@MDL that would be nice time for CCC's weekly translation analysis, but MHA fans harassed him out of twitter.

And here's why we don't let the thread open.

One of the few things I can't criticize Hori, is that in Toga's arc is that Hori is constantly hammering to his very japanese audience that trying to enforce conformity and homogeneity create very miserable people.

On Toga, my stance aside of her being a fictional character, is that if you put her quirk as a psychopathology and analyze on the same vein as irl she still doesn't fall along the line of antisocial serial killer that lives for the thrill of violence.
The wish for blood is what leads to the actions of violence. There's irl people indulging in mutualistic vampirism, could Toga have led a normal life if she ever met such a group of people? Probably. Certainly? Not enough data to conclude.

@zeltrax225 said in My Hero Academia II - A true Hero:

Evolution and extinction happen because of natural selection. Your point might be but if we are compassion, accepting, then maybe the human race will evolve further into one that co-exist with people such as Toga. But in more general cases of evolution, we have also removed the parts that we don't need and/or the parts that we don't need fail to survive. That's my point.

Evolution and Extinction happens aside of natural selection. Before there were enough bacterias living to start the process of selection the natural phenomena causing evolution and extinction existed for a long time.

My point is that being a societal - not only gregarious - animal, mankind has already surpassed basic natural selection. We don't kill a blind infant, we don't kill an infant with rare genetic diseases, not we kill the albino or the ginger. Genetic nearsightedness wasn't eliminated, wasn't that a detrimental to hunter gathers and early pastoral agrarian societies?

We CAN and SHOULD co-exist with unequals, even if said unequals are self destructive or destructive.
Thinking that we - humans - need to remove less desired traits or beneficial to follow a biological law that explains evolution of species outside of societal structure is dangerous close to eugenic.

All hail lord Cinder.

@Zar said in My Hero Academia II - A true Hero:

That's the only message Hori has.

Gonna take the opportunity to copy a truth bomb about Deku and MHA's writing.

And complete series on digital and DVD on June.
https://www.iconvsicon.com/2023/03/28/the-venture-bros-the-complete-series-to-hit-digital-dvd-for-the-first-time-ever-in-june/?fbclid=IwAR1DHCvifd2QS4fyD-H7UtqEiwZupGm9k1Lp5ia2IPrNA2uVm_Bqk68nhHA

there's also this one, of and ad at Shibuya

Did we have a brief timeskip?

Carandiru Massacre, Brasil 1992.

Gaza, Palestine 2023

The similarities are not coincidence, since the 50s IDF has long lasting partnership with LATAM military and police forces on "training" and weapons sales.

@JulieYBM said in Talk LGBT Issues And Be Nice About It:

This shit is going to just dehumanize and get a marginalized community hatecrimed and murdered.

I think that's their point, the accumulation of failings of capitalism are moving the bourgeoisie once again to fascism. And they will eliminate any weaker link that threatens - and I used this word in the most vague way - the status quo.

@pariston_hill said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:

Exxon Mobil becoming the de facto ruler of Guyana recently certainly doesn't help the situation.

I think I ought to give some more context to this:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/18/guyana-exxon-mobil-oil-drilling/

@JulieYBM said in Talk LGBT Issues And Be Nice About It:

What the fuck? How are they even going to do that?

Kemi Badenoch, who is both the Women and Equalities minister and the Business Secretary, told MPs that countries where self-identification policies for transgender people have been adopted will be removed from its list of approved regions.

“This is long overdue,” she said on 6 December. “The list of approved overseas countries and territories was last updated in 2011.”

Badenoch continued: “We are doing this because there are some countries and territories on the list who have made changes to their systems and would not now be considered to have similarly rigorous systems as the UK.

“Inadvertently allowing self-ID for obtaining GRCs is not government policy.

“It should not be possible for a person who does not satisfy the criteria for UK legal gender recognition to use the overseas routes to do so.”

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/life/countries-to-be-removed-from-uks-gender-recognition-list-over-self-id-laws/

The whole fucking country is reactionary. Before US took over the world stage after WWII, UK was one of the most prominent reactionary hubs of the world for 400 years.

HOLLY FUCKING SHIT, BLOOD DIAMONDS ARE "PROTECTING THE LIVELYHOOD OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES"

McCarthy era is back into full swing

@Nobodyman

Guess this could be an episode...