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seiberwing ([info]seiberwing) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-01-27 21:12:00


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American weeaboos. What.
(Part fandom, part otf, part political...heck, I'll just put it here)

[info]rihatsu62 is starting her own comic and she wants [info]brits_americans to know all about it.

Name's Rihatsu, from the UK, and I've just started work on a vigilante-type webcomic, working title Foothold. My main influences are Watchmen, Atlas Shrugged, Bosch Fawstin and those retro 1960s Marvel comics of the Captain America/Iron Man ilk.

In the not-so-distant future, the Union of European Socialist Republics has renounced its history and denounced its culture, semi-Islamising according to popular demand, its economy failing and its people starving. Japan, a closed nation, withdraws from the global stage, its government sending agents across the world to monitor the international situation. The world as we know it is falling apart.

Amidst the chaos, only one nation—the United States of America—retains its former identity and prosperity. But slowly, the social and political institutions of the USA show signs of collapse. Donations of taxpayer's money are sent more and more frequently to the UESR, with no return and no signs of improvement in the recipient nations. The media attacks with increasing frequency and viciousness the industrialists and businessmen of America. The government is distrusted and the Universities preach altruism, relativism and, above all, pessimism.

Coinciding with a series of terrorist attacks that rock Philadelphia to the core, the paths of four unlikely individuals cross, and it soon becomes clear that optimism, individualism and integrity must prevail before America—and the world—can be saved...


[info]brits_americans is less than enthralled, most notably [info]ladykathryn.

That's interesting. It sounds like "V for Vendetta", only without the social insight and cutting criticism of unthinking patriotism, xenophobia, and herd behavior.

The ensuing commotion features a complete and painful lack of understanding of socialism, collectivism, class structure, human nature, and the entirety of American society. I think this particular gem illustrates it well:

What relationship between class and race? Traditionally here, the working class was white English and Irish. This hasn't changed. There are lots of white working classes and lots of black working classes. And while in this country, where class is based more on tradition, there are few black upper-classes, there are a LOT of black middle classes. I'm unsure of the situation in america, but i bet it's less tradition-based and more money based.

Also somehow transhumanism gets into it, I'm not sure what happened there.

Bowing to communist collectivist pressure, she later removes references to Rand from her list of influences for the comic. Sadly, it's still very obvious.


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[info]misachan
2009-01-27 10:52 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea what "semi-Islamising" is supposed to mean. Is Islam an economic model now?

And this: The government is distrusted and the Universities preach altruism, relativism and, above all, pessimism doesn't sound like a dystopian future, it sounds like the '60s. It's not as if mistrust of the government and student protest is a revolutionary concept.

(So, what do we all think happened to South America, since the whole continent's nowhere to be seen? Tidal wave? Capuchin revolution? This is where the story is, people!)

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[info]scifantasy
2009-01-27 10:59 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea what "semi-Islamising" is supposed to mean. Is Islam an economic model now?

There is a certain amount of...fear? Paranoia? Suspicion? Xenophobia? Racism? Something. Anyway, an amount of it that suggests that due to disparate birth rates, Europe is going to fall under the sway of the vastly more numerous Muslim population and become dominated by Islamic law.

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[info]florence_craye
2009-01-27 11:24 pm UTC (link)
lol

so Chinese people and Indian Hindus all converted to Islam?

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[info]ayezur
2009-01-28 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Oh god, fucking riots in the streets if someone even tried to make them.

For the love of stability, don't get the Hindus and the Muslims going at each other. Please.

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[info]florence_craye
2009-01-28 05:14 pm UTC (link)
I know. How did the author get around that?

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[info]ayezur
2009-01-28 05:24 pm UTC (link)
Monumental and terrifying levels of sheer balls-numbing ignorance?

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-01-28 05:40 pm UTC (link)
As I read the links and comments, that is my growing conviction, yes.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-01-27 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Those dirty brown people and their dirty brown religion, corrupting our way of life!

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[info]cygnia
2009-01-28 02:30 am UTC (link)
Anyway, an amount of it that suggests that due to disparate birth rates, Europe is going to fall under the sway of the vastly more numerous Muslim population and become dominated by Islamic law.

Ugh. Don't get me started on this. As much as I love my husband, he and his brothers are under the delusion that this will actually happen so America "owes it" to the rest of the world to keep up the "Christian birthrate". :(

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[info]scifantasy
2009-01-28 05:45 am UTC (link)
*wince* Sympathies.

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ariadne484
2009-01-28 03:36 pm UTC (link)
I hope he washes all the dishes to make up for that.

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[info]seiberwing
2009-01-27 11:00 pm UTC (link)
Also, altruism and pessimism seem to be at odds. "Things suck, so be nice to your fellow man and they'll suck more"?

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[info]kadath
2009-01-27 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Is Islam an economic model now?

Well, there's the bits about "no interest" and "must give to charity." I can see why this would cause someone on the far right to break into hives.

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[info]frau_eva
2009-01-27 11:12 pm UTC (link)
That sounds like the medieval Catholic Church more than anything. OUR CHRISTIAN NATION FOUNDATIONS, OH SNAP!

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[info]tofuknight
2009-01-28 06:09 pm UTC (link)
It also sounds like strict Torah observance to me.

Abramaic faiths, represent! Yo!

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[info]seiberwing
2009-01-28 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Reading her LJ, she seems to be a big Jew fan. And by Jew fan, I mean she thinks Israel nonsupporters are anti-Semites.

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[info]tofuknight
2009-01-31 03:11 am UTC (link)
I really, really hate that viewpoint.

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[info]plazmah
2009-01-27 11:33 pm UTC (link)
Don't be silly; no one cares about South America!

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[info]dragonfangirl
2009-01-28 01:27 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I was reading that and thinking "So what about this is supposed to be fantasy, again?"

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[info]tofuknight
2009-01-28 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Can we write fanfic about something none of us intend to read (or maybe it's not even out yet?!) because it'd be more interesting, insightful, intelligent, and fun?

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