I always roll my eyes when it comes to r/upliftingnews
Is it great that Israel is being frustrated in their efforts to do genocide? Yes. But what is that settler colonial state doing there in the first place???
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idk the format sort of feels flawed for this joke
Being more concerned about the racial make up of Oykot Kingdom (Tokyo spelled backwards) than the author was in 1999 when the manga chapter came out, 2018 when the explanation for where they were came out, or in 2023 when he helped cast the actress. It's like if you were playing DnD and you not only asked what the bartender's name is but then you start getting upset when it sounds too made up.
self harm
I remember one time in elementary school I was sitting at the foot of my bed hitting my ankle with a baseball hoping I would get injured so I wouldn't have to go to school. I wasn't even bullied or anything, I just really, really didn't want to go. Never brought it up, nobody ever saw. Still had to go to school.
I've also started mentioning it now that I'm an adult. Never got a reaction more than "huh, interesting" though I feel like that was a super fucked up moment.
Just in case I get murked like a dog and they start looking through my posts: no comment
You're already late on selling shirts with the image of him raising a fist
Why don't the wealthy like grilling? What the fuck are these people eating? They're always so weird about food, but it's like if I were wealthy I would actually eat the food at the attractions. If I didn't care about spending $25 for chicken tenders at a basketball game then why not? That sensation was one of my favorite parts of being abroad. The meals increased from $3 to $6 while I was a captive audience. I went down to the bar to get a bottle of water and a juice and I thought the teenagers at the bar had said it was going to cost 10x what they took. When they gave me the change back I was confused for a moment.
Are the rich exclusively getting fancy dining and private chefs? Is it always the plate with the little bit of sauce whipped onto it? Do they not sometimes want a simple meal they make themselves without having to text somebody that they're hungry? Do they also have someone draw for them? Do they have exploited labor journal for them as well? "Here Jones, take my phone and go be out and enjoy nature in my stead, I have to go make sure children don't eat." I want to pity them for never experiencing the stillness that comes from household chores.
The organized core of leftism in America got bombed out and violently suppressed. There's not really a labor movement that he's letting down by being a millionaire. I can imagine a late stage communism where someone is capable of working enough to warrant a million dollars in entitlement to luxury products. I don't imagine there is a leftist movement that can tell him what to do with his money that he made creating entertainment slop. Especially not when the voices get mixed in with people who rattle sabers about "socialism vuvuzela no iphone"
The entire concept falls flat on its face the second you want to write an intra-family conflict that lasts more than the run time of an episode. It's a concept we've discussed in my writing group. If you're going to be episodic, your characters need to be kind of 2 dimensional. Since I don't read enough, I think of Family Guy where Lois gets a job at the news and when asked about how she lost the job at the end, she replies "does anyone really care?"
Well, since you're a hog and your brain doesn't really do lateral thinking, non-negotiably you want the themes of the show to reflect some kind of rejection of modern culture. "I mean it, this shit around me is not Christcore." You might get through 2 seasons, an introduction to the family and a drawn out conflict with a trans school principal or something. Well, eventually your audience is going to ask how the family deals with a child losing faith or martial issues. The shit will turn into pure ideology. The resolution will be unhelpful because when the wife decides to trust the husband because of a vision from God and the real life woman cannot square the circle of someone fucked up on their vice of choice because they're both evermore atomized. The show will show its thin veneer of aesthetic.
It would only be dogma that Christians I know don't even do. Shows in that position, at best, turn into camp and dumb down their characters. Like one of the kids becomes an atheist for 5 episodes, gets really into anime, and the mangaka of his favorite series is Christian so he converts back. Otherwise they get weird and probably double down on transphobia or something.
counterpoint: chess is trans. pawns become queens.
Even if you give them that, then all you've given is that there are rules. Not that there's order or that the behavior is based off of the rules. Just that the rules were extant.
I have it on good authority that we LOVE our trans comrades, don't we folks 
. Yeah, we do. Some of the best trans in the world. You know I used to be a lib, look how I transitioned to a big. Beautiful. Communist. That's right folks. The dirty rotten bourgeoisie have had their cake and ate it too for too long. Im not saying that they're disgusting horrible, transphobic monsters. Cause that would be uncivil. That's why I'm not saying that I hold trans shit in higher regard that a billionaire. All I'm saying is that our trans comrades' rights are human rights
Bit idea: Trump is the harm reduction candidate because he doesn't know how to give that many billions of dollars to Israel and cannot be made to care very deeply about it.