lolbertarians
promise zero laws whatsoever, no borders
Sounds like anarchists, not people claiming to be individualists.
Yen rate as of today is around 1$:157Y (actually pretty bad as of late), so I would estimate the loss at around $140M. Honestly that's quite a lot of money in the Japanese economy but you'd have to compare it against the company's worth. US economy not sure.
while male privileges are torn away
I don't think there's any male privileges left. Except maybe the draft?
So does deporting 20-30 million people on top of the 30-40 million illegals magically fix everything wrong with America? Getting rid of illegals is already difficult but not impossible. Throwing out naturalized citizenship is a step much farther beyond. Do you have any logistics to how that happens without going full authoritarian? Or are you waiting for Civil War 2 to kick off to get your wish when the dust settles?
Unless you're just speaking in hyperbole.
Oh they suck the life out of humanity, just not in the way AJ thinks.
As ghey as democracy is, the problem stems from too many people ("politically inferior" I should say) voting.
Plato is quoted of talking about "ending up governed by your inferiors". It was in reference to non-participation in politics, but even so, if inferior people end up governing you, then the mistake was letting inferior people vote at all. If you only have two choices, then mistake was allowing a two-party system to take hold in the country at all. It's not that democracy is fake/ghey, it's the reality that universal sufferage is allowing the sheep to be led by the nose to their destruction. Sheep don't want to think, they just do, and don't want to make complex non-tribal decisions. Thus it becomes easy for wolves to subvert the herd and keep out any good, well-meaning shepherd.
The early-stage US combated this issue by disallowing voting from anyone who wasn't a landowning taxpaying male. It may not be appealing to the mass populace, but I've come to the conclusion that allowing the people who contribute back to society to decide it's fate is superior to autocratism, monarchism, collectivism, etc. But just like how wealth vanishes in three generations, the same happens in politics, at which I would argue human nature is doomed to the slavery-freedom cycle
Personal responsibility
who choses to destroy themselves with globalism
When you inform your neighbors about the dangers of a globalist shitbag candidate they want to vote for and over 50% of them still do. What does one do? All the pre-destructive solutions are non-peaceful.
I would definitely believe that they found Gen Z'ers, or even Gen "Alpha" not liking the game. They're getting old enough now that I end up dealing with their kind in my hobbies and they're not any more "based" than Millennials are. They have their own host of problems.
I get it's a joke, but I assume the right image means players can have their real clown world character wear Dawn/Hikari's outfit in Pokemon Go.
The sign already conveys visually what it warns against, but still if it helps:
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周りのこと考えて！ "Think about the people around you!" (The sign is being more commanding. It's not saying "please")
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大きな声で楽しそうなフクロテナガザル… でも、車内では静かにしてね The Siamangs are loud and happy. But, they should/need to be quiet on the train
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ホゥ loud monkey noise
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あらあら oh dear/oh my
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車内では周囲への気づかいを Take consideration of/toward your surroundings on the train
Arguably, they should be hermaphrodites, but the Japanese depiction seems to almost always lean on "woman with a penis". There's cases where they have both organs.
leaving the penis intact
State funded futanari incoming?
The original specimen must be biologically female, excluding the phallus, for it to be considered "futanari" by concept. This doesn't work with mentally ill male troons.
News in the headline is a week old https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17siXJJHpU/a-rather-irritating-news-article/c/
But the article does discuss some other points.
When your pretty female lead is transfigured into an obese Quasimodo.
Grab the brain bleach. Smash the game. Perform an exorcism.
The concept of weapon-based self-defense there hasn't existed for decades. Gotta wait for Mr. Policeman to show up.
Reaching solar cycle peak -> More solar radiation -> Earth's magnetic field getting hit -> tectonic plates affected -> more earthquakes / volcanic eruptions and strange weather
There. An explanation that isn't retarded.
Oh yeah, I hated how they handled Galactus in Rise of the Silver Surfer.
And I agree on The Thing's make-up/effects, very believable to me even if a little odd.
TTD won't matter if government controls what you buy at the end of it all.
Actually, I might have fudged my memory on the "fictional or not" bit. My current recollection of how it happened is that it started with activist groups (orgs like RAINN) threatening these places like Patreon and Pixiv, and then they brought it to the attention of Mastercard/Visa, citing "federal laws". I'm not sure it's 100% the case that there are federal "obscenity" laws, but it seems to be that said groups are conflating fictional material (nebulous) with physical material (absolutely? illegal), similar to the retards that conflated Senran Kagura with pedophilia/CP years ago. This conflation is the excuse that the payment processors are using along with the newer "across the company" law, ergo, by applying US Fed law to foreign purchases in this manner, fictional works are getting attacked. Sites that caved to keep MC/Visa are obviously patrolling their paywalls to find "illicit content" because I do see stuff get taken down.
Musk pretty much lied about turning the site around (this is a given though, don't put full faith in any man who's wealth puts him in the top 0.1%)
At the current rate, it will most likely end up being the shithole as always it was before where "free speech" is completely subjective, however tweets may be actively suppressed and users will be paying to access the site. Sounds like a dead venture to me.
USailor may have oversimplified the situation in the main post, but this is not just about buying manga. This has been affecting a number of individual content creator sites. It's denying users in non-US nations from using certain payment methods just because these websites host stuff that is legal in their own country. This is the US Congress fucking around with foreign economies through large-scale businesses that operate internationally. Yes, it involves the types of purchases some people don't care about, but this shouldn't be happening on principle.
It was either block Mastercard / Visa, or submit to US laws regarding content distribution and payment. It's exactly the same choking that was done to Pixiv last year, as well as Patreon early last year. DLSite makes a good chunk of their money off hosting a lot R18/porn content, so they weren't going to bend the knee like Pixiv did.
This has been going on for a few years now, but basically anyone operating within the United States has to abide by US laws across the entire company anywhere in the world. So in regards to MC/Visa, that means they have to block purchases in jurisdictions outside the United States if they aren't legal under US law. I have no fucking clue how this is legal internationally or even allowed by the WTO, but somehow the payment processors are abiding by it, potentially committing slowburn economic suicide doing so. (Actually I do remember the excuses they made for this, see below "activist" comment)
When it comes to pornographic content, it's supposedly "not legal" under US Federal Law (because you know, fuck states rights) to profit off of depictions of sexual violence, sexual interactions of the underage, rape, etc, regardless if the characters are fictional or not. Such depictions in the fictional realm are 100% legal in Japan, so as it stands right now, MC/Visa are trying to choke off Japanese porn content by drying up anyone's incentive to make it. Believe me, these artists don't make hentai for free.
Honestly, the right way forward would be for Japan, and many other nations, to pull out of Visa/Mastercard entirely. Kick them out of their nations and choke them instead by denying them a customer base. Make these PPs lobby Congress to remove the bullshit laws.
Will the fourth live action rendition of Fantastic Four finally be fantastic? Probably not...
(I actually didn't mind the Fox films from mid-2000s)
That's a long-winded way of saying "Don't worry bruh, if this life doesn't work out, God's got your back in the next one as long as you BeLiEvE and spread the word"
To some or many, it's a great way of papering over the psychological issues stemming from lack of progeny, as children are the only observable markers of a long-lasting legacy that one can easily bring into the world, but doesn't help those of us who can't put faith in 2~4000 year old guesses that don't feel much different than any ancient pre-Abrahamic ones
That should have happened a decade ago when SJW-ism started flourishing. Only now where there's millions more illegals, their seniors holding power in a lot of institutions that the upper echelon wants to have fail, and continuing more foreign entanglements by our corrupt government. Only now when the establishment doesn't want their golem to lash out.