Sarmyth

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[–] Sarmyth -4 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

Naw, it was most commonly used as a term similar to "that chinese guy" which is easy to confuse with racism at a time period where people were generally racist towards the chinese, but the term itself is not racist. There were actual slurs back then they could use if they were about that.

My Grandmother said they always bought they're vegetables growing up from the chinaman who rolled his cart through the alleyway behind their homes. It's not a term of hate, but it's easy to say hateful things alongside it.

[–] Sarmyth -1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do people.keep saying this? It's obviously not fine.

These guys get dragged in front of Congress all the time. The US has the right to take measures against a business they feel they can't control, doing things they consider detrimental to it's people. Ideally that would occur in a more balanced method than now, and it would be nice if Nazi's weren't also American citizens with 1st amendment rights, but here we are.

There are many Chinese based companies that do business on American soil with no issues. This isn't even really Chinese based, but has a major Chinese stakeholder. For some reason, this company, over many others, was believed to be a threat. It may not be the weird racism you're being led to believe. What if it actually is a very credible threat from an outside actor? Is there a world where that's possible and acceptable to you?

Just curious because I feel like there's some strange zeoltry for TikTok that I haven't seen so much with other media corporations lately, that aren't actively pumping out propaganda. FOX News being the obvious example.

[–] Sarmyth 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

How someone thinks of America and not France when thinking of butter is beyond me. I just assume they're unfamiliar with their respective culinary achievments.

[–] Sarmyth 2 points 4 weeks ago

I was pleased that he didn't perv out, like so many other Hi-Dive shows are prone to do.

[–] Sarmyth 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm in the same boat. They've all been good. I didnt hear about this one before stumbling on it last night and my wife and I laughed for like 5 minutes with it paused once we saw the show title and understood what it was.

We feel that this show will be more enjoyable, the more familiar you are with the genre as a whole. Similar to how One Punch Man benefited from already having a high exposure to super hero/kaijin materials.

[–] Sarmyth 22 points 1 month ago

Sooooooooooo much produce comes from Mexico. Antagonizing them can literally only make things worse for your grocery bill. There is no upside for your average person.

[–] Sarmyth 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's kind of a silly question. If they could have been talked out of doing it, it wouldn't be an issue. If you want to stop them at this point, you'll need to kill enough of them for them to believe there will be an unacceptable loss of life if they continue.

They will not be stopping out of consideration or kindness.

[–] Sarmyth 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Literally never heard of them. With all the random bullshit companies dumping crap into the market, if you don't have good name recognition these days, it's just assumed you are some random Chinese product clone with dubious quality.

This is fine when I purchased my knockoff Dyson vacuum that still works great, but I wouldn't trust all my data to a company I dont recognize.

[–] Sarmyth 1 points 1 month ago

Kinda oddly, I see it done most organically in animation vs live action. Steven Universe is a good example of a show where alot of issues are addressed by main cast and not just a token LGBTQ character that dissappears after their 1 episode about tolerance.

Examples of random, throw away, characters are harder to remember examples for as they are never important to the story.

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