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DistilledLife 0 points ago +2 / -2

Well, we don't need to be reactionary wignats for the US to function

it's a voluntary association for survival

Voluntary being the key there and you're missing my point. If someone doesn't want to be a part of their current collective, they shouldn't have to if another collective is willing to take them. However, the collective they're currently in shouldn't stop them from leaving, collectivists being those that try to stop people from leaving.

Or do you have a problem with states UNITING as well

The Southern states had every fucking right to leave the United States.

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DistilledLife 0 points ago +2 / -2

There's a difference between protecting your "tribe" from danger and disrespecting someone else because they're "not me".

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DistilledLife 7 points ago +7 / -0

Japanese people can fall back to JCB or probably Amex.

There's also a handful of Apple Pay-style applications they can use within their country (FamiPay, Paypay, etc.)

All that MC/Visa are doing is damaging the flow of revenue going into Japan, not that much to the internal flow.

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DistilledLife 5 points ago +5 / -0

They'll keep pushing until Japan is forced to ban MC/Visa from doing business in the country, or enough people who want to doing business with Japan stop using them that the Board of Directors start feeling it.

The cut goes both ways. If Japanese businesses stop using MC/Visa, the non-region locked options are far less, hence customers can go after MC/Visa.

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DistilledLife -1 points ago +1 / -2

Could have said "racism" and you still would have bitched about it. You've clearly never dealt with the Japanese.

functioning nation that looks after its own people.

After Abe's murder and the Diet being somewhat spineless cowards on the Gay/Feminist bill last year, I doubt that's the case now, unless Trump puts in someone as Ambassador that isn't a thug.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +5 / -3

Freedom of association goes hand-in-hand with freedom of disassociation when it comes to liberty.

If someone is a capable human being, and they want to move here and they demonstrate that they can contribute to something greater while not be disruptive, I have no issues. If they cause shit, strip their visa/card and deport them.

If an American hates it here so much and they want to leave, they can go find a country that will accept them and so they shall deal with the trials of assimilation as any other person who immigrates here should have to (even though we currently don't). If they can't survive, then they can suck it up and come back.

Collectivists and all flavors of authoritarians want every little peon to stay put to fulfill their agenda instead of letting people take charge of their destiny.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +7 / -5

Once you open the gates, it never stays ''a small population''

Thank you for skipping over my later point and flying straight to Doomerville.

Japanese have no benefit in race-mixing with foreigners for ''assimilation'

By definition, assimilation doesn't automatically mean miscegenation. Go read a dictionary.

Civic nationalism is a mind poison that led White countries into destruction.

Civic nationalism managed fine in the US right from it's founding (even with Ben Franklin bitching about Palantian Germans) up until after WWII, when Progressives and Communists (FDR's generation) subverted it into a bogus "Magic Dirt" philosophy as a means to ruin the country. If it were the case that it was always destined to fail, the country would have fell apart at the first major influx of Paddies or Chinese.

The smooth-brain criticism of civic nationalism is similar the dismissal that neomarxists give capitalism, completely missing any qualifiers from the ideology and reaching for the current corrupted version as the embodiment. CN only works if immigration is limited and with capable populations. If you let too many of the same population (especially if they can't integrate) in at a given time, they will simply cluster together and cause problems later.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +5 / -3

but the people who say they admire Japan are not the kinds of people who will successfully assimilate

To be honest, if I could move to such a high-trust society, I would. I've been doing the language for a decade plus and have interacted with many of them in my life so far. The only caveats for me are the fact that their military is gimped thanks to the US MIC, the frequent earthquakes due to being on a fault line, and fully acclimating to the food culture. There's also the logistics. The xenophobia doesn't bother me as much; that's a given with homogeneous nations

nor can you successfully pose as one.

It'd be nice if I could state that about many a person, but sadly I live in America.

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DistilledLife 3 points ago +3 / -0

No one considering that "ais" "think"

By that logic, Vox should have said "Grok claims" or "Grok states", but decided to go with treating non-sentient data processing engines as being capable of having "thought". He had plenty of character space to work with, for a tweet that he already edited once

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +2 / -0

When it crosses a certain line, it just devolves into "fuck you". Not all the time, but when it happens, it happens pretty bad.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +2 / -0

You probably know already that it's typical of MLGS. Say something angering enough and you'll get a "fuck yourself" or "fuck off" spergout in response.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +5 / -3

Name one thing Christians were wrong about culturally

Thinking that authority should be derived from a book that contradicts itself and has undergone many translations and "fixes" over the centuries. It's not applicable to all Christians, but there's some attitude about it being authoritative over everything in life to the point that they try to force it on others. I could spin up a long list about all the cases of "why would God do this?" and argumentum ab Deus, but that book generates a perfect excuse in each instance for a Supreme Being whom should warrant no excuses.

Granted, there are a lot of good morals in the book, however, running your world to the letter of a book written by Men (that's been around far shorter than Man's existence) is dangerous. Now, cultural marxists replace it with their own shifting rules and clergy, having to follow the shifting agenda "precisely". We see it as a cult, but to me it bares some resemblance.

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DistilledLife 1 point ago +7 / -6

Oh wow, people expressing their motivations through their free speech, how awful...

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DistilledLife 13 points ago +18 / -5

I have no context here for this. Do you mean weebs wanting to move to Japan, neomarxist shitstains, or just anyone in general?

A small population of people moving to another country and assimilating to the culture is different than uncontrolled mass migration that the West has been suffering for two decades now.

Japanese people are still at least 90% of Japan, some small numbers of people moving there that aren't disruptive aren't going to ruin it. It may piss them off about tourists and foreigners, but them adopting a loose migration policy because "muh population decline" would do far more damage.

Also, their media is being subverted from the outside anyway. The mileage on that will eventually run out, but that's another attack vector to consider.

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +3 / -1

Dom loves users complaining about those certain groups (that don't reach fed-posting levels) because it feeds his boogymen neurosis

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DistilledLife 14 points ago +14 / -0

serving time for a 2013 second-degree murder conviction for stabbing her boyfriend.

Holy moly, it took her eleven years of being in jail to just finally admit it?

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DistilledLife 2 points ago +2 / -0

There needs to be something similar to Twitter's Context feature on .win, and not hoping that someone comments with the proper context and gets enough upvotes.

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DistilledLife 6 points ago +6 / -0

Judges probably should get what they deserve for being lenient on criminals. They're part of the problem, not just the DAs, by commuting or reducing sentences of repeat offenders. The citizenry shouldn't have to suffer the consequences from these self-righteous types.

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DistilledLife 13 points ago +13 / -0

has just gotten stupid

Tech stock prices have been insane these past several years. Tesla just joining the party.

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DistilledLife 0 points ago +2 / -2

Musk put in a WEF stooge as CEO. Engaging in the same behaviors as before buyout doesn't surprise me.

EDIT: Downvoters are faggots. Musk didn't have to put Linda there but he did.

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DistilledLife 1 point ago +1 / -0

The pedos were going to congregate wherever the popular replacement for old Twitter was in the exodus. It just ended up being Bluesky.

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DistilledLife 8 points ago +8 / -0

Thank you for pointing this out. Congress hadn't declared war on Syria, but just like with Libya we have an illegal presence there already.

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DistilledLife 7 points ago +7 / -0

bunch of stupid groypers defending ephebophilia

what they call "pedophilia"

Am I missing something here? The guy (and ergo groypers in general) does sound unhinged, but the Left and Right do have their own variants of the "if she's under 18, you're a pedo" smooth-brain takes.

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DistilledLife 5 points ago +5 / -0

Bluesky is supposed to be, rules and admin-wise, Twitter before Musk took it over, i.e. Leftist-style "free speech". It's more about the political/gender stuff and less the nsfw artistry.

Musk's attempts to monetize Twitter screwed up the algorithms and reach, and while the Leftist bias in "Trends" went away, organic growth is pretty much gone for various types of users that didn't already have enough followers, especially artists that do even mildly sensitive work. There's enough traction on Bsky now that more and more are jumping ship even though Bluesky has its own breed of censoring.

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