• Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    They're actually still so ultra nationalist that they take great pride, to the point of actually kicking themselves in their own pocketboot, in producing nearly all of their foods and shit domestically with superior Japanese products. Like an example is that damn near all of their fucking potato chips are made out of some Japanese strain of potato that's only grown in Japan and they actually had a potato shortage crisis because of a shit harvest last year. Also all their food prices are all on the more expensive side, on their average wage earnings, since they tend to only sell domestic products.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Is it self-reliance for the sake of building a more sustainable society, or self-reliance out of a sense of ethno-supremacism?

    • groundling20XX [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      This has little to do with Japanese fascism and more to do with how the LDP has partitioned voting districts to keep cities unimportant and hand out farming subsidies.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          That's why they do it.

          Also, it's hard to overstate the degree of political nihilism many Japenese (especially young people) feel. Even if they know about the unfair distribution, few people think anything can be done about it.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think there is something to be said about preserving local varietals of foods and produce in the face of the homogenizing effects of global trade.

      Fuck those tiny potatoes though. Fuck peeling them. Fuck washing them.