Gibli Style Spectre of Communism
Lemme quickly get banned from this community.
Love to see people like these coming here with this type of quotes as if they are going to be crucified and become martyrs under the shining light of true and righteousness for speaking THE TRUTH.
No, dude. You are just going to be laughed at.
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
- Michael Parenti
I am completely sure that China is indeed spending god knows how many millions in building more solar farms in a year than the US has built in their entire history so people like Jake from Minnesota can be convinced that China is actually a pretty cool place.
Do you people ever listen to yourselves?
My own theory on this, after having read a litle about cultural marxists on wikipedia and it’s sources is that just like woke culture is not being controlled by second wave feminists, but by a group of transsexuals, so did the German jews to second wave feminists. The german jews were either forgotten or they moved to California where instead of taking over the feminist movement, they were taken in by the Californian second wave feminist movement.
Please turn off your computer and never turn it back on.
HIV [...] will cause severe damage even if the person uses all options that medicine has
Most of what you have said is true, but this one part isn't. An HIV infection carries an increase in the risk of suffering a set of diseases (although this risk will in general decrease with proper ART), but overall it is deemed that HIV+ patients under adequate ART have the same life expectancy than non-HIV+ people, which is a very different reality from the one you imply in which it WILL cause severe damage despite proper treatment.
Should people disclose their HIV status if asked? [...] To disclose this is a highly personal thing.
Yes and no. I do not know how it is in other countries, but in mine it is punished by law to expose a person to a situation of risk such as it is the possibility of transmitting an STD if they are unaware of such risk, due to the fact that they cannot consent to it if they are not aware of such. In fact, one of the very few cases in which doctors are allowed (and moreover, mandated) to break professional secret is if a VIH+ patient is consciously putting a sexual partner at risk without their knowledge.
Right to intimacy is extremely important, but it also carries responsibilities. If this is relevant to you, I encourage you to read about the laws on the matter where you live.
and could be reportable
Gasp! Mods! MOOOOODS!
Blue no matter who.
Oooh he said it! He said the meme words!
and if you live with conditions where you can only have enough to drink any drop of water after that will be split on cleaning yourself and your clothes and you can’t do only of those or you’ll still smell bad anyway.
Shower with your clothes on. Bonus points if you piss in the shower too. It saves water! #SaveTheTurtles #Kony2012
Imagine hearing the string of words of "8chan birthday meetup" and thinking hell yea, sign me up.
I cannot believe that Stonetoss ended up not being Shmorky's alter-ego.
He is Puerto Rican
I wanted to like Korra, I really did. But seeing Aang turned into the Statue of Liberty in front of a colonized settlement turned international territory, the spirit lore transformed into oriental-themed christianity and Toph of all people talking about the antagonists having good points but being too radical was too much doodoo from the trashcan of ideology for me to handle.
I think this is a bad take. Sure, it is a kids show, but anyone who has a mild amount of knowledge of marxism knows about the concepts of base and superstructure, and the division of the latter into political and civil society described by Gramsci.
Taking a look at the messages delivered by TV shows and other forms of media lets us see the type of ideological positions that the current mode of production allows, promotes, concedes and forbids at the moment of their production to all or some demographics - Including children and teenagers, whose opinions are the easiest to mold and shape for the future. Whoever thinks media aimed to the youngest sectors of society does not have any political effects has been completely oblivious to the spineless liberalism that Potter-mania has resulted in years later amongst masses of millennial man-children.
And yes, there are more efficient ways to use your time to spread communism than recording, editing and uploading a 10 min video essay on a children's cartoon, but so are there better ways than commenting about it on a Cambodian trout fishing forum. Take it easy and do with your life and time whatever you want.
I may or not remember a couple of scenes in that season of benders overpowering and bullying non-benders for petty reasons as the only portrayal of that inequality. Correct me if I am wrong though: my brain sometimes erases things for my own sake (such as most of Korra).
Class conflict doesn't exist in fantasy settings written by liberals of course, only in the mind of radical looneys. At most you will only have things that can be solved with enough Burny Sandals social democracy. Have you ever heard of Norway?
"You see kids, if you replace the bad king with a good king then everything will be okay."
Despite its strengths, Avatar has some very weak points in the ideological front. Decolonization is one of them as already addressed here, and in my opinion not as much as you could in the Avatar universe: Republic City, which later becomes the main setting of Korra, originates according to the comics from the oldest colonial remnants of the Fire Nation, which were never returned to the Earth Kingdom because settlers had enough time to form families there and thus that somehow makes decolonization impossible without having a negative outcome: the children of settlers were born in the lands they took, and in the eyes of the writers, that is enough to justify never being returned to its original peoples (extrapolate that message to Palestine, the USA, Canada and so on and you will soon see how this is not good).
But this sentence I referenced at the beginning is also another point where the Avatar universe fails big time. In the first season of Korra there is a clear reference to a popular movement where, instead of class struggle, you have a movement of non-benders dissatisfied with the societal inequality between benders and non-benders. The way the show has of acknowledging this problem without altering the status quo? Elect a non-bender for president. And when Obama became president, racism was no more.
But to be fair, Korra is a terrible show overall.
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No need to be redundant.
We call it "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" for a reason.
What I can say is that we have been importing a lot of Russian LNG, and for what I see at some point we were their 2nd largest clients worldwide only behind China. I couldn't find any information regarding how well has Spain's economy fared with this, but in other sources I found that only 5% of what we are buying goes to other members of the EU, so there's also that.
Unrelated, but in case you want one more argument to combat the commonplace glorification of Ghibli: https://xenosagaepisodeone.tumblr.com/post/779322203162427392/i-feel-as-if-studio-ghibli-films-being-reduced-to