GarbageShoot

That's the one. I didn't have the stomach to go looking for it again but it's wild how casual they are about defending a show with blatant, blatant loli shit in it. Like, Fate/Apocrypha has some good elements, but it being de facto banned on this site (I can only hope) for one of its minor characters is fair enough when you consider how egregious that character is.

There were some people on lemmy.ml talking about "censorship" with their fucking loli ecchi anime and it really gets me down that these people feel okay just openly declaring that shit.

I agree that those three things suck (or in any case that the family tree one is only fun on a finite scale and the other two suck), but you don't even need to leave the realm of stereotypical retirement activities to find better things, like learning a language or how to draw or running a marathon.

I think this is probably the wrong question to ask unless you mean "In what ways has capitalism been historically progressive compared to feudalism?" or something along those lines. Neoliberal capitalism is purely reactionary.

Skullgirls

I think the "90.5 hours per week" part is much more pertinent

The description on Amazon:

Charles Cullen, a brilliant university professor and ruthless killer, makes a daring escape from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Dr. Joseph Kallinger, the psychologist who examined Cullen, is called in to help find him with a burnt-out cop who thinks Kallinger’s diagnosis is to blame for the situation they’re in.

On the college campus, Evangelical Christian Danny Ranes arrives for his freshman year and falls for bold and beautiful Shavonda Jackson, who introduces him to social justice and identity politics.

Danny begins a life-changing journey of deconstructing his faith and is drawn into a network of radical activism. He is forced to make a dangerous choice that may change his life forever.

NazBols and Nazis aren't quite the same, I knew about that image before seeing that you attached it in the thread, and I'm not saying "All Russian communists" (in fact, I specifically note there are many real Russian communists), just that Russia is the #1 place to be a fan of Stalin and not a communist. There are communist Stalin fans, and in fact I believe this guy is one, but there are also reactionary, vibes-based Stalin fans.

Frieren abruptly revealing that she has an exterminationist ideology towards a race of intelligent life is pretty jarring, certainly.

A creature who murders entire families because it doesn't understand human society is still dangerous even if driven out. Letting it go live in the woods to hunt humans isn't the solution you think it is. If a bear was known to seek out and hunt humans, it should be put down.

I'm beginning to think you just buy into the logic of punitive bullshit. The kid seemed to not have any magic or anything like that, why not put it in prison? It wouldn't have the ability to hurt people and again is a fucking child, and perhaps then you could educate it. There are real humans with psychopathy who could conceivably make such a mistake, and we shouldn't euthanize them either.

You take what they say at face value when it benefits your point but when it comes to the child explaining their reasoning you dismiss it. You're cherry picking here.

I'm weighing something a child demon said versus what an adult demon with some authority as well as what Frieren, with her wealth of experience dealing with demons, said. It's said often enough that it's like a fucking slogan. I'm not cherrypicking, I'm considering what interpretation produces the most consistent answer, and that demons are extremely deceitful is basically the most established fact other than that they prey on humans. Maybe that shit is 4D chess by the author and there's a revelation that this is all just bigotry and cultural differences or something, but the material as-presented in the anime so far is highly fash.

There is literally an entire arc that revolves around demons and humans not being able to understand each other. The anime hasn't reached it yet but the entire impetus is a demon not understanding human emotions and trying to do so.

I wonder how this is reconciled with the elaborate deceptions already pulled off, where demons managed to nearly control a town despite the people therein bearing enough suspicion of the demons that they planned to ambush and kill them initially. I can't really comment on what I haven't seen, though.

Ah shit I forgot that since Lovecraft influenced cosmic horror I'm not allowed to use any example from Cosmic horror to prove a point. If Cthulhu is problematic because Lovecraft was, then the Sousou No Frieren is not problematic because the author hasn't been. But using the author as the only metric for determining a media's message is reductive to high hell.

Blatant sophistry ignoring what I already said. Lovecraft had an ideological ax to grind (see the Deep Ones being Welsh) and your example wasn't "any example from Cosmic Horror" it was Lovecraft's boi. Of course, in Lovecraft's own writing, there is a similar effect as with Unseelie where he wasn't really looking for an answer to "Is this thing evil to the depths of its soul", his interests were "existential shock" at how it disrupts our understanding of nature and later on imperial conflict (see Mountains of Madness). Oh, and also how insidious it is that is has a multiracial cult of followers that are unconcerned with Lovecraft's white supremacist ideology and therefore d*generate, but I guess we're pretending Cthulhu is apolitical.

This trend in writing that I have mentioned, to answer critical thought about how we could all get along one day with "Nope, actually this race simply cannot be persuaded by any means to interact in a way that is compatible with human flourishing" is the most reactionary trend in fantasy writing and should be regarded as such instead of being excused on a completely bullshit basis.

The demon had some weird justification, but ultimately there is at least as much evidence to say it was just fucking with people (or simply hadn't figured out humans enough yet to devise a better excuse), and even if it was genuine ignorance, that still would not answer why the demon kid had to be killed rather than merely driven out.

Remember that the demons themselves say that they only learned to speak in order to lie, they delight in human suffering, exhibit stereotypical arrogance, feel fear of dying and joy at their tricks working. Most importantly: Humans and demons very obviously can understand each other because demons are excellent at manipulating humans! At the very least, they can understand humans, which undermines your thesis about the kid (though it is plausible that the kid is too young for this to apply) and further cements the demons being just that evil. Everything about all of the interactions we see with the more adult demons suggests that they know exactly what they are doing, morally speaking, from the perspective of humans.

btw, I do not recommend citing HP Lovecraft for "obviously unproblematic" counterexamples, his whole thing was comparing inhuman abominations to minorities. The Deep Ones are literally an allegory for his discovering having Welsh heritage.

You are forgetting the FBI front CPUSA in that estimation