Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:20 pm Umm... here in America there are no off-the-grid Maoists - and those who claim to want to live "off the grid" are invariably right wing, often far right wing (emphasis on "claim" because in reality they're too busy listening to Alex Jones' podcasts and buying "survival" products, supplements, and bitcoin).

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:20 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:15 pm Right-wingers have been claiming the complete opposite this whole time, complaining about "liberal elites" and "liberal academics" and that the everyman is really right-wing at heart.

The smart people who spread these ideas are blatantly lying for political gain. Their followers are often naive, hero-worshipping innocents who are ignorant of history.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:24 pm Of course these are lies, but the fact is that there are two types of right-wingers - rich, powerful right-wingers and middle and working-class right-wingers whom the former take advantage of for their own political gain.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:12 pmMy favorite anime is probably Kaiji from the E-Card arc onwards. (Google says season 1 episode 15) This show has no fanservice, only the thrill of high roller gambling and the occasional physical punishment of inhuman brutality.

My favorite arc of this story was never animated IIRC. It's the Mahjong arc in the manga after the anime ends. You can probably read it for free online using a manga reader site/app. (Google says: Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji (賭博堕天録カイジ Gambling Outcast Kaiji) Minefield game "17 steps")

malloc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:26 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:12 pmMy favorite anime is probably Kaiji from the E-Card arc onwards. (Google says season 1 episode 15) This show has no fanservice, only the thrill of high roller gambling and the occasional physical punishment of inhuman brutality.

My favorite arc of this story was never animated IIRC. It's the Mahjong arc in the manga after the anime ends. You can probably read it for free online using a manga reader site/app. (Google says: Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji (賭博堕天録カイジ Gambling Outcast Kaiji) Minefield game "17 steps")

I had the impression you were some kind of socialist. The celebration of gambling, the pursuit of affluence without even the fig leaf of hard work, seems quite contrary to that.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:11 am Japan's right-wing environment was artificially constructed through state violence.
[...]
Anime is also a marker for Communists on the internet. Because right-wingers tend to be more financially secure than left-wingers, there are more right-wingers than left-wingers wasting time on the internet.

All political extremists are united by social alienation, a condition that's also prevalent in Japan. I'm not sure trying to forget one's sense of alienation is necessarily more beneficial than fortifying it with a rigorous analysis of material conditions. Eg. I've read extensive political analyses written by a left-wing self-described "incel", and it had nothing to do with curbing women's rights.

fusijui wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:53 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:11 am Japan's right-wing environment was artificially constructed through state violence.
[...]
Anime is also a marker for Communists on the internet. Because right-wingers tend to be more financially secure than left-wingers, there are more right-wingers than left-wingers wasting time on the internet.

All political extremists are united by social alienation, a condition that's also prevalent in Japan. I'm not sure trying to forget one's sense of alienation is necessarily more beneficial than fortifying it with a rigorous analysis of material conditions. Eg. I've read extensive political analyses written by a left-wing self-described "incel", and it had nothing to do with curbing women's rights.

Cool conworld, bro.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:36 pmThe one anime I can think of whose leftist themes no one could possibly miss is probably Promised Neverland. Telling you anything about it would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say that it contains zero fanservice.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:50 pm To honor Vovin's legacy, I decided to remind myself just how bad Altaicist can be. Here is a tid-bit from a paper from 2015:

Though even with that leeway... ya and ta < *ja?

I propose that in initial position, glides *w and *j underwent the following
sound changes in Korean:
5) pKJ *w > *b / _a, e > MK p
pKJ *j > *d /_a > MK t
pKJ *j > *c / _ɨ, u > MK c

[...]

This is a novel theory of Korean consonant shift, but the evidence for a sound
change to initial glide consonants in Korean is significant. First, there are many Middle
Korean words beginning with ye-,

[...]

However, other vowels following word-initial y are suspiciously absent.

[...]

In sum, word-initial ye (*jə, *je) is commonplace in the Middle Korean lexicon, but
word-initial ya (*ja), ywo (*jo), ywu (*ju) are suspiciously absent from the general
lexicon, and yu (*jɨ) is not even a possible combination. This points to the possibility that
shifts to *ja, *jo, *ju, *jɨ are responsible for this distributional gap. The evidence from
comparison to Japanese further highlights the distributional gap in Korean,

Some highlights:
Driving instructors agree: 10 and 2.
What happened to six? Is six OK?
(nana + nilgop) / 2 = naj
Yetulp: "Dear Diary: the Japanese still haven't noticed I'm an eight."
How many? Three. The answer is always three.

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:49 am Minor, trivial vent: you know that time when you've gone to bed and you're already too tired to do anything else than wait to fall asleep, but at the same time, you're not yet tired enough to actually fall asleep? Yeah, I really don't like that time period. Especially when it goes on and on.

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:49 amMinor, trivial vent: you know that time when you've gone to bed and you're already too tired to do anything else than wait to fall asleep, but at the same time, you're not yet tired enough to actually fall asleep? Yeah, I really don't like that time period. Especially when it goes on and on.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:50 pm To honor Vovin's legacy, I decided to remind myself just how bad Altaicist can be. Here is a tid-bit from a paper from 2015:

malloc wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:51 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:49 amMinor, trivial vent: you know that time when you've gone to bed and you're already too tired to do anything else than wait to fall asleep, but at the same time, you're not yet tired enough to actually fall asleep? Yeah, I really don't like that time period. Especially when it goes on and on.

You said it. Happens to me all the time, especially when I have to get up for work at five in the morning.

alice wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:11 pm Sleep is funny stuff; I've never understood it. I know you're supposed to lie down, close your eyes, and get eight hours, but I doubt anyone's ever actually done that.

malloc wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:52 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:36 pmThe one anime I can think of whose leftist themes no one could possibly miss is probably Promised Neverland. Telling you anything about it would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say that it contains zero fanservice.

That was definitely a good one. Too bad they never made a second season...

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:49 am Minor, trivial vent: you know that time when you've gone to bed and you're already too tired to do anything else than wait to fall asleep, but at the same time, you're not yet tired enough to actually fall asleep? Yeah, I really don't like that time period. Especially when it goes on and on.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:57 pmThey actually released a second season in 2021. I haven't watched it, but from the manga, I don't know if the story after the first season is worth watching if all you want is concentrated leftist vibes.