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I don't really blame them, or at least not primarily.

They're just desperate and frustrated and looking for someone or something to blame for the fact that what should be a great nation is instead a festering cesspool of greed, corruption, violence and stupidity. Like most, they won't or can't consider the part they play in that, so they look for some "other" to blame.

There is actually an "other" to be blamed - the wealthy and politically powerful few - but most of American history, and human history for that matter, has been built around establishing and protecting the privilege of those few, most often by manipulating public sentiment in such a way as to direct anger and frustration away from them and instead towards others of the common people.

So they're really just the latest in a long line of people feeling wholly justifiable anger and frustration that's been misdirected by self-serving shitheels. I guess they're rightly faulted for failing to recognize that they're mad at the wrong people, but really, that's true of far too many people.

Now all that said, on a personal level there's almost nobody that fills me with more rage and disgust than the bigoted right.

Still though...

Not that it makes any real difference, but I wonder how many of them are so stupid and/or blinded by ideological bias that they voted that way because they sincerely believed that the election was invalid and how many of them voted that way because they're cowards with no principles or integrity who were trying to suck up to Trump and his army of violent morons.

At this point, that's one of the only things that provides even a hint of interest about an American right-wing politician - wondering if they're an actual delusional psychopath or if they're just LARPing as one to get votes and/or not get death threats.

Again, not that it makes any real difference...

And again - no matter how much money he might have so what the reality might be, whenever I visualize Musk posting to used-to-be-twitter, I see him as a greasy teenager in cum-stained sweatpants, hunched over an off-the-shelf desktop PC on a rickety desk in a room with fake wood paneling and green shag carpet in a trashy suburban tract house, furiously tapping away at a grimy keyboard and giggling to himself.

It's also the reason that religious people can contentedly do horrible things - because they have no ability to make moral judgments on their own, so if their religion tells them that something that anyone with even a minimal ability to reason morally would recognize to be obviously wrong is actually right and proper, they just slavishly believe that it's right and proper.

This is such a deeply disturbing viewpoint.

When someone says that a lack of religion leads to a lack of morality, what they're necessarily really saying is that they're so deeply sociopathic that they not only can't reason morally, but can't even envision the possibility of doing so. They're effectively stating outright that they can't even imagine arriving at sound moral judgments through the application of reason, empathy and concern for others, and that the only way they can even conceive of morality is as a set of rules laid down and enforced by some enormous daddy figure who's going to punish them if they break them.

It's astonishing really. And sobering.

Mom's a great character - she comes across as stern and distant and intimidating, but we get to see what's underneath that.

And it just hit me - I don't recall a specific reference to where her dad is now, but I'm willing to bet that he's in Tokyo, and we're going to get to meet him soon.

No - not really.

Monkey push "Reddit" button - monkey get banana.

Monkey don't know what other buttons for.

Reddit could survive with nothing but bots posting AI generated drivel and memes, and more bots endlessly responding with variations on "This," "Don't threaten me with a good time" and "That's what she said."

Just so long as the zombies have enough "content" to scroll through, inertia alone will keep it going.

If you're new to the series and/or lost (not unexpected for Dowman Sayman), the scanlators, Profiterol, also just released updated versions of the first three chapters, based on the tank chapters instead of the original magazine chapters, so this is a great opportunity to start at the beginning.

And maybe still end up lost...

Link Here

And there it is.

Just to note - the mangaka has already said that he has plans that will keep this going at least until January, so we're not even close to done here.

I'm looking forward to it.

I prefer a much simpler solution: the threadiverse remains decentralized, with all that that entails, and all of the people who can't cope with that leave.

Ah - I thought to explain the connection, but didn't want to belabor the point if you already got it.

First and most broadly, Fujimura is a tsukkomi completely surrounded by bokes, much like Alvin.

More curiously though, there's a side character who's just called Helmet because he's never seen without a full-face helmet, just like Alvin. And even to the point, again like Alvin, that in the rare event that he isn't wearing his helmet, his face is pointedly hidden anyway.

On the one hand, that's a sort of meaningless detail, but on the other hand, it's a meaningless detail that matches up between the two. It seems too insignificant to be deliberate but too obscure to not be.

And yeah - it's good. It's mostly the same sort of boke and tsukkomi humor as this, and with really good characters (the fmc - Eri - is still one of my all-time favorite manga characters). And it's also a surprisingly effective harem series, since the girls are all bokes of one sort or another, which is an alternative reason for them continually pestering Fujimura, and he can't help but tsukkomi, which explains the otherwise awkward harem contrivance of the MC generally not figuring out what's going on. It's not so much that he can't figure it out as that he can't take it seriously - he thinks they're just sort of deranged. And he's not entirely wrong.