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Topic: The Japanese Nationalist view of history be like:
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 weeks ago#136,268
"Whites in Europe were horrible evil racists who were colonizing Asia which we don’t support. That’s why we decided to fight against the white colonial empires in Asia to liberate our race. Of course, Japan couldn’t do this on our own, which is naturally why we allied with Adolf Hitler and killed millions of Chinese people and sold Koreans into sexual slavery."
Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 15 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,446,390
"Rape of Nanking"? No, that was just a misunderstanding. Some Chinese soldiers tried impersonating civilians to stir up trouble, but the Japanese soldiers calmly de-escalated the situation, and everyone was grateful for existing in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
> "Rape of Nanking"? No, that was just a misunderstanding. Some Chinese soldiers tried impersonating civilians to stir up trouble, but the Japanese soldiers calmly de-escalated the situation, and everyone was grateful for existing in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
We got rid of the white imperialists! Now send thousands of your women into our military police-run brothels and hold still while I pull out your fingernails.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 22 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,446,432
I feel like Japan is the country that almost had it but not quite.
They were one of the first non-white countries to develop industry due to their isolation as an island, geographic location, mountainous terrain, and lack of natural resources making them not worth it to attempt colonizing. They could have done something good for the world by actually fighting against European empires for the benefit of Asians collectively as a race, that would have been based. But they decided to just be racist against their own race instead by pretending being Japanese made them special somehow.
Then in World War Two, they were doing horrific things, but they had a huge empire, and could have been a super powerful huge empire like the British, but they did a stupid thing and attacked the United States and got two nukes dropped on them.
Then in the 1980s, they produced so much technology and had so much wealth and were competing directly with the US. Then they got overtaken by China to the point it’s not even close.
Japan keeps almost being successful but not quite. What a fate for a country.
Anonymous E double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 5 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,446,435
I guess, there’s the whole stereotype about East Asians being smart. Then Neo Nazis take it… you know. Anyway, I’ve thought about it, I think what’s confusing about Japan, is they had to have had some very very smart people, and a lot of stupid people who were all on the same page. Because, building a submarine or an airplane now is a thing. I mean, some people DIY build their own ultralight airplane or their own submarine, but they’re crazy, especially the submarine people, what the hell are you thinking? But anyway, Japan must have had some very smart people who could design submarines and airplanes and warships, but they also had to have people stupid enough to get into a World War Two submarine, and fly an airplane into a ship. Even today the smart people making technology and the guys using them aren’t the same people. Elon Musk, fun fact (not a fan of Elon Musk), but to his credit, he has never been in a rocket. Ever. Not once. Not a single time.
Yet he tells people this is a success (yes that is actually a picture of starship exploding even if you can’t tell just reverse image search it).
Anonymous E triple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,446,436
I do think there were some very smart people in Japan, they just were not in the navy, or in the army, or in the government, or in the royal family, or even in the factories. They were somewhere in some little room somewhere drawing sketches.
Anonymous E quadruple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,446,437
So really I think if you unraveled the whole thing, I think if you analyzed Japanese society in World War Two, or even modern countries like America or China today, you would find the entire military industrial complex is dependent on less than 1% of the population actually designing stuff and then 99% of people think they’re smart for using the technology invented by 1% of people, even though if you ask them about technology, it’s clear they think it’s magic. Like AI people, for example. When you ask them if AI is intelligent, they say yes it will take over the world there’s no reason to understand code blah blah blah. Why do they say that? Is it because they understand how a neural network works and could code their own from scratch and they understand the mathematics behind machine learning, they understand gradient descent and what a sigmoid function is, etc? No! It’s because they think it’s the new magic thing the wizards came out with and they never knew how any of the magic technology worked so now they’re excited they have an excuse to not know because computers are smart now so why do I need to know how computers work! 99% of society is an idiot herd of cargo cult sheep.