• Thallo [love/loves]
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    5 months ago

    They're worried about corporate control of truth, and THAT'S the fucking example they use!? jesus-christ

    No joke, I'm actually embarrassed for them rn

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    dastardly corporations are controlling my view of reality

    for instance they want to trick me into thinking a guy who died 450 years ago was a samurai, even though all he did was carry around katanas and serve the daimyo Oda Nobunaga directly as his personal bodyguard

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      Going to start calling hereditary Counts "the help." Since the word means "attendant"

    • booty [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I mean tbf as far as I'm aware there's not much evidence he was a warrior or anything, I always thought he was essentially just a companion. Like "hey everybody look at this funny looking guy I picked up, we talk about philosophy sometimes"

      That said, it still would be appropriate to refer to him as a samurai since that's pretty clearly what he was. The west still to this day has "knights" and they're not warriors either

      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        IIRC, there is not direct evidence he was a samurai, but he held positions that were traditionally awarded to samurai, so we can reasonably assume he was a samurai.

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Imagine not knowing how to get around an ip ban. Wikipedias whole thing is to take both sides, so if these nerds care so much find their own damn references and add a new section. Try being a communist on wikipedia:

    Show

    {citation needed}

    also crop your screenshots comrades, my eyes are bleeding

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    ITT: people taking this nonsense seriously. The people upset with Yasuke being in an AC game could not have cared less about the Shogun series or last samurai movie, they're only upset there's a black person in their games.

  • save_vs_death [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    what a stupid thing to say, the sources are in the damn article, it's one of the few things wikipedia does right; you can "request" the sources by clicking on the little numbers, most of them are direct links to the relevant publications when possible

    also, nobody will ban you for asking for sources on the talk page like this is bad man 1984 book; the central pissing and shitting there is that chuds refuse the plethora of english language sources calling him a samurai and then offer their own low quality and obscure japanese sources and then debate lord the word used there to not actually translate as samurai

  • fox [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    You probably get that ban because before Ubisoft announced the game literally nobody was asking for citations and afterwards hundreds of drooling neckbeards were trying to delete the article or sea lion it out of existence and the Wikipedia admins aren't morons and can see a pattern

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    A true samurai must be born in the Yamato region of Japan, otherwise they're merely a sparkling swordsman.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    "Uhh he wasn't a samurai he was a servant"

    Fucking chuds not understanding that the term is more closely retainer or knight companion

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Considering Samurai were cavalry archers, I wonder who the infantry would be 🤔