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@Antelope appreciate the more than informative reply.
I ask this cause I'm currently living this experience now. Long story...
Samurai warriors and ninjas are cool as shit.
I bet you'd know about Miyamoto Musashi too. Absolute legend. Greatest documented swordsman in all of human history. Honestly underrated. He has written a few books like The Book of Five Rings, sharing his philosophy. Imagine if they taught kids this stuff in school.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamAdams(pilot)
The wiki for the man that John Blackthorne is based on, a genuinely cool life.
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@Victor I highly recommend the book the show is based on, very good read.
The quote, taken in context from Yoshii Nagakado, the son of Yoshii Toronaga, comes across as a false level of wise. It is true of his father’s allies to a certain extent. Their ambitions could damage his power balance against the council. But given what happens at the end of episode 4, it doesn’t appear that Nagakado understands the balancing act. It certainly wouldn’t be true of Kashigi Yabushige, the guy playing both sides, because if his allies had no ambition he wouldn’t be able to play them both and elevate himself as a consequence.
“You milk-dribbling fuck smear.”
2d ago The Public Square
@Antelope That's a good description of it, and it's quite troublesome for sure, dystopian even.
3d ago The Public Square
When you start looking at the history of the ADL.
3d ago The Public Square
The state is a power broker.
You seem to make the assumption that the state is sovereign and reigning in private interest. It isn't.
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@SeasonedRP I think the key thing to hold on to, is that, none of these places will be ‘shut down’. The legislation works as a threat to the market, the market reaction to the threatening legislature applies pressure to sell, the asset is acquired by favourable parties, the asset can then be realigned to their agenda.
It is a state asserting itself over private corporations, something they’ve been decades late to the party about because of a brief period in the 1990’s in which free market capitalism actually allowed free ideas and capital - all while eastern powers never let the state fall behind private companies.
Well, so we should ask ourselves two questions as I see it:
A) Are we okay about a state asserting power in such a manner?
B) Are we okay with what the private companies came up with in their window of opportunity?
I’m not okay with either, frankly. The trajectory of both of these are dystopian for the average pleb, combining the outcomes of both is straight up hell. The final question would be:
What is the state going to do with an app/platform that already bleeds people of their sensibilities and time?
It’s well and good for people like Nancy Pelosi to stand in front of congress and blather on about TikTok tic-tac-toe so we can laugh off the clueless old lady and say there’s nothing to worry about, but as we’ve covered, millions upon millions of brains are hooked into this primed for a new wave of brainwashing.
I wish it was being banned.
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All roads lead to the truth.
Books for some, tiktok challengea for others .. who am I to judge
3d ago The Public Square
@deeplydisturbed @lionsmane8 here’s the overt tweet from the JFNA. Yeah they’re big mad that they haven’t got control of the narrative for millions of eyes. There’s a utilitarian argument for TikTok if millions can be red pulled about the zionists, but I’ve still got to weigh that against immense amount of slop TikTok puts out. There’s far more stimulating ways to learn and red pill gen z, and platforms to do it. Telegram, for one.