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>governments
A government is just the biggest mafia gang in town, and taxes - their “protection” racket. Maybe they’ll actually protect you from another gang murder-raping you if they feel like it, maybe they won’t. But overall their existence is a net negative. Therefore, dodging taxes is practically a moral obligation.

>Social values
Something like this, I guess:
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The fact that the slippery slope fallacy turned out to be the slippery slope reality. Also, I didn’t even need to use the Victorian era as an example, the same deal was with sex-love-rock n’ roll sixties getting rubberbanded into Reigan-Thatcher eighties. So I’m wondering if the Current Year shit we have now will somehow swing back into puritanism again.

>Corporations
I was thinking specifically about facebook/twitter/google. Considering that social media accounts now effectively are people’s entire careers/lives, the fact that those corporations are allowed to be in control of those is absolute insanity. I.e. “terms of service” breaking of which can get people unpersoned are literal laws, just as real as state laws, except drafted by people no one voted in and who can’t be voted out. The dumbest thing about this shit is that we’ve been over this in the past. In the Great Depression era, there were situations like owners of private roads trying to bust strikes with the “get off my property” excuse, and that crap was quickly thrown out with the introduction of the “privately owned public space” concept. Like, you get to collect the toll, but you don’t get to fucking decide who is allowed to walk on “your” road. This is what should be done to social media. The collective Zuck should not be allowed to make his own mickey mouse laws, and he should not have the right to censor/edit/delete posts, never mind the entire accounts of people without actual court orders issued by an actual court that concluded that the person is in violation of actual real-life laws. I think we’ll come to this eventually, the problem is it might be in like 50 years when boomer politicians that do not understand the internet will finally get replaced by the generations that do.

>the objectivity vs subjectivity debate
Subjectivity does not exist (it obviously does, but I’m just gonna assume you’re capable of understanding the context I’m speaking in). The reality of most things is objective and idiots that think it’s their subjective opinion that 2+2=5 are just that - idiots who are wrong.

>final destination
Yeah, you either laugh at that or you don't.

>pro capitalism, but I think it requires a lot of government intervention
I don't believe a full-on ancap utopia is any more realistic than "true" communism, for the same reason (human nature). But I do believe that governments are the enemy of individuals and that generally, no resistance to a government is going too far in practical terms.
>globalization
Cheap shit from amazon and online jobs for employers halfway across the globe is good. Corporations becoming thought police or subsidiaries of the Chinese Communist Party is not. Though, I see globalization as more of an inevitable fact of reality rather than something that can be affected by people.
>a progressive
Social values are a funny thing, a decade ago I would have counted as an ultra-progressive, in the Current Year I'm somehow closer to bible-thumping conservatives, even though my values didn't change, the world did. I guess we truly live in a society.
I wonder if there is gonna be a rubber-band effect, like, the Victorian era in the UK with its conservative psychosis was a reaction to the previous Georgian era where people were basically walking with their dicks flapping in the wind.

>a very narrow lens instead of using different tools
Technically, I believe the best political system is the enlightened monarchy like Singapore, with its meritocracy, and utilitarianism, and just doing things that actually work. But it's not something that works every time, it has the obvious monarchy flaw of betting everything on a dice roll of the monarch's competency/morality.

Terra Formars - anime Aliens (the movie).
Satsuriku no Tenshi is an absolute favorite of mine, but it's campy.
Another - horror comedy with great suspense.
Red Garden is a promising straight thriller, but I'm only 4 episodes in.

>Have you read them?
Yeah. None of the volumes are as great as the second one, but they're amazing by the general standards.

>political spectrum?
Radical libertarian. Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand. Taxes bad.

Hi. Well, you haven't shown up in a looong time, so I've seen plenty of stuff. Be more specific, name a genre, a theme, or a title similar to what you want recommended.

Also, Zaregoto novels are fully translated, have you read them?

Nah, I'm asking because the anime starts next season. The trailer looks bad and a romance having an 8.5 score with #13 popularity is a huge red flag (but then I thought about Kaguya - it's also popular and high-rated, but it's still good).
I'll probably wait for the preliminary reviews and pick up the show if there aren't any saying "I've heard so much hype for this but it turned out to be generic trash."

Hey, you've read Horimiya, how does it compare to Kaguya?

Ulepił Pan Bóg figurę z błota,
tak przyszedł na świat pierwszy idiota.

Hey there! Zaregoto appears frequently in your favorite titles, and I'm kind of interested in the work. How's the anime adaptation? Does the novel translate well into English?

I did - until I didn't. It was scored 9 until ~ep12. But holes in writing reached a critical mass to a point where I couldn't suspend disbelief anymore. The final straw was the priest guy's contemplations "are the shiki evil?" Yes, they fucking are. This is the most contrived attempt to present black-vs-white as grey-vs-grey I've seen since Planetes. Earlier, I was willing to let it slide as just this one character being morally retarded, but the show didn't present it as such.

>The first 3 episodes just made it feel like the author wasn’t sure if he wanted to explore the characters or the universe first
That's not on the author, Episode 1 adapts chapters 30, 48, 57, 51; the rest do a similar thing.
>Could you elaborate on why you liked the second season more btw?
Same thing but with better production values. Better direction, better voice acting, better everything. Drama vs comedy doesn't really make any difference for me as long as they work.

Haha, I thought it’s gonna be the exact opposite - that you didn’t like that the show ditches the episodic gags format and starts doing longer, more dramatic arcs. The entire season was basically two long arcs. I think S2 is better than S1 in every way, except they’ve had to fit 4 chapters in some episodes because there was no other way to cover all the necessary plot points in 12 episodes, which means some heavy cuts.
>Moreover, it feels like the author doesn’t know where to take the story at this point
Well, that couldn't be further from the truth. If there is one thing Aka knows how to do, it’s to plan ahead. The most recent chapter had a punchline to something that was set up 140 chapters ago.

> didn’t like the second season
Why though?

And then there are some extreme cases like Kaguya manga where it’s a whole circus on top of the actual chapters. It starts with the next chapter’s plot points leaks several days before the actual chapter, so everyone loses their shit over those, then a japanese->korean/chinese->english speedscan (also before the chapter is even published in Japanese) where people confirm or deny their initial theories, then a legit translation, which gets compared to a speedscan, and then the epileptic trees of discussions on what’s going to happen next. So even a single chapter every two weeks becomes this 24/7 entertainment.

I used to be an only marathoning a complete season guy. But then some show you really, really like gets a new season, and you can either watch an episode right now, or sit and wait 3 to 6 month… so you watch it (I’m pretty sure the first ever show I watched as it aired was one of the Monogatari seasons). Simulcasts are fun in their own way, you get to judge every episode independently like a mini-movie, and then anticipate what’s next. I can think of the couple of titles that would be straight up worse if you binge them.
I also don’t actively participate in the seasonals discussions, and yet it somehow feels different to watch the show as it airs for the first time ever, some kind of current events feel, plus you can still get the bonus of people pointing out stuff like references or obscure details in the discussions.
I still keep it to a single book/finished manga + a single non-airing anime at a time.