Chocolate Underground

With the establishment of the Good For You Party’s authoritarian regime, unhealthy foods and sugar have been banned. As a result, the bakery Smudger Moore’s father owns is suffering financially from being unable to sell any of their typical sweet menu items. Smudger’s friend Huntley Hunter is also frustrated by the prohibition, as he cannot keep a promise he made to his late father. Angered by the unjust world they live in, the two young boys set out to break the new social order—but the uphill battle they are faced with is a lot more than they bargained for.

-MAL No

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Read it again. Direct quote.

        That may be a fairly hot take for some people here, but I could do a slightly cooler one with the treatbrains that simply must blast out high bass floor-rattling BWOOMBWOOMBWOOMS well after midnight. Unlike the sugar, it instantly becomes everyone’s experience in a wide radius.

        Again, I stated the take I could do instead of a take that I didn’t agree with.

        absurd take lmao

        Foaming with rage at anyone even vaguely adjacent to someone that set you off is more absurd. “lmao.”

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            i won’t be embarrassed for having emotions, even over silly things

            Then spare me the “lmao” while you’re firing rage posts off at the hip. Just say you’re mad because sugar was criticized.

            I could have said there’s some grounds to do just that, especially considering where it’s harvested and under what conditions and how much suffering and exploitation is involved in a capitalist system, but I didn’t because that wasn’t directly related to @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 's take.

            Considering how reactive and volatile you’re being over fucking sugar, I just made that take just now anyway. Because I don’t back down from bullies, especially over something as petty and divisive as treats.

            how literally everyone on the internet phrases it

            Look at your entire delivery system so far, including the “lmao,” and remove that fucking plank from your eye first.

            textbook Redditor way to enforce an echo chamber

            Trying to scream someone down for criticizing fucking sugar is a demand to do just that. Again, remove that fucking plank from your eye first.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                1 month ago

                I’m not being evasive here. I do not support the banning of sugar. It’d be almost entirely futile to try even if I wanted to and had some sort of political position where I could try to make it happen. The production of sugar is a concern of mine, as is the corporate empires that command its production and distribution, but that falls outside of @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net’s take, though perhaps it still fits within the basis of this thread’s topic considering the heavy-handed “no veggies at dinner, no bedtimes” baby libertarian idealism that seems apparent at a glance in “Chocolate Underground.”

                i was more concerned about the implication it just shouldn’t be in baked goods at all, like straight up banned, because of the context of the weird anime and the whole ‘if you can’t make it taste good without sugar’ sort of vibe. criticizing it as an industry as well as it’s pervasiveness in almost every product produced that people eat is not just reasonable but an obligation we all have.

                None of that is my take, even now. When the person you’re arguing with comes back from exams, feel free to direct that anger there. Or don’t. I’d suggest the latter.

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                    1 month ago

                    I appreciate your reply. I can only speak for my own take, but maybe there is something worth arguing with with @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net after all, if hopefully from a less incendiary position. It isn’t my take to argue; I don’t even know what western baking goods would look like without sugar (pre-colonial honey, maybe?).