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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]seraphtrevs
2009-01-28 12:22 am UTC (link)
...I'm finding it incredibly jarring seeing a non-American American wingnut. How did that happen? Are they airing Fox News in England now?

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[info]magic_at_mungos
2009-01-28 12:42 am UTC (link)
Not unless you really look for it. I think we have it in our cable bundle.

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[info]phosfate
2009-01-28 02:35 am UTC (link)
Yes. And there are UK wingnuts, to one degree or another. "David Copperfield," pseudonymous police blogger, subscribes to Guns and Ammo, thinks there would be much less crime in the UK if everybody could carry concealed firearms, and thinks that the Castle Doctrine is the greatest contribution to Western civilization since the printing press. He isn't a firearms carrying officer himself, mind -- his wife won't allow it.

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[info]serai
2009-01-28 02:05 pm UTC (link)
thinks there would be much less crime in the UK if everybody could carry concealed firearms

Because the gods know there wouldn't be any problem with arming all those roving gangs of footie hooligans.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 03:17 pm UTC (link)
Screw that, I'm terrified of the concept of armed Daily Mail readers...

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[info]yattara
2009-01-28 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Ditto. The Daily Mail gives me hives, and scares me.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 03:24 pm UTC (link)
As it should everyone with half a working braincell. *shudder*

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[info]mary_mac
2009-01-28 04:31 pm UTC (link)
o.O
He has seen the statistics on police gun deaths and injury for the PSNI (most of whom do/are trained to carry guns routinely)?

*headdesk*

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[info]phosfate
2009-01-28 06:31 pm UTC (link)
He likes to make up his own statistics, mostly focusing on how much people who live in projects piss him off.

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[info]mary_mac
2009-01-28 06:36 pm UTC (link)
I am restraining the urge to find him and beat him over the head with the history of the past forty years.

Mostly because I know it would do little good, and only hurt my arm.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 02:30 pm UTC (link)
We've always had them, it's just that with the advent of the Internet we can't lock them in attics anymore and pass their ravings off as noisy plumbing.

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[info]dragonsong12
2009-01-28 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that's interesting! I mean, I'm pretty happy being American (more so lately, which is awesome) but I always got the impression that we were the loud, obnoxious, red-headed stepchild of the world that everyone just sort of nodded and smiled at before running in the opposite direction.

...so that's kinda weird to hear...

Though I guess it works both ways, since there are the people here who think anything from the UK is vastly surperior to anything American and anyone who argues is an ignorant plebe...
...we should get these people in a room together. The sound of all their heads exploding would be fantastic!

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 03:16 pm UTC (link)
Nah, there's always been a subsection of the british population who think that America is the greatest thing since sliced bread adn do their best to _be_ American, or at least sound it, which just Does Not Work in Barnsley, for example...

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[info]seiberwing
2009-01-28 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Are they always this damn creepy?

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Usually sad rather than creepy, although I admit the kid I went to school with who thought that America was exactly the way it is in The Lost Boys and behaved accordingly was...special.

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[info]seiberwing
2009-01-28 03:29 pm UTC (link)
How was it in The Lost Boys?

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[info]catmoran
2009-01-28 08:14 pm UTC (link)
I'd have tried to pass them off as squirrels, the resemblance is closer. And people wouldn't wonder why you were tossing handfuls of nuts at the plumbing.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-28 10:37 pm UTC (link)
If only we'd known!

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-01-28 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Start with Unity Mitford</i> and follow the links outward for some comprehensive wingnuttery.

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[info]singe
2009-01-28 09:43 pm UTC (link)
What an...interesting person.

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-01-28 10:11 pm UTC (link)
So rare that a single person is used to embody the phrase "the banality of evil."


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[info]singe
2009-01-28 11:30 pm UTC (link)
It makes my own embodiment of the phrase "clumsy as fuck all" much easier to bear.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2009-01-29 12:23 am UTC (link)
...There's a Swastika, Ontario?

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[info]frequentmouse
2009-01-29 01:48 am UTC (link)
Huh, learn something new every day.

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[info]littleshebear
2009-01-29 09:31 pm UTC (link)
There's an entry in her journal where she laments the fact that her cable package doesn't include Fox News. I WEEP.

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