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bambamramfan
secondunitopinion

“[Ghost in the Shell] is a perfect overlapping of form and function. They speak directly to the audience and say “the patriarchal corporation made Motoko white because they consider it more marketable.”

The irony of the film is that people [online] have bought entirely into the corporate logic and are now arguing that ‘authentic’ Japanese identity is superior because it’s even more marketable - literally that the movie would have made more money with an authentic Japanese on the posters.

In this view, Cutter was bad not because he was using billions of tax dollars to vicisect people for profit, but because he failed to make enough profit for his shareholders. He was not exploitative enough - he did not ‘Think Different". Cutter’s sneering racism is unfashionable, and so his Caucasian deathbots were left in the dust by the burgeoning Japanese-Looking Fucktoy industry.”

mitigatedchaos

An interesting response, though I believe the arguers actually wanted it for authenticity/racial representation reasons and only made the argument about money because they thought “be more moral (according to our morality)” wouldn’t be convincing.

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wirehead-wannabe
sadoeconomist

I hope McCain takes the time left to him to reflect on the experiences he’s lived through - for someone to suffer through some of the worst of the pointless cruelty war has to offer, to then turn around and work to inflict that on others, is something I’ll never be able to comprehend

Hearing about his brain cancer got me thinking, though…I don’t know that the rest of the world would forgive the US if we had something like the Nuremberg trials for everybody involved in the last few administrations, the targeted drone killing program, the decisions to begin wars in various countries under false pretenses or completely without justification, Guantanamo Bay and all the rest of it, and brought the country back under some semblance of the rule of law

But I’m pretty sure they won’t forgive us if we don’t do something like that before too many of the war criminals involved start dying of natural causes without seeing justice under the international law we once championed

mitigatedchaos

It took the memetic force of Donald Fucking Trump to get the Republicans to admit the Iraq War was a bad idea. Hypocrites that they are, the Democrats have mostly given the Obama Administration a pass, even though from what I’ve read Libya is now worse off. Although really the worst thing about all this is this shit doesn’t even work and they have the backbone for drone strikes but NOT the backbone to properly occupy Afghanistan and forcibly modernize it over one generation so that the “nation building” sticks. And forcibly modernizing the territory SHOULD be a lot more threatening than just wrecking it!

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ranma-official
eggcup

the other day i made a joke about manlets to my brother and he just said completely dead pan “brother, we cannot ridicule those of a stature that does not match our own” and i can’t stop thinking about it. it was like he got possessed by a manlet sympathizing spirit  

mitigatedchaos

I dunno @ranma-official, it sounds like you might be taking punching down a little too literally.

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discoursedrome

Anonymous asked:

this is why they don't want to let birds on Tumblr. wildlife conservation is gonna be pissed after you've grimaced yourself to death on discourse. don't you owe it to Australia's environment to log off and go hunt small rodents?

argumate answered:

I just find it amusing that every self-described leftist who accuses me of being a fascist invariably gets torn to pieces by other self-described leftists a week later, who then get torn to pieces in turn, and so on ad infinitum, like a bizarre political karma system.

kontextmaschine

I’d always heard about the left’s — factionalism? circular firing squads? Like, “People’s Front of Judea/Judean People’s Front” har har har but boy did tumblr make that real to me

Not JUST the way that the left - political, cultural, etc. would tear itself up constantly, drive off potential allies, etc., but the contrast.

Like, remember the “Axis of Evil” of right-tumblrs a few years ago? Whose symbol was ≠? (“equality” woulda worked too, I thought)

If ANYONE, they were an incoherent coalition, from Christian traditionalists to proto-ancap free marketers to Third Reich cosplayers to folks from Jewish expat anticommunist traditions like Communism Kills, but they stayed friendly, pissing out of the tent

discoursedrome

The essential irony of people who want to destroy the left (and this also goes for feminism specifically, and for Marxism specifically) is that the only thing keeping those groups from destroying themselves is the external pressure of enemies who blatantly belong to an outside faction and lump them all together. If there was a sustained 20-year period where nobody worth noticing was trying to destroy “the left” it would atomize completely from its own internal conflicts.

I’m not exactly sure what the deal is, honestly. I think it’s a thing to some extent on the right, but why it’s so much more prevalent on the left, that eludes me.

mitigatedchaos

For a long time, my estimate was that there are simply more ways to be left-wing than to be right-wing.

I’m no longer so sure.  

I’ve discussed what WW called “localism-ingroupism” on this blog, and perhaps the right-wingers are, in some sense, less universalist.  If one believes in a world of nations and differing traditions, it isn’t so necessary that literally every territory on Earth adopts the One True Ideology.

Or maybe it’s just that the right-wingers do have a higher neural threat recognition and consider themselves outnumbered even when they aren’t.

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