Chainsaw Man - Ch. 216 - Yearning

[Ironclad]

Yeah that does sound like something Gavin Newsom would do.

 

[NotSomeone]

Least evil thing an American politician did this year

 

[Swagner]

I am neither Californian nor American, but I've been hearing California has been going to shit for years (worse than a third-world country), and I would actually NOT be surprised if the current governor of California pulls this shit.

You should stop listening to inane political propaganda, and worse, regurgitating it in unrelated manga forums without bothering to check in on objective reality first.

 

[radstylix]

actually... is that really denji?
i think it's pochita this time, since denji is chasing asa inside himself...

...

...i promise it DOES have sense if you read chapters!

In his true devil form, it's almost always Pochita IIRC.

 

[fight2live]

War Devil is fully embracing the Californication

 

[Xorn]

I am neither Californian nor American, but I've been hearing California has been going to shit for years (worse than a third-world country), and I would actually NOT be surprised if the current governor of California pulls this shit.

Ya, no. California is the most prosperous state in the US. The major cities are expensive to live in, but even the bad parts of LA are far from anything resembling a third world country. Also CSM takes place in the 90's so the governor would most likely be Pete Willson, though it would be kind of funny if it was Schwarzenegger.

EDIT: Just saw you're in the Philippines. Hope you're OK after that earthquake.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Yes, and smart enough to think for myself thank you very much. 😏

Idk man you don't come off as very smart but you do you.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Ya, no. California is the most prosperous state in the US. The major cities are expensive to live in, but even the bad parts of LA are far from anything resembling a third world country. Also CSM takes place in the 90's so the governor would most likely be Pete Willson, though it would be kind of funny if it was Schwarzenegger.

EDIT: Just saw you're in the Philippines. Hope you're OK after that earthquake.

Tbf places like Skid Row are really, really bad. But so are parts of any big US city. And to take a tiny part of one major city and use it to paint a picture of an entire state is stupid at best and more than likely malicious. California was always getting a lot of slack on account of its size and cultural prominence, but it's been getting way worse lately as the Trump propaganda machine has been targeting the state for years. Newsom, for all his many faults, coming out as Trump's main national critic has only made the crazies louder.

 

[radstylix]

Ya, no. California is the most prosperous state in the US. The major cities are expensive to live in, but even the bad parts of LA are far from anything resembling a third world country. Also CSM takes place in the 90's so the governor would most likely be Pete Willson, though it would be kind of funny if it was Schwarzenegger.

EDIT: Just saw you're in the Philippines. Hope you're OK after that earthquake.

Just saying, I'm 100% confident that it's a much safer walking around here in Manila (but prob not late at night) than in any of the cities in the US. There are also no riots or any "flash mobs" of people raiding stores. I don't know what to tell you, but that tells me it's worse than third-world.

Also damn you may be right. I keep forgetting the time period of CSM.

Thanks for worrying, but I'm far from the epicenter.

 

[MilkDrinker]

Ass-a's mom

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Just saying, I'm 100% confident that it's a much safer walking around here in Manila (but prob not late at night) than in any of the cities in the US. There are also no riots or any "flash mobs" of people raiding stores. I don't know what to tell you, but that tells me it's worse than third-world.

This is what happens when tiktok is your window to the world. An entire generation just eating up reactionary right-wing smear campaigns without even knowing it.

 

[radstylix]

This is what happens when tiktok is your window to the world. An entire generation just eating up reactionary right-wing smear campaigns without even knowing it.

I don't watch Tiktok, what now?
I'm not right-wing, what now? 🤔

 

[Memnon]

Mocking Newsom is good fun, he is a specific individual and public figure, and thus very much not free of criticism, even if by the manga's timeframe he isn't the governor. I made my post by referencing his notorious and infamous treatment of the homeless population of California because it's actually fact and thus worthy of mockery.

Mocking an entire place you have never been to based on selective footage you saw online and thus draw conclusion from is incredibly silly and dumb. It's as much being "smart" and "thinking for yourself" as basing your opinion on the Middle Ages by watching movies. You're being duped into believing stereotypes and you're too self-assured in your own intelligence to realize you're being duped.

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

I don't watch Tiktok, what now?
I'm not right-wing, what now? 🤔

You're parroting right-wing nonsense about California being a third-world country because you've "been hearing it for years". Whatever you political leanings may be in general, on this specific topic you've drank the kool-aid.

 

[Xorn]

Just saying, I'm 100% confident that it's a much safer walking around here in Manila (but prob not late at night) than in any of the cities in the US. There are also no riots or any "flash mobs" of people raiding stores. I don't know what to tell you, but that tells me it's worse than third-world.

Also damn you may be right. I keep forgetting the time period of CSM.

Thanks for worrying, but I'm far from the epicenter.

First glad you're OK.

Second, "flash mobs" or organized shoplifting events are really rare. They happened a few more times than normal during the pandemic, but those only account for a couple percent of total shoplifting incidents. The reason you got accused by another user of being right wing is because right wingers were boosting those events. Painting large cities as crime havens are a fond past time of rightwingers that are scared of people with a smige of pigment in their skin.

Riots are also quite rare? I'm not even sure when the last one was tbh. I wanna say J6, but it feels like their has to of been one since then. We have LOTS of protests, but very few riots.

My point is crime rates were WAY higher in the time in which chainsaw man takes place than they are today. Literally multiple times more, in fact. They were even worse in the 80's. The US (and most of the world) have been sitting near the bottom of a 40 year low in crime rate statistics across the board and our major cities are about as safe as they've ever been. US Cities being lawless warzones is a myth. Source: Guy that grew up in Chicago, lived in Minneapolis for 7 years, and spent a summer in LA.