thelastaxolotl [he/him]
Slop.https://x.com/GerHolanda63475/status/2045923095886672316
::: spoiler CW: SA Mention of the Comfort women
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https://x.com/hlnolvrgo_c/status/2044507463173456300
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045525574408368600
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045545414875574751
Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations. They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.
https://x.com/AllbonesJones/status/2045309780177330663
https://x.com/NestyEco/status/2045911597785252035
lol watching the conversations happen because of the auto-translate feature has been neat. More frieren dicussion unlocked hahaha
::: spoiler frieren discussion
basically some fascist guy said that frieren was a catholic story and the japanese fanbase picked that up and started discussing it.
japanese frieren demon discussion goes more or less the same as it does in english where people liken the demons to a dangerous "other" (such as bears, or people who dont understand emotions) that needs to be killed in the context of the story. The picking up of christian notes is interesting (while acknowledging it isnt a christian story at all,) but not as good as the analysis i've heard from filipino comrades where they say the demons fit in an orientalism metacontext.
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I'm proud of all Brazilians mocking the losers
Искусство принадлежит народу. -
I will continue to pirate anime and there isn't a damn tning they can do about it
But what about the companyyyy 👉👈
Go play with a rag in the street, sweaty
Meanwhile DPRK bans piracy because they understand cultural imperialism an don't want to get colonized by foreign media.
Of course to a Westerner this is incomprehensible to choose to make your own movie instead of pirating one.
Holy based
But how could they possibly live without watching Revengers 11: Mountain Dew^TM^ man's revenge??????
Some more i found funny
russian https://x.com/proddya/status/2045868411406680258
If I ever go on a date with a Japanese girl again, I'll pay for her, and when she says "oh, no need," I'll reply that it's reparations for the fact that my fellow countrymen pirate manga.
russian https://x.com/sietlov/status/2045584707660697977
Dear Japanese people, every unpleasant thing you write about piracy, I naturally take as a personal attack.
Your behavior is disrespectful and outrageous. As early as tomorrow, we are convening the council of pirates of the seven seas and will discuss the possibility of imposing a naval blockade.
I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations.
fuck that's so good lmao
This isnt even a threat? Dostoevsky has been dead for well over 100 years, his books are without a doubt in the public domain. For English readers you can just go to Standard Ebooks or Project Guttenberg (also has other languages)
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Does public domain exist in Japan?
For the intents and purposes of how I used it, it seems so. But I am not an expert in Japanese copyright law.
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TIL
This is Japan. Keiji Nakazawa talking about what happened to his remaining family members who survived the Hiroshima bombing in the following months.
Site won't let me upload the screencaps and I'm impatient so I'll type it out.
"Take her to the police."
Mother said, "Search our room."
"No. She's a thief from downtown."
"Get her to sign an apology."
She was dragged to the police,
and signed a statement, sobbing all the while.
"I will not steal an umbrella ever again."
She said she was mortified.
I watched through the windows as my mother signed, sobbing. (not sure if he means himself or his mother here)
They were merciless.
My burns had formed scabs and begun to heal,
but I was out on the streets, and some tough kids surrounded me.
They harassed me, called me a "stranger,"
and then they socked me.
My scabs split open, and bloody pus came shooting out.
The bullying was hard to take.
There is a limit on uploads. 6 within 3600 seconds (1 hour). By within I mean from the first is uploaded.
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This is so fucking funny. Most Japanese people have lived their whole lives never interacting with anyone outside the country because their English education is utter dogshit and have "Japan > All" nationalist brain so they never travel internationally. I hope these conversations lead to Japanese people learning how to circumvent their government's draconian anti-piracy laws (pretty sure a decent VPN is all you really need).
some of them go to Paris and freak the fuck out because it's not as cool as they thought.
I remember learning about that and wondering if they'd literally never experienced a contradiction before in their lives. Like, how the fuck do you hold such idealist views that would be completely nonsensical to any normal person? Surely they've had at least one experience where the reality was a disappointment compared to their imagination? How have they not developed a sense of skepticism?
Life in Japan is highly prescribed. Everything has an order, and it's really common for people to have violent outbursts at very minor deviations from the prescribed process. You can probably imagine from there how far the ripples go through various social systems
Есть еще Американцы, они па весь мир ползут а из амереки некогда не шаг даже не ступили. Вам точно не стыдно?
Я знаю даже некоторых которая не умеют говорить по Эньлжишь, ну по характеру ани идэнтитиския.
Neoliberalism really likes to socially reproduce these sorts of people. Makes for the best wage slaves.
poster brings reciepts proving that tons of japanese people also use pirate websites
everyone including people in this thread act like it is characteristic of the Japanese brain pan to bootlick corporations over IP laws and not just a handful of people on twitter
You see the climate of The Japans produces an occidental ownership center in the lower corticoloid brainpan which makes them biologically opposed to piracy. What's this word, 'wokou'? Get out of here with your foreign talk
Seriously lmao. I keep encountering people at the game shop I visit who don't know you can just pirate Warhammer books. They're often wandering around asking if anyone has a e-book code for them to use. I'm like: "Just go get it from one of the thousands of .pdf dump sites? Fucking dork lololololollll!"
From a 2025 report on piracy of Japanese media:
Assuming one comic book priced at 500 yen could be read in 30 minutes, ABJ estimated the damage for June alone was 704.8 billion yen, equivalent to 1.4 billion manga books that were not paid for.
This amounts to 8.5 trillion yen a year, nearly six times the 1.5 trillion-yen size of Japan’s publishing market in 2024.
By country, Indonesian viewers caused the most damage in June, at 92.3 billion yen, followed by Japanese at 83.4 billion yen, and those in the United States at 79.1 billion yen.
Only country ahead of Japan is an archipelago 2.5x bigger than it, and Japan is ahead of the US
Russia and Latam vs japanese in a shitpost war?
Fatman and Little Boy vs Coughing japanese baby
This is so got dang cute
You know what's really funny, there's a 99% chance not a single person in that exchange is Japanese
Have we learned nothing from hiphopthreads and blackpeopletwitter?
some japanese letists have dunk on their chud counterparts so they do seem legit https://x.com/tacowasa2nd/status/2045816910286086177
It's not just in Japan—right-wingers around the world all have this mentality like bratty middle school second-year punks rebelling against the disciplinary committee or the strict female teacher, just to go against the grain.
Ever since posts started getting translated, I've seen right-wing folks from all sorts of countries, and it's shocking how they're all basically the same.
another one https://x.com/peacock_maroon/status/2045795022629683440
It's lamentable that the automatic translation feature is causing xenophobes to relentlessly tarnish Japan's image, but I genuinely think it's an intriguing shift that tweets from other countries now flow in so naturally. You get to see these unique turns of phrase in warm words of encouragement, sarcasm, or trash talk—it's pretty fascinating.
Thank fuck there's some normal people in there lmao
I mean now that it's blown up, sure it's gonna attract some actual Japanese people
But reading that initial exchange I'm convinced it's Russians vs weird race playing Germans and Austrians, I remember reading a recent thread by some incel 4Channers commenting on this weird race fad taking over parts of online right-wing German spaces
I’ve seen it on Reddit where they pretend to be Israeli and another time one pretended to be Venezuelan
Quick, someone photoshop Japan to the other leg.
https://nitter.net/Danielsalcan_/status/2046023189910700243
Twitter desde que hay traducción automática
Tower of Babel part 2
Alright, ty Japan for reminding me of your with Togo characteristics
your 2channel and its derivatives, anti-piracy fetish, and your imperial Japan denialism have made this case against you
Ok I had this question earlier and didn't know how to ask, but it at least fits this post somewhat.
A Chinese person I follow said in english something like 'if piracy hurts [slur for japanese, cutting off the last 5 letters] then I should do it more'. Is this like black people calling white people crackers and thus acceptable? I wasn't sure what the broader consensus about that specific relationship was. Japan did do some horrific racist shit and still performs systemic racism... sooo... idk what you think?
I don’t think it’s racist. The trauma that the Japanese have brought upon the Chinese through genocide and horrific torture and other crimes and the constant denialism of the Japanese about the crimes their parents or grandparents committed makes it very reasonable for Chinese people to really fucking despise the Japanese and using slurs against them.
You can be against imperialism without being a racist. The actions of the Japanese government don't represent the people (because Japan is a neoliberal anti-democracy like the US), though there are plenty of racist, atrocity-denying Japanese people. The poster should have just said, "If piracy hurts [neoliberal capitalist entity], then I should do it more."
But I hear this more often from like white Americans saying "its not all whites, just attack the state of white supremacy". That's why I started thinking about it so much in this case. The immediate reaction of "that's racially essentialized and thus always evil" is not something we accept against white people in the imperial core. Or at least I don't.
I think being in the imperial core is the difference. The US is the Great Satan and any online whitey from the US should be treated with suspicion until proven comrade. Post-WWII Japan as a US vassal doesn't have a comparable level of control over what happens globally, they just have a little soft power from their media. Meanwhile, the US has been directly involved in countless coups and is responsible for tens of millions of deaths from their innumerable atrocities.
I get this perspective entirely for westerners, but this is a Chinese guy posting about China from China. Just in English because its Twitter. There the circumstances have to be considered differently. I'm still very unsure of how to feel personally about the use of the slur by chinese people, but I'm just not really convinced that "America is the bigger empire in the world" really has any impact on the fact that japanese settler colonialism 90 years ago is still impacting China now.
My position on slurs is they're mostly useless, but I, for example, won't tell a black person to stop calling white people slurs
Like another poster said, they may not be aware of the use of the abbreviation as a slur. If they are, I think it's definitely not a good look. No one in China needs to be nice to the Japanese but instead of using a slur, I think it would be better to always make mention of the crimes of Imperial Japan. Let the right-wing Japanese people come out and deny the crimes of the past or even voice their approval of the horrors committed by the imperial army. I think that would look better for the Chinese poster to anyone reading the exchange.
I agree your tactic would be better, probably more useful and likely more effective, but my question is if my initial reaction of disgust was grounded in a similar process as initial disgusts at "cracker" or not. Do we define subimperialism as lesser and thus less abhorrent or not? Or do we support the use of "cracker" because we think its useful? I'd never considered these things before now tbh, I just found it funny that white people hate the term.
I have a lot of questions and few answers, I'm realizing
Until Japan pays reparations for their crimes against humanity against the Chinese people (and the rest of Asia to be frank), slurs are fair game for the descendants of the survivors. No different from whining about Black people calling white people snow roaches or trans people calling cis people cissies.
snow roach
oh that's good
In my opinion, at some point, we gotta get circle back to going "I don't care that you're Chinese, I think you're an asshole." If the identity isn't hard fought or standing up to oppressive forces then it seems exhausting and weirdly horseshoe to give people good boy points for something they didn't fucking do. A Chinese dork is still a dork primarily. What have you done and, further, what have you done recently?
I have to be honest, I don't follow your post really at all. Idk if its my English, if so sorry, but seems like there's a ton of non-specified terms making this hard to follow. "The identity": idk which one you're talking about. "Didnt fucking do": who didn't do something? And what didn't they do?
Then the last sentence, is that asking me the question? I didn't do anything much tbh, but idk what that has to do with this lol
I hope this doesn't sound mean, I don't intend that. But I can't really tell what standpoint you're taking at all and so am just kind of confused
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/why-is-japan-so-bitter-about-unstoppable-rise-of-china/
link doesn't work because of the slur filter
As an English slur, it was mostly used against Japanese people living in America, aka not really the people doing the systematic racism
even then just don't like... sling slurs as insults for other people? obvs cracker gets a pass because it has literally zero social weight as a slur in its modern form
even then just don't like... sling slurs as insults for other people?
I made this point a long time ago about a word that is currently on the slur filter but wasnt before, and it went very badly lol
I didnt know this but apparently ML spaces are well known for a culture where "word policing" is a concern. Its very interesting to me, because anarchist spaces tend to have more rules about words targetting marginalized demographics, although this may depend on the specific forum. This site is like a hybrid where we have basically made the case for "policing" some words, but I very much feel that the former sentiment remains amoung some amount of the population here.
As an English slur, it was mostly used against Japanese people living in America, aka not really the people doing the systematic racism
Yeah that's why I wouldnt use it and why my relatives didn't use it, either. It's a white slur for an oppressed minority stateside, not a Chinese (or in my case, Filipino) slur for colonizers and genociders.
I guess if we understand the world as layers of empire with further internal cores, then American racism against japanese is still structural, yes. But then japanese racism of Chinese is also structural, so then chinese have to act differently with regards to japanese because America is Uber racist?
I agree though, I think slurs are generally weak and just useless and only harmful. But yet I am not gonna tell a black person that about cracker
I'm sure there's slurs used by the people subjucated by Imperial Japan that we can use
i wouldn't use the term myself because i know it's a slur, but it is the natural abbreviation and i don't expect ESL or honestly atp americans under 30 to even know it's a slur.
we ran into this on magic the gathering forums 10+ years ago and i was mostly annoyed at how uncurious people were to not know.
is quite literally the personification of the "LEAVE THE MULTIBILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ALONE" meme. And that's before we even get into the war crime apologia and denialism
You can't generalize like that, some vocal weirdos on twitter are hardly representive of the entire country's stance on piracy, the fact that it's the biggest pirate of japanese media should tell you as much.
Not going to comment on Japanese people's perception of Japan's historical role in the world.
And that's before we even get into the war crime apologia and denialism
The did some of this too in the Piracy discourse
Unfortunately I think this is so expected from Japan because of their fascist brainworms, and their so-called 'first-world development' that makes them think they're above piracy, and of course, ignorant about their own history.
so-called 'first-world development' that makes them think they're above piracy
That shit is so cringe. Sure, just keep licking that boot until you wear a hole through it.
