True. And I mean I dunk on anime sometimes here as well (while having an anime pfp)

The afterlife will be posting.

I'll take hell instead, please

the jokes about Xi save us and defense/denial of worker/minority abuse in China make us look bad, (etc etc) No different than libs defending Klanmala "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" (etc etc) Han supremacism no more acceptable than white supremacism (no shit), Dengism killed wholesome chungus communism, China surveillance state

Wew. Also no one is defending worker/minority abuse (the surveillance state in China I will defend, let's not kid ourselves socialist societies are under siege, were born under siege, etc etc) or claiming China is a utopia. And comparing support of AES to Klanmala support is straight up lib shit (and crying about Dengism is both ignoring dialectal materialism, and your western lowkey chauvinist, dogmatist opinion of AES). cringe

As for the comment about transmisogynism (while I'm not the one who mentioned it), somewhat yeah. And there's def an issue of orientalist attitudes towards anime (as someone who is Asian), there is shit but wypipo/westerners' and other cultures' shit has its own issues. "Asian (specifically Asian) cartoon bad because (insert stereotypes here)" is tired y'all

And yeah I called out people who posted their opinions, anonymously, who I don't know who they are... deal with it

How about all three at once? Most people can at least connect the dots and recognize (it's basically universal knowledge for all but the willfully ignorant bootlickers) that the US is behind the origins of both al-Qaeda and ISIS, as the ones who funded, armed, and created the conditions from which they could exist.

Anyone with a decent understanding of the region will also understand that the US (and before them, the Brits) made a policy of supporting the most extreme sect (Wahhabism) in the Arabian peninsula, and has a long history of toppling secular governments and leaders in the Islamic world (even democratically elected non-socialist ones), and they used these Islamist tendencies to counteract socialist and pan-Arab movements.

To build further though, ISIS and al-Qaeda are not so different from, say, the cartels, mafias, bratvas, triads, and other organized crime (or insurgencies)- both in how they operate (besides a particular focus on terror), and in their deeply intertwined history with the US and western alphabet agencies. They provide a service to the empire- regional destabilization, and in certain areas like Syria and Iraq, also oil- and what the west supplies in exchange, apart for financing and support for these crime warlords- is to further escalate tensions and encircle their nations to destroy legitimate governments- it is a mutually beneficial relationship, as both compliment each other greatly- they feed off of each other's destabilization.

The other dunkable part is the actual chances that a billionaire ever goes to prison outside of China

It won't be for the actual crimes they committed, that's for sure (that sort of behavior gets them applause and Nobel peace prizes). But fingers crossed, I want to believe... Hopefully the competing fascist tendencies can kill or lawfare each other off, optimistic as it may be.

It won't and can't be a single nation's effort. But the entire global south (and Russia), I hope, will realize the necessity (frankly, I expect that the Yanks will act so deranged that there will be the necessity). No one nation has the ability, and the political will will develop in time (IMO) as the empire only continues its spiral to ever-new lows and derangement. Frankly I think- if the US cannot come to terms (which I suspect it won't, but hope it will) or even if, when it does collapse- it will literally be a matter of the survival of the entire human species, to occupy and de-Nazify/thoroughly root out the imperialist mentality within the US.

AmeriKKKa can't collapse fast enough

I mean, not everyone can be artists (as someone who likes art myself... don't do it often enough though). I get that. And also sometimes generating something is just the quickest and easiest way (for instance, when making a D&D chara or something and wanting visuals).

People making AI-generated "art" and getting high off their own farts while adding nothing of substance, monetizing "their" work while exploiting actual artists' labor (art) is another thing entirely, of course. But other than that personally I do think it is a good thing that means of creation or generation- it can be debated if it's "art" or not- are becoming accessible, both for those who aren't artistically inclined, or for the simple convenience of the fact- the real issues are the capitalist system this all is occurring within, and the disregard for artists' rights to their labor (though death of the author/artist and the whole "once it's released into the wild..." is also a thing, personally I think the ethics outside of capital are murky and a recognition of who created what, when outside private use, is at least the most basic decency/dignity)

Kind of wild that the substance of this article is how this guy is definitively not making "art" and yet the author still insists on calling him a filmmaker

Capital recognizes capital, grift and ""art"" recognizes grift/""art""

All of us in america will be fucked,

I'd argue you're all fucked sooner or later tbh (considering the sheer bipartisan derangement, militarized police, and that cartoonish debt). At least if the US collapses- not only will the entire rest of the world be better off (provided elements within the regime don't fire off the nukes), but the rest of the world will be able to intervene.

Also IMO considering the horrors the US has ushered in for its entire ugly almost-250-year history, the entire world should see to it that the US never re-constitutes itself once it collapses. What better way to do it than by militarily occupying (to de-Nazify) the entire country, restoring governance to local and particularly indigenous peoples, and turning the entire place into a UN mandate until such governance is stable?

While it's not great, I think we all have to agree October 7th was one of the most heroic undertakings in all of history. Isntreal has responded as they always have, but before the Palestinians had simply been dying in a slow, ignored fashion- intentional genocide by a thousand cuts. And with the Abrhams accords, that triumph of evil- of genocide, of Nazism and Manifest Destiny- was just within sight.

The genocide was always happening, and was always going to happen- the Palestinians understood they were "dead" already (just like the Warsaw uprising, Spartacus' rebellion, or- as an example of success- the Haitian revolution, when one considers the sheer human turnover- ie. death- of the plantation economy), October 7th brought them new life.

I'd not celebrate October 7th for the reasons you described (but if Palestinians wish to do so, more power to them). But the triumph of humanity, even in and in spite of the most direst of circumstances, is always a beautiful thing to behold.