• Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The weirdest replies are the ones saying to "stop looking at politics thru a US perspective."

    • camaron30 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The people who say that never mean "look at it from a japanese politics perspective". They always mean "stop talking about politics". There are a lot of interesting things to be said about One Piece from a political perspective and how they apply to japan, especially in the Wano arc, but no, they don't want to talk about that either.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        No, no. Japan isn't a normal country with the same political issues full of people who worry about and struggle with the same things we do. It's a paradise of waifus and honor!

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Don't tell them that since after World War II, any difference between the US political system and the Japanese political system is mostly superficial, and they are basically the same since being vassalized by the United States.

    • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      Faux anti-western-chauvinism to defend their treats.

      Edit: Oh, actually, it's not even that clever. It's literally just right wingers trying to redefine rightism to mean "less government" and other self-flattering descriptions.

      It's funny how it's Americans accusing others of being Americans. They basically want to save right-wing reaction by disavowing the US right (just the republicans though) and pretending the right in the rest of the world is better.