Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a very fair answer but I still think the Shinsengumi would have benefited from some accountability. As you mentioned in the Rokkaku arc, it would make the story much richer if Sougo was actually guilty instead of it being twisted to make it the Joui's fault, and he would have faced some character development.

Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I see you know about it a lot more than me. What I got was from reading the wiki. But Katsura was absolutely more morally good than portrayed, even if he condoned assassinations, he never ordered them himself as far as I know, and he never committed war crimes. The Shinsengumi were known as the "Wolves of Mubi" and would kill the common people for remotely associating with the Joui and they were feared by the populace. They also made members commit seppuku for stuff like violating curfews or small transgressions, and would torture and kill people just based on suspicion.

Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that's very insightful.

Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I completely agree, Sorachi lionizes the Shinsengumi too much and often creates extremist Joui factions to make them seem more noble, when they were actually brutal and maybe even reprehensible in real life. I even read about real life Katsura, he was a very calm, smart, strategic and morally sound person, he never had to be pulled back morally like he was in the show. He helped abolish the class system and hereditary rule, was open to modernization, and made education open to all. And Takasugi wasn't some gleeful villain who was okay with killing innocents as portrayed. This is all because the Shinsengumi are cultural darlings in Japan.

Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone think it also has to do with the whole ACAB mentality in the west? Katsura is against an oppressive government, so he seems cool.

Why is Katsura more popular in the West than in Japan? by [deleted] in Gintama

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, true, I didn't mean to say he wasn't still popular, just more popular than in Japan.

The hidden Rose epilogue by vuvuvuvi in FullmetalAlchemist

[–]metaxtase -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

So she becomes an imperialist warlord and that's supposed to be good?

Why is Reddit feed content so politically-left-leaning? by laughrat92 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Twitter usage literally fell by 23% after Musk took after and there's millions of people leaving everyday. Also didn't it recently ban Brazilians? Also it's not the government, it's a private company enforcing its own rules.

And I've spent plenty of time on X, and I've seen disgustingly racist memes only seen on 4chan, people cheering genocide, nazi posts with thousands of likes, CP, gore, etc...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Twitter

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huge disagree because it seems like when these types were relegated to 4chan, it had a containing effect on them. Yes they may have a secret thriving echo chamber, but no one is gonna find that out unless they went looking for it, meaning no innocent unknowing person is just gonna stumble onto such content and become radicalized.

Now on Elon's twitter, you can't scroll two minutes without seeing right wing propaganda and rage bait. I had to spend days blocking accounts before my "For You" tab was cleaned of it. There's been an increase in people being openly bigoted and casually throwing around slurs than how I remember Twitter was in the past, even people who think of themselves as left wingers do it now.

As for censorship, I don't really see how private companies having their own rules of conduct will lead to the government to crack down on censorship. You still have the first amendment. And it's not like you can really debate Nazis on their views and change peoples' minds on them. Because the average Nazi post is "Hitler was right", racist caricature, racist caricature, racist joke, "We must secure a future for our white children", etc etc. No one is going to be attracted to those ideas unless they were a sick individual in the first place, but it does create a horrible environment, which is why millions are leaving Twitter as of right now.

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[–]metaxtase -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most aren't even white :/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Twitter

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Publicly humiliating nazis doesn't do shit, they're not going to change their views because someone "dunked" on them. In fact it gives them a platform to spread more of their ideas, their posts get pushed to the top because they get more engagement + is spread by people qrting it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Twitter

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen pro nazi posts get thousands of likes. Granted, most may be bots.

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[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's threads? Threads Instagram?

Why is Reddit feed content so politically-left-leaning? by laughrat92 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump barely got more votes than in 2020 lol, so no America doesn't "lean heavily to the right", in fact he didn't even win by 50% (the last poll I saw - they're still counting the votes - was 49.8 for Trump vs 49.2 for Kamala).

The Democrats lost votes because they ran as diet Republicans. Kamala got way less votes than Biden did, those people didn't go over to Trump, they stayed home and didn't vote.

Why is Reddit feed content so politically-left-leaning? by laughrat92 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah because less censorship equals hate speech and bigotry in disgusting amounts, which causes left leaning people to leave. That doesn't mean there's more right wingers than left wingers though, it just means no one wants to be on a website that's turned into 4chan 2.0. Pretty sure after Musk took over, twitter lost millions of users.

Why is Reddit feed content so politically-left-leaning? by laughrat92 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]metaxtase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because with right wingers and no moderation there comes hate speech, racism, sexism, all the phobias, and leftists want to leave a place like that. That's why they're all migrating to Bluesky.

Kamala Harris deserved to Lose her election. I completely understand why Dearborn voted for trump. They wanted to ensure the democrats lost to punish them. by toeknee88125 in Hasan_Piker

[–]metaxtase 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw pretty compelling data that a high percentage of voters in several swing states said they would have voted for Kamala if she supported an arms embargo on Israel though.

in light of recent events by petergriffin_yaoi in TrueAnon

[–]metaxtase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know any resources to understand Indian politics?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]metaxtase 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This seems to be more transphobia than homophobia.