Gainax unfortunately has long been

Gunbuster is a great example, totally unnecessary fanservice (at least in Eva it emphasizes shinjis awkward nature) except for the moment where

That moment is kino, but the rest of the service is sadly just very commercial appeal based.

Rewatched it recently, it is genius even though it's deranged.

WE MADE YOU. WEEEE MADE YOUUUUUU

Also I love this bit of lore:

Stephen King: The movie is about all these vehicle goings crazy and running by themselves, so we started shooting a lot of gas pedals, clutches, transmissions, things like that, operating themselves. We had one sequence: The gas pedal goes to the floor, the gas pedal goes up, the clutch goes in, the gears shifts by itself, the clutch comes out and the gas pedal goes back to the floor again. We were able to shoot everything but the transmission from the driver's side door. The transmission was a problem, because we kept seeing either a corner of the studio of a reflection.

So I said: This is no problem, we will simply take the camera around to the other side and shoot the transmission from there. Total silence. Everybody looked at everybody else. You know what's happening here, right? I'd crossed the axis. It was like farting at the dinner party. Nobody wanted to say you've made a terrible mistake. I didn't get this job because I could direct or because I had any background in film; I got it because I was Stephen King.

So finally [cameraman] Daniele Nannuzzi told me I'd crossed the 180-degree axis and that this simply wasn't done, and although I didn't understand what it was, I grasped the idea that I was breaking a rule.

Later on, I called George [Romero] up on the phone and I said, "What is this axis shit?" and he laughed his head off and explained it, and I said, "Can you break it -- the rule?" He said, "It's better not to, but if you have to, you can. If you look at The Battleship Potemkin" (which I never have), "it crosses the axis all the time, and the guy [Sergei Eisenstein] gets away with it." Then I saw David Lynch and asked him: "What's this about crossing the axis?" and he burst out laughing and said, "That always gets me." And I asked if you could do it, and he gave me this startled look and said, "Stephen, you can do anything. You're the director." Then he paused and said, "But it doesn't cut together."

You already have it down. If you don't mind wasting a bag of frozen peas, they are good for additional ice.

Get a jock strap as well, you'll want the support.

Welcome back comrade! Thanks for taking care of Kissinger for us.

Hahaha blahaj sucks so hard.

I remember when we defederated them first because of the ableist apologia they did.

PS I love all our trans comrades

These takes are entirely understandable for DroneRights to have, given how it views itself as a non-person.

I feel like if anything this esoteric identy was weaponised against those members of our community that were constantly fighting to defend. Also, while I'm all for treating non-persons with kindness and care the fact is animals can't weaponize their non-personhood the way that this account did.

I just go back to what I thought before, just because it sees itself as a non-person it doesn't give it the right to be transphobic. Neurodiversity isn't an excuse to engage in erasure. We can't carve out some exception that our ND comrades can erase trans people because they're ND.

And I still don't see why there's such defense of an account that engaged in blatant transphobia. Straight up, if you use pronouns like the account did (AND INSIST UPON THEM TO OTHERS), then the turn to

Doesn't make sense. Even if you are neurodiverse, how the fuck isn't this some massive cognitive dissonance/hypocrisy. Again, ND isn't an excuse to engage in this kind of behavior, all the more that the account frequently noted its own pronouns.

I mean is it too much to ask that a ND person respect the existence of our trans comrades?

BEING A MINORITY DOESN'T MAKE YOU A DECENT PERSON OR MAKE YOU MAGICALLY UNDERSTAND SOCIAL JUSTICE. LOG OFF AND READ A BOOK!

More neurodivergent queer CIA ghouls does not a liberated society make.

The best part is that I know for sure a few blahaj members have opened accounts here.

That's a from me.

Also, I have a family member with an intellectual disability, so it sticks in my craw when someone tries to defend it as innocent. It's fine if someone throws it out and then gets corrected (think of the Chapos, they quit using it after all), since for a long time it was "acceptable." But to try and defend yourself after correction....

Awoo has already noted some important refutations, but I want to unpack something here.

Landlords and Bourgeoisie are class identities. Importantly, these are not the result of things outside of your control (i.e. ethnic origin, nation, etc.) but instead determined by actions in the world. While one can't say that one is subhuman because of where they are from, isn't being a landlord (and thus extracting rent from people for shelter) a behavior? A series of actions and choices? And can't we characterize a behavior or action as evil/immoral? Basically, when I say "landlords are evil and deserve to die or surrender their assets to the collective" what I'm describing is a particular set of actions. It's not different from having an opinion on if murderers deserve capital punishment.

Btw, I believe in rehabilitative punishment. However, if we're going to talk about people who deserve to die, I think capitalists and landlords are up there. A person who kills someone else -- either due to mental illness or a crime of passion -- is far less damaging to our social fabric than people who, through institutions, contribute to the death of our world and the immiseration of many. For instance, how many unhoused people have gone hungry/died because of the executives at Starbucks who decide that food thrown out should be covered in coffee grounds to be inedible? We don't have the numbers, but shouldn't we call this behavior subhuman/evil? I think you're missing the distinction between saying the executive who designed that policy deserves the gulag -- a specific inhuman action that deserves a specific response -- and calling all insert ethnicity/nationality here subhuman.

We also love the greatest revolutionaries in trek, in particular and