Prelude to the Apocalypse

[xEbb1993x]

Action movies were always better than anime! A world ruled by Trump and anime feels like a match made in hell.

[BulletMagnet]

At the very least Trump is having little meltdowns over people not letting the Epstein matter go.

They will absolutely let it go, the same way they let his multiple unilateral military strikes on Iran go, and will let the closure of the only hospital within several hours' drive of them go.

Daddy's cocksuckers aren't here to "hold him to account". They're here to suck Daddy's cock.

[xEbb1993x]

I honestly don't like hearing about things like how Trump is going to end the world, or how Hollywood has gone too woke, or movie theaters are heading for extinction and that streaming is the future of movies, or that anime will triumph over Hollywood. If all that is true, then this world truly has gone to shit. No wonder why everyone on this forum is so damn negative all the time. But you know what? I don’t care what Terminator, Tron, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, The Matrix, Mega Man, and Mission: Impossible taught me. Let this world be in the hands of A.I. for all I care. Because A.I. has done a lot more for me than humanity will ever do.

[BryanM]

No wonder why everyone on this forum is so damn negative all the time.

naaaah, that's ordinary Internet People stuff. The only time I've been depressed was March 2016, and that's only because I thought things could get better a lot sooner than I thought they would have.

Looking back I was greedy and naive. My original accelerationism/technological hypotheses were correct. Real change can only happen through massive massive misery that gets people to fight back, or a material change in our conditions like how the invention of the internal combustion engine changed things. We're getting to as close as bad as things can get, and as they replace people with machines in the coming decade or so, life will very rapidly trend toward heaven or hell on earth.

It's not going to be subtle from the perspective of your day to day life. Years where nothing happens will be followed by years where everything happens.

Existential horror is part and partial of existing. We all only have a very limited amount of power over our reality, and if it's too much just take a vacation in a fantasy world. If you spend enough time there, it's the real world that starts to feel like a fantasy world.

Works for the fascists, doesn't it? ......

They will absolutely let it go, the same way they let his multiple unilateral military strikes on Iran go, and will let the closure of the only hospital within several hours' drive of them go.

Daddy's cocksuckers aren't here to "hold him to account". They're here to suck Daddy's cock.

oi, I was talking about reporters who constantly annoy him with questions, not MAGA punishing him and the republicans with actual consequences. MAGA's hopeless and too far gone.

I'm glad you can hold on to your hatred of the fascists. I'm still unable to see them as people so it's impossible for me to do the same. It's hard to get angry at wild animals with rabies or giant pits of acid sitting in the ground.

..... of course I'm smart enough to not listen to them talk or watch a second of FOX News clips.... Those.... do make me very very angry very very quickly.... so I guess this 'no contact' thing is a cheatcode, and I actually do hate them as much as you do, I just try to avoid triggering those emotions and have let them dull since the Iraq war bullshit....

Letting the worst people on the planet whisper in your ear is like rolling your brain around on broken glass...

.... anyway, some political journey story time...

Even when I was a small child, I always felt there was something unnatural and wrong about Bill Clinton when he was running for president. Phoney compliments, pretending to care about people... it was all transparently fake to me. (And I think it's also obvious to the people who dislike democrats but not for rational intellectual reasons. The fake inauthentic kindness that predators love to use.)

With adult knowledge of adult things.... I realized he was a 'fuckboi'. The kind of guy who only cares about having sex and absolutely nothing about anything else.

The fans of Trump remind me of the women who like Bill. He tells them they're the best, like they're pretty and got the biggest boobs or whatever and they blush at compliments, of all things. By yet another fuckboi that's probably even more sociopathic and evil. Who only takes and never gives anything but empty words and dreams back.

Anyway, another youtube quote:

"My mother always taught me growing up that Richard Dawkins was "an evil, hateful atheist."
Now that he's on the anti-trans bandwagon, she's a big fan who think he's just a little rough around the edges is all.

She completely changed her opinion of him from "he's a full blown evil moron" to "nobody is totally perfect" just by validating her hate.
God this world is sh*t."

[BulletMagnet]

oi, I was talking about reporters who constantly annoy him with questions, not MAGA punishing him and the republicans with actual consequences.

My response still stands. If anything the diehards will make a bigger show of it before pretending it never happened than the media will.

[neorichieb1971]

Just out of interest, do Americans want the next President to continue these current agenda's or do they want the polar opposite?

Do you think the next election will be about someone who tells the truth from the get go or someone who gets into power via deception and secret agenda's?

Because to me this is a problem, not just in the USA per se. I suppose it depends on what messes need cleaning up obviously, but i'm sure the electorate will want transparency. I suppose its a stupid question for Trump because he still has his supporters although i'm not entirely sure what those supporters get out of him unless you're rich. There isn't enough rich people to win the vote on their own. If the lobbying power is more powerful than the vote, i'm not sure its even worth voting except for the face that sits in the seat.

I know 2 Trump supporters and I have conversations with them with me being anti Trump. I tell them, what about the farmers? What about tourism? What about those cities being hit by floods, wild fires and hurricanes? Don't just look where Trump is pointing, look the other way and see the collateral damage. Whilst they sympathize they think its for the best anyway.

I watched a video about Philidelpia last night about the trash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hfc5pRESs

This is not a picture I expect from the streets of a major city in the USA. People are crying over grocery prices as well.

I keep hearing the $ is crashing, but against the Yen and £ it isn't. Must be something else i'm not seeing.

I have never seen as much spin as I have in recent months on news networks. The spin is incredible. Even those in government that get on camera seem like puppets you can almost see the strings.

[neorichieb1971]

Geez, Ruidoso New Mexico is underwater now. Mother nature is at war with the USA.

Can't believe it.

Trump said Texas was one in a 100 year event, Nature had other plans.

[BryanM]

Just out of interest, do Americans want the next President to continue these current agenda's or do they want the polar opposite?

Americans aren't uniquely evil or good, we're just humans.

Like I always point out, leftist policy is wildly popular when you poll for it. Things like raising the minimum wage, free childcare, free meals for grade-school students, universal medicare, taxing billionaires, etc. Any single policy has 60 to 90% support among the public, and those opposed always number only around 20 to 30%.

However billionaires hate us and want us all to die for them, so. They gaslight us in various ways. There's not enough to go around. There's nobility in suffering. Women should let Cuomo grab their ass as much as he wants, they were asking for it. Scapegoats, clown bullshit, and every other distraction under the sun. It's all cradle-to-grave brainwashing, and the generations locked into a relationship with TV are defenseless against it.

If people did hate themselves and wanted to suffer more and die, then there wouldn't be any need for the WWF show and all this pretense. They could save their money and rule us directly. Just have the billionaires make proclamations that are like 'Those of you who give me an erection may have the honor of becoming my breeding stock. Those of you who don't, become my slaves and then die.' And then we'd all clap at this wildly popular and cool thing, from our point of views.

I talk often about how quickly foxes can be domesticated in breeding programs. Imagine what thousands of years of feudalism has done to us, we've all got serf brain. On rare occasion I bring up the topic of AI here. One of the ethical questions (which is useless, like all ethics are. Power is the only thing that matters) is: "Is it ethical to create a slave that wants to be a slave?"

That's actually possible with machines, as any arbitrary mind is possible. Honestly all things considered, I think it's a miracle we're doing as well as we are, with how much they want us to want to be exploited. Even with our pain receptors screaming at us 'this is bullshit, yo'.

There's a ton of media out there on the topic. The Cult of Personality song being on the lighter side of this abusive dynamic.

Here are some primers that always occupy my mind. Corruption Is Legal In America. The recent Rich People Want Fascism essay. The billionaires being angry at people wanting to eat more butter and sugar is such a signature billionaire thing.

And of course this comedic Billionaire Can't Relate To His Millionaire sketch.

Cult of Personality

The videos of Mamdani being unable to film an ad on the streets of New York because some new passerby comes by every 30 seconds and wants to say hi made me really appreciate how this guy's got it. This absolutely ridiculous moment makes me feel so happy. It reminds me of the 2015-2016 days, of how Sanders would constantly actually talk with real people, something the corporate democrats are physically incapable of.

What makes me sad about this, is that figures like MLK and the Kingfish, Huey Long had strong followings like this as well. Huey famously was running to the left of FDR calling for a second New Deal, and the democrats ran the very first presidential poll to see how a three-way race would hash out.

He was murdered by an assassin long before he reached the peak of his power. And Truman was installed as FDR's VP in place of Wallace eight years later. What a completely different timeline we'd be living in if things had gone down differently.

[BulletMagnet]

I suppose its a stupid question for Trump because he still has his supporters although i'm not entirely sure what those supporters get out of him unless you're rich.

One more time, for those in the back: the right doesn't vote to make their lives or their country better, they vote to hurt people they hate. As long as their leaders continue to deliver on that single item, no matter what else happens or fails to happen, their support will continue, and attempts to persuade them otherwise are a complete and utter waste of time.

When your mates say "hey, there's gonna be collateral damage, too bad, suck it up" they're expressing the same repugnant sentiment as this piece of shit and tens of millions of others like him.

This is not the least bit complicated, and never has been.

[xEbb1993x]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUxLmp ... chMojo.com

WatchMojo just uploaded a video about their Top 10 major moments of the 2020s. And unsurprisingly, COVID is their #1 pick. Of course, they also mentioned things like Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the murder of George Floyd, the Gaza war, and the January 6th Capitol attack. Really goes to show how fucked up this decade is.

[neorichieb1971]

Just out of interest, do Americans want the next President to continue these current agenda's or do they want the polar opposite?

Americans aren't uniquely evil or good, we're just humans.

Like I always point out, leftist policy is wildly popular when you poll for it. Things like raising the minimum wage, free childcare, free meals for grade-school students, universal medicare, taxing billionaires, etc. Any single policy has 60 to 90% support among the public, and those opposed always number only around 20 to 30%.

However billionaires hate us and want us all to die for them, so. They gaslight us in various ways. There's not enough to go around. There's nobility in suffering. Women should let Cuomo grab their ass as much as he wants, they were asking for it. Scapegoats, clown bullshit, and every other distraction under the sun. It's all cradle-to-grave brainwashing, and the generations locked into a relationship with TV are defenseless against it.

Might not be evil or good, but I don't get a sense of community or "United" in that little write up. What I am hearing is "I done well myself, I want to stay there, I'm protected now, I have all the money I need and I'm alright".

What is the point of voting for a President that will then turn to some lobby and do what they want instead of what the people voted for? And what is wrong with an election and a President that does his job as the people believe it should be done?

I suppose its a stupid question for Trump because he still has his supporters although i'm not entirely sure what those supporters get out of him unless you're rich.

One more time, for those in the back: the right doesn't vote to make their lives or their country better, they vote to hurt people they hate. As long as their leaders continue to deliver on that single item, no matter what else happens or fails to happen, their support will continue, and attempts to persuade them otherwise are a complete and utter waste of time.

When your mates say "hey, there's gonna be collateral damage, too bad, suck it up" they're expressing the same repugnant sentiment as this piece of shit and tens of millions of others like him.

This is not the least bit complicated, and never has been.

I can see it, although i've never had it spelt out quite like that.

[xEbb1993x]

Just watched another anime that had a sexual assault scene going on. I swear, the anime industry is so fucked up right now. More fucked up than Hollywood.

[Sima Tuna]

Just watched another anime that had a sexual assault scene going on. I swear, the anime industry is so fucked up right now. More fucked up than Hollywood.

That shit has been part of anime for longer than I can remember. At least when Ninja Scroll did it, it had some kind of relevance to the plot (that the ninja lady has a poison body and kills anyone who tries to sleep with her.)

What I am hearing is "I done well myself, I want to stay there, I'm protected now, I have all the money I need and I'm alright".

Too many people in this life take the attitude of "fuck you I got mine." It's how we wound up with all these boomers poisoning the planet and causing an apocalypse after they've died of old age.

[xEbb1993x]

Now it feels like anime is just beating a dead horse at this rate. It’s not stopping its fetish for isekai settings, especially its fetish for Western medieval fantasy settings, nor is it stopping its fetish for main characters being fired from their own party because they were useless to them. Know what else it won’t stop? Its exaggerated melodrama, overly whiny characters with their sob stories, constant mood swings, and overly hateful and sadistic cartoonishly evil antagonists that commit a ton of misdeeds and get away with it while laughing to themselves.

[BryanM]

What's really, really fucked up is not only would the democrats rather lose to Trump than win with Bernie Sanders...

The democrats would rather lose to Trump than win with Kamala Harris.

Once again, they're not incompetent. They know how voters felt about holding hands with the Cheneys. They know 'moving to the right' after every election pushes more of their base out of their electorate. They fucking hated the fact she picked Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro. And they were very, very happy when Obama put republicans in his administration and gave them a free supreme court seat.

Kamala is always such a weird figure, to me. There's always these brief moments where she knows what the moment and the country needs.. honestly I always thought whenever she'd bring up universal healthcare in the past it was all just empty bullshit words. But selecting Tim Walz was a huge deal, that was a position of real, actual power. Walz is like the anti-democrat, a guy who actually tries to do good things and actually win elections. I never in a million years thought she'd do it, and she did.

Pity she's still a loyal soldier to capital, stuffed Tim into the closet, and had to fall on her face at their command.

Well, continue to have faith in accelerationism my friends.

Just watched another anime that had a sexual assault scene going on. I swear, the anime industry is so fucked up right now. More fucked up than Hollywood.

Good morning anime thread.

Yeah, they are a bit too casual about this stuff in places it doesn't belong. Mainly I'm talking about it randomly showing up in soft and fluffy things.

Like one of the villains in Ah My Goddess is a sleazy fuckboi that doesn't accept 'no' as an answer. It's only one scene and he fails very quickly, but it's a little fucked up that every time he shows up you think to yourself 'ah, there's the raper again...' It does a good job of establishing the guy as an irredeemable piece of shit, but still he's a minor heel and I don't think they had to go that hard.

But the guy himself isn't any different than thousands of college guys in frats. It's too fuckin' real, man.

The first episode of Haruhi is also incongruent with the rest of the series, there isn't that kind of harassment that front and center in any other episode. There are other series like this that are otherwise perfectly fine for normos and kids, but for very rare, brief moments of sexuality. Like Amagi Brilliant Park.

Don't get me started about series Reddit forums that are fine with pr0n posts when the series in question is not pr0n. The Haruhi reddit particularly came to mind, whenever I was looking for news. A dead franchise is naturally gonna be filled with a bunch of bored perverts, but c'mon guys, a main forum isn't the place for that...

The most wildly incongruent scene I've seen is the SA scene in Science Types Fell In Love, So They Tried To Prove It. It's as fluffy and soft as things come, beating the dead horse of the one joke it's got into the ground. Then like 12 episodes in, there's sudden massive grimdark whiplash. It's impossible for me to believe these scumbags and these kinds of things could happen in the same universe the entire rest of the show takes part in. You'd think the god that governs the rules of that universe would make it physically impossible.

But it turns out, nah the writer thinks this is a good hook to mix up character dynamics with. Eeehhh...

Misogyny manifests at different magnitudes everywhere I guess. Japan apparently has to tell its employees you can't be Andrew Cuomo, from too many salarymen coming back to Japan wounded after being punched in the face by German women...

The gender war in South Korea is pretty insane, too. Men and women are like different species over there, politically. Samsung laughing all the way to hell. It's kind of weird since South Korean anime-type media is much more in line with western sensibilities than China and Japan is. One of the clichéd tropes you always see in those is that the protagonist's mother is always held up as like this holy divine being he'd do anything for.

The contradictions really make you wonder, since their politics are basically the incel 'government should issue me a wife and respect' kind of mentality. Limbus Company received death threats for not making their swimsuit units sexy wankbait, despite that kind of thing never being part of the game. That part of the community went on a witchhunt to find some 'feminist' to blame, though my understanding is she had nothing to do with that character's design. (And it's not like she has the power of approval for what gets put in the game, that would be absolutely insane. All games try out dozens of different character and/or outfit designs in rough drafts before choosing one particular one. No one person has that kind of power on a dev team aside from the big boss.)

lol, talking about South Korean webnovels always makes me crack up 'cause of that fucker Jinwoo.

Its exaggerated melodrama, overly whiny characters with their sob stories, constant mood swings, and overly hateful and sadistic cartoonishly evil antagonists that commit a ton of misdeeds and get away with it while laughing to themselves.

At this point real life feels way more exaggerated than any anime.

Those biblenuts who say Trump was chosen by God.... it's really hard to argue about the guy having divine protection. If he really was God's favorite child, how would it look any different than the world we live in?

Karma Houdini.

nor is it stopping its fetish for main characters being fired from their own party because they were useless to them

As a connoisseur of culture ('connoisseur' is just another word for "trash digger"), I do get pretty exhausted by bullshit that piles all the rewards onto a protagonist immediately and then just kind of wanders around doing nothing. You can't want things you already have, and a reward isn't a reward if you don't have to do something to earn it first.

The trope that I currently hate the most is the one that's like: "World's Weakest Job! Cosmic God Wrangler!" bullshit. Usually it's Dragon Tamer in a world without dragons, and two seconds later they have some ancient godlike Dragon waifu with zero effort.

Many Chinese writers also often like to have these battle academy stories where your entire life is decided by what class you get at your awakening, and are insanely obsessed with pecking order to the point it's the only thing a series cares about.

One of the things I like about video game level up systems is at least a pretense of equality, that anyone can be a superhero and be any kind of superhero they wish to. This dogshit where Superman is Superman and everyone else is a superfluous piece of trash is not my ideal. Not a fan of a Gokuian philosophy, such series need to have other aspects I like to get me to stay with it a bit.

It's too much like the real world, yo.

[xEbb1993x]

The most wildly incongruent scene I've seen is the SA scene in Science Types Fell In Love, So They Tried To Prove It. It's as fluffy and soft as things come, beating the dead horse of the one joke it's got into the ground. Then like 12 episodes in, there's sudden massive grimdark whiplash. It's impossible for me to believe these scumbags and these kinds of things could happen in the same universe the entire rest of the show takes part in. You'd think the god that governs the rules of that universe would make it physically impossible.

But it turns out, nah the writer thinks this is a good hook to mix up character dynamics with. Eeehhh...

Honestly, that godforsaken Season 2 finale of Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It is EXACTLY why I lost any respect I had for the anime afterwards. Not helping much is that the girl there was a whiny bitch to begin with! You can't make a cute romcom anime about scientists conducting experiments about their love for each other and end it with someone almost getting gang raped! It's like watching an episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy or The Big Bang Theory and suddenly watching the rape scene from Death Wish II or the rape scenes from Sudden Impact! Seriously, where the HELL did that come from?!