For me the easiest tell is the up front, unprompted, and unsolicited declaration of nonpoliticalness. When someone takes the time and expends the breath to announce how nonpolitical they are, what follows is almost always a rant about how everything/everyone else is too political these days, and that of course leads into something between status quo advocacy and outright reactionary/regressive sentiments for some fabled time before those wicked politics were visible to the nonpolitical ranter. centrist

People that are hostile to service workers. Some just want to take some ideological stand against tipping when the service worker doesn't really have a choice and needs those tips to survive in the current unjust system in a way where ideological purity gestures toward that service worker just look like being a greedy and sanctimonious asshole. The worst of such people will actually declare, shamelessly, that they believe that service workers don't deserve a living wage. The implications of that are gulag worthy.

I may get shit for this, but I'll say it anyway: this hair and beard combo, seen on living people. yes-chad I have yet to meet anyone in person with that look that wasn't a chud.

(If one of you is a comrade with that look, I am sorry in advance for the prejudice and if I ever meet you in person I will atone by buying you a drink or something.)

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Insisting that there is nothing questionable about works of science fiction/fantasy that have inherently evil races that it's morally right to exterminate and saying you're just being a sensitive snowflake if you find the concept off-putting

    I think we have at least two of them on this board who are really defensive about the validity of Justified Genocide (tm) in Goblin Slayer.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I think we have at least two of them on this board who are really defensive about the validity of Justified Genocide (tm) in Goblin Slayer.

      We have, yeah.

      I remember one such cryptofascist weeb claiming, Thermian Argument and all, that "according to the setting's lore, the goblins are not conscious or sapient! They're more like a fungus that requires sexual violence on non-goblins to reproduce! That makes genociding them cool and good and funny actually!" morshupls

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Tell me about it

        Ah, but have you considered that because the characters say sexual violence is bad, that means its lurid depiction of sexual violence is good and also not lurid because I totally think women's spines bend that way! Are you saying sexual violence shouldn't be depicted? Should such topics be censored?! Because clearly if it is to be depicted, this is the best way to do it!

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Anything, everything, so the treat enjoyer can get off and not feel uncomfortable about what they just got off to. so-true

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I think it's much sussier because it has sexual violence throughout along with the genocide business. Shield Hero is sexist but surprisingly close to the (disgusting) average for such fiction once you get past that first episode (which is fucked up pandering to red pillers). Like, idk, think about the typical isekai and it's astonishingly objectifying, to the point that it really feels like the MC views women in the fantasy world as truly being NPCs who mainly exist in reference to his sexuality, or maybe the MC is a Good Guy (tm) but the shot composition and animation framecount demonstrate that the viewer is not meant to have nearly so noble an attitude.

        On the other hand, there's the pseudo-isekai Redo of Healer and the actual isekai Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, both of which are much worse but also essentially soft porn and therefore less likely to be discussed publicly.

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          Shield Hero is especially bad because its sexism is so close to (the incel's fantasy of) the real world. The titular hero has his life ruined by the dreaded False Rape Accusation and then fixes all his problems by finding (buying) a tradwife (underage slave)

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            The titular hero has his life ruined by the dreaded False Rape Accusation and then fixes all his problems by finding (buying) a tradwife (underage slave)

            The expanded universe of that incel fantasy setting has a moment where (CW: gore, rape, murder)

            spoiler

            the False Rape Accuser is raped to death while being dismembered in front of a cheering crowd. hypersus

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      I can never bring myself to make a work that's not morally ambiguous. I don't even like playing a morally upstanding MC as a good thing. My impulse was to exercise him of it with complex situations. I'll write pieces of shit (e.g. I like to use collateral damage to get back at people I don't like), but it's because they're pieces of shit for one reason or another (see: not their inherited nature).

      I thought about trying to write a morally simple novel and couldn't bring myself to do it. Best I can do is "these capitalists need to be stopped"