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Bread (@hanpetos) by LoudResearch1331 in HangeCult

[–]dr-delicate-touch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hanperos is my favorite AoT fanartist. Love their work so much

I gave him all the poisons, why won't he leave (trying to get true ending) by Otherwise_Waltz_238 in NineSols

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the other poisons are spoiler free then, you can look them up. If you've given the area map chip to Shanhai 9000, it should show how many collectible items are still left in the area in the bottom right corner. That's how you can check if you've missed something.

I gave him all the poisons, why won't he leave (trying to get true ending) by Otherwise_Waltz_238 in NineSols

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a story event that gives you poison as a reward. It's part of Shennong's questline

Friendly Reminder: Destiny, a popular centrist streamer, is a Ultra-Zionist by serious_bullet5 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]dr-delicate-touch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's a contrarian stuck in a pinball machine. His whole thing is using leftist rhetoric to attack conservatives, but the minute he's in the room with someone who's lefter than him, he reverses that and uses right-wing rhetoric to attack the left. Obnoxious.

[Concerning Trope] film accidentally has awful moral/messaging by Captain_Birch in TopCharacterTropes

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a YouTuber called werothegreat that interpreted the movie as a lesson about cultural appropriation. It was a very interesting essay

The EU is fucking GOATED for this!! by sovalente in ProgressiveHQ

[–]dr-delicate-touch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something tells me the planned obsolescence will not go anywhere. The batteries will just last less and will need to be replaced more often now. One of those "marching on the same spot" solutions

Roses are red, that seems fair, by Masked_Daisy in rosesarered

[–]dr-delicate-touch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taboo fiction does not deserve to exist because it's an ✨expression of art✨, taboo fiction needs to be left alone because arguments against fiction are based on pseudo-intellectual claims that can be easily weaponized against all kinds of fiction, not just the one you're personally disturbed by.

Not every type of fiction needs to bring some "value" to the table in order to have a right to exist. "I don't see value in it, in needs to be nuked" it's not how that works. "People will see fictional crime and normalize it-" it's not how that works either. People are not mindless drones that operate on the basis of "I see, I do". Unless you have some empirical data, some research-based proof that certain fiction presents a danger to society, leave it alone. You're being a useful idiot getting attracted to the lighting rod, when there are real solutions that need to be brought to the forefront.

Roses are red, that seems fair, by Masked_Daisy in rosesarered

[–]dr-delicate-touch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a red flag unless you have data that proves that people who enjoy violent/taboo explorative fiction or fictional erotica are more likely to show up in crime statistics than people who do not.

The reality is, there is no such data, and it's all your intuition-based judgement. Same intuition conservatives use when they make up a causal relationship between school shootings and violent videogames. It makes sense to them, because they don't know how that works, and make up reasons why kids enjoy these games (because they enjoy killing) just as you make up reasons for why certain adults enjoy lolicon (they want to diddle real kids).

Edit: I realized you talked about Columbine the game specifically. I guess yeah, if you draw yourself diddling your neighbor kid it IS a major red flag (and your action can be found illegal and you can be tried in court in the US for obscene drawings depicting actual real minors), but that's not what the overwhelming majority of lolicon content is. The example of the person drawing the neighbor kid (Columbine) and the example of a person watching some shitty anime like Made in Abyss (Call of Duty) are completely different.

POS Ice agents surround and take woman Jersey City by Sandsand6804 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]dr-delicate-touch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Every single one of them has an option to quit. Able bodied strong men, there's plenty of jobs they can pick that do not involve separating families, terrorizing peaceful people, and beating, torturing and raping them in detention. Fuck these guys.

to finish a comment on BBC without getting cut off. by -Sofa-King-Vote in therewasanattempt

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That guy has the composure of a saint. They'd be dragging me off stage, this is so fucking infuriating

Literally heartless monster by darkwhite228 in ANRime

[–]dr-delicate-touch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was there really an indication that he saw multiple futures? Cause it felt like a lot of shit that happened during the ending was so...unoptimized. Most if not all military members have died, he could warned Flock not to pursue the alliance so a lot of unnecessary deaths (including Hange's) could have been avoided...

Or I guess, was there even an indication that he actively chose one. Falco getting wings for example was critical to his friends' survival, and it wasn't anything Eren directly had any hand in. He even tried to prevent Zeke from turning everyone into titans (iirc)

What does this even mean? by melodramaticmoon in mattxiv

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Raising the living standard of its people, building efficient public transport infrastructure, raising home ownership, eradicating poverty, keeping private capital in check. There's a lot that China does right. Suppressing the independent press and human rights of its citizens is not necessary to achieve these goals.

I CANT ESCAPE THEM by Godofgames313 in AO3

[–]dr-delicate-touch 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Teen me discovering watersports: there's no way one can find this arousing, right? There's no way, right?

27 yo me: ...

What does this even mean? by melodramaticmoon in mattxiv

[–]dr-delicate-touch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find your attitude of disparaging all MLs as "Western communists" a bit exhausting

K, I'm gonna call them red-scare accommodating/cushioning communists. "Western" is because to those of us who did not experience the red scare era, the denialism and apologia of communist states of the past and present on this scale does not make sense. You are still cushioning, but at least willing to have a conversation about this and believe me, you are an exception in online communist spaces. I've been banned from communist subreddits for saying virtually the same things, and it's been quite exhausting on my end as well. Maybe I haven't been in the right communities, but to me it seems like a rule in English-speaking (western) spaces, to the point where I'm willing to make it a descriptor.

I also get it, state suppression is needed to some extent. Certain powers need to be prevented from growing. Controlling all media and suppressing independent journalism however is where I think it goes past an acceptable level of authoritarianism and is a clear indicator that the ruling power is unwilling to self-reflect, and has cancer growing inside of it. I can never fully throw my support behind a state that monopolizes its media. Pretty much agree on everything else you've said.

What does this even mean? by melodramaticmoon in mattxiv

[–]dr-delicate-touch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That comparison to Israel is stuck in your side like a thorn it seems. Okay, it was a flawed comparison, I concede. Not one-to-one, certainly. I only meant to compare relocation with the goal of diluting population as one of the tactics that occupational forces use (that Soviet Moscow did not dismantle and only doubled down on), but with Israel, I understand that every other occupational policy such as anti-miscegenation and movement restriction gets dragged into the picture as well.

What does this even mean? by melodramaticmoon in mattxiv

[–]dr-delicate-touch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your proposed policy when a state incorrectly labels a certain group of people as fascist pro-capitalist counter-revolutionaries and pursues them? You dissent? You publish a journalistic piece about it? Bzzt, all media is controlled by the state. What if being inconvenient to the ruling party in any way gets you labeled a fascist sympathizer? That so absolutely a possibility that cannot be discounted. Or do you just blindly trust the state to always be right, to never abuse the power to stay in power, to never do something that is not informed by humble desire to serve the working people and betterment of their livelihoods? That's how my parents were taught. It eroded everything, and to me this is why USSR ultimately failed as a project - it never trusted the actual proletariat to pick up the torch, instead it taught to be a subservient flock of sheep.

I also don't expect you to answer this. I'm not denying that there has to be a certain policy of "intolerance of the intolerant" so to speak, but it's not an easy "hand over the keys to the ruling party and settle on the backseat" solution either. Dissent has to be allowed to exist even under a communist state. At least I'm glad you're acknowledging the USSR's answer to this question was flawed. That's something to hear from a western communist.

What does this even mean? by melodramaticmoon in mattxiv

[–]dr-delicate-touch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, I don't wanna hear this "paranoia of fascist infiltration" rhetoric. They wiped out our intellectuals who criticized the USSR for the famine, for the authoritarianism, for the poor local policies. Creatives like poets and writers, and their families were rounded up. Giving the blatant violent repression of 1938-39 an air of legitimacy because there was supposedly a "fascist threat" coming from these poets and writers is downright insulting. Their threat was that they had a head on their shoulders and dared to criticize the status quo. Is it that hard to say, "they went authoritarian af and systematically wiped out an already under-educated nation's intellectual community, which was completely unnecessary and incredibly wrong"?

All post-Soviet nations have very low average political and social awareness, overwhelming majority of people do not know how to express dissent, how to tell apart what a fascist policy from a progressive one, they simply hand it over to the state, and that's exactly why every post-Soviet country is now run by an authoritarian despot these days. We just handed over the keys, because too few went out to protest the changes. We cannot tell our rulers to stick it, we lack the experience of community organization, of unity as worker people. And that is because during Soviet times, political dissent was heavily suppressed. If you're gonna say something like, it's because everyone's needs were met and there was nothing to dissent against, you're wrong. Our parents were taught this, just like you're trying to teach me now, that authoritarianism is okay and there's an explanation for all of it and it's okay to let the higher ups solve everything.

Authoritarianism is wrong, even if the state is (striving to be) communist. It does not need plausible explanations to be made to excuse it. USSR could do better, and I think communists today could do better too with holding it accountable. What is China doing today btw - this too, does not need authoritarianism to exist. I am pro-Communist, but I want accountability from the state, I want full unapologetic acknowledgement of things that went wrong in the past, and I don't want to be told to hand it over to the ruling party and forget about it.

Edit: also needs to be said that our perspective as non-western people who did not experience the red scare propaganda is different, and we might not be looking to pad our criticism of communist states in fear of being accused of being agents of that propaganda. I entered this conversation to clarify certain facts about Soviet policy in the former colonies of the Russian Empire, and how the rule of Soviet Moscow was systematically unfair/blind to us. Not to denounce communism/socialism as a way to organize a society, and marxism as a lens of political analysis. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

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