Historically Japan would have executed someone like this and that's not an exaggeration there have been examples in the past. Now is that too authoritarian? maybe .
But Johnny Somali (apparently he's Ethiopian by the way so he even lied about that and his real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael and he really hates people knowing that for some reason so im putting it out there. ) being a public nuisance , disturbing the public constantly and insulting the country constantly and yet nothing can be done about it because he's technically not breaking the law.
Now imagine tons and tons of people behaving like Johnny Somalis/Ramsey Khalid Ismael and creating public chaos and nothing can be done about it cause they are technically not breaking the law.
Suddenly authoritarianism makes more sense
I disagree. I’d hate for the Japanese to have to deal with the damage he would cause the train/railway not to mention the cleanup. Just take him to a certain forest and leave him there.
Democracy is bad. It's crass mob rule, governance by the lowest common denominator.
The Founders would be leading a revolution against us, were they alive today.
We have rule by a small number of elites, not mob rule.
That's exactly the same thing. Those "elites" don't exist without the bottomless stupidity of the electorate.
Yessiree. The history of the world is replete with deranged tyrants who were only able to attain tyrannical power by whipping up at least enough of a mob to make it seem like they had the vast majority of the populace on their side (thus justifying their rule as a glorious expression of what Rousseau would describe as the 'general will') & to cow all the opposition they hadn't lynched yet into intimidation. And without that mob behind them, they either can't get into power in the first place, or their bloody works won't survive long after they die anyway.
Whether it's Cleon screaming for ever more blood to be shed in Athens, Robespierre's thriving guillotine business in Paris, Lenin commanding massacre after massacre from Moscow, or the present American establishment justifying their atrocities from DC with the supposed need to defend Our Democracy™. Every single one of these tyrants understood one thing: without the cloak of democracy to sway the mob onto your side, naked force can entrench despotism for only so long (as Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, for example, demonstrates). But you get enough of the people to participate in their own slavery and to impose chains on others, and you can really build up a killing machine with catastrophic effects that echo for generations.
No they aren't. The elite is in charge, not a mass mob. You wouldn't have "too big to fail" bank bailouts under "mob rule."
there's nothing elite about any of them.
Authoritarianism becomes necessary when your society has been fractured by multiculturalism. Non-authoritarian societies are built on high trust, shared values, and honor systems. In the absence of government crack down, you need good people who behave well towards each other without the coercive threat of state violence.
All of this is immediately shattered by multiculturalism. The populace becomes tribal and engages in brazen sectarianism. The groups that do not adopt this strategy are rapidly disenfranchised, displaced, and destroyed. Public trust vanishes, honor systems are targeted for abuse, and there are no shared values binding different factions together.
Authoritarianism becomes necessary in such chaos. The only question left is who will wear the boot that stomps on everyone else’s face.
In a TRUE democracy, if the majority voted for nailing troublemakers to the wall, then troublemakers would be nailed to the wall.
But we're NOT a democracy because we're never asked this kind of thing. We're never directly asked about anything important.
As a Canadian, I've been witness to ONE referendum in my lifetime. ONE.
Of course, democracy comes with its own built-in weakness. It can be voted out in favour of something else. But that's happening/has happened anyway.
Nobody voted for the mass immigration policies imposed across the entire West and now increasingly Japan too. Hell, even California voted against gay marriage when given the opportunity, and Japan would likely have done the same if a vote was held on the matter. But the judicial & political establishment (as if there's a difference at this point) decided actually no, your vote doesn't count if you vote the wrong way. Or in Japan's case, to just skip the show vote entirely (presumably to avoid another Prop 8-esque embarrassment) and get their pet judges to mandate it immediately at Rahm Emanuel's command.
I would gladly take the blunt dictatorship of Sulla or Cromwell or Hussein over what we have now. At least you could trust those guys to be honest about being dictators, they wouldn't insult my intelligence by pretending to give me a choice in whether or not to participate in my own slavery.
japan needs the shogun to come back for a bit and sort shit out.
This is when you get some money to pay the Yakuza.
You're mixing up democracy with law and the structure of current governments and culture. What you're critiquing sounds more like today's "Liberal Democracy", but that's a fake, ever-shifting set of standards you can never pin down. In reality you could have an authoritarian junta that lets criminals run rampant to punish segments of the population, or a "democratic collective" that lynches whoever the will of the people decides should be killed for any reason.
Democracy makes democracy look bad enough all on its own, but this is more the Japanese being too "nice", trusting, and rule oriented, while Japan is a puppet of the United States. I also agree with current_horror's comment about the multicultural cause of the problems, and why authoritarianism eventually ends up being the solution to breach of trust.
Reminder that Japan once had a samurai class that exemplified and enforced codes of honor in public.
Wtf would anyone pretend to be Somalian?
because ethiopians and somalians dont get along so he decided to pretend to be somalian
Maybe he is ethnically Somalian, but yeah, maybe it is because he knew his behavior is shameful and he didn't want that shame associated with Ethiopia.
Geordi la Forge was meant to be Somali.
Maybe his childhood dream was to grow up and become a pirate.
I'd assume it's just branding - "Johnny Somali" sounds better than "Johnny Ethiopian."
Ethan Ethiopian coming at you fast on a bike in the wrong lane!
Seen three different videos in a short space of time on him:
One from Vee showing how he's abusing Twitch's ban to irl follow twitch streamers to harass and possibly get them in trouble
One from today showing his arrest and he may be facing 3 years in jail
And this one which is a round up of a lot of it but also leaves in the funny info that Japanese people have started irl doxing him saying his legal name whenever he shows up to force him to mute his streams. And the fact we might have a copycat white boy doing the same thing in Japan.
There are cultures incompatible with living with each other and this whole situation has shown that. Most of these kinds of streamers are like locusts searching for the next thing to latch on to which is harassing people that live in a high trust society because they believe they'll get away with it.
Hopefully he goes to their jail as I heard Japanese prisons DON'T fuck around...
we live in a kakistocracy. we are ruled by the least among us.
he just seems like a terrible person.. like you don't want to be friends with him and trust him with your life. like if you and him are on a sinking boat, he would probably knee cap you to get better chance to survive.
What you describe is rule of law and not democracy.
Was going to point that out as well, haha.
Yeah ok but why does the government have to step in? Did they take a vote on the Australian punching him out?
Yeah someone could punch him out but technically the person doing the punching would be the one breaking the law. i hope he didn't get in to trouble for doing that. . In a democracy Johnny Somali can get away with being a public nuisance but the guy punching him out is technically the one that is breaking the law.
Someone needs to start a Yakuza crowd fund called "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Somali goon".
There is a reason Libya was much much better off with Gaddafi, and that reason is because people like Ramsey Khalid Ismael need a boot on their neck to behave.