So the USA has poisoned its population to think badly about China. What can people living in the USA do to try to revert that?
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    Lemmykoopa
    4w ago 100%

    Yessss, I converted so many anti-China fujoshi with The Untamed (Mo Dao Zu Shi). Oh, your mainstream anime or western tv isn't about a bunch of gay romances?? It's just queerbaiting at best??? Destiel gets one scene and then the gay gets buried but Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are husbands??????

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  • So the USA has poisoned its population to think badly about China. What can people living in the USA do to try to revert that?
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    Lemmykoopa
    4w ago 100%

    Just talk about China like it's normal. Same with the DPRK. You're dealing with idealists, starting with the good China does will just make you sound utilitarian, because they think these countries are nazi Germany x10. Make them remember Chinese people are people first, then later slide that article about how they did good thing in their DMs

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  • My country, with help of the org I work at, is further working on sex workers rights and it makes me fucking uncomfortable honestly
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    Lemmykoopa
    1mo ago 88%

    CW sex work related things, cus you mentioned you might

    FWIW I really suggest not doing IRL sex work. Occams razor is they just want sex, but they still lie about STDs constantly (people with undetectable HIV will never admit they have HIV or use a condom), will stiff you, and can be violent at the drop of a hat. From my experience you will get an STD (I got syphilis twice, chlamydia, anal warts, and herpes type 1), they will stiff you, you can't say NO. I was only raped once (although sex work as a whole constitutes rape, even in the best, safest situation) and drugged once (because the dude didn't want to party by homself). Only ever beaten by random queerphobes on the street, then again I also never fight back when someone is forcing me

    And this was while I escorted people who knew me from porn. Porn btw tests the day of the shoot usually, although HIV has a 2 week to 2 month window. Also think you'll only do work online? Well eventually someone will make a really really good offer

    And eventually you'll get old and not make the sweet bucks anymore and be saddled with all that royalty free trauma

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  • General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 36
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    2mo ago 100%

    Wait, so did Kim Il Sung actually kidnap a Godzilla director? I remember this being a talking point back in the 00s, like it sounds ridiculous

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    Zelda fans have been asking for this for ages, you Tourist.
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    2mo ago 100%

    Since the first game. She was the one that hid the Triforce pieces in all of the dungeons behind all the locked doors and monsters and puzzles that kick Link's ass, then got caught by Ganon, but only after sending Impa to get some help

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  • Capitalism ruined gaming
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    Lemmykoopa
    2mo ago 100%

    Elder scrolls 6. I was just lamenting how AAA released used to take a few years, then the 10s happened and several franchises kinda stopped releasing games in favor of re-releasing

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    Writers of hexbear, how do you decide/how did you decide on what (non-fan) fiction story you wanted to write?
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    Lemmykoopa
    2mo ago 100%

    I guess, personally, my major piece of advice is that you probably will not be able to write everything you want to write within the same story without it losing a sense of coh

    This is really great advice and basically what I was struggling with! I had a near comprehensive list of Marxist and liberal themes that I was trying to shoehorn into a pastiche of short stories I've written and it just... wasn't working

    <3 hell yeah lol

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    writing Lemmykoopa 2mo ago 100%
    Writers of hexbear, how do you decide/how did you decide on what (non-fan) fiction story you wanted to write?
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    General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 34
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    Lemmykoopa
    2mo ago 100%

    So how's Wukong? I'd usually wait for a crack for something like this, but apparently the scene is dead dead, and no one left is able or willing to crack denuvo

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    How to write communist plots and themes?
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    How to write communist plots and themes?

    Most of media is liberal or downright fash, IE multiple literal races in fantasy, pacifism at all costs, individualism like superheroes, etc. There was a Kim Jong Un quote floating around about how all art should tie back to the revolution, which I agree with, even in a roundabout way, but almost all the media I've been bathed in has been reactionary af. What are some pitfalls to avoid, so I don't accidentally draw what amounts to a swastika? Is there a 7 basic plots for commies? I've already read some anarchist and vaguely socialist fiction (have not found anything ML) but some recommendations would be nice as well.

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    What do you tell people who say that they don’t want their taxes going for people who don’t work?
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    Lemmykoopa
    3mo ago 100%

    Flip the argument. Extoll how socialism has near 100% employment and relatively no homelessness, even providing good jobs to the disabled. Wiki will fact check this as true, because it agrees, but says that's bad

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  • How do you think your nation's youth will deal with the future?
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    3mo ago 90%

    Yeah, their parents are millennials and older zoomers. I don't see the bulk of either generation tossing their kids out just cus like the boomers and xers. America goes back to multigenerational housing like most of the world

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  • Like I get how covid conscious and dating/meet-up sites are a bit of a contradiction, but my partner and I are both immunocompromised with asthma and have followed proper covid protocol since the beginning (masking, not really going out ever, because it could kill us easily, and even if it didn't, I don't want to harm others!). It's... difficult, though. We're very social, poly people that have been effectively stuck in the best prison with the best prison mate. Like, other people like us have to exist right, even in this hyper-individualistic hellhole? I tried grindr and tindr but, well, people lie, and it's very literally life and death. I tried googling this and came up with basically nothing.

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    Bolivia’s Arce faces off with army amid attempted coup
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    Lemmykoopa
    4mo ago 100%

    And the General claimed it was all staged afterwards lol. I believe atm that Acre did Sorkin his way out of it, but it's up there with Fidel representing himself in court and winning levels of implausible yet happened

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  • I already know brainwashing is the CIA taking a scary sounding word that just means to think scientifically and making it a boogeyman (all the while the US Gov was imprisoning and dosing people with LSD for months on end to effectively brainwash them). I'm assuming what's true for the gulag system was true for the Laogai, but some sources would be nice.

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