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yeah, forgot about him. was just saying this wasn't the best example of the real phenomenon of americans using english accents for romanians or russians or finns bc 5/8 of the characters with significant screen time were actually just english and one was a swede.

i think lily-rose depp is the only american in the cast, but yeah it wasn't great

it's easy to do when you're all in the same room at eglin afb

Edit: Oh one point I kinda forgot about- the mega-threadification of hexbear means that we can't really assume a uniform site culture anymore. I know we've done this to give more people safe spaces but imo it's gotten kinda cliquey and I kinda feel like we're 2 shitposts from (completely arbitrary and made up example) the News Mega launching a civil war against Badposting or something. Idk if it's actually a problem or not tho

it is imo and i don't really care to participate in them, even the ones explicitly formed around my identities. for me they become difficult to follow and, as you point out, cliquish in a way that i don't personally love. megathreadification and the consequent reduction in discrete threads on this or that thing makes the site harder for me to engage with and imo encourages the internal perception that the site is down to beanisposting and slopposting or whatever (i don't have a problem with either tbc). that's just my take on it - i agree with your whole comment, that part just jumped out for me in particular.

seeing full on radlibs in turbolib spaces asking why they see two women holding hands in Guangzhou without getting arrested or why they're getting makeup tips from a super fabulous dude who isn't censored is turning into them just actively ignoring the scolding of the "adults in the room centrists who have a 'friend' from the mainland". it's beautiful and i hope it continues

i was against federation from the beginning and remain locals only. i only see non-locals if non bears come to our local places and unfortunately it's usually to shit the place up. grad is ok

drugs, immigrants, [insert foreign adversary], the holy trinity for the cia

yeah I stream of consciousnessed that but essentially where the greater political sophistication of the italian blocs during the years of lead required the actual physical manifestation of the strategy of tension in the form consistent low-level violence, the american political landscape requires significantly less effort. the state has already successfully neutralized any nascent organization with any promise. now, a constant conflict between largely incoherent parties is waged across media, and any left-wing attempt to point to the material reality of things is easily dismissed either as fantasy or conspiracy respectively by the predominant "sides" of the captured discourse.

considering "it's chinese" is liberal for "it's bad", yeah I would say so

They're not really trying to because a lot of that comes from in-house and isn't seen as a threat to the state. Something like ivermectin disinfo isn't perceived as a threat to the state but too many Luigi memes are. "Protecting US citizens" is not a priority. US censorship regimes on social media however, absolutely do exist but they take the form or cooperation of the business with the state to deprioritize certain content.

exactly this, a lot of the crystal mom ivermectin flat earth secret chinese training grounds shit juxtaposed with conspiracy theorist as pejorative encourages an ideological years of lead dynamic that contributes to the political incoherence of the average disinterested american which is very much to the benefit of the military-industrial complex. as you said, the only perceived threats in this mind melting discourse are those which accurately point to capital as complicit in the average person's lack of well-being

Territory Including Trinidad & Tobago and Islands East to Suriname

it's not great but it's the best i got on short notice