All descriptions of anti-identity politics/ class reductionism, both from those for and against it, always sounds to me like “trickle-down economics with race, gender, orientation etc. instead of class”.
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Nintendo has sued people for almost nothing. Surely they won't let this slide?English
2·13 days agoI think the Pokémon generation before Team PETA the anime had a rival character that was way worse than previous rivals/ antagonist characters. A lot of the fans say that he is better/ more mature but everything I read of him seems to suggest more than the Sinnoh arc’s writers were too cowardly to call out abuse and give consequences. In the Kanto and Unova arc the conclusion to the abandoned fire starters was that their previous trainers were abusive assholes, that their standards are not something they should be striving towards and that they owe nothing to their past abusers. With the Sinnoh rival the conclusion sounded more like “He is not bad he’s just different. Ash just needs to prove his strength to the POS who was mean to him for petty and childish reasons even though Ash has been nothing but kind. The abandoned fire starter just needs to prove his strength to the jerk who forced him to use a life-threatening strategy that could have killed him if not for Ash’s intervention and then blamed everything on him and abandoned him even though he won under Ash’s instructions.”
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Nintendo has sued people for almost nothing. Surely they won't let this slide?English
5·13 days agoThe first two seasons of Digimon had the Digimon partners wanting their specific human partners right after birth.
spoilers for season 1 and 2
A backstory in the first season showed that the Digimon partner’s eggs were not entirely natural (compared to other Digimon) and had some ‘science’ modification that imprinted them to the human partners even before meeting face to face. One of the Digimon partner’s eggs was dropped during an evacuation of the lab they were made in and hence hatched separately from the other seven. After that partner hatched she spent time wondering, feeling like she should be awaiting somebody but not knowing who and hence feeling empty/ unhappy because of it. EDIT: Also season 2 established that partner Digimon can weaken if separated from their human partner. One character had a field trip to Kyoto and left her Digimon partner with another of the main characters to take care of for that duration. The result was that Digimon’s health deteriorated requiring the temporary caretaker to travel to Kyoto via the digital world to reunite the Digimon and human partner.
Season 3 (and I think 5) was when the Digimon partners were not born wanting to have a human partner and could choose their human partner. One Digimon’s backstory in 3 was that his human partners (who were much younger kids) were not good partners which got him to run away and the emotional consequences.
spoilers for season 3
Some time later in season 3 they mentioned that Digimon were made to have some affinity with children in general. So still kind of conditioned/ brainwashed like season 1 and 2 but not as bad.
4 had no partners; the humans became the Digimon themselves.
I don’t know about the later seasons.
EDIT 2: Added some more information for season 1 and 3 and put some plot-relevant stuff behind spoilers.
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news@hexbear.net•Please give the gold medals to the robbers.English
1·1 month agoThat name sound stuffy and suffocating
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Lol, I have been put on a timeout for wishing harm on the most important protected group in society, the CEOs.English
7·6 months agoIt’s a reference to this tweet (cw for misogynistic slur)
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chat@hexbear.net•Liberals hypocrisy monger over "queers for Palestine" because they can't grasp the idea of being opposed to genocide on principle.English
59·7 months agoLiberals when Zionists deploy their pinkwashing propaganda: I 100% agree! The resistance must be 100% perfect if not they deserve to be genocided!
Liberals when trans people on bsky criticise Kamala and Newson: Stop purity testing! Also I just fantasised about Republicans sending you to concentration camps.
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Slop.@hexbear.net•Blue Maga already ready to blame the left for his defeat.
10·7 months agoIf you take the stuff Newson/ Kamala/ Biden/ non-Zohran democrat supporters say in response to their poor LGBTQ rights/ Palestine etc. track record, remove all names, organisations and other identifiers and show it to a mid-2010s to just after COVID begun era liberal, they would likely call the person saying it a class reductionist tankie.
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GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Most reddit tier reply I've seen on Lemmy yet
12·7 months agoMewtwo from the Pokémon movie
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Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•If I want to run a solo DnD game, is chatGPT fine for that?English
1·8 months agoFor a local chatbot I guess you could download Ollama and then the various models via Ollama on your system (it has DeepSeek and Qwen). Ollama will run the models locally. Then you can use either Chatbox or Msty to serve as a front-end for your llm models. Msty has something called ‘Knowledge Stacks’ where you can do things like load your core rulebooks and maybe pdfs or epubs of other stories you want inspiration from into a database that your llm models can reference across different conversations. Chatbox has something called Knowledge Bases that can allegedly do the same thing but I could not get that to work.
This is probably why, despite constantly saying that trans rights is ‘bobo decadence’ or whatever, I’ve never seen class reductionist types criticise pinkwashing (aka imperialists saying that Muslims/ Africans/ Chinese/ South Americans hate gays so we should kill them). Like that is probably the only time in which the “LGBTQ rights is a distraction/ liberal propaganda” ever made some amount of sense to me. But this never seems to come up in any of their examples, likely because they also see decolonialism/ anti-white supremacy as nothing more but useless race-based identity politics.