Imagine older thumb looking feds getting sick of these new guys queueing up Mumford and Sons and bragging about microbrews at the FBI office parties. Shortening COINTELPRO to "coiney". Planting cocaine in bio-degradeable baggies on black people.

Up until recently I had a very, very old version of uTorrent installed, used it till it was unusable, swapped to qBit like last year.

That works great until you need to cook dinner

Yeah, first it's frustratingly hot and afterwards you have to eat British food. It's taking 2 consecutive L's.

I'm Chinese living in Australia, so I have 2 reasons to insult the British.

If I ever get power I'm flooding the UK with opium.

This is pretty accurate to Wuhan except there's like 3 ring roads and like 100 lakes. Even the position: Shanghai directly east, Beijing to the north and Guangdong to the south.

I literally never claimed it was revolutionary and leftist, I never even used those words. I said not exactly bad. Something doesn't have to be explicitly (or even implicitly) leftist and/or revolutionary to be "not bad".

But more to the point, I was directly addressing your point: It's not something the Simpsons did "thirty fucking years ago", because the Simpsons didn't build up a plot for the whole episode only to have it be undercut and resolved within seconds by violence against the villain of the episode. They know about deus ex machina and how it's lazy and then doubled down on it. It's kinda not really seen in a mainstream TV series.

Everything I described about the show isn't about it being leftist, I was literally pointing out things the Simpsons (and mainstream TV in general) never did. I started off with saying "Hey, I get you if you don't find it funny". Then I listed things that generally aren't seen in mainstream TV. You made a claim, I countered it, and then you went and implied that I think it's leftist? No, I think showing the bourgeoisie getting unceremoniously killed doesn't do shit for any leftist cause but it's still something that other shows aren't actively showing, let alone showing as an act with absolutely no downsides.

actually makes it reactionary as fuck and as far removed from any sort of leftism as it could possibly be

As it could possibly be? Actual reactionary media is less reactionary and less far removed to leftism? How? Please explain. When TV shows, animated especially, have just been "Pronouns! iPad bad! PC DEI bad!" or "My name is Rick Sanchez, god is dead, nothing matters, just get drunk and fuck around all day". Doing the whole "here is why this practically apolitical media property is actually reactionary and right wing" is always a whack and cringe thing to do. it's a fucking cartoon

murdering people in power isn't "leftist", since it's the capitalist system that binds us and not the individuals who are merely interchangeable pawns. there is a giant difference between random violence (bad) and revolutionary violence (good), because one is aimed at getting senseless revenge at individuals and the other is aimed at destroying the actual capitalist power structures that actually cause all the bad stuff to happen.

Getting past the point where I once again never claimed it was leftist, yeah. I agree. But I also understand that if John Hinkley Jr. actually killed Reagan on TV it'd be funny as fuck, top 5 hilarious moments of live TV of all time. And I know it won't build class consciousness or move the US towards communism and he would have just been replaced but a just as right wing VP. And that's an act of random violence against an individual for the sake of impressing Jodie fucking Foster, even less of a credible reason than revenge. Not everything we find entertaining has to actively be a movement towards communism. Seeing karma manifest can be satisfying in and of itself, even if it doesn't build any amount of solidarity or class consciousness.

Is there a single part in the show where the random violent murder causes any sort of solidarity (class solidarity or otherwise) to form, or where there the capitalist state strikes back at the working class?

No, because that would be ridiculous. No show does that. But it doesn't have to do that to be more than "a random cartoon where random people get murdered because randomly murdering people is a fun thing to do in a cartoon". The dial isn't a binary between "Random murder show" and "Leftist masterpiece". There are many, many steps in between those. You can't honestly tell me this show is worse than the unstructured random murder shows like Happy Tree Friends or Mr Pickles

Murdering a CEO doesn't abolish copyright, murdering a stalker doesn't stop the patriarchy, murdering a landlord doesn't make you own the building

Yeah, of course not, but a more lib show would have the CEO getting arrested or having a change of heart at the last minute to resolve the plot, and an outright reactionary shows would have had the characters realize they were in the wrong and the CEO is a benevolent job creator.

I get it if you don't find it funny, but solutions to like 50% of the episodic villains in Smiling Friends tend to be defeated by being murdered on screen, and it's shown to have no drawbacks whatsoever and way more effective than working within the system. It's kinda not really seen in a mainstream TV series. It's not even like the Rick and Morty "oh Rock avenged his wife by beating her killer to death with his bare hands, but now he feels hollow and sad". It's "oh, the antagonist was brutally killed? The problem is solved".

TV executives ruining an otherwise good show to maximise appeal and profit? Eaten alive. Video game CEO ruining a beloved franchise? Knife through the skull. Eldritch abomination trying to kill you? Drawn and quartered. Creepy incel stalker? Disemboweled. Terrible landlord? Driven to commit literal seppuku with a katana. Demonic succubus possessing your boss and making your work life even worse? Defenestration.

Half the episodes are played kinda straight, but the other half is literally "violence is sometimes the answer". One of the only 2 episodes this season where they don't resort to violence is the one where the protagonists lose. The episode in question is where the POTUS is a bumbling, incompetent idiot but his opponent is a comically evil psychopath TV billionaire who pours radioactive waste into rivers for fun. They work within the system to get him re-elected because the other guy is way worse, and the psychopath ends up winning anyway.

I like it. Idk the history or background of the American guy but if he's like a Filthy Frank style edgelord I'm pretty sure it's a good thing he's grown up and moved away from it.

As for the show itself, some of the messages aren't exactly bad. The video game executive that's sitting on an IP to not make new games with until nostalgia gets to the point where they can make them a DLC character for the Fortnite/Smash Bros stand in gets murdered on screen and that's the good ending. The TV executive that micromanages a TV show to maximise appeal and profit gets murdered in live TV and the entire crowd cheers. There's a scene of a worker with 6 arms stocking shelves while his boss is a guy with no arms, calling him slow and useless and threatening to fire him despite the fact that he's the only employee and does all the work.

If anything the show makes fun of edgy people, possibly as atonement, to the point where the antagonist of the week, the edgy nihilists, get humiliated in front of a crowd and get murdered. Another episode has this evil scientist who thinks the world is fucked and he can replace people with his own homunculi to create a better world and he's shown to be a socially inept NEET who lives in his brother's house rent free.

Edit: also, as for the McDonalds Rick and Morty viral video, that was staged. The guy hates Rick and Morty fans with a passion so he threw a public tantrum under the guise of a Rick and Morty fan to make them look bad. It's still cringe, but in a different way.

Anecdotally, one of my irl friends worked with Michael Cusack on a non Smiling Friends project and she said he was a pretty nice guy, so there's that.

The American on the other hand I didn't really hear about before this show.

ETA: as for the show itself, the pilot is a pretty mid episode. There are scenes/episodes later that show the animation team is doing what they're doing on purpose, like the Bakshi Lord of the Rings homage character that I believe is hand drawn animated on 2's being on screen at the same time as a .PNG character model being clicked and dragged away to show movement. Kinda like Cruelty Squad looks shit on purpose? The flash animation esque character on screen with Joel Havel rotoscoping is another example.

The infamous Chinese invention "block printing" is a knock off of writing things with ink and quill, in this essay I will conclude the CCP will collapse in 30 days because of this.

"I CloutAtlas am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had...vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."

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Sniff s-sic semper tyrannis

A lot of westerners don't understand that umami and heat pair extremely well. It should be taught in any and every culinary school on the planet. Salt and pepper go together, umami and heat go together. Hot and sour is good, and I think that's generally the school of thought in the Americas is for hot sauces (Cholula, Tabasco, Frank's Red Hot, buffalo sauce in general, Tapatio). Don't get me wrong, vinegar and/or citrus does improve the flavour better than just straight up heat like an edgelord, and I do really like vinegar based hot sauces. But MSG/Mushrooms/etc that's savoury? Not nearly as well understood.

I distinctly remember making a spicy mapo dofu for some white people and the consensus was "oh, that's a nice level of spice, it's very hot but not too hot!"

It was MSG. In fact I didn't put table salt in the dish, all the sodium in the entire dish was msg and soy sauce. I bought the chili peppers from the same place as anyone else, Woolworths. I didn't have a magically less spicy but still spicy strain, I simply complimented the heat with other flavours.

Me putting Sichuan peppercorns in 1 dish for a friend:

"I think something's wrong, my mouth is numb!?"

Said person is white, Australian and "enjoys spices" (He had 5 spice, cinammon, pepper and paprika in his spice rack + a bottle of sriracha in the fridge for some reason)

Cold cut on bread is literally the type of food Chinese people were dunking on a few months ago.

"The point of the white people's meal is to learn what it feels like to be dead, but I've taken two bites and it was so bad it made me realize how alive I am"

Just gotta urge Shaun and Hbomberguy to migrate to Bilibili

If Hunter converts to Islam in prison, that would make this whole media circus worth it.

Joe Biden doesn't have the conviction and integrity of Joe Stalin.

When Vasily Stalin got captured by Nazis, Joe was like "Yeah if you want to do a prisoner exchange, I'll trade him for a regular German soldier, you're not getting an officer for my idiot son"

It's called being Anglo.

He's a few months younger than Shakira, Psy and Richard Ayoade, who all appear younger than him by a lot.

His grandfather was also a very successful chiropractor in Canada, owning a 20 room house and a private plane from damaging people's spines for a living and helped popularize the pseudoscience of Chiropractics in Canada.

It's just grifters all the way down. If you told me his ancestors went town to town selling "cure all elixirs" that's just ground up horse hooves, sawdust suspended in cider vinegar, I wouldn't be surprised.