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The Decline of Western Civilization

AWRTR said:
The atrocities in China and the rest of Southeast Asia just aren't as well known because they happened outside the West, and the Japanese didn't have the leader or underlings like Hitler and his band of maniacs that are so well known and so easy to hate.
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This is really the core of it. The rape of Nanking isn't as well-known as the Holocaust. The belief system lying behind each is the same - they are the superior race and all others are "subhuman." Japan had its crew of maniacs, again not as well known. However, during the war, I heard the name "Tojo" often (Prime Minister and many offices before that). We also heard the emperor's name, "Hirohito." I don't think more than a handful of westerners knew that he hadn't made a decision in 3000 years. However, the war ministers carried the final one to him and he made the right one.

Japan has plenty of foreign workers, over 4 million. However, the path to citizenship is notoriously difficult - hundreds of pages, educational and cultural, etc. Finally, you have to give up any prior citizenship - no dual citizenship there, just as here before 1967 and the Afroyim decision...
 
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Tidewater said:
The European Union is a complicated deal. If I was a European, generally, I'd favor the EU. There are economic benefits to a continent-wide customs union. There are also costs. And Brussels seems hell-bent on making membership as burdensome as possible, and ironically, over relatively minor and unnecessary things. Brussels seems to have convince themselves that EU membership is such a good deal that they can impose any burden, no matter how large, on member states.
I would not be surprised if more member states decided the costs of membership outweigh the benefits and secede from the Union as Britain did. And Brussels needs to pause to consider whether this particular policy is worth risking another secession or not.
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Here is a small, relatively benign example. While the EU is facing some serious challenges, they decided to ban single-use condiment sachets.

EU bans single-use condiment sachets at restaurants from Aug 12​

You can still get them from takeaway restaurants and in stores, but not in sit-down restaurants.
Sure reducing plastic waste is a good idea, but how much of the EU garbage comes from single-use condiment sachets? I would bet not much.
Given the larger issues the EU faces, this seem frivolous.
"Sure, that iceberg looks big, but look at how these deck chairs are arranged!"
 
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CrimsonJazz said:
www.dailymail.com

Sikh man stabbed student, 18, with ceremonial knife, court hears

Finance student Henry Nowak, 18, was on his way home from a night out when he was attacked by stranger Vikrum Digwa, 23, with the eight inch 'Shastar' blade.
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The U.K. is irredeemable, I think. Those people need a miracle.
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Riots are breaking out all over Southampton. Police are being forced to retreat and the police station is practically under siege. I'd post the video, but as you can imagine, the rage includes some colorful language. Nevertheless.................

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Sudanese migrant arrested for allegedly trying to behead victim in middle of Northern Ireland street

A knife-wielding man believed to be a Somalian migrant has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Northern Ireland – and horror video appears to show him trying to behead his victim in t…
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The suspect was living in the UK “under a five-year visa,” Gavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, told the House of Commons — calling for him to be “convicted and deported on the first flight out.”

Police are still unsure of of a motive for the barbaric attack, but so far have “no information to suggest that this was a terrorist-related incident,” Ryan Henderson, the assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said in a press conference later Tuesday.
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Damn fine detective work there, boys. Very impressive. Meanwhile, riots are breaking out in N. Ireland.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
This is really the core of it. The rape of Nanking isn't as well-known as the Holocaust. The belief system lying behind each is the same - they are the superior race and all others are "subhuman." Japan had its crew of maniacs, again not as well known. However, during the war, I heard the name "Tojo" often (Prime Minister and many offices before that). We also heard the emperor's name, "Hirohito." I don't think more than a handful of westerners knew that he hadn't made a decision in 3000 years. However, the war ministers carried the final one to him and he made the right one.

Japan has plenty of foreign workers, over 4 million. However, the path to citizenship is notoriously difficult - hundreds of pages, educational and cultural, etc. Finally, you have to give up any prior citizenship - no dual citizenship there, just as here before 1967 and the Afroyim decision...
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Iris Chang's The Rape Of Nanking was a haunting read.

The author unfortunately committed suicide at an early age(38). It has been reported that she was deeply disturbed by the subject matter of her research. There is no way to know if that was the reason, but it would certainly be understandable.

The Japanese were on par with the Nazi's horrific crimes against humanity. Which makes it all the more ironic that, with the surrender after WW2, the old bushido code in their military was expunged.
 
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Its On A Slab said:
The Japanese were on par with the Nazi's horrific crimes against humanity. Which makes it all the more ironic that, with the surrender after WW2, the old bushido code in their military was expunged.
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Obviously murder is murder, evil is evil - but if you compare the ‘medical testing’ the Japs did on POWs they make Mengele look pretty tame. Just absolutely brutal.
 
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crimsonaudio said:
Obviously murder is murder, evil is evil - but if you compare the ‘medical testing’ the Japs did on POWs they make Mengele look pretty tame. Just absolutely brutal.
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And not a single member of Unit 731 (responsible for chemical/biological testing on involuntary subjects) were ever prosecuted.

MacArther granted covert immunity to Gen. Ishii and his top scientists in turn for knowledge gleaned for our own chem/biological weapons programs.
 
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UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse

Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
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“Think of the children” is the oldest skeleton key in the political toolbox and the British government has just jammed it into the lock on every phone in the country.

Ministers are reportedly drafting a law that would force Apple, Google, and the rest to make it impossible for a child to send, receive, view, or share a single nude image, with the executives who refuse facing up to five years in prison.

The children are the headline but the surveillance is the product.
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crimsonaudio said:
Seems like the UK and Ireland are both riiiiiight on the edge of seeing the push back to these policies blow up in their faces...

I sure hope so.
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I could have told those Orwellian governments that the pipe-hittin bois from Belfast weren't going to tolerate this much longer. It seems they have hit their breaking point. I saw a video this morning where one of them was being arrested by the police, but they didn't secure him and he took off. Someone overlaid Chariots of Fire to the video and it just made my day. I'll see if I can find it again.
 
BREAKING: THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMING APART

John Healey resigned.

Al Carns resigned.

Now Pamela Nash resigns from the Defence Ministerial Team.

Her warning?

"The trust of the public" is being damaged.

When ministers start walking out and talking openly about collapsing public trust, you know this is no ordinary political crisis.

The pressure on Keir Starmer is intensifying by the hour.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2065163532128113080
 
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