• VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Kishi was a A tier war criminal who occupied "Manchukuo" (where I'm from) and his regime was so brutal that one million Chinese laborers had to be enslaved and brought to Manchuria each year for his factories because of how high the casualties were. I love it when the "leader of the free world" appoints a man who raped like 20 women a day to rule "Free Japan"! Very peepopog of the United States :)

            • refolde [she/her, any]
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              4 years ago

              Thankfully I have not seen them but I can probably imagine what they're like and getting angry about it anyways.

              • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I'm rudely reminded sometimes that, despite Breadtubers becoming more popular and such, youtube is still basically Chudfest. Reddit libs are grating but they could be a lot worse.

              • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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                4 years ago

                The interesting thing about those edgy commenters is that that the kid who assassinated him (Otoya Yamaguchi) is the ideal version of them in their heads. A 17 year old epic right winger who assassinated a filthy commie with a fucking traditional sword on live TV, thus getting mass media attention. They love this because in their pathetic inner fantasies, they are him.

                Edit: Hopefully they at least follow through with the rest of the larp and hang themselves a few days later in jail

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Japanese salarymen work to death and never see their families

      This is one of those little factoids that seem to never really go away. If you look at working hours surveys, Japan is actually pretty average in terms of hours worked:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours

      This is not to say that there aren't many workers being exploited by their employers with crushing working hours, and there's some methodological problems with these surveys sometimes, but according to the best data we have this stereotype isn't necessarily true.

      The part about the reactionary right wing government is spot on though.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, they call it "power harassment" and it often goes hand in hand with terrible working conditions and overtime at so-called "black companies".

          A new law recently came into effect to combat it, but only time will tell how well it works.

          But anyway, my point is kind of that there are certainly a lot of terrible companies there but there are also normal companies and even some good companies (within the limits of capitalism ofc). I just feel that the common western perception of working in Japan is that everything is a black company, which is certainly not true.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        4 years ago

        What are the origins of the myth? Is it 1980s Western anxieties about being economically outperformed by a new global superpower? Or was the Japanese media just more willing to focus on the problem of overwork than other countries?

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Hard for me to say tbh.

          If you look at the data working hours have been declining steadily over the years. It could be the case that this is just old news that refuses to die because there's no clicks in updating it.

          Incidentally, I think this is a big part of why the similarly flawed perception of Japan as the suicide capital of the world continues to spread, despite the stats telling us that Japan is fairly normal.

          Another part if the reason could be that there have been several prominent cases of people literally dropping dead due to overwork, which reinforces the perception that this is a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. You only have to look at the people working to death or mental breakdowns in finance and legal roles in London and NYC to see that its not uniquely Japanese.

          The last part of it I can think of is that a lot of the exploitative companies are in the English "education" sector, where most English speakers in Japan will have first hand experience. Because of the language barrier, its very easy for disgruntled English "teachers" to spread the image that this is the way Japan is for everyone.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Never done it personally but from my friends who do, all the private eikaiwas are basically black as shit because their fundamental business model is exploiting disposable foreign labor.

              Dispatch Assistant Language Teacher positions also have a reputation for being shady and black.

              That said, most English industry positions aren't black in terms of overtime because they want to keep you 1 hour under the limit for full time benefits. They are black in terms of denying you benefits, treating you like shit, and being hives of power abuse and sexual harassment.

              Oh, and theres a very good chance that you'll be the only foreign staff member who's not an ethnonationalist chud.

              If you're planning to go as a gap year or something, then yeah it's an easy way of putting food on the table. Grit your teeth and bear it.

              If you want to make a career of it, absolutely get qualified as a proper teacher and try to find a job at a private school or even university before you go.

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      So, from what I’ve been told, while this kind of anime is popular in Japan, the people into are usually viewed somewhat negatively in mainstream Japanese society. Anime and manga are popular but a lot of the more popular stuff over there is fairly normie crap. Being loud and proud about enjoying this kind of stuff, particularly in rural Japan, will probably get you side eyed.

      It’s kind like how nerds were viewed 40 years ago or so.

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Idk I'm a burly blue collar man who lifts heavy things, enjoys big steaks, guns, whisky and cigars but I think male gender roles are cringe. Let people do what they like. Who fucking cares.

    Also why do these people think Marxism is about being a sissy or whatever lol. If anything Communist movements have a bit of a machismo problem.

    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Im Mexican and the toxic Masculinity created during the "nueva españa" period has brought nothing but harm to the country, we have a serious problem with feminicides and its because of machismo, if marxism makes the machismo dissapear to me its a win-win

        • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Nueva España is the colonial period it starts with the fall of the aztec empire and it ends with the independence of Mexico, it was during it the Mexican Mestizo culture was created with the mixing of spanish and indigenous cultures

      • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        if marxism makes the machismo dissapear to me its a win-win

        un bato con camisa de la UNAM se aparece

  • Grace [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    also note that Ferris isn't a man, but actually a trans woman who, with sheer will, has given herself magical estrogen. And iirc Astolfo is an enby. Idk about the rest. (Source: am an /r/animememes mod)

  • quartz242 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The west is fucked, their historical idols, idolized small penis and effeminate. No I have no sources and will not find any

    • bigbologna [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      every day on this wretched website I am tempted to post that I want to be a femboy and every day I give in

  • Doc14 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    We need a strong Eastern man like Griffith to lead us in homoerotic water fights with their sexual tension buddy.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This meme works just as well with a selection of popular K-Pop/J-Pop boy bands.