Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "F.D Signifier" channel.

  1. "You can be a terrible human being, and people would make all the excuses in the world for you because of you utility. But the second you realized you were more than that utility, and you operate with that understanding, oh they will show you your place real quick." Completely encapsulated capitalism and racism.
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  2. I cried at vegeta's tender scenes too. This is what boys want all along. Affirmation, love, support, self confidence and understanding what are the really important things in life.
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  3. There is no censorship in America. *A light goes around you. There is no censorship in America.
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  4. "That community cannot be held accountable by me." Yes, that's what the rest of the world feels about America.
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  5. I think that kind of success alienating the person from the community from where he came from, is very common. You are not alone in this.
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  6. As an Asian man, Richard's comment about the fear of showing vulnerability and then your partner will leave really stuck a chord with me. I have the same irrational fear too. What if I break and no one is there for me. It's fucked up.
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  7. Capitalists and cops are intersectional in the UAS.
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  8. This is why I insist that America is the most propagandized country in the world.
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  9. The only conspiracy theory I believe in is that MLK jr was assassinated because he was moving from attacking racial injustice to a broader, wider attack on economic injustice in America. Given his influence at the height of his popularity, having MLK going up the podium and give another fiery speech on the level of "I have a dream" but for economic justice and socialism might just ignite a revolution in America. And they couldn't have that come to pass.
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  10. Hip hop is too small for Kanye. He definitely has some level of megalomania, a fine line from ambition. I think Kanye is not going to be satisfied until he conquers the world. Heck, America is too small for him. There are 3 billion people in East and South Asia. I don't think he will mind breaking into those markets and becoming the king there too.
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  11. One important point that should be made is the difference between East Asian culture of manhood Vs American. In anime, you will see a quirky thing is that somewhere along the story, the protag will be asked, "what are you trying to protect (mamoru)? Why do you want to be strong?" This goes directly to a large part of East Asia cultures (Japan, China, Korea etc.) is that you are not alone and you derive your greatest strength from service and selflessness. Protecting something or someone is what gives you conviction and determination. In contrast, this is very very different from American culture where media aimed at teenagers tends to be all about bursting out of your shell and leaving everything and everyone behind, including your family, friends and most importantly any social and civic obligations. It is always about what you want, but it is never about what your role can be. Now of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, like the American cultural obsession with military service, but it generally holds. OTOH, in East Asian cultures, the struggle between finding yourself and finding your role in life is always examined in teenage media. It is always a balance between oneself and one's dreams and one's obligations to others. For East Asians, happiness and fulfillment comes from connecting with people, family, friends, lovers and reconciling that with oneself. The individual is part of the collective and the collective is more than the sum of the individuals. It is very different from the toxic, hyperindividualism in America and western culture in general. It is about not being alienated from your community while maintaining one's own individuality. Which is why in most shounen media, the protag usually achieve his ultimate strength when he is with his people, lifting them up while they lift him up. That's why "mamoru" and "nakama power" are troupes in Japanese media. It is through the harmonious integration of everyone's strength and their understanding of their roles and genuine bonds that true power can be achieved. Cooperation and selflessness and harmony are built into East Asian cultures. These concepts are antithetical to American culture.
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  12. Just like African, Chinese, Arab, Latino capitalists won't save us from capitalism.
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  13. This is not a video essay, this is a whole dissertation.
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  14. They killed MLK because he was going to turn from speaking on racial injustice to social/economic injustice. I It was well known that MLK thought and expressed that social conditions of black people cannot be divorced from the economic injustice suffered by the poor and powerless. They killed him because they feared a revolution on the social order of he ever started talking about why people are poor. It's one of the few conspiracy theories I can believe in.
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  15. White patriarchy really is disgusting and soulless. They want to control everything and still want to commodify and exploit anything that can sell, so they have more for themselves and less for others.
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  16. Exaggeration that we pretend is substantial criticism? Lol that what western media does tomChina all the time.
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  17. Of course the parents first, because now they are her/his parents too. What a silly question from a Chinese POV.
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  18. "The only thing that was important is making sure your narrative was strong and prolific." Ohh so Drake's propaganda is basically US foreign policy and media.
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  19. Make plate for who first? Of course the parents, because now they are her/his parents too. What a silly question from a Chinese POV.
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  20. The thing is that Black Panther seen through the lenses of western imperialism and oppression resonate with every one who has suffered under the same. Africans, lots of East and South Asians, South Americans can relate to that.
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  21. Jordan Petersen is especially dangerous because he seek not to just exploit aimless white men, he seek to preserve the worst excesses of western models and refuse to entertain any criticism to those models. It also betrayed a deep seated sense of insecurity since it has been shown that other non western model, especially the Chinese one is succeeding in many levels and likely will become a dominant rival to his darling models. It infuriates him. He is a fanatic for it, and he will be the kind of person who will advocate for killing a lot of people to defend and spread his model of choice. He is the kind of person who will refuse to engage and instead opt for a new cold war.
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  22. Edgelord movies are basically social luxuries afforded to white men, because they get to fantasize how they can be a one man army on a crusade to right the petty wrongs done on him. The arrogance and audacity to even be able to fantasize about that, that really is a luxury oppressed people do not have. The Joker is a very good movie, partly because Joaquin Phoenix was phenomenal in it, partly because it is a modern tragedy brought upon by the machine that chewed up and spit out people like garbage. But I never saw it as a movie about a role model. The Joker is someone to be pitied, and then to figure out how to prevent his inception in RL.
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  23. "Conservative capitalistic and hegemonic ideaology." Looks at how the media is whipping up China hate lately. Oh yes, they are really hating the fact they cannot control China and that the Chinese are challenging their hegemony worldwide.
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  24. I'm going nna get a lot of heat but China probably have helped Africa realize the dream of Afrofuturism through the BRI than any other organizations and especially from the west which has only ever view Africa as something to be exploited.
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  25. Ground News doesn't really work if it does not include media from outside the western Anglosphere.
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  26. Reminding white America the crimes of CIA in the pursuit of profits for American companies and to beat down post colonial empowerment of Africa might be too much for white America to swallow. There is a lot of hypocrisy in white American culture with regards on viewing the US government foreign policy. Whatever the US government did, even if it was horrible, can be deflected away with some magic handwavy justification tonight communism or authoritarianism. They don't want the stark truth that those foreign adventures had little to do with preserving or spreading FREEDOM(TM) and everything to do with capitalistic imperialism. Their standard of living and capital are established by the exploitation of weaker countries in Africa, South America and large parts of Asia. They don't want to be reminded that their lives are built on the blood and deaths of Africans.
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  27. "Decentering white maleness as the only understanding of idealized imagery." Well said, considering that with China's rise, the world is also slowly de-centering America as the only understanding of idealized model, and it is driving people insane. Insane enough, perhaps to cheer mushrooms clouds over their cities.
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  28. Log cabin republicans are basically collaborators like those who collaborate with Nazis during the occupation of Europe. Fascism is always exclusive, they will always eventually be excluded.
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  29. BE is good at some things but he almost always gets it wrong when it comes to issues about China and Russia and weirdly he toe the western propaganda, state department line for these countries.
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  30. There are only a few thousands professional athletes in the world that can make a living playing their sports. Using sports to escape poverty is never a real solution to the ills of poverty. It is just another capitalistic, fake meritocracy myth making. And that perhaps is a tragedy because this myth was sold so hard to improvised black communities.
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  31. The rise of China and its relative success despite rejecting most of western liberal system probably contributed to the crisis of western hegemonic thinking. Gone are the days that we will automatically assume that western model is supreme and factually inassailable. China has demonstrated that you can reject this model if it does not suit you and go your own way, your people's way. You can create a communism/capitalism with "Chinese characteristics". That probably create a lot of anxiety in the west, especially amount western intellectuals, social, political and economic elites. And I think that anxiety filters down to the common masses.
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  32. Ohh man if MLK was alive today.
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  33. More likely it will be America dropping nukes on Chinese cities.
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  34. Basically, white women can become collaborators in the capitalistic patriarchial oppression if they are willing to opt into the system and their assigned lot. It's actually quite similar to how some religious women helped oppressed their own in religiously fundamentalist societies where they will participate and enforce religious dogma on their on gender to perpetuate the oppression, because that's their assigned lot in life.
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  35.  @rimaq_  Exactly. As much as the western media wants to slander China unfairly and let's be clear the Chinese themselves will tell you that China is not perfect and have a lot of problems, the Chinese and many African countries share a common history: western imperialism from both Europe and America. China's rise showed that there is another way to do it that is different from western model, and the existence of such model and its wild success is an existential threat to American capitalistic elites. Africa, South America and large parts of Asia can look at China and see that it is not merely FREEDOM(TM) that brings prosperity, peace and stability. Freedom follows prosperity and peace. China's freedom to decide its own destiny, and yes the Chinese people have a lot of influence on its government even if it is indirect, is guaranteed by China's current strength. America today would have destroy China if China could not defend itself, there is little doubt about that. Africa nations can only have freedom from interference from western imperialism if they are strong themselves, and that means industrialization, economic growth and prosperity. China knows how to get there, and that's what they are telling thee Africans; the BRI is the manifestation of that will and it is making American elites shitting their pants as more and more countries tell America to f**k off.
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  36. This won't stop until the American empire is brought low.
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  37. The way I see why there is a backlash to killmonger's plan is because it attacks at the core of western imperialism; what of the people we oppressed in turn become strong and do the same to us. It is a violent direct action plan and obviously it will result in conflict that no one will win. But the fact is that this is what motivated a large part of white racism in the west, especially America because there is an innate fear that if the white men is not at the top, he will have to pay for the sins he has wrought in the past, and that fear is encompassing. It is this fear that forms the core of the replacement theory (what if they take over by fucking our women or outbreed us), the concentrated hatemongering thrown towards China (what if they become powerful and come donto us what we did to them) and the sheer disrespect America has shown the global south Africa and South America, including a large part of Asia when the US government responded to China's rise and growing influence through the BRI by demanding everyone to reject China in exchange for continuing the current world order where they still get fucked over. And white America wonders why the world is getting more and more tired of their bullshit. Heck even the Europeans are getting sick of it. White America is projecting.
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  38. Ohhhh man, you need to go listen to some fucking Jay Chou.
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