Learning about Dragonball Z
@mcc is today the day i learn that akira toriyama is actually based?
@mcc this is one of my favorite dbz facts
@mcc Watching the dub on toonami, the idea that he sold planets for money did not come through. I assumed he was running a government.

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My bad movie group watched Dragonball: Evolution last week and it somehow neglected to include this information.

@mcc Ghibli's Miyazaki is an ex-Marxist (and still seems to be a socialist), the main writer (Sakurai) on GitS: SAC has a degree in Marxist economics, Eiichiro Oda (One Piece creator) has a Che Guevara poster in his room, and Hideo Kojima is also likely a socialist given the revolution-supporting dialogue he's added to his games (you might've also seen the funny picture of him wearing a soviet hat)

Lots of Japanese media is influenced by left wing ideologies / socialism

@sentient_car @mcc Oh no! Not socialism! heaven forbid the oppressor class pay prosperity wages and allow ready access to food and healthcare! Won't someone think of the children!
@sentient_car @mcc Huh, it's pretty interesting to see some of the creators of my favorite works (One Piece and Metal Gear Solid) get involved with economic leftism. I should get back into it myself. I want to join the fight against the Porky system.
@mcc This is the first thing that's ever made me want to watch Dragonball Z.
@mcc planet-flipping gentrification
@mcc Oh yeah, think I heard about that before.
@mcc and the chuds say Japanese creators never get "political"

@theryusui @mcc Chuds also said that trans women aren't women (and vice versa).

It almost seems like they're making a logical argument until you realize THIS FUCKING ISN'T THE REAL REASON WHY THEY HATE TRANS PEOPLE. THEY SHOULD JUST ADMIT THAT THEY UNJUSTLY FIND THEM DISGUSTING ALREADY.

@poppyart @mcc like literally it all comes down to patriarchal definitions of "fuckability"

when it comes down to it they'd demand the right to revoke "woman" status from cis women whom they deem "unfuckable" as well

and the disturbing thing is, it's not just transphobic MEN who would argue for this