for trannies in BC?
I'd like to move away from my parents and this shitty town but I'm stuck with sub poverty income (about $1800 a month from provincial disability) because I can't work.Any cities with a good trans community and things to do that are still open after 7pm where I could find a roommate who will treat me like a human?
-Boymoding trans lesbian living in British Columbia
R: 12 / I: 4
And so i had to temporarily stop HRT and i feel like i'm dying, currently in a state of induced menopause for a couple of months more and my god, the cold sweats, my throat closes because of the anxiety, depersonalization and disociation makes it hard to do anything besides bedrotting and playing fast paced shooters that let me keep my brain in a constant state of focus in such tasks
and i swear to god, the only thing keeping me from letting me fall apart right now, since my mother decided to stop talking to me because i refused to boymode for her, it's my boyfriend and our future together raising our children in Spain and having them visit their grandparents in México- which hopefully won't go to hell because my brother's gen decide to elect a right winger as president of México to fuck everything up and sell everything to Israel and the US.
Distract me from the pain
So, i realized i want to be a mom a while ago, which had me crying a lot for days til i spoke to a therapist, and my endocrinologist.And so i had to temporarily stop HRT and i feel like i'm dying, currently in a state of induced menopause for a couple of months more and my god, the cold sweats, my throat closes because of the anxiety, depersonalization and disociation makes it hard to do anything besides bedrotting and playing fast paced shooters that let me keep my brain in a constant state of focus in such tasks
and i swear to god, the only thing keeping me from letting me fall apart right now, since my mother decided to stop talking to me because i refused to boymode for her, it's my boyfriend and our future together raising our children in Spain and having them visit their grandparents in México- which hopefully won't go to hell because my brother's gen decide to elect a right winger as president of México to fuck everything up and sell everything to Israel and the US.
R: 23 / I: 6
infertility
hi just wondering if any transfems know about whether infertility from hrt can be reversed? ik that tgel can be used to regain function but can you go like fully infertile and not be able to regain function?
R: 22 / I: 2
Has anyone on here played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
It's set in post-soviet ukraine, about a cast of "stalkers" searched for artifacts in a mystical chernobyl exclusion zone.
Has anyone on here played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
It's set in post-soviet ukraine, about a cast of "stalkers" searched for artifacts in a mystical chernobyl exclusion zone.
R: 41 / I: 23
Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
Psyop anti-Argentina
Hay una psyop masiva para generar odio contra argentina y justificar una posible intervención o lento takeover del país y sus recursos.Por medio del mundial estan pintando al pais como una potencia sionista corrupta y despreciable. Estan habiendo demasiadas decisiones y doble vara arbitral que es dificil que sean todas coincidencia. Hay alguien interesado en generar toda esta dinamica, quiza para devolverle un favor a alguien y de paso indirectamente arrastrar polemica pero mejor no digo más. Despues del partido contra Egipto cualquier tipo de simpatia entre el pueblo que pudiera tener argentina en medio oriente y muchas partes del mundo directamente se evaporó.
Y por otro lado, llevan años queriendo pintar al pais como un pais racista, colonialista y hasta settler-imperialista por no tener negros en su seleccion o por sesgos historicos terribles que los anglosajones liberales y progres se tragan como bobos. Para muchos en su imaginario ya argenitina no es menos que el manifest destiny americano y por supuesto un estado ilegitimo.
Algo estan cocinando. Guarden post
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>meow.
>meow.
>meow.
>meow.
World cup thread
Nazi zionists won>meow.
>meow.
>meow.
>meow.
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"Daniel Vorcaro é economista, empresário, ex-banqueiro e criminoso brasileiro. (Wikipedia)"
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>17216
/brg/ - Brazil General
EDIÇÃO BANCO MESTRE"Daniel Vorcaro é economista, empresário, ex-banqueiro e criminoso brasileiro. (Wikipedia)"
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
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Archived threads:
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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -Archived threads:
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I've seen this a lot recently, with the new MJ biopic out as well as all the new allegations of abuse from the Cascio family and also a new Leaving Neverland documentary. In spite of the left staunchly holding on to #metoo and the fact abuse survivors/victims need to be believed and supported, the same isn't true with the multiple people who have accused MJ of CSA and grooming. The Epstein case has made discussions of pedophilia, CSA, and power imbalances in relationships mainstream. People are even going so far as to debate whether or not the Age of Consent should be raised to 21 in order to shield 18-year olds from predatory 30-year olds. Yet, if you bring up the fact MJ engaged in such things, you're denounced as a right-winger or reactionary (or even a racist).
Perhaps the most bizarre claims I've heard is that MJ was pro-Palestine and (allegedly) wrote a song about Palestine, Israel knew this so Mossad planted the CSA allegations against him in order to ruin him before the song could be recorded. There's no evidence of this, and MJ actually travelled to Israel and met with the IOF about a month after the Chandlers made the allegations known. I've also heard the conspiracy that MJ was protecting kids from the "real predators" in Hollywood and was saving kids from being trafficked to Epstein Island. That claim is easily debunked once you realize Epstein didn't buy his infamous island until 1998, and MJ was already taking in kids long before that.
And let's be honest: even if MJ did nothing criminal with the boys he surrounded himself with, his behaviours with them was still NOT appropriate. A grown man in his 30s and 40s should never, ever be having sleepovers with 8,9, and 10-year olds, much less sharing a bed with them. Plus, all of the stories his accusers tell fit perfectly with the model of grooming: MJ would dazzle the parents of these kids and buy them lots of expensive items, the parents would let their guards down and allow him to do what he pleased with their children, then MJ would have almost romantic-like relations with these kids. In no possible world would that ever be acceptable for a grown man to do.
So what gives? Why do so many comrades still defend MJ so viciously?
Michael Jackson and the left
Why does it seem like so many leftists support Michael Jackson to the point where they make defending him from all his abuse allegations a political issue?I've seen this a lot recently, with the new MJ biopic out as well as all the new allegations of abuse from the Cascio family and also a new Leaving Neverland documentary. In spite of the left staunchly holding on to #metoo and the fact abuse survivors/victims need to be believed and supported, the same isn't true with the multiple people who have accused MJ of CSA and grooming. The Epstein case has made discussions of pedophilia, CSA, and power imbalances in relationships mainstream. People are even going so far as to debate whether or not the Age of Consent should be raised to 21 in order to shield 18-year olds from predatory 30-year olds. Yet, if you bring up the fact MJ engaged in such things, you're denounced as a right-winger or reactionary (or even a racist).
Perhaps the most bizarre claims I've heard is that MJ was pro-Palestine and (allegedly) wrote a song about Palestine, Israel knew this so Mossad planted the CSA allegations against him in order to ruin him before the song could be recorded. There's no evidence of this, and MJ actually travelled to Israel and met with the IOF about a month after the Chandlers made the allegations known. I've also heard the conspiracy that MJ was protecting kids from the "real predators" in Hollywood and was saving kids from being trafficked to Epstein Island. That claim is easily debunked once you realize Epstein didn't buy his infamous island until 1998, and MJ was already taking in kids long before that.
And let's be honest: even if MJ did nothing criminal with the boys he surrounded himself with, his behaviours with them was still NOT appropriate. A grown man in his 30s and 40s should never, ever be having sleepovers with 8,9, and 10-year olds, much less sharing a bed with them. Plus, all of the stories his accusers tell fit perfectly with the model of grooming: MJ would dazzle the parents of these kids and buy them lots of expensive items, the parents would let their guards down and allow him to do what he pleased with their children, then MJ would have almost romantic-like relations with these kids. In no possible world would that ever be acceptable for a grown man to do.
So what gives? Why do so many comrades still defend MJ so viciously?
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Archive of previous thread
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A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes
Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.
This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.
https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/
Reality has a Marxist bias
/edu/ checkpoint
Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S
Excuse me coming through
A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes
Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.
This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.
https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/
Reality has a Marxist bias
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I really don't get why certain conspiracy theories like the moon landing being fake and 9/11 being an inside job are so controversial on the left
Is it really implausible that the usa, the worlds biggest imperialist power, would be willing to do these things for the sake of personal gain?
And yet if i bring it up i'm treated like an idiot, "no they would never do that", even though they're perfectly willing to do mkultra and distributing crack in black neighbourhoods
I really don't get why certain conspiracy theories like the moon landing being fake and 9/11 being an inside job are so controversial on the left
Is it really implausible that the usa, the worlds biggest imperialist power, would be willing to do these things for the sake of personal gain?
And yet if i bring it up i'm treated like an idiot, "no they would never do that", even though they're perfectly willing to do mkultra and distributing crack in black neighbourhoods
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>pic unrelated
how the fuck can you guys tell if someone is gay/queer?
like i know you could just ask them but if you were to do that they'd probably guess you're attracted to them and make it awkward which I don't want.>pic unrelated
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Dug this out
the staircase I am in goes on for 467 blocks deep or almost half a kilometer down. It takes minutes to get to the surface from bedrock level.
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Roosterteeth productions
what do you think about RWBY as an anime
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STOP USING FIREFOX!
Use Dillo. It only has ~80,000 lines of code. That's smaller than some terminal browsers, even. Firefox and Chromium are like operating systems w/ 10s of millions of lines of code. That's why compiling Firefox on Gentoo is a fucking nightmare. With Dillo, it just takes a few seconds. And minus the proprietary js attack surface since it comes without it because it's a legacy browser with its own engine instead of using Google/Apple like Otter browser or Suckless Surf.
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How do we feel about academic elites stealing the music of Woodie Guthrie and turning it into Democratic Party woke intersectional feminist propaganda?
Should we show up at this event and counter it’s message by showing how Guthrie was a working-man first and foremost who hated liberals?
How do we feel about academic elites stealing the music of Woodie Guthrie and turning it into Democratic Party woke intersectional feminist propaganda?
Should we show up at this event and counter it’s message by showing how Guthrie was a working-man first and foremost who hated liberals?
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what are some games that you think that insist upon themselves?
what are some games that you think that insist upon themselves?
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What is the morality of:
The government contracting a private military company, a PMC that is largely made up of 18 year olds who are fresh out of school, under immense crippling debt that they will likely never pay off, in order to send them off to liberate newly enemy occupied territories that have been seized from the state?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLbst85USN8
Why do people still buy CIA propaganda "games"
the new call of duty for example, why do people keep buying these capitalist garbage that glorifies war and paints the US as the good guys and everyone else as ~the bad ones~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLbst85USN8
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Pipewire tips:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-configure-pipewire-low-latency-audio-ubuntu/view
DAWs:
https://ardour.org/
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html
https://lmms.io/
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html
https://www.reaper.fm/
https://www.renoise.com/
FX plugins:
https://calf-studio-gear.org/
https://lsp-plug.in/
https://www.x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-avldrums
https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/
http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/
https://kx.studio/Plugins
Synth plugins:
https://quamplex.com/geonkick/
https://tytel.org/helm/
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/
https://sfztools.github.io/sfizz/
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/
More resources:
https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Audio
Linux Audio Production
For those of us painstakingly trying to produce music on Linux workstationsPipewire tips:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#what-is-the-pro-audio-profile
https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-configure-pipewire-low-latency-audio-ubuntu/view
DAWs:
https://ardour.org/
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html
https://lmms.io/
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html
https://www.reaper.fm/
https://www.renoise.com/
FX plugins:
https://calf-studio-gear.org/
https://lsp-plug.in/
https://www.x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-avldrums
https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/
http://eq10q.sourceforge.net/
https://kx.studio/Plugins
Synth plugins:
https://quamplex.com/geonkick/
https://tytel.org/helm/
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/
https://sfztools.github.io/sfizz/
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/
More resources:
https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Audio
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press F to pay respects, anti-'movie game', diegetic design, ludonarrative dissonance, scoring systems, games as architecture, 'games as cinema' limits medium, games as commodity, atari 2600, object-oriented ontology, remakes as simulacra, skinner box, hypermediacy, virtual diaramas, rhizome, folk process, kinesthetic empathy, anti-cinema, alien phenomenology, analog accessories, game manuals as ergodic literature, paratextual architecture, lore as narrative, ludic space, magic circle (huizinga), spatial narrative, controller feel, psychogeography, screen as proscenium, ludeme, simulation sickness as gameplay, proprioception, game feel, sound chip, hyperreality, zero-player game, invisible walls, apophenia, alternative physics, key-door adjacency, game-object, smooth/striated, engine grain, Kishotenketsu, skybox as cyclorama, affordance, negative feedback loop, save rooms irl
press F to pay respects, anti-'movie game', diegetic design, ludonarrative dissonance, scoring systems, games as architecture, 'games as cinema' limits medium, games as commodity, atari 2600, object-oriented ontology, remakes as simulacra, skinner box, hypermediacy, virtual diaramas, rhizome, folk process, kinesthetic empathy, anti-cinema, alien phenomenology, analog accessories, game manuals as ergodic literature, paratextual architecture, lore as narrative, ludic space, magic circle (huizinga), spatial narrative, controller feel, psychogeography, screen as proscenium, ludeme, simulation sickness as gameplay, proprioception, game feel, sound chip, hyperreality, zero-player game, invisible walls, apophenia, alternative physics, key-door adjacency, game-object, smooth/striated, engine grain, Kishotenketsu, skybox as cyclorama, affordance, negative feedback loop, save rooms irl
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is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
is this your ideal?
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also I like playing online games
There are plenty of social medias out there
>Youtube
>X
>Reddit
>Discord
> AND I don't fucking know
I'm banned from reddit and X is full of bots
So I only use discord and Youtube
what platforms do you use for distraction?
Uhh exilent question, I like to use youtube and a bit of touching grass what about you guys?also I like playing online games
There are plenty of social medias out there
>Youtube
>X
>Discord
> AND I don't fucking know
I'm banned from reddit and X is full of bots
So I only use discord and Youtube
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idk does anyone else feel like making jax a repressoid then immediately killing her is kind of fucked up?
Ah fuck... I can't believe you've done this
Episode 9 spoilersidk does anyone else feel like making jax a repressoid then immediately killing her is kind of fucked up?
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread
drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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El thread con más copas del mundo™
Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.
Bienvenidos.
/arg/ - Argentina General
SANTUCHO EDITIONEl thread con más copas del mundo™
Ahora que tenemos nuestro propio board, es hora de tener nuestro propio hilo también.
Bienvenidos.
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Previous thread:>>30810
AI news shit general
The other thread hit bump limit and I'm addicted to talking about the birth of the ̶a̶l̶l̶-̶k̶n̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶ the biggest financial bubble in history and the coming jobless eschaton, post your AI news herePrevious thread:>>30810
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Anyways I just wanted to say that I think Israel might be actively trying to rise antisemitism in the U.S.
Like I’ve seen more anti Jewish sentiments spread online now and I think Israel by doing war crimes and a ethic cleansing with fucking atrocious acts of violence among children
This sickness me and Israel should know what it’s like to be in this situation because of history!!!
Who thinks the same
Israel Causing The Rise Of Antisemitism
Hey I’m new here and I was a 4chan user but I hate it now due to the right wing circle jerksAnyways I just wanted to say that I think Israel might be actively trying to rise antisemitism in the U.S.
Like I’ve seen more anti Jewish sentiments spread online now and I think Israel by doing war crimes and a ethic cleansing with fucking atrocious acts of violence among children
This sickness me and Israel should know what it’s like to be in this situation because of history!!!
Who thinks the same
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I see a lot of people like in the article’s author, especially leftists, talk about it, and honestly? I’m not seeing it, at all. Maybe because I haven’t been active in the anime fandom for a decade by now (last discourse I got caught up in was the dumb flame war over “elitists” vs “casuals” on MAL), or maybe because I only consoome old (read: 1990s, 2000s and early 2010s) media because I don’t like much of contemporary media, but can’t say with certainty, but I just don’t see it.
Sure, perhaps the proportion of Japanese creators being chuds increased in recent years, but I don’t see that being particularly well-reflected in the current output of the Japanese animation and comic industries. The political messaging of 20th century and early 2000s anime and manga seems to be same as 2020s anime and manga insofar that both are all over the place in equal amounts.
Among “chuddy” anime, I can only think of GATE (literal JSDF propaganda), HighSchool Of The Dead (zombie shounen ecchi horror with big tiddie girls made by a far-right mangaka who hates leftists, supports the JSDF, a gun nut, and hates Koreans), and Frieren (what with the genocided human-like predatory demons being portrayed in deterministic ways in spite of showing signs of actual sapience the story never addresses), but that’s about it.
As for manga, the best I can think of as of late is Drama Queen with many seeing the aliens as allegory for immigrants in Japan, although many can’t decide if they’re supposed to be stand-ins for American/Euro expats, tourists, East Asian renters, SEA and SA migrant workers, Kurdish refugees, or a pastiche of all of them. But that’s like an exception compared to the shit-ton of manga that pushes feminist, anti-racist and other socially progressive themes.
I think it has already been discussed before, but Japan being NPC-topia combined with how being a busherite is deemed as the most acceptable way to express oneself in Japanese politics as opposed to, say, being a Maoist might have a lot to do with why a lot of mangakas seem to be chuds, which is easy as the majority of Japanese people in general are disconnected in politics. In fact, the biggest political rallies in recent times are those for pensioner rights, and Japan can be tentatively argued to be a “dictatorship” by the same standards we use to describe Singapore, what with both countries being governed by the same right to centre right party for almost their entire existence, and most liberals regard Singapore as more of a benevolent dictatorship despite having elections, so there’s that.
With that said, I don’t really see any noticeable increase in chud-coded manga and anime, at least not among normie spaces. And of the ones that exist, they’re more of an exception than the norm. In fact, “Psycho-Pass 3” and “20th Century Boys” are the only instances in modern anime and manga in the mainstream market that I remember where the subject of immigration to Japan in modern times has ever been broached without resorting to fantastical allegories like in “Cop Craft”, and all of them treated it neutrally. So I think this concern among leftists is overblown.
But feel free to disagree with me. I don’t think I’m bringing anything new to the table, I just want to be proven wrong.
Has anime gotten chuddier?
https://thecartdriver.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/psycho-pass-carole-and-tuesday-and-more-why-anime-features-anti-immigration-elections/I see a lot of people like in the article’s author, especially leftists, talk about it, and honestly? I’m not seeing it, at all. Maybe because I haven’t been active in the anime fandom for a decade by now (last discourse I got caught up in was the dumb flame war over “elitists” vs “casuals” on MAL), or maybe because I only consoome old (read: 1990s, 2000s and early 2010s) media because I don’t like much of contemporary media, but can’t say with certainty, but I just don’t see it.
Sure, perhaps the proportion of Japanese creators being chuds increased in recent years, but I don’t see that being particularly well-reflected in the current output of the Japanese animation and comic industries. The political messaging of 20th century and early 2000s anime and manga seems to be same as 2020s anime and manga insofar that both are all over the place in equal amounts.
Among “chuddy” anime, I can only think of GATE (literal JSDF propaganda), HighSchool Of The Dead (zombie shounen ecchi horror with big tiddie girls made by a far-right mangaka who hates leftists, supports the JSDF, a gun nut, and hates Koreans), and Frieren (what with the genocided human-like predatory demons being portrayed in deterministic ways in spite of showing signs of actual sapience the story never addresses), but that’s about it.
As for manga, the best I can think of as of late is Drama Queen with many seeing the aliens as allegory for immigrants in Japan, although many can’t decide if they’re supposed to be stand-ins for American/Euro expats, tourists, East Asian renters, SEA and SA migrant workers, Kurdish refugees, or a pastiche of all of them. But that’s like an exception compared to the shit-ton of manga that pushes feminist, anti-racist and other socially progressive themes.
I think it has already been discussed before, but Japan being NPC-topia combined with how being a busherite is deemed as the most acceptable way to express oneself in Japanese politics as opposed to, say, being a Maoist might have a lot to do with why a lot of mangakas seem to be chuds, which is easy as the majority of Japanese people in general are disconnected in politics. In fact, the biggest political rallies in recent times are those for pensioner rights, and Japan can be tentatively argued to be a “dictatorship” by the same standards we use to describe Singapore, what with both countries being governed by the same right to centre right party for almost their entire existence, and most liberals regard Singapore as more of a benevolent dictatorship despite having elections, so there’s that.
With that said, I don’t really see any noticeable increase in chud-coded manga and anime, at least not among normie spaces. And of the ones that exist, they’re more of an exception than the norm. In fact, “Psycho-Pass 3” and “20th Century Boys” are the only instances in modern anime and manga in the mainstream market that I remember where the subject of immigration to Japan in modern times has ever been broached without resorting to fantastical allegories like in “Cop Craft”, and all of them treated it neutrally. So I think this concern among leftists is overblown.
But feel free to disagree with me. I don’t think I’m bringing anything new to the table, I just want to be proven wrong.
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games, mods, etc.
2026-2027 as long as it hasn't been released and it's keeping you on your toes you can post it here.
body isn't too short nor empty
Hype train
Are you excited about anything game's related lately?games, mods, etc.
2026-2027 as long as it hasn't been released and it's keeping you on your toes you can post it here.
body isn't too short nor empty
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Inb4:
>Muh Adam Green
>Muh Bart Ehrman
>Muh consensus
>Muh Christophobia
Yadda yadda, I know who Adam Green is, about the Ehrman talking point, and how this subject can be touchy to both Christcuck and e-crusader secularised midwits here, so I’ll be blunt here:
Hopefully this thread won’t devolve into a flame war, I hope.
Did the historical Jesus Christ ever exist?
Good book on Jesus’ historicity, analysing not just every argument on the historical Christ but also giving a holistic assessment on how Christianity likely came to be, with a vigorous reference section. If you don’t want to buy it on Amazon, it’s available at z-library (link not given to avoid piracy charges).Inb4:
>Muh Adam Green
>Muh Bart Ehrman
>Muh consensus
>Muh Christophobia
Yadda yadda, I know who Adam Green is, about the Ehrman talking point, and how this subject can be touchy to both Christcuck and e-crusader secularised midwits here, so I’ll be blunt here:
- Adam Green’s background doesn’t invalidate his broader points on Christianity, the Bible, and Jesus Christ’s existence
- The “consensus” doesn’t mean much since it’s mostly made up of Christians and Christian-sympathisers who engage in confirmation bias and gatekeeping to discourage any critical opinion on the historical Christ theory. Given that Ehrman himself relies on this very unreliable consensus for his book on Jesus’ historicity
- Not believing in Jesus’ existence as a historical figure isn’t anti-Christian as many non-mainstream Christian sects like the early Church-era marcionites and gnostics assert the notion of a mythical non-physical Christ. On the top of that, much of Judaism (and by extension Zionism) rests on the notion of the Old Testament as being 100% true and historically accurate text, whilst Islamic doctrine holds the existence of a historical Christ. So by negating the existence of a historical Christ, and by extension undermining the value of the Old Testament as a historical text, Christianity and Islam and Judaism are effectively undermined
- There’s no evidence for the existence of Christ dating back to when he was canonically alive. Every alleged proof for his existence as a historical figure date back to decades and even centuries after his death.
- There’s no mention of a Jesus Christ being crucified in any surviving Roman documents.
- There’s far and few in-between evidence attesting to Jesus’ existence beyond the gospels, which are themselves unreliable and of dubious historicity as pointed out by Russell Gmirkin and Robert M Price.
- Among the non-Christian sources, none of them are contemporary to the canonical Christ’s lifetime (i.e., the 1st century) despite Jewish concerns at the time being well-documented. And of the ones that exist, most either repeat earlier hearsays about Christ without actually investigating them (e.g., Tacitus and Pliny the younger), ambiguous and subject to heavy debates (e.g., Lucian and Suetonius) or outright forgeries whose veracity rests on Christian interpolation (e..g., Josephus’ passage). But the thing is, all of them either never tried to prove the hearsays in 1st century AD Judea, or were born after Christ’s canonical death (which for the record, was determined centuries after his death, with early Christians themselves disagreeing on when he was born and died), so they aren’t even contemporary sources at all, let alone independent ones, especially as by the time Tacitus and Josephus wrote about Christ he was already dead by then + the gospels were already spreading.
- There are no Roman records that mention Jesus. Not only all that, but, there are no Christian eye-witnesses of Jesus. All of the Gospels are anonymous and written by friends-of-friends, and none are written in the first person; also, Paul (who authored 13 of the 27 books of the NT) never met Jesus, except in a vision. They're also written in very competent Greek (the language of later converts), rather than in Hebrew (the language of the original converts, excepting Paul).
- Going back to the gospels, they are just fictional tales derived from the Old Testament authored by many people throughout history. The Dead Sea Scrolls and other manuscripts don’t necessarily prove the historicity of the gospels nor that there was just one author, at best it only proves that said tales were already in wide circulation, especially as there’s no evidence of a complete Bible contemporary to Christ’s lifetime. Unless you believe in the resurrection and the miracles and the existence of the biblical floods and the GIGANTIC kingdoms of Israel and that of King Solomon, then the gospels themselves become unreliable as proofs for Christ’s existence as a historical figure.
Hopefully this thread won’t devolve into a flame war, I hope.
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Am I trans?
Sometimes I get dysphoria, but it's rare and not "that" bad. I would push le button without hesitation, but I don't hate my body. I feel I can't fit in with either cis or trans people.
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What would you do if you passed?
Personally, I'd invade women's spaces, as is the goal of all us transsexuals. Or perhaps I'd go into the women's rest room without too much anxiety about a transhumanist alarm that all restrooms in the US are equipped with
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The other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
HoI4 +HoI4 Modding Thread
Legacy of the Chinareich EditionThe other one filled up again so I might as well recreate it. For all those interested this is the big thread for all your Hearts of Iron 4 and modding related content, mostly modding because let's be real nobody plays vanilla anymore. Specifically alternate history. From Kaiserreich to The Fire Rises, mods from this shoddy game set in alternate timelines seem to really do numbers. And create serial killers.
So most recently the latest update from vanilla broke every mod's nation selection screen. You simply hate to see it
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This is the character sheet, what do you guys think?
McToday's character sheet
I have an idea to create a parody mascot of Mac Tonight (yes, that one McDonalds' mascot that THOSE people took to make a cringe alt-right symbol), but to be a actual indie culture (or pop, who knows) that we can make memes, arts, midia in general. Gonna make my own soon.This is the character sheet, what do you guys think?
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Thread for posting military footage (mp4, webm, gif, etc.) and photographs of action from wars, battles and so on. Spoiler gore. The primary purpose of this thread is for pure fighting, not torture-porn, if you think gore-spam is funny you belong on 4cuck.
Non-combat military videos can also apply (vid 2 rel)
MILITARY
WAR FOOTAGEThread for posting military footage (mp4, webm, gif, etc.) and photographs of action from wars, battles and so on. Spoiler gore. The primary purpose of this thread is for pure fighting, not torture-porn, if you think gore-spam is funny you belong on 4cuck.
Non-combat military videos can also apply (vid 2 rel)
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What is it with remakes/remasters absolutely ruining the old artstyle?
meow.
meow.
meow.
What is it with remakes/remasters absolutely ruining the old artstyle?
meow.
meow.
meow.
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Is the only choice for GNC amabs to just go on estrogen? Seriously? I don't want breasts or my penis to stop working. I've already nuked all my DHT with favorable results but it feels like I've only postponed the inevitable. Maybe consider going Bowie mode…
Is the only choice for GNC amabs to just go on estrogen? Seriously? I don't want breasts or my penis to stop working. I've already nuked all my DHT with favorable results but it feels like I've only postponed the inevitable. Maybe consider going Bowie mode…
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The ecchi genre should be more than it is
Anime is pretty much the only place today where you can make high-budget, high-production art where sex is a major focus, without becoming outright pornography. There's a lot you could do with that. There should be more erotic thrillers, or gritty dramas about the psychology of sex, or trippy surreal erotica, and really just anything more interesting than mid action with jiggly boobs or comedies that mostly come down to "oh noes I accidentally groped her boob!" I'm not saying there isn't anything that stands out, every few years something does, the Fujiko Mine anime is a recent example of something that felt pretty fresh, but for all the money and attention that gets poured into this genre, it feels like the ambition is almost null.
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YOU WILL NEVER STOP US FROM TRIPPING W DEL, NEVER, EVER. TAKE AWAY MY DRUGS, BUT YOU WILL NEVER TAKE MY SEA SALT WATER AND MY JENKEM POO AND PEE.
SEA WATER / SALT WATER
>Yes, drinking seawater can absolutely cause hallucinations. Guzzling saltwater induces a life-threatening form of dehydration and severe electrolyte imbalance known as hypernatremia. As excess sodium enters your bloodstream, it pulls water out of your cells—including your brain cells—causing them to shrink, which leads to confusion, delirium, and terrifying hallucinations.YOU WILL NEVER STOP US FROM TRIPPING W DEL, NEVER, EVER. TAKE AWAY MY DRUGS, BUT YOU WILL NEVER TAKE MY SEA SALT WATER AND MY JENKEM POO AND PEE.
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systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL
to all systemd apologists: we told you so
systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL
to all systemd apologists: we told you so
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Here you can see an array of ancient and modern screenshots, that stem from the wonderful civilization of narcomania that inhabited the place once known as 420chan, a place that is promised to return one day.
Our unique collection of historical screenshots tells the story of human relations with psychoactive substances.
[WARNING: Some screenshots might contain NSFW content, viewer discretion is advised.]
420chan Culture Museum
Come and visit this thread! Users of leftypol, siberia, for the 420chan Culture Museum.Here you can see an array of ancient and modern screenshots, that stem from the wonderful civilization of narcomania that inhabited the place once known as 420chan, a place that is promised to return one day.
Our unique collection of historical screenshots tells the story of human relations with psychoactive substances.
[WARNING: Some screenshots might contain NSFW content, viewer discretion is advised.]
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The church has 4 key pillars, abortion, cannibalism, sodomy, and suicide, all intended to deal with the immense biowaste that we represent. Unlike the voluntary human extinction movement (“may we live long and die out”), the Core took more direct stances with messages like “save the planet, kill yourself”.
Save the planet :), and remind others to do their part.
Fuck our species.
In 1992 the Church of Euthanasia started with a simple goal, to end humanity. Its founders, Chris Korda and Robert Kimberk were staunch environmentalists and nihilists who expressed their view of the world in art and protest movements. The group came under heavy scrutiny in the early 2000s for posting a montage of the 9/11 attacks with the title “I like to watch”. They also faced legal trouble when a 52 year old woman committed suicide using instructions they posted on their website.The church has 4 key pillars, abortion, cannibalism, sodomy, and suicide, all intended to deal with the immense biowaste that we represent. Unlike the voluntary human extinction movement (“may we live long and die out”), the Core took more direct stances with messages like “save the planet, kill yourself”.
Save the planet :), and remind others to do their part.
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great pretender almost did this in the first episode with the protag being a legitimate convict who scams civilians. then they said "actually now he works for an informal looney tunes crime syndicate that somehow has hundreds of actors on their payroll and can do literally anything lmao" which was super lame
Crime Anime
was thinking about how ive never seen an anime with legitimately criminal protags. every "crime" anime either revolves around A. vigilantes or B. criminals targeting other criminals, aka its easily justifiable and theres no real dilemmas. no drug dealers, no robbers, no organ thieves etcgreat pretender almost did this in the first episode with the protag being a legitimate convict who scams civilians. then they said "actually now he works for an informal looney tunes crime syndicate that somehow has hundreds of actors on their payroll and can do literally anything lmao" which was super lame
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<the shonenfag
>never grew out of his childhood tastes
>might watch other action-heavy anime but that's pretty much the bulk of his diet
>genuinely kind of stupid
<the post-shonenfag
>slightly grown up, broadened his tastes somewhat, mostly into light novel adaptations and romance now that he no longer thinks girls are icky
>still, at heart, kind of stupid
<the artfag
>cares sincerely about history and technical details
>knows a bunch of cool obscure shit, but also likes a lot of actual rubbish
>will eventually get tired of sharing a fandom with all these other people and leave
<the otaku
>makes funny haha jokes about how random forgettable CGDCT or ecchi is better than acclaimed stuff, pretty much entirely because of a female character he likes
>watches anime "content creators" (this is unambiguously a bad thing)
>perpetually insecure, locked in an unending quixotic conflict against "normies" and "tourists"
<the actual tourist
>"watched eva once"
>has terrible superficial takes that absolutely no one wants to hear
>thinks he's god's gift to the medium
>if he ever makes any art of his own, it WILL include a reference to the akira bike slide
<the tumblrina
>genuinely relies on anime for emotional wellbeing
>main problem with the medium is that it's "too straight"
>writing a yuri military sci-fi web serial
<the oldhead
>proud hentai addict
>knows the name of everyone involved in the production of a random one-episode ova from 1992 that has two frames of animation per second
>surprisingly woke
>kinda like your cool uncle who'll tell you funny dirty jokes but who you don't want to get too close to
<the cool guy you want to be around
>has broad tastes and is chill with everyone else's
>engages in fun enlightening discussions without being pretentious about it
>does not exist
types of anime fans
one of these is LITERALLY YOU:<the shonenfag
>never grew out of his childhood tastes
>might watch other action-heavy anime but that's pretty much the bulk of his diet
>genuinely kind of stupid
<the post-shonenfag
>slightly grown up, broadened his tastes somewhat, mostly into light novel adaptations and romance now that he no longer thinks girls are icky
>still, at heart, kind of stupid
<the artfag
>cares sincerely about history and technical details
>knows a bunch of cool obscure shit, but also likes a lot of actual rubbish
>will eventually get tired of sharing a fandom with all these other people and leave
<the otaku
>makes funny haha jokes about how random forgettable CGDCT or ecchi is better than acclaimed stuff, pretty much entirely because of a female character he likes
>watches anime "content creators" (this is unambiguously a bad thing)
>perpetually insecure, locked in an unending quixotic conflict against "normies" and "tourists"
<the actual tourist
>"watched eva once"
>has terrible superficial takes that absolutely no one wants to hear
>thinks he's god's gift to the medium
>if he ever makes any art of his own, it WILL include a reference to the akira bike slide
<the tumblrina
>genuinely relies on anime for emotional wellbeing
>main problem with the medium is that it's "too straight"
>writing a yuri military sci-fi web serial
<the oldhead
>proud hentai addict
>knows the name of everyone involved in the production of a random one-episode ova from 1992 that has two frames of animation per second
>surprisingly woke
>kinda like your cool uncle who'll tell you funny dirty jokes but who you don't want to get too close to
<the cool guy you want to be around
>has broad tastes and is chill with everyone else's
>engages in fun enlightening discussions without being pretentious about it
>does not exist
R: 47 / I: 5
Literature Thread
This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
R: 9 / I: 2
How does tucking actually work? I've read instructions but they're always completely incomprehensible to me, as if there's some knowledge I lack which was left out because everyone else already knows about it.
How does tucking actually work? I've read instructions but they're always completely incomprehensible to me, as if there's some knowledge I lack which was left out because everyone else already knows about it.
R: 3 / I: 2
Do yall ever practice suicide
Like i dont plan on killing myself (mostly because of my guitar and i dont want to make my loved ones sad) but sometimes I cut myself or grab my belt and hang myelf for a bit. Anypony else relate?
R: 38 / I: 3
gimme something real!!
mature anime?
i cant watch anything anymore without being irrationally annoyed at how theatrical 99% of anime is. the dialogue, the action, etc makes me start imagining whatever nerd wrote it without experiencing anything even remotely similar.gimme something real!!
R: 25 / I: 2
AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
No AI july
What if for the entirety of July we didn't use AI chatbots, or AI searches at all, using duckduckgo or other search engines with no AI intergration instead.AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!
Make some posters for this in the thread.
R: 11 / I: 2
what are some anime/movies/series/cartoons that you think that insist upon themselves? To me evangelion is one of them
what are some anime/movies/series/cartoons that you think that insist upon themselves? To me evangelion is one of them
R: 16 / I: 2
"Cheap hack of a writer's guide to creating a morally ambigous antagonist:"
>Have a character be a smug self-centered asshole for 80% of the story
>Have him ally with the main baddie and commit some war crimes
>Have him turn on the main baddie after realising that the main baddie had killed their favorite dog (or is going to kill their favorite dog soon)
>Help the main characters for one or two scenes and then be killed by the main baddie
>The main characters in the epilogue are shown standing besides his grave and musing "He wasn't a bad person, after all. Such a tragedy!"
Post examples of this which had annoyed you the most. Shounen genre specifically is ripe with them, isn't it?
"Cheap hack of a writer's guide to creating a morally ambigous antagonist:"
>Have a character be a smug self-centered asshole for 80% of the story
>Have him ally with the main baddie and commit some war crimes
>Have him turn on the main baddie after realising that the main baddie had killed their favorite dog (or is going to kill their favorite dog soon)
>Help the main characters for one or two scenes and then be killed by the main baddie
>The main characters in the epilogue are shown standing besides his grave and musing "He wasn't a bad person, after all. Such a tragedy!"
Post examples of this which had annoyed you the most. Shounen genre specifically is ripe with them, isn't it?
R: 10 / I: 4
I for one dont know if I’m trans or not but I still get a weird feeling when ever I think about something that makes me horny, kind of just makes me feel like a stereotypical perverted trans woman
Question
Do trans people (essentially trans women) ever feel guilty about their fetishes?I for one dont know if I’m trans or not but I still get a weird feeling when ever I think about something that makes me horny, kind of just makes me feel like a stereotypical perverted trans woman
R: 0 / I: 0
Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare
>Benn Jordan examines the security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns surrounding consumer-grade autonomous robot dogs. Through technical investigation and hands-on testing, the video explores how these machines are being integrated into public and private surveillance, while questioning the implications of their widespread deployment and potential for unauthorized remote access.
R: 118 / I: 20
Questions from CisHet-Anons that don’t deserve their own threads
I have seen so many Cishet Anons (including me) ask questions on this board but create new threads in doing so. So I decided to make this thread so we don’t have to clutter up the board.
R: 17 / I: 2
Is there any point in re-hashing the same old arguments.
Last time I remember, the only engaging discourses among weebs were about Frieren and Drama Queen, but for different reasons.
Frieren moreso for its depiction of demons and its comparisons to Tolkien’s orcs. For those who don’t know, a YouTuber named Lextorias made an hour-long video discussing the narrative problems with demons and the manga’s/anime’s inconsistent portrayal of demons as being absolutely evil, explaining via both in-story and authorial reasons for it, coming to the conclusion that Frieren’s demons are just a badly-written species. What was the reaction to it? Chuds coming out in defense of the series and attacking Lextorias with the kind of arguments he himself predicted and criticised in his own video: https://www.lextorias.com/references/frieren-dilemma/
Suffice to say, he singlehandedly managed to create an entire discourse that lasted for days in Twitter as culture war BS.
Coming up next is Drama Queen, a manga that is yet to be adapted into an anime, and highly unlikely. It’s about humans living alongside with aliens who saved them from an asteroid impact. It would’ve been another slice of life manga if it wasn’t for the fact that it caught weebs’ attention due to the MCs being sociopaths who hate the aliens and are contracted by a shady org that makes a profit off of killing the alien residents whose head is a dude with a double life as an “anti-racist” professor, with said aliens being pompous and arrogant foreigners who are taking up human life.
Long story short, people caught on it as a Japanese commentary on modern immigration to Japan with said aliens being allegory for immigrants. Which immigrants (white expats, Chinese house buyers, US troops, POC non-Japanese immigrants, etc…) is debated, but it’s clearly about immigration from a right-wing POV so far, although we’ll see how it goes since the story is still being published.
But yh, there’s no interesting discussion to be had as these themes have already been discussed to death on mainstream social media.
If anything, it would be more interesting to discuss what it would like to have robots create weebslop for robot otakus to consume, creating a cashless society out of weebslop.
Anyway, imma finna go smoke weed. ✌️
Is there anything in anime and manga that hasn’t been discussed yet?
I lurked across many anime forums, and at this point I don’t think there’s any interesting discourse to be had, leftist or rightist, regarding anime. Of course, due to Sturgeon’s law, few anime are actual gems. But that’s not the point. The point is that:Is there any point in re-hashing the same old arguments.
Last time I remember, the only engaging discourses among weebs were about Frieren and Drama Queen, but for different reasons.
Frieren moreso for its depiction of demons and its comparisons to Tolkien’s orcs. For those who don’t know, a YouTuber named Lextorias made an hour-long video discussing the narrative problems with demons and the manga’s/anime’s inconsistent portrayal of demons as being absolutely evil, explaining via both in-story and authorial reasons for it, coming to the conclusion that Frieren’s demons are just a badly-written species. What was the reaction to it? Chuds coming out in defense of the series and attacking Lextorias with the kind of arguments he himself predicted and criticised in his own video: https://www.lextorias.com/references/frieren-dilemma/
Suffice to say, he singlehandedly managed to create an entire discourse that lasted for days in Twitter as culture war BS.
Coming up next is Drama Queen, a manga that is yet to be adapted into an anime, and highly unlikely. It’s about humans living alongside with aliens who saved them from an asteroid impact. It would’ve been another slice of life manga if it wasn’t for the fact that it caught weebs’ attention due to the MCs being sociopaths who hate the aliens and are contracted by a shady org that makes a profit off of killing the alien residents whose head is a dude with a double life as an “anti-racist” professor, with said aliens being pompous and arrogant foreigners who are taking up human life.
Long story short, people caught on it as a Japanese commentary on modern immigration to Japan with said aliens being allegory for immigrants. Which immigrants (white expats, Chinese house buyers, US troops, POC non-Japanese immigrants, etc…) is debated, but it’s clearly about immigration from a right-wing POV so far, although we’ll see how it goes since the story is still being published.
But yh, there’s no interesting discussion to be had as these themes have already been discussed to death on mainstream social media.
If anything, it would be more interesting to discuss what it would like to have robots create weebslop for robot otakus to consume, creating a cashless society out of weebslop.
Anyway, imma finna go smoke weed. ✌️
R: 16 / I: 7
Picrel is Warehouse which is actually korean, not japanese, but I think manhwa is close enough to manga
Doesn't have to be explicit, can be full of yearning as well.
/y/ Yaoi general
Recommend good yaoi for mePicrel is Warehouse which is actually korean, not japanese, but I think manhwa is close enough to manga
Doesn't have to be explicit, can be full of yearning as well.
R: 262 / I: 87
General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.
Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715
Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?
ANIMETA - Anime Meta Discussion Thread
/ANIMETA/General Thread discussing, analyzing and criticizing anime from the meta perspective of Capitalism, Media Culture (Industry) and Socio-Economics & Politics.
No shitflinging, drama, bad faith or baiting posts (e.g. "Trap is transphobic" or "Muh shounen trash" or "(all) Anime is misogynistic"). Keep it cool comrades.
Animation: Treatment of Animators Thread >>617
Leftist Anime Content: Communist Anime Thread >>1417 Communist Anime Girls Thread >>964 Miyazaki Thread >>469
Anime Hot Takes >>1993 so-bad-it's-good animu >>2551
Sources and Questions: Questions and Answers >>4229
E-celebs/Social Media: Ani-tube >>3128 V-tubers >>3388
Story Ideas: /WYOA/: write your own anime thread >>4263
Shounen complaint thread >>3200
Weeb-Otaku-/jp/ thread: /weaboo/ >>4715
Basic topics and questions:
>Is anime bad/stupid/boring or good/smart/interesting?
>Is anime inherently a reactionary/capitalist product or can it be a communist or pro-communist one?
>What Tropes and archetypes are good or bad?
>Will anime be produced under socialism? Could Japan have produced anime if it had become a Soviet State in the Cold War? How would anime look like or differ under socialism?
>Why are nearly all weebs and otaku right-wing or radlibs? Why are they so cringe and self-entitled?
R: 9 / I: 2
why is it so often the case that hyper autistic tech workers without basic social skills regularly assume the hyperspecialized knowledge that they dedicated their life to is "obvious" to everyone but literal braindead people when in fact there are very talented and smart people who not only don't know but don't care what they are talking about?
why is it so often the case that hyper autistic tech workers without basic social skills regularly assume the hyperspecialized knowledge that they dedicated their life to is "obvious" to everyone but literal braindead people when in fact there are very talented and smart people who not only don't know but don't care what they are talking about?
R: 16 / I: 2
You ever notice how most modern manga/anime releases are isekai or LitRPG slop? That isn’t random, and it isn’t just “bad writing.” It reflects who the audience is and what kind of society they’re living in.
The core consumer base is overwhelmingly struggling, isolated Japanese men in their 20s–30s (and increasingly older), often single, often overworked, often priced out of meaningful adulthood in one of the most expensive urban environments on earth. Many of them peaked socially in high school, before rent, career stagnation, and demographic collapse set in. Their main leisure activity is gaming — especially Western medieval fantasy RPGs — so the fantasy worlds they escape into are already familiar.
That’s why isekai looks the way it does. It isn’t about originality or artistic ambition; it’s about frictionless escapism. These stories let readers imagine themselves transported into a sanitized West European fantasy theme park where their accumulated gaming literacy suddenly becomes power, status, and sexual access. The protagonist can’t really fail, can’t meaningfully struggle, and can’t be morally challenged — because that would defeat the point.
This is also why isekai protagonists are so aggressively generic: They aren’t “protagonists” in the literary sense, as much as the voiceless and character-less player character typical of games like Pokemon Red. The less personality, the easier the self-insert. The less social embeddedness, the easier the exit from real life. These characters aren’t written as humans so much as interfaces.
Are there good isekai? Yes — Digimon, Re:Zero, a handful of others — but they’re exceptions precisely because they violate the unspoken contract of the genre by insisting on consequence, trauma, or actual character development. Most isekai avoids humanity altogether, because humanity introduces risk.
A lot of people blame “shut-in authors with no life experience,” but that’s only half the story. The bigger issue is the ecosystem.
Most isekai originate on web novel platforms that reward speed, familiarity, and recognizability over craft. Editors don’t ask if something is good; they ask if it can be adapted quickly. Readers browse by tags, not prose. Anything that deviates too far from the formula dies before it can accumulate attention.
So you get a self-reinforcing loop:
economic stagnation → exhaustion → demand for escapism → industry doubles down → creative entropy.
This isn’t unique to Japan, but Japan hit this phase earlier and harder.
As for the obsession with the DnD-style or tolkienesque west European medieval fantasy setting typical of the genres, it isn’t just cultural cringe or “worship of the West.” Maybe it is, but it’s actually safer than that.
Fantasy Europe, as used in isekai, is completely hollowed out — no real history, no class struggle, no politics, no ethnicity, no obligations, no icky taboo topics. It’s a neutral container. Japanese settings, by contrast, come with real social hierarchies, shame, memory, and responsibility that only Japanese society can intimately comprehend. Escapism works better when the world is empty enough not to push back. Think of it like how Mark Twain treats the England of the Arthurian Chronicles in his novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” sans the satire and political bite.
This lineage runs straight from Dragon Quest and Zelda through D&D to Tolkien — not Europe as it was, but Europe as an abstracted theme park.
To understand why escapism dominates, you have to understand post-1990s Japan: After the bubble burst, Japan entered decades of stagnation, rising costs, demographic collapse, and near-permanent one-party neoliberal rule. The employment system locked people into work early at the cost of adult freedom. There is no credible mass politics, no labor movement with teeth, no expectation that protest produces change, especially in a society where the work typically relegated to the secret police is outsourced to society at large, creating a social environment that disincentivises dissent in favor of conformism and self-censorship to avoid disrupting societal harmony.
So this isn’t young men “choosing escapism over resistance.” It’s that there is no plausible route to collective agency. When exits are blocked, people fantasize about leaving the world entirely, whether it’s mass-producing escapist slop on an industrial scale or writing fanfic about a different country (looking at you, Chinaboos).
Earlier genres imagined resistance within decay (cyberpunk, mecha). Isekai imagines exit from decay.
The popularity of isekai is thus symptomatic of a country in stasis: a former imperial power that rose from the ashes of WW2 thanks to Uncle Sam’s generous help, only to lose momentum after its economic peak and never found a new social project. Creative output stagnates not entirely because people are stupid or lazy, but because risk is punished and repetition is rewarded.
Think of it like this: In the 1980s, Japan began to experience real wage growth and industrial boom, hence why many of the anime that came out of that era were sci-fi mecha that had more optimism than the original NGE (Neon Genesis Evangelion). But later down the line, as Japan began to siphon it‘s industrial profits into the real estate that was the lead up to the “lost decade”, you begin to see more “deconstructionist” or pessimistic takes on the mecha genre, starting with NGE which was soon followed by various copycats. I can’t omit that the depressive nature of NGE is perhaps influenced not just by the mental state of the staff at Gainax that was behind it, but also by the Tokyo subway sarin attack which occurred less than 9 months before the show was first aired on Japanese TV. The attack would profoundly affect Japanese society not just in terms of public safety discussions, but also in Japanese society’s ability as a collective to shield its individuals from danger. that might explain the heavy focus on the individual and their interpersonal drama in NGE, Voices of a Distant Star, and other such works produced in the 1990s and early 2000s.
But, as time went on, these kind of works eventually led to burnout, and here’s where the explosion of moe and (afterwards) magical school girl shows began in the early 2010s as the focus shifted from interpersonal drama to escapism that wasn’t necessarily isekai, but still provided an escape of sorts in the form of main cast forming an ersatz family and living through their shenanigans, or just cute and inoffensive stuff. But this also provided the breeding ground for the modern isekai genre that has overwhelmed the Japanese animation and comic industries as I elaborated in the previous paragraphs.
Now, where does this lead us? As the population continues to age, I suspect the genre will bifurcate:
•either toward slower, melancholic fantasy aimed at aging otaku (Frieren-style),
•or toward increasingly internationalized, culturally flattened content designed to survive declining domestic markets.
Neither path guarantees artistic renewal.
In short, isekai isn’t just bad writing. It’s a mirror. A mirror of a society that can’t imagine transformation and hence ends up mass-producing fantasies of painless escape — until even that starts to wear thin. Can’t escape into another world to avoid paying your rents and taxes after all, eh.
This might age like milk. Or it might just describe a phase before something uglier or stranger replaces it. The future is unpredictable after all, so anything could happen in our volatile present.
Escapism is easy; Or why isekai and fantasy are now more prominent than ever
I once wrote a post speculating on the causes behind the rise of isekai and how the evolution of Japanese anime reflects societal changes in Japanese society beginning from its economic boom of the 1980s, but I’m not sure if it holds up in 2025-2026. Since I’m unfamiliar with otome-type isekai that is targeted to a female audience, I omitted it from my post. Anyway, here’s the main text:You ever notice how most modern manga/anime releases are isekai or LitRPG slop? That isn’t random, and it isn’t just “bad writing.” It reflects who the audience is and what kind of society they’re living in.
The core consumer base is overwhelmingly struggling, isolated Japanese men in their 20s–30s (and increasingly older), often single, often overworked, often priced out of meaningful adulthood in one of the most expensive urban environments on earth. Many of them peaked socially in high school, before rent, career stagnation, and demographic collapse set in. Their main leisure activity is gaming — especially Western medieval fantasy RPGs — so the fantasy worlds they escape into are already familiar.
That’s why isekai looks the way it does. It isn’t about originality or artistic ambition; it’s about frictionless escapism. These stories let readers imagine themselves transported into a sanitized West European fantasy theme park where their accumulated gaming literacy suddenly becomes power, status, and sexual access. The protagonist can’t really fail, can’t meaningfully struggle, and can’t be morally challenged — because that would defeat the point.
This is also why isekai protagonists are so aggressively generic: They aren’t “protagonists” in the literary sense, as much as the voiceless and character-less player character typical of games like Pokemon Red. The less personality, the easier the self-insert. The less social embeddedness, the easier the exit from real life. These characters aren’t written as humans so much as interfaces.
Are there good isekai? Yes — Digimon, Re:Zero, a handful of others — but they’re exceptions precisely because they violate the unspoken contract of the genre by insisting on consequence, trauma, or actual character development. Most isekai avoids humanity altogether, because humanity introduces risk.
A lot of people blame “shut-in authors with no life experience,” but that’s only half the story. The bigger issue is the ecosystem.
Most isekai originate on web novel platforms that reward speed, familiarity, and recognizability over craft. Editors don’t ask if something is good; they ask if it can be adapted quickly. Readers browse by tags, not prose. Anything that deviates too far from the formula dies before it can accumulate attention.
So you get a self-reinforcing loop:
economic stagnation → exhaustion → demand for escapism → industry doubles down → creative entropy.
This isn’t unique to Japan, but Japan hit this phase earlier and harder.
As for the obsession with the DnD-style or tolkienesque west European medieval fantasy setting typical of the genres, it isn’t just cultural cringe or “worship of the West.” Maybe it is, but it’s actually safer than that.
Fantasy Europe, as used in isekai, is completely hollowed out — no real history, no class struggle, no politics, no ethnicity, no obligations, no icky taboo topics. It’s a neutral container. Japanese settings, by contrast, come with real social hierarchies, shame, memory, and responsibility that only Japanese society can intimately comprehend. Escapism works better when the world is empty enough not to push back. Think of it like how Mark Twain treats the England of the Arthurian Chronicles in his novel “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” sans the satire and political bite.
This lineage runs straight from Dragon Quest and Zelda through D&D to Tolkien — not Europe as it was, but Europe as an abstracted theme park.
To understand why escapism dominates, you have to understand post-1990s Japan: After the bubble burst, Japan entered decades of stagnation, rising costs, demographic collapse, and near-permanent one-party neoliberal rule. The employment system locked people into work early at the cost of adult freedom. There is no credible mass politics, no labor movement with teeth, no expectation that protest produces change, especially in a society where the work typically relegated to the secret police is outsourced to society at large, creating a social environment that disincentivises dissent in favor of conformism and self-censorship to avoid disrupting societal harmony.
So this isn’t young men “choosing escapism over resistance.” It’s that there is no plausible route to collective agency. When exits are blocked, people fantasize about leaving the world entirely, whether it’s mass-producing escapist slop on an industrial scale or writing fanfic about a different country (looking at you, Chinaboos).
Earlier genres imagined resistance within decay (cyberpunk, mecha). Isekai imagines exit from decay.
The popularity of isekai is thus symptomatic of a country in stasis: a former imperial power that rose from the ashes of WW2 thanks to Uncle Sam’s generous help, only to lose momentum after its economic peak and never found a new social project. Creative output stagnates not entirely because people are stupid or lazy, but because risk is punished and repetition is rewarded.
Think of it like this: In the 1980s, Japan began to experience real wage growth and industrial boom, hence why many of the anime that came out of that era were sci-fi mecha that had more optimism than the original NGE (Neon Genesis Evangelion). But later down the line, as Japan began to siphon it‘s industrial profits into the real estate that was the lead up to the “lost decade”, you begin to see more “deconstructionist” or pessimistic takes on the mecha genre, starting with NGE which was soon followed by various copycats. I can’t omit that the depressive nature of NGE is perhaps influenced not just by the mental state of the staff at Gainax that was behind it, but also by the Tokyo subway sarin attack which occurred less than 9 months before the show was first aired on Japanese TV. The attack would profoundly affect Japanese society not just in terms of public safety discussions, but also in Japanese society’s ability as a collective to shield its individuals from danger. that might explain the heavy focus on the individual and their interpersonal drama in NGE, Voices of a Distant Star, and other such works produced in the 1990s and early 2000s.
But, as time went on, these kind of works eventually led to burnout, and here’s where the explosion of moe and (afterwards) magical school girl shows began in the early 2010s as the focus shifted from interpersonal drama to escapism that wasn’t necessarily isekai, but still provided an escape of sorts in the form of main cast forming an ersatz family and living through their shenanigans, or just cute and inoffensive stuff. But this also provided the breeding ground for the modern isekai genre that has overwhelmed the Japanese animation and comic industries as I elaborated in the previous paragraphs.
Now, where does this lead us? As the population continues to age, I suspect the genre will bifurcate:
•either toward slower, melancholic fantasy aimed at aging otaku (Frieren-style),
•or toward increasingly internationalized, culturally flattened content designed to survive declining domestic markets.
Neither path guarantees artistic renewal.
In short, isekai isn’t just bad writing. It’s a mirror. A mirror of a society that can’t imagine transformation and hence ends up mass-producing fantasies of painless escape — until even that starts to wear thin. Can’t escape into another world to avoid paying your rents and taxes after all, eh.
This might age like milk. Or it might just describe a phase before something uglier or stranger replaces it. The future is unpredictable after all, so anything could happen in our volatile present.
R: 112 / I: 30
What the fuck even is the point of harem series? Aren't most of them just romance but with an even greater chance of blueballing you?
Yeah, it SEEMS like pure wish fulfillment, but it isn't even good at that because in most shows there's only relentless teasing instead of any actual romance and the MC only ends up with one of the candidates anyway.
The only explanation I can come up with is that it's just a way to increase the appeal (and thus commercial potential) of a standard romance series by cramming it with different archetypes. Either that or anime fans just love getting teased with no real guarantee of a reward, which would explain a lot, actually.
(Also) This thread is for all the harem anime, manga, light novels/virtual novels etc. Post your Favorite Anime, Favorite Scenes, What you like about them, memes, discussion, lewds and anything in between.
What the fuck even is the point of harem series? Aren't most of them just romance but with an even greater chance of blueballing you?
Yeah, it SEEMS like pure wish fulfillment, but it isn't even good at that because in most shows there's only relentless teasing instead of any actual romance and the MC only ends up with one of the candidates anyway.
The only explanation I can come up with is that it's just a way to increase the appeal (and thus commercial potential) of a standard romance series by cramming it with different archetypes. Either that or anime fans just love getting teased with no real guarantee of a reward, which would explain a lot, actually.
(Also) This thread is for all the harem anime, manga, light novels/virtual novels etc. Post your Favorite Anime, Favorite Scenes, What you like about them, memes, discussion, lewds and anything in between.
R: 22 / I: 4
Batman Beyond Yeah, Batman is a billionaire who has kids running around in tights in his mansion and beats up environmentalists and poor people. But I'll always love the gimmicks and his "rouge's gallery" has the best gimmicks.
Batman Beyond he's not rich he's just a regular kid living in a much cooler dystopia than the one we wound up with. The animation and voice acting are both top notch.
Gargoyles- From the same animation bloc, with some legendary voice acting from Keith David, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes. A very 'serious' show that Disney wants us to forget that they ever produced.
ReBoot Ever what wonder what life inside a computer would be like if all the 0s and 1s were sentient? Well, a show like this will make a tech nerd scream but it's one of several quality early 3d CGI coming out of Canada during this period.
Animaniacs It's honestly amazing how much SFW 'adult' humor was snuck into these shows. I think I learned more about popculture from Wakko, Yakko, and Dot than anywhere else.
The SlayersThe first "real" anime I saw and it got me interested in anime and d&d style worlds.Pretty thought out lore and universe.
So what are yours comradanons
Nostalgia cartoons that hold up
I was watching a cartoon from my child and realized that the saturday morning cartoon generation lucked out. Other than some outliers like avatar or adventuretime, the good stuff was 90s-early naughty aughties. This is not just nostalgia but demonstrably true as merch from these cartoons is still popular as ever for kids. I work as a substitute teacher and they still watch our old cartoons and it's actually super weird, I didn't watch captain kangaroo or whatever boomer crap my mom watched when i was a kid.Batman Beyond Yeah, Batman is a billionaire who has kids running around in tights in his mansion and beats up environmentalists and poor people. But I'll always love the gimmicks and his "rouge's gallery" has the best gimmicks.
Batman Beyond he's not rich he's just a regular kid living in a much cooler dystopia than the one we wound up with. The animation and voice acting are both top notch.
Gargoyles- From the same animation bloc, with some legendary voice acting from Keith David, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes. A very 'serious' show that Disney wants us to forget that they ever produced.
ReBoot Ever what wonder what life inside a computer would be like if all the 0s and 1s were sentient? Well, a show like this will make a tech nerd scream but it's one of several quality early 3d CGI coming out of Canada during this period.
Animaniacs It's honestly amazing how much SFW 'adult' humor was snuck into these shows. I think I learned more about popculture from Wakko, Yakko, and Dot than anywhere else.
The SlayersThe first "real" anime I saw and it got me interested in anime and d&d style worlds.Pretty thought out lore and universe.
So what are yours comradanons
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>In the dangerous suburbs of Chicago, skilled bounty hunters Irene "Rally" Vincent and "Minnie" May Hopkins run Gunsmith Cats, a firearms store of questionable legality. One day, Bill Collins, an agent for the Chicago branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, blackmails Rally and May into working with him on a case. The stakes are high, but Rally’s gunmanship and May’s knowledge of explosives are unmatched. As Rally and May unravel the secrets of the case, the two will need to use guns and grenades while being faster, stronger, and better than everyone else in order to stay alive.
Gunsmith Cats
gunsmith cats full anime on youtube>In the dangerous suburbs of Chicago, skilled bounty hunters Irene "Rally" Vincent and "Minnie" May Hopkins run Gunsmith Cats, a firearms store of questionable legality. One day, Bill Collins, an agent for the Chicago branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, blackmails Rally and May into working with him on a case. The stakes are high, but Rally’s gunmanship and May’s knowledge of explosives are unmatched. As Rally and May unravel the secrets of the case, the two will need to use guns and grenades while being faster, stronger, and better than everyone else in order to stay alive.
R: 17 / I: 1
women in western animation:
+ Allowed to be ugly;
+ Tastefully sexualized when appropriate (IMO);
+ Allowed to be stupid;
+ Are oftenly nuanced characters;
women in western animation:
+ Allowed to be ugly;
+ Tastefully sexualized when appropriate (IMO);
- Not allowed to be stupid;
- Very oftenly "Mary Sues";
+ Allowed to be stupid;
+ Are oftenly nuanced characters;
- Not allowed to be ugly;
- Frequently sexualized to an obnoxious extent;
R: 151 / I: 46
And I watched it when I was a kid and even then I HATED it, I had a friend who also watched DBZ and he hated it too, even we who were just two little dumbass kids could recognize how shit this cartoon was. And dont get me started on Super.
Naruto is just as bad if not worse, they somehow contradict their own message every god damn time, and have a little privileged retarded kid as the main character who was born with le epic god powers, and never works a day in his life to achieve anything, its all just handed to him
Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Hate Thread
These two are supposed to be the Citizen Kane of anime, everyone loves them, yet they are such fucking garbage, literal trash, why are they so fucking bad holy shit.And I watched it when I was a kid and even then I HATED it, I had a friend who also watched DBZ and he hated it too, even we who were just two little dumbass kids could recognize how shit this cartoon was. And dont get me started on Super.
Naruto is just as bad if not worse, they somehow contradict their own message every god damn time, and have a little privileged retarded kid as the main character who was born with le epic god powers, and never works a day in his life to achieve anything, its all just handed to him
R: 43 / I: 12
>female angry
>female hits the male
I love anime but sometimes I wonder if one nuke wasn't enough.
Anime humor be like:
>male does something perverted>female angry
>female hits the male
I love anime but sometimes I wonder if one nuke wasn't enough.
R: 65 / I: 6
Dandadan - best new shonen, or overrated zoomer garbage?
Personally I'm enjoying it despite almost dropping it in episode 1 due to portrated sexual violence. A side question is to anyone who reads the manga, is it worth the time for somebody who isnt a huge manga reader and usually only reads the manga of my absolute favourite anime?
Dandadan - best new shonen, or overrated zoomer garbage?
Personally I'm enjoying it despite almost dropping it in episode 1 due to portrated sexual violence. A side question is to anyone who reads the manga, is it worth the time for somebody who isnt a huge manga reader and usually only reads the manga of my absolute favourite anime?
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/lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition
NEWS
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Accolades Trailer
https://youtu.be/C6BSu_x0gcE
>Sonic Rumble arrives this November
https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/1978491359452364988
>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release on March 19, 2027
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sonic-4-release-date-march-2027-1236280697/
RECENT SEGASONIC GAMES
>Sonic Rumble (Nov 5, 25)
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Sep 25, 25)
>Sonic X Shadow Generations (Oct 25, 24)
>Sonic Dream Team (Dec 5, 23)
>Sonic Superstars (Oct 17, 23)
Roblox
>Outcome Memories
https://www.roblox.com/games/14608970270/Outcome-Memories-v0-1
>Classic Sonic Simulator
https://www.roblox.com/games/130793019/Classic-Sonic-Simulator-V13-2
FAN GAMES & ROMHACKS
>Sonic World DX
https://sonicworldfangame.com/
>Sonic Hacking Contest
https://shc.zone/
>Sonic Amateur Games Expo
https://www.sagexpo.org/
RE/DECOMPILATIONS, REMAKES, & PORTS
>Sonic 1 Forever
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-1-forever
>Sonic 2 Absolute
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-2-absolute
>Sonic CD RSDK Decompilation
https://github.com/RSDKModding/RSDKv3-Decompilation
>Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited)
https://sonic3air.org/
Animated Shows
>Sonic SatAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IoDD96l9_0&list=PLuR4vBEgABYgCRdpGEZPMMmgnfh7tfKhK
>AoSTH
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8IitAAlElX4&list=PLySo2SlSHPSOOGZM3_2Qun52hCaRNYW9y&index=1
>Sonic X Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGih4gMRlk&list=PLfj-YRBUe2qHutE9Rx_DsqEVq21FQZW5n&index=1
>Sonic OVA
https://youtu.be/FAgrQn8m_XM
/lsthg/ - Leftist Sonic the Hedgehog General
Welcome, comrades! Here we discuss everything Sonic the Hedgehog./lsthg/ #1 - Free as the Wind Edition
NEWS
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Accolades Trailer
https://youtu.be/C6BSu_x0gcE
>Sonic Rumble arrives this November
https://x.com/Sonic_Rumble/status/1978491359452364988
>Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release on March 19, 2027
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sonic-4-release-date-march-2027-1236280697/
RECENT SEGASONIC GAMES
>Sonic Rumble (Nov 5, 25)
>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Sep 25, 25)
>Sonic X Shadow Generations (Oct 25, 24)
>Sonic Dream Team (Dec 5, 23)
>Sonic Superstars (Oct 17, 23)
Roblox
>Outcome Memories
https://www.roblox.com/games/14608970270/Outcome-Memories-v0-1
>Classic Sonic Simulator
https://www.roblox.com/games/130793019/Classic-Sonic-Simulator-V13-2
FAN GAMES & ROMHACKS
>Sonic World DX
https://sonicworldfangame.com/
>Sonic Hacking Contest
https://shc.zone/
>Sonic Amateur Games Expo
https://www.sagexpo.org/
RE/DECOMPILATIONS, REMAKES, & PORTS
>Sonic 1 Forever
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-1-forever
>Sonic 2 Absolute
https://teamforeveronline.wixsite.com/home/sonic-2-absolute
>Sonic CD RSDK Decompilation
https://github.com/RSDKModding/RSDKv3-Decompilation
>Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited)
https://sonic3air.org/
Animated Shows
>Sonic SatAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IoDD96l9_0&list=PLuR4vBEgABYgCRdpGEZPMMmgnfh7tfKhK
>AoSTH
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8IitAAlElX4&list=PLySo2SlSHPSOOGZM3_2Qun52hCaRNYW9y&index=1
>Sonic X Dub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGih4gMRlk&list=PLfj-YRBUe2qHutE9Rx_DsqEVq21FQZW5n&index=1
>Sonic OVA
https://youtu.be/FAgrQn8m_XM
R: 3 / I: 0
Did Russia assassinate Lindsey Graham?
I can’t tell if this is BlueAnon or if there is some validity to this. His death is suspicious though but I don’t know if the American Empire has collapsed enough for Putin to be able to poison a politician.
R: 616 / I: 205 (full)
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.
Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
Western Animation
A general for "western" animations/cartoons.Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.
Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
R: 12 / I: 4
>Elon Musk knows that. And he is moving fast.
>I found a facility that Travis County thinks is a ranch. The EPA has never visited it, not once in five years, even though it sits on the Colorado River in a watershed that feeds Austin's drinking water. The animals being used there are registered to a UPS Store mailbox in Fremont, California. And yet the state environmental agency doesn't call it a ranch. It calls it a Commercial Research Facility. One where over 600 animals have undergone brain surgery.
>And then on March 31, 2026, Neuralink's General Counsel signed a new LLC into existence at that address. It's called Neuralink Surgery Center LLC. There is no surgery center license on file in Texas.
>This is the company that wants inside your skull.
>The full investigation: thedreydossier.substack.com
tldr elon musk has been doing off the books brain experiments on monkeys. chips that can control the brain. next step is people. an LLC neuralink surgery was just registered this year. it wouldn't be surprising that they have already experimented with all the misiing ICE refugees.
elon musk the brain butcher
>Only four states in the entire country have a law that even mentions neural data. There is no federal protection. Your thoughts have fewer legal protections than your thumbprint.>Elon Musk knows that. And he is moving fast.
>I found a facility that Travis County thinks is a ranch. The EPA has never visited it, not once in five years, even though it sits on the Colorado River in a watershed that feeds Austin's drinking water. The animals being used there are registered to a UPS Store mailbox in Fremont, California. And yet the state environmental agency doesn't call it a ranch. It calls it a Commercial Research Facility. One where over 600 animals have undergone brain surgery.
>And then on March 31, 2026, Neuralink's General Counsel signed a new LLC into existence at that address. It's called Neuralink Surgery Center LLC. There is no surgery center license on file in Texas.
>This is the company that wants inside your skull.
>The full investigation: thedreydossier.substack.com
tldr elon musk has been doing off the books brain experiments on monkeys. chips that can control the brain. next step is people. an LLC neuralink surgery was just registered this year. it wouldn't be surprising that they have already experimented with all the misiing ICE refugees.
R: 367 / I: 132
also please spam Charlie pics
Hazbin Hotel
How do you feel about it (and its creator)?also please spam Charlie pics
R: 419 / I: 119
One Piece is leftist
One Piece is leftist
R: 176 / I: 42
deltaruni
it brings me no pleasure to announce this, but it's peak. the furry twink has done it again. total tumblr teen victory. i can't sleep at night and my life is irrevocably changed.
R: 575 / I: 124
Ep 1 and 2 is out, Ep 3 comes out today.
Never seen GoT and enjoying the show so far, decent political intrigue so far.
House of the Dragon (HotD) Thread
Post general thoughts, comments and marxist or any analysis on the show.Ep 1 and 2 is out, Ep 3 comes out today.
Never seen GoT and enjoying the show so far, decent political intrigue so far.
R: 291 / I: 69
que con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.
Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
Mexico Gral
No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesarioque con todo y todo Estados Unidos no ha parado de intentar meter las narices en el país y me esta empezando a cansar y mas si en el 2030 planean poner otro titere de mierda en especial si es el puto de Salinas Pliego que planea ser literalmente un Milei Whitexican.
Alguien seguia la campaña de Manzo?
Que opinan de Morena en pleno 2025?
Que nos queda por hacer?
R: 7 / I: 0
>Do people on this forum like progressive rock/krautrock/space rock
Post data: listen to king crimson
Progressive rock
From progarchives to leftypol by pomodoro64:>Do people on this forum like progressive rock/krautrock/space rock
Post data: listen to king crimson
R: 6 / I: 3
no algorithm either, board is just sorted newest/top, nothing ranked to keep you scrolling.
somebody called out the site's html for being div-heavy instead of semantic in a comment, and the dev actually fixed it instead of getting defensive. small thing but tells you something.
worth a look if you're tired of platforms that call themselves "free" while quietly profiling you.
found a forum that's just... text. no accounts tied to email, no algorithm, no analytics bloat
was looking into minimal self-hosted alternatives and found texttotalk.org. plaintext only, no images, no markdown, no js tracking. sign up doesn't ask for email, just a username and password (hashed, not stored plain, checked).no algorithm either, board is just sorted newest/top, nothing ranked to keep you scrolling.
somebody called out the site's html for being div-heavy instead of semantic in a comment, and the dev actually fixed it instead of getting defensive. small thing but tells you something.
worth a look if you're tired of platforms that call themselves "free" while quietly profiling you.
R: 434 / I: 49
How do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
/gaygen/
lefty gay general - boyfriend editionHow do we feel about our bfs /lgbt/? I love mine lots and lots and can't wait till he gets home from work personally.
R: 2 / I: 0
Can we talk about how cartoons in the communist times were even better than the capitalist shit we have today? My favorite is Krtek because he's a cute poster child for eco-communism.
/ccg/ - Communist Cartoon General
>Krtek EditionCan we talk about how cartoons in the communist times were even better than the capitalist shit we have today? My favorite is Krtek because he's a cute poster child for eco-communism.
R: 24 / I: 5
What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
Nothing can beat early 00s animation
I was born in 1998, so 2001-2010 was basically my childhood. Gen Alpha kids don't even know what cartoons are - they just grow up on YouTube. As a Z kid (1996-2009) I can say Gen Alpha is cultureless. As a Zoomer I grew up on Teen Titans, Totally Spies, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Billy & Mandy, Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters, Beyblade, Pokemon, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Code Lyoko, Invader Zim, and so on. I didn't discover YouTube until 2006, and even then, it was NOT on a smartphone! Everything is fucking woke now. I would hate to have a childhood growing up in this era (2011-present). I was 13 when popular culture started to suck.What cartoons do they have for kids growing up now? Adventure Time, Gravity Falls or Rick & Morty at best. Woke garbage.
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what are your thoughts about this?
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The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
Digital Grass Thread 2
Take a moment to find a website you didn't know about before, or ones you just think are neat, and share them here.The thread from last year on /siberia/ didn't get archived, unfortunately, so posting here so it lasts longer.
R: 215 / I: 8
Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
Post in this thread every time you come to this board. Post music you like here, whatever it may be.
<vid
CLASS WAR DECLARATION MIX FROM THE THAI LABOUR MUSEUM STORAGE ROOM
R: 7 / I: 2
(How do you respond?)
DON’T DO DRUGS!!!
DOING DRUGS IS A SIN AND I WILL SEND YOU TO HELL FOR IT!!!(How do you respond?)
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transness as an economic symptom
men are seen as the breadwinners, value determined by money, finances, economic power
more and more men are unable to access this value, this causes gender dysphoria, and seeing that the economic power of women is stronger than men, seek to gain that economic power via transitioning. this only accounts for a small but noticable percentage of trans people, and does not imply that all trans people come from this logic, only that this logic does to some degree create trans people, and if economic opportunities were better, there would surely be less trans people. This is also why the bulk of new trans people are trans women. Women don't really need to transition to a man to access the economics that womanhood innately brings. The inability to perform the role of man, which is fundmentally an economic role, leads to men transitioning.
would you be trans if you had a good job making 120k a year? if you had the ability to support a family? I wouldn't be.
transness as an economic symptom
men are seen as the breadwinners, value determined by money, finances, economic power
more and more men are unable to access this value, this causes gender dysphoria, and seeing that the economic power of women is stronger than men, seek to gain that economic power via transitioning. this only accounts for a small but noticable percentage of trans people, and does not imply that all trans people come from this logic, only that this logic does to some degree create trans people, and if economic opportunities were better, there would surely be less trans people. This is also why the bulk of new trans people are trans women. Women don't really need to transition to a man to access the economics that womanhood innately brings. The inability to perform the role of man, which is fundmentally an economic role, leads to men transitioning.
would you be trans if you had a good job making 120k a year? if you had the ability to support a family? I wouldn't be.
R: 6 / I: 3
Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk
Are there any modern games that actually get the cyberpunk aesthetic right?Cyberpunk 2077 looks pretty great during the night cycle, but during the day it becomes clear and sunny and looks more like gritty Futurama than cyberpunk.
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The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
Permaculture v2
Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.htmlThe practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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Industrial/Noise/EBM
Post em if you got em
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Remember that meme where Alex Jones was hilariously schizoing out about the government putting chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay?
Well, it’s actually true. Such a chemical exists, and its name is Atrazine. It’s widely used in the US, but banned in Europe (including Russia). It’s mainly used as a weed killer and in many other applications. It also gets into the water supply. It affects the endocrine system by increasing the amount of aromatase. It crosses the placenta and the blood-brain barrier. The majority of male frogs exposed to it either become castrated invalids or turn into females.
Obviously, all of this applies to humans as well. The main hypothesis for the development of transsexuality and homosexuality in AMABs is that during prenatal development there is a hormonal disruption (too little testosterone / too much estrogen, you get the idea). So if you put two and two together, the rise in the number of MtFs and gay men in America (but not FtMs and lesbians - how many FtMs have you actually seen?) is connected to everything described above.
The /pol/tards explain this by saying the government wants to turn all the goyim into LGBT. Listening to Epsteinites is a sin, so instead I explain it this way: it’s much easier to milk loosh from minorities. You can’t really break the majority without starting wars, famines, etc. to make them suffer. And even then, normalfags support each other and mostly only suffer physically. But to make minorities kill themselves and produce ten times more loosh, you only need a couple years of propaganda, a couple of laws, and complete impunity for bullying them.
Those who didn’t get hit hard enough by Atrazine simply turn into omegas who seethe on /pol/ and other internet shitholes, sharing gore videos, after spending their school years getting beaten up by normies.
Remember that meme where Alex Jones was hilariously schizoing out about the government putting chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay?
Well, it’s actually true. Such a chemical exists, and its name is Atrazine. It’s widely used in the US, but banned in Europe (including Russia). It’s mainly used as a weed killer and in many other applications. It also gets into the water supply. It affects the endocrine system by increasing the amount of aromatase. It crosses the placenta and the blood-brain barrier. The majority of male frogs exposed to it either become castrated invalids or turn into females.
Obviously, all of this applies to humans as well. The main hypothesis for the development of transsexuality and homosexuality in AMABs is that during prenatal development there is a hormonal disruption (too little testosterone / too much estrogen, you get the idea). So if you put two and two together, the rise in the number of MtFs and gay men in America (but not FtMs and lesbians - how many FtMs have you actually seen?) is connected to everything described above.
The /pol/tards explain this by saying the government wants to turn all the goyim into LGBT. Listening to Epsteinites is a sin, so instead I explain it this way: it’s much easier to milk loosh from minorities. You can’t really break the majority without starting wars, famines, etc. to make them suffer. And even then, normalfags support each other and mostly only suffer physically. But to make minorities kill themselves and produce ten times more loosh, you only need a couple years of propaganda, a couple of laws, and complete impunity for bullying them.
Those who didn’t get hit hard enough by Atrazine simply turn into omegas who seethe on /pol/ and other internet shitholes, sharing gore videos, after spending their school years getting beaten up by normies.
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MAC vs PC
Assuming you can't use linux for one second. Which is better. MAC/Apple OS or PC, for a desktop computer?