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Love & Pop (contains Spoilers beware!) I've been meaning to watch this Hideaki Anno live action film from 1998 for ages and finally got around to it. A day in the life of worldly sixteen year old Hiromi that descends into a dark odyssey to buy an expensive topaz ring that's on sale before the...

That's my dream job too ayase, give me a shout if you find it! I'm fine with exchanging my time for money, the more mindless and zombie-like the better. I'm ok with a low wage. My problem is that I rather dislike and am rather bad at human interaction. Recently I've been having a few job...

I agree with this, I don't think people are naturally inclined to be hateful and bigoted or racist, well maybe a minority but not most. And for the most part I don't think it is racism that's responsible for the Reform vote. It's late stage capitalism that's to blame for this anti-immigrant...

I was saying people like you Dave, because when you say things like "I have within a 1 mile radius, 8 turkish barbers and probably 10 mini europeon markets, then in few weeks they get raided and drugs found" you are spouting a proper crock of old hateful nonsense. I'll be frank, I think it's...

@BrokenPhoenix I think the Australian approach is heinous and not one we should aspire to one bit, locking up children in detention centres for heavens sake. The reading around those detention centres is really, really grim. Riots, suicides, self-immolation, women and children being sexually...

@BrokenPhoenix If you google it you can easily find loads of polls about American attitudes towards immigration, they show a mixed picture but it seems to be the case that support for expanding legal pathways to enter the US is actually fairly high. You say a policy that extents citizenship to...

Trump's talk of mass deportations is truly despicable and inhumane. And I don't think that's what Americans voted for when they voted for him, at least I really hope not. It's fine to point out that illegal immigrants are exploited by unscrupulous employers, I don't think many on the left...

@ayase I agree with much of that. That's my big concern too, that if Starmer's Labour doesn't learn some very valuable and important lessons from this election, it might not be too long until something similar plays out over here and we get a Farage PM. Tinkering around the edges and trying to...

He's definitely won. I think the silver lining of all this for me is that this is going to hasten American's decline and decay. It's a process that was already well under way, but another Trump presidency will speed it up, America will only become more and more insular and inward looking. In the...

Oof, grim. It's looking like an easy Trump victory at this point. He might even win the popular vote. I've had a feeling this would go Trump's way, there was too much going against the dems. People feeling financially worse off (and not being educated enough to realise they're sure as hell going...

Out of interest M0nsoon, what is it that you find attractive about the idea of anime on TV over streaming? I do sympathise with your desire for TV though, but as a 35 year old I think a lot of that is nostalgia based with me. Obviously TV still exists, but one of the things I miss about TV back...

While I get that the system is crap for the average working person, I really don't get where this idea comes from (well actually I probably do know, the media) that it's actually great for the average unemployed person, which I guess is what @Dave1988 seems to be saying. There are people in...

^Brilliant review ayase! Having never really known a thing about Higurashi other than just being sort of familiar with the name, you've made me now put it near the top of my to-watch list! Sounds like just what I'm in the mood for! I'm also definitely with you on wanting to move into an old...

I'm with Radfem on this. Means testing will inevitably mean deserving people fall through the cracks and end up missing out on support they'd otherwise be getting, and that's a shame. Rather than claw back a bit of money this way at the expense of some people in need, the government could just...

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I think the only way to really stymie the rise of the far right, racism and bigotry is to start actually improving people's lives, everyone's lives. And I guess similarly to you I've long worried that a centrist Labour under Starmer that will do nothing to...

It's not all toxic though, there are people and grass roots movements out there really trying to make people's lives better, and everyone's lives, not just brits, but migrants lives too, "boat men"'s lives included. I mentioned him before in this thread, but I honestly struggle to imagine anyone...

There is a fair bit of common ground. But I'm not sure that the popularity of Farage types are necessarily factually tied to how well the government is or isn't handling immigration. Yes governments totally leave themselves open and look untrustworthy when they lean in to that same narrative...

@BrokenPhoenix I generally agree with your point that as a country we haven't been having an honest discussion about immigration. Our political leaders haven't been honest with us about the necessity of immigration for our economy and society to function. So you're correct when you say that...

@ayase Personally I'm not convinced throwing this guy to a mob to tear apart will satiate their blood lust. I don't know that for a fact of course, but to me it seems naive to expect that would have some kind of civilising effect on society. Anyway, I'll never be able to get behind of state...