I need to think on this.
just yesterday I saw a clip from this era on r/fuckcars
it was the race across London between car, boat, bike and transit
the order of finishing was
1 Bike
2 Boat
3 Transit
4 Car
so Top Gear proved cars are terrible for getting around in the city
Clarkson probably thinks that just proves they should get rid of bikes and transit as well as pave over the Thames
i will admit i really like the international specials :deeper-sadness:
I could still happily rewatch the challenge and road trip episodes :side-eye-2:
40k, easy. The other day some guy on reddit was wondering if his "WWII Romanian" themed army would get confused for nazis. Like yeah, no shit, they were fighting on the side of the nazis, but all the dipshits over there disagree.
Father nurgle actually seems to be the most socialist after the tau that is.
isekai manga, most of them outside of the explicitly abhorrent ones. it's just content, i don't even like most of them
the one where the girl reincarnates as a villain in an otome game and just ends up being friends with everyone is pretty :comfy:
that could be like twenty of them, i'm guessing you're talking about hamefura which :stalin-approval:
I don't know which one came first, but after that one got an anime i noticed a bunch of similar ones suddenly appear and I immediately started reading them too.
honestly as someone who read them long before the anime dropped, they were there but weren't getting as many manga adaptations. Now it's caught on more so and a bunch of LN are getting adapted.
one I really like, WataOshi (a yuri series that actually somewhat navigates social stigma of homophobia and struggles regarding internalized homophobia instead of just feeling like it was written by a cishet as wholesome purity bait and actively deals with a commoner revolution as the larger setting of the story portraying it in a very positive light, esp compared to its peers in the industry) was just recently adapted to manga and is currently being serialized, even though i read the web novel of it a bit before.
i've been meaning to read that, and this only makes me more excited to finally get to it. once i'm done with harrow the ninth i'll start reading it.
i'd gush about how based it is but it's major spoilers to discuss the finer details about how the revolution plays out and how it affects the characters.
though, since I'm gonna be vague enough not to spoil but want to hook people, i'd also like to say that there is a trans character in it that pops up sometime later in, also portrayed very positively.
that definitely gives it an edge over hamefura (though admittedly i didn't read far enough to get the trans character there)
Supposedly Korean isekai tend to be way less prone to sudden sex offender shit
I watch marvel movies so I dont think I can judge anyone. Plus a lot of the anime stuff I enjoy is problematic af.
The NFL. It doesn't pander as hard to chuds as the NHL or baseball does, but it probably has the most vile owners/league management combined with by far the worst fanbase. Ask anyone about the Deshaun Watson saga and you will probably hear the foulest takes on women/sexual assault in your life. And god forbid your team gets a black QB
Absolutely yes. The NFL is at least somewhat observant of racial justice issues (in a woke liberal corporation way) by virtue of 80% of its players being black. Its popularity is so much bigger than other leagues that there is a sizable chunk of fans who recognize how dangerous the sport is, how teams will siphon money from cities to build their pointless superstadiums, how bad military propaganda is, etc.
The MLB on the other hand is basically intermarried with the idea of nostalgic conservatism at this point. Though its history is very rooted in the idea of the working class man's sport it also has by far the most racist history (like straight up Jim Crow segregation). Its playerbase is also insanely religious (see the recent pride sticker "story" or the Yankees almost not being able to play home games this year due to half the club refusing the covid vax). It also has the oldest fanbase by a wide margin.
I can't speak on hockey as much as its the one I know the least about but lets just say (at least in America) that there is very much a stereotype of it being a sport for only rich white kids.
In Canada, hockey is a little bit weird culturally. It's very much still a rich (or at least middle class) white sport, primarily due to costs of equipment and rink time. It's also culturally the Canadian equivalent of the NFL, in that it exists nearly everywhere in Canada, and in fact most players tend to be from large cities or their suburbs, but it's coded slightly culturally conservative and associated with small towns. That being said, every lib I know is into hockey. It's whiter than NBA fandom, and I think Canadians of color would more likely be a raptors fan than fan of any Canadian hockey team, but it's still the national sport and largely crosses identity lines.
Edit: its worth noting that even the conservative friends I have into hockey are very much the American equivalent of Democrats... They're really Liberals by Canadian standards too, they just grew up in a culturally conservative area and consider liberalism to be some weird thing arrogant torontonians are into. Generally they're believers in a milti-ethnic canada, support lgbt rights, etc etc. But also the giant sampling bias I have is that the overwhelming majority of my social circle is millenial and younger. Older hockey fans are probably shitheads.
The Don Cherry litmus test is a good one.
For those who don’t know who Don Cherry is he was a (formerly) beloved commentator on Hockey night in Canada, known for wearing goofy and extravagant suits on air as well as speaking in a very stereotypical way, think sayings like “good ol’ Ontariyuh boys”.
He was a few years ago fired for going on a weird anti-immigrant rant on air. He was very old school in that he seemed to also be racist against white European players, believing that they were a bunch of ‘sissies’ .
If we think you're talking about the jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, do we win anything?
When the NHL union joined the NBAPA wildcat strike in 2020 it really tested the limits of that belief in a multi-ethnic Canada.
Even on here there were folks with garbage takes about Canada not being white supremacist like the US.
NHL is too Canadian to be chud central but it is white af. I never noticed any racism on the part of the fans though, they are all just white bread lol
Ask em about notable black players like P.K. Subban or whoever and you'll find the racism.
As a spectator sport, America took Cricket and somehow made it worse.
Hockey was more fun when it was about fighting. Ever since they stopped the fighting what's even the point?
being a sport for only rich white kids.
That's weird to me. I think of Hockey as being the definitive sport of rural white kids in the northerly climates. Not poor kids, because the gear costs, but like "lower middle class" or whatever. All you need is ice and sticks and a puck and you can get that cheap at a second hand store.
Ooh, probably all the gun youtubers, whomst are varying levels of problematic. From most to least I watch Garand thumb, who I clock as a legit chud, demolition ranch and his buddies tend to be more liberal of the chuds, mostly staying away from bs unless its a shitty gag, and Brandon Herrera is the cool AK guy who is deffo not a liberal or lefty but tries to keep whatever he thinks on the dl. He had a super cringe dude on recently though and they did cringe nazi german bits while they shot german ww2 guns, which in a vacuum is kinda neat history wise but goddamn. Then of course theres gun Jesus, who may or may not suck depending on what hes talking about and his buddy Inrange who from what I understand may be a leftist of some ilk.
It's just a case of that therapist meme: I just like to watch dudes blow shit up with weapons of war, and who doesn't
The Inrange folks including gun Jesus seem to legitimately hate police officers and support community defense and such. Which is based lol
While true, Ian has made a few videos that are a bit iffy, including several that are about and maybe edge on the line of lionization of Rhodesia, worst was the one recently before the war broke out, I bet he's kicking himself because he was trying to push a biographical account of the Donbass war from the PoV of some Azov pig literally a month or so before the war in Ukraine broke out. Only after people kicked up a storm did he walk it back, but I dunno, I respect his intelligence a little too much to think he wouldn't know whats up with Azov.
I got no particular qualms with Inrange, he seems on the up and up
I just watch my Gun Jesus videos and try not to think about his politics, because yeah, he's way too fucking smart to profile an Azov guy without knowing what Azov is about. He has exactly the background in history to understand what Azov is and where it came from.
I thought they were doing so from more of a libertarian angle, but yeah not the worst place to be
Some libertarians are like half way to getting it, they just can't grasp that no one else cares about their NAP bullshit and you do, in fact, need coercive violence to get anything done in this world.
Check out Tacticool Girlfriend for, as far as I am aware, an entirely unproblematic guntoober.
Garand Thumb is absolutely in the cadre of Epic Operator media climbers, without a doubt. Brandon is easily the most 4Chan of the big guntubers. His build videos are at least filled with content that lets me ignore the stupid comments he makes, but I avoid his meme review videos.
A lot of Korean webtoons in the genre, the better ones made me appreciate the Isekai genre a little more. But yeah, down with all lords.
Edit: lol got distracted didn't realize I replied twice, thought I deleted the first comment before posting
:yea: Doctor Elise had this trippy double Isekai second chance thing going on that made it more interesting than the standard fare as it has her actually having skills and being an influential person by her own hand, even if it still can't break away from the chains of aristocracy worship (from what I remember). I have hopes for the Japanese Ascendence of a Bookworm, but I don't think it'll have anything interesting to say about power.
I like romances, but even the ones set in the modern era all have megacorp ceos as the male leads, in many of which the female lead is a suffering employee? Honestly a lot of brainworms to unpack.
Behind the bastards. Had to turn off a recent episode though because Robert Fedvans brought up katyn and the holodomor and I started screeching
abandoned car rescues. They're all good ole boys who love the flag but my god its relaxing to watch someone who knows what they're doing tool around in a field. Its always exciting when they get the car going and can get it to idle.
I love watching MartyT fix abandoned tractors in the NZ wilderness. You got any recommendations for similar slop?
I actually found him recently, super cool guy to watch. My favorites in no real order are Andrew Camarata(closest to Marty T, but with a upstate/catskills accent which is comforting), who makes videos of him doing various earth-moving jobs and his expert skills at repairing the machines he uses. Then Mustie1 is a big aircooled VW guy who can get just about any aircooled vw running, but he'll also fix old dirtbikes he finds for cheap. He's also a lovely guy who is a pleasure to listen to go over his methods. Vice Grip garage used to be more fun but he's really made it his full time job so it feels sorta canned, similar to VGG is junk yard digs, I always found them a bit awkward but they started reviving old farm equipment for a challenge type thing and it feels like they hit their stride. Deboss garage is fun to watch. I don't really like big diesel rigs but he makes them interesting. other peripheral folks are cars and cameras, who ironically very rarely work on cars and mostly do small things like go-karts and minibikes. Mortske repair is also a pretty good rescue channel, he's just not as charismatic as others.
At least Stellaris is somewhat redeemable as wel as Vicky and HOI. Eu4 you are either Dithmarschen or going to hell
