@argumate
…glutenous.
*hisssssssssss*
Ghost in the Shell fan art by Trung Nguyen
ravtiller asked:
ugly gap-toothed bitch
funereal-disease answered:
0/10. Didn’t your mother teach you not to pick low-hanging fruit?
Don’t they know the real trick is to figure out how refer to someone as a low-status male? -3 Intersectionality, anon.
I feel like probably the language they were speaking was Japanese, since why would you /not/ have them speaking Japanese?
I am clueless and do not speak Japanese.
From what I heard, people were speaking Japanese, but I couldn’t clearly hear the background people in the various scenes. However, I think the movie takes place in something like a Japanese Hong Kong or Japanese Singapore, probably following a world war which shuffled the national boundaries throughout Asia.
Note: “Ghost in the Shell 2017 takes place in Japanese Hong Kong” is speculation on my part. However, some of it was filmed in actual Hong Kong, so it’s not entirely off-base.
It just sounds like the most credible explanation for why “Japan” is suddenly so multiracial, multicultural, and English-speaking that an entire team from its internal security services consists primarily of non-Japanese people who speak English.
liberals in the 90s: Chechens deserve their geographic and political freedom and their unique ethnicity fully recognized
liberals during the Boston bombing: Chechens are white
liberals in 2017: Chechens are Russians
Liberals in 2020: We need to invade Chechnya.
Wait, wise old Chinese dude? Do you mean Beat Takeshi as Section Chief Aramaki? He’s a Japanese comedian and actor speaking Japanese.
I feel like probably the language they were speaking was Japanese, since why would you /not/ have them speaking Japanese?
I am clueless and do not speak Japanese.
From what I heard, people were speaking Japanese, but I couldn’t clearly hear the background people in the various scenes. However, I think the movie takes place in something like a Japanese Hong Kong or Japanese Singapore, probably following a world war which shuffled the national boundaries throughout Asia.
Anonymous asked:
isn't turn signaling technically also virtue signaling?
argumate answered:
only if you actually have no real intention of turning at all.
*puts my turn signal on near the exit for the charity so the other cars will think I’m a good person, actually gets off at the exit for the casino*
This is interesting, since I also find myself using the shorthand of describing cars as having agency and making decisions, rather than their drivers.
It’s going to get confusing in about 10 years.
One can’t defeat ethnonationalism by supporting it for minority groups and foreigners. That just makes one a rival ethnonationalist.
In such a case, ethnonationalism has already been accepted as valid, it’s just a matter of haggling over who is allowed to practice it.
Assassins can’t be held responsible for the random consequences of succession. If they had their way there wouldn’t be a succession.
Otherwise why not blame everyone for NOT assassinating someone like Hitler early when they had the chance?
The justification for assassination is almost always going to have to rest on Consequentialist grounds, since it’s literally killing someone without a trial for political reasons. There WILL be a succession, so you can’t credibly claim ignorance of the fact that there would be one, and it doesn’t matter if they assassin doesn’t want one unless they can stop that succession too.. The assassin has made a choice, and they went into it knowing that they wouldn’t know all the consequences.
This is killing a head of state, or former head of state. This isn’t like some small accident resulting in a gas leak explosion you could never have anticipated. It’s going to have big consequences.
Also, there were, in fact, multiple attempts to assassinate Hitler.
@ranma-official is in the right on this one.
I mean look, I like states. I think they’re better than whatever Anarchists will cook up. But states are fundamentally grounded in geopolitical realities based on the threat of force, in a world where multiple actors are willing to use force and you don’t know for sure whether they will. Your information is always imperfect, and if you fuck up, the end result could be global thermonuclear war.
It’s very difficult to walk out of that situation without any blood at all if you’re an ordinary human.
That doesn’t excuse Bush, but I think if you became the leader of a nation you’d take some course of action justifying the assassination of you based on your own criteria.