For me the easiest tell is the up front, unprompted, and unsolicited declaration of nonpoliticalness. When someone takes the time and expends the breath to announce how nonpolitical they are, what follows is almost always a rant about how everything/everyone else is too political these days, and that of course leads into something between status quo advocacy and outright reactionary/regressive sentiments for some fabled time before those wicked politics were visible to the nonpolitical ranter. centrist

People that are hostile to service workers. Some just want to take some ideological stand against tipping when the service worker doesn’t really have a choice and needs those tips to survive in the current unjust system in a way where ideological purity gestures toward that service worker just look like being a greedy and sanctimonious asshole. The worst of such people will actually declare, shamelessly, that they believe that service workers don’t deserve a living wage. The implications of that are gulag worthy.

I may get shit for this, but I’ll say it anyway: this hair and beard combo, seen on living people. yes-chad I have yet to meet anyone in person with that look that wasn’t a chud.

(If one of you is a comrade with that look, I am sorry in advance for the prejudice and if I ever meet you in person I will atone by buying you a drink or something.)

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      Lest I look like a chud, I’ll make sure that whenever I ask “So, you watch anime?” that I immediately follow it up with “Did you know that in that Little Witch Academia episode where the non-humans at the magical academy unionize and strike, that when Akko joins the non-humans (respect), that the kanji on her headband are based on a style of typography called gebaji? The word gebaji derives from gebaruto, from German Gewalt. In Japanese, gebaruto generally refers to violence perpetrated by leftist student activists in the '50s and '60s. Their protest signs used a distinctive style of bold, angular, ‘common man’ typography, and this typographic style is to this day associated with or used as shorthand for leftist particularly student activism. Gebaji is also known by other names, such as Zengakurenmoji — you might recognize the name ‘Zengakuren’ from their role in the famous riot at Sanrizuka in 1985. Anyways, here’s a photo of a younger Hayao Miyazaki at some kind of labor action of the union for Studio Toei. You can see that he’s wearing a headband just like the one Akko wore. You gotta love a union man, eh? By the way, have you seen the, like, anime music video created by the Japanese Communist Party? Heck, do you watch any donghua, for that matter?”

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      Yeah, I first ask what they watch before responding in the affirmative. It’s always something like AoT or isekai stuff, which isnt something I want to engage with - well, Escaflowne and The Twelve Kingdoms were cool, but not really part of the modern isekai trajectory.

      One day, someone will say “Land of the Lustrous”, and I will be delighted.

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        I can only say “I watched Trigun and the Frieza saga on toonami shrug-outta-hecks

        Actually wait no, I’ve also seen a bunch of Lupin III movies, those were fun, and like the first third of each FMA but I got bored with those. Not really cause they’re bad, it was just after I stopped watching any long tv series