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I do have a lot to rant about lol. Did you folks know about the UCSD Dalai Lama and Chinese Students Association face off? Also, was anyone following the Indian American (but actually fascist Hindu American) representations at the California Textbook Board meetings? I've been thinking for a while how transmigrants/immigrants/refugees/international students fuck with liberal campus politics in America.

For instance, this Chinese students thing - the Chinese students told UCSD that inviting Dalai Lama is a disrespect to the "inclusion" and "diversity" goals and commitments LOL link: https://qz.com/908922/chinese-students-at-ucsd-are-evoking-diversity-to-justify-their-opposition-to-the-dalai-lamas-graduation-speech/

The Indian American fuckers made Cal textbook board include revisions that remove critical references to caste, gender and religious oppressive practices by Hindus in India.

Also made me think a little bit about how Zionists at UCI (but also alt-right and other bullshitters) want free speech protection.

It really really is the time for the demise of the American Empire but also for well-meaning liberals to start reading international histories, like even basic conflict 101. Otherwise they will keep celebrating Tulsi Gabbard types (actually a culturally conservative vet but Dem and Sanders supporter).

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roseweird posted:

spectralmarx posted:

Also, was anyone following the Indian American (but actually fascist Hindu American) representations at the California Textbook Board meetings?

yes



Was cray cray. Did you see the NYT piece ft weaponized Hindu child: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/debate-erupts-over-californias-india-history-curriculum.html

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ghost in the shell is great, thanks for making a thread about it
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i like stand alone complex more than the (original) film because i could understand it. the new one sounds like it wants to be robocop but with boobs
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Horselord posted:

i like stand alone complex more than the (original) film because i could understand it. the new one sounds like it wants to be robocop but with boobs



more like stand around complex. only 90s kids will get this

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section 9 special agent Major Daria Morgendorffer
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really wish id gone to ghost in the shell university

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those chinese students are 100% correct and the only objectionable thing is that they are voicing opposition through liberalism rather than through marxism
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spectralmarx posted:

transmigrants/immigrants/refugees/international students



*expats

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Don't mind me. I don't care so much for validation per se. Twitter doesn't allow me the space so this is a good blackhole to shriek in. I don't care if the post gets hijacked by forever lowkey leddit shitposters.

And I don't like the word expat. It's mostly used for first world peoples to my mind.
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spectralmarx posted:

And I don't like the word expat. It's mostly used for first world peoples to my mind.



I don't understand how the Indians and Chinese in American universities described in the OP aren't best described as expats, even if they aren't from the first world. I mean, these aren't leftists who happen to be the children of a national bourgeoisie we're talking about here. The average Mexican going back and forth between Matamoros and Brownsville is a transmigrant, while Monterrey gusanos in the suburbs of Central Texas are expats, even though the Mexican bourgeoisie is far less harmful than its American or European equivalents.

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The Tulsi Gabbard type is literally all immigrants everywhere. Economic inequality obviously doesn't enlighten one beyond one's immediate needs (often not even that), nor does it prime one to extend an already limited pastiche of progressive politics to other groups. It's even worse when we're talking about immigrants who came here on a plane. Without an economically-focused vanguard, it's too easy to revert back to ethnic chauvinism masquerading as liberalism.

As for the OP, I wouldn't even call those ethnic student organizations liberal, but that's the effective language to speak to humanities academia right now to get cultural shit done. Maybe some of them believe all the "liberal" rhetoric, but most probably just realize that lane of academia is too unwilling or stupid to differentiate between undocumented Latinos demanding change and some bougie South Asians shushing the fact their extended family has a bunch of slaves.
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spectralmarx posted:

forever lowkey leddit shitposters.



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what's wrong with Gabbard?
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an ex pat.... that's the "ok that's enough" pat on the back you get when ya hug yr ex for too long
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The ghost in the shell film is going to be less critically liked and make less money than the big screen baywatch reboot, and fast and the furious 8, Fate Of The Furious.
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I'm the only person on this board who actually likes movies aren't I.
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I just watched fast and the furious 5 and liked it, keven.
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i like the later fast and the furious movies where they went full schlock and have the Rock in a hospital watching the third act on TV before grunting "daddy's gotta go to work" and flexing his arm so hard he explodes the cast he got from Rock Bottoming Jason Stratham through a table in a building that was also exploding
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The Vin Diesel character is the worst part of those movies they should ditch him and have it just be the rock & Jason Stratham doing sick ass pro wrestling moves while saying like "Aright pal, lets dance"
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4 is my least favourite so far because its mostly just Vin diesel brooding and looking gloomy.
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tokyo drift gets a lot of shit what with its uncharismatic (oddly too-old-for-high-school) lead, etc., but in terms of visual composition i remember it as probably the most painterly of the films
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tokyo drift owns and the nighttime helicopter shots of synchronised mountaintop drifting illuminated by moonlight filtered through treetops and stuff are great.
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it was my least favorite the first time i saw it, but it's grown on me a lot
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it's hard to compare it with the other but it might be my favourite so far, or at least tied with 5. Mods sticky & rename this to the Fast & the Furious Discussion Thread
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Which one has the bad guy with a hammer and sickle tattoo on his neck? That's the worst one
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that's Fast & Furious, the 4th one
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Fast and Furious?, sorry, but i don't do fad diets.
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Keven posted:

I'm the only person on this board who actually likes movies aren't I.



the evidence points to no

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i fuckin hate movies
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cars posted:

Keven posted:

I'm the only person on this board who actually likes movies aren't I.

the evidence points to no



Very Carefully

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Transmigrant isn't only for those who return to their countries in a day or regularly, iirc it refers to those who actively maintain political stakes and relationships in both countries and of course are not citizens where they stay. I refrain from expats because it's just not a term I grew up with. Brown people to me are immigrants or transmigrants and white people use expats. You can use it if you like!

jiroemon1897 posted:

spectralmarx posted:

And I don't like the word expat. It's mostly used for first world peoples to my mind.

I don't understand how the Indians and Chinese in American universities described in the OP aren't best described as expats, even if they aren't from the first world. I mean, these aren't leftists who happen to be the children of a national bourgeoisie we're talking about here. The average Mexican going back and forth between Matamoros and Brownsville is a transmigrant, while Monterrey gusanos in the suburbs of Central Texas are expats, even though the Mexican bourgeoisie is far less harmful than its American or European equivalents.


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It flopped already and their marketing guys spun it off as a brave experiment wheee

Keven posted:

The ghost in the shell film is going to be less critically liked and make less money than the big screen baywatch reboot, and fast and the furious 8, Fate Of The Furious.