badbackjack [none/use name]

This site gets harder to like daily.

WTF?

Thx. That's the first opening I learned. I'm a King's Gambit man, myself.

Giocco Piano or something like that, I believe.

What? None of the "Grey Wolves" so many people here like to call themselves showing up?

Uhhhhhhhh............i dunno.

But I never knew that I wanted to sit on a nice safe balcony somewhere and watch a bunch off smallish cars take on one sick turn (or a small series) before. Time makes fools of us all.

Those things were sick (pronounced S-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ck!) and the story is a good one.

Thanks. I guess even Crunchyroll can't be responsible for all of the bad anime out there.

Another Crunchyroll special? Who's producing it? I hear ATT has a big stake in Cruchyroll. With this in addition to Shield Hero, Goblin Slayer, Crunchyroll seems to be pouring it's own cash into some of the faschier stuff out there.

It's a big unload. Try this thread . Most of the larger comments are mine.

Something someone on twitter said recently kinda struck a chord as well. Why box-cutters? Is Isayama drawing parallels with another group of motivated youngsters bringing down giants with boxcutters?

I'm tellin you, if you're not a japanese nationalist-Isayama doesn't like you.

As much as I hate AoT - and I really hate Aot- I at least understood it enough to hate it.

Evangelion, on the other hand..............

Super. Duper. Yikes.

Anime's pretty fascist. Always has been. And let's not talk about the whole child soldier thing.

Spike was a cop.

The question was asked recently here . Bout half of the comments are mine.

.........In AoT, the Eldians can be seen representing three japanese groups, the decadent brain washed pacifists, the self hating Marley dwellers and the Survey Core – the restorationists. The Eldians are heirs to a glorious legacy and the power to rule the world. Their past rule was one of prosperity for all. This can easily be seen as the Japanese “Co Prosperity Sphere” where a recently modernized Japan brutally sought to acquire colonial possessions in Asia under the rhetoric of a civilizing mission. Read up on it. Blood curdling stuff. The Japanese pacifists, represented by the decaying Eldian elite have not only locked the population inside of a “prison” with its isolationist policies, it has not taught the population its history (erased their memories) and endanger the entire population with their cowardice toward foreign threats. The Japanese who do the unthinkable in questioning Japans role in WWII can be seen personified in the Eldians residing in Marley (the Zeke faction) who are seen as violently self loathing and willing to commit genocide to atone for the perceived past crimes of the Eldians. There is also the possibility that they represent their asian “cousins” , the other asian countries that easily can be considered “existential threats” in the minds and rhetoric of a Japanese nationalist. The only true “heroes” are the scouts led by Erin, heir to the restorationists’ struggle. It is this struggle that propels the plot and establishes the “heroic” and “non-heroic” characters and his goal is the restoration of Eldian supremacy. As the series winds to an end I am aware that the zealotry of the main character has alienated his core allies, but I have my doubts that the story will end with an unsympathetic portrayal of said protagonist. I’m sure the ending will be somewhat disturbing though.

And yeah, faschy as fuck.

Yeah, but they did basically channel a lot of energy and enthusiasm into a Democratic Party that was bound to shaft them in the form of Bernie support at the expense of actual left wing parties. The job since Nader in 2000 has been to keep all of the disaffected youth in the party until after the primaries and starve out all the third party candidates in the meantime. I remember they built up Kucinich immediately afterwards till the ultimate liberal sucker bait Obama came along. And after that came Bernie. The DSA really should be more honest about being a wing of the Democratic Party.

I'm gonna go with "Never trust a spook."

Probably. I'm still tripping on the fact that Belden's dad was a big shot at Pacifica Radio. I spent a lot of time listening to their conspiracy stuff. Wonder why Brace never mentions it. Makes it seem like too much of a family business?

Seriously?

This is a good one.