Of course I'm not. And if you watched Jon Stewart's segment I linked you would understand exactly why "Trump is worse so vote Harris" doesn't work as a gotcha.

And I voted for her, too, before you bring that up as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBJoj4XyFc

I linked this higher in this thread, but I need everyone to watch Jon Stewart's post-mortem on Harris' campaign. Like y'all are blaming EVERYTHING on pro-Palestinians, while not even acknowledging the republican-lite ads and interviews the Democrats ran coinciding with a bunch of pro-corporate consultants that joined her campaign in September. Or the fact that a segment of the population doesn't like Trump, but is also racist/sexist enough to not want a black woman as president either.

Lemmy thinks they're smarter than the MAGA crowd, but fall for neoliberal corporate sponsored propaganda instead. First it was hispanic men, then it was Gen Z, now it's Palestine supporters. Meanwhile 57% of white people as a demographic voted for Trump, and MSNBC nor Fox News has nothing to say about that.

Here's the Daily Show autopsy showing exactly how Harris/the Dems pivoted to the right, including showing the ads they ran.

Are Dems now gonna say Jon Stewart is propaganda?

This "blaming Palestine supporters" narrative seems really weird tbh, because if anyone looks offline, they were NEVER the majority. But politicians blaming them is pretty convenient for keeping their AIPAC funding...

sees himself as a defender of classical western virtues

-reads the "Relationships" section of his Wikipedia page-

Interesting. How does one develop this kind of delusion...

Strawman.

I like that everyone who saw this post thought of the exact same joke.

It's as if we're a collecti- hey wait a minute...

I...disagree with most of your comment 😭 But I know Clamp's character designs are an acquired taste. (Imo they always look better in manga form than in anime)

Lelouch/Code Geass is most anime watcher's first introduction to "revolutionary anti-hero" protagonists (I was one of those people), so I think people recommend it out of nostalgia. Also there are some twists in the story (iykyk) that are really good and I think it's dismissive to just Cinemasins them away.

But adults who want space wars and political drama would probably prefer Gundam and Legend of the Galactic Heroes, depending on their preferred pacing.

You know what, when you mention the movement of the characters, I see what you mean. Castlevania characters move more realistically, but it's still pretty stylized, thus the "almost anime" feeling.

Interesting, because Castlevania is a Japanese IP, but is written by Warren Ellis and animated by the same studio as Adventure Time, one of the most beloved series to come out of the 2010s animation boom. Meanwhile DotA: DB is a western IP that was animated by Korean Studio Mir (who have also worked on the final seasons of both Legend of Korra and the Boondocks in the past).

I got more "anime" feelings from DOTA than I did Castlevania, but I also consume more fantasy anime than the average person I think.

I don't go to anime for body standards bro 😭

Between the anime women who'd get two black eyes if they went for a light jog, Goku's muscles somehow not ripping out of his skin whenever he got to a new level of Super Saiyan, and whatever the hell is going on with glorious skinny legend Lelouch Lamperouge and the length of his limbs, JJBA might be on the more "attainable" side of anime bodies, especially Part 4 onwards.

You know what anime has noses and distinctive designs?

My GOAT, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

I'd rather drink yogurt every day than take poop pills tbh, but I respect other people's choices.

"oh woah [sic] is me"

Yeah not to be an ivory tower snob or anything but I'm already questioning your reading skills here.

Katniss saying, "Woah is me" during the Hunger Games is a very funny mental picture though.

As an US-Canadian dual citizen who grew up and was educated in Canada/Europe, I'm not gonna lie, I don't get this argument. Canada as a confederation is 157 years old, we haven't had the time to carve out a unifying cultural identity.

Ask any Canadian, hell ask yourself, "What is Canadian culture?" Rick Mercer has done so many street interview segments about this (we watched them during history class for funsies). It always boils down to "We're different from/not as bad as America", "We're kind of like Europe" or "hockey". The answers were also very different if you asked francophones in Quebec, francophones outside of Quebec, Acadians, or you know...Indigenous people.

Actually Rick Mercer might have been the closest thing we had to Canadian culture. And we did nothing to protect him 😞

You missed every point I made.

do you think Wicked has the longevity of other popular franchises

Babes, Wicked has been a musical theatre darling since 2003. It already HAS longevity and popularity, just not in your circles. Once again, 2nd biggest Broadway show of all time, (actually of this millennium.) It's not #1 only because Lion King has been around longer.

The Broadway Girls™️ and Broadway Gays™️ are coming for that merch, and so are the Ariana Stans. Again, look at the price of that Cat Valentine doll.

(Also, comparing Harry Potter to Wicked is funny because of how they're two of the THE 2008-2015 Tumblr fandoms (ignoring Superwholock))

You expect people to care about Wicked merchandise, misprint or not, in the future

This is such a Lemmy take. Ariana Grande is one of the biggest pop stars in entertainment, and Wicked is ONE OF THE BEST SELLING BROADWAY SHOWS EVER. Only behind the Lion King in total sales I think.

If a doll from Ariana's dinky little Nickelodeon tv show (don't come for me Victorious stans) is selling for this much, how much do you think her doll from Wicked is gonna sell for to the Broadway enthusiasts and Ariana stans?

Not everything is for you, but that doesn't make it irrelevant.

Still, it pisses me off that Not Fascism isn't enough.

I'm going to go against the grain here a little, and bring up race. Sorry to people tired of id pol, but please hear me out in good faith.

I know this is going to sound inconceivable to a lot of people on Lemmy, but there are still parts of the American voter base that cannot conceive of having a president that is black/mixed race AND a woman. They don't care about fascism, they don't care about policy, they care about the skin color and gender of their chosen leader.

Remember, Donald Trump rose as a direct response to the election of Obama.

We can pretend we live in a post-race, post-sexism society, but to pretend this wasn't a factor when hate crimes have been on the rise for multiple minority groups says otherwise. All these people coming out of the woodwork post-election results to threaten women and black people says otherwise. Wayne Gretzky and his entire family was at Trump's victory party in Mar-A-Lago, and most of the hockey fandom gave ZERO fucks.

I actually wonder if they would have done better if Tim Walz was first on the ticket instead of Harris.

This got me. My roommate said it was the ugliest sounding guffaw they'd ever heard.

Thanks for the receipts.

Man...these legislators think about gay sex in more depth, variety, and detail than any gay person I have ever known.