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Anonymous asked:
mutant-aesthetic answered:
When will we see common sense katana regulation
大日本帝国がありませんよ。
a while ago I learned that Japanese for “Chinese” is something like “Chingoku”. Chinese for “Japanese” is “日本(人)”.
Wasn’t it Chuugoku (中国)? (Something like “middle country” - I think the meaning reading is the same in Mandarin Chinese?)
Imagine Freud reading your political discourse
What would he say about you
Sigmund Freud is given a printout of my blog. This is the first thing he sees:

Like, I’m sorry bro, but my internal simulation of Freud just throws an exception error.
I imagine he might say something like “This blog is a reflection of miti’s parents getting divorced and the resulting disruption imprinting on an impressionable child”. Clearly, when you noticed their breakup process, you started coming up with increasingly wild schemes to keep them together, or bring them together again after they divorced. Ever since, you have been afflicted with a permanent mania for grandiose plans to reorganize society that stems from this displaced desire to reorganize things so that only your parents could get back together again, which you subconsciously imagine they would do if you flicked all the right switches.
昔々 (a long time ago),
In a country not entirely unlike Japan, there was an old city called 古い市. And in this city there was the dojo of the Shinkansen School of Martial Arts. So powerful was the Shinkansen School that that it dominated the entire region, and no other schools were practiced.
Among the masters of the Shinkansen school was a great blind monk. So familiar was he with the Shinkansen School that he could anticipate the moves of any student through a combination of sound and kbowledge of Shinkansen Martial Arts alone.
One day, a challenger from some place that is definitely not the Ryukyu Islands appeared and challenged the blind master.
The challenger took but one step. The blind master, used as he was to the patterns of the Shinkansen school, tripped without the expected counterweight of his opponent, fell off the platform, hit his head on a rock, and immediately died.
The blind master is the simulated Freud of the above post, as my parents never divorced, nor were they ever close to divorce.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
I think any serious anti-state ideology acknowledges that it requires constant vigilance to prevent the emergence of another state, which requires viewing any sufficiently large organisation with extreme suspicion, as well as the constant propagation of memes warning against the perils of statehood (statedom?)
This fucks up freedom of association to an absurd degree, but you can get out of it by being okay with a state being established “without coercion”, eg. you’re born into a world where you have to explicitly sign the social contract or starve, unlike our current world where you implicitly sign the social contract or starve.
この地は帝王の地です。
This land is the land of the Emperor.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
That’s why most Japanese stuff is anime instead of live action: too expensive to fake the backgrounds and keep finding Chinese actors who can pretend they speak “Japanese”.
I can’t believe you would publish such a slanderous ask against the country that was once the 大日本帝国, you treacherous kangaroo farmer, the light of their mighty rising sun nearly covered all of Asi–
* gasping *
* coughing *
* wheezing *
Phew, don’t know what came over me, there. One moment I was just reading Tumblr and then I just… blacked out. It was almost like that time a foreign hypernationalist ideo-virus got past my memetic barriers and infected my cyberbrain. But fortunately I got that removed. No traces left.
A-argumate, why are you looking at me like that?

Argumate-kun? Is something wrong?
btw what is the Official Counterpoint to Japan not taking immigrants?
is it that their circumstances are different, or that they’re just super racist and not an example to emulate?
Japan is super racist.
I honestly did not think this point was up to any debate at all.
I deal with this problem by not trying to move to Japan, they can be as racist on their own island as they want.
Yeah, but that hits a wall under the modern moral climate, where it’s implicitly argued that foreigners have a right to immigrate to, essentially, anywhere, but particularly to developed nations. The idea of “the Japanese on their own island” has the audacity to suggest collective ownership of a nation-state for the benefit of an exclusive group - the old Nationalist model.
A model that I actually approve of, minus the racism, but one that now would mark me as right-wing, even though I don’t consider myself right-wing.
Yes, this is my view.
The Japanese don’t have the “right” to “be racist on their own island”, if that means excluding immigrants. All this amounts to is placing the whims of the collective (the alleged ownership of the islands by the Japanese race as a whole) over the rights of the individual: i.e. the right of individual Japanese to invite immigrants to work for them and to sell or rent property to them.
Suppose a group of Japanese racists get together and start a corporation. That corporation buys a small island, and and allows its owners to live on the island, so long as they are Japanese. Land is portioned out based on stake in the corporation.
This is not a covenant, because owners of the corporation can sell to whoever they want. Similarly, the corporation could, by majority vote, sell the island, or allow non-Japanese owners to live there. There is no condition that restricts the use of the land in perpetuity ( @theunitofcaring raised this objection the last time this came up).
However, so long as a majority of the owners of the corporation don’t want non-Japanese living on the island, they can’t. And practically, the rule won’t change unless the owners become less racist over time and generations, or wealthy anti-racist activists buy them out, fairly compensating the racists for being prevented from satisfying their preference. Or somewhat fairly, anyway; I’m not quite sure how only needing a majority stake affect the cost of buying them out. That’s a question for someone in murders and executions.
Do the Japanese racists have the right to do that? If not, why not? And what is the minimum change to the scheme that would make it within their rights, in your opinion?
Conversely, if your do think that would be within their rights, I suppose your objection to the current restriction on immigration to Japan is that it’s not the Japanese’s island?
That would be fine, if they acquired the land voluntarily.
What’s not fine with the Japanese government doing that is that it didn’t acquire the land that way.
And a big difference is that if they are restricted to acquiring the land voluntarily, that would greatly limit the amount of it that they could practically obtain. But supposing hypothetically that this weren’t true and that freedom of contract led to one private “government” owning all the land, then that would be a strong point of having a “public” government to limit their ability to do that.
By that logic nearly all land on Earth in private hands could not be considered “voluntarily acquired”.
btw what is the Official Counterpoint to Japan not taking immigrants?
is it that their circumstances are different, or that they’re just super racist and not an example to emulate?
Japan is super racist.
I honestly did not think this point was up to any debate at all.
I deal with this problem by not trying to move to Japan, they can be as racist on their own island as they want.
Yeah, but that hits a wall under the modern moral climate, where it’s implicitly argued that foreigners have a right to immigrate to, essentially, anywhere, but particularly to developed nations. The idea of “the Japanese on their own island” has the audacity to suggest collective ownership of a nation-state for the benefit of an exclusive group - the old Nationalist model.
A model that I actually approve of, minus the racism, but one that now would mark me as right-wing, even though I don’t consider myself right-wing.


