[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kiyoshi-kuromiya-protests-napalm

'On April 26, 1968, as an architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania, Kiyoshi Kuromiya and some friends held a demonstration against the use of napalm in Vietnam by announcing that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of the university library. Thousands turned up to protest, only to be handed a leaflet reading:

"Congratulations on your anti-napalm protest. You saved the life of a dog. Now, how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in Vietnam."'

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

they're saying his name is Luke Skywalker

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

I did this by accident when I was 15. 9 hour flight. Solo. Films didn't download on my phone. Very cheap airline.

I got thirsty, they said they only take cash. I didn't have any cash. So they said I can only have a cup of boiling water.

Fun times.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

he's clearly a Russian asset

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

emote emote emote

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had a similar story to some of comments chaining off this comment - atheist 11 year old debate bro adopted by the Dawkins/Yianopoulous/Hitchens anti-religious anti-feminist islamophobe pipeline, then growing out of it as fast as I got sucked into it.

I think right wingers that are truly commited to the 'facts and logic' shit can be especially susceptible. I found myself on the right in part because of my western chauvinist upbringing, but also because my main feeling was that society was lying to me. Everything felt so fake. The visible solutions were half assed 'left' parties like Democrats/Labour, who seemed to speak in jargonous platitudes, whose policies resembled faux-progressive slam poetry. Nothing ever seemed to get better under them. So I fell towards the 'tell it like it is' crowds. And yet, even within that crowd the contradictions are severe - I was still atheist, pro-choice, loved nature and hated climate change...

Then I discovered 'dirtbag leftism' - with all of its hidden truths, undeniable facts of intervention that 'say it like it is' right-wingers had concealed, explanations that finally 'felt' right, with a scientific (logic-centered) approach to politics. Leftism also has all of the spikes and barbs and anger that the feelgood progressives deny. It all just felt right.

Here I am, 4 years later, feeling like I've finally cut through all the bullshit, writing my dissertation on Western intervention in South America.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

OJ plays Leslie's buddy Nordberg, and he has one of the best death scenes in cinema:

https://youtu.be/B40cQXCfooE?si=RPSq_IGZdpStg-9S

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Y'all should try the Black and Chrome edition if you're already a big fan

it's a cool take on it

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

The current claim is that the people there pretty much unanimously voted that they want to remain British. Britain is in decline, but Argentina in terms of actual conditions and stability for those that live there is worse.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

and then she goes on to condemn Venezuela

given all of the damning evidence against Elliot Abrams I actually don't think her line of questioning was that great.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was probably me. I realise that I overreacted or hyperbolised it, and that some of my sentiment was probably just a wider anti-anime sentiment. I came down too heavy on one side and had a puritanical take.

However, looking at the images once more, and some of the images posted in this thread (by the same artist) and people's reactions to them - is it really that puritanical to suggest that the artist intended them to be sexually attractive?

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