• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Two books everybody should read are Witness to a Century by George Seldes and War is a Racket by Smedley Butler. You would think these books are about today’s world but they’re actually about shit going down a hundred or more years ago. It’s strangely heartening to think that the United States has always sucked this bad.

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    22 hours ago

    The whole idea of My Hero Academia is to exceed your limits. Their mottos are “plus ultra” and “go beyond”. Deku absolutely does not believe in giving 100%, he’s going to give even more than that

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      13 hours ago

      The entire point is pushing beyond what you can give cripples and hurts you.

      The message is you should give YOUR 100% not your mentors, not your friends, not your coworks or what others expect of you.

      Do what YOU can. Because we all can be a hero if we give it our best.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Okay, but Promised Neverland turned straight dogshit. The lesson there should be “quit while you’re ahead”

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      1 day ago

      Sometimes season one is meh, and then the series improves, like The Next Generation.

      Sometimes you get one great season, and profit motives squeeze out a second shit season.