this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
87 points (98.9% liked)

US News

2048 readers
33 users here now

News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Very strange things are going on in Japan, worth keeping an eye on.

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Huh....didn't know that that memorial was a thing or that we were invited; why on earth would you invite the criminals who conducted it?

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 3 months ago

And imagine the hubris of said war criminals not attending, because their other war criminal buddies were not invited.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

From what I have gathered Japan has been very subservient to the US since WW2 end. They had become an American vassal state and America had significant control over them. Even stuff like anime and manga were censored when they contained explicit anti-war themes.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

yeah, japans weird censorship is pretty directly because of 1950s american bullshit

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 3 months ago

it's called being military occupied

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Japan should align with China, you know, assuming China wants them. They probably need to apologise for all their warcrimes first.

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Japanese leadership would probably rather have every inch of Japan be scorched in nuclear fire then admit to one warcrime. Let alone apologize for it.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're right. But I feel like the right wing really doesn't want to do that. People with cushy jobs have grandfathers who committed war crimes.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago

Looking at the state of things they might not have cushy jobs for long.

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 3 months ago

Japan should align with China

Pigs will fly on the moon before that happens. Those two nations have hatred for each other that goes back centuries.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why doesn't Godzilla just fucking atomize the whole embassy at this point? Is he stupid?

Honestly, I unironically can't take people like this anymore...

[–] Jacobo_Villa_Lobos@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rahm Emanuel: always finding ways to be a ghoul no matter what

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's also crazy that Obama gave someone who is essentially a racial supremacist so much influence. May be not crazy, when you remember Obama is and was an opportunist.

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 3 months ago

Fucking Rahm Emanuel but a move like this wouldn't be made without the approval of the State Department and probably President Biden himself.