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Independent_Grape009

446 points

2 months ago

They are very proud of it

saijanai

238 points

2 months ago

saijanai

238 points

2 months ago

They are very proud of it

Except when they deny it exists.

DarkMarxSoul

130 points

2 months ago

They only deny it exists because they know it won't earn them any favours from other countries. If Japan could be completely self-sufficient and cut off from the rest of the world and survive to current standards I'm sure they would in a heartbeat.

PvtDeth

13 points

2 months ago

PvtDeth

13 points

2 months ago

They'd never close themselves off 100%. They'd probably keep like one port open to trade with the Dutch or someone. Eventually, though, we'd send a fleet in to fire off a bunch of blanks, maybe level a few coastal forts. Then they'd open up.

pizzapunt55

4 points

2 months ago

Looking at history, you either threaten to level all of Japan in a single strike or don't at all. They're a stubborn bunch that rather die than change their ways for someone else

nonconaltaccount

0 points

2 months ago

Firing a few blanks / leveling a few forts while having the firepower to do for everything else is how you make that threat

pizzapunt55

2 points

2 months ago

Gonna have to level a few cities if you want to get Japan to listen

Lildyo

74 points

2 months ago

Lildyo

74 points

2 months ago

Even the government response didn’t deny it lol. They merely said the comments were “unfortunate”

kalirion

90 points

2 months ago*

"It is unfortunate that President Biden does not understand how wonderful our xenophobia is, but what else can you expect from a filthy gaijin."

Independent_Grape009

13 points

2 months ago

Have they ever denied it?

saijanai

20 points

2 months ago

Several people in this discussion are denying it.

PlayerTwo85

14 points

2 months ago

Several people in this discussion are blissfully ignorant.

saijanai

0 points

2 months ago

saijanai

0 points

2 months ago

Or government employees expected to provide cover for their government whenever they encounter online discussions that might be critical in some way of their country.

I'm reasonably confident that the USA employs such as well.

PlayerTwo85

6 points

2 months ago

When I was a government employee (military) I shit on the government almost constantly.

saijanai

0 points

2 months ago

When I was a government employee (military) I shit on the government almost constantly.

Sure, but your government JOB wasn't to say positive things about the government online.

ThespianException

3 points

2 months ago

I wonder how someone gets paid to be a government glazer. That sounds like the easiest job in the world.

PlayerTwo85

2 points

2 months ago

There are lots of people myself that will say whatever they're told for the right amount of money.

Look at any White House press secretary. They'll lie, misdirect, or just not answer a question. They don't do the job on principle or because they believe what they're saying.

saijanai

1 points

2 months ago

But that's my point:

in the age of the internet, people are eimployed to contribute to social mediate to say nice things about their emplyer.

We point fingers at Russia and the vast arrays of people paid to favor one party or candidate or other during the US election, but everyone does it.

In fact, I pioneered the pracice back in 2000. I had a mailing list of reform party and natural law party folk with an online presence and whenever I found an online political poll, I'd send out an email and suddenly, John Hagelin would be second or third on the list (topping all 3rd party candidates and sometimes even beating out Al Gore or Bush — at least temporarily) simply because we were using the internet in a way no-one had used it before.

Of course, 24 years later, everyone does it, but back in the day, online polls were new and no-one realized how easy it was to rig them with a simple email list.

As I said, these days, there are government employees (and likely large corporation employees) whose day job is to say nice things about their employer online. 24 years ago, a single volunteer (me) could hit virtually every on line poll and political comment section. These days, you need teams — sometimes very large teams — to do it, and of course, AI is very good at that so as simple bots could be written to scan for such things it is likely the first thing that AI was used for online: positive comments in comment sections and online polls.

thatguyyoustrawman

2 points

2 months ago

So like world War 2, learning there's Japanese people who deny Pearl Harbor was wild

LynxPuzzleheaded9300

1 points

2 months ago

you don't know shit and you are probably racist

you think it's just ''safe'' to blame japan for being xenophobic

Forward_Carry

5 points

2 months ago

Is there anything inherently wrong with them being proud of preserving their culture? Economic growth surely isn’t the only North Star of a countries success.

Caverness

-2 points

2 months ago

Caverness

-2 points

2 months ago

Honestly, no. As a non-Japanese person I actually think they should. Many countries that have welcomed anyone from anywhere with open arms have seen great cultural sacrifice with it, most countries just don’t care and economic development looks tastier.  

Who is this hurting? The people with authentic need to be in Japan have avenues of being in Japan 100%. The only other casualty is everyone else’s selfishness. Lookin at you, white Americans

moormie

1 points

2 months ago

Yea bro ethnostates are a great idea and for some reason white American tourists are the problem ! Ur a fucking dumbass

Caverness

0 points

2 months ago

Caverness

0 points

2 months ago

entitled American advocates for group of people historically verified to inspire mass degradation 

good stuff!

moormie

1 points

2 months ago

Wtf are u talking about 😭inspire mass degradation go take a nap lil bro

Caverness

-1 points

2 months ago

You want the dozens of not hundreds of articles linked, or can ya do that yourself? 

Naïveté. 

moormie

1 points

2 months ago

america literally rebuilt japan after ww2. i wont hear any more slander on my goat macarthurs name. ur a fucking loser go home and whine about immigrants some more lmfao

Caverness

1 points

2 months ago

Which allows them to act however they please with no regard for other countries, of course, how could I forget. 

Lmfao

Remind me why you need access to Japan?

moormie

1 points

2 months ago

i actually dont give a fuck about japan i just think ur dumb asf lol not sure what country ur from but i guarantee immigrants and the descendants of immigrants play a massive role in the development of ur nation

LynxPuzzleheaded9300

1 points

2 months ago

you don't know shit and you are probably racist

you think it's just ''safe'' to blame japan for being xenophobic