topperharlie

@topperharlie@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple of thoughts:

  Yes, I’ve heard before, even from people living in Japan, that they are quite xenophobic.

  Now, why is this not condemned from the west ? (I know Chinese people and they do remember WW2)

  As everything several reasons:

  Japan has a great propaganda machine to make their culture look cool AF: anime/manga, the mythology around temples, samurais, ninjas…

  The good parts of their culture, specially in contrast to the west: the extreme politeness, how clean and organized they are, civility/safety, super good and maintained public services such transport…

  The “pretend WW2 didn’t happen”. They were absolute monsters on WW2, way beyond the nazis, but the combination of doing a 180 towards the west and the atomic bombs made it so the west was comfortable with looking the other way while Japan conveniently forgets his war crimes (for anyone unaware search for Nanjing, be warned is a hard read, but is important not to forget)

  The “pacifist xenophobia”. When you go to japan their way of practicing xenophobia is quite passive, like, let’s be clear, you are loud and disgusting for them, but they will never tell you that, and you are probably never going to be in danger. At least as a tourist this is 100% like this, they might even just feel introverted rather than xenophobic. From what I’ve heard from people living there, it gets more clear when you live, but didn’t get any “I’m in danger” feeling from them, so I guess that low key discrimination is like that.

  Now, not saying any of that makes it good, but I can understand why there is a different level of pushback than to the USA for example, where if you are brown and meet an angry cop or redneck (or both), you might end up dead.

  I know for the fucking internet there is no such thing as grey, is either black or white, but I think the world is more nuanced than that.

  BTW, for their work culture alone I would never live there, and while I like an anime or two, I’m not an otaku by any means. I did enjoy my vacation on Japan several years ago, but not more than the one on China or other Asian countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you don’t need to leave your job in order to start looking for a new one, you know that, right?

  Also, looking for a job while working puts you in a powerful position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dyslexic community: “plaese don’t”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*inhales* 🖕🙂‍↕️🖕⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of “for the children” initiatives do anything good for them, prevents anything or saves any of them. Also, in most cases politicians who actually rape kids are always exempt.

  As a rule of thumb, never trust any “for the children”, “for security” or “against terrorism”. It never is about those things, and even if some of the people involved think it is, it gives the ill intended people great weapons against free speech, privacy, healthy democracy… These slogans are always to target people’s irrationality and stop them from actually having logical thinking about the implications. They used them in the past and continue to do so because they work.

  The people spreading misinformation will continue to do so because they sooner or later end up in power, and none of these laws will control the government, only the people. Which in itself should trigger you to not trust it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The land before time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the land before the techbro company that adds very little value got rich by putting themselves in the middle, scamming clients and exploiting workers, while making them angry with each other.

  “progress”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're F*ing trying again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  here we go once again to being fucking embarrassed to be European.

  the first try of this made me stop voting altogether because all the fucking parties on my country were a YES. Fuck politicians, hope they all get killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨molly for better socials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been big on social media, kinda hate it really, best I can do is a comment a couple of comments a week on lemmi/YouTube, but every time people talk about Tumblr or define it sounds like a place I might have belonged to (even when they define it in a negative way 😂)

  I’m assuming this meme doesn’t count the end “glow up” of the character though, which defines the film as a product of its time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to add (without prison sentences… for now) all the push of Europe to do the internet surveillance China style, after we have criticized it so much.

  Is so sad how “autocratic government surveillance” suddenly becomes “protecting the children”…

  Fuck politicians, hope they all die a terrible death. They deserve all the hate in the world and then a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know is probably not possible, but I wish a competitor manufacturer would rise during this times and when the bubble pops we would let these worms starve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What animal could you take in a fight?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  If the animal is bigger than my pinky finger I would probably just run the other way, so I hope I don’t get asked this.

  This doesn’t mean that at that size or smaller I would win, just that we can start talking about it.