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Mexico Gral

No encontré el hilo anterior así que hago uno nuevo porque es necesario

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?
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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 here

Previous thread: >>27559
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EZ

Look at this game I won
Kasparov would be proud
that uygha was panicking at the end, got him cornered, dropped a queen nuke at the end on top of the queen already cucking him
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Is this a chud game? /v/ is claiming it as their own and it is quite popular and stuff as well. There is a 2016's feminist, a gay pedo and other stuff in the game as well from what I heard on the grapevine. Maybe this is the big chud hit of the decade. Binding of Isaac is also a major christfag game as well
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F-35 Hate Thread - All My Homies Hate the F-35

Thread for hating on the F-35 "Lightning II" stealth turkey a.k.a the most expensive military project in history to date.

The USAF declared it ready for service in 2016
As of that date the following problems I can list just off the top of my head
- Vulnerable to lightning; it's practically a lightning rod https://archive.is/QSIii
- 0 redundancies in the cyber or mechanical aggregates; any malfunction
- RADAR glitches means it literally ahs to be turned off and on again https://archive.ph/EEd9y
- Ejection seat is banned for anyone 136 pounds or below and anyone not above 150 pounds has significant injury risk, it literally can break your neck.
- F-35 helmets glow too brightly for air-to-air refueling https://archive.is/pKE0Y
- F-35 helmets are so heavy at nearly 5 kilograms so that maneuvers cause them to bang their heads on the inside of the cockpit https://archive.ph/WsRxA https://archive.ph/dE1gP
(keep in mind these helmets are 400,000 dollars each).
- The oxygen system is unreliable (something that the F-22 shares) https://archive.ph/kGGKq

The Plane was supposed to be ready by 2010-12 having been projected in the early 2000s
the list of problems in its past and that are remaining in various levels of urgency number over 800.
Such as but not limited to
- Current aircraft software is inadequate for even basic pilot training.
- Ejection seat may fail, causing pilot fatality. Lacking safety measures for automatic pilot release.
- Several pilot-vehicle interface issues, including lack of feedback on touchscreen controls.
- The radar performs poorly, or not at all.
- Engine replacement takes an average of 52 hours, instead of the two hours specified.
- Maintenance tools do not work.
- It has inferior maneuverability and aerodynamics to the planes it is meant to succeed the F-16 and the F-18
https://archive.is/RmLTT
https://archive.ph/20130410175353/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130306/DEFREG02/303060011/F-35-Report-Warns-Visibility-Risks-Other-Dangers
https://archive.ph/h0NX6
https://archive.is/Vzv4u
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/brg/ - Brazil General

EDIÇÃO BEBÊ-DIABO DO ABC
"Durante um parto incrivelmente fantástico e cheio de mistérios, correria e pânico por parte de enfermeiras e médicos, uma senhora deu a luz num hospital de São Bernardo do Campo a uma estranha criatura, com aparência sobrenatural, que tem todas as características do diabo, em carne e osso. O bebezinho, que já nasceu falando e ameaçou sua mãe de morte, tem o corpo totalmente cheio de pelos, dois chifres pontiagudos e um rabo de aproximadamente cinco centímetros, além do olhar feroz, que causa medo e arrepios."
O covil dos webcomunas no Brasil
Último fio: >>14559
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HoI4 + HoI4 modding thread

Operation Deep Sneed edition

Made a new thread since the other one is full. You know the drill folks, gather here to discuss and/or complain about Hearts of Iron 4 and all the alt history mods that make the game relevant. From green natpops to sicko mode Savinkov we've got a lot of exciting stuff coming in the next Kaiserreich update, one which will make the LKMT look like pre-rework Germany by comparison. But dont worry TNOomers, you're getting some new content too! After a year and a half and three focus trees that only last for four years, we finally have something new and that's…

…three years of fucking Antarctica
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/juche/

"The Juche idea is a man-centered world outlook. It is a revolutionary, scientific, and political theory that accurately illumines the way for realizing the independence of the masses." - Kim Jong Il

People,let's make a good thread about the political ideology of Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Juche.
Share your thoughts,pdfs,videos,documentaries or other educational materials for the community of this site.
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Not so funny now is it?
You have 18 months to organize before youre thrown into the wood chipper :^)
Well maybe more while you take up a lower paying manual job
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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
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I love realism new vegas

I love my screen getting blurry and bloody when I get hit. I love all the little interaction animations. I love having a first person view model with animations. I love having bullet physics. I love having realistic AI with realistic firearms. I love having missiles fly and fall at realistic speeds. I love modern military uniforms in post apocalyptic settings. I love drug visuals and being able to bash open locks.

Games are experiences
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2010s tumblr bioessentialism set the trans community back far more than 4chin coming up with self deprecating words to describe sex dysphoria and translate whipping girl into zoomer speak. /tttt/ spaces can be toxic and self destructive but they still believe in the mutability of sex while the other unleashed a new wave of transmisogyny that would make julia serano chuck her computer out the window if she saw what some of them were saying
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Capturing Anarchy

Assuming a definition of anarchy as a state of being where there are no vertical hierarchies between individuals, it's safe to presume that it's quite a common occurrence in daily life. We look for anarchy, and try to create those moments in our lives and the people and relations around us. This is not denying the overall superimposed political hierarchy inherent in the state and government, and you could argue for that reason no "anarchy" may happen inside a state.
Beyond being oddly reductive of anarchy can be, I believe anarchy between people and in certain spaces can occur, albeit temporarily or unsustainably. Moments like people meeting someone new at a bar, kids playing, friends talking, parties, queer events, and so on. All these places and situations have the potential to be in anarchy, but of course not every single instance of those occurrences IS anarchy. The overarching social dynamics of age, maturity, condescending speech and whatnot would invalidate this "state of anarchy".
For as difficult as it may seem, it would seem rather interesting for someone to capture these brief moments of "anarchy" in life. People do it unintentionally everyday, but something focused with that in mind seems like it could yield some more interesting results. Thoughts?
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I drew a political cartoon, I was frustrated at the news so I drew this, I originally drew Trump on a different day but decided to reuse the sketch for this but I didn’t realize until now that I gave him a Hitlerstache, even when I colored it in I wasn’t thinking and didn’t notice lol
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VOICE TRAIN NOW

Nothing is more cringe than a transhumanister who does not make any attempt whatsoever at voice training. Even the most strained falsetto is preferable to douchebags calling themselves shit like "SleepyAshley♥(she/her)", with a pride flag hypersexualized hyperfemme furry avatar, only to begin gabbing in a generic white boy voice.

It's just so arrogant, lazy, and even cynical.
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why is video game rape not okay?

>video games where people kill each other okay
>video games where people rape not okay
Why?

The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.The rape was too short or empty.

rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.rape detected; rape discarded.
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/gaygen/

lefty gay general - boyfriend edition

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.
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Fuck GrapheneOS and the Pinephone/Librem

Make a modular dumb phone from FPGAs (like TinyFPGA, Lattice iCE40, or something open source), an open RISC-V core (like VexRiscV), keypad and screen (non-touch), run it on a Linux kernel to send texts over the LoRa network and possibly do other things. No proprietary baseband or Wifi hardware. That's the only "safe" cell phone there is because cell networks are paywalled, proprietary (rely on baseband), and are heavily monitored and controlled by the FCC.
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/ Networking /

<Computer networking is the practice of connecting two or more computing devices to enable data exchange and resource sharing, using either physical cables or wireless signals. Key components include end devices (like computers and printers), media (cables or radio waves), protocols (rules for communication), and networking devices (such as routers and switches). These networks range in size from small Local Area Networks (LANs) in homes to expansive Wide Area Networks (WANs) that span the globe, like the internet

Thread to discuss computer networking. I thought we could use one because networking has an unusually long shelf life for IT skills, unlike programming and even linux to an extent, networking hasn't changed (at least very much) because its basically the physics of IT.
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maduro

necesito el concenso de zurdos reales de carne y hueso.

maduro bueno o maduro malo?

y no, no quiero ninguna respuesta que diga 'es complejo' u otras mariconadas, BUENO O MALO?

tampoco me importa si sos veneco y te estas muriendo de hambre y por eso odias a maduro, tu opinion no tiene mas validez porque seas veneco.
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Capitalism is Haram

I convinced a quite a big amount of Muslim friends and even Elder Muslim folks in my community that Capitalism is Haram with one simple argument: Usury is a sin under the the rule of "Riba" being Haram, literally meaning "infinite" or "excess" in Arabic, due to financial exploitation and taking advantage of the person.

Simple

>Infinite growth is a sin requires financial exploitation, and making money off of being idle

>Capitalism's main ethos is infinite profit extraction
>They connect the dots

This opens them up to other arguments like "Infinite growth is impossible on a planet with finite resources" and other things like excess, indulgence and things Capitalists encourage like gambling being a sin (Prediction markets are awful)

I then explain it's like pork, you can eat pork or drink alcohol if you need to if there is nothing else to eat or you need to numb pain under the Islamic law of Rukhsah (Exemptions out of health or other necessities) and we are forced to participate in it order to survive

This easily convinces a lot of Muslims, even ones I meet in the global south who are otherwise very conservative and even if I can't make them fully woke or whatever it's good to have people wake up to some injustice at least. Class interests come first

The main thing I'm asking is if anyone knows any similar works on Socialism from an Islamic perspective using this same logic or at least pre-modern Islamic works that meet the base principles of socialism and wants to discuss this further
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Would ww3 actually be the end of the world, or would it be another regular war? Obviously the scale of a war between nato and russia, china, whoever would be significantly larger than america and iraq (for example) but would any country actually be stupid enough to use nuclear weapons?

Using nukes sort of defeats the point of going to war doesn’t it? If you turn a country into a radioactive wasteland:

A) they’ll just do it to you as well, and
B) even if they don’t retaliate, there will be nothing left to conquer, so you gain nothing
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MAGA Pedos on Dark Web Plotting against LGBT

I have come across the most insane and disturbing thing. It's a screen recording on I found on another imageboard, buried somewhere deep with no traction or replies, of a deepweb forum called "The Playground".

The contents are extremely disturbing. People are freely discussing child rape, trading children, and discussing child murder. And beyond that, it seems like there's a whole christian fundamentalist pedo agenda ("Creating a Future for Child Lovers"), where based on some biblical stuff, child rape is normalized, and which is actively fermenting outrage against LGBT in order to prevent sex education in schools - all so that raping kids becomes easier, like it was in the times before Sex Ed. And even more disturbingly, it seems these people are in powerful positions, extremely affluent and have a lot of access to power.

The insane thing is that these are the exact people who are spreading the pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies and hysteria, and several right paramilitaries seem to be involved, eg. Oath Keepers (one guy even posts that they were acquitted for January 6th) and Proud Boys, offering human trafficking services on this board.

There is a lot of mention of the MAGA figures, Bondi, Hesgeth and Tulsi Gabbard - in her case there's even a thread ostensibly containing some sort of videos of her. There's talk of Heritage Foundation and their president Jim DeMint. There's mentions of Silicon Valley figures such as Curtis Yarvin, Musk and Sheryl Sandberg (her supposed "personal collection"). There are several references to Orban and trips to Hungary are advertised. This is just scratching the service of everything that can be seen in the screen recording, which was anonymously uploaded to archive.org by a woman that found this page open on her father's computer.

The leak seems pretty recent, dated to March 2025. I did some searches, but I can't find anything else on it, so it must be extremely secretive. It seems that this has gone completely under the radar, so I'm bringing it here for your consideration. And frankly, I'm scared, because I do think it's real. This is too far out there to be fake, I don't think anyone has an imagination wild enough to come up with this.

Here are the links to the screen recordings and screenshots of the board. There's no graphic content in the videos but a lot of graphic discussions.

https://dump.li/a/29c72d#x

https://archive.org/details/dark-web-playground-child-abuse-forum-leak-censored-posted-endchan-03.18.2025

Have I gone completely insane? Is this some sort of an elaborate prank/troll? Help me make sense of this please, I'm literally stressed the fuck out and starting to doubt everything. Are these the people in power in the US?
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epstein's of the world

Discuss the many epsteins of the world, both today and yesterday and all the fuckery surrounding them

think of Marc Dutroux or Jimmy Saville, suspects, locations, coverups.
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how to effectively fight transmisoginy in gnc spaces?

I legitimately think Blanchardism it's the ecquivalent of a nuclear bomb in the trans ecosphere.

a rust stain in an already slow mechanism.

we can't literally brush it off without hurting and we can't ignore it without it spreading like a cancer.

if we decide to not talk about it it generates doubt, it makes us look afraid of it, almost like we're hiding something.

if we talk about it it hurts also, we know it's there just to hurt, but it's already there and ignoring it would make as much damage as looking at it too much.

>inb4 it doesn't matter

<it shouldn't

but it has already corroded what little mechanisms we had in place and sometimes it makes you think if it's a mechanism worth even saving over just making a new one.

saving our already corroded ammo and replacing the old lead slugs with new jacketed points.

and making sure our new system even if it uses old production molds in this trying time it's able to create a doctrine that withstands time and pressure.

if this sounds too schizo is because my consciousness is currently working on the background and i'm just writing shit for the sake of writing shit
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/swoletariat/ #4

Since nobody has made a new one and people keep asking for it I made the next one.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky" - http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Swole-Soldiers Edition

Previous threads on >>>/alt_archive/
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/Esp/ HILO DE ESPAÑA

Lo siento me siento excluido no se si hay un tablon dedicado a europa pero me gusta hablar con gente que sabe español coño bueno si alguien es de españa que opine o hable en este hilo y si no eres tambien puedes participar.
Pueden hablar del franquismo la republica o pueden hacer incluso un what if… y coño si hay alguien nazbol que hable.
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What’s something that a Cis-Het-Person should never say to a queer person?

What is something that a Cis-Het-Moid like myself or any non-queer person for that matter should never say to a queer person? I’m not talking about slurs or hate-speech because that’s goes without saying, I’m talking about something that doesn’t have bad intentions behind it like a bad joke, Like for example a hetero man saying “Wow me too!” After a lesbian tells him that she is attracted to Women or an uneducated question Like someone asking a trans woman “When did you decide to stop being a man? also I am aware that most of this is personal preference.
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For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Repent so that you can go to Heaven to be with Jesus Christ and all of the angels and all of the saints in the name of the holiest of holies for the power and the glory of his kingdom forever and ever amen.
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Is/would the VZ58 been a better alternative to the AK?

it's killing me;
what's are the major difference between the VZ-58 with it's short-stroke system and Type-81 attempt to improve the AK's shortcomings?

besides stamped/milled receiver?

would it be worth it trying to bring back the VZ58?
or has modern Chinese production AKs ended the AK pattern arms race?
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I learned nothing from Spanish class >:(

I am from the United Stated and I took a Spanish class for 5 YEARS in the entirety of my elementary school years and learned nothing… That's not entirely true but we learned more about how to make papel picados than how to speak Spanish, The only thing I learned how to say in all of those 5 years is "Me gusta las frutas." And it was only because of this song they made us watch in 5th grade that has been stuck in my head for the rest of my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWn2fkJTdCs I did have the same teacher for all 5 of those years and she was pretty cool, She was from Spain, specifically Catalonia, but she moved to Portugal, then Mexico, then the United States so she could speak 4 languages which is more then I would ever be able to speak. The best thing though was that every year we would sell Bracelets to other kids in the school and out parents would gives us money to buy them, and all of the money would go to buying some poor family in the Andes a Llama, so that was pretty cool. I don't think is was bad that we spent so much time learning about Latin American and Iberian culture but I just wish we were taught the fucking language more because we only were taught Colors, Days, Numbers, and Body parts, most of which I forget. But the dumbest part though was the "Spanish name" thing where kids would adopt a new name, I have no Spanish heritage but I have a Latin derived name so my teacher just added an "-ino" at the end of it, I was a kid and I was stupid so I assumed that if I ever traveled to a Spanish speaking country I would have to use this name. I shared this story because I thought it was funny, but one question I have for you /latam/ is if English classes exist in your countries in vice versa?
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Roosterteeth productions

what do you think about RWBY as an anime
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Harry Potter

Its about time we talk about the connection between Harry Potter, Liberalism, and idpol.

and also how JK Rowling is the biggest blair simp
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Name of a Pre-WW2 German Author

what was the name of that pre-WW2 German author that wrote how stereotypically non "aryan" germans were typically the most fanatical Nazis because they knew that they were on the fringe of being considered racially acceptable. Note how the entire high command of the nazi apparatus were a men who were mostly dark-haired, brown-eyed and somewhat short by german standards and who personally proved the lunacy of the aryan "race" as a concept by their mere existence
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Making Microsoft Windows Home

Am probably going to be switching to Windows (first time, other than public school computers), and QWERTY for work. This means giving up a whole load of my configuration, and sort of starting computing from scratch. Found a few interesting tools to make the operating system a little more usable:

- MSMG (https://msmgtoolkit.in/) to strip down the install to something a little more manageable.
- komorebi (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi) to bring tiling windows managers to Microsoft Windows.
- shutup10++ (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) to disable much of the telemetry used by the system (if this isn't already removed by MSMG).
- AHK (https://www.autohotkey.com/) to make keyboard and mouse macros.

This is excluding typical packages with good reputation like Firefox, VLC, or FooBar2000. Just wondering what all you use to make Microsoft Windows a bit more like home.
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/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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< God of War Trilogy Remake features a “new combat system,” says Kratos actor Christopher Judge

20 years ago people were making fun of the God of War games for being too simple and now they’re seriously considered "too technical". 13 years of over the shoulder "cinematic experiences" have fried gamers' brains
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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.
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/numetal/

MARCHING FORWARD, NEVER LOOKING BACK I COULDN'T MAKE IT ON MY OWN
YOU PICK ME UP WHEN I FALL DOWN SO I EXTEND A HERO'S WELCOME HOME
🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

proletariat metal

Is It Really Possible for a Skramz Girl and a Nu Metal Boy to Be in a Relationship?
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Music your parents get high too

Music your parents listen too
Post whatever music that your parents listened to while you died in the back seat of their car from the radiation coming from your gameboy. The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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conspiracy thread

All of this epstein shit has reawakend my schizo hunger for conapiracies, post cool leads, weird docus, blogposts, pet theories, let's get wild with it.
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what is the remedy for the worship of Mammon?

The festivals of buyers and sellers within the temple continue to sacrifice at its altar. This World has coined flesh and breath.

With the worship of capital what grace of motion is left to man?
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Is Puppet trans?

>Animatronic too short or empty

>Animatronic too short or empty
>Animatronic too short or empty
>Animatronic too short or empty
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most evil legal jobs

What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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HILO LATINOAMERICANO
EDICION MURO PROPIO
Terminamos el año con una victoria mas de los socialdemocratas en Uruguay y con Pepe Mujica en modo espectro alentando a los jovenes a militar
¡A Darle con Todo!
Para luego buscarlo en el catálogo:
Latinoamérica, Latin America, LATAM, /lat/, latinoamérica, latino américa, hispanoamerica, /ñ/
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Film Thread II

Hola filmfags, last thread was full so here we are. I'm thinking we also could use this thread as Films You Just Watched edition 3 as traffic is low.
Here's the list of the first thread I very subjectively added some shit to.

&ltS Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre
>Kubrick: 2001, Barry Lyndon
>Shane Carruth: Primer

&ltA Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran, High and Low
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
>Villeneuve: Incendies, Arrival

&ltA- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
>Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End
>Villeneuve (pt. 2): Sicario, Dune

Also:
First thread >>>1660
Films You Just Watched 2.0 >>>24481

Let's talk about movies, then.
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First OC

This is Yana Ivanova, the quintessential Bulgarian anarchist girl
Yana "Dread" Ivanova
Age: 23
Loves: Ice tea, skateboarding, anarchy, pure freedom, sharing her yoghurt with friends, Leftypol
Hates: Capitalism, fascism, Amerikkkans, Twilight books, corruption
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/tbs/ tebas general

ME CAGO EN LA MADRE QUE PARIO AL COSTARRICENSE DE MIERDA XAVIER TEBAS MEDRANO

HIJO DE PUTAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐₐ
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/cl/ - Chile General

El mejor thread de Chile

No se si hayan muchos compañeros chilenos por estos lares y menos que quieran hablar de la telenovela que es nuestra política, pero no creo que haga daño tener un hilo para hablar de ello, o realmente de cualquier otra weá que tenga relacion con nuestro país.
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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (leftypol edition)

(Copypasted from a previous 4chin /g/ thread as a foundation to making these generals on leftypol)
Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
*Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/–help
$ help %builtin/keyword%

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org

/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?

https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
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Discord is fucked (will require age verification now) and conventional social media has been unbearable for a while. Time for another paradigm shift in anonymous Internet communication. And no forums are not coming back, you gotta get over it. The next thing will probably be an obvious downgrade in the same way Reddit was.
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Fantasy

Often when when talking about leftist fiction, it is in relation to speculative science fiction.I'd like to have a thread to discuss not only fantasy with leftist themes, but fantasy in general.So, read any good fantasy recently?
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The pink valley

Opinions on this game? Personally I think it’s a very amazing and well written piece of media

The Pink Valley is a Game Mod for Doom created by "vamvilodon".
You are a nameless man who wakes up one beautiful day, and decides to (maybe) visit his (possible) ex-girlfriend on a whim. What follows is a grim journey akin to Cry of Fear, that goes from bloodcurdlingly real horror, to mindbendingly surreal horror. This is not for the faint of heart.
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I heard Nagatoro was adapted recently is it worth watching?
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i might start HRT soon!

give tips to not squirm when poking myself
also give tips to poke yourself

i'm guessing i'll order estradiol from Astrovials and Spiro from somewhere else?

as soon as i get my doses from the endo maybe in a week
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Conspiracy theories

Which ones do you believe in?
Conspiracy theories are so interesting. I love hearing about them, especially if it's weird stuff.
However I dislike how the term conspiracy theory is used to discredit people sometimes. Something that used to be called a conspiracy theory is that companies and government organizations collect as much data as possible about everyone.

I also believe that powerful groups have a lot of control over things like the other anons mentioned.

>Music played on the radio and as it's sold is played at 'dead' frequencies, and the melodies are simple and uninspiring. Buildings are becoming uglier, making for less spiritually enriching surroundings, and creating less pride in the nation. Our food and water has become more unnatural, and our devices are made to hook us and detach us from reality, from spiritual saturation. The media is deliberately uninspiring and creates a sense of doom and dishonesty, and division, and humans are being encouraged into engaging in hedonism to avoid forming long term relationships, and distracting from the spirit with the flesh. Which leaves you empty.
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modern house music

post house music or music with house elements
hardmode nothing before 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuddgUvSTE

https://youtu.be/ua_83vbhQV0?si=Rx8AFfT8YAXJ5ksH
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General Games Thread

Post games! Post videos of you playing game everytime you visit this site. This a thread for video games being played! No hacking just post extorordinary game moments!
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am I spiritually sick for feeling "less than" JSOC\Special ops\ex-SO PMCs and such elite soldiers?
Maybe it's a (((cope))) but I'm learning to have hyper-realistic lucid dreams so I can have tier-1 missions there with full realism.
I know war is evil, maybe it's even fake\a CGI+ crisis actor huge hoax but…I do really feel spiritually cucked and lucid dreaming seems the only realistic solution for me out of this
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Draw Alunya 3

Alunya Art thread
(Draw or showcase new Alunya art)
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One of the reasons I don't play any of the Souls clones is that they never have supporting characters (think of the summons that help us with the boss fights) like Solaire that gives us a small respite from the solitary nature of these games with their own stories and personal quest.
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/Vexillology/ Flag design general

Design flags that you design and post them here.
Great tools I recommend are sites like Canva and if you want to fly your flag use https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/
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/ck/ -- everything cooking related

Onyo edition
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/dead/ reads

what are you reading right now?
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Upbeat and catchy leftist music

Post upbeat and catchy leftist music that gets stuck in your head. The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short The body was too short
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PDF/EPUB post outage thread

drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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MEME TEMPLATES 2: RESURRECTION

site got nuked edition
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Board description & Reulz

Welcome to /dead/, the endless magical nihilist gulag. This is not 8/grim/, but it is the continuation 8/grim/. Think of it as partly an /r9k/ for anti-capitalists, partly /dprk/ with skeltals, and otherwise whatever you make of it.

Now in amazing Techni-nocolors!

Rules:
>1. Global rules apply
<2. Please keep /r9k/-tier & tfw no gf shitposts to one thread. Capitalism is only one of the many, many reasons why you don't have a gf.
>3. Meta posts belong in this thread
<4. This is a #SAFE space_ for anarkiddies and nihilists; cheka yr authoritarian privilege fam
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Space station 13/14?

Has anyone here played space station 13 or 14?

Its this job simulator where you and about 50 other people try to keep a space station running while it is attacked by various antagonists from traitors, to changlings (which is basically the thing meets parasyte), to of course, revolutionaries which the attached image is describing.

the revolutionaries aren't actually communists, though. It is implied to be a color revolution set up by an enemy coorperation. the collapse of a 'third soviet union' is mentioned in passing in the backstory.
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Anime Music Videos and webms

AMV thread
I know that AMVs aren't as big (or good) as they used to be, but I certainly think they're a lot of fun so lets enjoy the best of it!
https://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php
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Comrade Girls, Shoot the Enemy

For what conceivable causation (the act or process of causing something to happen or exist) might you abstain (restrain oneself from enjoying something) from perusing (read something, typically in a thorough or careful way) the paramount (superior to all others) and furthermore perpetually (in a way that never ends or changes) progressing serialized (publish or broadcast in regular installments) Japanese comic book presently (at the current time)?
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Fallout General - What side is do you choose in Fallout new Vegas ?

of course most /pol/tards side with caser's legion but looking at it almost every single faction is awful one way or the other, The NCR is literally a reboot of America that is in the middle of a manifest destiny, House is a egotistical maniac and probably appeals to Musk bros and Yes man is just a libertarian wet dream
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where should transhumanistoids aim to live given that the west is a bit doomed and most other countries seem to not like us very much at all
i guess it's a bit of a stupid thing to think about, but i am anyway
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How unusual is it to be heavily into "hons" in lack of a better word? I legit find them much hotter than passoids. Btw I'm a trans girl myself only willing to have relationships with other transgirls (I simply do not trust cissoids anymore). Are there any more people like that? SHOW YOURSELVES.

Vid unrelated.
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GOOD MUSIC THREAD

NO INCEL ANIME OR VIDEO GAME OSTs

NO DAD-ROCK

NO BREAKCORE

NO WARSAW PACT MARCHING-BAND OR ARAB POLITICAL MUSIC

BANGERS ONLY

I'll start

https://open.spotify.com/album/7FtJGdO0o5nd9Tw0LiBt3a?si=M1MBVXLRT5S2tm_LbbVEKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlb-juMiA8&list=RD8mlb-juMiA8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz_4xqNo_eE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47uoaKkIuWU
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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.
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Como lidar com essa moda de viralatismo que está contaminando os zoomers de todo o país?
Sou auxiliar de sala de aula numa escola e todo dia eu escuto Bostil pra ca, Merdil pra la, um estudante já escreveu num trabalho valendo nota pro bimestre.
Ontem um professor advertiu que essa investida dos estadunidenses de querer classificar as facções como terrorista e só pra dar brecha para justificar uma intervenção aqui e os fedelhos riram.
Um disse que se bombardearem os prédios dos três "foderes" ele irá agradecer a Deus, outro disse que se tiver guerra ele se juntaria ao lado inimigo, não importa se e os estados unidos, China, Rússia ou a Venezuela.
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Hunter X Hunter

Is it the best Shonen?
I like to think so. What are your opinions about HxH and Shone in General
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Dragon Ball Super

Who the hell is even the target audience for this cringeworthy shitshow these days? I'm seriously curious.
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Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate

It was always weird to me that both of these exist and are so different in every way.
I think you would find nobody that prefers the first one over Ultimate.
But for me Hellsing was always great in alot of unique ways the main problem it has is story.
If you only watch Hellsing you will have no idea what the fuck is even going on for some odd reason they dont explain the most basic principles.
though
Hellsings Seras will always have a special place in my heart
So lets talk Hellsing(Ultimate)tankieTankie
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Blue Eye Samurai

is it anime even though it doesn't have the regular art style? if yes can we discuss it?

if no tell the mods to abort this post
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Is Berserk the most based and redpilled anime?

Let's see
>Guts is a low ass commoner bastard born from a corpse, meant to die, raised in a hellish world (that's literally just the same as our own before Guts encounters any actual demons) so harsh and cruel he likely has severe PTSD by the time he's 15
>Best friend Griffith is a social climbing piece of shit who has to murder and scheme to almost make it to the top, even then the ruling class tells him to go fuck himself and he has to sell his soul to the devil and murder all his friends to finally make it
>The ruling class are mostly monsters; the King is a pedophile nut that tries raping his own daughter, the "nicest" nobles were wrapped up in a brutal inquisition
>The whole world is ruled by an impersonal, most amoral entity created by human will but superseding all humans, controlling their lives based on it's own whims which are of course encouraged by the worst human impulses
>The thing everyone worships is literally evil itself
>Even the leaders of the apostles are pawns of the Market, err…."Idea of Evil"
Fuck it
The godhand are the bourgeoisie
The apostles are the petit bourgeois
Fuck yea
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You may not agree with the solution the manifesto offers, nor the analysis, but I think some parts of it will be useful to you regardless
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylIh7Ou1KwIufSodybyAiR0PxT9EMd2Wcyc0jdoPJVc/
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So what's your opinion on Inuyasha and Yashahime?
T. Lad who was born on the 2000 and doesn't know jack shit.
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>Watch youjo senki movie
>Tanja blows up the palace of the soviets
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/WYOA/: write your own anime thread

post your ideas about epic anime:
>battle shouen stylized seinnen but instead of battles there is science and research related stuff, like conferences, and data gathering
>main character is PhD student at tokyo university researching something very technical and complicated with the objective of curing world hunger or something.
>some ideas for arcs
>MC battling for funding with someone trying to use the money for something fucking useless but profitable
>MC sabotaging people trying to use his work for evil, like building weapons, or kill people directly or indirectly
>MC fights against large corporation trying to sabotage his work, because it cuts their profits
>MC realises his scientific approach was wrong and has to pivot several times, and has to learn new skills (training arcs)
>MC realises his knowledge is incomplete and has to go to a master from another discipline to teach him, he gets taught a moral lesson about the nature of science
>MC's PhD master gets killed by the corporation trying to stop him, so he swears revenge on them, and uses science shit to do so
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Treatment of Animators

Discussion of the way that Animators are treated in the Anime industry. Firstly. why are animators treated like shit? Why don't they try forming unions? You're thoughts on this whole Animator Dormitory project? How can the West (I'm assuming that most of Bunkerchan is yankees and eurofags) help?
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THREAD FOR MANIME

no moe allowed
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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
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Netflix Bebop

>but jet, you are black and you are male
>WELCOME TO THE OUCH, MOTHERFUCKERS
<everything about Vicious
<all of faye's soy-banter dialogue
<Ed's actor getting done dirty with cringe direction and cringe costume design
<tying everything in to the syndicate unintentionally making the world feel that much smaller and therefore less interesting
<dutch angles fucking everywhere
<Julia becomes a power-hungry asshole with almost no in-universe character motivation given
<the entire sequence of mad pierrot hacking into ein's brain
<Vicious magically knows about Jet's daughter when we're given every indication to believe he's been obsessively focused on his coup d'etat leaving all of his dealings regarding looking for Spike and his associates entirely to the viewer's speculation
<the green screen for spike falling out the church window looks like absolute ass
<the hilariously placed "PORN" sign during the rooftop fight with Hakim
<the scene in the S&M dungeon that felt like something out of a 2000s National Lampoon comedy
<detailing the spike/vicious/julia backstory ends up backfiring because it takes what was initially something mysterious and partially left to viewer interpretation and turns it into something that comes off incredibly ham-fisted and unjustifiably stupid on every single character's part

why, anons
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Horror Manga and anime General

Post and share all of your favorite horror manga and anime. The more bizarre and disturbing the better.
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>he hasn't seen this japo-american masterpiece

<The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass, a studio known for their holiday specials, and animated by Topcraft, a precursor to Studio Ghibli.
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Brand New Animal

Well that was bad. Wasted potential as it's usual with many shows.

Most baffling parts were the deuteragonist working the big rich mafia guy that pits the poor to kill each other as a sport among other things and the "if you kill him you'll be as bad as him" at the end. Then there's the convenient powers the main couple exhibit to solve the big issue at the end.

Trigger hasn't been good since it was called Gainax, huh.
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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.
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CAPESHIT MOVIES

This is the capeshit film thread
Discuss capeshit
I'll admit I hate Marvel films, first off they're some of the glowies films out there, every single one fellates the Pentagon. The plots are almost all identical, filled with general pro-porky propaganda. The jokes are overdone and stale, literally Adam Sandler humor. The CIA is shit for such expensive productions. The characters are getting stale. Fuck these movies, death of cinema shit piles.
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George Orwell

How did these clearly left wing books become a symbol for ancaps?
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How would you go about fixing the Isekai (sub?)genre from its current state of mediocrity and stagnation?
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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?
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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.
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The modern anime fandom is unbearable

You have
>seasonal and shonen kiddies who consume exclusively slop which they treat as unironic masterpieces, have never watched anything made before 2010
>blatantly reactionary loli-avatar culture war types who see themselves as "gatekeepers" and literally only care about fanservice and mindless violence because they mean a manga is "based" and sticking it to the cucks, and hate classics like Utena or Ghibli stuff because they have too much appeal to the wrong crowd
>SJW morons who think sex is evil and make the most superficial video essay brained criticisms (did you know young superheroes are literally "child soldiers" and should be treated as such?) and will doxx you to your employer because you said you like something like Made in Abyss
Is it possible to talk about anything these days without having to either walk around eggshells to avoid offending people who will assume a million things about you based on your tastes and choice of words, or tolerate the company of literal Nazis?