Holy Hell, who could've possibly seen this coming!

This better be a rickroll

Edit: wtf come on don't do me like this

"Kou yuu no tte oneechan mada hayai to omoun dakedo!!!"

It would seem so, actually, the bans were apparently against most any form of Japanese media, but I only heard about the music.

My impression is that within East or SE Asia, anime could be considered a form of Japanese cultural imperialism, however outside of that region I really wouldn't say so. I'd like to hear what people from East/SE Asia have to say about things like Chinese "ACG" culture and attitudes towards it, though, since I'd prefer not to talk out my ass. Japanese music -- on the subject of Japanese cultural exports -- I know was actually banned in South Korea until the 1990s, with the supremely based Soul Flower Union being the first Japanese band to perform in South Korea (and North Korea!) after the ban was lifted, for whatever that's worth.

In Norway my own line is that anime is actually a form of US cultural imperialism which also comprises a form of Japanese soft power.

Only about a third of these traits are things I'd find attractive in a man, most of the remainder are red flags

Yeah I'm into CBT

Communist

Bolshevik

Theory

Trains? In America? That infrastructure is so neglected, it's like they're always departing but they never arrive...

In or about I think it was the summer of 2051 in my future fiction project. In the present day we're seeing in real time the collapse of US hegemony overseas; by the late 2030s internal conflicts within the USA's bourgeoisie about how to save the empire, end up causing a second civil war, triggering mass flight from the USA primarily to Europe and Australasia; the 2040s then see many of those who left the USA during the war returning to work in postwar reconstruction, the USA's relevance abroad completely dead and buried, and the experiences of these returning refugees leaving them thoroughly disillusioned. This is what allows for the emergence of a revolutionary industrial proletariat in the USA, with enough strength to end the bourgeois dictatorship once and for all.

Such a historic building needs a good name, something that really reflects this advancement in the infrastructure to rehabilitate people who've taken a dark turn in life, giving them a second chance with new opportunities and above all else a new hope.

But what's another word for hope? "Prospect"? And "nova" is Latin for "new".

Do you like having other people's pee splatter all over you?

"If I didn't wanna get peed on, I'd just move out the way!"

— Riley Freeman

booty butt booty butt booty butt cheeks

Huh, my mom has been really into that game lately. Kind of interesting to see it mentioned here.

...How, though? Is the point just that communists are obnoxious or pushy or something?

I frankly thought it was very weird for you to assume that the omission of the "is" was a deliberate racist stylistic choice, rather than a sign that the writer themself didn't speak English as a first language, so I did some digging to find out where Istana Angin is from. As it turns out, they're from Malaysia; and as it also turns out, Malay tends not to form copular sentences with an equivalent of "to be".

So it would seem my intuition was right.

Also, I don't get why someone's use of capitals, dashes, and spaces when romanizing a language that does not use capitals, dashes, or spaces should be a point of judgment... Like, what, is this person making Mr. James Curtis Hepburn turn in his grave by writing "San" instead of "-san"?

I really wonder why they didn't go for "mayostard"

It makes my blood boil. I can practically feel the drool of capitalist ghouls salivating at the thought of forcing a third world war — they can barely conceal their glee about their own profits and the preservation of their dictatorship through words about a "deteriorating security situation" even though they brought that "deterioration" upon themselves.

And now, it seems, the capitalist ghouls will convince people that risks are more real than they are, by building bunkers, and mailing pamphlets, and putting aircraft carriers in our harbors, and tripling the number of American military bases in Norway, and doing military exercises in the middle of dense urban centers, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The people of Europe generally trust their governments still, so they would see all of these things happening around them and assume that it must be for "a good reason", right? Because it would be an awful lot of effort to just be "theater", right?

Thus when the people are trusting of their own government, they are easily scared; and when the naïve are terrified, they're more willing to accept this sort of absolute nonsense, the idea of a "preemptive strike" in this case, which will surely trigger or bring us within inches of a third world war.

"For the sake of security" — Give me a break!

redherald.org perhaps.

圣女果 = cherry tomato

苹果汁 = apple juice

Not to say that I knew these words but I do know how to identify characters by their components

There is the character for "woman" in there (女) but peculiarly not the character for "Canada" or "Canadian" (加) or anything like that.

I've been wondering if I should try the barista kinds of plant milks, too.