Oh shit. So Brace is the plagiarist here??

I thought this was a Brace Belden rule or am I mistaken?

Yeah they had a look of “Hey human, you got food for us pwease?” and not trying to harm him or anything. Dude was overly scared imo but then again it probably is a little unsettling to have a group of giant animals coming at you.

Sort of related, but anyone else notice that people want things to be normal so badly that you can say all kinds of crazy shit and people will just ignore it? Like you can make jokes at work or with family about Stalin and sending people to gulags and they’ll just be like, “Oh that pooh is so zany.”

Just going to throw out that the tankies at the… uhhh… US STATE DEPARTMENT have also said officially that there isn’t evidence for genocide in Xinjiang: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

If anyone calls you a genocide denier, throw out this one and see out they respond.

Denji is pretty selfish but there is nothing close to the nihilistic wallowing seen in MiA.

I never intended to compare it in that sense. I was talking about the general cycle of trauma and recovering from that trauma to continue on, which is appealing to me even if that seems strange. I suppose maybe Berserk is similar, but I haven’t read enough, so I didn’t want to use that as an example. I do think Chainsaw Man is quite a bit better than MiA though of course, fwiw.

Very much in favor as long as I’m comfortable with the person doing it.

I think I like it for the same reason I like Chainsaw Man, which is the progression of dealing with something terrible and overcoming it to move forward. There’s sort of a weird sense of comfort that comes from this related to being anxious about the future. Also it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, so maybe I already have too much psychic damage to be bothered too much by it.

But what if you’re a grown adult that just so happens to like puppet shows?

I like the puppet shows tho :sadness:

Lucille Ball was actually a card-carrying member of the Communist Party. She also later spoke out on behalf of blacklisted communists, but was eventually forced to testify herself and disavow her past connections.

EDIT: Her defense of blacklisted communists is highlighted in the movie Trumbo, about the writer Dalton Trumbo who was blacklisted for being a communist and won Academy Awards under an assumed name until Exodus and Spartacus helped break the blacklist. Bryan Cranston plays Dalton Trumbo, and it’s a decent movie that you all should watch. Here’s a great clip from that.

I don’t know if this is relevant or a good idea, but… So, lately I’ve been doing a lot more research into CIA ops, as you might have noticed from some of my posts. I had this idea awhile back of starting a TikTok that would give short video summaries of various CIA and US government wrongdoings. I can’t do video editing worth a damn, so I was thinking I might start by summarizing these instances as a relatively short list of bullet points (with proper sources) that would be easier to consume, and then those could potentially be used in all kinds of ways. I’m still busy reading up on this stuff, but it’s probably something I should start on as I go along.

I think anti-CIA and anti-imperialist propaganda has way more potential than people realize. Anti-imperialism should be a cornerstone of leftist messaging anyways imo, but I’ve also found that it’s quite popular even among many chuds and others you might not expect. Even if some Americans do shit talk countries like China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., it still seems like like wars of aggression aren’t very popular overall, and almost no one besides natsec ghouls in politics and media like or trust the CIA/FBI/NSA. Feeding this distrust seems like it could be useful for undermining the legitimacy of the “US-led global order” and discouraging future wars against countries like those I mentioned, which is obviously a pretty important thing.

Related, I made this meme a few weeks back as a potential prank. I don’t know if it might be useful anywhere else.

Would the Russian government ever fund something like this? Seems like maybe a good way to foster positive views of Russians and Russian history.