2D3D
20d ago
Not to speak for the OP but there a liberating clarity in the proferred societies rightwingers espouse. By material or immaterial benefits being realized by knowing the rituals and paths it at least provides a framework towards which apotheosis can be achieved for at least some theoreticals. If all we have to look forward to is anodyne self destructive indulgence like /r/antiwork mods pray for, rightists would at least want to nuke the swamp before throwing themselves into the woodchipper.
2D3D
20d ago
Yea the big diff is that rightist postrevolutionaries fully expect to either be dead in the dirt or cracking skulls or someplace clear in the value chain even if its the bottom (this tilled land will be the field for my lords children to feast on!) Circular paperwork is right wing hell.
2D3D
20d ago
Tattoos are identity signallers more than anything else. If that identity is "basic bitch" good for them for declaring it openly, just as much as "tacky manchild" is an identity. When identity has a barrier to in-group signalling, then it becomes a useful gauge. Shitty gangbanger cosplay tattoos signify generic douchbagginess, a young man with a high and tight haircut and an eagle globe anchor is a boot high on USMC propaganda.
But the real diff is that context matters. In anodyne polite PMC society a brony tattoo is a skin decoration just like a labubu handbag tag. Its when you go INTO the context of where a tattoo holds meaning that the posers true power level is revealed. A Russian with a full chest of tattoos going to a banya better know what the fuck he's doing or he'll be set upon harder than a Mystique cosplayer at comic con.
2D3D
22d ago
Best mecha anime was Macross Frontier, honestly. Others mentioned Code Geass below as well, which works. Both have good mech animation, good characters, good pacing. Most of the gundam examples have moments of brilliance bogged down by oceans of slog. The ones cited by others have great scenes or episodes and then multiple filler or slogs that just make it unwatchable.
But the true best robot anime ever is Megas XLR. A giant death robot with a hotrod for a head and a hotter redhead as the boss of the mechs 2 idiot pilots? Pure joy.
2D3D
22d ago
Best anime for anime watchers is Cromartie High. It is near perfect in pacing, absurdity and meta-jokes about anime as a medium to begin with. The english dub is actually better than the sub simply because the ridiculousness of the voiceover heightens the comedy, even when relatively subtle wordplay (rare) is involved. Konosuba achieves largely the same and is a good rip on the extremely tired Isekai power fantasy genre.
Otherwise for seriousness I found Gundam Witch From Mercury one of the best examples of longterm psychological manipulation presented in any medium, all while wrapped in an enjoyable high school drama with good action and decent worldbuilding. Last 2 episodes compressed a season into 2 episodes which is nuts but otherwise it was pretty excellent. A good lighthearted series is Dungeon Meishi which makes an attempt at internal consistency and logical subversion/adherence to fantasy tropes, so its a good time there.
2D3D
22d ago
Not to get all culture warry, but its really funny that younger girls see how being sexless blobs made their elder zoomer/milleniel sisters 'happy' and decided that being pretty actually might be more fun.
In any case, boo on you all for perving on 3D women. Superior 2D all the way. Mute by default, and now available in near realtime paperdoll.
2D3D
22d ago
And the Jews lived in Jerusalem before per the Roman record, till they were displaced by invaders later on. Guess its a new invader now, or are we going "no take backsies". In which case India better return Dehli to Islamabad per the Mughal Empire.
2D3D
23d ago
Their claim to Israel is that they bought the land in exchange for half the skin on their babies pensises which is a rediculus premise for a country.
Reductive racism back on the menu!
How about this: the entire Arab claim to the region is from a pedophiliac warlord preaching tolerance when he was weak and sheltered by the Banu Qurayza, then he betrayed them and enslaved their women and children through promising religiously ordained rape and slavery of unbelievers to mobilize desert nomads into a bandit horde. The chronological Quran is the inverse of the Bible: peace tolerance and manumission before victory, absolutist Arab supremacism justifying subjugation and humiliation of unbelievers once a power base was established.
THAT is the root of Arab claim to the region, forced conversions and displacements of Copts and Maronites and total annihilation of Chaldeans and Assyrians and Zoroastrians. Baby foreskins are currency to purchase land? What a wonderful concept. Arabs certainly found it easy to pay for their lucre with thriving Zanzibar slave eunuchs too, though simply slaughtering locals and forcibly converting remnants was also a great currency.
All this framing is obviously intensely hostile and deliberately so, because reductive polemicism opens up similar avenues of attack to other actors, avenues by which the directionality of hostility make clear why such polemicism is avoided by modern anti-israelis. Objecting to the jewish state on such grounds means objecting to the Ottoman Mamluk and Sassanid/Roman predecessors as well. Return to glorious Eber-Nari as the last relatively clean incarnation of that damnable region.
2D3D
23d ago
That horse has bolted. Hard to go 'ok bros we didnt lose but lets try peace anyways' and survive if peace succeeded. The immediate response would be "we could have been ok but we followed you for NOTHING".
To rebuild, the existing foundation must be destroyed root and branch. Total Hamas defeat is in fact a clean starting point for a new Palestinian political conceptualization to emerge. Jordan would be best, but given what happened to the West Bank where the Palestinians chose irredentist claims such an outcome is distressingly remote.
2D3D
23d ago
Not to be pedantic, but here
https://theconversation.com/what-cattle-conflicts-say-about-identity-in-south-sudan-181637
Its not even permanent land its basically nomadic pastoralists raiding as has been their tradition for centuries.
Perhaps that still counts as economic necessity, but it is a choice to engage in primitive cattle herding instead of pivoting societally to productive economies. Raiding and conflict is a manifestation of intractable differences between cultures, not the cause. Bedouins are seizing on the opportunity to assault Druze with a cassus belli, not that they were content to live in peace absent external influence. Uncorking Libya resulted in Tobruk and Tripoli creating competing clan based governments immediately. Right NOW the Cambodians are assaulting the Thais over a dead temple region and the Thais are eager for a scrap due to insane local politics (tldr Thaksin clan and the royal/military both benefit from conflict specifically against the Cambodians).
There are plenty of people who WANT to exterminate their culturally distant geographic proximates. The issue is whether a unifying culture can supersede underlying cultural distances. The unifying project of "never again" has provided a stable shell for Franco-German-Anglo relations to stabilize, but this is an aberration facilitated only by tangible outcomes. If the overculture fails to deliver, guillotines follow. And we live in an era where the major cultural touchstones are torn down with no functional replacement ethos. Neoliberalism and neoconservatism were destroyed by MAGA and progressivism, but annihilating the Protestant-Calvinist northeastern spine along with the neolib/con framings leaves the USA with a much more fractured cultural landscape.
2D3D
23d ago
Literally there were rallies celebrating the Oct 7 attack hours after. Complete with nazi slogans and cheers for the slaughter of "hipsters".
And many, many more.
Don't pretend for a single second that sympathy was extended towards Israel in any meaningful amount. The telegram channels were full of celebration and promises of painting Al Aqsa with Jewish blood and when it was clear that victory was not exhaustive then it immediately flipped to "we will suffer a genocide!".
The western left position is purely oikophobic. It is subversive and vanguardist in equal measure, casting down the holders of power while preserving institutions so that the left can occupy the vacant seats. The contempt the western left displays for its cultural proximates is a side effect of its primary desire to place themselves on top of the power structure by exploiting any underclass vector.
2D3D
23d ago
"of their own creation" is doing too much heavy lifting. In 1948 the Arabs invaded immediately, with Egypt and Jordan making little effort to integrate the Gaza and West Bank polities that were their nominal responsibility. When Jordan tried, they were rewarded with Black September. Lebanon collapsed when Palestinians allied with Hezbollah to use a functional state as a shield to launch rockets from. Gazan fields are a nice thing to show, because it immediately invalidates the "open air prison" narrative that makes Gaza seem like Kowloon Walled City under constant bombardment. Turns out there ARE open fields where Hamas could have operated from instead of under hospitals!
Ultimately holding Israel responsible ignores that the agency that Palestinians display repeatedly. Given the choice between a hardline maximalist versus a theoretical cooperative entity they have ALWAYS chosen hardline maximalism. There is no actor in Palestine territories calling for peace and recognition of Israel, and their cause is supported not just by geographicallyproximate Arabs who on a good day find it incredibly funny to irritate Israel eternally and on a bad day (most days) wish to drown the sands in Jewish blood in accordance with the Quran, but by rich westerners who at best are ideologically blinded by manichean moral framings and at worst are just barely (and cowardly) hiding their antisemitism. Hate jews if one wishes, as many do, but at least be honest. Sophistry works in echo chambers not in reality.
The arab population within Israel is 20%. They are the Palestinian arabs that stayed in place and did not flee, and for that they were granted citizenship and participation in a project that makes this population the richest and most prosperous of their monoethnic neighbours. This domestic population has assholes just like the Haredi and settlers are largely assholes, but it is not nearly as bad as the Palestinians who are given maximal succour for their eternal dickishness.
There is a two state solution REPEATEDLY offered. It is Hamas that and PA that reject a 2 state solution that does not involve ISRAELI disarmanent and permanent withdrawal from Gaza. Hamas wants eternal ceasefire (Israel ceases Hamas fires) and no disarmanent. I see zero demands for accountability for Hamas and the Gazans who express repeatedly their desire for Hamas to press maximalist claims, and I directly attribute such fervent optimism to foreign pressure on Israel to accept the unworkable. Hamas repeatedly breaks ceasefires to cheers from Palestinians and their win condition is satisfied either way.
Israel is not being ALLOWED to take responsibility because international pressure is inconsistent and shapes domestic politics into temporally transient positions. There is little chance Israel can effect either a maximalist cleansing operation or a reconstruction effort with both eternal foreign pressure and Gazan intransigence. Again, the hypocrisy is on full display. No one gives a single shit about Arktash, Palestine is incomplete until it is made whole from river to the sea with jews expelled to the void.
Maybe they should do that. Arab populations exploded with foreign food and healthcare access. On their own recognizance they would not be able to feed or medicate themselves and their populations would revert to the limit of their organic capability. Again, Israelis should just Migrant Fleet on a 4 year Carnival Cruise buyout. It'll also improve the reputation of that cursed company.
2D3D
23d ago
Islam was kind of ok when appropriated by syncretists who appreciated the latitude offered by simply being Not The Dominant. Mutazilites, Sufiism, Ahmadism, Hui Islam.
This of course all went to shit when the Saudis leveraged their stewardship of Mecca and the Aramco money to turbocharge Wahabism. Maintaining local control by exploiting Islam is one thing, actively exporting it is another. Salafi dominance was only checked by matching ultraconservative evolutions in Hanafi and even Shafi subschools like Deobandism or Dawah. Its an arms race for Who Is The Best Muslim and governments that profited from islamism as a wedge issue now are struggling to tame the beast. Every country that tried to distract from internal failings by promoting religious revivalism always falls prey to even more extreme versions of the religion, and that becomes an impossible trap to escape. Failing regimes are propped up by external aid because the donors suffer more if the regime collapses, not because of the worthiness of the regime. Pakistan getting 40bn of World Bank loans is because its implosion will massively destabilize Western Europe through refugees and nuclear proliferation, not because a milirary dictatorship surviving off Islamist revivalism is a stable polity worth investing in.
2D3D
23d ago
Poor Yazidi and Kurds. Its like the classic joke: Hitler announces a press conference announcing he will kill a million jews, romani and clowns. The reporters ask what did the clown do to deserve this.
The lot of a minority in an Arab state is to suffer indignities daily and attempts at forced conversions regularly, with the occasional pogrom for good measure. The lack of visible (to western eyes) discrimination is entirely due to subject populations being wholly subjugated or externinated. There are no more assyrians or chaldeans or zoroastrians, but because they are all gone there is 0 discrimination against them. If there is 0 discrimination it is 100% tolerance. I am logik.
2D3D
23d ago
Yes there is no famine. The gazans are not starving, distribution is uneven and that is causing likely malnutrition and food insecurity but not famine. Famine is a loaded term to evoke sympathetic terms, so lets use the famine cases and population effects.
https://adst.org/2014/05/the-famine-in-biafra-usaids-response-to-the-nigerian-civil-war/
Biafra war:
1967 prewar population: 13-15m
Deaths attributable to famine: 1-3m
Percentage: 8-25%
https://www.refugeesinternational.org/events-and-testimony/accountability-for-starvation-deaths-in-tigray-six-months-after-the-war/ Tigray War: 2020 prewar population: 6m Dearhs attributable to famine: 150-600k Percentage: 2.5%-10%
Now lets look at Gaza: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/24/death-toll-from-starvation-in-gaza-rises-to-115-as-israeli-attacks-continue 2023 prewar population 2023 prewar population: 1.9-.2m Deaths attributable to famine: 111 Percentage: rounding error. Literally.
If the argument is caloric insufficiency, goods restriction, etc, fine. Thats real. But the argument is that Gaza is being starved to death, and the numbers simply don't bear that out.
Total deaths is about 50-60k in Gaza, which by Hamas accounts is entirely pregnant women and journalists. Oh wait no Hamas itself said that they have replenished their numbers of dead "matyrs" https://www.memri.org/tv/sami-abu-zuhri-hamas-gaza-war-babies-women-wombs-martyred-american-campuses
Famine is a loaded term, not to be employed lightly. Whatever the morality of the Gazan suffering - I make clear that I have no sympathy for people who incompetently execute their desires to assault their neighbours only to whine about retaliation after - the charge of famine is one that deserves to be taken seriously. Harvard college students on hunger strike go below the 1200 calorie per day average, Gazans report mass starvation and famine since 2023 yet have rounding error deaths attributable to hunger. I'll revise my position if the external blockade results in the so called mass starvation, but I've got family records of eating pondweed to survive, with multiple children dying during ww2 and entire clan extensions wiped out during the great leap forward. Don't fucking toss around "famine" just because its a high valence term, it degrades the meaning.
Gaza had near 0 capacity to grow its own food after it blew up its greenhouses and it relies entirely on foreign trade/aid to obtain food. It attacks said source of aid, then whines when aid is restricted in turn. It is pure bad faith action and it places the burden of responsibility on the defender for the consequences suffered by the attacker which is an insane inversion of responsibility. Hamas and PA rejected solutions that require commitment to peace and acknowledgment of Israel, holding out for maximalist aims. The 2 or 3 state solution is ideal, but will a Palestinian state be held responsible if it continues to launch attacks or fails to hold its own bad actors responsible? Jordan and Egypts masterstrokes were to disclaim West Bank and Gaza as their territories, leaving then to be Israels problem going forward. Hamas and PA are also unable to function without Israeli aid but also are existentially founded on opposition to Israels existence. This is an impossible circle to square and the expectation that Israel should moderate its "stop trying to kill us every time we step away" position is insane. Israel has 20% Arabs, what happened to the Gazan christians. Hell what happened to the Shia.
There is no Gaza famine. There is no Gaza genocide. There is no Israel ethnic state. All the arguments against Israel are tortured caricatures to ensure that a big bad bogeyman is available to act as a recurring saturday morning cartoon villain, always coming back with a dastardly plan so the cheerleaders can shout hooray when the bad guy gets egg on its face. Maybe the Israelis should make sure their entire cabinet and media team is made up of Mizrahis or Beta Israelis, preferably the swarthier and more squashnosed ones to emphasize lack of slavicised ancestry.
Oh god is it all anti-slav discrimination again? Putin senpai please notice your kin!
2D3D
23d ago
Ive read 'Gaza is starving' since 2023 end Oct. Hell I've seen that headline since 2013. First time I've seen starvation cause population expansion.
2D3D
23d ago
I keep talking about the Arab telegram channels that livestreamed slaughter of children to heart eyes and cheers, but it really just seems to be screaming into the void here. Azzam Pasha can declare his intent to slaughter jews, Hamas charter calls to slaughter jews, Quran 5:51 and Bukharin 2925 explicitly call for the distrust and killing of Jews, the list of attacks against Jews in mandatory Palestine is a long chronology of terrorism, Arab states expelled jews and confiscated property the moment Israel was created, but its the Jews who are the evil ones.
No one cares about the Yazidi or Armenians or Copts because they were successfully extinguished as viable populations by muslims. Justice is not the objective, fulfilling the demand for a Recurring Bad Guy like a saturday morning villain matters. Bin Laden and al-Baghdadi are dead so no one cares about islamic terrorism. Wait that example doesn't work Jalani is alive and Bedouin slaughter of Druze is ignored. Islamic fundamentalism exploits the meta of sympathy where grievance is automatically legitimate and self defense is oppression when successful recompense when not.
Why is Palestine entitled to Israeli food? They can't pay for it, and actively stymie distribution of any food that arrives onshore. Thefts are unattributable because Hamas keeps its uniforms only for parades not for enforcement or fighting Israel - which it has largely stopped doing only because its proximate threat is the Gaza clans that now have a chance of fighting for their own slice of the narrow pies.
However you slice it, the governing body of the Gaza refuses surrender yet demands food for its own people from the Israelis it swears to destroy. When Armenia held Nagarno it supplied the enclave, not the Azerbaijanis. Israel ceded occupying power decades ago, yet the Gazans have expected Israeli water food and electricity without any expectation of paying for it even when waging war. If Gazans want to not starve perhaps kicking Hamas out might help.
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