After a long absence I’m back with another “educational” Japanese language post. Unexpectedly, I’m really enjoying this particular anime. It features a believable romance story with characters that are actually well developed. The honest romance should keep the ladies happy and the ridiculous fan service will make men happy. The fact that it does both well and both are relevant to the plot is what makes the story work.
Wakana Gojo is a first-year high school student who dreams of becoming a hina doll craftsman. One day during his first semester, his popular classmate Marin Kitagawa sees him making doll costumes in the school’s clothing room. Marin, who has wanted to cosplay for a while and has observed Wakana’s skill in sewing, asks him to create the costume of a character from a video game that she adores. Despite the fact that Wakana has no experience making a costume on a human scale, he is inspired by Marin’s tenacity and agrees to make one for her.
ビスクドール
その 着せ替え人形は恋をする
The words ビスクドール should be directly on top of 着せ替え人形 and in a smaller font, but I’m absolutely stumped how to make the English version of WordPress create what is called furigana in Japanese.
“Furigana… is a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller kana or syllabic characters, printed either above or next to kanji… or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. ” – Wikipedia
And why, you might ask do we need such a thing here? The answer is because of today’s lesson something called “ateji“.
“In modern Japanese, ateji … principally refers to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters… Conversely, ateji also refers to kanji used semantically without regard to the readings.
For example, the word “sushi” is often written with its ateji “寿司”. Though the two characters have the readings ‘su’ and ‘shi’ respectively, the character ‘寿’ means “one’s natural life span” and ‘司’ means “to administer”, neither of which has anything to do with the food. Ateji as a means of representing loanwords has been largely superseded in modern Japanese by the use of katakana… although many ateji coined in earlier eras still linger on.” – Wikipedia
First, let’s format the sentence the way the title would be spoken in Japanese.
その ビスク・ドールは 恋を する
sono bisuku dooru wa koi wo suru
その – sono – this
ビスク・ドール – bisku dooru – bisque doll. You’ll note it is in katakana because “bisque doll” is a foreign word.
は – ha (pronounced in this usage as wa) – a piece of grammar that marks a topic of a sentence or thought.
恋 – koi – love – specifically romantic or passionate.
を – wo (but sounds more like “o” here in English) another piece of grammar that marks the object of a verb.
する – suru – the verb to do. In Japanese one “does love” here.
The bisque doll falls (or is falling) in love
Here is where it gets both interesting and ridiculous. The title is written:
その 着せ替え人形は恋をする
sono kisekae ningyou wa koi wo suru.
着せ替え – kisenkae – changing clothes (specifically on dolls)
人形 – ningyou – doll
着せ替え人形 – kisenkaeningyou – changeable clothing doll
The doll that changes clothes falls in love
So a reader of the title of this work will get a double meaning. This meaning isn’t present when somebody just hears the title of the work. This is a common literary technique in Japanese, but it used much more broadly as well. It’s common for certain words like the way sushi is written as mentioned above. It’s also used for Japanese names. When used in names it can frustrate older Japanese people the same way odd spellings and bizarre pronunciations for trendy names are now used for younger people in the US.
The English title, My Dress-Up Darling borrows more from the underlying meaning than the actual Japanese title, but is mostly unique to the English translation.
YouTuber otaku extraordinaire and squishy apologist for the left, Mother’s Basement, has a good review here – Why We Love My Dress-Up Darling.
Qlexia strikes again with the title of this series.
I can’t read it any other way.
#metoo
Every time.
Go on…
Well, one upon a time, photography was done on a film using a chemical process….
あかせあかり / 恋ノ行方 (My Dress-Up Darling / Official Music Video)
https://youtu.be/sRS8Otwbo7g
Woo, anime tiddies!
Oh, wait…
Nevermind.
Read as Learn Japanese Through Anime Tiddies
Does that make me a weebo?
My brother.
Gentlemen, I choose these subjects for a reason.
http://www.anime-evo.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SoBi_02_6.jpg
Hey everybody, did you know that “titles” looks an awful lot like “titties” in first glance?
Seriously though, interesting article! Japanese is one of those languages that is so daunting I wouldn’t even know where to start on learning it. So many layers and contextual requirements.
We suffer from a very sexy learning disability…
Don’t mock Us!… and fail to be funny while doing so.
I want to laugh, dammit.
While Japanese is daunting it’s amazing that 3 year olds in every language are speaking in sentences, conjugating verbs, while we (meaning me) have trouble with a second language and even our native one.
No, according to the new woke CDC, that only happens when a child turns… *Checks guidance* 5?
Honestly, that was one of the reasons I was interested in learning it. I really wondered if it was that hard. Yes, it really is that hard. If you don’t have a continuing motivation to want to learn it I don’t think you’d be very successful.
However, like anything else it manageable you just have start at the beginning and slowly build. The major hurdle is learning the characters and all the many readings. This makes it difficult to read so you can begin to learn the language itself. So you normally try to do them concurrently which is slow.
We see what we want to see.
Cool! Titties it is!
To the beautiful and the wise
The mirror always lies
I dunno about the tiddies but that sideways V thing hand signal all the kids do lately grinds my gears.
Very common in Japan for at least the past decade maybe closer to two.
I don’t know what it means so I ignore it. I need an interpreter for slang and inner city gang signs. Or maybe not.
The reversed V (palm) out is the same as the middle finger in many other English speaking countries.
Huh.
Let me be more clear since I screwed that up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
Isn’t it palm IN that’s the bad one? Like you’re showing the frogs at Agincourt that you still have your arrow-shooting fingers?
What’s the sideways version supposed to mean?
See above. Yes. Brain fade.
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apocryphal story
The V insult goes back to medieval times and conflicts between the Welsh and the English.
The Welsh were archers that would ambush the English.
If the English suspected a Welshman had been or would be involved in an ambush, the English would cut off the two fingers used to draw a bowstring.
When a Welshman flashed those two fingers (the V sign) at an Englishman, it meant “I’ve still got mine”. In other words, “Fuck You”.
There you have it.
Of course, I could try to read all the comments first.
Not to be confuse with the TT pose.
Not sideways, but Takami Yoshimoto. And the most recent photos show she’s still a MIRF.
https://youtu.be/rloClcemazc
+1
I like how they recast it too.
https://youtu.be/hrAjdvrlTVA
I think 4chan should appropriate all the V signs and turn people against them.
And do fist bumps while they’re at it.
And elbow bumps
OwnBestEnemy: check your forum messages.
Don’t do it it’s a trap
We might want to bring in extra guests for our SoTU livestream coverage…would you be willing to join and provide your commentary from your perspective as a “Creature of the Night?”
SoTU – i am sorry i dont listen to hip hop
And the turn from satirist political site to gay hook-up site continues apace.
It ain’t called “streaming” for nothing.
I blame SugarFree. He’s been grooming us.
He’s closing in for the virtual hair sniff.
BTW, would you be interested in joining? I’m still trying to figure out the best way to bring in additional video participants through OBS. Sounds like it’s possible to use Zoom, Skype, etc. but this PC that I’m using is a little on the weak side to run multiple shit at the same time.
I work tonight. Sorry.
Bummer
Checked it. Was roped into a site survey
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Thanks to whoever posted about Quordle the other day.
You’re welcome!
Schlemiel! Schlimazel!
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Cute.
I saw there was talk about suicide by train in the AM thread.My thoughts on the matterer.
That’s great 😀
“before the train came to a complete stop it ran over three trash bags, piece of gum, a snickers wrapper, a man and a glove”
I am not convinced to watch this anime. Then again i have not watched any in 12 years. Also what is the point of learning japanese if the world will end anyway in a week or two due to nuclear war
Well with a 12 year backlog there are few I’d pick ahead of this one.
There is a ton of crap and this particular season has not been particularly inspiring.
Even back then i think i watched the classics. Sonprobably some of them were old already and i missed the new ones back then. Also as i try to no longer torrent things, i would not really want to pay for anime.
I still have a large binder with dvds of my pirated anime. I have no idea if the fan subs were any good, but as i hated english dubs even in the cases where available, that is what i watched
I have a Crunchyroll subscription, but it’s free with ads and a delay.
They do stream to Europe, but not sure if it is all of Europe.
You seen the new Ranking of Kings show? The initial screenshots turned me off, but saw a couple people talking about it on twitter and took a look. Very different style and characters too – been meaning to look up “A Silent Voice” – but this show also has a lead that is deaf and dumb.
(also working through older Magi, Girls und Panzer, etc).
Yes. It’s really dark, but has this children’s story type animation.
It was a surprise thumbs up from me. This season is it’s second cour so I that doesn’t count when I said this season’s anime are weak.
A silent voice is good, but a bit too predictable. Thumbs up though.
I’ve never watched anime, but I remember one time my grad student was going to show me something on his computer, but when it woke up there was a still anime pic (R-rated) instead of graphs. He said “oops” and switched to the correct window. I ignored it, and nothing was ever said about it again.
I read the Hina Doll wiki page. Some of the dolls pictures show some impressive craftsmanship.
That craftsmanship is actually a big part of the show.
Ot spain is not in sync with me as a morning person. Also there is bo good coffee in cordoba. But regadera is a great restaurant.
Also i have noticed it is easier to holiday as a single guy than a couple with two small kids. I do not understand the unpredictable tantrums of 1.5 year olds
Ha ha. Welcome to the world of traveling with children. Overstimulation and lack of familiar foods is what drives in in my kid. And it does make traveling hard.
We did very little traveling (other than up to the lake) until my youngest was 4 or so. But then we did a ton.
It’s valuable for the little rugrats, but the stress on mom and dad is too much!
I do not understand the unpredictable tantrums of 1.5 year olds
Think of them as a tiny woke person. Anything offensive to them or that doesn’t go their way, they throw a fit. If you can’t properly read their mind, they throw a fit. If you can read their mind but don’t sufficiently cater to their whims, they throw a fit. If they wake up on the wrong side of the bed, they throw a fit. If they wake up on the right side of the bed but haven’t had a nap in a while, they throw a fit. If you have any expectations of decorum, propriety, and manners, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
/father of a 15 month old.
One of my favorite South Park bits is the PC Babies.
I was just searching for the theme song for them to link here.
I shot you an email, btw. Personal account.
Thanks! Replied.
This is why being a grandpa is awesome. Grandparenting is the revenge we get for having been parents.
So you’re saying that toddlers are tiny woke people? Or that woke people are giant toddlers?
Yes.
No. Toddlers have a chance of growing out of it.
Today we will discus Conformal Rescaling.
It is easier to do anything as a single guy than a couple with two small kids.
Other than child labor, I guess.
So many options, my snarkizer vapor-locked.
Need to check out the sushi signs some more….in my head I always just see it as “su” “shi” based on the hiragana (dunno how to do that here) – since that was the first way I learned it in Japanese 101.
Being almost 82 (pre-existing condition if you ask me) with no pre-existing conditions? Lizard status confirmed.
The incoherence just never stops. Does the mask protect her (“pre-existing condition”) or others (“young children”)? Why young children, who are at virtually no risk from COVID, rather than somebody who is at risk?
The absolute refusal of the left to understand how miniscule the danger is to kids is mind blowing.
Plenty of them understand, but that understanding interferes with their capability to exert control and virtue signal.
Agreed, yes. “Acknowledge” is the proper word.
OTH, the left understood full well the teachers’ unions desire to both be paid and not work.
The mask fiction gave them some cover to get them back in a classroom.
And nobody calls her out on the young children thing, for whom the flu is more dangerous than Covid. Party of science dtw.
This made me laugh.
Minimally Compliant Masks Close Out Sale
They are awesome. I hope they cleaned up on this insanity!
What a f&@#ing baller business. The quotes on their front page from the people that want them dead are priceless.
There’s some really good ones in the reviews:
LOLOL I hope that’s real
Oh, it’s real and it’s spectacular. Thinking that has been reduced to a small number of talking points and catchphrases. This person is the paragon of the results that can be achieved by our corporate media and public school system working in concert. The Soviet Union may be dead, but it’s dream of perfect obedience to the state, no matter how absurd it’s contradictions, is alive and well.
LOL I just got the email
I have never liked anime style art, from when I was young and had Speed Racer. I don’t know why it puts me off so much I can barely look at it.
Not my thing either, Mo.
Even with tiddies.
How’s recovery going?
Slower than I expected, but I have a tendency toward unreasonable expectations.
Thanks for asking!
Agree, I like playing Pokemon (hey, I was like 10 when the first games came out) but watching the shows and movies kills me.
Whatever you say, Jessie is still a fox.
*eyes dart around* …I won’t disagree with that…
They just announced a new paired set of Pokemon games – Scarlet and Violet (because they can’t reuse Red yet again)
Announcement.
I get that. However, for some works and more groundbreaking animation the anime is part of the work itself.
For example Heike Monogatari use the actual woodblock art style as the style of the animation.
https://heike-anime.asmik-ace.co.jp/ – for the art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heike_Story – for what it is
Like any other part of the entertainment industry, the quality for anime is all over the place. I’ve only found a few things that I ever really liked, but the ones I have found are incredible. Akira is still a technical marvel nearly 35 years later and a lot of the stuff from Studio Ghibli is up there with the best of Pixar in both craftsmanship and quality of the writing and stories. I also took a shot on the Castlevania adaptation on Netflix last year and it was a bit inconsistent, but overall excellent.
Studio Ghibli is appropriately compared to Disney in their prime.
For Hayao Miyazaki the story was every bit as important as the animation.
Looking over his credits again, just about everyone of the Ghibli films I love is Miyazaki. I think the comparison to Pixar makes more sense (or the other way around since Ghibli is actually quite a bit older). Much more mature stories that kids can follow, but they have the thematic maturity and developed character work that is as good as anything produced for adults. Both studios take big risks in terms of using concepts that are risky and often bizarre that avoid cliches and formulas yet manage wide and enduring audience appeal.
Exception (if it really is one): Howl’s Moving Castle, which I loved. I put it in the same category as The Last Unicorn.
Howl’s is great. Check out Spirited Away. It’s easily one of the greatest animated films every produced.
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/04/22/learn-japanese-through-anime-titles-%e5%8d%83%e3%81%a8%e5%8d%83%e5%b0%8b%e3%81%ae%e7%a5%9e%e9%9a%a0%e3%81%97-spirited-away/
The very first Anime Titties!
Nice! Sorry, I’m still fairly new here so I had no idea you’d been running this that long. Great concept for a series. Keep up the good work!
I do them when both an interesting aime and I have free time intersect.
There are a surprising number of multilingual people here with an interest in both languages and sarcasm. It might be a libertarian requirement, however.
Stop othering us monolingual misanthropes!
If you liked Howl’s, I would suggest trying the other Miyazaki works as well. Spirited Away is one of my favorites.
I enjoyed the Last Unicorn.
Being a person of a certain age, I saw a similarity between anime and Patrick Nagel drawings.
I never liked Nagel either.
I don’t see it.
You also think the Beretta 92 is one of the ugliest handguns made.
Because it is.
Your visual deficiencies are why you need to use a red dot.
Loss of depth of field is not loss of aesthetic understanding.
I’m starting to think you don’t have any taste.
*borrows UnCiv’s dueling gloves*
I will have satisfaction, sir!
Satisfaction of what’s to come?
Isn’t that your wife’s job?
#fakenews
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/cXYRy07FRnGXSUitPqheIQ.knywDKWecI2gbZCW50jN0M
The site wants me to sign in, so I’m going to assume it’s a picture of a steak and peppers.
Those seem familiar.
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::afternoon earbug established. Shakes fist at Mojeaux::
Yes and the Mach 5 was play on English and Japanese. The word for the number 5 in Japanese is “go”.
All racism; All the time
Nevada governor and his wife accosted at restaurant by men shouting ‘racist threats’
The man was identified by news outlets as Justin Andersch, a “digital creator” who posts anti-government rightwing conspiracy theories on a blog called Cannabis and Combat. The Las Vegas Sun reported that Andersch took credit for accosting the Sisolaks on a podcast he creates.
“Where’s your security at, punk, huh?” Andersch was heard to say in the video, pointing his cellphone at Steve Sisolak’s face.
The governor turned to leave. As Kathy Sisolak joined him, Andersch followed, saying: “You working-for-China piece of shit.”
TIL that “working for China” is a protected class.
But Asian in the U.S. means you have white-ness.
Some Russian news sites are not accessible today. A hacker attack? Banned for links to the Russian government?
My bet is DDOS. Also possible network peers have pulled the plug under some contractual pretext.
I don’t believe this has been done
https://twitter.com/woodyatpch/status/1498472865301098500?s=20&t=o9PcHTor7szGD5pFjbDnwQ
Do you guys have Russia Today on the teevee? I just remembered that 24/7 Russian state sponsorsed (?) news is a thing here in the UK. I don’t have a TV aerial though. I just watch youtube and streaming stuff.
Was a thing. The EU and Canada pulled it today, or will be soon. From the article I read it is in the US, but not very widespread.
I remember seeing some genuinely interesting stuff on there. Not political necessarily but their niche seems to be to just feature whatever and whoever the MSM in the West won’t. That that seems to include some pretty unpleasant people but also some genuinely interesting people as well.
I gather Jeffrey Tucker is an occasional (?) guest on economic issues, but then even the BBC will talk to people from AIER sometimes without snarking.
The NYT writes this like it is a bad thing.
These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike
Now this is a strike I can get behind.
No doubt.
Good riddance, manipulative assholes.
Your Terms Are Acceptable.
*continues to ignore their claptrap*
Unfortunately, the people who raise and spend our tax dollars don’t ignore them.
Let Mitch McConnell know that we finally found something that he could cut. They’re giving up their funding voluntarily.
Oh, nevermind. It’s just a bluff for political posturing. You may all return to the status quo.
the normally cautious, rarefied world of environmental research
Do you suppose the bullpen at NYT is just convulsed with laughter when they come up with a gem like that? I mean, that’s gold, Jerry. Gold!
He should be thanking his lucky stats he is still alive. Funny how the original story just disappeared. I was told that was going to be the dam breaking.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/andreas-schofbeck-german-insurance?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwiXyI6ImpEWTNMIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ2MTYxMDU0LCJleHAiOjE2NDYxNjQ2NTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNjg2MjEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.PNvJCN_s6qp9IIC5aQnYFO4NIiZ_uln9uYH1xg7s2SU&utm_source=url
That’s what he gets for contacting an institute named after an infamous Malthusian — wait, wrong Paul Erhlich.
I didn’t know the other guy had an namesake institute “regulating vaccines”.
I’m sad to say that I lived on one of his namesake streets in Deutschland way back in the day.
“Regulating” in this case means taking whatever vials Pfizer give us and putting them into the veins of every man, woman, child and lizard person on planet earth while cutting them a check that we can’t disclose the amount of (we actually don’t know since the zeros just trail off the end of the check).
That was a joke about the lizard people, btw. Their health is far to valuable to risk on whatever the $%^& is in those vials!
He should be fired for that hair.
I thought it was next to impossible to fire someone in Europe.
That it took months and months?
Normally, yes. Normally.
Could John Kerry be more ridiculous?
https://nypost.com/2022/02/25/john-kerry-hopes-putin-will-focus-on-climate-change/
Yes, but don’t tempt him.
I seem to remember him being semi-serious back in the day – wrong about everything to be sure, but not completely ridiculous.
Could say the same about the old warhorses from the Clinton era.
Now they are all completely ridiculous all the time.
When asked about the lost lives Kerry responded “actually, the killing can be seen as a positive that will ever so slightly reduce the overall carbon footprint of the earth and could possibly improve the visibility at my various homes in places like the Hampdens, Martha’s Vineyard, Dubai….I know there’s a bunch of others, too many to list. Why am I still talking to you peons? I’ve got a private plane to catch to a party with all the rich famous people on a island that’s definitely not owned by Epstein since he’s totally dead. Yep, no doing coke off a 14 year-old’s ass for me this weekend, too much public serving to do.”
The snow and ice is gone so I got out and picked up all the litter that ends up in my yard because people are slobs. Not bad this year, only half a contractor’s trash bag full. Sadly, masks beat out beer/liquor battles/cans again this year 12 to 9, plastic bags/wrappers won out overall but I quit counting at 20.
Trump Judges Are Now a Threat to America’s National Security
The 5th Circuit let a lone judge order the deployment of unvaccinated SEALs. High-ranking officers say the decision puts the world at risk.
On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stunning decision transferring control over the Navy’s special operations forces from the commander-in-chief to a single federal judge in Texas. The 5th Circuit’s decision marks an astonishing infringement of President Joe Biden’s constitutional authority over the nation’s armed forces, directing him to follow the instructions of an unelected judge—rather than his own admirals—in deploying SEALs. High-ranking military personnel have testified under oath that this power grab constitutes a direct threat to the Navy’s operational abilities. As Russia invades Ukraine and declares a nuclear alert, Donald Trump’s judges are actively threatening America’s national security.
On Monday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stunning decision transferring control over the Navy’s special operations forces from the commander-in-chief to a single federal judge in Texas.
Really?
So when 35 Navy Special Warfare service members refused to comply with Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the armed forces, they brought their case to O’Connor. These service members—mostly SEALs, all represented by the far-right First Liberty Institute—claimed that their religious beliefs barred them from getting the shots. …
O’Connor predictably sided against Biden in January, granting a preliminary injunction of staggering scope on the grounds that the mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Ah. The answer to my query is ‘no’.
They make it sound like the judge is deploying them and issuing orders. He’s just saying they don’t have to get the useless and possibly harmful shot.
This is so overblown, it is plain lying.
OFFS
Tremble harder, Slate.
Yep, you lost me at Slate.
Compare to lone circuit judges who tried to order nationwide injunctions for Trump EOs they didn’t like.
Derp!
High-ranking officers
There’s your problem right there.
GAAAAA!
There was a guy at startup who was one of my most difficult customers. Haven’t had to deal with him for most of a decade. Now he pings me, having been promoted up three levels and transferred to… Quality. Wanting to “ask me some questions” about my upgrade. AFAIK, he can’t get my funding revoked. AFAIK.
Just blame any quality issues on Russia. It’s what Biden is going to do about shortages and inflation tonight.
If Ukraine’s neon exports flag, the chip shortage will get worse
“I remember going down to the local pool hall, and looking at that neon sign, and wondering how they made it in cursive like that. Putin’s a bad dude, just like Corn Pop. We can’t just let him control all the signs of the world.”
Trippin’ Neolithic Balls
Wow.
That’s pretty involved for 9000 years ago.
They should have named the anime その 着せ替え人形は鯉をする instead.
その 着せ替え人形を鯉する
The kind of grammar bullshit that will kill you your first few years of study.
If I understand correctly, you switched the subject and object of the sentence?
Yes, the object of your affection is the doll/person.
The subject would be assumed to be either the protagonist or the reader.
Your grammar roughly means the doll has affections for something unknown.
Scratch that I misread your kanji! Problem with using the phone and old eyes.
鯉
You were making a pun. Your grammar works.
I thought you would have noticed. As soon as I saw the kanji for love is pronounced “koi”, I went to wiktionary to find the kanji for the fish. I’m surprised nobody else noticed it before me.
See, I interpreted your change as the carp fucking the doll, more or less.
Technically topic and object. Subject marker is が.
Why learn Japanese when you can learn the art of Firsting?
Firsting is understood in every language, even the most barbaric of tongues.
+1?
I’m confused, are you tonguing or firsting?
Let’s save it for whatever SugarFree is cooking up tomorrow.
…the most barbaric of tongues.
German?
Harvey Weinstein?
/long joke about the beauty of different languages using “butterfly” as an example.
And the German replied “was ist los mit schmetterling?”
Now you’re just angling for an itchy ban.
Did anyone else misread this the same way they misread “titles” in the name of this article?
Wnner!
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-01
Suthenboy made a great point sometime ago that war is all about seizing resources, and that the continuous state of war in the United States is so that the American elites can pillage their own citizens instead of an adversary’s people. That’s stuck with me.
Besides good old Lockheed Martin, I’d say the Cathedral has opened up a second front to pillage Americans using Pfizer and Moderna. I wonder if the tin-foil hat conspiracists (who are increasingly turning out to be correct) pictured Big Pharma joining with the military industrial complex.
Meh. Medicine’s just a component of the “Industrial” side of the MIC.
I’ve had discussions with people before that tried to warn me about the medical industrial complex ingraining itself into government in the same way the “private military contractors” have. I thought it was ridiculous at the time. My new policy is to never underestimate the willingness of the military/academia/corporatist/medical industries and the extent that will intertwine themselves with the leviathan of the state in order to conspire to better themselves at the expense of literally everyone else. It’s like Dave Smith says (paraphrasing), once you understand that the people that you’re dealing with will participate in the mass murder of innocent children in sovereign countries for seemingly no benefit of the average citizen and not lose any sleep, you’ll know what you’re really up against. Do you know why they win? The rest of us have rules and boundaries – things we won’t do. The only rule for these swamp people is “don’t lose.”
Higher military budgets? Hahahahaha — we’re still under continuing resolution. There hasn’t been an appropriation against budget now, for what 2, 3 years?
I thought the last one was 2008, but I could be wrong.
There was a stretch where I think C/R went on for four years. Then we’d get a budget with appropriations and lock up on C/R for the next year or two. The last actual budget/appropriation I think was the 2 year deal they did maybe 4 years ago. As I recall it was to get thru the mid-term election and maybe the year after. It’s such a rarity anymore you’d think it would be more memorable.
I think the reason its not memorable is that its close to meaningless.
When the annual deficit is measured in the trillions, they aren’t serious in any way about paying it back or even getting back to spending within our means.
They seem to be operating under the Keyensian “In the long run, we’re all dead” philosophy.
They’ve robbed the future generations blind. Hard to believe that standards of living will go down eventually, but if it’s hypothetical future generations that will pay the price, the swamp creatures don’t care.
I’m starting to buy the theory that they’re trying to kill the dollar and replace it with a digital (and “programable”) currency. The devaluation is entirely the point. It’s defacto socialism (or fascism since they will likely “allow” private business to exist provided it does what it’s told) in that the government will not only completely control the production of money, but how every dollar can be spent. It won’t matter how much money you’ve acquired when Uncle Sam caps your liquor, fast food and ammo spending. Enjoy all your Bitcoin wealth that you can’t convert into a legal transaction to buy any property.
Wife is watching some news channel, and somebody on there is trying to sell Joe Biden as a Great American Comeback Story. lmao.
How does someone sliding further into the grip of dementia “come back” exactly?
And where did he “come back” from? He’s been at the very heights of political power for the majority of his life.
You are always meeting the same new people?
https://twitter.com/LockerRoomLOL/status/1498578849965101059?cxt=HHwWhsCqwcbhgswpAAAA
On my fourth watch, I realized she’s got some pretty good soccer skills.
SHE’S A KEEPER!
Looks like she’s a striker.
Also, would.
Wow.