What might we have done in the early days to generate a more vigorous immune response had we known what was coming?
One thought might have been to call politicians and companies and make sure they understand in no uncertain terms our opposition to this kind of nonsense. Make fun of it sure, but doing so while providing clear, concise breakdowns of what's wrong with the arguments would be another good point.
that old communist bulletin from the 40s makes its rounds every once in a while about mislabeling opponents as NAZIs and bigots, but what if a similar bulletin had made the rounds at the same time among their opponents, warning them exactly how they would try to discredit them?
We should make a list of probably strategies that these parasites will use and suggest effective countermeasures based on our own experiences in gamergate, etc. and pass them onto our Japanese friends through whatever channels we might have.
I suspect we're seeing multiple domino effects. conservative-leaning voters have lost their taste for war over the last twenty years, black americans have been promised the sun, the moon, and the stars on a silver platter in democrat-controlled cities for decades, only to be repeatedly delivered a pile of shit on a paper plate while said democrats are mystified why they aren't more grateful, game companies accepted ESG funds to stay afloat, only to watch their bottom lines drop faster than the titanic, Disney gobbled up every IP they could get their hands on, only to have each of them blow up in their faces when fans turned against their products, the 'moderate' democrats have courted the far left to be their shock troops, only to ignore them once they gained power so many times it's actually splintering what support they still hold, USAID was demolished by musk as you said, the trans issue roared ahead with no consideration for the toes it rolled over, the exclusionary nature of leftwing "inclusion" finally reached a boiling point, the family courts abuse of men, and those are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head. i'm sure there's others that none of us are aware of or at least haven't considered making for an avalanche that's going to roll over these people if they can't get their shit together or figure out they aren't as smart as they think they are.