Botond173
9hr ago
Maybe @BahRam You can chime in with what he meant more specifically.
I mean the standard diner that is a recurring location in Goodfellas, for example.
Botond173
12hr ago
The classic 24 hour diner doesn't exist in most locations anymore, and when it does it's too expensive for broke young people to go there casually. Also they kind of frown on people just hanging out for hours, and young people are staying at home online anyway.
As someone not from the US I'd ask you to elaborate on this a bit. I've only seen such particular diners in movies and I can only assume that they normally make cozy third places in the terms of sociology. Is there any particular reason why they are normally open around the clock and are disappearing and are relatively expensive?
Also I think maybe older people have the idea that anime is more high-brow than it is? We got this small subset of poorly translated anime films in the 90s, plus everything from Studio Ghibli, and thought it should be some high-class artistic statement because we didn't understand it.
This is supposedly such a widespread media phenomenon that it has its own article on TvTropes. Sadly I cannot remember the term anymore. The short story is that importing anime in the '80s, dubbing and distributing it was a big market risk, so these companies only selected those anime series that were pretty much guaranteed to be popular. This created the misconception among many Westerners that these series represent the entire anime industry and that anime is always high-class. Unfortunately Sturgeon's Law applies to it as well.
Botond173
13hr ago
I guess OP was referring to the life choices of white and Asian students, not blacks.
Botond173
1d ago
I'd assume they found the news about reprinting the yearbooks at a cost of over $50,000 due to OK signs to be cringe and lame as f***.
Botond173
1d ago
Which is just another case of a news report alienating the normies even further.
Botond173
1d ago
It was developed by Gramsci for his fellow Marxist-Leninist cadre. Otherwise he is dead and forgotten by everyone besides dissident rightist political theorists. Those who have implemented it are identitarian mainstream liberals – feminists, LGBT+ activists and liberal culture warriors in general. Them coddling their own sense of intellectual superiority is beside the point. The point is that the Long March by definition represents the opposite of accelerationism. In other words, it succeeds as long as the marchers and their opponents are both decelerationists. To the extent that you ever reveal your true motivations at all, you only do so when you’re already structurally unremovable from power, when the limited but irreversible gains you’ve been steadily making reach critical mass. As OP correctly pointed it out, this assumes “that long-march leftists were simply too clever, disciplined, and coordinated to challenge directly”. What this also entails is that hardliner leftist culture warriors are to be reined in so as not to alienate the normies too soon.
Botond173
2d ago
I remember that companies cancelling people for the OK sign was a spectacle so cringy that even Bill Maher ridiculed it on his show, which is normie-friendly entertainment by anyone’s standards. When the woke overplay their hand and they come across as desperate and shrill, even the media that isn’t particularly known as anti-woke will not play along with their agenda.
Botond173
3d ago
The Gramscian concept of the Long March Through the Institutions as determined by mainstream liberals was based on the assumption that the only token right-wing opposition that will arise will come from loser cucks like Mitt Romney, John McCain or Jeb Bush. It was never supposed to be challenged by someone like Trump.
Botond173
3d ago
Cancelling people for the OK sign does have the potential to alienate normies though, provided that the anti-woke media spins it the right way.
Botond173
5d ago
Charlie Kirk was engaging in calls to coordinate state violence against his out group (ie running on political issues that would negatively effect the alphabet folks).
How did his proposals amount to coordinated state violence?
Yeah. Somehow I surmised that whatever happened is largely due to the lockdowns.
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