• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    Honestly a lot of what the article points to isn’t that bad and wouldn’t be out of place in a lot of the sfw moe communities here. They even reference a “topless women” which is just a picture from the shoulders up of some ai slop galaxy women.

    Yeah fuck Elon and his nazi ai but I don’t think he’s posting gooning content, or at least I don’t think i could goon to it.

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      It’s worth noting that there are several other Grok personas besides Ani. If he’s only engaging with / posting the Ani stuff but not the others, that’s something of a smoking gun to me

  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
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    This doesn’t surprise me. Weebs annoy the fuck out of me, so much so, I block any anime-related shit that pops up in my feed.

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    13 days ago

    I see why there was this air of “he’s just like us!” coming from anime profile pictures back in the day.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    lmao

    (“Gooning” is internet slang that describes exaggerated and excessively long sessions of self-pleasuring.)

    In other recent posts, Musk urged followers to try the sometimes-pornographic companion Ani. Last week, he announced that new skimpy outfits had been added to her wardrobe and commented “Nice” when a user modeled her in one.

    He evidently crossed a line, though, when he posted an animation of Ani dancing in her underwear; even his right-wing fans were disgusted, telling him it was “time to stop” and that Ani looked like a “13 year old in lingerie.”

    Musk, likely observing the severe backlash, deleted the offending post. Yet he continued to annoy his supporters by engaging with Ani. When he replied to a video of the character in a short skirt and a see-through top with a “good morning” message and an emoji of a smiling face encircled by hearts,

    A fed-up X user wrote, “BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS.”

    Question of the day, are you a pedo if it’s anime?

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      Question of the day, are you a pedo if it’s anime?

      Gosh, never seen this debate come up on the fucking worst parts of the internet before, totally new one. Can’t wait for all the fresh and original takes.

      In before “Ephebophile” gets thrown around and used as some kind of moral high ground.

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        Harkness Rules.

        And if she’s choosing to appear as a kid to lure pedos in so she can kill them with fire and eat their ashes, more power to her. Like Chris Hansen but with a hell of a lot more time on her hands.

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        I’m pretty sure that some stand up comedian made the joke that if you know the exact terms for different ages, you should already be locked up

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      What do you think it’s going to be like at mars?

      Just a few white bois masturbating to their anime pr0n cache while slowly starving to death.

      You want that?

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      Also you know he’s never put any time into developing any coping strategies for dealing with mean comments, so people should keep em coming

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          My take is if the assets are those of a fully developed women with a young looking fade or a “story” that she is young, I am a little less concerned, but if the anime girl is like pre adolescent, then that is a serious problem. My logic is that fully developed women with very young faces are, the vast majority of the time not minors. But if you take away the adult development, then nearly all of the real world examples are minors. And that there is time for some serious ass whoopin.
          I myself don’t like anime mainly because they are trying to blur the line a lot (and sometimes just flat put crossing it). I don’t need that in my life.

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      What really bothers me about anime is when there’s romance with a loli 300 year old vampire.

      I don’t give a shit if she’s “300 years old” in context. She looks 12!

      You can have you loli vampire/elf/whatever girl just look-no-touch!!

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      BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS

      “Take us to Mars”? Are there really people out there who think they personally are going to benefit from this groyper chud’s bottomless piggy bank and ketamine addiction?

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      It depends if the characters are Lolis and you Simp for the Loli characters.
      But for Ani Over here, Yes.

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      The definition of pedophilia is sexual attraction towards children. So if the anime characters are all clearly representing children, then sure, why not count that.

      The thing is, there is a lot of art that is kind of vague on age. The loli girl stuff creeps me out. But the older teenager / young adult anime/art feels a little more like general human brain. Especially if the user isn’t trying to seek it out. No one is perfect.

      But in this case obviously sexualizing something that looks like a child is creepy. Elon’s age is not helping him either…

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        So if the anime characters are all clearly representing children, then sure, why not count that.

        “But she’s really a 120 year old vampire so it doesn’t count, you just don’t understand bro”

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      MARS

      Literally anyone at all has as much chance as getting to Mars with Elon Musk as heaven’s gate cult members did getting to heaven on a space ship chasing Hale-Bopp.

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    13 days ago

    Ok, I followed the link to say that I’m having trouble judging him on this and found other like minded souls.

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      At least Howard Hughes at the decency to lose his fucking mind in isolation. That and also contribute actual advancements to cinema and aerospace.

      It’s tragic though that likely Musk will ensure his name is plastered on a thousand different agencies, institutions, foundations, statues and bidets all over the world and people growing up in several generations from now will largely assume he was some great inventor or hero along the lines of great pioneers of the past.

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        do you think Hughes Aircraft people ever referred to jorkin’ it as “sprucing the goose?”

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      I’m really confused why you’d think that a sloppy waifu addiction would be a redeeming quality

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        compared to being a nazi? it’s not mutually exclusive but anime gooning addiction takes time and effort that can’t be used for spreading bigotry

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        I mean, if someone was to argue about that topic they could probably examine like, Oskar Schindler or John Rabe or such, but that’s besides the point I suppose.

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            Well no, but I was more referring to the general statement than the notion that it applies to musk. Having the self awareness to see the harm in what he’s done and those he’s supported doesn’t seem particularly in character for him in any event.

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          Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, also.

          Stauffenberg took part in the Invasion of Poland, the 1941–42 invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa and the Tunisian campaign during the Second World War. Alongside Major Generals Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster, he became a key figure in the German resistance to Nazism within the Wehrmacht.

          On 20 July 1944, Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt failed, the explosive he had placed only dealing Hitler minor injuries. The conspirators were arrested, and many of them executed, including Stauffenberg on the day after the attempt. His wife Nina was also arrested, giving birth to their fifth child Konstanze while imprisoned.

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    I hate elon musk as much as anyone, but the person who wrote this article, specifically targeting anime, seems like a xenophobic prude.

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      They really are, americans are be panicking since they are only making trash and losing their own animation awards to foreigners.