Incidentally, its the same issue a lot of the Queer Trans types have. A normal trans-person (or at least the ones I know) just want to live their life the way they always have, they just happen to identify and present as the opposite gender now. Queer Trans only come in two types. One takes on a form that makes them seem like a mentally deranged demon (these are usually the ones claiming to be some form of "non-binary"), or they take on what is honestly a very stereotypical and arguably sexist view of the other gender. Like all of the Queer Trans-women who claim that a woman "is a hot, slutty bimbo who has sex all day."
And that sound you hear is Douglas Murray preaching the final solution to the Queer question.
You would think it would get boring but it's hilarious and a credit to Manga as a whole.
Its because it deals with the topic in a way that you would never get with modern Comic writers: He has become so unbelievably powerful, his biggest concern is not being bored. On top of actually keeping to his convictions to remain a hero.
A Western Comic Pro would never even consider such an issue. After all, they have power, isnt that enough?
Yep. Its the same reason that a bag clearly labeled "Peanuts" will still have a warning on it saying "contains Peanuts". And now, there are starting to be issues of people who assume cruise control means the car will drive itself. And when they crash "then why is it called 'control'?!"
It was put this way by YaBoiZach, but its an entirely true statement with everything we have known or seen: "SJW's are afraid that Musk and the Right will use Twitter the same way they used Twitter."
And while I see people doing conspiracy theories about food processing plant fires, I dont see anyone talking about the much more common and violent grain elevator explosions. Because as it turns out, grain dust is extremely flammable/explosive, even if you follow every rule.
The only stocks I would invest in are the ones I'd be shorting.
Fair point. Would probably also be wise to short entertainment companies as well. They are so deep into the hole with wokeness that even as they have officially started collapsing, they cant dig their way back out because no one trust them. And they need money to make quality content people actually want. Money they burned trying to get asspats on Twitter.
In a move I actually didnt see coming, it looks like freaking Warner Bros might actually end up being the survivor in all of this. Because their new CEO (David Zaslav) is a shark who only cares about if you can make him money, and has literally no fucks to give about what anyone thinks about him. So he has fired a lot of the woke "untouchables" in the company that were losing him money, and it was apparently on his orders that CNN+ was yeeted into the sun.
Well, I was going to start investing in stocks, but its starting to sound like it would be wise to pause and put a pin in that. Then do the wise and sensible thing of buying the dip to gain my leg up.
Now with that said, I stand by my belief that this is an issue that will not effect the entire country in the same way.
You speak of entire neighborhoods being abandoned in the aftermath of the last crash? Never happened to that extent around here. In fact, entire subdivisions are under construction, and its all new homes as the local population grew at a steady, natural rate.
Inflation? Gas and electronics are way up, but basic goods are the same they have always been, and food is holding steady.
If the lockdowns were supposed to kill small business, then that backfired. Because the places I know about that closed locally were actually some chain stores or places that were already known to be on their last legs (like the restaurant owner who had been wanting to retire for years). Not only did all of the other small, local businesses survive, they thrived so much many of them willingly closed for months later to do renovations.
And far from laying people off, local businesses are still hurting bad for more labor. Which is causing wages to go up to help draw in talent, and its still a workers market when it comes to setting your terms and choosing your job (although I realize that is not necessarily a good thing).
Hell, its a bit perverse, but all of this instability in agricultural markets has actually helped us. You have no idea how many grain trucks and livestock haulers I have seen running around. I have seen literal lines of trucks waiting to unload at the elevators. And the railroad has been staging grain cars nearby getting ready for the surge.
So I imagine those of us out in the heartland will do what we have always done: weather the storm beaten, battered, and bruised, but yet again unmoved. And if even we fail? That is when you have to start panicking, because it means shit has well and truly hit the fan.
That a fact? Is that why Texas went more red in recent elections, and a lot of formerly Dem territory flipped? Or why the current stats say that Texas is going to be going even more Red this coming election?
Either way, I am sure those stats that came out that the people moving to Texas are more conservative than those who were born in Texas are just lies or something.
Probably because of Christianity’s stance on homosexuality
But that is the thing about it: that stance is basically only practiced at large by the older Christians. You still have younger people who practice it, but they are FAR less numerous than they used to be, and most people in my age range (28) range from an agnostic view on the subject to not seeing anything wrong with being LGBT, just how you act if you are (IE: If you are slutting it up and sleeping around with 10 people at once? Bad, sinful. If you are in a loving, monogamous relationship where you devote yourself to your spouse and live your life as upstanding as possible? Good, righteous.)
Much like on the political front, there are a lot of people still stuck believing its the 1990's in terms of who believes what and they are using this woefully outdated view on things to influence their other beliefs. Then are confused when things dont meet those views.
No bro, you dont understand bro! The demand for manga is so high, that it will sell out, and since people still want comics they will just buy the American ones! So that is how it helps us in the comic industry bro!
(this is not a meme, one of the comic writers actually argued this)
Daily reminder that a single manga sold more than the entire US Comic market (Marvel, DC, Indie) put together. And that this is used by some comics authors to show that there is insane demand for comics. In other news, comic makers driving up prices due to overuse of copium reserves.
Cant think of anything older at the moment, but I got a newer one I like that is extremely well done called Eighty Six: 86. The premise is that a government built AI-controlled warbots to put down civilian uprisings, but the machines refused to stand down when ordered and are now attacking every human. The government then sends in the 86, who are offered citizenship in the government if they survive a tour of duty. But the government is racist against the 86, official they dont exist and no one has died fighting the warbots (called Legion). And its known that the final mission every 86 is sent on is a suicide mission, so that the government never has to uphold its deal.
The actual story follows Spearhead Squadron, which is made up of veteran 86 who are some of the most experienced, but have a reputation for driving their military handlers crazy (even suicidal) because they refuse to play along with the government line. Also, the little scorpion-like tanks they use (called Juggernaughts) are pretty badass looking.
Got anything specific you are looking for? Because I have been on an anime bend recently, but its a lot of newer stuff. On Tubi specifically though, if you have never seen it, I recommend Redline. Its one of my favorite anime movies ever, and I have been trying to find a DVD of it for a while now.
While physical is obviously the superior way, Tubi is probably good for streaming. For the simple reason that they have a lot of classic anime (a lot of it stuff that has never been streamed before), and its free. So if they do start pulling shit like that, its quite easy to drop them.
Black cops become racist against blacks because of what they see on the job.
Funny story. I know a black cop who unironically believes the Chris Rock "Black People vs. Niggaz" skit, because that is his entire life.
I have a very strange relationship overall with Borderlands. I actually thought OG Borderlands was the forgettable one. I still remember the personalities and a lot of the side characters who would become big names in the series, but honestly? I literally couldnt tell you what the story was. Everything between the start and the fight with The Vault is a blur.
Meanwhile, Borderlands 2 is still one of my favorite games, Jack is one of my favorite villains, and I can give an beat by beat synopsis of the general plot.
The Pre-sequel was something that I also just kind of stumbled through, but I still did enjoy seeing more of Jack before he went crazy, so there is that.
Borderlands 3 I had a weird love/hate relationship with. I loved the player characters (especially Zane and Moze), I enjoyed most of the side characters, and I liked the gameplay more than the previous games......but any time the actual story came up the Twins reminded me how much I wanted to just ignore it all, and I wanted to yeet Ava from an airlock.
But that was the last Borderlands for me, because nothing about Tinas game really caught my attention. And now that its actually out, sounds like I am not the only one. What a shame how the mighty have fallen.
At the same time, I think there is something to be said that the elite continue to make the same mistake they always have on almost every topic: They assume they are the only one who gets to make a move.
Because at the same time that they have been locking everything down and being despotic to try and force their own agenda, the US is actually undergoing pretty significant reshoring and reindustrialization. Mostly because while the ultra-massive multinationals (think Walmart, Apple, etc) try to stay in China, most of the smaller multinationals are coming back because they are fed up with shipping cost, and new industries area also starting up. A lot of it stuff that is actually important to modern society (rare-earth metals, semiconductors, etc).
And this is beyond anything with the Feds or the Elite. Its being done by local governments and other businessmen. Texas is poaching industry from other US states (especially California), Arizona is using its wide open spaces for drawing in factories that must be large scale by their nature, Alabama is building a shipyard in Mobile to compete with Newport News, and S. Carolina has actually been bringing in a ton of foreign investment for factories. And so far, all of these states have been more than willing to tell the Feds to get fucked if they complain.
So unless the Elite have a better plan, the US just might resist their attempts to kill it, yet again.
It was on a video with China Uncensored.(if the time stamp doesnt work, its around 12:58). This is on top of the fact that last year their harvest were destroyed in the flooding(1), and now some of their biggest sources of food are cutting off their exports. This on top of some other videos I remember from last year where it turned out that many of their food "reserves" were actually false and had been sold off by local officials for their own benefit (ahh, communism). And if they do indeed cause a drought-fueled duststorm, that can lead to more issues, and then they have to compensate more, and.....
Yeah, these are the sort of things I point to when I say that China's domination and America's fall are not as sure as everyone tries to make them out to be.
(1) I also wonder how much of that land was left toxic, considering how apocalyptically polluted a lot of Chinese rivers are now.
On the other hand, most of the farmers I know actually say a different story. They are concerned, yes. But they are no where near "blow the whistle" "5-alarm fire" territory. The US makes almost all of its fertilizer domestically, and we mostly use ammonia which is in abundant supply. Diesel went up, but in this part of the country its still not outrageous (and most of them wholesale their diesel to keep price down further). And of course, most of them have had nothing but dollar signs in their eyes looking at current crop prices, and it looks like they are clearing out their silos while prices are high.
For gods sake, I have seen literal lines of grain trucks waiting to unload at the elevators, and the railroad has been staging grain cars at the yard, so a lot of people are about to make a lot of money.
Its the eternal truth, and even the retards currently in charge cant break it: When the rest of the world goes hungry, the US gets rich, because we have the most efficient agriculture in the world. And its not even close.
Although if you are out of the US, I would say you may have a bad time. And it sounds like China is preparing to speedrun a Dust Bowl timeline since they are ordering farmers to cut down trees to expand their fields (and ignoring when the farmers say this is a very bad idea).
The guy I'm linking is a complete China simp
That is putting it fairly mildly. Nothing I saw on that mans channel tells me that he is even remotely a credible or unbiased source on this issue. Falun Gong may be a cult, but I dont think that makes anything Chris says untrue, especially when he is backing it up with evidence (sometimes the CCP's own evidence in fact).
TLDR:
China plans/planned on backing the Russians in their war "crisis" and implied its all Americas fault. But at the same time, it gets most of its natural gas from Russia, which might get cut off as the Western companies that maintain Russian drilling rigs are pulling out. Chinas Asian Investment Bank has suspended $1.1B in investments as well to Russia, which will have knock on effects for both countries. The Chinese also had billions of their own investments in Ukraine that they are now concerned with being damaged/destroyed by Russia.
Also, China is bracing for a food crisis, and possibly even a famine, as a significant amount of their food came from Ukraine and Russia (after they looked for literally any other market than the US), made worse by the flooding in China last year.
EDIT: For some reason, it didnt jump to the video timestamp. The relevant topic starts around 3:06.
It is literally Chinese State Media. No freaking duh they would do something like this. Honestly, to me it says more about the people who post it than Global Times itself.
Its not. There is barely even a story unless you go looking for it. And what little you do find is still very cryptic (as usual for a FromSoft game).
Its all about the gameplay. The game will not hold your hand, and if it does its so they can crush you into a pulp.
I know people like to say that China is unstoppable, but this shit will ruin them in the long run. Companies were already slowly pulling out of China due to rising wages, increasing government fuckery, and rising shipping cost. The meteoric rise of shipping in the last few years and now the never-ending lockdown due to China's "Zero Covid" policy has turned that slow walk into an all-out sprint.
Just to go with an example for the company I work with. We sell sports gear, and we got our pom-poms out of a factory in China. Then one day, I noticed that we got in a new style from a different manufacturer out of Mexico, and all of our normal poms were now on closeout. I was confused by this, as we normally got entire truckloads for just poms, and in the last year we had even just gotten in some new high end ones, and even those were closeout.
So in one of the weekly meetings, I brought it up because I was curious. Turns out, the supplier in China was being such a pain in the ass to work with and actually get the damn poms out of China, that we found a temp supplier and are looking for a new active supplier in "Anywhere but China."
And all of the business news I have seen says that we are not alone. So its entirely possible that the US economy will be rebuilt for literally no other reason than the Globalist screwed it up so bad their pawns accidently became queens.
At least based on how Legal Mindset made it sound, it is up to the legislature since it was their act that created it in the first place. And considering there is case law concerning outstanding debts of disbanded Special Districts, I would imagine these districts have been disbanded before even if the person who indirectly owned them didnt want them to be.