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EDIT: OP is a liar. Hiroyuki's recent tweets and YouTube video say the exact opposite of this. He's talked about this topic before multiple times and his viewpoint is fairly left wing. He is constantly talking about the importance of social services and society's impact on mental health. In fact, he is being flamed on Twitter by right-wingers because of his sympathy for Japanese people who are victims of its societal problems, and because he has criticized Abe in the past. He has made several videos responding to Japanese people complaining about homelessness, where he criticizes the status quo solution of pushing them out of sight. His political views are the exact opposite of this, I don't think you could have picked a more obvious lie.
There isn't a trace of Hiroyuki appearing on TV across the entire Japanese internet. No articles on Google, not a single mention on Twitter.
Yo, @notentitledjustwhite what is the point of making this up? What are you trying to do here?
I'm completely certain you just made this up. I've watched a few of Hiroyuki's videos and he has said literally the opposite on a few occasions.
Name of the show and TV network? Link to video?
Just noticed the OP is also a fresh 5 hour account soooo yeah, we need some sources on this one OP.
Lol its probly the same guy from yesterday who got banned for reading 2chan
Isn't that a Utah Phillips reference?
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
It is, 4chan has been claiming to be the origin of random things as long as it's existed.
Not much different from people not realizing that a cover song is a cover song and was actually written by somebody else. People conflate "where something originated from" and "where I first heard it from" pretty easily.
4chan is not as creative as people imagined to be, in fact they're honestly not that much clever than reddit; which is also much more influential than people like to admit. The problem is 4chan is so heavily mythologized in the internet as this omniscient-omnipotent boogeyman that gave them a rather outsized influence on culture.
4chan has gotten less reactionary already. It's still pretty bad, the line has moved from like 100% reactionaryness to like 95%, but it has noticably moved. If even that place is moving at all I think it's a good sign for where everyone else is.
We shouldn't, and I'm not saying we should, but the fact that even 4chan is moving left should give you a bit of hope. It's not even from some dumb targeted meme campaign, it's just passively happening due to connections with wider culture not being entirely one way.
If you used it prior to around 2018, and you check it out now, it's changed. It's kinda subjective but that's what I see.
Want to know what my solution is to the Shinzo Abe assassination?
Do it again?
raise the age of consent from 13
this is a misconception that comes from ignorance of prefectural law in Japan. the age of consent is indeed technically 13 at the national level, but every prefecture in Japan has laws forbidding sex between adults and people under age 18. there is a marriage exception though, which does definitely suck but is identical to the situation in most US states.
give it three years before Japan remilitarizes
:farquaad-point: this poster believes the japanese constitution! japan's been remilitarised since 1954
Three years before Japan tries to invade mainland China and gets flattened in 20 minutes by the PLA.
i wouldn't mind seeing that on the TV screen :antelope-popcorn:
Irony aside, it would be awful. So given the 21st century so far, it will probably happen. :yea:
yeah, but tbf they could be a lot more militarized. like how the usa is obviously fascist, but is still getting more fascist through supreme court rulings or whatever.
I've spoken to a few people campaigning to preserve the Pacifist clause (Article 9) who say that this is actually a very unhelpful argument because it allows the Article 9 abolitionists (Abe and his ilk) to argue that Japan already has a military in practice and abolishing Article 9 is just amending the constitution to reflect reality.
While Japan's self defence force is undoubtedly a military, Article 9 still prevents it from having purely offensive weapons like long range ballistic and cruise missiles capable of striking into the DPRK and China.
The idea is that if the left agrees that the self defence force is a military, then it's more likely to result in the unshackling of the military rather than the abolition of the military.
Wait, is this guy actually rich and famous? 4chan is notoriously an unprofitable website, is 2ch different?
raise the age of consent from 13
considering this is essentially a myth, I wouldn't really go spreading it around as some kind of urgent problem which needs solving. technically the national age of consent is very low in japan, yes, but there is nowhere in japan with an age of consent that low so it literally affects nothing
For anyone wondering how that works, different regions all set a higher age of consent so the national one never applies.
but hexbear (and online communists in general) need to stop pretending china is the USSR, or Xi is Stalin. the “xi please” memes are based on an imaginary idealized version of china as the USSR 2.0, when modern day china is completely detached from that in material reality
I like China because they have dialectically responded to the fall of the USSR and outmaneuvered the bourgeoisie of my country, building their own productive capacity and laying a foundation that may - one day - become communism.
You like China because you want to die in a mushroom cloud. We are not the same.
cheers!
i didn't mean to imply we disagreed, I was going for that meme template with Giancarlo Esposito. sorry if that was confusing
Wouldn't be the least bit surprised, this is the country that only ended forced sterilization of its disabled citizens in 1996!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-sterilisations-idUSKCN1S00BT
Japan is probably doomed even IF they would do some reforms. They would need a large scale restructuring of their society. Just a laymans opinion I dont claim to have any solutions for them.
I guess the problem is that even reforms which could be considered a net positive for society seem like they would come to late. It seems to me Japan as a country is on a downwards trend that is only going to get worse over time. Im not saying it couldnt be stopped ...but lets be real its probably not gonna happen. Hope im not coming off as to negative. Just an outsiders perspective.
