This will keep happening to Japanese sites selling adult content until MC/Visa are defacto banned from all of them. Again, this started with MC/Visa utilizing US federal law as an excuse, threatening to pull out of places like Pixiv, now the threats seem to be happening in private or sites are blocking use on their own.
The modified Latin the Church developed was probably because they had found certain syllables and inflections were able to ease the mind or "soul" of those raised in certain European cultures (that being several of the languages are rooted in Latin). So if someone is spazzing out, the priest can come in and "exorcise a demon" to get them to stop. If it has the ability to help calm the spirit or mind, then it should be kept.
Other cultures manage to perform similar with their specific texts/inflections. Maybe there's a psychological aspect to language that humans evolved with that allows this to work
Afro-Mexican
The implication being the Africans that NGOs import to South/Central America and traffick up to the US to border jump are now Mexican?
Fitting we're getting a tenth film as we're coming up quick on an full decade (10 years) since Disney announced the retcon of all the EU and stated that only the Lucas-made films and their new trash going forward were canon. The disrespect to all the authors and contributors prior was mind-numbing.
It took some time to get accustom to the thought, but I stopped consuming Star Wars soon after. I was finding other hobbies and was shifting completely towards anime/manga around that time, so it was time to branch swing anyway.
The power of ≡Intersectionality≡
It doesn't help that Lasseter's first production with Skydance struggled (it assumingly was a lackluster/bad movie), so the idiots that believe the MeToo shit wholesale are now claiming that he had little to do with Pixar's success.
I could be wrong, but I think Unzen has the largest official CG. The size of her backing is insane.
I'm a fan of KanColle and AzurLane and have played both games, but whenever the Manjuu CEO and her "genius" is brought up, I will always make the point:
"AzurLane owes it's existence to Kancolle's initial popularity"
If DMM/Kadokawa weren't assholes by leaving money on the table, as well as if jellyroll Tanaka and the team weren't adverse to US/foreign ships, KanColle could have been a farther reaching, long-term success. Not taking advantage of it nearly unseating Touhou's popularity in Japanese weebspace was a big financial mistake. Granted, leaving things niche is what has allowed it to retain some of it's appeal, and it hadn't really reached that deep into Western weeb circles, arguably sparing it from the bullshit flung at AL. However, as of now, the devs keep making each subsequent event harder for the lulz and ruining the game.
All that was required of AL was taking KC's concept and making it sexier to appeal to coomers while making a fuckton of non-Japanese ships missing from KC. Anyone with some resources (In this case, the Chinese/Hong Kongers) could have done this, but I've run across cultish fans who won't admit it. The irony is that there's more concentrated fanart from KC fans, whereas for AL fans there's maybe 10% of characters that are still popular while a bunch are "girl of the month" and most disappear, being forgotten. And the designs have gotten so out of hand, you can't really pick more than 5 decent girls without asking "is this actually a ship?", ignoring the ship rigging
As the days go by, I'm waiting for him and similar other members to start espousing that "the Founders were wrong", if some haven't already. I've been seeing an increasing number of "conservatives"/traditionalists going down that dark path these past few years.
large number of trash tourists is giving some people a wake up call too
I believe Kishida-deku agreeing to lower the bar for entry for ToUrIsM was an attempt by the NGOs/subversives/US State Dept to try and normalize foreigners being present in the country. Too bad for the globalists that gutter trash bring their bullshit with them and it's likely going to blow up in their face.
I believe the way to utterly destroy that argument (loli/sho leads to pedophilia) would have to be done scientifically, a psychological experiment that tests the reactions of both convicted child sex offenders and loli/shotacons with various materials, fictional depictions and CSAM/CP. I theorize that most of the pedos would not even touch the fictional material and most of the loli/shos would be repulsed by the CSAM (There's always going to be overlap and outliers when dealing with the mind).
The problem is such an experiment is most likely illegal (though John Money got away with his shit), would probably mess up some of the test subjects and the results subject to relativism. Also the science field is so compromised it would just result it the subjects' identities being leaked, so it can't be conducted in the current environment.
Could "They're not real" work too?
Or would it result in a "but they look real to me" deadbrain rebuttal?
But I don't want to have to make everything about how great white people are, or whatever
Neomarxists have reframed cultural arguments to be strictly about race and sexuality to the point that even people who want to fix society won't shut up about those arguments either. Neutral escapism is probably dead until this goes away.
Isn't this the fourth or fifth time Infowars has talked about announcements of a new pandemic and lockdowns for the past six months? I'm tired of these headlines from AJ...
trustworthy
I think it goes beyond that, "respectful". It still feels too easy for even some longtime members, who'd step up to take the position, to fall into the trap of shutting down things they don't like. The rules can be abused in different ways depending on the mindset of the mod. The current arrangement is an annoying stalemate.
possibly even 12
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Downvotes, Downvotes Everywhere
It's easy to exploit and socially engineer as many humans default to thinking in binary terms for convenience, "us/them", "good/evil", "left/right", "God/Satan", etc.
identified the 14 in Manitoba, which we now know turned out to be nothing more than a pile of rocks underground.
They made the mistake of not calling it hate crime to even check the graves (re: Treblinka and the "undisturbed ground", which this whole "incinerated and buried" brings to mind), now they have to keep moving the goal posts.
As usual, Congress only moves when the goal is to make things more untenable for the populace.
Go figure.
It's been going on for a while now where Urinalists and toilet-paper certified experts tell us the Constitution is outdated. Tyrants just want an excuse to make whatever laws they see fit.
The Civil Rights Act was probably the worst piece of legislation forced down by giving SCOTUS a means to override the Constitution over bullshit pretenses.
Thank you Celler and LBJ, hope you're both burning in hell. Maybe JFK too, since he supposedly proposed the bill first.
>jewish (German?) hapa
>possibly female (Sachi is a girl's name)
>Ivy League associate professor
>sex/political studies to pull nonsense conclusions out of Japanese culture and subvert peoples understanding of it
Why is this unsurprising?
The attitude of some longer term members suggests that quite a few are fine with it becoming that way. It's not really cultism, it's just tit-for-tat behavior against the insanity of the Left.
Everything's black-and-white apparently. If you want to get rid of shit like Social Security, you have to note all the people that paid into it and don't have anybody new pay into it, stop further payments, then either chose to give back immediately or slowly (adjusted for inflation) what people paid. But even that there's going to be complaints about.
There seems to be this common attitude now, "somebody's going to have to get fucked, just not me"
I've been trying to piece together a timeline, but the closest piece of Federal legislation passed before closing all consumer CC accounts was the FOSTA-SESTA bill but it could be unrelated. As for the "halt issuing new cards", no clue still.