NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

Examples of posts that are welcome

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Not a good title.

A disaster film set during the 2018 Kerala Floods where people from all walks of life faced catastrophic consequences and put in collective efforts to survive the calamity.

8.3 on IMDB

On the Pirate Bay but you have to search for '2018.Everyone.Is.A.Hero.2023'

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Chronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.

Available in the usual places

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28076784/

A Chinese programmer and a model who, enticed by the promise of high-paying jobs, find themselves trapped in a foreign country as prisoners of a scam mill and were forced to be part of their online fraud scheme.

Search torrent sites for no more bets 2023

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20865116/

Search thepiratebay for 'never say never 2023'

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Thank you to [email protected] for this superb trick.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24545370

Why YSK: Certain topics are stressful and tend to spread all over the site, including to unrelated communities. Blocking communities can be overkill and ineffective, and likewise for blocking individual users.

To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the 'My filters' tab, and add this filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

For example:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)

Then apply the changes and reload any open tabs, and all posts which contain any of your filtered words will simply not show up.

You'll have to change "lemmy.world" at the start to whatever your actual instance is. You can filter as many or as few words as you want, just keep the / at the start, the /i at the end, and separate words with | pipes. What's actually being filtered is a case-insensitive regex, if you want to get fancy with it.

Here are equivalent filters for reddit and Ars Technica:

reddit.com##div.thing[data-context="listing"]:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##article:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

As a disclaimer, I made these myself, and I'm not particularly familiar with creating uBlock Origin filters. There may be better ways to do this. Also the reddit one is specific to old.reddit.com, and the lemmy filter is made to work with the default lemmy.world web UI and may not work on other UIs without tinkering.

Yes, I know I'm just hiding my head in the sand.

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Song of the South (Dat Rung Phuong Nam) is based on the same name novel written by Author Doan Gioi. It's a serial journey of a lost boy, named An, who experiences various adventures and tragedies on his way to looking for his father.

Trailer: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=hktzirCnJmQ

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29493007/

Search pirate bay for 'Song of the South 2023'

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Restlessly haunted by the past, Mai is greeted by a new dawn when she reluctantly befriends the neighborhood ladies' man. But when her yesterday catches up to her today, what will become of her tomorrow?

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_(2024_film)

IMDB (includes trailer): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31174028/

Search pirate bay for 'Mai (2024) 1080p WEBRip 5.1-WORLD'

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This service requires no account and is instead ad supported. I've linked directly to Alice, one of my favourite sci-fi shows that I discovered on this platform.

The few shows I've watched had high production standards. I don't mind reading subtitles and it's great to escape the American stuff. For example: there is very little gun violence and the action and plots are more creative compared to the Anglo stuff we're used to.

I can't really comment on the acting. It looks good to me but I'm not a native to these places. Anyway, I recommend this site.

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This is a really great movie from one of the most famous Iranian directors.

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Media in French is fine.

Also, is it pro-rich / pro-cop?

My understanding is the guy inherits billions but he's from the criminal classes and hates the upper-classes.... not really sure what class message is being sent

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