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1d ago
Kiki's Delivery Service
Agreed that it is notably weaker than their other works. I saw Spirited Away a few weeks ago in theaters with my kids. That and Princess Mononoke are the good ones.
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1d ago
You are mixing "legitimate" states with supporting the actions of those states. Nazi Germany was a real state. It performed bad actions that I don't support.
is predicated on the mass immigration of ... It is merely, then, the armed and coercive organisation of that population ... What sort of just foundation is that?
But enough about the colonial conquests of the Americas including the United States. I know you addressed the US's founder's philosophical ideals, but they didn't settle the west by displacing all those Indians and Mexicans with higher ideals. It was the armed and coercive organisation of that imported population.
Those people reciting land acknowledgement and universities and companies are basically pointing this fact out. But on some practical level might does make right and we're not giving the land back.
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2d ago
Indeed it is good that 50%+1 can't vote to imprison the other 49%, or ban their free speech, etc. But that's based on enumerated rights. In this one case there's no right to boys in girls sports or locker rooms. This is a case of Democratic officials being anti small-d democratic because they personally are much more progressive than their own voters.
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2d ago
nonbinary
Spicy straights. By which I mean women, who by all appearances are typical straight women, asserting a queer or gender nonconforming identity despite a total lack of gay behavior or gender nonconformance.
Maybe I'm being unfair and there are actual nonbinary people. I suspect they're vastly outnumbered by progressive cis straight women who got their ""queer"" identity from tumblr.
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3d ago
The creators were Japanese people in the late 90s. I got nothing against them. I dispute any claim that decades later piracy harms them. If anything I think they are currently retired and beyond compensation.
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3d ago
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
I get the "Republicans are my enemies" part. Why "fentanyl zombies who occupy public parks" are the dearest of friends who must be protected and enabled by endless lawfare and progressive DAs is more mysterious.
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3d ago
trying to get the forum taken down by “fedposting”
Long ago some troll would make new accounts "just asking questions" about the Holocaust. Not making positive claims but clearly fishing for wrongthink. For some inexplicable reason someone wants to snipe us.
I don't even get the point given SecureSignals is allowed to get on their soapbox.
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3d ago
Persuasion won to the point these policies passed even in Washington and Colorado. But, nevermind, the Colorado governor and I'll presume the activist Washington state Supreme Court will fail to implement or find a contrived excuse to block them. Preserving "our democracy" in plain opposition to a majority of voters.
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3d ago
Points accepted but, some Muslims are casual about divorce. I've personally known Muslims who's views on women and society have no place in modern society but have been divorced.
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3d ago
I agree Bloomberg gets too little heat given what he does. He is distorting all of American politics through his large donations. "Why doesn't this Democratic candidate pump the brakes on the gun grabbing talk in order to win in their purple or purple-red district? Why are they literally shouting that they're coming for my AR15?" Because Bloomberg.
In my personal experience someone rightfully points out that Soros is funding something and then they get smeared as a Jew-hating conspiritard. Neutral and correct statements about his donations and their impact are lumped in with the crank theories. I don't engage with the cranks. I just notice normie correct complaints about Soros smeared as crankery.
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3d ago
In my local major city I once saw a sticker on a wall that was the outline of a hijab. It said something like "this means freedom". The wokest of the woke are if anything pro-hijab. They'll sneer about y'all-qaeda murdering women by banning late term elective abortions while simultaneously supporting actual reactionary Islamists.
I would reverse this. Soros is a big supporter of progressive causes and candidates. Conservatives correctly point that out and are treated like crazed conspiracy theorists for doing so.
They aren't worked up about Murdock and Musk because they're allies. The American colonists bitterly resented the Hessian mercenaries sent to battle them. At the same time they liked Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben and made him a high ranking officer and followed his advice on professionalizing the continental army. Foreign mercenaries who are your allies are of course welcome.
I'd also point out that the Koch brothers were the equivalent for the other side. People notice motivated billionaires like them or Bloomberg funding ideological groups to influence American politics. Soros isn't special in this regard.
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5d ago
Somewhat tangentially: I think the ICC are too big for their britches and I advocate opposing them. I like that they can't book hotel reservations and their credit cards don't work. I'd support harsher action such as threatening to black bag them if they ever leave the EU. They lawlessly threaten to arrest us and ours? They should do so at their peril.
Yes. The entirety of the discussion is whether Dems win little or big. "Republicans win" is off the table unless we narrow that down to "barely hold the senate".
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9d ago
I have been a bitter opponent of Bernie for a long time. But I recognize this as a point of character in him.
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10d ago
My dentist is an Asian woman. Some portion of my tech company coworkers. My kids' current and former piano teachers. Local banks are staffed in a significant portion by them.
I played BG2 and most of BG3. I don't think BG3 crapped on earlier games.
Looking in the thread below about concerns regarding wokeness: I don't recall trans culture warring. There's one fruity male gay-coded companion and a jacked female tiefling barbarian. There's a lesbian couple. It's not culturally conservative.
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13d ago
The Bible has sorcery, spirit familiars, demonic possession, witchcraft, divination and exorcism. It is not just Protestants who believe the plain word of the Bible. Any Catholic should admit those things exist as evidenced by the Bible. Modern bishops appoint designated exorcists. Historically Catholics also killed witches.
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14d ago
Like Kyle Rittenhouse gunning down all those black people and then being found not guilty.
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14d ago
I tried to pay a bill online and the payment page wouldn't load. I called the utility company they asked if I was on VPN. I was. They said to get off VPN and try again. That worked.
I don't understand why I can't pay when on VPN. I can't steal their money through the bill pay portal.
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14d ago
Any chance you've seen the very peak of borderline-homoerotic appreciation of blue-collar masculinity?
The ancient Chinese tried that. Eunuchs ended up ruling them until the oppressed non-eunuchs slaughtered them. A general recognizing the problem and plotting their extermination, but they murder him first, then other people slaughter them. Googling this I see it also happened a second time a few centuries later in which the eunuchs won the series of plots and attempted coups and successfully slaughtered their would-be murderers and continued their unpopular rule.
Not a small number of deaths in either instance. Your make men trade their balls for critical positions in the government, you'd better buckle up.
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