I can increasingly appreciate Miyazaki's antipathy towards modernity. Those of us living underneath the American yoke would be happier if we just gave up on the empire and accepted living in the twilight of the West. Instead of infinity jeets, a peaceful arcadian decline...
@Crowmaonwellth@GlennLuk I think part of it is also because the Japanese can handle decades of decline and sinking into geopolitical irrelevance rather gracefully, while the Anglosphere is determined to fall back on the civilizational equivalent of botox just to stay on top for a little while longer.
@Interstella4L@BaneThe76451 Gotta remember that the reason Blanche was fired from her teaching job in the first place was because she slept with an under-age student. Tennessee Williams just understood women.
@huatp7@Kommunistkevin@dexterfinbar@agamemnus_dev I'm sure that getting the Houthis to agree to a ceasefire will be of great consolation when we're explaining to the next generation why they should be happy about not being able to afford their own house or even find a decent job.
@huatp7@Kommunistkevin@dexterfinbar@agamemnus_dev u Americans trot out this dumb war on terror excuse every time you get into a pointless, unnecessary war, and that's why u spent 20 years replacing the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan, while China spent that time building the largest high speed rail network in the world.
@huatp7@Kommunistkevin@dexterfinbar@agamemnus_dev They're literally rearming and coordinating with Iran right now and I'm still paying for it as the gas pumps so you're not going to be able to convince me that you guys did anything beneficial for the world.
@huatp7@Kommunistkevin@dexterfinbar@agamemnus_dev See, the problem with the US is that whenever you bumble into an unwinnable situation, you try to change the goal posts. trying to overthrow the Iranian regime --> keep Iran from having nuclear weapons --> reopening the Straits of Hormuz, which were already open before the war
@huatp7@Kommunistkevin@dexterfinbar@agamemnus_dev Americans keep mistaking racking up a kill count for achieving your strategic goals, no one is much impressed by slaughtering civilians and schoolgirls
@LearnerKip@JuicyJuuce@fredsoda You can’t trust American economic figures that much these days anyways, every administration has been massaging their numbers.