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trying to support one’s arguments by invoking Nietzsche quotes is peak slave morality lmao
#nietzche#slave morality#liking Nietzsche too much is slave morality par excellence lolololololol#philosophy
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Cum on Eileen!
…is this anything?
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i 100% condemn its genocidal terrorism, but i do fear that Israel’s become an Evil Empire Of People Who Are Irrevocably Irredeemable for leftist youth today
#every sane person would say that the Nazis are evil#but they were only evil because they were brainwashed into being so#the way people talk about Israel’s evil makes it seem that it was predisposed to becoming evil like evil was the only outcome#blaming this on antisemitism is intellectually lazy and reeks of Hasbara propagandism#blaming this on a profound ignorance of Jewish history and the origins of the Zionist movement is more accurate
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the average Japanese person being unable to speak English for shit is the tippy fucking top of the iceberg that is Japan’s weird alienation vis-a-vis the world today despite the fact that any Thing has infinitely more rizz to a foreigner if it were a Thing From Japan
#Japan was once the most spiritually Westernized non-European country that was not a colony#now its one of if not the least#then again the spiritual Westernization was very surface level and was ultimately unsuccessful#the causes of Japan’s current state of perpetual gradual decline can be seen through the facets of the iceberg
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why do the most unfunny posts and comments in the internet always end with a ;) ?
#;)#unfunny#internet#putting that at the end of a post is peak not-a-native-speaker-of-English core imo#both a 16-year old decent K-pop RPF writer from an irrelevant South American country and a 58-year old Vangelis listener from the former#Yugoslavia stick a ;) on their boring-ass tweets and condescending Reddit comments
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speaking of Dave Matthews Band, i consider them to be the most “American” band inasmuch as they are virtually unknown here in Japan… they are the rare anti-Big in Japan musical act lmao
#dave matthews band#dmb#big in japan#they have done many concerts all over the world#not once have they performed in japan lol#only the dudes stationed in the military based would go to a DMB concert in Japan lmao#Big Everywhere but Japan
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Lenny Kravitz is basically evil Dave Matthews
#lenny kravitz#dave matthews#he’s the latter’s evil double because#1. their faces look kinda similiar especially during their younger years in the 90s#and 2. lenny kravitz makes terrible fucking music#im not really a fan of DMB but they are orders of magnitude better than fucking Kravitz lmao
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i cited the still very good, probably 20-year old piece on Earthbound by Tim Rogers in my thesis because to me, it illustrates the game’s (and internet-era consumerism’s) individualist internal logic of the Manchild and the System qua Mother


#earthbound#mother 2#consumerism#tim rogers#for context i wrote my bachelors thesis on how Earthbound is an examplar of the consumerist (ultimately authoritarian) logic#i think my thesis wasnt very well-written since it became a bit of a rush job by the end but im still proud of it#im writing this post because someone seemingly followed me for my thoughts on Earthbound and shit lmao#hello there!#speaking of Tim Rogers has not uploaaded an Action Button in a hot minute huh#why is that?#im not in the Tim Rogers community so i don’t know
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y’all, i think i’ve finally cracked the code… the JJK fandom’s is what happens when one reads manga as if they’re a middle schooler on Twitter watching the NBA
#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fandom#nba twitter#as a japanese person i must say that the japanese fandom is boring as shit and oftentimes very fucking dismal
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my long-held contention that Kardinal Offishall’s the only Canadian rapper worth a shit is paying huge dividends today
#kardinal offishall#kendrick lamar#fuck drake#Kardinal rock the party#T-Dot drinkin’ Bacardi#kendrick-drake beef
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the whole ‘analog horror’ craze is the most aesthetically fucking subterranean shit aujourd’hui (excluding AI art, of course)
#analog horror#analog horror is a crummy genre made by the crummiest early Gen-Zers#it stems from the same sort of Grundlagen as the vaporwave aesthetic but its magnitudes more uninteresting#at least vaporwave is interesting (at least to me) in that it shows how people in the Internet really like to fetishize Japanese-y shit
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Cat pictures, cat videos, and cat memes are the refuge of the socially undercooked.
#this is prolly the worst opinion ill ever have#but yeah I legitimately think that liking cats and cat-related content too much is the pinnacle of parochial introvert mediocrity#its basically the city dweller version of the townie who never left their hometown of middleofnowheresville ohio
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one of my favorite moments of Japan-Western pop cultural interaction (which is otherwise quite rare if one excludes video game stuff) is the fact that the theme song for the 2006 live-action Death Note movie was inexplicably fUCKING
DANI CALIFORNIA BY THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
#death note#death note live-action (2006)#dani california#red hot chili peppers#rhcp#japanese pop culture#western pop culture#japan-western pop cultural interaction#anime#pop culture#like legit if you type デスノート 主題歌 into the youtube searchbar#the first result you’ll prolly get’s a static image video of Dani California sitting at 2.8 million views lmao#honorable mention goes to the time when PUFFY became children’s show stars in Cartoon Network (Puffy AmiYumi)
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i must say, the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom in Twitter’s pretty hilarious to watch lmao… its like if one somehow accelerated the horny madness of the Naruto fandom of yesteryear with Deleuzian magic
#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk twitter#i think its safe to say that jjk might be this generation of youth’s Naruto analogue#im a japanese guy living in japan and yet i have not read a single page or watched a single episode of jjk#the jjk fandom in twitters what happens when you give NaruSasu shippers liquid PCP to drink#truly a testament to the very cultural metaphysics-ey nature of Gen Z#perhaps Foucault was right after all
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now that i’m done with my months-long research culminating in an admittedly not very good bachelor’s thesis, i wanted to make a multi-post thread here about how the cult classic videogame EarthBound is actually really repressive and authoritarian in a bid for internet clout, had it not been for the fact that there’s a wild preponderance of juicy evidence for it that i could legitimately write a whole-ass book about the subject lmao
#if i had included all of the pieces of evidence in my paper it would’ve taken over double the words i had already written#and i had already written twice the minimum wordcount lol#if i were to make this into an extra-long video essay its titles gonna be EarthBound is Fascist and Here’s Why
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now that kids on iPads are but a fact of life at this point, i must acknowledge that i am a pioneering member, a prototype of this great demographic, having been gifted a jailbroken first-generation iPad like, 12 years ago, when i was ten or eleven. i grew up with ancient games originally made for the iPhone that are lost media now, like Karnival and Puzzlings, the old built-in YouTube app whose icon looked like an old-timey TV(?), and of course, the Angry Birds. i ultimately turned out alright, i think… all i really do nowadays is listen to ska and read Baudrillard
#i got it as a sort of congratulations-on-not-having-to-go-into-surgery-for-osteomyelitis gift lmao#i already had unrestricted unsupervised internet access prior to getting it; flash games on Newgrounds were my shit
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the most deliciously demeaning thing people can do to their fellow man is showing anonymous hate mail or hate comments addressed to some famous person or whatnot to the people who wrote them lmao… one does not need to expose them to the public; the fact that another person knows what they did is more than enough. that’s their personal Apocalypse, their Revelation.
#the subtext here being that almost everyone in the Internet has done this at some point#its deeeefinitely deeply unethical but it is the most ethical way to make someone feel like absolute dogshit#its ethical only in the sense that continuous torment wont be necessary#just one short sharp shock is all it takes#the victim will torment themselves#if there are any unscrupulous probably evil television writers in the audience pls contact me if you want the rights to this IP lmao
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