Or a woman for that matter. This is a 30 year old man acting like he's 14.

I enjoy watching Japanese cartoons once in a while but holy shit just delete the entire industry if this dweeb is the target audience.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    From what I've heard from people I know there is that the culture is so much stricter than you could possibly imagine. If you're a punk in Japan (like, the dirty kind) you are just straight up banned from working, renting a place, or doing pretty much anything. Like, they are essentially banned from the rest of society along with refugees and general undesirables. If Hitler had modest success in WW2 and didn't have super unrealistic goals then it's how I picture Germany being now

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Quite a few were from refugee families going back to the Korean War and to this day their children and grandchildren for ever onward can never be citizens and are at a lower caste than even illegal immigrants, they're literally called Slave Class people. Pretty much any venue that will do punk shows are run by the Yakuza, which led to a side effect of most Japanese punk bands being being really really tight, cause you had to actually bring money in or you'd be in trouble with very dangerous people. Of you spike your hair and stud a jacket and really like Discharge and Antisect in that country you will be subjected to third world conditions

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I mean, a lot do join as well. If you just aren't allowed to get a over the table job those can be the breaks. There is a more allowed pogo and streetpunk kind of thing but dirty crusty punks are just not allowed, especially because they're explicitly political and there are mu h greater restrictions on criticizing the government there as well

            Here's Asocial Terror Fabrication playing a gig to raise money for search and rescue efforts a couple days after Fukushima.

            https://youtu.be/n5jPhK9HncA

            If punk isn't a threat, what's the point?