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I think the font and bad set icons indicate fakes though. I wouldn't get my hopes up.

I don't think holos ever looked like this. I'm pretty sure all three of the cards you've posted are fakes.

I dunno, that's probably not inflating the cost much. It costs like 80 just to get the battery kit retail, and then you gotta figure you have to pay the labor of replacing it.

For the record, I did vote for her in the actual election, but that is an extremely oversimplified analysis of how Trump got elected.

Yeah, more people in the right states voted for him. But her and the DNC fucking with the primaries, offering zero conciliation to progressives and arrogantly assuming Trump didn't stand a chance play a huge factor. For the vaunted "most qualified candidate ever" this was her race to lose, and blaming it on sexism is just a thought terminating cliche at this point.

Fuck off Hillary. Nobody asked you. You fumbled 2016 and gave us this asshole in the first place, and you should have the decency to hide in shame the rest of your miserable life.

That's a really good point, thanks for bringing that up

Its almost like nonsensical parables are a recurring theme in religions in general and we shouldn't be assuming a bunch of mystical morons from a thousand years ago knew any better.

This is probably not the whole reason but in my opinion it is the primary one. Young men are indirectly being told their problems don't matter because when they are raised they get slapped down for trying to take attention away from women's issues, and that leaves a very sour taste in their mouths that makes it easy for charlatans like Tate to take advantage of. Especially low-status white men getting hit with the double whammy of being assumed to be just fine because everyone knows how easy it is to be a white man, right? Thanks, apex fallacy.

The times where men have tried to form positive social support structures like the MRA/MGTOW movement, they are derided as being misogynistic, which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as the outside attacks reinforce those assumptions. If you look at these groups today, they are absolutely infiltrated by misogynist and racist voices, but that's not how they started. Gamergate is another example of this phenomenon.

I'm not trying to invalidate the issues women face or trying to claim that men have it worse. It seems we collectively treat this as a zero sum game instead of getting folks the help they need for the specific problems they face, and it creates a situation where people who could otherwise be saved are radicalized by assholes who are all too willing to capitalize on that and radicalize them. Worse, the continuing polarization makes it very difficult for anyone left of center to walk back and try to address men's issues without immediately being beset upon by a mercilessly vocal minority of feminists who see any attempt to help men as a distraction from their own issues.

Remember that each person parroting Tate's rhetoric isn't some hyper-privileged fratboy who is looking for an excuse to do violence to women. Some of them certainly are, but I would bet that a majority of them are low-status men who don't see any other options.

Burning a flag doesn't actually disrupt anything though. Just pisses (some) people off and makes their brains shut off. Guaranteed path to having more people ignore you.

Protests work when they actually disrupt folks' daily lives somehow. Incendiary theatrics isn't going to accomplish anything.

The problem with fascism isn't the economic system underpinning it but the authoritarianism that leads to oppression. A Marxist one party state would result in the same oppression, and makes this meme pretty disingenuous.

The sweet spot where any form of government is strong enough enforce fairness without turning to oppression is, as it turns out, pretty hard for us to figure out.

I have 100 dollars. I lose 10% of it. I now have 90 dollars. Now I increase my 90 dollars by 10%. Is it your assertion that 10% of 90 is 10?

That was a filler arc. The Jinchu arc that takes place after Kyoto in the manga has some really cool moments.