silent_water [she/her]

So, would official acts as president be legal by definition?

yes, and further that any exercise of constitutional authority is an official act.

Would there be such a thing as an official act as president that may otherwise be criminal?

in the prosecutable sense? no. the president is no longer bound by congressional authority.

And how does the ruling protect against treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors (specifically, the past part)?

courts won’t do shit about it, congress will have to (lmao)

How is this ruling not in direct contrast to the constitution?

the constitution is toilet paper and always has been. scotus just wiped some diarrhea with it.

wait, no, this is how everyone does math. right? …right?

it’s been broken for 50 years

China also appears to be improving on this in real time, though official policy still lags behind e.g. Cuba.

simply open hexbear in another tab, type the emote you want into a comment box, hit preview, and copy the image link.

how though? the assets are in China. best they could do is authorize a clone in the US but they’d lose the existing data in the process.

the man never misses. he literally described my life on that page.

every accusation is projection

idk, I just know that the old instance already have problems with power users and reifying that will make the problem worse.

I think this was always an intended feature (I’ve certainly been hearing about it for years as something people want/devs want to add), in addition to a user tagging system (i.e. users adding tags to their own usernames (e.g. pronoun tags). the main difference, though, was that it was something the poster or mods/admins could add and not something for the userbase at large to vote on. I think making it a voting system allows abuse. like consider a large group of transphobes adding tags to posts in trans comms, for instance.

a trusted user system is it’s own can of worms.

I have watched Kill la Kill a couple of years ago, at the time I was still a lib, so I really need to watch it again

oh it gets better on a rewatch when you know where it’s headed. the politics really pop out at you. if you haven’t seen Promare yet, watch it. it’s Trigger at their best – easily my favorite movie.

If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest you watch Gurren Lagann.

my friends in college were always talking about it but they made it sound really unappealing by constantly dropping references. you’ve just reminded me that I’ve meant to go back and watch it now that I know how good Trigger is, basically always. well, except Darling and the Franxx. I swear to god someone told them to drop the original ending to that show, because “do a literal revolution and kill the people exploiting you” made some suit uncomfortable, as that would have made so much more sense as the ending rather than the…mess… we got.

some stuff in Part 3

ngl, we bounced off part 3 after just a few episodes. neither I nor my wife could stand edgeboy mcedgeface (though, we laughed our asses off when he was like yeah, I’m heading to high school now – yeah dude, this guy who looks like he’s 35 is going to high school, right… but that’s been funny consistently throughout the entire series)

Parts 5 onward are a lot more progressive than the previous stuff. Part 5 is just full homoerotic twinks beating the living shit out of each other

yeah, we enjoyed Part 5. we actually liked Part 1 the best of any of them so far because the simplicity made the absurdity much more fun and it did a lot with it’s limited run time, without the shitty politics of Part 2. we’re considering going back to Part 2 and just straight up rooting for the Pillar Men to win. cause like the only awful shit we’ve seen them do so far is… kill nazis? which ngl just makes them based. we stopped at “we’re leaving to kill people in Mussolini’s Italy” (which is extremely “oh… no… don’t… stop…”) and Joseph was going to ally with the nazis again to stop them. knowing the nazi friend gets murked in Stalingrad only makes it better.

we also accidentally skipped Part 4 because we hit play on season 4 thinking that was Part 4 and eventually realized something was wrong, only to go meh, this is pretty good. the extremely queer men literally everywhere and the extremely homoerotic posing/fights validated that choice. I fucking lost it every time Giorno posed with his stand, hands on its hips like it was going to rail him. so we might go back for Part 4 at some point.

hell, in part 6 he wanted the protagonist to be a lesbian, but he was barred from doing that.

that’s extremely disappointing. we’re only a few episodes in but I guess it’s extremely on-brand for this show to continue being homoerotic subtextually but continue to not address that blatant subtext.

And the newest part that I haven’t read yet might have some gender non-conforming person as one of the main characters from last I saw it too.

I’ve heard Part 7 has them fighting the US president which sounds fucking lit. we’re kinda just holding out hope that that’s one that makes us go from “yeah, this is good I guess” to obsessive the way everyone else seems to be. I feel like one of the reasons we liked 1 better than 5 was just the length of the latter, though. like 5 had the objectively better story but it dragged on for too long. though, I fucking love One Piece so that’s some real fucking hypocrisy lmao.

actually, now that we got live action OP, maybe we’ll get a live action Jojos. that would be fucking hilarious if done with the same kind of love and dedication. what a truly bizarre prospect, a live action bizarre adventure.

I highly suggest you don’t use the official subs as there’s a lot of censorship of names because Araki literally uses band and song names for stands lmao.

we noticed this when the subs turned on while we were watching the dub (Jellyfin has… issues… sometimes) and how much better the naming was in the dub. renaming “the Sex Pistols” to “6 bullets” has got to be a crime of some kind.

Also, if you’re interested I suggest watching videos about him and about JoJo in general, it helps put a lot of his decisions into perspective.

I’d love reccs for good video essays about it. I tried searching for videos about specific Parts but I just got the usual “here’s why you should watch…” type videos, which are really shallow and don’t get into the deeper kinds of analysis that normally helps me process my own thoughts and feelings about what I just saw. also “I didn’t understand this so it’s a plothole” really gets my goat. like, dude, it’s clearly spelled out and it’s clearly spelled out why he couldn’t do XYZ in that circumstance – you’re a video essayist, would it kill you to take notes? spoilers also don’t affect my ability to enjoy things. if anything they help cause I’m way too ADHD and it’s helpful to have some context on where I’m at in a story and which details are relevant/irrelevant.

JoJo does have it’s fair share of issues, but I think it is absolutely fenomenal! It a 100% helped destroy my, at the time, homophobic views.

hahaha, I believe it. this show is nothing, if not extremely homoerotic. and it probably helps that the extremely not gay men are being extremely not gay good guys, instead of just the villains like a lot of other 90s-00s media. someone on reddit got into it with me about whether or not Ursula in the Little Mermaid was gay/trans coded and so I’m super aware that it’s possible to miss the barely subtextual text (actually, sorry, I just got mad about this all over again… honey, what??) but I can see how it helps a lot if you’re paying any attention at all.

there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s “this character is trans but haha they’re actually not… but what if?”. like so, so much of it. like reddit regularly gets up in arms over “femboys” that live as women full time and will look into the camera and tell the audience “I wish I’d been born a woman” but the characters + marketing material misgenders them so reddit dies on the hill of “this character is actually a man”. Luka in Steins; Gate is such a prototypical example of this that I can probably just start calling this the Luka Theorem. don’t watch that show unless you want your heart to get broken and feel legitimate rage at a TV show over how much she gives up for the sake of a main character who’s straight up abusive towards her.

but I’m gonna be honest. I mentioned Utena because it’s the pinnacle of queer, animated art, at least from what I’ve seen, in terms of it’s deeply queer themes, it’s exploration of queer sexuality and gender. so many shows, from the Witch from Mars, to Steven Universe have paid homage to it, because it touches everyone who watches it so deeply. I suggest watching Kunihiko Ikuhara’s other, less well-known shows. I swear to god, he has to be trans because his works are invariably made for women and fembies – even the one that looks like it’s about sexualizing gay women is a direct attack on the rest of the anime industry for it’s treatment of gay characters and it’s well received by lesbians. Penguindrum is less obviously queer but it’s peak Ikuhara. I highly recommend it.

other suggestions:

1. the Rose of Versailles is the show Utena pays homage to, both in characterization and themes.
2. if you can get past a strong heaping of anime bullshit, Kill la Kill is both leftist and gay. the first 3 episodes make it out to be a typical shonen, down to the sexualization of teenagers, only for the camera to stop leering the second the main character starts to embrace her sexuality and starts wielding it as a source of power. I thought I was going to hate it but it ended up becoming one of my favorites. I will die on the hill of “it’s actually about left unity”. the men also get just as naked as the women and, once the revolution is done, they have a huge, nonsexual cuddle pile, which is really cute.
3. Madoka Magicka is extremely difficult to read as anything but a gay love story. and this is worth a watch if you’ve already seen the show, as an analysis of why the show isn’t merely anticapitalist but, rather, revolutionary.
4. Sailor Moon is beloved for a good reason. Ikuhara wrote the third season and the studio’s unwillingness to let him allow the women to kiss is what led directly to Utena. don’t watch the dub - they tried to retcon how gay the characters are. also don’t watch the new show. they tried to only tell the story, which is insane because the story is not why anyone watched the show. the result is that they turned a slice of life show into some kind of weird shonen and sucked all the humanity out of it.
5. Ouran High School Host Club is fantastic trans rep right up until they undo it all in the ending.
6. Land of the Lustrous has nothing but non-binary characters. it’s beautiful but gender doesn’t play a huge role.

there’s also a lot of stuff that reads extremely queer if you’re familiar with queer culture (I cannot begin to express how many times I’ve yelled “now kiss” or “bitch just transition” at my screen) but none of it was memorable enough to recommend right now. I’m slowly working through Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure right now and it’s fun from the perspective that it’s hot, buff dudes posing at each other and punching each other when they clearly want to kiss instead, but I can’t recommend it, at least so far, cause the politics started fairly reactionary.

his lengthy defenses of both aged extremely well

Only if you’re Japanese, by your own definition. Nobody else would call Spongebob anime, come on now. Why are so many here so over the top freaked out by criticism of sexualized cartoons of children?

it’s a champagne vs sparkling wine situation. taking the weeaboos seriously is a mistake.

Why are people on a discussion forum for adults familiar with children’s cartoons?

for the same reason they’re familiar with Spongebob. some art transcends age and it can be appreciated on it’s own merits.

People here are obviously very triggered due to an insecurity about their liking of a specific art form that they know, very shallow down, is dodgy as fuck.

as someone with several very specific trauma triggers, please don’t do this. it’s reactionary to refer to triggers as if the term means “mildly upset”. moreover, I’ve read this thread several times, and I think you’re projecting emotions onto others, moreso than anyone else getting worked up here.

as for myself, there’s generally more queer expression in anime than in western art so that’s what draws me to it. I feel more seen there. western depictions of queerness tend to be more pandering than what I find there, where there’s a lot more art that introspects on the queer experience. I’ve never sobbed so hard at art before seeing the ending to Revolutionary Girl Utena (because of how it mirrored an extremely specific personal experience I’m not going to share here) and that particular show is a favorite among trans women. I can’t pretend to understand why they tend to produce more of that kind of art (Japanese culture makes it fairly taboo – maybe it’s because of the taboo and the lack of corporate/public awareness about the queer subtext of these stories) but it’s hard to deny that they do.

if you want an example of a story that isn’t merely allegorically or subtextually trans, here’s an analysis of a cartoon that’s textually and unequivocally about a trans person coming to terms with their gender, using a framing device that trans people share with each other as a thought experiment to help them decide whether or not they’re really trans. and, as it’s discussed at the end of that video, the author isn’t merely some cis person writing about the trans experience. it’s very likely that they themselves are trans and are struggling to come to grips with that fact.

the shallow shit that panders to men is a complete non-starter for me, especially because I’m not attracted to women, so I can’t really comment on the artistic value of it.

no, we don’t have downvotes on hexbear and this is what they looked like when we did. it means bad post.

clap de-escalatory clap bombings clap

I’ve developed an involuntary tic every time I hear the word nuance.

nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.

nah, they’re just good at posting. up your game.

notice when you’ve gone back and consciously choose to notice how it’s making you feel in the moment and decide to do something else instead. you have to reprogram the dopamine hit from getting mad at assholes and redirect it towards something else that’s healthier. don’t get mad at yourself when you don’t succeed immediately. just keep doing it and you’ll rewire your brain really fast. source: many years of unmedicated ADHD