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But Lev.

You, who host Yarvin so often, should know better to not bring a culture war knife to a nuclear struggle for power. A side has to win, and one will lose, and the cycle of action-reaction will repeat forever.

Plus, you already talk about this from the perspective of the modern, cosmopolitan writer who is tolerant to lots of stuff "meh, who cares", a fashionably bit nihilistic and distant, and "safe". Not all of us have this luxury, my job is directly threatened by the progressive lunacy around gender, for example, so even with the remote and mostly "meh who cares" danger of social right wing conformity ahead, I'd rather drink champagne while my enemies crumble and suffer, if you know what I mean?

Now, anime and Walsh. I'm definitely not religious. But I do think that today's young males are lonely and vulnerable... to the dangers of anime to trans pipeline. These incel types are unable to score women, so they become attracted to these Asuka lolicon-adjacent drawings. And some eventually embrace themselves as women. That is not something we should tolerate, sorry.

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I host Yarvin but often times disagree with him. The default mode of "meh who cares" would be to shy away from criticizing the harmful actions of progressive lunacy, which is not the case with my conclusion here.

What the young males find within anime, we've seen the same with "My Little Pony" and the oversaturated furry culture. People will attach to whatever's available and this is the bigger question of what people have to live for, but the nuance within a truly great piece of work goes beyond these more infantile desires.

The "drinking champagne" line reminds me of that socialist smuggie line about "I'll be a card carrying member of the party".

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Jun 5, 2023Liked by Lev Polyakov

Yup there are risks to hoping to make it in the nomenklatura. MLP and bronies, furry etc., you know how they say - absolutely haram.

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Found him. 🤠

https://i.imgur.com/wMywrAx.png

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Jun 5, 2023Liked by Lev Polyakov

Here's better ones (IMO):

https://imgur.com/a/y8Oj3v3

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