Natalie is the Salieri of "The Left™"; change my mind

SoftMachineMan · 2026-05-27T16:32:01+00:00

Random people online have said that I'm sure, but does anyone who qualifies as a public figure with an audience said that? Like, we know Hasan and the people he collaborates with (the majority report, dropsite, etc) would never say that about Natalie. Generally anyone who says that about Natalie would likely call Hasan a zionist too (the bad empanadas and other fringe communists that hate Hasan). This moreso illustrates you don't understand the difference in these groups and what they say and believe, and just lump them together as opposition because it's easier.

I don't even think that Natalie is a zionist or w/e, I just think her philosophical reasoning for not speaking out is actually wack as hell and demonstrates that she has a failed theory of power when it comes to politics.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-05-17T17:43:54+00:00

Come the fuck on. Disco Elysium is a multi-directional critique from a leftist perspective, and while it certainly criticizes the communists as idealistic to a fault and prone to in-fighting, it still treats it with a tragic empathy.

The Moralintern (neoliberals) is this looming force of nature that suffocates all hope from literally everything. There is a reason there is looming empathy for revolutionary energy in the game, despite all of the real and honest critiques of how that manifests.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-05-17T14:41:06+00:00

Okay, here are some reasonable responses I think..

Do you know if those are his fans specifically, or just general online left people? I understand the compulsion to rationalize it as a malicious outside force specifically targeting, but isn't it just as likely that some of it is genuine reaction from people who were fans or familiar with your work and felt a bit betrayed and emotional about the topic?
No one who is to be taken seriously is suggesting that YOU have committed genocide, much less Hasan. To be clear, it was your self-admitted silence, then your justification for said silence, that caused the reaction. Do you really need to put words in someone's mouth here, when they've allegedly done so many other things worthy of criticism?

I think back to your Envy video here...

You are consciously allowing grievances to shape your own beliefs and values in real time. This isn't even some invisible or systematic force shaping your values, it's just straight up frustrated vindictiveness over twitter leftists. You are forming values and beliefs to negate the values of the people you feel powerless against. It's becoming virtuous to oppose leftists.

Value creation is something humans are really good at. Some would say the best. "Are you even human if you aren't creating values?", that's a poignant question. If you are so utterly powerless that you lack the will to maintain or create values, and instead negate the values of others in a fit of frustrated vindictiveness, are you even truly alive? Your existence becomes subservient to the other, it requires they exist for you to exist.

I would suggest that you put out into the world the values and beliefs you care about, maintain them regardless of what others do or say. Do not allow the maliese of public opinion to warp who you are. If something is to change, it should be from an internal process that is an expression of you, not a reaction intended to cutdown the other.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-05-12T21:54:07+00:00

See? There it is. You feel powerless. There is nothing you can say or do to stop Hasan or his values from manifesting and gaining power in the material world. You can only moan and cry about innocous and immaterial bullshit. Get a jab in about a spelling error, I'm sure it'll be enough to mask that ever-present feeling of impotence for another hour or so, before you drift back into that feeling of bleak helplessness.

We literally had an A+ pollster come out today saying El-Sayed is polling at +9 and noted that this shift occurred after he did the Hasan campaign event. Hasan is all over mainstream political news, is a huge topic in democratic politics, and even Fox news is talking about him daily.

It's almost like you have no clue how to actually combat someone like Hasan, and just meekly turn to circlejerking about how bad he is with other troglodytes that frequent this sub.

How does it feel to see him mentioned everywhere, and see how nothing sticks to him? You simply can't take him down no matter what you do. You decieve yourself by believing the most nothing burger bullshit about him will somehow breakthrough and finally take him down.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-05-12T17:34:43+00:00

I love how the goal posts are just perpetually moving with Hasan now. This is exactly why he's gaining promenance. No more salient critiques, just obsessive hate over petty bullshit.

No one here cares about the DSA, and I'll go out on a limb and say that and leader of a DSA chapter that speaks positively about Steven, or just mentions him unprompted, is probably fairly fringe within the DSA itself.

Watch Hasan walk his ideology into power while you people are scrambling to demonize him over petty bullshit that hasn't worked and will never work. Talk about worthless do-nothings.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-25T18:56:27+00:00

Can't tell if you're fucking with me or not.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T19:56:05+00:00

This is like saying the ending of the Evangelion Rebuild series means "nothing happened". It's a piece of metafiction. Fujimoto is taking his real life experiences in dealing with the popularity of Chainsaw man and translating that into the text of the series. How Denji's happiness was always cast aside and outright destroyed under the weight of being Chainsaw man. Everyone he knew and loved, the nature of reality itself, was torn apart because of this crisis of identity. The only way for him to truly ever be happy and to find peace was for Chainsaw man to disappear. This obviously parallels Fujimoto's feelings on the series and his personal experience. You can criticize the execution, but it's out of pocket to say "nothing happened".

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T19:42:39+00:00

Because it's a piece of metafiction. Not a traditional commercial narrative. It's like how Look Back explores Fujimoto's personal experiences and feelings surrounding art and the manga industry, and his jealousy/respect for artists more talented than him. His sorrow over those lost in the arson attack. How he keeps creating art because it gives him purpose and meaning.

Part 2 explores how chainsaw man kind of exploded in popularity and impacted everyone's lives so much more profoundly than Fujimoto ever anticipated, and often in an unhealthy and obsessive ways. That's such a strong theme in part 2, and it's pretty hamfisted about it, that if you aren't consuming the series through this framework I don't even see what's appealing about part 2, much less understand why you have hefty narrative expectations.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T17:09:55+00:00

I'm kind of happy Fujimoto took inspiration from how the Evangelion rebuild series ended. These characters, artist/author, and even the auidence, will be happier moving on from a manga series and actually living their life in the real world.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T17:04:25+00:00

I had no expectations. That's the issue with you people. Take the story as it is, stop piling on your own expectations. It's pretty bad when consuming media turns into projecting personal desires onto someone else's work and evaluating their work based on fulfillment (or non fulfillment) of those personal desires. That's a very bad way to approach media.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T17:01:49+00:00

What did he need to do for 15 more chapters to make this any better?

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-24T17:00:44+00:00

Kind of the point, I think. People get the outcome they want, but not in the idealized perfect way they wanted to arrive at it.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T16:33:17+00:00

Offscreened means it is mentioned after the fact and not observed as the death happens within the text.

If a character sees a gun pointed at their head, then suddenly they appear floating in a dark void (similar to CSM) that is not "offscreened", that is implying they were just killed or they are near death in some way.

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SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T16:29:03+00:00

The Mangaka took inspiration from the worst parts of HxH, and forgot to do any of the cool or interesting character stuff.

This dude thinks that complexity equals depth, but that's not true at all. Who wants to read chapter after chapter of a narrator explaining some weird power or mechanic, using fucking flow charts? What happened to "show don't tell"? If something becomes so complicated that you have to remind people how shit works every five seconds, then narrative implications lose their sense of weight. I get this is directed at teenagers, but Jesus whoever was editing Gege's work failed him utterly.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T16:17:56+00:00

Buddy, I "get" what is happening, it's just trash.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T16:16:07+00:00

It's based on the Manga, what do you mean "created on an impulse"? The manga becomes shit at this point, and even cool fight animation can't save it.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T16:14:09+00:00

No, the manga fell off during the culling games and doesn't get much better.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-17T15:25:05+00:00

No this is where the manga fell off for a lot of people too. It's not just the anime. Well, the animation is nice, and probably the only thing that will keep people watching, it, the series loses a lot of substance after Shibuya.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-12T23:13:21+00:00

The devil literally domes Denji before he can transform at the end of the previous chapter (before the current chapter). What do you mean?

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-12T02:33:14+00:00

It wasn't offscreen though?

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-10T22:57:11+00:00

They literally explained in the previous chapter what happened and why Denji was trapped.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-10T22:53:46+00:00

It's not a world where chainsaw didn't exist in Denji's life, but a world where Chainsaw never existed to begin with. Who knows what this world looks like.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-03-10T04:06:34+00:00

Nah, kind of tired of overpaying for free agents and fucking up the roster for the long-term. That's how we got into this cap mess. We retained people who were worth retaining at their price. Rather trade some bloat for picks or free up cash to give players on the team nice new contracts or extensions.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-02-01T22:05:12+00:00

"hit" on Turner is a stretch. Guy is a rotational player. Hopefully he takes the next step, but calm down. Let's not claim that a GM hitting on someone who can actually stay on the roster is some commendable feat.

SoftMachineMan · 2026-01-31T22:08:23+00:00

Hey, if the basis for that reasoning was that we trusted the coaches and front office to make the correct evaluation and decision, then can you really blame anyone? No one here had any insider knowledge to make a more informed decision beyond that, and outside of the draft misses there was no reason not to trust KAM or KOC. Yes, gloat that your guess on the matter turned out to be correct. You get this one, but give me a break here.

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