[-] flan@hexbear.net 86 points 1 month ago
[-] flan@hexbear.net 88 points 3 months ago

Biden denounces ICC for ‘outrageous’ implication of equivalence between Israel and Hamas

Agreed, Israel is obviously worse.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 86 points 4 months ago

i had no expectations for what a lab meat machine looked like so this really changes nothing for me

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submitted 5 months ago by flan@hexbear.net to c/anime@hexbear.net

And I don't really understand the point..I guess? Like it's about a group of kids who are part of an oppressed caste of people forced to go to war and fight on behalf of the decadent republic that they are not citizens of. They have a "handler" who sympathizes with them but does nothing but cry. Ostensibly the show seems to be about finding happiness despite your lot in life but I find that really unsatisfactory for a few reasons.

First the world they've established is extreme. The child soldiers are slaves being sent to die as part of a genocide. Second the republic is pretty much demilitarized except for officers who are in charge of the "86ers" who do the fighting. Third the show is about an elite unit and their politically well connected handler. The republic is losing the war that they are sending the 86ers to die in.

To me this seems like a good setup for a show about a revolution, but instead it's a show about accepting that you can't change anything so just try to be happy despite it. I feel like you could get that message across more effectively without making the world so evil. And besides it's not really that interesting of a message. What is the point of making the viewer angry at the world if the characters do nothing? Why do we care about these characters?

[-] flan@hexbear.net 74 points 7 months ago

Fuck I thought she died for some reason but it turns out she's still alive

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Nitter is shutting down (nitter.d420.de)
submitted 7 months ago by flan@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

Annoying because I'm sure people will keep using the xird site and nitter was the only good way to use it. I still won't make an account though.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 88 points 7 months ago

The situation in Yemen is driving me fucking insane. Like why isn't "tell israel to stop" an option here? Why are liberals of the mindset that the Yemenis are not trustworthy? What the fuck?

[-] flan@hexbear.net 100 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i had the opposite experience, my family with no coherent political beliefs hates cops and landlords and my dad was like the only time ill drink and drive is to run over cops. also they seem to hate israel.

Pleasently surprised this christmas lmao

[-] flan@hexbear.net 77 points 9 months ago

It’s not the world we are heading to, its the world we were heading to in 1985. We’re already there. It’s just way more pernicious and theres less fetishization of japan.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 153 points 11 months ago

wow guys we'd better go to war with the wrold's manufacturing base that is 6500 miles away over an island 50 miles off its coast. This is going to go really well for us I can feel it.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago

Because they just want to meme about China Bad and Russian Bots all day long

[-] flan@hexbear.net 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure they are. Remember when Reddit found all those "russian bots" and it turned out to be like 6 accounts with a combined 200 karma?

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