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Tarō Asō is a racist, sexist, anti-Semitic ultra-nationalist xenophobic fuckwit.
If I see one more blog or livejournal post about how AWESOME it is that Asō is slated to become Japan's next Prime Minister, I am going to scream.
And no, I am not surprised that the Akibakei and pretty much all of Japan's otaku culture support Asō in droves. We're talking about a demographic group that tends to be either a) extremely ill-informed about politics or b) also leaning toward being enormously racist, sexist, ultra-nationalistic xenophobic fuckwits. All you have to do is spend more than a minute surfing 2ch to see the sad, sad truth of that.
Wealthy housebound nerds harbor sheltered, ignorant views about how the real world works? Color me shocked!
I'm waiting for the inevitable television special where some intrepid reporter from NHK ventures out into the streets of Akihabara, rounds up a bunch of otaku sporting pro-Asō paraphanelia, and asks them if any of them have any clue what sort of actual policies Asō supports. I'd bet money that most of them don't know anything about Asō beyond the fact that he likes manga a lot. Hell, a cursory glance at some of the Japanese blogs on my feed are showing me exactly that right now.
Oh well. At the very least, we should all take comfort in the fact that Asō probably won't last long as the Prime Minister. Lately, nobody has. Especially nobody that supports abolishing Article 9 and re-militarizing Japan. TPTB in Japan have rallied that cause for a long time, but (at least for now) the voters will still have none of it.
Okay, enough about stupid Japanese politics. Here is a brilliant NSFW comic with what is quite possibly the greatest editorial caption every written:
I’ve never understood how a wonderfully muscular, resilient organ could be a euphemism for weakness, while having delicate, dangly bits indicated strength. Subconscious sexism much?
If I see one more blog or livejournal post about how AWESOME it is that Asō is slated to become Japan's next Prime Minister, I am going to scream.
And no, I am not surprised that the Akibakei and pretty much all of Japan's otaku culture support Asō in droves. We're talking about a demographic group that tends to be either a) extremely ill-informed about politics or b) also leaning toward being enormously racist, sexist, ultra-nationalistic xenophobic fuckwits. All you have to do is spend more than a minute surfing 2ch to see the sad, sad truth of that.
Wealthy housebound nerds harbor sheltered, ignorant views about how the real world works? Color me shocked!
I'm waiting for the inevitable television special where some intrepid reporter from NHK ventures out into the streets of Akihabara, rounds up a bunch of otaku sporting pro-Asō paraphanelia, and asks them if any of them have any clue what sort of actual policies Asō supports. I'd bet money that most of them don't know anything about Asō beyond the fact that he likes manga a lot. Hell, a cursory glance at some of the Japanese blogs on my feed are showing me exactly that right now.
Oh well. At the very least, we should all take comfort in the fact that Asō probably won't last long as the Prime Minister. Lately, nobody has. Especially nobody that supports abolishing Article 9 and re-militarizing Japan. TPTB in Japan have rallied that cause for a long time, but (at least for now) the voters will still have none of it.
Okay, enough about stupid Japanese politics. Here is a brilliant NSFW comic with what is quite possibly the greatest editorial caption every written:
I’ve never understood how a wonderfully muscular, resilient organ could be a euphemism for weakness, while having delicate, dangly bits indicated strength. Subconscious sexism much?
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Seriously, I've spoken to some of them, and a lot of them just spout off some crap about change without knowing what the change actually is. This does not mean that Obama is like that, but that these people seriously lack insight on why they should or shouldn't be voting the way they are. Many of them are the sheltered type as well, though not necessarily nerds.
As for Article 9, of course the Japanese are against it. We're paying for a good portion of defending Japan so they don't have to.
I don't get the anti-Semitism though.
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Personally I've spoken to very few Obama supporters who don't actually understand his stances on the issues. I guess it all depends on what circles you run in.
As for Article 9, of course the Japanese are against it. We're paying for a good portion of defending Japan so they don't have to.
Or maybe it's because the pro-abolishment politicians also want to invade North Korea and are fucking crazypants.
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Yeah, they may want to, but they won't. I just don't think we should be footing the bill for Japanese national defense when they are as wealthy as we are.
Yeah, it is a bit axe-grindy, but when you keep hearing idiot harpy celebrities who have no idea what they're talking get massive media attention. There's a reason the culture wars were returning to America until the recent economic shock, and Dem supporters jut don't understand it.
1) A lot of moderate Americans were outraged at the treatment Palin was getting. Many of them thought it was hypocritical for Obama to complain about Rev.Wright, and then go and use the same tactics on her. There are valid reasons to look critically at Palin (and my personal evaluation of her is that she's a Rumsfeld/Cheney-type, which may switch my vote), but they did go a lot harder on her then Obama and Biden from what I saw here, except on Fox, but they're pro-laissez faire politics.
2) Many people felt the mainstream media had an axe to grind, and was cheerleading an Obama win, that has come back to bite the Dems a good bit among some people. No one trusts the news media in America anymore. CNN is probably the most trusted, and many conservatives are suspicious of them. People just tune in to the slanted news they want to believe in.
Sometimes you have to hear the painful truth, why do think I'm such a glutton for punishment on here sometimes? Hearing the occasional liberal perspective helps me understand things a bit better, even if I don't always agree. I don't think the majority of Americans believe like me on hearing both sides though, and that is sad.
There are idiot McCain supporters as well, I'll agree with you there as well. I just don't run into them on a daily basis.
Whoa. There's one thing in there that I can't let slide...
1. Did the stuff about Palin's church actually come from Obama's campaign, or from the independent media?
2. How in the name of fuck are the two situations even comparable?! Rev. Wright said one thing that got quoted out of context. Palin's church, on the other hand, hosted David Brickner (who said that Israel deserves to be the target of terrorist attacks because God hates Jews), sponsored the Love Won Out conference (a terrifying pray-away-the-gay bootcamp), and hosted sermons that promote both a homophobic, bigoted, and extremely medically unsound view of homosexuality. You're damn right the media should be going after Palin's church connection harder than Obama's church connection, because there's a lot more, deeper, and scarier shit in one direction than in the other.
Of course, I both laugh and weep at the idea that the media is giving "more" attention to Palin's church than to Obama's. A quick Google search reveals thousands of references to Rev. Wright, but only about a dozen references to Palin's church, either on MSM websites or in blogs.
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2. It depends on what scares you more. The one thing I hope we can both agree on is that both churches are batshit loony.
3. Again that might be cause the Wright story is old news, and the Palin story I hear a disproportionate amount from due to Twitter/LJ, and that I despise the religious looney branch of the Republican party, cause that's what got us into this miss. I hold out hope that if McCain wins he'll backstab them and rule the way he wants.
I am sorry, but the straw just broke the camel's back.
For the record, we most certainly do not.
Many Americans believe that the American media is doing Obama's bidding, so it doesn't matter where it comes from. The level of distrust of the MSM in the US would alarm you.
Oh, for the love of fuck. Stop that.
Stop using terms like "most Americans" and "many Americans" when you're really only speaking about "people that Jeffkun knows." You are not fucking Captain America, you do not speak for all of America, and you most certainly have no right to get off phrasing your comments as if I, everyone I know, and Democrats in general are somehow ignorant of how "most Americans" think and how we need the Great and Mighty Insightful Jeffkun to give us the lowdown.
That's a trend that's been running through all of your comments here, and in the previous post when you butted heads against
Newsflash: "Dem supporters" are HALF OF FUCKING AMERICA. Democrats include the wealthy, the middle class, the working class, white people, black people, Hispanic people, Christians, conservative religious Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, pagans, feminists, gay rights activists, education reformers, health care reformers, people who have had a college education and people who have not, and a lot more, from among people who live in all fifty states. Do you think that this huge group of people "just don't understand" the controversies around gay rights, reproductive rights, and teaching science in schools that the "culture wars" involve? Most of them are fighting on the fucking front lines and have been for the past ten years. How fucking presumptive of you.
Do you think that this huge group of people is out-of-touch with working class values? Most of them are working class.
Do you think that this huge group of people distrusts the media to the point where they think that Obama is some sort of evil puppetmaster directly feeding the MSM false information in a slimy attempt to discredit poor innocent Sara Palin? No? Then why aren't you counting this huge group of people when you throw around phrases like "most Americans" as if you somehow get to magically speak for all of them?
You waltz in here complaining about clueless, elitist Democrats and then proceed to assert, over and over, that "most Americans" actually think X Y and Z, while conveniently excluding huge swaths of people from what you personally count as "most Americans." You phrase all of your comments as if you're informing me of things that I, as a college-educated and obviously clueless elitist Democrat, would be unaware of ("would alarm you," etc.) Newsflash the second: I grew up in a conservative part of Iowa, many branches of my family are working-class and/or Republicans, I also lived for many years in an extremely diverse working-class area in St. Paul and then Minneapolis, I've met and love and worked beside a lot of people, both Democrat and Republican and independent in my short life so far. Through my current job I've met hundreds of expat Americans, from every corner of the country, both Democrat and Republican. Nothing that you've said in any comments on either of these posts is news to me. The only thing new is your assertions that the attitudes/beliefs that you're breathlessly informing me of are more widespread than I know that they actually are.
Tunnel vision. It's doing you no favors here.
Please, for the love of God, please stop talking about "most Americans" when you really only mean "some people that I know."
Here, now I'll make my own sweeping overgeneralization: Most Americans, whether Democrat or Republican or whatever, are not nearly as dumb or as paranoid as you make them out to be.
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(Anonymous) 2008-09-22 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)Protection, or occupation?
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When economic times are bad , you focus on domestic issues.
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Of course, as soon as those interests lie elsewhere, America will be gone. Lets hope the JSDF are up to defending the country.
And as far as America protecting Japan goes... why don't we ask all those young Japanese girls who've been raped and beaten over the years by your "brave" American soldiers how safe they feel these days.
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If the JSDF isn't up to defending the country, maybe they should, you know, increase the defense budget? Pay your own share.
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At any rate, it appears that Aso and most of the Japanese government are quite confident with Japans ability to defend itself. I wasn't insinuating that Japan is unable to defend itself, merely highlighting Americas foreign policy attitude.
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