There’s a lot about this list I find silly, but nothing is sillier than recommending the live-action One Piece. Surely if the goal is to watch the best media, you’d want to watch the original anime, as opposed to the strange live-action remake? There’s some serious recency bias prevalent throughout the list, but that has to be the most absurd example.

Okay but hear me out…

It has a mouth inside its mouth.

Y’know how things have mostly gotten worse for the past five years, with most innovation going towards corporate control, and nearly all tech services moving towards enshittification?

Yeah five more years of that.

obviously, I doubt Rutte was expecting this message to be shared. If he wasn’t a complete moron and actually doing this just to stroke his own ego, I’d actually give Donald props for leaking it, as Rutte kissing Donald’s ass makes him look terrible, and more broadly makes the European parts of NATO look terrible.

I imagine Rutte’s intent is to stroke Trump’s ego to try and keep him interested in NATO, but I feel like that’s a fool’s errand. Trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone else but himself. This new agreement, with NATO signatories needing to commit 5% of their GDP, feels like a grift for the benefit of U.S. defense contractors. The U.S. cannot be trusted to actually honor their agreements anymore, so why pay more into their alliance? Is Europe really that scared of further Russian aggression?

Dunno if you’d want to count it as a TV series persay, but easily Usopp from One Piece. The man goes through an incredible arc of self-discovery before the timeskip, gets hyped as having finally conquered his fears, only to get reverted to his typical cowardice gag every post timeskip arc.

All of the Straw Hats suffer from flanderisation in post-timeskip One Piece, but IMO Usopp’s is the worst, since it reverts him to a flat character that’s heavily uninteresting.

I find suicide distasteful and seek glory.

The problem is that you’re thinking about how humans treat their pets, and not how the ageless immortal creature with morals beyond our comprehension treats pets.

It’ll still probably be better than the horrors of capitalism, but it could still be an abusive relationship.

I think technically they are for pets? I wonder if the dosages and other ingredients are okay for humans.

Counterpoint: Superman is strong enough that he could raze the system to the ground.

Making the mother of all power vacuums Jack, can’t fret over each billionaire!

This is secretly a very cool prophecy for your kid.

Condensing a rant I had on another comm with this question here: fruit belongs with meat. fullstop. Idk why we’re still having this discussion when medieval peasants were able to figure it out in like the 12th century.

My guess is that MAGA content was getting flagged, and Youtube believes that should be monetizable in modern America.

on the night of November 5th? Democracy died in the U.S. long, long before that. We’ve been a plutocracy for so long that Americans believe there are different laws for the wealthy. We’re just “lucky” enough to be witnessing the consequences.

the male workouts won’t give me a bigger ass or jigglier thighs though, why would I want to follow them?

Yeah, most people don’t get lucky.

I got long arms and an exfoliating luffa. I just wash every part. There’s no part of my back that I can’t reach.

no organs? mine hate me, so sign me the fuck up.

I do think some of the blame has to lie on the centrist candidates who legitimize the grievances of the far-right by pandering to them, instead of calling out their lies and collaborating with the left. Seems to be a global trend of centrists preferring to try and capture the vote of the mythical right-wing moderate.

and honestly, considering the average American, this feels right. It’s certainly more representative of us than any smooth-talking orator. We became a nation of charlatans and fools; it is only natural that our leadership reflects that.