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8:31am: Stephen Colbert is hurting America
According to johannafaust, Stephen Colbert is hurting America. And he's a dick. Oh wait. That's Tucker Carlson.

Anyhoo, apparently, The Colbert Report (spin-off of The Daily Show) is distracting all the multitudes of st00pid st00pid Americans from recognizing that what the government is doing is dangerous. Because we're all too busy laughing. Or something.

I know a lot of people think Stephen Colbert is really funny and/or cool, and I suppose he is occasionally chuckle-worthy. However, I think in the long run Colbert's kind of humor is not only not having the affect you think it does, but is actually harming America.

Think about it, on Colbert's show he mocks the religious, conservative republicans who are in power in this country right now, he makes them look completely stupid, and by doing this, getting people to laugh at them, he makes them seem harmless. So, while our freedoms are being taken away at the white house every day, the people who might actually care about it, are instead glued to their televisions laughing at only slightly exaggerated caricatures of some of the most evil and dangerous men alive. And nobody goes out and does anything about it, because those conservatives are so funny and dumb they can't possibly be a *real* threat. And that’s why he was allowed to give his routine at the white house like that.

( The flaw in your logic is obviously that most people in the USA are blindingly stuoid. (sic) )

ETA: And she posts again. More wankery abounds in the comments.

ETA 2: The mod responds with a hilarious fireside chat.

12:38pm: The wank you never thought you'd see.
You thought you had seen the smallest of the small fandom wanks? People arguing over knitting and perfume not small enough? Met the tokusatsu nerds! This is smaller, but with enough "WTF" for everyone.

So...on Henshin Justice Unlimited, Rising Sun Ranger (RSR from her on out) links to an old Bettleborgs ad on YouTube, noting it's "Worse than the TV Show itself!!"

People giggle, until Skynight wades in with a cry for equal treatment of Saban, claiming hypocrisy.

And...the Japan/English wars are off and running! Skynight declares RSR is "dragging B-Fighter (link to the wiki for the uninformed, well, everyone.) into a comparison war"

The thread lies dormant until NinjaJack, revives it, noting that RSR is "one of those guys who starts a topic about a show he doesn`t like, then goes out of his way to say how much the Japanese version was better."

At this point, it's time to whip out the "My fandom is tiny and obscure, but I can still have a minuscule e-peen to wave about!"

ForeverKnight makes several disparaging comments, but it doesn't get good until RSR quotes a comment in on the YouTube clip:

"The thing that makes Beetleborgs fans superior to B-Fighter fans is that we get the fact this show is supposed to be FUN, nothing else that the Japs can come up with, serious or otherwise. We can lighten up, whilst these Tokastu snobs have to always stick with the source material and bore us to death with how "great" their oriental crap is. We nuked Japan for a reason, you're it."

Racism!Wank about a 15 year old show with people in beetle suits. I can't make this up.

FreedomR8G6B1 proceeds to totally miss the racism and Skynight, it seems, has been found out as the commenter, and tries to defend it. He has friends that aren't white! He doesn't think that people who like a Japanese show over an American one are the reasons we killed thousands of people. Really! You're just taking it out of context!

Still going strong, so far.

12:45pm: MegaTokyo Wank!
As reports by a mousie in w_r(I will take credit for going otu and getting the links, thank you v. much).

Sabyr, a longtime Megatokyo forumite known for stating his occasionally unpopular opinions (and sometimes arguing the creator, Fred, down) with over 2,000 posts since '03, posts something rather tame in support of the unpopular characters in the current scene. This is nothing like what he usually does when he wants to shit-stir. Basically he says that everyone in the forum has probably participated in morally bankrupt fan behavior at one point or another. A few posts after that, he basically tells everyone on the forum that the fanboys in the comic are the forumites (which is a thought I had myself, but I digress).

Predictably, ( people go nuts )

3:18pm: Hello. Here is an announcement, for your pleasure.
As fandom_wank's ranks continue to swell, so does the modsquad's. Please welcome your new mod, eljuno!

His ban list is sure to grow as long as Sep's and Apo's, so be nice! ;-)

ETA: For the confused, here are the mods, in addition to eljuno:

Mod Squad:
sepiamagpie
phosfate
wankprophet
sorchar
panthea
apoplexia
snacky

Retired:
backfromspace

Comes And Goes:
brad*
hugsnkisses

Missing In Action:
flutterg*
renjenri*
arkane156*

This information is currently available on the comm's user info page and on the wiki.

*::waits for questions of "who?" to start::

8:21pm: But what are their thoughts on...? Oh, right.
Over on Anime News Network, the self-styled "Internet's Most Trusted News Source," there is an Answerman column written by Zac Bertschy. In addition to answering questions, Zac's been experimenting with adding new sections to his column. The latest is a weekly rant. However, Zac solicits these from his readers instead of writing them himself, cleverly absolving himself of all potential blame.

It's lasted a good month and a half or so now without sparking any major conflicts, so of course that had to change.

Clockwork Butterfly writes in to complain about yaoi fangirls, who are ruining his fandom. The catch? His fandom is Gravitation. Yes, that Gravitation. The yaoi gateway drug anime.

( Ruining, I tell you! )