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stillnaomi · 7 months ago
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The Holocaust is often distinguished from other atrocities in terms of 1) its industrial character, and 2) the fact that it denied the humanity of people who were largely accepted as human by the “civilized” world.
That it was carried out through industrial means speaks primarily to the industrial means available to the Nazi war machine. The Nazis were certainly not historically unique in using the latest technology to kill innocents — early American settlers were pioneers in bioterrorism long before the Manhattan Project or drone warfare. Moreover, such creativity has never been restricted to “guns, germs, and steel.” Benjamin Franklin’s memoirs show how the project of American genocide came to understand the effectiveness of alcohol as a weapon:
"If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the sea-coast."
The second characteristic is more distinctively disturbing: the aggressive ambition and scope of fascist dehumanization. Nazi Germany declared Slavs and Jews subhumans in the face of, because of, their obviously rising fortunes, and Japan declared all other Asian ethnicities inferior in total disregard for their obvious historical greatness. These weren’t arbitrary hare-brained prejudices that could just as easily have been otherwise, if only there had been the right friendly intervention on the right set of people, or “more historical awareness,” as is sometimes claimed. Dehumanization was a necessary logical precondition to justify declaring the lands in Eastern Europe and around Japan terra nullius, to justify the imperialist expansive drive into a fully “discovered” and occupied world. In other words, fascist race science played, in the first half of the 20th century, exactly the same role that liberal race science played throughout the “Age of Discovery,” just directed against a different set of targets and with the entire world, now vocal and interconnected, bearing witness.
Really Existing Fascism by Roderic Day
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whatisonthemoon · 2 years ago
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SEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea and Japan are making arrangements for a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer taking part in a naval drill hosted by South Korea next week to fly the controversial rising sun flag when it enters the port of Busan, a source familiar with bilateral relations said Thursday.
The potential agreement on the flag, which is widely viewed in South Korea as a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression, is another sign of improved bilateral ties following disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, according to the source.
While the flag is the official ensign of the MSDF, the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol's predecessor Moon Jae In asked Tokyo to refrain from raising it due to its links to the Imperial Japanese Army, which used it until the end of World War II.
With its move toward accepting the MSDF displaying the flag when it enters the South Korean port, Yoon's administration apparently aims to promote trust between the two nations' defense authorities, the source said.
The military exercise is set to take place in international waters southeast of South Korea's Jeju Island on Wednesday, South Korea's Defense Ministry has said. South Korea, Japan, the United States, Australia and Canada will participate.
The exercise is aimed at strengthening capabilities to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and a meeting by the defense officials of these nations and other countries will be held to that end on Tuesday, the ministry said.
Yoon, who became president last year, has been taking steps to improve bilateral relations with Japan and proposed a solution to the issue of wartime labor compensation in March.
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On David Kim in the Inter-War Periods
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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 15 days ago
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vivika-ka · 2 months ago
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something something MHA catering largely to a Western (sans its Japanese) audience ended up inspiring the most puritanical and authoritarian takes I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
something something the cop and military propaganda flying through many Western fans’ heads.
something something discussions about the societal issues the manga quite literally highlights in the first page and forward are taken with a grain of salt, if that at all.
something something the internet is largely Westernized and whenever someone fits the outlier, they’re either relentlessly ostracized or demonized.
they merge at some point 🤔
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usauthoritarianism · 10 months ago
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OK So Context
I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.
Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.
Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.
I let the research balloon. There's just so much.
Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.
Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.
Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.
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the-dalseum-duet · 3 days ago
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satis writing an ACTUALLY CANON SCENE??
OH GOD!! what has gotten into her?? (hint: it starts with an “A” and ends with a “merican politics”)
anyway. i’ve wanted to write this scene for a while but finding the right words to do it is very difficult. it’s kind of awkward but. y’know what. it’s okay it gets the idea out there. it’s ok for art to be messy and not perfect. a byproduct of the lore overhaul, please enjoy a glimpse into Dalseum’s history and a tiny exploration into Noeul’s thought process (with even more in the tags bc I love talking abt him. fascinating fascinating man)
“THIS is your man?” tag @svwhssftr (directed at kai) (sorry to flashbang you w political commentary after talking abt sex for like a day straight)
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In the blink of an eye, it all went dark. The flashing cameras, the smug glances sharper than knives the Council shot into the crowd, the glitter of the afternoon sun on The Palace’s floors— all of it. It was reduced to nothing but cold, damp darkness. 
The safety of the quiet was unnerving. Charlie’s mind clawed at the imaginary walls to escape into the dazzling ocean of the paparazzi, but her body remained idle. Her body instinctively leaned in closer to Noeul. 
He lit a match from inside his coat’s pocket—illuminating what may have been a teardrop on his cheek— and flicked it into some long and hollow metal contraption. It caught the insides and exploded into a river of crackling blue flames, revealing a mossy labyrinth of walls and chambers. It was all so empty, except for the smell of burning oil.
“There’s a lot of history in here,” Noeul whispered, removing his coat to crouch beside the aqueduct of stagnant oil. 
Charlie didn’t say a word. Her eyes were transfixed on the blurry mass of granite awaiting her. 
“We were Korean territory until the Silla dynasty. Most of the peninsula was unified under their rule, so Dalseum was naturally the next step. The warriors from the mainland tried to overtake us, but we slaughtered them. They underestimated us.”
“The hell does that have to do with this?” Charlie choked. 
“Dalseum was under the rule of its only empress in history. Her army commanded such respect that the Korean warriors fled after the first battle, and then Dalseum was forgotten to time. After the unification, they had more pressing issues than a small island with few resources.”
Charlie looked back at him, her infuriated eyes glinting in the firelight. 
“But the Dalseum government couldn’t have predicted their cowardice. They constructed a hideout underground in case of an emergency. The layout makes no sense because it’s meant to be a maze. If the officials themselves could barely figure it out, then their enemies had no chance.”
“But why are we here?” 
“You know how the Japanese imperialists occupied Korea during World War II?”
“Uh-huh.”
“A small Imperialist faction conquered Dalseum shortly before the war ended. Our bohemian government was unprepared for violent military conflict, so it crumbled. They turned our history into prison cells. The Japanese locked away everyone who dared to resist them—members of my own family, especially. These walls have seen torture you can’t even imagine.”
“You’re saying this is my prison now?”
“Welcome home, doll.” Noeul almost smiled. The fire, despite being feet away, burned Charlie’s face. 
“After the war ended, the Japanese soldiers returned home. They behaved like monsters, but they were humans with families and children. What was left of the original local government was in shambles, and my great-great-grandfather took advantage of the ruins. These halls haven’t been used as a prison ever since. We haven’t needed to use them.”
“I don’t understand, then. Why are you keeping me here?” 
“Because otherwise you’d be dead, Charlie.” Noeul shakily breathed. “If some force threatens Dalseum, it’s our right to kill it in the name of self-defense. My ancestors single-handedly poisoned dozens of the Japanese invaders. Dalseum wouldn’t exist without us. I have every right to exert my power on someone like you. I’m only showing you mercy because I love you.”
“But you love your tradition built upon oppression more.”
“Oppression?” Noeul laughed. “My family freed our people.”
“But they destroyed the old government— the one that persisted for centuries.”
“The values on which Dalseum was built were no longer effective. The feeble monarchy was nothing but show businesses, anyway. If we want to stay afloat, we can’t risk losing what we have to the uninformed decisions of an outsider. We nearly lost everything to a fascist regime— I can’t let history repeat itself.”
You’re no better than them if you imprison those who disagree with you, Charlie thought, but she couldn’t bring herself to say it. The walls of firearms lining Noeul’s walls flashed in her head.
“Surely, you understand my reasoning.” Noeul brushed a stray curl out of her quivering eyes.
“If you loved me, you wouldn’t imprison me,” Charlie laughed. She had to laugh— she’d kill him if she didn’t. 
“If you loved me, then you wouldn’t have broken the one fucking law you had to follow.”
“I don’t love you,” Charlie said. “Not anymore, at least, but that should have no bearing on my freedom. On my existence.”
“I don’t care how you feel about me,” Noeul lied. “You sowed discourse in the Council—the one thing left of my father’s administration after he died— you deliberately cheated on me with another Council official, and you tried to start some petty little uprising once you started to face the consequences. You brought this all upon yourself.” 
“I didn’t try to start shit!” Charlie exclaimed, “I spoke out about Dalseum’s ridiculous policies and your treatment of me. You slept with the person who tried to assassinate me while we were still engaged, Noeul! I had no control over how people responded to the truth.”
“You knew exactly what you were doing. Our relationship issues should have no bearing on Dalseum’s politics.”
“It impacts all of Dalseum’s politics! We could have done so much—“
“There was never a ‘we.’ Sara put these delusions of grandeur in your head, and you believed her. I never once implied that you would have any power on the Council.”
“I was supposed to marry you,” Charlie started, her vocal cords tightening as she held back tears. “We were supposed to be equals. I left my whole family because I loved you. You were a good person, Noel. Why the hell do you refuse to change your ways?”
“Because ‘my ways’ have saved lives for generations.”
“But you know that everything you’re doing is wrong. You knew that sleeping with Sonnet was wrong, you knew that leaving your responsibilities to Sara and Gale was wrong, and you knew that doing this to me was wrong. Why the hell do you keep doing this? You’re not Noel anymore—you’re some heartless idiot who only cares about what some filthy rich people think about you.”
“I keep doing this because the safety of a nation and the tradition of my family is more important than my love life. That’s common fucking sense.” 
“This is so much more than your love life,” Charlie snapped. “I wanted to help you. I would have been a good empress. I shared my ideas with the Council— the Council loved me, Noel. Why can I not fit into your traditions?”
“Because you’re everything they stand against! You’re everything my family fought to destroy!”
“What? What do they stand against? Helping the people in the Wasteland? Loosening the borders for people who are trapped here?”
“It was never about any of that. Charlie, you know that.” 
“No, I don’t!” Charlie cried. “I don’t understand why fleeing a country that no longer values me is treasonous! I don’t want to spend my entire life down here, Noel, you know that! It’ll kill me.”
“Maybe you should have thought about that before trying to undo the progress of my country. You have no fucking stake in this, Blaire. Dalseum is my responsibility, and I’ll be damned before I let some inbred whore think she knows better than me.” 
Charlie inhaled. “Then let me go.”
“What?”
“If I’m nothing more than some Dixie dumbass to you, let me go home. I’m only wasting your resources down here.” 
“Because you agreed to this. You have to face the consequences of your actions. What did I tell you before you stepped foot here? No one comes in—“
“No one gets out,” they said in unison, Charlie’s tense shoulders dropping. 
“Someday, I’ll let you go— but you’re a danger to Dalseum, the Council, and yourself.” Noeul turned to the exit, the clicking of his pristine heels echoing in the endless nothingness. 
“So are you,” Charlie replied. “The only difference between us is your family name. It’s a real shame— it should have been ours.” 
Noeul didn’t respond. He hung his head for a minute and fumbled with a key attached to a chain in his pocket. 
“Is it true?” he whispered. “What you said during the trial?”
“No,” Charlie admitted. “I made it up as a last-ditch effort. Thank God, I’m not. I couldn’t carry a Sang in good conscience.” 
“You’ve proven my point,” Noeul said, almost grinning. “I can’t have a liar on the Council. I can’t trust a word you say, Blaire.” 
“That damn Council is built on lies, and you know that.” 
“It sure as hell isn’t built on women like you.” Noeul rammed the key into its slot and pried the stone wall open. “I always knew you’d amount to nothing more than your body. You almost had me fooled, but I’m glad I chose Chea over you—carrying on my bloodline would have been all you were good for.”
“Good luck getting Chea to do that for you.”
“I don’t need luck. I have someone with half a brain to replace you.” 
Charlie couldn’t stop herself from laughing. “Like I said, good luck with them.” 
“You’ve always been a bitch.” Noeul wedged his foot through the hidden door and disappeared into the bright, blinding Palace halls she once called home.
But not before she managed to scream, “Watch for the hemlock! You’re all next!”
#divider by cafekitsune#prose#bb charlie blaire#bb noeul sang#where do I even start w my commentary for this one#I think Noeul’s specific brand of misogyny is a good start#noeul is not the textbook misogynist by any means#there are women he respects greatly. sara for example. he highly values and admires sara.#later he loves Marie and sees her potential for power. God and him and Crow is a topic for another time but he saw SO MUCH in Crow#he clearly has women he reveres. but there’s a specific type of misogyny that impacts women who choose to present feminine#who choose traditional hobbies like cooking and sewing and wear pretty dresses and soft makeup#where they are seen as objects because some men only respect masculinity. noeul does not respect traditional femininity#and charlie is VERY traditionally feminine by her own accord while in Eden Grove#she doesn’t have much to worry about there#but in Dalseum she assimilates to their culture of women being inherently equal and she begins to be more confident#without losing that traditional femininity that Noeul subconsciously views as less than#and this threatens noeul clearly that charlie is standing up for herself. he was not anticipating that#but charlie has always been like that. he just didn’t get to see that side of her in Eden Grove#she’s always been spunky and scrappy but she remains that way under pressure. she does not let anyone else talk down to her no matter what#and noeul DOES admire this aspect of Charlie. but like she said. he values tradition more than his relationship with her#also. a minute to acknowledge the irony of noeul telling her all abt Japanese imperialism during wwii and the horrors of it#(which yeah. he’s right abt that Fuck fascism in all its forms)#when charlie is literally Romani. her family is Romani. she might know a thing or two abt oppression Noeul#idk I’m too tired to go deeper into this rn#I think a lot of it speaks for itself#sad face reaction to “I couldn’t carry a Sang in good conscious” though#she did. she sure did. in very bad conscious#but then they have the happiest ending ever so it’s all ok guys trust#queer joy is queer resistance but sometimes we gotta resist angrily to get to where we can be joyful
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righteousdelusions · 2 months ago
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It starts with a class about fascism, I didn't remember this
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panvani · 2 months ago
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Surely there have to be robust Japanese anti imperalist texts
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age-of-moonknight · 6 months ago
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“The Moon Warrior,” Marvel 85th Anniversary Special (Vol. 1/2024), #1.
Writer and artist: Yuji Kaku; Special thanks to Ken Kunito
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whatisonthemoon · 2 years ago
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In this final episode on post war Japan we are going to cover a whole bunch of topics. The scientists the US decided not to charge with war crimes, the Unification Church cult which mass marries people to strangers and requires its female members to have sex with the cult leader to purify their wombs, and a porn star turned attempted assassin. There is a lot in this episode so I hope you enjoy!
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nando161mando · 5 months ago
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hellyeahheroes · 1 year ago
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Attack on Titan and the Road to Fascism by Lost Futures.
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seilon · 9 months ago
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i know im not alone on this but i also know this statement is like waving a stick at a hornets nest. my overall memories and nostalgia related to hetalia are generally not bad and i think it may have saved a depression-riddled middle school aged me from being lured towards way darker and more mentally damaging content or online groups
#im dead serious like before that i was getting into creepypasta which. look im not one to say horror would make my little developing brain#disintegrate or anything BUT as an online community and a subculture of sorts i think it was far more of a slippery slope into#toxicity and extremism and most of all romanticizing/normalizing things like self harm and unhealthy eating habits and so on#despite what a lot of people say on this site it’s really not an evil and fascism-endorsing show or anything#it just has occasional jokes or concepts that are a bit distasteful– though from what I can tell alot of the ones people point out are#improvised bullshit lines made up by english dub cast members#anyway I won’t get into that whole rant but point is i am so so serious it could’ve been so much worse#the worst thing that came of being into hetalia as a kid was being more prone to finding stereotype humor funny#which im still like. I feel like was much more distasteful in 2012-13 youtube content. like WAY more distasteful#and rampant in general. so even in a show that’s built on stereotypes like hetalia it’s TAMER than the stereotype humor of the time in#a ton of mainstream media. big youtubers were still doing casual blackface back then man. 99% of hetalia’s stereotype humor is like.#canadians are quiet and nice. japanese politeness is to an extreme. germans are efficient. americans are loud and like burger#sorry I said I wasn’t gonna go into this rant so. I digress. I was just thinking about this cause I realized seeing hetalia fanart#generally makes me feel a good- or at least not bad- kind of nostalgia. which seems adverse to the show’s reputation especially on this sit#food for thought or whatever#kibumblabs#oh yeah I know why I started thinking about this- a drawing of seychelles came up on my dash and i can’t help but feel warm seeing her pop#up because she was the first real full cosplay I ever did for a big con. (with help) i hand-made the dress and everything. :*)
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agentfascinateur · 11 months ago
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Tokyo 💜 Gaza
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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 2 years ago
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Anthrax - Noisegate
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khizuo · 1 year ago
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does anyone have any good book recs on the chinese civil war and/or the sino-japanese war? my only requirement is that i'm looking for books that aren't like, extremely anti-communist lol.
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