Youtube comments of PeterC (@peterc4082).

  1. In Kaapstad we would say "jou ma se poes"
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  2. Short term thinking. Who is going to buy these products though, if everyone is unemployed?
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  3. There is usually no "hazing" in Europe except the Netherlands are a bit weird.
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  4. 100%. But the fact is that Japan's position is weakening. They can't appear racist. They can't for example stop more and more affluent Indians, Chinese and Africans from entering despite perceived racism, as they will need these places in the 21st century to survive. We in the EU are becoming weaker economically and the US is also fading as the global hegemon. Japan will rely on India, China, South America and even Africa for a source of raw materials and exports and even imports, including food. They can't block tourism because it would be bad for their soft power and it's also a good source of revenue, directly and indirectly. Every foolish tourist who visits Japan may later decide to be more likely to buy Japanese goods or culture.
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  5. Japane's fleet in WW2 was based on British ships and designs. And they lost against the Americans very fast. Dude there was one strong Axis power in WW2 and that was Germany. The Red Army destroyed the Kwantung Army, the same army the German Heer thrashed, thrashed the Japanese.
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  6. In America he'd get life. But Asia is more tolerant of sex crimes against kids it seems. Look at how kids are sexualized in junior idols, it is also fashionable in Korea. I like Japan and Korea but they should lay off the "lolicon" stuff.
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  7.  @jonasw3945 Two things. First they don't need visa because Japanese government wants such tourists there, they could impose visa requirements. For example there is a ban on North Koreans entering Japan. Secondly, even if you don't need a visa, the immigration officer could refuse you entry. That happens. There is no right to enter another country. America is especially nasty for people to enter, as tourists. But other countries can also block people. If Japan thinks there is too much tourism, they can introduce visas, and yet they haven't because likely it's 1. Good business. The Yen is weak and people bring in foreign exchange. 2. It's good for soft power reasons. They export goodwill and these people either return or recommend Japan to others or buy Japanese products.
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  8.  @OneClick287  Can you cite where it's impossible for Chinese to create reliable motor engines or aircraft carriers? Chinese industrial base is many times bigger than Japan's. Also China is more advanced in some tech sectors. You're just being racist.
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  9. Poland achieved way more. Poland did not exist before WW1, as it had been partitioned and Russified/Germanified since the end of the 18th century. After it regained independence and had to fight for it too, it had to fend off the Soviets in 1920/21 in the Soviet-Polish War. Then came WW2 which devastated Poland, she lost 20% of her population, including most of the elites. After the war, followed communist imposed rule and persecution of those opposed to it or those who had been middle class previously. Poland only regained independence after 1989 and even some of that was after a deal with the communists so that many became very rich in Poland and some still persist there. Poland had to improve her economy and governance to be allowed into the EU. Getting there was 80% of the work. Poland received no reparations for the destruction of the country. Polish elites were exterminated or had to flee and their talent settled overseas. So Poland did way more than many think. All that while enduring anti-Polish racism, not only from the Russians, but also the Germans and the Brits/Americans. Britain Brexited because of Anti-Polish racism.
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  10.  @chae_shoko  Death penalty is closer to North Korea. In Europe we understand the death penalty but we know mistakes can happen. Rather let a guilty party go to jail than kill one innocent person. Value of human life is No 1. In North Korea it's not and Japan seems to prefer to be close to NK.
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  11.  @MemesAndLs But they were disruptive. You're just making excuses about the sort of disruption they caused. And which tourists are loud and chaotic? It's usually large numbers of people i.e. tours. Individuals, couples and families are not going to be chaotic and loud. OK young children may be loud, but it's ridiculous to criticise small kids. It's large tour groups which are an issue. Also don't make Japanese into some sort of angels here, they are also obnoxious. People need to stop this Japan weeb worship.
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  12. These are good and sterk Dutch names.
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  13. They have low "reported" crime rates. Now bear in mind CP production was legal in Japan until early 2000s, and CP ownership was legal until 2010 or so. How many people have they arrested for CP ownership since then. Probably not many. Amazon Japan just pulled the CP off their store front. And I don't talk here about the anime stuff.
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  14. Horrible story. Tragic. To betray a child like that. And betrayal by a woman of all things. One often hears of dysfunctional families and ex-es and boyfriends abusing kids of other men and sometimes the mothers permit it because they're either on drugs or alcohol or 'love the boyriend' more than they love their own flesh and blood. :(
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  15. Video sponsored by the CIA :)
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  16. Hussars got f-ed up at the end.
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  17.  @小峠-t9b  Japan wants to be in the European club. But this keeps Japan out of this club. This makes Japan more like North Korea. It is up to you if you like that association or not.
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  18.  @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217  Where did you see this? The Church actually does not forbid people from thinking that the shroud is real. But it's also not saying it is. So they disagree with you.
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  19. But then why were most European countries sleeping at the wheel ever since Russia took Crimea?
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  20. LOL, made to feel welcome. In every country, outside of a war zone or maybe North Korea, you'll be made to feel welcome. I've never been to a country I've never been welcomed in. People in hotels, restaurants, museums, shops etc smile and are polite. Hosts are polite. People are friendly etc. Would you be impolite to a tourist if you ran a B&B? or worked in the hospitality industry? And most people are happy when foreigners come to SPEND THEIR MONEY. It means jobs. And Japan is becoming more and more poor as compared to the 80s and 90s.
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  21.  @HeyJuuu  He's not saying that at all. You are.
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  22. Isn't this about the near occasion of sin? Seminaries are male only. If hetero men join them and swear to celibacy, there is little occasion of sin or little temptation. However, gay men, i.e. men who find other men sexually attractive may find themselves attracted sexually to their peers or colleagues and this may put additional strain on them. Likewise some seniors who are in position of power, may find themselves attracted to some of the junior seminarians and because of the imbalance in the power dynamic may find themselves in a difficult situation. Imagine becoming a priest as a hetero guy where priests can be male or female and you share a seminary with beautiful women you will be drawn to through no fault of your own. This may just be a prudential form of reasoning the Church is following here.
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  23. It' s not his speeches which made him dangerous. It was the actions of his people, in Poland 6million people un-alived including my Catholic relatives. He was actually ex-ter-minating millions of people and intended to repopulate parts of Europe and Asia with Germans and the people who had lived there would have to be un-alived. That's why Hitler is hated. Not because he spoke in a gruff voice or shouted or made funny salutes. His ideology was one of mass killing of women and children, especially of women and children. He was not alone, other people like him were Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, Che Guevarra, etc.
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  24. Some - all of them, and they still are. All tourists are annoying. But if you want foreign exchange and soft power, you bring in tourists. The people who complain are basically the people who don't travel. They have no idea how expensive and how straining it is to travel far and then to have several days to get in as much as possible before flying home and returning to work.
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  25.  @MemesAndLs For the racist (Japanese/European/American/Korean/etc) it's not even about people being loud, it's just seeing other race people in their sacred Kyoto or whatever other sacred place relevant people have. Well them make it like Mecca and shut it down for non Shinto/Buddhists.
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  26. Muta is not an expert yet he talks about Twitch and censorship and who should and who should not speak about it.
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  27.  @viperxgamez311 Spot on. And let's face it, tourists occupy what - less than 1% of Japan. The tourist hot spots. And who designates tourist attractions. The Japanese government, local, national and business. Japan advertises tourism to other countries because they want tourism. And Japanese get treated in a special way, as though their excrement doesn't smell. If Japanese people don't want tourists, they can force their government to stop entry for foreigners. We'll happily not go. Other countries will take up the foreign revenue and soft power. Some Japanese want their cake and to eat it too. They gutted Western factories in the 80s and 90s with their cheaper labour, now as Korea/China gut theirs they have to get used to a service economy. They should either obey their government or change it and close their country down. But they can't have it both ways.
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  28. In that case there is no reason to dwell on them when the same Chinese junk can be purchased at a higher price off Amazon.
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  29. German brutality.
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  30. Thank you for sharing that you're an agnostic--- now I can go to bed knowing you have no bone in this 'fight'.
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  31. The Nazis were a party. Not all of them were bloodthirsty. Some were just guys like you and me who were Germany FIRST type people. Yes some of them would have been appalled by KL Auschwitz and also by this. Not every Nazi worked in Einsatzgruppen or was a death camp guard. Dude, they need to teach critical thinking in school.
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  32. There are 3 million tourists to Japan every month. What percentage of the 3 mil were 'disrespectful'? And anyone with education knows that tourists don't know the nuance of local etiquette.
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  33.  @migzydrift  My comment was deleted by "Moon" but yes, he's one of the rich ivory tower hypocrite elites. He's the same if not worse.
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  34. Anything in mostly Anglo countries. I don't think they have any effect in Asia, Africa, and most of South America, where people at best pay lip service to this.
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  35. The world in the 1960s-1990s was f-ed up. Brooke Shields had it bad but European actresses had it much worse. Eva Ionescu was forced to do actual films which are still banned and nude art photography. She recently produced a film called "My Little Princess" which won a Cannes award. She too was pushed into this by her mother.
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  36. Nanking? Korea? Philippines? Etc.
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  37.  @TheShahkulu  The Tokyos are overcrowded but the country side is empty
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  38. My grandmother became a slave labourer in Austria after the Germans picked her up. She couldn't even say goodbye to her daughter. The Germans paid a total of about 5000 Euros in compensation after the fall of communism for my grandmother's ordeal and the fact that her daughter had no mother.
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  39.  @reillypaintsfrogs  I'll give you another story. In South Africa, that's the country at the tip of Africa, the rates of HIV/AIDS are very high. As are rates of child abuse. Anyway in the early 2000s the government did not provide HIV treatment and it was too expensive via private healthcare. There was a case where a man r-ed a little girl and gave her HIV. A few years later, as he was in prison the gov was forced to give him HIV treatment but the child was still not allowed to get it, as she was from a poor family. She ended up dying from AIDS while the perp continued to live on gov funded treatment in jail. The HIV treatment program started with roll out in jails I think. It's a double tragedy. As bad as the US is, it's way, way better.
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  40. Most child abuse occurs at home. This kind of organised crime trafficking makes up a tiny fraction of all abuse. Lots of abuse in the US as well.
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  41. Japan was always LGBT friendly. Yaoi manga are common there. Shoujo ai as well.
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  42. 1772 and ever since then.
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  43. Two things. The ones who travel are not the ones who complain. Secondly some people are hypocrites. But I agree.
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  44. This is ignored because Japanese are not white to criticise their racism is seen as racist. This will change though. I think PLA will not be so politically correct when they come visit. Let's hope not but Japan should become a little more humble.
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  45. What makes you so special? You're probably no different.
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  46.  @oki148  Cheap for Americans, dude. The USD is strong to other currencies too.
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  47.  @luxie8097  Japanese don't object against it though. And it's not like Japan is some holy place. They have slang for elementary school girls and they have junior idols of 10 year olds. Do you have kids? Would you be happy if your 10 year old could find legal employment as an ero model for adult men?
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  48. The Germans, they can't wait to rebuild Nordstream 2.
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  49. There is an area of water called "Sea of Japan". Does that mean it all belongs to Japan?
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  50. It was a stupid call out. He was driving too fast. The victim who called 911 was not in cardiac arrest. Once in cardiac arrest you have 6 minutes before brain death or at least permaent brain damage. The guy was alive, speaking. The speed was too fast. The policy of this department was incorrect. We always have to judge our actions. If a cop has to drive fast he risks causing an accident with another vehicle or pedestrians. Secondly why are these cop cars so armoured. If you want to speed through a city, use a safer car which deforms more when the pedestrian hits it. Finally crossing roads and listening to loud music is dangerous. You can't hear the siren. Why isn't that outlawed?
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  51. Netherlands and Belgium show a veneer of civility but there's a lot of problems underneath. Netherlands has sexual exploitation of minors in the Red Light District and Swart Piet and all that. Secondly, Belgium too destroyed the Congo in the 19th century, and so many politicians and upper class people are involved in child sex slavery. We Europeans sometimes look at these countries and admire them but your marketers just create this false impression for everyone else of a supposedly civilised BENELUX.
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  52. Because worse things happen. This would be news in Korea, do you honestly think other countries don't have tragedies, disasters or problems?
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  53.  @montrelouisebohon-harris7023  It took the Germans 35 days to subdue Poland. Poland did not exist prior to 1918. It was a new country. In 1921 it had defeated the Soviet Union in the Battle of Warsaw. Poland continued to fight and helped the Allies decode the ENIGMA as well as capture a complete undamaged V2 rocket. Note that it took Germans 6 weeks to defeat the British and French on the continent. So given how much stronger France and Britain were compared to Poland and that Poland later had to fight the Russians, Poles were better soldiers than the French and British. If Americans were there they would also have been quickly defeated by the Germans. Germans were almost invincible. If Japan had to fight Germany, Japan would have been defeated much faster. In fact if Germany and Japan had a direct land border, there would have been a total defeat of the Japanese by the Germans.
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  54.  @RetireandGo  Thai people will get tired of Westerners though.
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  55.  @keurikeuri7851  The Americans (I'm not American) won most naval engagements. Americans just made their war contribution in terms of manpower much larger because Yanks always tout themselves as the best of the best. Note that the Japanese navy was based on British tech it was not home grown. Japan itself is a backwared technologically country in at least the 1930s.
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  56.  @deker0954  Yes in anime
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  57. The problem is that for most Japanese, otaku anime is not normal. It's shameful for most guys to admit they watch that. You need to understand Japan first.
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  58.  @erenyeagerist7681  They behaved this way. It depends on what you find distasteful. If you find people making funny gestures, crowding places, video taping and photographing everything and being nosy and in the way of foreigners then yes Japanese were no better. And let's face it foreign visitors to Japan are well behaved. Out of the millions of people who visit Kyoto every year, there was 1 case of a cigarette being flung at a geisha. You need to learn basic stats to realise how much of a nothing this is. So how many Western women fell pray to Japanese weirdos with Japanese police doing nothing about it? Jealous? Maybe not jealous but a little upset that an Axis power was rebuilt by the Americans while Axis victims were left to rot? Japan was successful for 2 reasons. America needed a successful Japan and gave it protection and 2. The West opened its market to Japanese products and had to close own factories instead. Now the West went further and is collapsing. It opened its markets and closed its own factories to China and now soon the West will be completely lost. There is ZERO jealousy here. There is however an observation that US rebuilt certain countries and those people forgot how lucky they are, mainly Germans and Japanese.
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  59. And yet the TMP is still as useless or maybe more useless considering their budget and manpower when compared to Brazil.
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  60. Poland always folds and loses.
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  61.  @BlackSeranna  It is true. Children will blame themselves and often children are hesitant to report abuse. Parents should be vigilant and get to know their children to see if there is a change in behaviour. Sadly abusers usually target children who are in broken families.
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  62. You're ranked 80th because you're very rich. Japan is the 3 or 4th richest country in the world. You are incredibly lucky or blessed. In that regard, you did not have to learn foreign languages, you could remain isolated and export, export, export. You exported manufactured products, leading to closure of our own factories in the 70s-90s and still do and your own companies hire natives abroad. Very few of your people have to go abroad, basically the senior management only. Locally you're well off. You don't have to learn English because you don't have to seek work abroad. Where there is no need, there is no way. I think, be happy you have your own isolated country with its own quirks and that gives you plenty of tourism, export opportunities and soft power. For now the Pax Americana is holding but I don't know how you perceive things but American hegemony may soon be ending, and China will be the guarantor of security in the Pacific. Maybe learning Mandarin will be the future for some Japanese. English less, so. Geopolitics is important.
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  63. @@Araknos66 The crime rates for Poland are relatively low in Europe. The statistics don't lie. However taking in migrants you have not vetted who may or may not want to work and who may or may not want to assimilate is not a wise move. PIS already took many legal migrants in, but PO made a scandal out of it. Legal migration is fine. Illegal or forced is not.
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  64. Best is if Japan isolate. Go back to pre-Meiji.
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  65.  @davidmrenton  Not all Japanese. They are lazy. Wealth has made them lazy. There is saying that tough times create tough men but good times make weak men. Japan now has to compete with others and they're not able to. They have to go back to mediocrity status. It will do them well. They were artificially inflated as No 3-4 economy, they should be No 15 or so.
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  66. But Japan has no obligation to protect Taiwan. Taiwan and China are all Chinese. Ukraine and Russia are different peoples. Even now many Taiwanese would not mind unification with China. And Japan may not want to risk getting nuked by China for what? If China attacks Taiwan, nobody will be able to stop them.
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  67.  @christiaannooteboom7059  Oh for Goodness Sakes dude, nobody in the US celebrates the murder of innocent people and keeps scores who killed more. Your analogy fails.
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  68. Jake, why is it OK for America for Israel to hit a Russian base using F16s or American weapons, but not ok for Ukraine to do the same after over 2 years of war. Is it that different people have different value?
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  69. The problem: why do cops in the US drive these battering rams? In Europe such a car would not be allowed to speed this way in a city. Pedestrians will be hit especially if they listen to music or they are impaired. Why did the cop go so fast? Why does their department authorise such fast driving for non-cardiac arrest response? That junkie did not arrest. He was not dying while making that call. He didn't have 6 minutes before brain death. So plenty of wrong here and people focus on what some cop said instead of learning from this. Cop cars should be safer for pedestrians. Cops should not drive this fast for this type of call. Pedestrians must not cross streets while listening to music.
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  70. Japanese tourists did this too. My cousin in Paris would get hounded by Japanese tourists to buy Chanel etc products for them because Paris stores had a limit for Japanese tourists.
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  71. Help us defeat apartheid with sanctions and then give us aid but we won't reciprocate. That's SA.
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  72.  @organichuman  I don't need CIA documents to know my grandmother was made a slave in the Reich, her father was tortured to death and her husband was mu-rdered as a POW. A cousin died on day one at Westerplatte, while defending it as a kid. The village next to my great grandparents was un-alived by the Germans. I did not need any CIA reports to learn this. Sorry.
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  73. The Polish MRE was pretty cr-ppy though. Romania was much nicer and self heats. Romania wins! :) I'm Polish BTW.
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  74. Maybe. But he downplays the Polish successes. There were 100s of planes and tanks/armoured cars and so on, the Germans lost. We're portrayed as gallant but useless so it still plays into the whole Goebbels trope of backward, useless Poles which we are seen as to this day. If you really ask these Brits what they think, we're still those people who deserve pity and help. The Polish word would be an 'ofiara'. But hey at least we're mentioned in some way.
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  75. Yes there is a way. You can charge a $1000 entry VISA fee payable per person. Or make it $10,000 per person. That way only rich Americans will visit. Then Japan will have the creme de la creme of the society visit them.
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  76.  @doomhippie6673  You can be a combatant and a war criminal at the same time. The one does not preclude the other. The SS was declared a criminal organisation at the Nuremberg War Trials.
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  77. True. I think the German system matured since the 1930s/40s and beyond. My grandfather died in a German prison in 1942, caught for being Polish and crossing the border between the General Gouverment and Germany, he didn't know he wasn't allowed to. These days German prisons are more rational and humane.
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  78.  @reillypaintsfrogs  Your justice system is better. That's what I was hinting at. But yes, I mean what's worse, an earthquake or a hurricane? Right. Both are bad.
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  79.  @Saroku1000  Tourists pay money for that. The host is getting paid for this. If you invite a friend over, sure, they can wash dishes. But to ask a tired, weary traveler who comes from a poorer country, which buys your products (soon won't because will buy Chinese only) and who saved to go on a once in a lifetime trip, and had to sit for 18 hours on a plane and now he gets poor treatment from locals - that is shameful. I think any person with basic humanity will see that as repulsive. Tourists deserve some leeway. Japan tourists are also given leeway in EU and elsewhere.
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  80.  @arielwollinger  It's Japanese themselves making a mess. Remember they got rich and lazy.
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  81.  @retroman3252  Japan's economy is weakening. I know this place is full of weebs but Japan was built by the US and at a time CHina, India, and others were weak. Now as there is competition from them and US hegemony wanes, Japan will become mediocre. It will humble them and make them be better human beings to be a poorer country.
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  82. Merasheimer is not an analyst. He's a sophist and he tries to fit reality into his theory he uses to sell books. He's like one of the old astronomers who have to come up with more and more epicycles to explain the motions of our Solar System planets.
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  83. @ Why do you say I lie that he un-alived my relatives. They died in WW2 thanks to the Jerries who invaded. Who are you to say I bear false witness? Go away.
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  84. If Japan makes money from tourists - they need to put more bins in tourist places. It's easy. The rest of the world has been doing that for ages. Japan is highly educated. They can ask their friends in top EU universities how it's done.
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  85.  @wontononionslicer1004  Japan has a mix of conservatism and collectivism. The idea that you have to be considerate to others and treat others with respect is a conservative idea. However the easy access to abortion, contraception and pornography (including child porn- Japan only banned child porn possession a few years ago, and child porn production in the 1990s) and the current sexualization of children as junior idols (it's basically soft core porn they produce) are hardly conservative ideas. Enjo kosai, something which many Japanese schoolgirls do with old men, is hardly conservative. Collectivism can be conservative, and care for the weak or those who can't care for themselves is part of Catholic subsidiarity and a requirement of Cathollcs and I think Orthodox too. These are conservatives.
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  86.  @JakoWako  Serve them with what? And serve how many? And in exchange for what? And could not many of these rich also not be replaced by AI? Why can't AI be a better CEO or CFO? I really don't think it's simple at all. AI, if it plays out the way pundits play it out to be, AI replaces human intellect. Whereas previously we replaced manual labour and very dedicated manual tasks, AI can now replace all human activities. And again, what with the idle people? Would they stand forit? Or would there be unrest, crime and collapse of society?
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  87. It was to kiss Japanese behinds. They also allowed most Nazis to also get off scot free.
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  88.  @dorinpopa6962  Some people liked the USSR because of several reasons. 1. Nostalgia. They were younger. Things were rosier back then. 2. They were party members. Some were privileged. Same happened in Poland where PZPR people were very fond of the old communist system. 3. They came from WW2 and later Stalinist purges. Things looked up after those ended, comparitively speaking. Prior to that were the 20s and 30s which were just as bad. 4. They had few points of reference. They were isolated in the USSR and were told that conditions were terrible everywhere else, especially in the capitalist world. You only have to read what Lenin and Stalin wrote about the capitalist exploiters. 5. The period after the collapse of the USSR was very turbulent. There was crime. There was inflation. The currency became worthless. Savings became worthless. People lost their jobs. There was unrest. There were wars such as in Chechnya. All in all one can see why some pined for the old USSR. USSR gave them a sense of purpose. It was an ersatz religion. The space programme. The nuclear weapons. The defilades with the tanks and ICBMS. All the propaganda. All of that made people nostalgic and positive toward those years. It's true that Russia was very undedeveloped but so was much of the world. Europe had tremendous strides in literacy and development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Development, progress and industrialisation would have eventually come to Russia. We saw it come to the west and that prevented communism from taking hold. Populations were growing but the infant mortality rate and life expectancy were significantly HIGHER. The authorities would lie about epidemics even of childhood diseases. Books and media were censored. It was a terrible place and time to live in. Currently populations decline because that happens in developed nations. People simply don't have more kids when things improve and education levels improve. Finally who industrialised the USSR? My great grandparents worked in St Petersburg before the revolution in a factory which built trains. It still functions to this day. The bread in those days had raisins in it. Food was plentiful. The tsars had already started to industrialise. But who industrialised the USSR more completely? The West. People like Henry Ford did. Lend Lease won the war for the Russians. The Russians looted also what they could from more industrial parts of their new empire, such as Poland. You pine for the USSR, but it were the capitalists who made the USSR industrial. The Russians copied so much western tech.
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  89. Virtually every civilian was a 'hero' in Poland in those years. You had to be to survive. As a Pole you could be shot at any time for any reason by the German occupier.
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  90. The Germans are regretful when it comes to Jews. When it comes to Poles and other Slavs, they aren't taught much about this. So I would correct you and say yes, Germans are regretful when it comes to the Jews, but when it comes to for example the 3 million non-Jewish Poles Germany murdered, there either is silence or bewilderment. They even make TV shows (Our Mothers, Our Fathers) where they show the Polish Home Army as bad while their soldiers are good.
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  91.  @antonc108  That's not accurate. The Germans have apologised to the Jews and maybe the French but no so much the Poles and other Slavs.
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  92.  @Dizzy_Lizzy0u0 Only in the EU.
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  93. The Germans did that to Poles from day 1 of the war. Among the first victim were little Polish kids.
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  94.  @xjp1998  Good for you. But you can't ever be fully Japanese.
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  95. As someone who ran away from the Eastern Bloc in 1983 I think you don't know what you're talking about.
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  96.  @damonmelendez856  Or maybe the camp made him that way or he wasn't even guilty. Those MPs could have just botched the investigation.
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  97. Dude, the Japanese government has been promoting Japan for decades. Why do you think people come to Japan? Because it is promoted via marketing. Even the exports of anime and manga help it. All of this generates SOFT POWER for Japan and money. What is Japan going to export? And Japan needs all the help she can get because China is on the rise and China is going to be the biggest super power in the world. And they don't like the Japanese for WW2. Japan needs to ask who her friends are. If she wants to spit on our tourists, it's not good for her future. We will remember.
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  98. At the end he has to still condemn it because of politics. He may as well have condemned all of society of that time.
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  99. Bring Elbridge Colby next and Julian Lindley French and Albert Swidzinski from Strategy&Future. All the S&F guys are good.
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  100.  @ElieGroff  China assembled Macbook is superior to Japan assembled Sony Vaio. China puts people into space, that's very high tech. You need to consider how quickly China advanced. Japan got everything for free from the West, the West built Japan. The West did not build China. Westerners wanted Chinese to be cheap factory workers but China is now overtaking the West (and Japan) in many technologies. As for refinement, Europe had even higher grade of refinement than Japan. But it was too expensive. I think China is rising so fast, if you consider the rate of change of tech improvement, China is on the rise. 30 years ago they were making nothing of high tech, now they build aircraft carriers, 5G and rockets to the moon. One must not have RACIST ideas about people. Chinese have a bad rep but remember Japan got culture from China. Japan got writing from China for example, not vice versa. The real contender here is China. I don't like communism but I also have to face reality based on empirical data. Chinese made Apple computer is superior to Japanese made Sony Vaio in quality.
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  101.  @felicaamiko Look at Nanking, Manilla, Singapore, Korea etc. A good movie to watch, Bridge over the RIver Kwai.
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  102.  @krisradjpaul278  It's only one which relies on it to keep its top European opinion and which sold out its EU/NATO neighbours to Russia. Deutshcland.
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  103. I feel for you bud. I also feel like they don't want us to visit there.
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  104.  @raffaelez9665  Not really sure why people should bend over backwards. At heart this assumes Japanese are easily offended and need to be treated with kid gloves. Do you tell people to be the same when they travel to any other country, even less 'cool' ones?
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  105.  @winterlantern5695  I'm Western. I don't like weebs and I don't like those Japanese who portray Japan as some heaven. It's not. I have Japanese friends, some are very close, even closer than local friends. And Japan is not the heaven on earth it is made out to be, that's coming from Japanese people and said to someone who was a bit of weeb himself.
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  106.  @kavinh10  Japan can instead join the BRICS and use the North Korea-China-Russian payment system. If you don't want Visa, you'll get BRICS.
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  107. Europeans DID NOTHING. It was POLAND which did most of the early help. Poland opened the BORDERS. Poland sent tanks when Germany was sending helmets. And Trump did give Ukraine Javelins which saved them early on. You need to stop being IGNORANT. Berlin did very little. France did even less.
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  108. Ryan will soon be reporting on Russian advances with the same enthusiasm he reported on Ukrainian defense.
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  109. She's OK. Unlike the Poms at least she acknowledges other nations. She's not on the level of Marek Budzisz but Americans have no area experts in Russia or Ukraine any more. Such jobs do not pay well. The best expert in terms of Russia however in terms of history would be Prof Andrzej Nowak.
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  110.  @esseaem1451  if you see someone breaching professional rules, report them to your council or board. What you're doing is also not in line with being a professional doctor, you're undermining patient confidence. If you see unprofessional behaviour (note how I spell), report it. Have a great day making those big bucks in the 1st World.
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  111.  @Frivals  Then there will be protests from Japan.
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  112.  @opalyasu7159  What about Lindsay Hawker, murdered by a Japanese man?
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  113.  @chipandlota  Remember that Belgium sent many volunteers to the SS in the 1940s. And don't forget what they did to Congo.
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  114. Tourist spots are less than 1% of Japan surface area. It's not hard to install more trash cans there. And if they can't cope with that, then stop issuing tourist visas.
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  115. If you listen to Julian Lindley French, google him, he will tell you Japan was militarily successful in the navy side because of British know how and technology. On land Japan was beaten by KMT and the Red Army. I think China is expanding and they have more resources. US is stretched too thin and China will finally take Taiwan and blockade Japan. If you listen to James Fanell, you will see that Americans are not taking the Chinese threat seriously enough.
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  116.  @MrNonejm  Do note that when PIS allowed migrants on visas this was because most Poles do not want to do certain jobs, such as being a taxi driver or Uber Eats driver. This is legal migration where people are vetted and given temporary visas. These visas can be revoked or not renewed and the documented workers would have to go back to their home countries. This is not the same thing as allowing 1000s of undocumented or poorly documented immigrants who may have no desire to work, or may be a security risk. I don't know why PO is comparing this to the normal immigration that every Western country allows that PIS also had.
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  117. More correct than Fox? Probably.
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  118. Not sure why you single out religious leaders. Religious leaders have to see each person as equal at least in Christianity. And religious leaders and members have actually done more than you will ever in WW2 to save people and to resist the Nazis or provide aid to various people in all the world conflicts. Get an education, please.
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  119.  @RationalistMH  Yes priests don't live with nuns. But gay priests would live, at least in seminary or in the holy orders, with other men. Yes you're supposed to have basic self control but avoiding the occasion of sin is a Catholic teaching. A person is supposed to not tempt sin, not test their self control but avoid anything which puts him or her in a situation where temptation can occur. It's also not true that priests interact with nuns. There are NO NUNS in any of the Catholic parishes I attend in South Africa. These priests are mostly diocesan priests and there are no nuns. I am sure there are some priests who interact with nuns but the interaction is limited and they don't cohabit. I don't know what it means the Church is very bad in accountability. When you compare to who? Who is accountable more? Which organisation has no abuses? Which is pure and well self regulated and passes all external audits with insignificant findings? Do such even exist? Come on. Anyway I gave a reason why the Chuch might not like people with same sex attraction in the seminary. As to what they actually do, I don't know. Also I don't hate gay people, gay people are human beings like you and me and must enjoy all human rights we all enjoy. Hate and discrimination against them is sinful and also illegal. Have a good day.
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  120. The samples were contaminated with cotton from the time the shroud was repaired in medieval France. That probably invalidates the C14 results. If this was any other scientific study there would be a need to re-run the analysis from a different region of the shroud. Now the hokus pokus about potential bias and anti-religious angle are irrelevant and don't affect the fact that the sample should be representative.
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  121. You Brits were also anti-Polish. Back in the 19th century you actively oppressed Poland to maintain the Concert of Europe status quo. You even Brexited because of Poles. As they say Perfidious Albion. Nothing personal against you but Anglo-Chauvinism against Poles (and others) is a thing.
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  122.  @tedcrilly46  Switzerland is deep in Western Europe. They won't be invaded by Russia unless there was a full on war. Switzerland was not invaded by the Germans because they were their bankers.
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  123. As disgusting as these people are, the fact is that child abuse is very common the world over. It usually happens either in the family or by someone close to the child, eg a teacher. Usually it's a family member, or someone like the boyfriend of the mother who abuses the step kid. These kind of child prostitution/trafficking things do happen but they make a tiny percentage of overall abuse. Most only involves an adult close to the child and not some organised crime and sponsors. The efforts should focus in yielding best results, i.e. stopping abuse where it happens most first, as efforts are limited as budgets are limited, as instead of fighting this and stopping sickness/cancer, countries have to arm and prepare for future wars as is likely over Taiwan.
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  124. There are 3 million tourists to Japan PER MONTH. This guy was one guy who entered a work site, shouted a bit, pulled some nasty pranks. It wasn't that serious. I know they don't teach maths and logic at school, but try to imagine the scenario where out of 3 million people per month maybe 2-3 actually cause a serious nuisance. Now ask how much goodwill and money tourism to Japan generates? Because Japan is on her way out. US and Japan are on their way out. China is rising and China will be the only player in the Pacific and Japan will have to ask whether she wants to make more enemies of foreigners or wants to show herself to be a modern country, like those of the EU.
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  125.  @TriddyYT  Japan is famous. Japan MADE herself famous. Japanese always wanted to be in the leading jet set. If you ever see any representation of the world, it's US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, China, Italy, maybe Russia. Rest of us don't matter. We are backwaters. Japan wants to be in the big leagues they have to be international. If you go to Paris or London or NYC you will see that people are mixed and can be loud and sometimes rude. Japan wants to be like that. Old Samurai days are over. So either Japan is insular like say some backwater country or it allows tourists. Japanese can't have it both ways. A few drunk people are not such a big issue.
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  126. It's always been like that. You see the past through rose tinted glasses.
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  127. Actually no, it's not common apparently. Remember the usual way of killing was to break the legs and that would cause asphyxiation as the legs would be used to push up to allow for chest expansion and inhalation. But guess what, we don't have other images! Only this one.
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  128.  @str.77  Do you see images form on cloths nowadays? Human bodies don't leave begind images on cloths. Otherwise we'd have hospitals full of such images. Don't overthink this.
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  129. I'm sorry but retaliation is illegal. She could have gone to the law with those 16 yr old pics. But murder is murder. You want to live in an anarchic society, ruled by arbitrary rules. Be careful what you wish for. Anarchy is not good. Due process is there for a reason.
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  130.  @ragsdale710  My Parisian cousin would also be annoyed. Japan tourists hounded him outside boutique shops to buy limited good for him because there were limits on how many items per tourist were sold. That was in the late 90s when Japanese had more Yen to travel. Japanese people should blame their own government. This is what I hate. People hating on innocent tourists who come because they buy the hype, hype which Japanese themselves create. Japan can stop entry for tourists tomorrow. They can allow only business or family only visits and charge $1000 per visa for tourism. Or make it $10,000 per visa. Then the riff raff won't visit Japan. And then many places will close but at least no smelly foreigners, right? :)
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  131. YES, it's child pornography.
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  132.  @otzcherry1  Cool story. I came from a country which supported atheism. Atheist countries have been the worst in terms of mass genocide and human rights abuses. Look up the USSR, look up Kampuchea and even North Korea. Even compare Iran to North Korea. If you want most extreme religion vs most extreme atheism, North Korea is way, way worse than Iran or even Saudi Arabia.
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  133. In my younger days I was like that but since then I have met many Japanese abroad and no, if the whole country is like those people, simply no. The world is big and I'm sorry but their obsession with kids in pop culture is also too much.
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  134. You made a video earlier claiming Poles favour social order over individual rights, so similar to Asia. That's not entirely true. Poland was the only country outside of Great Britain to have individual protections for people - laws similar to Habeas Corpus and later Constitution of 3rd May were passed. Poland enjoyed the largest number of voters in the world in past centuries, more than in the UK and before the US was created. Poles had LIBERO VETUM where one MP could scuttle a whole law initiative when he vetoed it. That comes from Polish individualism and liberty. That was tempered somewhat by communism but even so that's still in our traditions and we refer back to our traditions. So Poland is not like autocratic countries eg Prussia or Holy Roman Empire or Russia but is more like the United States. Google people like Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Pulaski. Now Poles do have the continental law system and much of that is Napoleonic and we have had communism where you know it was more collectivist and "Comrade Mr this" or "comrade doctor that" but we are proud of our liberal traditions. Did you know that when WW1 ended Poland gave women the vote? France did not, because women were too conservative. Did you know Poland made homosexuality legal in the 1920s, while in the UK and US it was punishable by jail?
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  135. ?? People are surprised that graves of WW2 bad guys are still around and can be located. Not that the bodies or ashes in them have come back to life. The reason for this is that these were bad guys and they're still shown so much respect meanwhile their victims did not get such respect and also sometimes their graves serve as shrines for extremists. Usually the bad guys who were executed at Nuremberg had their ashes scattered in rivers or they were buried in unmarked graves.
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  136. Fr Spitzer who has a PhD in physics thinks the shroud is 99% genuine. Metatron is a bit of a weebo and has at best a BA.
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  137.  @taylorlibby7642  I have an MD degree and have even taught American doctors. Spitzer has a PhD in physics at the very least. Metatron comes across as too opinionated for an intellectual. I'm sorry if you don't like my opinion. It would make Spitzer more scientifically literate than someone who studies history.
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  138.  @AverageAlien  Human being? I know we are classified as animals, and there are also plants and there are also viruses and finally things which are in some ways animal/plant like but in limited aspects, prions. I think one could redefine animals to exclude human beings too. Otherwise if we claim we share so much, we could also say, are we rocks?
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  139. The Germans also defeated the French, defeated the British expeditionary forces and also defeated the Russians. Only American lend-lease won WW2.
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  140.  @peterlyons8793  Those kind of things tend to be omitted. Maybe Brits don't want to advertise their mistakes. Mistakes which cost so many people their lives. And the idea of German civilians murdering prisoners is also not popular, the Germans spend millions on PR to make themselves look good in WW2.
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  141. You didn't donate it. But suppose you ask for it back, then Yanks will say, pay back for WW1 and WW2 and protection from Russia in the Cold War.
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  142.  @kathleencove  There is truth to that. It's fine if everyone is charged a higher price because the place is a TOURIST TRAP. It's not fine if the same item costs more for a tourist than for a local in the same shop or restaurant. It's not good to cheat travelers from afar. It happens in many countries but it's bad. It's a grey area. It's also sometimes illegal, eg in the EU it's illegal to do that. Some countries do have a haggling culture and some are developing still. Japan is 1st world, G7, OESCE country. It needs to be more like rich countries than poorer countries.
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  143.  @ronel7836  The country is not that safe for women and perhaps young girls. There are safer countries in Europe for such people.
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  144.  @elderman64  There you go. But people make Japanese into angels or something. The weebery online is really too much. You live in Japan. Please tell me how come CP was legal for so long in Japan. And why they still have 10 year old junior idol photobooks and DVDs sold on Amazon Japan and Rakuten? Do ordinary people not care that child exploitation occurs so much?
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  145.  @shelleywautier3728  Because without the Americans, no NATO. No nuclear deterrent either.
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  146.  @CMDRSloma  Poland had problems because of our Western allies. When Poles and Lithuanians had to clear out the Teutonic Knight Order of murderous Germanic crusaders, guess who helped them? Dutch, Swiss and British. As Poles we should repeat this. In history Britain caused Poland more harm than Poland Britain. Same for the Netherlands and Switzerland. These people are also a reason why Russia is STRONK. The West is PERFIDIOUS. UK used to be called PERFIDIOUS ALBION for a reason.
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  147. That's moral relativism. What death camps did the French build? What Einsatzgruppen divisions did the French have? Nobody says war crimes did not occur on all sides but for every Allied war crime the Axis committed a 1000 or more.
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  148.  @ivanteo1973  No I won't behave better than I already behave. I won't behave better than Japanese abroad. I'm sorry. I don't need to go there, the world is huge.
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  149.  @brandonnguyen9680 Are you a weeb?
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  150. You should have let the USSR have Japan. There would have been NO GEISHAS then. Japanese people told me that if not for the US, Japan would be like North Korea.
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  151.  @tr7b410  NSDAP was not fascist. Fascism was Mussolini's ideology and was not anti-Semitic. Stalin used 'fascist' for Nazis and anyone else who opposed communism which is equally evil to Nazism. America has nothing like Europe or Japan had in the 1930s/40s. You mock the people who passed in WW2 when you compare to America. I also lost relatives in WW2.
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  152.  @nomdeplume4030  Nonsense. The Germans and Japanese were treated very leniently. If you compare how the Germans treated the Jews, Poles and Russians and how the Japanese treated the Koreans and Chinese and Allied POWs, you'll see that in comparison the Germans and Japanese were treated very well. Many Japanese and German war criminals were not even punished and some even became rich and successful eg von Braun.
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  153.  @valentindimitrov8275  They can charge for the visas. Visa free entry but a payment is required. Actually no such thing as visa free, it's all visa on arrival. Charge $10,000 per person as visa fees to go to conservation of Japan traditions which are in danger from the presence of unwashed foreigners. Easy.
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  154. UN was against the North Korean invasion of the south. So you're saying North Korea is good?
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  155. Why would Poland leave NATO? Dream on.
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  156. Leave to go where?
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  157. Unfortunately the nice guys often get friendzoned. Women tend to like the dude who will mistreat them a bit. Not all women but if you're too nice, they get put off. Then you have to pretend to be more nasty but that's not everyone's style. If you're nice by nature, pretending to be a scumbag does not work well or for long.
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  158.  @TheShahkulu  They are even more overcrowded. Or maybe the're just used to Japanese faces, seeing a few others raises their blood pressure. I don't know. :)
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  159. Soldiers or SS?
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  160.  @twitchypaper1391  Many white Anglo people sadly don't seem to care too much about those people. I know it's sad.
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  161.  @RAEJDER  It's a garbage video though
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  162. Dear Kyoto resident, Your post is racist.
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  163. America didn't need that help. It was for political reasons.
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  164. Because many ex-Nazis formed the West German government and justice system. You should read about the subject. West Germany even gave pensions to SS men. The death penalty was abolished but the visits to his girlfriend would be unacceptable given the magnitude of this man's crimes.
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  165.  @unarealtaragionevole  We have evidence that there was contamination because Raymond Rogers wrote that up, he wrote several publications about it several scientific journals. The sample was not representative and was in fact contaminated by the repair process. I think you're nitpicking here. I didn't imply there was laboratory contamination but it was contaminated nevertheless. The object which was under study was the original linen shroud and the image on it and not medieval cotton. The testing itself was not incorrect but the sampling was incorrect ergo the results are likely invalid. Also I don't think the technicians at the time knew about this because it took Rogers and several others some years to write various responses and publish their own findings. So no, the people who published the 1988 findings didn't know. It doesn't matter what Breault thinks, what matters is that the C14 testing was likely not carried out correctly, i.e. not sampled properly. Father Spitzer has stated he suspects there was some skullduggery involved in all of this. I very much doubt this priest with a PhD would openly lie in public, he and others think there was bias against the shroud being from the 1st century. If I remember correctly a reward had even been offered (of 1 million USD) to prove the shroud inauthentic. As for the testing apparently there were problems with the results too in terms of the deviations noted across the laboratories. Likewise the original data was not released for a long time despite requests to have it released. But all of this is moot. In science when we have results which could be contaminated we should redo the test and use true representative samples. Whatever this guy in the video said, and heck this is a touchy subject with people with biases on every side, peoples arguments have to stand on actual merit. As we shouldn't accuse the technologists who ran the original C14 testing of anti-shroud bias, so too we should not accuse this man of bias which would affect the matter of truth of this case.
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  166.  @flourishthrive8670 Daar sy. Almost like the Broederbond.
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  167.  @Yamato-tp2kf  I'm a professional (MD) and a scientist with publications. I don't do any such stunts. But I also can read stats, and when 3 million people visit a country every month, it's iRRATIONAL to draw a conclusion based on single outlier cases. Whats 1 out of 3 000 000 people? Tourists sometimes do bad things. I know of cases of backpackers murdering each other, these were either Americans or Australians but not in Japan. NOW THAT'S A CRIME. If you speak to educated Japanese people they will not be hating on tourists. It's usually uneducated people who have never traveled who complain and hate monger tabloid media organisations.
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  168.  @shannonhensley2942  They're too important and they will always win. Connected people always win. In life there is one rule, not what you know but who you know. You can be a dimwit and become a CEO of a large corp or a big professor.
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  169.  @Saroku1000  Just to add, while you will never be fully Japanese, a Japanese person can be fully European in any EU country. Maybe in the countryside people will give them looks but in bigger towns/cities, an Asian looking person will be accepted as one of our own. That's even among right wingers. As long as people see the immigrant is trying to assimilate to a reasonable degree, nobody will mind. And that reasonable degree may just be, be tolerant of local practices. I think we just have to realise that Japanese are not us, Europeans. We can't hold them to our standard. I would be in favour of $100K visas for tourists to Japan as well. Let's keep her pure and Japanese only. Have a good day.
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  170.  @cariopuppetmaster  It's pertinent. if we told Japanese to f-off in the 19th century they'd not have given us grief in the 20th.
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  171.  @deziiluv  Correct. And always report to the law. The guy would be labelled a deviant and it would be incredibly embarrassing for him and he may have faced charges etc. But taking the law into one's hands is not on. Doing so in direct self defense is justifiable but this was not self defense. Murder in affect I suppose. In Europe she'd get like 5 years as heavy murderers get 15-20 years in EU.
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  172. Sadly they will. Most child abuse occurs in the family. And with breakdown of traditional family, where a mother has many boyfriends the kids are more at risk. Most child abuse does not involve organised crime like this.
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  173. Americans are by the large tolerant people.
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  174.  @SnakeMC96  You do know that right now women and children are dying all over the place, especially in wars and your blood boils over this case which happened many years ago?
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  175.  @kokea4349  Not accusing you. But I know that lives for many people have different values. People get sad when its someone they know that passes away but some stranger somewhere - that's not as bad. And people from own country or thought to be similar or people who are liked, if they undergo tragedy, they are also empathised with more than some people who one doesn't know or maybe has prejudice against. Again, not accusing you.
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  176.  @hannesRSA  A Saffer? Dude, Japan has a problem and needs money. This is not about undocumented migrants but about paying tourists who offend Japanese sensibilities.
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  177.  @muralk3153  It's the Japanese who are wealthy. Japan is No 3 most rich country in the world with very high standards of living. Most tourists save for a long time to come. But to come you have to be reasonably wealthy too. Paupers don't go to Japan for a holiday. So reasonably rich people come, people with enough disposable income to buy tickets, book hotels, spend money on food, transport, car hire, etc.
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  178. Yes RT and RIA Novosti are very brutal.
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  179.  @mikaeljensen5535  He's a hypocrite because he behaves the same way as the rest of them. He happens to be rich. He's not different at all. He is promoting himself by attacking easy targets. It's a cynical cash grab. To h with him.
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  180. In your country however the Germans did not pursue a scorched earth policy. You should read about the war crimes committed by the Wehrmacht and the SS in the former USSR. TIK History has some videos about that. While I detest the Soviets, I have no empathy for the Third Reich and their supporters whether they were NSDAP members or not. Maybe the Germans should never have invaded the USSR? They were the aggressor then, the way Russia is the aggressor now.
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  181.  @Mayhzon  To be fair, if the UK did not want Muslims maybe they should not have colonised middle east countries or Pakistan/Afghanistan. France did the same with Algeria/Morocco.
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  182.  @Djkommode  That's empirically false. China had more achievements than Japan in its history. In fact Japan got most of its culture from China.
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  183.  @KittyCat-qg4vd  Think rationally for 5 seconds. US bases will go, China is there to stay. US is 1000s of miles away. Also US is becoming weaker, US had an industrial advantage but that advantage is now lost. US will ultimately pull out of East Asia. Your only hope Yank is to try to get the Asians to quarrel amongst each other. And I'm pro US. But you are too much full of hubris. You've also lost your Christian roots.
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  184.  @elenik845 No. That's not true. If you look at visa agreements around the world you will see that reciprocity does not exist much of the time. For example visitors from the UK, Japan or Germany enjoy visa free travel to South Africa but South Africans cannot get visa free entry into the UK, Japan or Germany, and need expensive visas and interviews. Secondly even within the EU it's not the case that a country must ALLOW ALL EU countries to be on the same visa terms. For example the US gives visa waiver to some EU countries but not other (usually poorer) EU countries. A country like Poland only received US visa waiver a couple years ago, but had been in the EU and the free movement zone of the EU since 2004. Same for Canada. So I disagree. But do the research.
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  185. Don't look at the stats for the aftermath of the war in Iraq then. Many, many children died there and continue to die.
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  186. That is a platitude. What is moral superiority? How is saying what she said not moralising. People need to think rationally. Always apply the statement to itself. And if you want to claim, oh but it's sometimes only, then I can respond, if it's sometimes, then by definition it's not always and so it need not be now.
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  187. Check into an airport hotel.
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  188.  @isaragi  I think by fair treatment he means that unlike what happened in Eastern Europe where we were re-occupied and repressions continued Japan and Germany were rebuilt, few people were punished and Uncle Sam protected both from Stalin and PRC.
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  189.  @fargr5926  Japan was rebuilt by the Americans as a bulwark against the Soviets. Taiwan and Korea are still protected by the Americans and they do a lot of business with PRC. Silicon Valley loves the PRC. Man for man Japanese soldiers were useless against the Red Army and once the same Red Army which had been massacred by the Germans joined the fight, they took the Japanese down on mainland China. The rest of the fight was done by the KMT. Japanese soldiers were not very good. And even now, they're not very good, I venture. In a land war USSR vs Japan, Japan would always lose. They only won in 1905 because they had British ships and used British tactics.
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  190.  @mandelish  She is not advocating hate towards Poles, she is actually on our side, she is telling it how it was and still often is. I support her video.
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  191.  @NoctLightCloud  Because people don't change behaviour suddenly. That's the realistic and pragmatic view. If you want to WELCOME people in and say FEEL AT HOME, that's what people understand, because that's how WE welcome tourists, we say feel at home, those are not empty words. So it's rational to accept that most visitors will behave as they do at home, or a little more subdued. It's irrational to be angry at other people who come from other cultures. It's rational to vote for a different government if you think your government is inviting too many visitors. Some people here expect tourists to walk on eggshells in Japan. Well that's unrealistic and unwelcoming.
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  192.  @NoctLightCloud  Thanks for sharing that. Why did it bother you that some guy shouted that. He was excited to be there. Such a thing would NEVER bother me. Unless he was spitting in my face when shouting or shouting in my ear, I wouldn't care. Note that I also would not shout this way, I keep a low profile but I also realise other people are a little different and emotionally driven by different things. Destinations aren't always as pictured in promotional materials. That's just the reality of life. Travel is relatively cheap these days and people travel. Why do we need to tolerate each other? Well there is always something you may be doing which someone else finds annoying. You never know if you're behaving well or if others are just too polite to say anything. As for that guy who shouted it would be wrong to generalise that all tourists shout because from your story it seems that only one person was shouting and you and his daughter weren''t. And if he shouted a few times but was a quite fellow for the rest of his stay, would he be a bad or a good tourist? I think people need to give each other some leeway and tolerance. Have a good day.
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  193.  @Kaarver  You're speaking of idealised situations but it's difficult to change behaviour. I work as an MD. I can assure you that it's very difficult to change how people behave, even in terms of very important issues. A tourist is unlikely to change behaviour beyond the most obvious things. Tourists are short time visitors. They save money, they go on their dream vacation to Japan and they leave to never return. If Japan wants to promote Japan to only wealthy people who may be more cultured or maybe not, maybe Japan needs to charge for tourist visas. A visa is required for all visitors, even if visa free, you are issued a visa at the airport. Maybe Japan needs to charge for such a visa, you pay when purchasing your ticket or as a mere formality, using your credit card, and passport number and voila you're now allowed entry. $1000 visa per person per visit. If that still does not work, charge $10,000. Easy peasy. But changing behaviour is very hard. Japan needs to put more bins where tourists frequent and maybe get used to some diversity. After all European classical music is played in Japan but it's not Japanese. That was widely accepted. That's my take as someone who deals with a diverse group of patients on a daily basis.
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  194.  @berserkeroflove  The change of German to Nazi for example. These days WW2 was started by people from space called Nazis. For us, the actual people who were untermenschen for Germany in 39-45, the people who invaded us were Germans, we didn't care what party they belonged to. It didn't matter. Even before WW1, Bismarck was a Polonophobe who even said that perhaps all Poles will have to be liquidated. There is a quote of him saying that. Germany is very rich and uses its money to push soft power and to whitewash itself as much as possible. For example they produce shows like Onse Mutter, Onse Vater where Polish soldiers are shown as anti-semitic sc-m while Germans include nice people who care about Jewish people. There was also the use of Polish Death Camps which Polish authorities had to protest against.
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  195.  @dannydetonator  It's Brzezinski. Poles have i at the end, Jewish and Russian people have y. He was Polish. It's important to have his identity correct.
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  196.  @gingersnap22  Maybe would have been let off or a mere manslaughter charge with probation. Sad story. Stay strong. Best wishes and blessings to your relative.
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  197. What is fair is to give pensioner discounts for local pensioners. But one should not charge more for the same service rendered. Tourists need to stop visiting Japan. Japanese people don't want tourists there so let's respect them and visit countries which want you to come.
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  198.  @3ndeavor  Guess what, many countries have seen fluctuations in their currencies. SO I know very well what it feels like. The only country which has a stable currency is America because America runs the world (at this stage) and USD is the 'reserve currency' and people have agreed to that. Everyone else's currency fluctuates. It's pathetic of Japanese people to be so jealous that some foreigners can now afford to come and spend their money there. And I'm sorry why do you say HOME? People are not coming into their homes, they're visiting public sites which are NOT OWNED by Japanese people but by the Japanese state and the state has given visas to these tourists and in fact spends millions on promoting Japan.
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  199. 1920- defeated by Poland. Not Finland etc.
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  200. Maybe he wasn't even guilty. Not like these were even trained investigators but mere MPs.
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  201. If you're saying you can't play ball with half of America, then you need to find allies elsewhere. They're not in France or Berlin (the country which paid Russia the most money for gas and oil).
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  202. Because Europeans have relied on the US for military support.
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  203. How about stopping tourism. That would be easier.
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  204. Russia is even weaker.
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  205.  @deardaezie  To consider someone as "trash" is part of the problem. Solutions can only come from within. I would not call anyone else trash unless I was myself almost perfect.
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  206. UK has the best medical specialists in the world. Why would you want other people? You guys are the best at everything which is why you're No1 in terms of everything.
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  207.  @rpoutine3271  You're kidding. In Paris they would hound people to get them to buy stuff from LV for them.
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  208. @JohnDoe-xs5gv We traveled and interacted with Russians, dude. Fsck man there was a RUSSIAN military base near my father's home town. My mother traveled to the USSR in the 60s. We knew these Soviets better than you will ever.
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  209.  @TheExtremeIRON  Being a factory worker with terrible living and working conditions morphed into being a factory worker with maternity leave, sick leave, long holiday leave, overtime pay, day care for kids, medical insurance payments, home loan subsidies, occupational health and safety regulations etc. Farm life in Russia in the 1800s wasn't as bad as it's made out to be. It was what it was for the time. Things would have improved regardless as even the tsar was modernising and tech became cheaper. Things like vaccinations were appearing. Things are bad in the third world but they were least bad in the developed parts of the third world, take a country like South Africa, or even Namibia or Botswana where the life of a miner is quite reasonable. Oh but you''ll say, they developed silicosis or TB, well so did Western miners and everyone in the west lived surrounded by asbestos in the 50s. Things change and they improve with time. The West drove the development of many things. Even now if you look at 99% of medicines out there, they're western. Russians copied or purchased many of those under communism. With the whole world being like USSR we'd be backward and still trying to figure out how to treat high blood pressure or diabetes.
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  210. He's an American superstar 'intellectual'. He's like most of you guys. You guys all think you know better than others. I've worked with US medical 'experts' and even when they have less experience, they think they know better.
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  211.  @ChrisWilliams-lf8ex  Weeb detected.
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  212.  @lacucaracha111111  Entrance exams for tourists? Are you serious? Just charge $10,000 per visa. To get the visa you pay with MC or Visa (pun intended) and you're OK to go to Japan. The money can be shared with residents of geisha districts to help them get over the deluge of foreigners. Those foreigners are no doubt scary to some Japanese folks.
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  213.  @emilywritess  If you're f-ing off to Japan for a month of holiday, then the UK is doing very well. Most people in this world couldn't fly to Japan and live there for a month on what they earn or what they can beg for if unemployed. You're better off than 95% of the worlds' population. So UK is doing well. This kind of video is BS.
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  214.  @kennedysan1045  I think this is not really the case. These videos and comments draw on weebs. They defend Japan vehemently. This isn't a general sample of the world's population. Japan has a bad rep among many people too, I know people who think Japan has a fetish for children and adults exploit schoolgirls. Not everyone worships Japan. But here many weebs come and they all worship Japan. Some may even be racist.
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  215. Still not as low as SA. The life expectancy in US is higher than in SA and crime is much worse in SA.
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  216. Some want to be lobbied. And City of London doesn't want to chase Russian investors away.
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  217. And yet Brits sided with the Germans against Poles (Roman Dmowski) in 1918/1919. PERFIDIOUS ALBION.
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  218. Including Austria.
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  219. If you murder you go to jail. Unless it's in self defense.
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  220. Wojtek the Bear is not well known in Poland. Why would a bear be known well in Poland where everyone had relatives who who passed on in WW2. Wojtek the Bear is a story which is run with by the Brits and others. Given the propensity of current people to view animals so favourably, that story resonates I suppose. Honestly I only heard about this Bear from English sources and only recently. My whole extended family never spoke about it. It was just not that important a story. That actually tells you how sheltered the Western people have been and still are. For you guys a war in Iraq or wherever is very abstract, for us, well we still see some ruined buildings and bullet holes in walls. I still remember seeing ruined buildings in the early 2000s, which were left over from WW2.
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  221. You left out the fact that dead bodies crucified or not don't leave such images behind on cloth.
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  222.  @gotakazawa408  If people have to walk on eggshells in Japan then Japan is not worth going to. Of course people should not be disorderly but it seems that many Japanese people are not very reasonable when it comes to short term tourists. It is a country which seems unfriendly, whether on purpose or by accident.
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  223.  @user-px4so1zd6x  I don't know what the person means. But I think he means: tourists come with money and spend it on things. Local people don't have as much money to spend because average local Japanese person is not same as average tourist. Tourists can be statistically wealthy, because rich people travel, average people stay at home. Maybe some Japanese don't like higher prices because tourists spend and tourist attractions are becoming expensive because of too many tourists. Maybe some people are jealous? Don't worry about it.
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  224. Britain is a country which was anti-Polish through most of its history. Even after WW1 ended the Brits sided with Germans more than Poles and it was thanks to the French and Poles own hardship that Poland's independence was restored. The Americans helped a bit too. But Britain has a title of PERFIDIOUS ALBION. That is the quintessential British attitude. Anglo-Chauvinism. Britain is only a so-so ally for Poland.
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  225.  @DarrenWeese  1000s? UK lost 500 people in Afghanistan and 200 Iraq. Britain also had problems with radical terr-orism. The Yanks didn't need those soldiers, they were there for political reasons. The Americans CAN DEFEND their own country and they can defend Europe and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Israel and everyone else, but Europe can't defend itself. Because Western Europe never saw Russia as a threat. The Germans would love to do business with Putin.
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  226.  @robertmason6366  Yes the massacres of Polish postal workers.
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  227.  @sanagul-origin5412  Everyone invaded other nations. But Poland did not un-alive 20% of entire nations with aim to un-alive more. Germany only stopped un-aliving Poles because Germany was defeated. Had the Germans won, most Poles would no longer be. Meanwhile the countries Poland occupied were not un-alived like that. Maybe 0.01% of people.
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  228. I'm also Polish and also largely educated in the west. Was your daddy in the PZPR? Do you long for those days? Because I simply don't buy what you're saying. In Poland, Poles always thought we were the centre of the world. In East Germany they spied on each other so much, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more in love with the socialist system. And the Russians... oh they were always the best. They still don't understand why Poles don't kiss them to this day for saving us from their ally Adolf Hitler. Come on. As for moral and intellectual corrosion, most scientific achievements are Western, what did Russia give us? You know design studies had polkowniki and that's not from colonel but that the projects were headed for the shelf. Moral? Look at the wife beating, abortion, murder, AIDS, rates in Russia.
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  229.  @valdismuiznieks84  I was not around in 1940s but my grandparents were, some fought against the Germans and others existed and tried to survive but did not co-operate. My father's father and his mother's father were m-dered by the Germans. My grand uncle died in Westeprlatte.He was 18.
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  230.  @unarealtaragionevole  You sure write a lot of chaff. The results were likely invalid because of contamination from medieval cotton. One of the criticisms is that. The only thing you've corrected me on is Spitzer's education not being involved in physical sciences but the rest of the things you bring up are really irrelevant. The actual criticism has to be addressed and not the state of mind or motivations why some people criticise. Let's not have conspiracy theories either way. Why would someone who 'found religion' argue lies to satisfy himself? With what, to fool himself? You may as well argue that the protestants who did the testing or sample analysis were hostile to the Catholic church or Italy (as Anglos mainly did the testing) and now claim they only saw a few cotton fibers and they removed them all. The Church never said the shroud is real. Final testing from an area where the image is would help clear up any confusion or arguments about the authenticity of the shroud.
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  231.  @bookman7409  You do understand that the technicians who performed the C14 could have been entirely competent but the sampling strategy may have been questionable? That would call the results into question. Things like that happen all the time. For example people biopsy lesions and they don't represent the actual site of pathology or miss it and a clean diagnosis is made and the patient later dies of the illness. I've been around such mistakes myself. You assume that once 'an expert' samples something that is 100% correct correct sample and that's that. The rebuttals to this were, oh we found a few fibers and trust us that's all there was. Normally if there is any question one resamples the object and re-runs the tests. Yes sometimes we have to biopsy the patient again. The rebuttals to the contamination theory are: The invisible weaving would have been picked up by the human expert who checked the sample. Another expert said yes we found cotton but we removed it. The provenance of the samples used to argue for the contamination with medieval fibers have a provenance i.e. chain of custody which can't be proven. Well of course they don't have such a chain because fresh samples are not available. People want to trust the eyes of the expert who judged the excised sample but reject the other experts who claim their samples are authentic. The easiest thing to do is to RETEST the cloth.
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  232.  @missplainjane3905  Do you understand different between tourist and immigrant? Please check dictionary.
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  233.  @missplainjane3905  YES. WE do. But remember this is TOURISM and NOT IMMIGRATION. This is a family who come to Japan to see geisha, anime, samurai and Mt Fuji. Then they go home. They leave a lot of money behind and then tell everyone how cool Japan is. They maybe even buy some more Japan products.
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  234.  @Sarah-t4k2d  Yes Japanese were known to be nuisance. My Parisian cousin complained about them standing outside LV and other such stores asking him to buy stuff for them because such stores had limits on items sold, of course they'd pay but it was still a PITA. Sarah, 3 million is a lot of people. How many loud and rude youtuber tourists will make a significant number? 10? 100? 1000?
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  235.  @HistoryHustle  Just a point. Why do you avoid consistency in how your refer to the different natiolities? You speak of Lithuanians. Fine. You speak of Poles. Fine. And then in 1939 you speak of Nazis? Previously you spoke of Germans. Now you speak about Nazis. Secondly why do you allude to the presence of Germans who conquered these lands by force as a stabilising force? Why this pro-German slant instead of a neutral view? Please try to be neutral and if you want to claim something say x alleged that German garrisons were a stabilising presence. Thank you.
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  236.  @rodolphegilles  French are OK. Just too much Russophilia.
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  237. I think the times Japan enjoyed 70s-2000s were exceptional and the golden age. I don't think they are going to come back for at least this generation. You have over tourism, but at least you get an income from these tourists. It could be worse, nobody wants to visit and spend money there and that's not so good.
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  238.  @DedAlexFive  My advice to you would be to not get triggered so much.
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  239. The West made Japan. Before Meiji, what was Japan? It was feudal and medieval.
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  240.  @deziiluv  Yes he would be labelled a predator and it would have cost her ZERO prison time.
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  241.  @SirBitingBen  It's not bad in other Anglo countries. And in the EU, in the cities, it's also fine, you'll be accepted, even in Eastern Europe.
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  242. Or maybe people who come up with such ideas have themselves as models?
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  243.  @specialk9999  Acting Japanese is not normal in the EU either but we accommodate tourists and even immigrants. That's the western way. Remember the modern world was created by the West. Japan joined it, it was feudal before. We brought tech to Japan. We brought Mozart, Chopin, etc to Japan. So maybe Japan should also follow our etiquette. Tourists are short time visitors. You can demand of immigrants to behave but tourists no. Japan tourists have been also causing problems for locals eg delays but people seem to be more pragmatic in Europe and rest of the world than some are in Japan. Have a nice day hating on tourists. If you come to my country, you will not be hated on. We only want reciprocity. End of story. And I wonder if Japanese culture taught you to curse this way.
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  244.  @ragsdale710  They forgot that. But also remember those times were less PC correct.
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  245.  @mnk9073  But nobody has reproduced the shroud image though. How many such images have you seen? There are also no traces of silver on the shroud as that would have been reported on.
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  246.  @kokea4349  Or one values some lives over others because one is into anime/games/manga and the Akiba scene
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  247.  @volterkeg  People concern themselves over a murder because it was in Japan but 20 years ago. This sort of thing happens all the time so people need to stop the weebery.
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  248.  @volterkeg  Nobody got berated by the way. I made an observation. You're berating me mate. Did you read what I wrote or did you skim it? Now go away and find some friends to pester.
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  249.  @muralk3153  You made a statement to say that Japanese toilets in general are the cleanest in the world. So you should have some evidence of that. I'm very concerned about hygiene myself and my personal standards are high but for public restrooms I'm willing to compromise and yet I've seen ones which were spotless. In my travels I haven't really seen terrible toilets at worst there were some urine stains on the floor. I don't know why someone would want cleaner toilets than that. Most tourists don't come to Japan for this. I know Japanese have washlets. Remember that Japan used to have squat toilets and Toto was founded to introduce Western toilets to Japan. The Washlet was actually invented by Americans and Japanese Toto bought the patent. The used own staff to work out where the anal region is and they went to a strip club to work out where the female parts were. I have a Korean Hynduai WacorTech and a Japanese Toto at my house. To be honest the toilets are very good but sometimes you still need toilet tissue. When it comes to public washlets I know Japanese women who avoid using them for hygiene reasons, IN JAPAN. They have them at home but public ones they don't like using.
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  250.  @GustafUNL  That's not true. If you admit someone into a country LEGALLY they enjoy the same public rights as ordinary citizens. There are international treaties covering that. Of course visitors can't vote in elections and do such things but if a place is public access, it's legal to access it and a right for anyone who is in the country legally. Japan grants entry visas when people enter her, the way you would enter the EU or any other non pariah country. Countries which don't follow the rules eg North Korea are pariah states. Last I checked Japan was not such a country. Japan is free to deport people if she wishes but not deporting a person means she allows the person to access any publicly accessible location a local may access. If you don't like it, take it up with the Japanese government.
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  251.  @lioneldemun6033  They are forbidden because essentially Europe is at war with Russia. Would you broadcast Goebbels in the UK during WW2?
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  252.  @nathanappleby5342 Two things. If you're going to say British in terms of the Second Anglo-Boer War concentration camps then use Germans in terms of WW2. Secondly I don't understand what you mean when you say, "they made it clear they were willing to use whatever means necessary to end the war in their favor." Is this victim blaming? Are you suggesting that if an aggressor threatens to murder your people, because they're set on winning the blame is on you if you resist? Was Genghis Khan justified to massacre whole cities which resisted because he warned them he was serious beforehand?
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  253.  @dorian6021  Yes. Time for other Asian states to take over. Japan had a long run but they need to accept they're not competitive anymore.
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  254.  @dorian6021  I'm not jealous. I just don't see why Japan should hog everything because it has a big marketing budget. Everyone should have a chance. Maybe you should explore other fashions in other parts of Asia and the world. Eh? And I'm sorry - jealous? Why would I be jealous? I'm a highly respected professional and people would never say this to my face, in real life you would not either. Be respectful.
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  255.  @Camera728  The definition of racist changes. For example it was racist to be English against the Dutch in the Anglo-Boer War. Japan and Chinese are not the same ethnicity..
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  256.  @ilovetech8341  How many components in a Mercedes Benz made in China? Plenty.
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  257.  @PRCutie101  I'm explaining geopolitics. WW2 is not ancient history. The current world order was based on that. Japan is a vassal state of the US. A Japanese friend of mine once told me that they believe that had it not been for Hiroshima/Nagasaki Japan would be like North Korea, i.e. captured by the Reds and a full on North Korea. Japan is a vassal state of the US. Because the US needs allies in that area because it's far from that area. But Japan also needs the US because China will eat it or at least make it very neutral.
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  258.  @ilovetech8341  EVs do. I don't know what you understand by high end but China makes the best value EVs.
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  259.  @KarloAntukin  Yes and No. Sony Vaio always was sh-t. Even NEC Japan made products were sh-t. Only Japan company which makes decent PCs is Panasonic. But CHina can better Japan in terms of quality, they just make a lot of junk too.
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  260.  @Camera728  No such thing as "Asian". One can be racist and be of the 'same race'. Anglo Boer War was seen as a racist conflict yet it was white vs white. Japanese considered the Chinese and Koreans inferior in WW2 and that was also racism.
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  261.  @KarloAntukin  Japan invests lots of money into that hype. I've used many Japan made products which were inferior.
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  262. You mean German pilots in Wielun? Read up about that.
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  263. He says that English people are lazy and less productive than East Asians? Can you cite that speech of his.
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  264.  @theFORZA66 I haven't noticed that. As a tourist and as a local when frequenting nearby tourist hangouts. The tourists tend to be OK. Yes they crowd the place up, yes there are queues, yes there is sometimes a bit more litter but then people have jobs. Tourists bring money and tourists come for a reason, because they like the place.
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  265.  @alunsinus_prime How did you get that? Slavery was ended by the British. By the way Japan has a long track record of xenophobic politicians, take Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara.
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  266.  @kingmaafa120  LGBT Have been around since forever. Gay sex was unbanned in Europe after WW1 in many countries.
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  267.  @3ndeavor  I'm not angry. I just think that Japan needs to be judged by developed nation standards and not given endless excuses. Why does it bother you that I post here?
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  268.  @Lazendra  And Americans talk of Pearl harbor and 911 to this day. Poland lost 21% of her people in that war.
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  269. Given how the Germans treated women and children (civilians) who were Jewish or Slavic it's no wonder the Russians were a little upset. Remember that the Germans gave no quarter to the Russian troops who were starved to death as POWs are sent to dea-th camps. Simply the Germans treated the POWs differently. Brits and Americans were treated with high regard and respect. They were killed rarely. Slavic POWs like Poles were second class and were often executed. The Russians were mostly executed, starved to death or they could, if they joined the SS, earn some freedom, hence organisations like the RONA. As for food, note that the Germans did not have enough for their troops and the standard orders on the Eastern front was for the German army to live off food taken from Russian and Belarussian peasants, ergo those people had to starve to death. Nazi Germany was a horrible country which treated Jews and Slavs with the utter contempt and ultimately all Slavs were to follow the fate of the Jewish people. Hans Frank told his son that as well.
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  270.  @meowmoewmao_  While I like advanced countries, home is always best. Of course if I started a new home somewhere else, I'd love that. Home is where the heart is.
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  271. Because Poland for Jake is not important. Note how he defends Germany and keeps on saying Nazi, Nazi, Nazi but almost never German. He says Russian and Japan all the time. He also says Ukraine had no allies in the 20s but Ukraine had Poland as an ally.
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  272.  @SonsOfLorgar  Money, money, money...
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  273. The US can veto only weapons where it owns IP rights to sub components, eg HIMARS and GRIPEN (the engine is American). That's part of contract law. If EU countries break that they will be fined or maybe US will never sell them weapon systems again. Also their own systems may be misused.
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  274. Go to bed man, and don't post while drunk.
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  275. Yes, unite us Europeans into actually investing in our mutual defense. As a Polish person I can see how nobody west of Poland actually considers Russia a threat. It's really the Fins, Swedes, Poles, Balts, Romanians who have been investing in defense and everyone else has been making deals with Russia. I'm sorry. Vance said some true things.
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  276. Tell it to Ireland vs North Ireland.
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  277. My friend is a nurse in Nagoya. She also did not find love and even didn't want me although she confessed to me 15 years ago.
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  278.  @akako-tan  Yes. And they're making an alternative payment system not based on SWIFT or the US Dollar or Visa/MC.
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  279.  @Xylospring  Japan will not be in the acronym even if it joins. It will be part of BRICS+
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  280. To be fair all Asian countries are very sexist. In fact I'd say all non Western countries are sexist. Women have little to say outside of the Western Christian-Latin-Greek world. That's slowly improving.
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  281.  @bewawolf19  I didn't admit I am wrong because I never question Metatron's Roman and Greek information. I can't be bothered to check up on it and assume he knows what he's talking about. The term intellectual has nothing to do with intellect and you will usually find intellectuals are less sure of themselves when they speak about things or at least they know the world is often grey or their understanding is grey or there is nuance. Metatron does not come across as someone who uses much nuance. I'm sorry. And that's not to say the guy is bad, he apparently has a team of people working for him. Good. Just that this may not be his field.
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  282.  @bewawolf19  Saying one is an intellectual doesn't mean the other isn't but what I see of your hero, Metatron, and it's OK to have heroes, he seems to be an expert on the ancient world in the Mediterranean and even beyond, he's an expert on Japanese samurai as well. But for other things his opinion is as valid as the next guy. He also claims to speak Japanese so he's a man of many talents. And he makes videos for ordinary people. I do find him too opinionated in general but for the above things I give him a pass and assume he knows what he's talking about. Sometimes he veers into biology or medicine or even Catholic theology and I realise that he is average at best, a lay person. Man you really post a lot of chaff. Have a good day. Re-read what I said and if you disagree OK. I'm sorry to have offended your perception of your hero. Now you could say I am opinionated too. That's fine. But I don't make youtube videos where I roll my eyes, grimace and insinuate I am a sharp critical thinker and an expert on numerous topics. Unless we assume this is a comedy channel in which case, sure it's a comedy talk show channel. Have a nice day.
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  283.  @seanpatrick1243 Do you get paid in St Petersburg?
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  284. Fairy tales. A few such may have occurred. But in most cases ordinary GIs were just trying to get by. Justice was above their pay grade. Later most of these SS men collected West German pensions and had long careers.
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  285.  @colinlock-lv9vv  You need to stop drinking, mate.
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  286.  @HeortirtheWoodwarden  I don't know if it's at the apex of virtue but it's not a bad thing to practice.
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  287. Not when it comes to advanced CPUs. You prefer France, Germany, Korea, Netherlands etc to Poland.
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  288.  @kathleencove  Kathleen, changing behaviour is very difficult. You're asking me, Peter, why don't we all have love and ponies in the world? Why are some people poor and others rich? Why wars? Etc. Well the world works as it does. Japanese people elected a government. That government markets Japan in the world. It brings in money and it creates SOFT POWER. SOFT POWER is very important and helps Japanese companies sell products and services abroad as Japan has a good reputation but that rep came because of PR. Japanese products to be honest are not that good, but if one reads PR one would think they are perfect. They are average for a developed nation. I've used products from across the globe and I've run across a lot of Made in Japan junk. Anyway I digressed. You see tourists will behave in a certain way. Japan has earthquake proof buildings. They can design earthquake proof garbage cans. And if not, then make the Japan visa $10,000 USD and then only a few people will come and if they litter, well $10,000 will pay for picking up a few items. I actually want Japan to make their country inaccessible. I'm quite sick of this foreigner hate from these kind of youtube channels. If Japan is so perfect, well let it stay like that. I certainly would never force myself on Japan. As for classical music, you take the good with the bad. If you want to be world leader you have to tolerate a bit. Have a nice day.
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  289. No. Berlin is. Ukraine chose Berlin.
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  290.  @vergil7185  Because Poland and Romania are in NATO which is a collective treaty organisation. After 911 NATO allies assisted the US in Iraq and Afghanistan and gave their lives there. Ukraine is not a NATO member country. Note that Poles and Romanians actually provide more to NATO than France and Germany. And even the US have said that Western Europeans are not giving commensurate contributions. Ukraine on the other hand is fighting Russian aggression and Poland et al are doing a lot to help it. So your analogy fails.
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  291.  @vergil7185  No. The logic is like this. NATO is an alliance which has requirements to join. You need to have regulated borders to join NATO. And each member has to accept you in. And the process takes many years to join. Those risks are baked in when you join NATO. It's not how I'm reading your comments, it's how you're drawing an analogy between the soldiers in Ukraine from Europe to protect Ukraine where no such treaty exists and NATO or any other treaty of mutual defense that nations sign. Also Article 5 does not mean others will just march out or fly out and defend you. You need to educate yourself. Poland has a large army and is arming and so is willing to have the men and weapons to protect NATO members, as has the USA. British soldiers understand that Poles will defend them as part of NATO and vice versa. But Ukraine is not in NATO. That's why TRUMP doesn't want them in NATO currently because he takes NATO seriously and it would mean the US would have to fight Russia and so WW3 as he said. If NATO was a joke for him he'd promise them membership just before the US pulled out.
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  292. Why does Task And Purpose put the German, British, French and US flags together. Do you see these as the only countries that matter? The Germans have always been pro Putin and even now large numbers there don't appreciate Ukraine. They would also sell Poland out to Putin. So why do you put Germany there? And as for the question of Poland not building highways in the 80s, only poorly educated people would find this surprising. We were sold out to the Russians in 1945, so that's the Russian way of not building roads. Please have a more balanced approach to NATO and not only kiss your favourite German behinds, people who hate you in Europe and those who will rather side with Russia and China vs the US.
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  293. No joke? What experience do they have? ZERO. Japan has nice tech but on land Japan's armies were destroyed by the Red Army of Russia. So against China, they'll lose. They actually lost against the KMT.
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  294.  @ninak8370  Why should NATO fall apart because some non-nuclear and largely friendly former Russian conquered states left their forced alliance with Russia? Ignorant people such as you, should not post nonsense here but go back to school.
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  295.  @berserkeroflove  Depends on who you ask. If you ask the former victims, and relatives they may disagree. Again the focus on Nazis is wrong. German imperialism was the problem. We don't point at Russia and claim this is "Russia First" imperialism and various post colonial states don't point to the Brits, and others and claim, it was the Tories... as for Japan note how Japan gets blamed but in Germany's case it's Nazis who get blamed. Nobody talks about Taisei Yokusankai Japan but people talk about Nazis this and Nazis that. Many Americans don't even associate WW2 with Germany but with mythical Nazis. And when some Germans say, 'we were the first victims of Nazism' that further belittles our 20% population loss. I'm sorry but where did we vote for the German NSDAP? But for me, as a Polish person living abroad for many years, before we got our independence after WW1, the Germans persecuted us quite significantly. Where are the apologies for that? Polish people were ethnically cleansed. Germanification occurred. Native language schooling was forbidden. There was even anti-Catholic propaganda. Poles were not allowed to build houses in parts of Germany. Hitler continued with that and extended that. It's hard to understand the victim when you are the victor.
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  296.  @kathleencove  Whose fault is it? The people who want to make a profit obviously. Blame capitalism. Strange that in Europe supermarkets have more or less same price by country, and same for other countries. Maybe this is a Japan problem.
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  297.  @samuelademeso9041  100%. They advertise and promote Japan, get the money from that and then don't want the actual foreigners. To be honest everyone doesn't like overcrowding, everywhere in the world. But at least in other countries people control their feelings. Japanese are supposed to be good at controlling their feelings. Supposed to. Thanks
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  298.  @AIIIAKS-vn4co  Other countries don't do that. What countries do is charge EVERYONE a higher price. Sometimes there are senior citizen discounts for locals. And of course there are also tourist traps. But a tourist trap will charge everyone a higher price. That's fine. Japan can do what it wants. But we can criticise them for it and show how others don't do that.
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  299. That's in exchange for soft security with a path to hard security and local investment. The idea is for Ukraine to become not like South Vietnam but like South Korea.
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  300. If AI replaces most jobs (if not all) who is going to buy these companies' products?
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  301. Emotional support, that's all "Europe" can give. Thales can sell the Russians advanced weapon systems.
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  302.  @esteemedyams  he is letting his emotions get the better of him. Zelensky should be meek around Trump. It's not about his pride but about his people. Zelensky has few options. Europe has been 'supporting' him for 3 years. And the best is a war of attrition. In that time the French and Germans have done b-gger all. In Poland we took many Ukrainians including young guys in their Ferraris who ran away from the war and boss themselves around Poland. What is Zelensky offering? Just rude words. He has to shut up and listen to Trump. Trump is the only person on this earth who can save him. Trump is the only person who can save Europe, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Trump is bombastic but so what. If Trump says ceasefire, then ceasefire. Then Ukraine can rebuild and re-arm. We can see what follows later. But presently Ukraine cannot win back the lost territories. Europe itself is not willing to arm itself. Most European countries don't spend the 2% never mind 5% on defense. PRAGMATISM has to prevail.
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  303.  @Saskfinest1 I don't see how it's the fault of religion if areligious societies are failing. It's like saying literacy failed because illiterate pepple struggle.
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  304. They can start by banning loli manga. But they refuse to do that.
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  305. Looks like this is getting ratio-ed.
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  306. Popular among who? 4 million subscribers. What's the world population of 'online people'. For most people and most experts he is another 'content creator'. What can a punk from the US know, who's led a sheltered life? He's a college kid.
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  307. What's with the NPCs defending Spacey online? Mr or Ms Bot can you go away?
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  308.  @YorkieBoris  But you are Mr Yorkie. England is No 1.
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  309. Why did you go to the US then? And why did you not return? And you can still go to North Korea. I'm also a former East European.
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  310.  @Coltnz1  You don't have to say "Emperor" with a capital E. It's emperor.
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  311.  @Zuuzaankaaa Me too, I'm also Polish but I also live in the West. I just think and I have good reason to think so, that the current regime will not be as effective at managing the Russians as the previous one. The current crew after all bungled the ABM shield deal with the Americans back under Bush and Obama. Kaczor's brother died in Smolensk, and so he is very anti-Russian. And that's a good thing.
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  312. Dude, the problem can be solved by not promoting Japan abroad. Stop making stupid shows like Shogun. They can add a $1000 visa. Japanese tourists were a nuisance in the 1990s in Europe. My cousin from Paris would be hounded by Japanese outside LV stores because they had a limit on how many items tourist could buy to save stock for more people, so they would beg him to buy stuff for them as he was a local. Japanese would so the same to us, they need to get used to the global village the way we got used to it. It's the 21st century and not feudal times.
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  313.  @absolutelyalice1754  Nobody who is reasonable would ever question that. The Nobel prize comment was ridiculous.
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  314.  @TheExtremeIRON  Capitalism actually improved lives. Yes there was some subsidiarity in it. Christian democracy and Catholic subsidiarity started to improve conditions in Germany in the early 20th century. There were also improvements in human rights and labour protections all across the continent in the 20th century. That's why communism had a hard time. They switched to identity politics. The se-xual revolution and so on. Repressive tolerance of Herbert Marcusse and the Frankfurt School.
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  315.  @MidlifeCrisisJoe  It's better to not watch so much YT then mate. It's also not good to simp for Japan so much. Japan is the China of the 80s. So many people lost their jobs because Japanese were cheaper human robots.
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  316. When my grandfather's car was knocked from behind by a highly ranked US consular official in the 60s in Warsaw, he was invited to the embassy where he found the man slouching on a couch with his feet on the table. He BS'ed my grandather. My grandather, through an interpreter, asked the man if he would pay for the damage or be like the Russians. This infuriated the American and he finally paid up but his demeanour changed. This is how you guys are, this is your president. There is nothing wrong with him. He simply acts the way you guys mostly feel. At least he's honest. Enjoy it. For us, foreigners, he is no different to Biden or anyone else.
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  317.  @biomorphic  Upvoting own comments helps
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  318. 3 million tourists to Japan per month. How many of those do you have evidence for to be nuisances?
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  319.  @HistoryHustle  No. It creates an inaccurate view of history. For example when you refer to pogroms of Jews when carried out by the Germans as pogroms caused by Nazis and then everyone else is mentioned by nationality, it makes us look bad in 2024 because there are no more Nazis now, but the Germans are spared. We, other people, are the bad guys. You mentioned a pogrom in relation to Poland but I think you otherwise mentioned the Holocaust only in relation to Nazis. If I did my academic medical work this way, it would not pass medical boards or peer review.
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  320. You guys have abandoned your old home land.
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  321.  @JoeLukes  No. You're insinuating that either the Nazi crimes were exaggerated or the Allies had similar crimes and these were downplayed and swept under the rug. You're defending German Nazis and their German collaborators and enablers.
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  322. Has Britain investigated all the Russian investments in London and the like?
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  323.  @offlimits4635  We don't really know what happened. It's assumed the guy did something bad but we don't know. Back then Slavs and Jews were assumed to be criminals even by Americans. And an MP is not a criminal investigator but someone who makes sure soldiers follow protocol.
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  324.  @seanpatrick1243 And now the new government took over TVP. The courts have never been decommunised. Have you lived under a communist system because I did and we never joined the PZPR unlike many who now speak of democracy. Again you don't understand Poland and you should not repeat propraganda. And I'm sorry but I had to escape Poland in 1981 to get away from the authoritarianism.
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  325.  @d.c.3534  I have no idea. I think Japan should charge $100K for a tourist visa. What do you think?
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  326.  @jplang192  It will ensure quality visitors coming to Japan. That's why.
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  327.  @RustyWalker  Do bodies create images of themselves on cloth? Are morgues and hospitals full of such images? Remember the body did not decompose into the cloth.
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  328.  @yoeyyoey8937  Set aside God or not God. The image requires an explanation and is truly remarkable. Heck if it can be confirmed it's a medieval forgery, I want to know how and by who.
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  329.  @Tenebris_Sint  You're a Levite Jew now but not in the first century. I'm not an expert on Jewish customs but many experts have written about this, go and argue with them. I can't judge whether you are correct or not hence you won't convince me either way. It's also not the case that things always go as planned or always happen the same way, and it is quite possible that the body was taken down and treated well as per the gospels. I understand you have an emotional need for this not to be Jesus Christ and for Jesus Christ to be fake and hence I think there is nothing more we can say to each other.
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  330. I have a cousin in Paris. He'd complain how Japanese tourists would beg him to buy goods at LV or other boutiques because there were limits per tourist. This was in the early 2000s or late 90s.
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  331.  @matthewmammothswine4395  Then they need to do what was done in Athens, Rome and other cultural sites where there are tourist issues. Also too much to handle is subjective, you live there and so for you it may be terrible to see more people, but have you studied every tourist city out there in the world which also receives large numbers of tourists, is Kyoto worse or better. In general it seems however that many Japanese are a bit xenophobic and maybe their tolerance levels are low to begin with. In that case they should blame the Japanese in their government. By all means lock down like North Korea and also withdraw your products as well from the world market.
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  332. Japan benefits from neocon policies.
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  333.  @TT09B5  Or the whole 'junior idol' thing.
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  334. He should not have joined that fraternity. A good civil engineer can get a good position anywhere. He'd be able to work anywhere in the European Union. The thing is that sadly people join these groups to make connections which help them but these connections are not necessary.
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  335. My Parisian cousin would get hounded by Japan tourists to buy things for them (they'd pay) in boutique stores which had limits on how many items they sold to Japanese tourists to save stock for locals. That was in the 1990s.
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  336.  @themaster-jp6sp  Polish go home?
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  337. UK used to be like that in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You'd get cheap cotton from India, in Manchester they'd turn it into cloth and then you'd sell it back to the Indians.
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  338. This guy is MAGA so he doesn't do Poland. But thanks for this.
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  339.  @cottoncandykawaii2673  Corporations - which ones? Don't decide whether games are held or not. That's up to the IOC and each country's committee and the government of that country. The view is to promote Japan to the world. That's why Olympic games are held.
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  340. Mirror image? Probably to avoid copyright strikes as some of this archival footage may be copyrighted.
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  341. Glass filters out UV. So BZZZT wrong. But Occam's Razor: how many such images do you know of which have peoples' images burned on them? There are precisely 0.
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  342.  @Destroyer120296  Millions of Germans died. That's how it worked out. But after the War when Germany surrendered The Americans built them into No 3 world economy. US, China and Germany. The other Axis country is Japan and that's no 4 economy. Both Germany and Japan achieved under the US capitalist rule something they could never achieve on their own.
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  343.  @andrevanrensburg3639  Read up about him. He was NSDAP and abused slave labourers and worked them to their deaths. Or is that OK for you? So maybe your boss should work you till you pass from exhaustion? Would that be ok? Are you a ok in the head?
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  344. He spoke how you are not as hard working as East Asians and how East Asians are better at everything? Is that what Hitler said? If not then he didn't say the truth, mate.
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  345. Japan should ban loli manga and men will have to make do with adult relations and not cartoon ersatz for wife and offspring. They don't want to ban loli cartoons though.
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  346.  @gotakazawa408  I think that's fine. Why do I feel this way, because for an average person, I'm a well adjusted person, I'm an MD, I respect people, I think I would have to walk on eggshells in your country. I think I would have to be weary that every small thing I did I may offend someone and quite frankly I didn't feel this way in any country I've visited. I don't feel this way around visiting colleagues from the US, but I may offend some sensibilities in your country and well why offend people? I'm sure local travel is also good. Japanese people seem pretty easy going abroad, I've made some Japanese friends here and showed them around and even hosted them but I suppose when they're at home they just don't like people like me. That's fine. Have a good day.
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  347. To try to get him to follow peace instead of war. After September 1939 he no longer appeared on such covers. You do know how it works. They tried to influence him to be more pacifist.
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  348.  @Quix32  So you don't like American Visa so you will get the BRICS alternative. I think you parents will disown you if they find out about your anime habits.
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  349.  @heavyhebrew  Too much hentai?
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  350. Not long ago Japan still had kamuro too. Google what those were.
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  351. Braun is a moron.
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  352.  @paulhomsy2751  Why should he appreciate what a "German" family did for him? You do know that the Germans voted in a party and supported a party which had as an aim to elimination of all Jews and most Slavs in Europe? Why do you think this man was in Germany? Did he travel to Germany? He was forcibly kidnapped and taken to Germany by the Germans. Yes his crime was terrible but these days such a man would get life had he gone through the same and a death penalty for him was not the correct answer. He cracked up. He was in a German concentration camp for years where he witnessed German guards beating and un-aliving people like him. He may have had a gun to his own head many times. These camps were terrible. No-one her can imagine such a camp. And yet you all judge this man. And you still think a man should be grateful for having his family un-alived (every Polish person lost relatives in WW2, I lost relatives in WW2) and to be tortured by Germans in a concentration camp where he witnessed that human life was cheap. Where the German guards would shoot people or throw them to the dogs or starve them to the end. Please think for 5 minutes. Germany committed a terrible crime in WW2. Many Germans were never brought to book for it. From Day 1 of WW2 they bombed a civilian town called WIELUN where the Germans dropped bombs on children. Do you think any of those airmen got capital punishment? None did.
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  353.  @spacewurm  Only if the person actually was culpable and the m-der actually occurred. If someone kills someone because they are in a mental state we don't find them as culpable as someone else who can tell the difference between right and wrong and was fully capable. If he had been brutalised by the Germans and something triggered him and he reacted for a few seconds then he should not be sentenced to death. It would be life in prison or such. But I'm even questioning whether he actually even did it. Because Slavic and Jewish people were also held in disregard by the American soldiers and the Germans were held in higher regard. I would blame American racism. You guys still do it. You still make p-olla-ck jokes.
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  354.  @spacewurm  Despite this the Germans were held in higher regard. Do you get as many "Pollack" jokes as you get German jokes in present day America? When the Polish government in Exile reported the Holocaust to the United Nations in 1943 and the US/UK, we were laughed at. We were told that it was Polish intrigue and that the Germans would never do such things as actually happend in the Holocaust. The Americans actually took the Germans' side back then. Now a few acts of reprisals because after all your GIs did fight them in Europe do not mean you did not rate German uber Polen. You still do. Joe Biden actually rated German support for Ukraine in 2023 above Poland despite that Germany had to be pushed to help Ukraine and promises more than actually delivers and Germany undermines the US by siding with China and Russia at every step. I'm sorry if that offends you but no doubt Polish Americans can relate to how Americans of German descent are treated as to how Polish descended ones are. Every country has racism. But here it may have affected how this case was judged.
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  355. @supermaximglitchy1 Dude, Hitler caused the death of millions of Germans and destruction of his country. Now imagine if he didn't start WW2. If he was sensible and made peace and just co-operated against the Bolsheviks. The Americans made West Germany rich and now Germany is the 4th biggest economy in the world. Until Asian catches up they even overtook Japan. These speeches gave FALSE HOPE to millions of Germans who were later crying when the Red Army was marauding through their women. But the Nazi Germans did the same thing to millions of innocent people in Europe first. So think first what you mean to say. Judge history by what happened and not what some moron with a moustache tells you. Germany became rich after the Americans rebuilt them and after Bretton Woods. Germany accepted the Pax Americana and became richer than the UK. That's it. Hitler just killed millions of Germans. All for what? To try to be better than the Anglo-Saxons?
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  356.  @pcgaming1031  Poland was just confirmed a second tier country by Joe Biden. So highly limited exports of advanced microprocessors while the rich, fat countries: Western Europe, Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada get unlimited access. This will further propel them ahead in the AI race, and many pundits claim that is a major economic boom coming up. So I disagree pcgaming, Poland is a tier 2 country and will remain so because poor countries can't cross that glass ceiling. The rich states won't let them. Unless they're huge like China or India and o it in other ways then. But Poland is a mid sized country with rich neighbours who want to see a poor Poland and a nice assembler of subcomponents and market for 2nd tier goods (best quality stays in Germany etc). Poland is borked.
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  357.  @GM-id9nu  America is not doing everything but Western Europe does TOO LITTLE. Can you please argue in good faith?
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  358.  @PhilipFly11  The UK did not ask for help. The country has to ask for help and it's not automatic. The UK believed it could deal with Argentina alone and back then it was a much stronger power with a large navy, SAS and airforce.
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  359.  @adriansheldon7778  After WW2 which destroyed Europe and Asia and America was the only industrial power left over the Americans took Western Europeans under their wing. We in Eastern Europe had to be under Stalin. The Americans REBUILT Western Europe and offered the same to Eastern Europe but Russia said NO. Then we had the Cold War. During the Cold War an event called the Berlin Blockade occurred. The Americans risked their lives to provide relief. After that the Americans sent 400K+ soldiers to Europe and these guys spent their working careers in Europe. Protecting Europe. They also sent troops to fight in Korea and Vietnam. They pulled out of Vietnam but they stayed in Korea till today and defend it. They rebuilt Japan and Germany and turned them into No 3 and 4 world economies. Stable. The Japanese currently no longer worry about war and can focus on school girl idols and the Germans turned to David Hasselhoff. They also defended Taiwan and they also provide aid to 10s of countries around the world. When they defeated the USSR they allowed us to enter NATO. After the USSR defeat the Western Europeans demiltarised and focused on the social state and later the green deal. To achieve the green deal the Germans turned to cheap Russian gas. Putin wanted more influence in Europe and China also wants to be top dog so they turned on the US. The Germans were happy to do business with both however because most Western Europeans are not grateful to America. Now the Yanks (and they've asked this since GWB) want more European NATO payments and Europeans said no. We bribe Russia said the Jerries and opened up more anti-EU deals with Russia = Nordstream. We're now here. Now America is the baddie because Germany wants to have the green deal and socialism for all including migrants and cheap deals with Putin.
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  360.  @mazeltov6752  German doctors are low standard. For example you have very little exposure to actual clinical work. Also you superspecialise, i.e you can become a cardiologist from medical school without first specialising in internal medicine.
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  361. Russia always has been authoritarian. And if she becomes democratic, she will still be imperial. Your line of thinking is incorrect. Listen to us in Poland and other countries who've lived under early Russian democrats in the the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were just as oppressive. Russian will need a mindset change. It will take generations. People will have to move away from imperialism. Naive Americans believe that just replacing the government will turn Russia into Japan. Nope, sorry.
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  362. Japan is also dying. In the 80s and 90s even early 2000s everything was Japanese. You had your Sonys, Toshibas, Fujitsus, Hitachis, NECs, Panasonics, Sharps etc... now you get Hisense, LG, Samsung, MSI, etc. Koreans and Chinese ate their lunch. They still have their bukkake pron and schoolgirl fetishes but the UK will also follow this trend. The old masters have to fall and give way to new, younger societies where the costs are lower and innovation is higher.
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  363.  @zarni000  If it were not for the Soviets Hitler would not have attacked Poland. H only attacked after signing the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. The Russians also helped trained the German army in the 1920s in the Kama tank and flight school. The Russians also assisted the Germans in the invasion of Poland by sending them food and fuel and providing them the use of harbours and radio transmitters. Also Russia enslaved Poland and put Poland on the path for extermination in their plan to attack Europe, Poland was to be nuked in response by the Americans. So I'm sorry but the Russians were ALMOST as bad as the NSDAP. Now go away troll.
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  364. Those missiles use American parts and tech. France and UK don't have complete tech know how to build these.
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  365.  @west_park7993  There were 1000s of Catholic priests who were k1lled by the Nazi Germans in WW2. There is for example the case of St Maksymilian Kolbe (who previously worked in Japan) who was murdered by the German nazis in Auschwitz. Dachau was full of Catholic priests and the Church saved 1000s of Jews by giving fake baptism certificates to Jewish kids in WW2.
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  366.  @pewneosoby2108  This is not true. And please realise that the 10 Commandments and Bible you read was originally compiled by the Catholic Church. Your Henry edited it, as did Luther and Calvin.
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  367.  @ilcattivo13  Please note that being gay itself is not a sin. What is considered a sin is having sex outside of marriage and also having sex between the same sex, and so on. So a gay priest would be perfectly fine as long as he is not in a sexual relationship with another man (or anyone else). Having same sex attraction is not a sin. As far as we know it's something which just happens to you, the way maybe you and I are hetero, gay people are attracted to their own sex. That's all. Again that's not a sin.
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  368.  @stevenlancestoll629  What is your malfunction? Do you want off topic discussions? Isn't there some gnu atheist video you can ramble in?
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  369.  @magicpyroninja  They would have. Popes never used rude language or hurtful language. I can't imagine Benedict of JP II using such language. I'm sure there is something lost in translation here or maybe the current pope had interacted a lot with street people and picked up the language that way (or at least the Spanish equivalent)
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  370. @captainobvious2435 There weren't that many people involved. Many scientists claim that there was a strong likelihood of contamination. And we all know people make mistakes or just process what gets put in front of them. Certainly no piece with the image was assessed by C14 dating. That should be done to lay the matter to rest once and for all.
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  371. Not true. Most were taken prisoner. Most SS men survived and few were tried. West Germany even paid out war pensions to them and many had successful careers. There were even SS conventions in West Germany in the 60s.
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  372. I bought a ceramic Kyocera knife online on Ebay from Japan from some Japanese Ebay shop. The knife chipped unfortunately with some basic use. I contacted Kyocera Japan and they shipped a new knife to me free of charge. That was in 2010. I can't remember if I sent them a picture or not. Last year I imported a Toto washlet from Thailand because I live in a 220V country and Thailand is also 220V. I needed a wiring diagram schematic for customs import / certification safety purposes. Toto Thailand did not respond. Toto Japan (parent company) responded and told me to fs-ck myself but in polite language while reprimanding me for buying a $1,800 product from their authorised distributor and taking it (as now my own property) to another country instead of buying locally, except they don't have a local presence here. It's a different world mate. At least the customer support was 'polite' but condescending.
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  373.  @shawnbell6392  Local people vote in elections. So it means they are happy. This is just some cranks being crank. So much for the Japanese idea of supporting the society. It's a farce.
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  374.  @いちにっ-q2n  The problem is that it's the government YOU VOTED FOR and the companies you buy products from and keep your country running well. At the end of the day you Japanese people must decide, if we foreigners are such terrible people, then just ban us. Make the Japan visa cost $1000 or maybe $10,000. Please do that. If you can't do that, don't blame foreign people. We don't vote in your elections. Japan tourists were also a nuisance abroad. We liked them. Have a good day.
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  375.  @kennedysan1045  It means they are more or less satisfied. This anti tourist stuff is not most Japanese people. It's just cranks.
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  376. It's true. But maybe one day PLA will come as tourists and decide to stay.
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  377.  @fattiger6957  This is not rational. If you look at history of say Europe you will find that 90% of people did not leave their village. Maybe 10% traveled to the big town and maybe 1% saw other cultures. Europe was also culturally homogenous. Same for rest of the world. Only real mixed country is the US and that's only from the 1850s when immigrants started to come. Japan has been No 3 economy since the 1980s and has been FILTHY RICH. They are well educated. They have access to foreign products. They buy expensive LV and other foreign products. They listen to European music. They dress like Westerners. They got their system of writing from China. Japan absorbed much from the rest of the world and it's the 21st century. There have been 4 generations since WW2 ended. Don't give excuses. At the same time I think this is probably a storm in a teacup. Some Japanese and some weebs are blowing this up and this Youtuber is making these videos for ad revenue as they draw in engagement.
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  378.  @NetBattler  Peoples Liberation Army (Army of PRC, China).
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  379.  @NetBattler  If you look at the current geopolitical situation you'll see we live in intersting times. There is a meteoric rise of China. China and her allies want to change the world order. They want to be No 1 super power in the world, and they want to dominate in the Pacific. Russia too, wants to reset the world. The so called Global South is also rising and also wants more say. Countries like EU, Japan even the US are on the decline. 30 years ago China made cheap knock off hand tools, they now put rockets in space. Japan will have to decide if they can withstand a combined China/Russia or be more friendly with the West. Japan can't sail its islands to Europe. They'd like to do that, to be next to the UK. Many people say a WW3 is coming soon. The times currently are dangerous. I think bigger problems will come and maybe the more goodwill between Japan and the West and maybe Global South tourists, the better.
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  380.  @orangelightening  You do realise that many foreigners don't speak English? The changes you see are out of necessity. The world changes. The whole world changes. This is the normal flow of civilisation.
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  381.  @NetBattler  Why be interested in culture of people who don't like you?
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  382.  @orangelightening  Who is in agreement that there is too much tourism? Who decides that and based on what? Actual government agencies backed by real research decide that. So far, they didn't decide that.
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  383. You're ignorant. Brazil will also follow Brazil first. And Russia HAS NOTHING TO GIVE. Nor would they, why would they give SA anything? Try to do some research and to think logically.
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  384.  @khayanqaba6299  People believe nonsense. Russia has no money. Russia exports the same stuff SA exports. Also Russia is out for itself, why would Russia subsidize SA? Russian oligarchs put their money in the West and the US and not in poorer countries where the return on investment is low.
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  385.  @ThisGuyAd.  He is a highly respected individual and a very intelligent and highly talented guy. So I can imagine that if an intelligent, person who has seen much of the world, says such things, I would think that the common pub beer drinker would be a little less reserved. :) Brits have a very thin skin.
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  386.  @belstar1128  That continued after WW1. Many Brits did not want Poland to be independent. We can only thank the Americans for pushing it and the success of Polish activists at the time. Point is that Britons sided with their Germanic and Russian allies. Britain is a Germanic country, at heart they are closer to Germans and Austrians and we are just dirty Slavs to them. Americans have that too but are more mixed and have some ideas of liberty. It's important for Britons to know that they contributed to why Poland is weak and backward. They supported the central European system under Prussia/Russia and Austro-Hungary and part of that was the idea that Poland would not exist. We only got our independence by chance. It's important to understand geopolitical positions because they often don't change too much.
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  387.  @ThisGuyAd.  What am I omitting? I thought this was basic knowledge. They signed a mutual defense pact and essentially sat on their a$$es while Poland was destroyed. Secondly, it was in Britain's interest to weaken the Germans because they were going to rule over Europe. No more Austro-Hungarians to balance things out. Remember Japan was also allied with Germany and Japan would kick Britain out of Asia. So what was Britain to do?
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  388. Ukraine should not have given up her nucler weapons. Those things are the only guarantee of safety. Look how gentle the Americans are with Ukraine vs Russia and how afraid of Moscow they are vs how much they're willing to help Israel. Israel is facing non nuclear foes. Americans will assist them all the way. But Ukraine is facing a nuclear Russia. It's on its own. I don't think Ukraine will be permitted to develop her own nukes the way we on the Eastern flank of NATO will never be allowed that. Only some countries have the luxury and right to have their own insurance, the rest of us will be fodder.
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  389. They actually did. Do a wiki search.
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  390. This is nonsense, go away with this.
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  391. @ I know very well what it means. In the early 1980s my parents were robbed off their US dollars when they travelled between Yugoslavia and Poland and went through Hungary. Customs stole about $1000 USD which was a lot. We had that money because we traded East German products in Yugoslavia for money which could be exchanged for dollars. Yugo currency was exchangable for Dollars. Look I can thank Hungarians for giving shelter to some people but this bratanek nonsense has to stop.
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  392.  DanteS-119  Anywhere there are tourists or even out of town people there are nuisances. When people with plates from out of town drive often they change lanes erratically or drive slowly - it's all a nuisance. Yes having lots of people who wander around slowly, don't know the nuances etc is an inconvenience but Japanese also travel abroad. The whole world travels and everyone is a nuisance. Japanese people are not special. They are not gods. They also cause problems abroad and we endure it. If Japan wants to be in the modern developed and international club it has to behave like that. Maybe education campaigns for Japanese people should be created. Because it seems some Japanese people can't do what we do in our home countries. Why can't they? Your view may be biased if you are a foreigner in Japan. You probably put the Japanese on a pedestal, I want to treat them equally and fairly. That means they don't get a free pass when they are highly developed. Have a good day.
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  393.  @WheresWes  Dude it depends on the invidual. I'm a guy who is 49 but I look younger than you. I'm Polish. BUT I do one thing. I avoid the sun. I don't smoke. My mother in her 70s looked 50. My father in his 80s looks 60. It all depends on the family and how people look after themselves. I don't use any skin creams but I avoid the sun, especially on my face. Living mostly in Cape Town, SA doesn't help because the UV index is high here but I still succeed at it.
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  394.  @epic7224  Maybe. But most kids get abused by lowlifes who don't have expensive lawyers, so most kids get justice.
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  395.  @tom58792  Joe?
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  396.  @Saroku1000  Thank you for the insight.
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  397.  @str.77  The guy above suggest that puncturing the lung to cause a hemopneumothorax was the usual way of killing. I responded that it apparently wasn't. Breaking the legs was the usual way to make sure the person on the cross was really dead.
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  398. Cringe. And garbage. SOG is like the DSP of this scary game thing.
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  399. Period. Also known as menstruation.
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  400.  @linuxman7777  Japan was also ruined by decadence I'd say. A little poverty will help Japanese people focus and balance their lives better. Middle school girls going on enjo kosai with middle aged salarymen for Luis Vuitton handbags was the Japanese teen thing in the 90s and early 2000s. Now the salarymen can't afford the LV for these children so maybe the kids can focus their lives on ethical things.
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  401.  @TheGruntski  We're stuffed my friend. Listen to an actual Polish-Russian expert and not Zeihan the pleaser. Budzisz thinks it's too late for us.
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  402.  @chelseafolk  It's Americans who had various post Gulf War syndroms. Before that nobody had any syndromes. Ukraine is a few 100 km from Warsaw and people know only too well what injured and dead soldiers and civilians look like. In Poland in Warsaw they also have buildings left over from WW2 with bullet holes in them and the Warsaw Uprising is commemorated each year as is the start of WW2.
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  403.  @Apophis1010  That's not true. If that was true, the people who know more than you would believe it. China would now take Taiwan, North Korea would bomb Seoul and Tokyo and Russia would go into the Baltic countries.
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  404.  @twist777hz  Don't worry, we won't come to Japan. You can keep it Japanese. You're still welcome in EU as long as you behave yourself. OK?
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  405.  @samsam658  Welcomed "most of the time" so even well mannered tourists are not welcome some of the time. What is well mannered? I've never had to tell me to be well mannered in any country but here for Japan I am supposed to be well mannered. I don't understand this.
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  406.  @Dylan-q9l2v  Poland needed to get to EU standards to be able to join the EU. Poland got there with the help of hard work and various economic measures such as by Balcerowicz.
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  407.  @markvilla3441  yes, different. So Americans and Brits are the same people? Germans and Dutch are the same people?
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  408. Who is threatening Japan?
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  409. Make a video about the tiers of countries for advanced micrprocessr exports. Eg Poland and all of former Eastern Europe is tier 2 because can't be trusted while Germany is tier one, most permissive. Joe Biden, your hero, just gave Poland a big slap in the face. Please keep thanking the people of Poland, Jake.
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  410. USA should have moved Ramstein to Poland. Then bring in Turks, Syrians, Somalis and make Germany great again with more diversity.
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  411.  @Edi_J  That's not the problem. The problem according to Jacek Bartosiak is Jack Sullivan. The Ukrainians could have won the war in 2022, but the Americans did not deliver. They did not deliver because America is afraid of escalating with Russia. Before the Russians managed to build the Suvovikin Line had Ukraine been helped then with bradleys, tanks, planes, helicopters, himars, artillery, they probably could have pushed the Russians out of their territory. Russian army was small back then and there was no mobilisation yet. It's not Trump or Republicans, it was the current administration which let Ukraine down. Secondly the Americans don't want Ukraine to win completely because that could mean collapse of Russia. They, like the Germans, consider Russia a stabilising force (there is a German geopolitical term for it, stabilizing order or something like that). Russia is a thug state but it keeps order and stability in Asia and if it collapses you will have wars and nukes floating around. Americans and the Germans don't want that. Their security is assured regardless.
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  412. That was Brooke Shields I think, in the 1970s. But Eva Ionescu had it worse. As bad as you Americans are, the Europeans were worse.
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  413.  @reamartin6458  Penthouse = ?, Hustler = ?.
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  414.  @specialk9999  Most tourists don't act like jack aaaaa... they act like normal people. Most people are normal. This is just a tiny portion of people who do that. I travel the world and I am a dual citizen and I often see places with many tourists and I very rarely see a tourist behave poorly. Maybe near bars young men can get drunk, but that's all and that's rare. People come with little kids, they don't behave badly. If this is too much for Japan then ask for $10,000 tourist visa fee. That way only the super rich will visit. End of story. Blame Japanese government and blame Cool Japan 2020 campaign.
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  415.  @specialk9999  Except there is a divide now. Have you not paid attention to geopolitics in the past 10 years. China and Russia with India want to rebuild the world. They want less West/Japanese dominance. And they now have resources to do it. China is becoming rich and highly developed while Japan is declining. EU is declining. US is also slowly declining. Third world countries which side with Russia/China/India are slowly on the rise. People remember WW2 and the way they were treated and maybe Japan will be forced to pay reparations to China, they never did that or they will be in Chinese sphere of influence once US pulls back.
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  416.  @buckjones4901  The shroud is still owned by the Savoy family. The Church is only the caretaker but they have final say.
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  417. Maybe they are just useless.
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  418.  @5kplamse  Obey Japanese samurai in Japan.
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  419.  @kathleencove  Japan is having an economic crisis because these traditional export industries are no longer enough. When last did you see Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Aiwa, Pioneer, Sharp etc home appliance? It's all Korean and Chinese now. Japan music? Weebs only listen to that. Japan has no movie industry to speak of. Cars? Well now Chinese, Malaysia, Vietnam etc make cars and EVs. They make better EVs than Japan. Japan is becoming complacent and rich like how EU went. You see the Japanese government promotes tourism heavily. Why do you think that is? Do you know more than the actual Japanese government? Thanks.
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  420.  @muralk3153  Believe it or not but I've lived many years on this earth and I've met many Japanese people and they are average people. I've also lived in a communist system, a capitalist European system, an apartheid system, a modern EU based capitalist system and a post apartheid system. Anyway, what you say is the standard response. I can understand homogeneity. But some points. Japanese people are not different to other people. They are not a different species. Everyone gets uncomfortable around strangers. This is a common human trait. There is nothing special about it. Nobody expects ALL Japanese people to have to interact with foreign tourists. There are some people in the hospitality industry, retail and tourist industries who will have to interact with foreigners in a limited way. I did not claim all Japanese people are rich. But the country of Japan is filthy rich. This is on the back of European and US and other people becoming poorer because we closed our factories to buy Japanese products. Japanese tourists used to and still visit foreign locations. People there don't produce TV documentaries and put up NO JAPANESE signs. As for spotlessness of Japan. It's not true that other countries are messy. People don't come to Japan to see clean streets but to see Mt Fuji, temples, eat food, buy gadgets or mementos, see geishas, see samurai, etc. They don't come for the clean streets. I think some people and you are giving Japanese people too much charity. On the one hand Japanese people have clean streets and are taught to carry their own rubbish, but they are also unable to ignore foreign tourists who bring in money. I don't understand this. This is a sophist tactic, where Japanese make themselves incompetent in some areas and super capable in others. They then excuse their hypocrisy. That yes it's OK for Japan to steal jobs from the West and it's ok for Japanese tourists to come to Europe - because for as dirty as we Europeans are it's Japan which copies us and not we copying Japan. So all in all I think Japanese people just have to be modern. 1. Not everyone expects them to speak with foreigners. Anyone with basic education will know this. Japan is highly educated. 2. Tourists bring in revenue. Japanese also travel abroad. They are just as much a nuisance for us but we tolerate Japanese tourists. I've shown my town to Japanese people. They enjoyed it. I don't expect random Japanese to show me theirs but I do expect that there are no "NO FOREIGNER" signs and that TV stations don't produce bigoted TV shows. Japanese people are educated and as humans should be able to adapt to some tourists in tourist spots. All places had to do that. Do you think residents of Rome, Paris, NY, etc are happy with Japanese tourists? Or should they kiss them because European and US cities are a little bit less clean? Japanese people DO NOT GET A SPECIAL PASS from me. They would if they were a poor underdeveloped country, but they are well educated, rich and highly developed. This isn't the 1850s anymore. Let's mot make fools out of Japanese people. They are competent and need to live up to the standard. Besides the Japanese government encourages tourism. Blame them. Don't blame tourists. Thank you. Have a good Sunday or Monday.
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  421.  @muralk3153  I'm not American. Unfortunately my people did not steal any land, well not for > 2000 years at least. And if you want to play the game of early human settlement then what happened to the prehistoric people of Japan and how well do Ainu fare in Japan? Point was that Japan was rich because we (West) opened our markets to Japan while the Americans actually built Japan. Americans did not have their civilians mass R=ed and killed by Japanese in WW2. They nuked Japan over Pearl Harbor, a military target. That was a war crime and a terrible sin. But anyway, that's beside the point. I brought up the loss of jobs because Japan owes a lot to the West. Now that Japan is a little bit, a tiny bit poorer that it was, built on the backs of our local job losses in the West and transfer of tech in the 19th and early 20th centuries,, there seems to be an ANTI-TOURIST sentiment perpetuated by some media, some establishments and so on. And you bring in clean streets as though people should be worshiping Japanese people and people like me don't know what clean streets are. You even arrogantly said that people can take something home -- to do with clean streets? What exactly? Japan can teach 'dirty' foreigners cleanliness? I think you overstepped your boundaries there. Japanese do cause a nuisance abroad. Busses full of tourists taking pictures even of people and private places. Asking people to buy stuff for them at Luis Vuitton in Paris and going into private people's homes in the UK to take pics. That's what some Japanese tourists did in the 80s and 90s. But guess what, these people maybe came once in their lives and wanted to get what they could never to return. There was a stereotype of the typical Japanese tourist. But we didn't hate them. Japanese people should not be cleaning any litter abroad. That's not their job. Also when there are travelers from afar one should be accommodating and tolerant. Maybe install more trash cans in tourist spots. That's what we do in Europe and elsewhere. That's a virtue. We respect people who saved money, sat for 20 hours on a plane and then in a strange land have 1-2 weeks to see as much as they can before leaving and leaving their money behind and generating soft power for Japan. Japanese people always like Europe and the West - they love Chopin, Mozart, our dress, our art, our cuisine, our tech, our history, but not us when we visit. That's what gets me. I've already said that I don't know what sort of tourists the PLA will be but if people want to not be friendly to tourists including Western ones then maybe they need to be with North Korea. (As for littering, my family and I, never liter. I always throw rubbish away or carry it with me in any country I'm in. That's not a uniquely Japanese thing. What will Japan teach me?) Have a good day.
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  422.  @PokeNachos  I don't understand what showing respect means. If a country has NO FOREIGNER signs in restaurants (I know it's only some but still) what sort of respect is required here? The thing about this thread is that it's 1. filled with kids. 2. filled with weebs. Mostly Japan can do no wrong. I know, I was a weeb in my younger years too.
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  423.  @antonsiberian  How many tourist spots around the world have you visited? Is say Paris a faceless tourist hole? Or Singapore? Or Cape Town? Or Prague?
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  424.  @Frivals  Exactly. They can simply not let people in the way the US does it. Also they can charge for visa, eg $1000 per visa per person.
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  425.  @emippe226  America built Japan. The modern world was basically invented in the West, it started with the British. But the foundations of the modern world are largely Western and Japan got all of that for free. India did not get it. China did not get it. Japan got it for free. Japan was feudal, agreed to ally with the Western powers and got the tech transfer. What did they do to deserve any of that? Did Japan have gold? Diamonds? Nope. Then came WW2. Japan decided it needed to enslave Asia to become what they are now. They lost. They were treated very amicably. Of course America bombed them terribly, Americans also bombed the Germans and later Iraqis. But America then assured security for Japan and allowed Japan to have access to resources and Western markets. Slowly Western brands like GE and Philips and Blaupunkt died out and Japanese took over. Then when it became too much Americans made some changes to this agreement which put some natural limits on Japan. After all the modern world is run mostly by the US, they assure the security of the global trade. Russians and Chinese are challenging that now. Russia is a war monger but China is doing things peacefully. But people need to know that much of Japanese tech is Western in origin. Even Toto Washlets are originally American. The original patent was in the US and Toto purchased it to get Japanese people to ditch squat toilets. Just think 30 years ago squat toilets were still a thing in Japan. Maybe even later than that. I don't have hate for Japan but some people there have hubris. That's not good. Tourists should be tolerated. If not, then just have an entry visa regime but the that will destroy Japan's image and Japan relies on her image for sales. Japanese people hate tourists but tourists are there because their government wants them there. Tourists mean soft power. With a rising China and an endless supply of resources China can get from Russia and weakening USA, can Japan really afford to lose their softpower? I only want Japanese to be more like Americans and Europeans and other people who are more tolerant of tourists. I'm not even saying they need immigrants, just tourists.
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  426.  @kathleencove  I'm from the EU Kathleen, I'm an MD by profession. Racially I'm white and hold dual citizenships. Pronouns are he/him, if you want that. That's all I will say. I think people who are invited into a country by the government should be treated fairly and accorded respect. This goes for all countries.
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  427.  @dottieland7061  Europe is hardly a mess. Secondly this is about tourism.
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  428.  @muralk3153  When you say best public toilets, can you provide a scientific peer reviewed study to prove this. Because as a scientist I have no idea how you would judge a best toilet. I find toilets all over the world to be very good, well it depends but many if not most are more than acceptable. As for the washlets I know Japanese people who refrain from using the public ones. Because Italians and Spanish haven't had NO FOREIGNER signs for decades even when tourism is low and did not have TV stations which blame foreigners. They also don't employ mayors who blame foreigners even when the foreigners are less than 1% of the population as Tokyo had. Because these countries where applicable also apologised properly for WW2 and did not raise protests and force action when monuments to Japanese atrocities are erected in non Japanese cities. Bali is a beach setting. I have no problems with the authorities fining individuals for bad behaviour. I have problems scapegoating all tourists and creating prejudice against all visitors. If someone behaves badly there is the police to manage them. What do you mean the West has done far more damage? How long did Japan occupy China/Korea? About 10 years or so. What did they do in Nanking and other places? The Japanese even executed German (their allies) civilians. Mark Felton has a film about that. A sign saying NO FOREIGNERS allowed and your explanation illustrates. One is Japanese people pretending to be incompetent, and the other reason is racism. Again prejudice against all people is WRONG. Why do you support this. It's not modern and developed. If you can't speak other languages, put a sign saying, ONLY JAPANESE LANGUAGE SPOKEN HERE, COME WITH YOUR OWN INTERPRETER. What if a foreigner speaks Japanese? Or has an interpreter? Or uses AI on their phone which is pretty good these days? Come on. This is 2024 and not 1850 when Japanese people saw these strange men for the first time. (I know they met other Europeans earlier). I am criticiall of many Japanese because they are developed. Please don't say rational people because that implies that other people are not rational. That's implicit racism already. Please try to see the nuance here. Japan on the one hand you claim is made up of rational people, but people who put NO FOREIGNER signs in their establishments. Really? Is that rational? No, that's just bigoted. And in fact wicked if the person who put such a sign was rational. What do you mean those who condemn Japan for the past of WW2 are indulging in the same today? What does this mean? I'm against wars of aggression. I support Ukraine and NATO in helping Ukraine resist Russian aggression. I haven't gone into a town with a sword to have a head cutting competition. Anyway if you love your Japan you will want them to get their act in order. If they don't want tourism they have to be equal to all visitors, local and foreign. If they want fewer foreigners impose restrictions on tourist visas. I don't mind that. Japan however is reluctant to do this because it creates a negative view of their country and hospitality. Look how Japanese are welcomed in Europe, Brazil and US. No issues. But Japan does not reciprocate. Does not even try. It's quite sad. Have a good day.
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  429.  @antonsiberian  It's a discussion. People come to Japan because JP government makes the place seem welcoming but it's really not the case. It seems many Japanese are too insular, even in 2024. Maybe the JP gov should stop lying. I don't know.
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  430.  @antonsiberian  Who am I to judge them? Well then how come the Japanese government encourages and promotes tourism abroad? What was the whole Cool Japan campaign? Of course I can judge. If a matter pertains to me, as I am a target of Japanese ad campaigns, it matters. Tourist hotspots should be accommodating to different cultures and should have an international feel to them in terms of amenities. If you want more tourists and tourists do 2 important things: 1 BRING IN MONEY. 2. GENERATE SOFT POWER. Both are needed by Japan. The Yen is low, well tourists actually increase the Yen's value. They buy stuff and in so buy Yen and drive up its price. They leave their money behind in Japan and don't use Japanese amenities, eg don't use hospitals or police. That benefits Japan. Tourism creates work and helps people meet other people and maybe expand their horizons. I understand some people don't like tourists but I don't like TV stations throwing fuel on the fire and I don't like NO FOREIGNER signs or signs 'teaching' foreign tourists not to eat and walk the streets at the same time. That's just crazy to me. Not the walk and eat but the gall and the attitude and arrogance to teach people who your government advertised to to now behave because some locals will be offended by walking and eating. Well then maybe Japan must become like North Korea. Eh?
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  431.  @muralk3153  Head cutting competition was what occurred in Nanking during WW2. Japanese officers had a competition who could cut off the most heads of Chinese POWs. Their scores would be sent back home to Japan and published in at least one newspaper. My point was that the West had colonised countries, and I am aware of that. But Japanese colonisation was far more brutal. Look up what Japanese did in Nanking and you'll see that it was Weterners even a German guy who helped save Chinese women and children from Japanese soldier rampages. Remember that Japan went into China with her army. China never invaded Japan. Yet China gets a bad rep because of anti-Chinese propaganda. Japanese were worse colonisers than Europeans were. At least by the 1920s.
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  432.  @muralk3153  1. You gave your anecdotal speech, I provided my anecdotal speech. What is your point? You made a blanket statement, I never made one. You're creating a strawman. You said Japanese toilets are the cleanest in the world based on your own views. I said you did not give proof of the claim. I then told you what two of my friends say and that is as WOMEN they don't use the feminine wash on public washlets. I don't know if it's just irrational or maybe they've encountered UTIs from this or maybe they and their circle or other Japanese don't. I never bothered to ask them. By the way are you a man or a woman? It may explain your lack of understanding of female hygiene issues. The washlet was patented in the US. You can read the wikipedia article about it. Toto bought the patent. You can read Wikipedia about it. Why do you say I have negative bias? Why must I, a well educated, multilingual, WHITE guy have to experience racism for there to be racism? Why is it about me? There are NO FOREIGNER signs in Japan. That's racist on its own. You said that maybe the proprietors had a negative experience with foreigners. So that means ALL foreigners are bad by default? Dude that's the conclusion of your reasoning. I'm not sure what giving aid, means. Most countries give aid. So are you saying that Japan can buy the right to allow some of their people to have xenophobic attitudes? That makes no sense. Come on. Where did I say Japan as a country was arrogant. Some Japanese obviously are arrogant if they prejudiced against foreigners. I know people who married Japanese and had those Japanese families totally estrange the person who married the foreigner. Is that acceptable behaviour? Have a good day.
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  433.  @muralk3153  Yes but only Japan attacks cities which create WW2 memorials to Japanese war crimes. I would like Japan to be more open to criticism and be like the West and other nations.
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  434.  @muralk3153  What dislike of Japan? You're the one who dismissed my own anecdote about actual Japanese women who dislike public washlets. Does that mean I dislike Japan? You need to stop reading things into people's comments. What evidence do you have that I dislike Japan? I dislike NO FOREIGNER signs. Does that mean I dislike Japan? What's the logic here? Why are you attacking me? If you can't argue the points, don't attack the interlocutor. Come on.
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  435.  @Soviet-federation-m7n  You're quite rude.
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  436. Geisha and the people they sleep with?
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  437. I suppose it's just the way they do things. They repeat what they think works for them.
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  438. Zeihan is delirious. You can see he talks nonsense.
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  439.  @die1mayer  I think the cloth is very remarkable and needs to be addressed for the purpose of academic certainty.
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  440. The reason why the quality of life is declining is because countries like Japan ate your lunch. Then it was Taiwan and Korea. And now China and even Vietnam and Indonesia are taking over from you. It's not because you have some foreigners. It's because you are lazy and not as good as the Asians. Blame anime. Japan is also sucking now they're also being outdone by other Asians who don't fap so much to little girl comics. Enjoy your decadence. Best is to blame it on others because yes that will make Asians forget how to make stuff and will give you your colonies back.
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  441. Thailand has problems too. No country is perfect.
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  442.  @Justin-ee3im  It will even get worse. The days of Rudyard Kipling are over. The future will be more diverse. Accept it and move on.
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  443. Who said he was a madman. He was an evil man who was happy to mass un-alive millions of people especially children, from Jews to Slavs to his own people and he unalived Brits too. Maybe you hate Jews, but he also hated his own people. Under Hitler his country failed and he had to steal from the Slavic countries he attacked. But under Pax Americana and Bretton Woods, West Germany and now Germany became No 4 economy. These capitalists he blamed for everything made Germans rich.
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  444. Please don't say civilian. Say ordinary person or say a lay person found her. Cops are civilians too. Civilian vs military. For example you can have civilian authority and military authority such as under marshal law.
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  445.  @SpikoDreams You have a healthy, kind and civilised view of tourists and visitors. Tourists are people who have traveled often very far, have spent a lot of money, spent time traveling in discomfort, are tired, spend their holidays and money in the country they visit. They have to return home to go back to work in their 9 to 5 and sometimes longer hour job. The world is big. They could go anywhere, or go to a local destination in their own country or just stay at home and relax, but they chose to come to my country, I am happy with that. For me, they don't have to try to speak the local language. As long as they have basic civility - like not spit in my face, hit me or damage my property, they are 100% welcome. Non travelers don't know how difficult it is to travel. Travel is expensive. Travel is not comfortable. Travel is disruptive.
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  446. Hopefully the Chinese or someone else takes over. The Japanese have been hogging too much. Let other people do something for a change. Thankfully their heyday has passed. Out with the old, someone will bring something new.
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  447.  @dorian6021  No. I'm saying that let global attention go to other parts of the world. Japan gets too much of the pie. Let others prosper for a change. They're the THIRD RICHEST COUNTRY in the world. Let someone else make some money and have some fashion for a change.
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  448.  @kohtayasuda1984  It will not arise when all attention is hogged by Japan. Japan is put on a pedestal and that disadvantages so many other people and cultures. Because people see Asia as "Japan" and the rest as "primitive". That's how people judge. Japanese companies also spend billions on promotions of their brands for marketing purposes. For me it's sad that more poor places stay poor because rich people only know Japan and that sort of fashion. Thankfully Asia is slowly catching up. Japan should not be the 3rd richest country in the world, but should be ranked by population size and have an economy which is commensurate with that. Anything else is a product of bias in the way the international system works.
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  449. Does it disgust you that he may pull soldiers out of Germany and put them in Poland?
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  450. @ Because the guy said that Trump is disgusting. But Trump actually wants to protect those countries which feel threatened and want to put an effort in to common security. Poland wants permanent US forces stationed there. It makes ABSOLUTELY no sense to have Americans permanently in Germany because Germany is not West Germany of the Cold War anymore but is well behind Poland and is not in danger of a Russian attack. Why do you want the US out of Europe? Why do you speak for me when I as a Polish European WANT the US in Europe especially on the Eastern Flank of NATO? We want the US in Poland and we want them in Poland PERMANENTLY and not rotationally. Trump may be disliked by the woke people but for us Americans in Poland are existential for Poland and nearby NATO countries. Americans in Poland also keep the Baltic countries safe. Thank you.
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  451.  @oneoldmanontheroad9034  Did it not disgust you when Biden gave aid on a drip or when Germany refused to allow their Leopard 2s to be used in Ukraine? Why did that not disgust you? Why did it not disgust you that Germany sent first aid kits while Poland was sending tanks and the Polish PM was the first to visit Zelenski in Kyiv while the Russian columns were still a short distance away? What was Macron doing then? He was phoning Putin. He called Morawiecki a 'bigot'. What was Berlin doing? They sent first aid kits. Come on man. Don't believe the vacuous French/German words. They will not rearm. And if they rearm it will be 10% of what they claim and by 2035.
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  452.  @thomasnewman9501  No worse than Austrians speak Austrian and Polish concentration camp Obama. Oh yes, who ignored Putler when he invaded Crimea? Who laughed when Poles were warning about Russia?
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  453.  @cecilecorpuz5735  A diversified Europe is better. As someone whose family were victims of German aggression in 1939-1945 and where most of these people were never brought to justice, I think that maybe a more diverse Europe is a good thing.
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  454. What do you mean replaced with THIRD WORLDERS? Those THIRD WORLDERS i.e. Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysians, Indonesians etc are better than you. The future is Asian and belongs to the Global South as well. You suck now my friend because for 200 years you had the Industrial Revolution and you could exploit the "3rd worlders" but now you can't do that anymore as they build their own cars, including EVs. What are you producing these days? Much less than in the 1950s. You have to become poorer because you no longer can steal from your economies the way Hitler stole from the Slavs. It just won't work when Vietnamese - those guys in those grass huts - now produce electronics, never mind the Chinese whom you also tried to coloniese. South Korea overtook you in a matter of 30 years? Come on. Blame yourselves and not others for your downfall.. By all means ban all immigrants - but that won't make you China or the Japan of the 1980s. Even Japan is a shadow of what it was. Japan is also going down the toilet and the heyday of the West and Japan is over. Time to be average and those high standards will have to decline, my friend.
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  455. Nice video. Not sure why the focus on Asia as a region, rather focus on the industry as a whole, let's not be too regional as that breeds chauvinism. Also it would help if the narrator toned the tone down, maybe hire a professional narrator or use someone else to narrate so as not to come across as so angry and forced.
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  456.  @vicsingularity1040  Yes. Sorry French and Colby are not S&F members but are regular S&F guests. I think my favourite guy there is Marek Budzisz. I don't know how good his English is, as I follow him in Polish, but Bartosiak and Swidzinski speak decent English. I think it's important to get the Polish perspective. I know Brits always consider their own to be the best but it would be eye opening for the viewers here to listen to what people who know Russia well think.
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  457.  @ilovetech8341  Neither are you. In EVs the batteries also count. China makes very cheap and very good EVs. Cheaper than Americans can make them and is taking the EU market over. I'm just confused why you post bizarre nonsense since EVs are not made by many countries and in fact most struggle to make good ones at a good price. The world is currently in a recession and people are struggling and cheaper EVs are the solution.
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  458.  @Djkommode  Chinese assembled Apple MBPs are better build quality than Japan made Sony Vaios and even NECs. Only Japan build on par with Chinese assembled Macbook is Panasonic Let's Note but it costs 50% more in price. They also now make them outside of Japan as well.
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  459.  @cuzuvmcvoy  Hentai culture?
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  460.  @Target-zo7fb  KMT actually contributed significantly to Japan's defeat in WW2. Their land forces were decimated by them.
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  461.  @frank6587  Chinese made Macbook from 2012, still going strong, troll.
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  462.  @frank6587  Taiwanese are identical to Chinese on the mainland. Chinese parts are inside as well. Yes made using their parts but so are Vaios which as sh-t in comparison. Blessed and holy Japanese hands don't make superior products to Chinese hands you disparage so much.
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  463.  @gamingusa1536  Russians also often did not surrender. Other countries too. There are many stories of non surrender. And at the end they DID surrender.
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  464.  @KittyCat-qg4vd  So is Japan as perfidious as perfidious Albion to Europe? I don't know. But Japanese know geography and US bases can come and go but it's hard to move an island.
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  465.  @jonjones6583  China has about 300 warheads to US 3,000 warheads and Russian 6,000 warheads.
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  466.  @ilovetech8341  Germany built every single one? Well by that metric than the Merc and Beemer are Chinese made.
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  467. Conservative values... how many conservative countries have a family friendly value of 10 year old junior idols?
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  468. That's not true. The Germans only know they killed Jews, like you. You probably don't know the Nazis murdered millions of Slavs and the Germans did not apologise for most of that. After the war the West German government paid SS pensions. Do research the subject instead of posting lies.
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  469. That's not the problem. The problem and people keep on ignoring it is the fact that the rest of the world learned how to industrialise. Britain got rich buy buying cheap raw materials from their colonies and selling them finished goods. But now everyone can make their own goods or there are the Chinese and Koreans who work better and faster than the Germans, Britons and Japanese. Japan is also getting f-ed. Most of their brands have closed down. My home in the 80s/90s used to have Japanese and Dutch products (National, Philips, Sony, Bosch, Hitachi etc) but now it's LG, Samsung, etc. I'd like to buy Japanese goods but they don't make them anymore for export. They're too expensive and not good enough. When your LG is better in quality to your Hitachi or Panasonic. Anyway the problem is that the rest of the world is catching up. The Germans also have huge problems. The former rich will become poor. That's natural and that happens in history. History goes through cycles.
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  470.  @ashroskell  Hi there, I have two citizenships. But in at least one country the support for Ukraine is the highest and Ukraine would be Russian if we acted like America and Germany in the first few months of the war. Anyway the question is for Jake because Jake is American and he's so pro-Ukrainian so maybe he can tell us why Ukrainian lives are worth less that Israeli lives. If it's OK for Israel to hit Russian bases with US weapons, all Israeli weapons are American, than why is it not ok for Ukraine to do the same? And why is there not a similar level of aid for Ukraine as there is for Israel? That's all. Jake is an expert here, that's all I want to know. If you support Israel, then support Ukraine. That's so simple.
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  471.  @rolandmartin3833  Russia must be defeated but many Ukrainians are hardly better than Russians. Some claim that parts of Poland belong to Ukraine. Some mock Poles for helping them.. So I'm all for helping Ukrainians but they need to become Western too and not keep their Russian ways.
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  472. Your mind is not rational.
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  473.  @kingmaafa120  Since you are a Japan resident, and I don't want to ask this my Japanese friends, why do Japanese pass laws against copying games (eg creating pokemon) - where a Jpn guy got jail but allow softcore CP? I'm sure you know what "junior idols" are. If you look on Amazon Jp or other Jp shopping sites you will find such picture books and DVDs. So how come they allow that and they get buttsore over some noisy tourists in Kyoto? Do they think it's OK to lewd real children? This question fascinates me because we don't see this in any other country, nobody else sells swimsuit magazines of 10 year olds. But Japan does. And Japanese people seem to be OK with it.
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  474. It makes no sense to have such things. Either go home, or go to a hotel or go to a guest house etc.
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  475. Looks like "Spiked" is defending this sort of behaviour. What a bunch of tossers.
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  476. They have no resources. They were semi successful in WW2 but lost to the KMT and the Soviets on land. They were good at sea because if you listen to Julian Lindley French the Brits gave them ships. It was all due to the British navy.
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  477. Lies, lies and more lies.
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  478. This is Russian propaganda, dianne or should I say Olga? NATO is still strong, that's why Trump doesn't want to let Ukraine in because Ukraine would trigger a war between the US and Russia. If NATO was dead, Trump would let them in, or even promise them now, and he'd wink to Putin, that he's gonna pull out. Putin is only afraid of the US. He's not concerned about France.
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  479. Israeli diplomat and historian Pinchas Lapide estimated the number saved by the Catholic Church to be between 700,000 and 860,000 Jews. Hudal was not even an official Catholic official. He had been removed for his pro Nazi views. And while some Vatican officials did assist some Nazis to get away the same people were assisting Jews during the war and other victims of persecution. They assisted these guys because they were anti-Soviet. Still they at best assisted a couple hundred Germans while up to 860,000 Jews may have been saved because the Church was helping them out with fake baptismal certificates, escape networks and other aid.
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  480.  @ladyyyhokage So why did your country cause all these problems there?
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  481.  @ladyyyhokage  Bzzzt wrong. You live in a democracy and the actions of your government are done on your behalf. Iraq was but one example. So please don't moralise to me, not the s and not a z in moralise. If people want to moralise they should be squeaky clean.
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  482.  @ladyyyhokage  Look the point wasn't that the US is particularly evil, but rather it's rich of you to talk of Zainabs and very poor countries where you have problems at home and even worse things happen, which could be stopped quite easily if people got off their butts and said "not in my name".
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  483.  @MowMowProductions You live in a democracy. You elect your president. You elect congressmen and senators. Maybe not always directly. You're quibbling over minor details. You don't live in a monarchy, say a hereditary monarchy or an elective monarchy governed by a constitution. You don't live in a one party totalitarian state. You don't live in an authoritarian state either. So yes, you do live in a democracy, simply put: Democracy is often said to mean 'rule by the people'. An example of this is any system of government in which people vote their elected representatives into parliament. MowMow, the US isn't the only republic, for instance the Republic of South Africa, under the apartheid system and now is similar to the US system as is the Republic of Poland or the Republic of South Korea etc. But the important thing is that whether you elect a president directly or via an electoral college, your president and the ruling party, represent you and want your support, they want your vote. In the UK they have a House of Lords which is a part of their congress which is not elected and is there for life, while The Commons is that part which is like the US House of Representatives. The US is a democracy of a republican type as opposed to say a democracy where a monarch is elected by the House of Representatives (parliament). You have three brances, the legislative, the executive and judicial. Now contrast that with say North Korea where there is a dictatorship of a totalitarian nature. Those people have to obey their leader. Americans elect their presidents and representatives and these when it comes to elections vie for votes eg Democrats want Latino votes, while Republicans will want more traditional white male voters.You're not unique. Greeks had democracy and had republics too.
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  484.  @grasshopperye3593  Take your meds.
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  485. What the cop said is real though. People are judged by their value. The video mentions she was a post grad student. What if she was a high school drop out? Would her life be less valuable. At heart the whole system judges peoples' worth. Why bring in her post grad student cred? Suppose she was a junkie? Or she was homeless? Or she was an ex con on parole? Would she be less valuable? All that is wrong here is tact. But people do lack tact when they speak to their friends. That's not enough to prosecute someone. In the medical field, you can't complain if your doctor is rude. You can only complain if you think they committed a professional or criminal error. Same here, rude cop. There are people like that. The question should rather be... why was the cop going so fast to reach a person who was speaking i.e. had a fuctional pulse and respiration? It wasn't someone in heart arrest. Secondly if people wear portable music, since walkman days we have that, people may not hear sirens. Do these cop cars have to be so armoured? He was driving a battering ram. I don't think such vehicles are allowed in Europe. Maybe on freeways but not in urban city areas.
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  486.  @FiZc  Japanese workers are more expensive and not better to European workers in Eastern Europe. Sorry Japan, we will take it all away from you.
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  487.  @CheetixGlitch  People do damage. Religions can be bad or good. Absence of religion empirically has shown people to be the worst. Google Kampuchea, North Korea, USSR, even the French Revolution. Use logic and not emotions. Compare worst religious country - eg Iran or Saudi Arabia or even Afghanistan to the worst atheist = North Korea or Cambodia under Pol Pot or USSR or even the country we don't want to mention.
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  488.  @Lazendra  Jedwabne? The pogrom committed by the German SS? The one where the exhumations were stopped once German shell casings were discovered? That pogrom was not investigated properly. Which other pogroms did Poles take part in? And please omit the ones carried out by the communists. Kielce? I suspect you're a Russian provocateur, mate.
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  489.  @АлександрМолчюн  German territory? Germany gave up territory which had been previously Polish before as part of unconditional surrender for the war of aggression they started. What is your problem? Are you poorly educated?
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  490.  @harshanid3636  Yes but in the better airports you also get lounges and you also get airport hotels for which you don't need a visa
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  491.  @samwindmill8264  Ewe boetie.
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  492. True. It's a different system in Europe vs UK/US. Likewise judges are a protected caste, that even extends to Poland where some judges are post communist and are essentially untouchable by the elected government and even its judicial oversight bodies or constitutional courts. The EU also gets involved.
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  493.  @RH85X  Because Americans think that world history is about THEM. At least he mentions that millions of Poles died in WW2. Usually Americans don't know that any Poles died in WW2. They think there were "Polish death camps" run by "Nazis". And who knows who these Nazis were... maybe they were Poles.
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  494. There were many good Germans but the sad truth is that this and the Herero mass-acre and the aid to Turks in what happened to Armenians were given by that country. I'd say it's the Prussian militarism and the whole jaeger or junker thing. It arises from the Teutonic knights who were the worst thugs ever.
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  495.  @biggerdoofus  The body is dead, rigor mortis. The image can't be explained.
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  496. Dude, Johni and Logan were two cases. Japan has 3 million tourists every month. Vast majority are normal people. Also don't expect people to walk on eggshells. People behave the way they do at home and most of the vsitors are middle class and reasonably wealthy. They behave well.
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  497.  @renegadesigma  I've traveled to many places and for the most part I've seen well behaved tourists 99% of the time. In fact I'd say 99.9% of the time. Out of 1000 people, maybe one was badly behaved - as loud, or littering or drunk. I think much of this is Japanese people joining the international society. They have to adapt. We've put up with multi-culti tourists and I think they need too as well. It's a good experience for them to be less insular. If you go to London you will see people from every culture and country there, same for Paris, I don't know why Tokyo must not be like this. Japan is rich and famous and not a backwater. It must be cosmopolitan and Japanese people must agree. Japanese people are welcome and respected in EU and other countries, Japan must reciprocate, if Japan wants to be in our clubs. And Japanese people want to be in our clubs. By clubs I mean G7, OSCE, etc. Japan even has liaison office with NATO now.
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  498.  @Kodakcompactdisc  It was Biden who approved Nordstream 2. Donald was against it.
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  499.  @hungrybraineater2  You print US dollars bud.
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  500.  @ohigho9717  But when they come to a country like Germany which still has many Neo Nazis (where these people march even), it's good when they come to such countries because they help dilute the BS which is Neo-Nazism.
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  501.  @maverickmic  What 'western values'? The values of the Austrian painter? Or man of steel? or the guys who slav-e-cized half the world? Or the nice people in Brussles who are wanting to end EU based farmers with unlimited imports from Mercosur?
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  502.  @cerealport2726  Let them have benefits. The ME is a mess because of the Brits, French, Germans and such people, let these guys eat a bit from the trough. It's called karma.
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  503. We don't judge Hitler by his speeches. We judge by his actions. He eliminated millions of people and in case you're racist, 10s of millions were blond and blue eyed.
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  504. Meanwhile Radek goes "RU-JAP" war. Radek is a total tool. International ISO code for Japan is JP and "Jap" is a slur. What a joke of a foreign minister.
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  505. She's not pretty though. She's average. Maybe a 4 out of 10.
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  506.  @Confedyank  The South China Sea also doesn't invade any areas. And the Japanese are also revisionist. Let to their own devices many of them would do the same as China.
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  507.  @Thora-i6n  Poles did not hunt Jews, dude. If any did it was a handful. Poles did not co-operate with the SS. There were French, British, Belgian, Dutch, Norgwegian SS regiments but no Polish regiments. There were even Russians and Ukrainians who fought for the Nazis, but no Poles. Sure there were some bad Poles who robbed Jews, and they robbed other Poles but 99% of Poles were not like that. And in German occupied Poland if you hid a Jew the entire household would be put to death. This was different to Netherlands of France where the guy who hid Anne Frank was not shot immediately because he was Dutch. Poland did not only have famers. Poland had some of the oldest universities in the world. Please stop saying mean and fake things about us Poles. Please study some history.
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  508.  @meinolfwestig9463  Churchill, the guy who apparently unalived millions of Indians by starving them? That same guy?
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  509. How many Germans know how many Poles lost their lives due to the German war of aggression of 1939?
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  510. Temu is bad because Uncle Sam thought Chinese would just manufacture stuff for fat Americans. Now that Chinese may actually overtake the US of A, then Chinese companies are suddenly evil. :)
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  511. No, not everyone is foreigner. Japanese are also foreigner. Before Japanese came there were people on these islands, for example Ainu. These are true Japanese. Japan is also a country of immigrants.
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  512. Poland isn't Eastern European.
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  513.  @Xylospring  It will also finish the anime business as Japan will be communised by the PRC.
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  514. I think you have bigger problems than some hair. It's because of different response to hormones why some hair grows longer and others not.
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  515. We get it. Polish women are cheap and will fall for any American guy. Americans are celebs in Poland.
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  516.  @h.a.9880  Poland opened the borders and supports >1 mil Ukrainian refugees with everything. Germany supports on paper. How much of their 'aid' was actually delivered? Polish PM was the FIRST politician to visit Zelensky in Kyiv while the Russian columns were 10km away. Poland sent tanks. And Polish farmers are upset because Ukrainian oligarchs dumped Ukrainian grain WHICH DOES NOT MEET EU STANDARDS in Poland instead of sending it to AFRICA where it's needed. You're ignorant my friend and your troll friends repeat propaganda and fake news. If Poland had a PRO-BERLIN government in 2022 in charge, Poland would give NO AID to Ukraine because Berlin gave no aid for the first 6 months. And they exaggerate their aid. How long did it take for them to give permission for Poland to give her L2 tanks to Ukraine? Educate yourself please. And 'fascist' are people who support Nordstream or send weapons to Russia (Thales France).
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  517.  @amattaa11  The time Zelensky called out Duda in front of the whole UN after Duda accepted 2 million+ Ukrainain refugees, gave a million of them free social support, free child support, free healthcare, housing and education and sent tanks, IFVs and weapons to Ukraine from day 1 of the war, and when Morawiecki and Kaczynski visited him as the FIRST foreign world leaders to visit Kyiv since the aggression started? What should I forget? Maybe try to see a bigger picture here and not just the last 5 seconds of this movie.
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  518.  jordie4423 US will lose Taiwan. US has no way to defend it. Besides most Taiwanese are not so opposed to unification.
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  519. The person who got good access into the Soviet archives and brought along a portable scanner, back in the early 90s was Vladimir Bukowsky. That guy was a legend. He appears in various films about General Jaruzelski by Greg Braun but he also appears in the Edwin Snores film, The Soviet Story.
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  520.  @bewawolf19  Last point my logic was not flawed. I'm sorry. You're one of these kids who has not achieved much in his life and you need to show how someone else's logic is 'wrong', But I made no logic blunders. Now go away.
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  521. Andrew Michta, does not think that Trump will necessarily be worse. Andrew Michta is someone you guys should have on your show.
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  522.  @DefoeStyle And none of that was necessary to have helped assist you in your development.
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  523. While I can empathise, you have to remember that the German army committed horrible crimes against the Slav and Jewish people in those areas. TIK History has videos about that. It was also Germany which started to mass exterminate Russian POWs. Russian POWs were treated like animals and were starved to death. The Germans chose Adolf Hitler at the end of the day. The Soviet people never voted for Stalin, the Bolsheviks came to power in a revolution, then won a civil war and never held elections. Culpability has to be rationally shared where it's due.
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  524. Hi Polish background, same as Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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  525.  @loduke3905  For you Poms this isn't an existential issue. For Poles and nearby states, it is. France is not relevant and France is also far away. France and Germany will sell Poland out. Our only hope is with US, and Michta thinks that Trump will not be as pro-Russian as many think. If Trump wins hopefully he sets the EU straight and makes everyone pay their fair share which will help Poland.
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  526. Continental Europeans still do that.
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  527.  @dreamdiction  Please, none of this Nordic nonsense. No racism, please.
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  528. The immigration is because you guys had an empire. You Brits had an empire, you exploited these people in India and Africa and now some are coming home to you. The Middle East is a mess partially because of how the Brits and French interfered there. Hitler was the same. His actions actually accelerated the decline of your empire. Look you even hated the Poles who came to you. So now Poles and Czechs are gone and you can have migrants from Libya and Sudan. Enjoy blaming others for your own faults. The fact is that you can't compete with Asians and others. Vietnamese workers now know how to assemble integrated circuits. Chinese fly to the moon and build better 5G networks than you can. Your edge is lost. It's time to be as poor as the world average. It's just how the world is.
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  529.  @iliketohideincloset  Don't make people out into total fools. If someone orders from Temu and get garbage, they'll be unlikely to order again. That business model would die very quickly. If people continue to order garbage that means that either 1. Your population has bigger problems. They're gullible. 2. Maybe the stuff they buy at home is worse than the products they get from temu.
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  530. Except here it's because foreigners took pictures. Nobody would mind taking pictures of Stonehenge.
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  531.  @OLIIE-gs5rj Dude, 99% of the world has no interest in seeing geishas. For much of Asia, they still remember the same geishas urging their troops on to oppress their people. Asian countries have just as old and older cultures. No, Japan has a long tradition or history of xenophobia. For example women who marry non Japanese often get disowned by their family. I knew such people. Foreigners get blamed for everything because Japan was not properly Westernised. In the West such behaviours are wrong, Japan was allowed to foster them. Tokyo governors were openly racist. Politicians are openly racist. Japan still has not apologised for many of their WW2 abuses and they actively combat people who honour Korean comfort women. If this was just as single situation of poor traditional people who are harnessed, I would be OK but it comes on the back of chronic, long standing anti-foreigner behaviours. And Japan owes so much to the West. Meiji Restoration was their luck to get everything for free without being colonised. They were rebuilt after WW2 and did not have to satisfy Chinese justice. In the West we closed our factories to import their stuff, and Japanese stuff is a bit overrated. You need to see the bigger picture and you're doing them a disservice by allowing them to linger in their 19th century way of thinking.
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  532. You've said this so well. Thank you.
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  533. Why do you want to live there? You'll never be accepted.
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  534. Most Germans know little about the suffering of Polish people. Fewer even know that even before Hitler the Prussians and Germans actively stamped out Polish people. It's one thing to be an American and forgive the Germans because you were a GI but it's another to forgive if the Germans un-alived your civilian relatives in a war of aggression.
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  535.  @kathleencove  Oh I see you're an expert now. I didn't know. Point was that Japanese engineers are capable of solving far more complex. Actually cans which close on their own or are weighed down are very easy to implement. You're making up excuses.
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  536.  @AlwaysPim  Maybe they should replace them. Maybe instead of irrational responses they should learn from other countries where there is more terrorism. Or maybe they just don't care.
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  537. He ended up dead though. So he was a loser at the end.
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  538. Europe always had a dark time. In the Swedish Deluge, the Swedes killed 1/3 of the population of Poland.
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  539. @ You're being hysterical. And you made a poor analogy. Anyway you're now going off on a tangent. Poland did not sign an mutual defense treaty with Ukraine. Don't make stuff up. Also why don't you ask why the Germans don't defend Ukraine. They saw a lot of action with Ukrainian forces on the same side in the 40s.
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  540. ARJ format was left out!
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  541. When the Germans arrived. A distant uncle of mine was one of the first soldiers killed at Westerplatte. No Nazis but Germans.
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  542. Had Moscow fallen, Hitler would have sued for peace with the Americans and given like 30% of white Americans descend from Germans, a nuke would probably not be used to the Germans. In WW2, the US had a lot of respect for white Germans but very little for Asian Japanese. Nukes would be dropped on Japan (and a Christian city to boot- Nagasaki) but there was no necessity to reconquer Europe. And the Germans would have returned France and Netherlands to their full autonomy. Racist WW2 Germans had no issues with their equals. They wanted to get rid of Slavs to have living space and judging how quickly America sold the Slavic people to the Russians at Yalta, no nuke would have been used on Russia to liberate us from mass extinction to make space for German farmers. Why would Germans drop nukes on each other? Sorry Jake, yes in terms of the means, maybe America would have had the means but America would not do this to liberate Europe. They had the bombs before Stalin and they didn't liberate Eastern / Central Europe from him.
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  543.  @rolandmartin3833  None of those really mattered too much and in all of those Americans were not the only people involved. I know you Yanks take everything for yourself, individually and collectively you think you are the best and so on. You now say you saved the Jews and you sh-t on us Poles when we in 1942 told you the Germans were g-nociding the Jewish people you said we were lying. Anyway, the Western allies bombed German factories and cities. And that coupled with aid to the USSR helped a lot in winning the war. D-Day was not necessary. It was there to really stop the Russians from taking all of Europe.
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  544.  @StephanTrube  The threat lies also in that Ukraine was the rocket engine producer for Russia. Russians are struggling with their own rocket engines for their ICBMs.
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  545.  @sattymike0155  China is at home. Also they can easily sacrifice a few million men. I think a few casualties in Afghanistan made the US withdraw.
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  546.  @rg3721  He doesn't criticise his country nearly as much as America. America which saved his country from communism.
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  547.  @mitchyoung93  ?? Nordstream 1 and 2? You are ignorant, mate.
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  548. $5 is a lot of money. Maybe in the still wealthy European Union, it's peanuts but for 90% of the world, it's a lot of money.
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  549.  @peterlyons8793  Deep dive would mean more of a detailed view of the topic and not necessarily all encompassing (comprehensive).
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  550.  @berserkeroflove  The show is called: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter
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  551. No. Things would still work if the rest of the world did not industrialise and innovate. That's the problem. The UK built its wealth on 2 things. Colonialism. Industrialisation. Both require a 'potential difference'. But now the world is more equal than before and you no longer can sell things to India in exchange for their cheap raw products. And soon your financial instruments will also not be worth much. That' s how the world is. Older empires fell before. You will also fall. But life will go on. You just won't be as 'great' as you've been in the past 300 years.
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  552. Japanese have a system of not being entirely honest when they speak in interviews. They may say what's polite or expected. It's all nuanced there.
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  553.  @lahirefrancois7508  They didn't need you. They'd be fine under the Brits and the Brits would have given them independence anyway.
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  554.  @jimkluska253  The French are terrible. Back in the day they were kissing Russian bottoms. They left and rejoined NATO. They were turn coats in WW2 with Vichy. They did NOT help Poland in WW2. They could have stopped that war if they attacked Germany but they chose not to. They do deals with Russia as well. They are not a reliable ally. Not since the end of ww1.
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  555.  @ashleyhoward8926  Thales FR gave weapons to Russia too.
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  556. It's to give context to the video. Not everyone is an expert on WW2 such as yourself.
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  557. If her intent was murder then it's murder. If you give someone arsenic by accident it's not murder but if you give them sugar hoping its arsenic and you want them dead, that's murder or attempted murder. Lucky did not get the death sentence.
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  558.  @kathleencove  I haven't seen differential pricing for tourists. Only thing I've seen were discounts for pensioners, eg local pensioners. That's also a questionable practice. That's not to say that does not happen, maybe it does. I just haven't seen it. I wish you'd stop the personal attacks. You need to interact with other people charitably and politely.
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  559. Orban built Nordstream 1 and 2? Orban still taking investment money from Oligarchs in London?
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  560. Well no Jahara. Not that everyone did not like democracy, many did not like the baggage which comes with that which is extra-democratic. Mere elections and people voting based on their own culture is fine but when you impose your own values and you force through geopolitical and economic benefits for yourself, that draws opposition. And your organisations do undermine local people. For example the US owned news network, TVN24 has been campaigning relentlessly against the democratically elected but conservative (it's an unforgivable sin for you) largely Catholic (an even worse sin) government run by PiS (Law and Justice) in Poland. American NGOs also did their best to undermine those. In Hungary Western and American NGOs do their best to undermine Orban and that country's democratically elected government. Because democracy isn't really what many Americans are after but it's a colonial like mindset of changing the world, of colonialism, of crusades and later Puritanism. So if the Russians and Chinese consider your soft power and your organisations a Fifth Column, that makes sense. You are in fact undermining them because you're imposing your own Anglo-Saxon culture and also your own economically driven effects on them. You want Poles for example to be diverse. Because you put gay men in prison, and Poland did not, because you colonised and exploited non whites, and Poland (and Hungary) did not, we must become strictly like you. And of course you will gain favours for your own businesses. When Poland complained about TVN24 interfering in Polish poliitics suddenly American ambassadors from right wing (under Trump) to the current guy (who can't even speak Polish) you threatened Poland and you said Poland may have no free media. What a joke. All of this undermines genuine work. Genuine work in that most Ukrainians want to be free of the Russian yoke and good for them but because you are not without sin yourselves and you refuse to change, you are doing everyone a disservice.
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  561. You must be very young.
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  562. The problem is that kicking the "foreigners" out won't recreate the empires of the 19th century. It will not make East Asians and Indians forget how to make stuff. The problem is that Japan in the 1980s and now China, Vietnam, Indonesia etc are eating Europeans' lunch. Europeans are not able to compete with East Asians. And good luck trying to fight them. Besides most of these incels like anime. They will never fight their salarymen overlords in Tokyo.
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  563.  @RightBoyKA-POW  Neither did these companies. It's short term vision, all of it. Of course in the short term it benefits them but once it becomes ubiquitous, these companies will also be in trouble. And something will have to be done with the people who can't work or there will be unrest. In history one gets people to do work to avoid people having idle time on their hands. One has to occupy the population and feed / clothe them. And with decoupling from China, where are the cheap clothes and gadgets going to come from? And if AI robots make these in US factories, again what will the people do? What will they eat? And will corporations feed, clothe, entertain and house them for nothing? I doubt it.
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  564. @georgnightingale2131 Yes. They did. But then they said -- let US boys defend Europe. And now Europe is disarmed because it prefers to spend money on social welfare and on green eco technologies and implementations. That's why MAGA is upset. And I don't blame MAGA.
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  565.  @tonibaker3823  But for most of Europe, Russia is not seen as a threat. Russia is a threat to Finland, The Baltic states, Poland, Romania and maybe Slovaks. Nobody else sees Russia as a threat because 1. The Russians won't invade them. 2. Russia wants to sell them cheap gas and oil. Europe has no defense industry because such costs billions of Euros. There is no money for that. There is money for green things and changing nuclear to wind and solar only and for social grant payouts. Come on. Don't say Europe will step up. Europe (Western Europe) DID NOT STEP UP for the past 3 years. We can't. We don't have the euipment or the manpower. It would take decades to build that.
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  566.  @Aim54Delta  Hitler was from hell. For us in Poland he intended as per Hans Frank, to un-alive all Poles. So yes for me, that was from hell. For you, maybe it wasn't. But in time in the UK, you too would have problems. Because Hitler intended to compete with you and ultimately be equal or better than you, i.e. stronger. That would make your country (and empire) weaker. Same with the US. Hitler sided with Japan which intended to kick you out of Asia completely. As you know Asia has been important for your success and growth, if you're American. And you get your anime from there. Had the Axis won, there would be no Anime. You'd be weaker and you'd not be able to print dollars and your exports would not be used everywhere to the same extent they are used now. You'd be worse off.
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  567.  @Saskfinest1  Dude most people in the world don't have university degrees, that's not a failure of universities. You're suggesting it's a failure of religion that many people left but that makes no sense. The truth value of something is not necessarily determined by its popularity. Success is also not about popularity. Most people don't have degrees either.
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  568. It should be returned to Egypt. This stone is not British, British people did not make it. At the time it was written Britain did not have such technology and was backward. Give it back to Egypt, do the right thing.
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  569.  @philiprufus4427  There were no Polish regiments. This is proven. There were Russian, French and Belgian but no Polish. Poles did not co-operate with the SS. You are spreading lies and defaming millions of innocent people. Shame on you.
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  570. Japan denies this.
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  571. True. He should have stuck to a "wholesome" Japanese activity such as buying 12 year old junior idol DVDs or going to a handshaking event with little girls. I'm sorry but Japan has greater priorities and that's to deal with their child exploitation issues.
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  572. There is a special place in hell for those who lead children astray and away from God.
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  573. True. The difference being that the Poles never invaded Russia and never followed a scorched earth policy the way the Germans did in 1940s. The Poles were fighting for their independence in their own former ancestral homelands. The Germans never had a claim on any Soviet lands.
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  574. Pacification. They applied the same tactics they used on a wide scale against the Slavic people in the eastern parts of occupied Europe.
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  575. The Germans treated the Danes with kid gloves. Compare to the occupation of Poland, look up the Wola m a s s a c r e in 1944 for instance. It was like Nanking. As a Danish person you should know a little bit of European history, but here it shows your education is lacking.
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  576.  @ane-louisestampe7939  You suggested that German soldiers were girl scouts, but I pointed out to you, and I did not negate what you said, that they were definitely NOT nice girl scouts to people in the east, where we lost 20% of our population. They were worse than the Japanese. So again, I did not deny what you said, you had a relatively NICE war in Denmark. We had the existential one in the eastern parts of Europe. The G's basically loved you guys, you were Aryan to them. Why should they treat you badly? So again, no negation of what you said, but giving context because you should not even have said that. Yes I'm sure H was nice to Goebbel's kids too, doesn't mean he was nice to Serb kids.
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  577.  @cjackmond  I think it did. Because if the Japanese had won, they'd be the equivalent at worst of the Belgians in Congo, but had the "Nazis" won, millions of people would be systematically and with extreme efficiency been un-alived. You need to back to people like Bismarck to see what these policies would lead to. Look even to what happened to the Herero people in Namibia. But when the painter took over the mantle of Bismarck we had an industrial and most efficient and calculated way of doing this, while at best the Japanese were brutal but they could also treat the non Japanese as equal. I think the "N"s were far worse as were their progenitors.
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  578.  @cjackmond  Because the Bismarck inspired guys had as an aim the idea to remove the people who had been a problem to them, as they saw us (the Poles and some Russians and Jews) permanently while the Japanese had the intention to copy what Britain, Netherlands and others were doing. They just lacked the tact and had no control. That is far more detrimental to human thriving. The Japanese would not remove millions of people for the sake of removing millions of people for LEBENSRAUM. They were just cruel. The Bismarck inspired lads were not really very cruel, they were just matter of fact, industrial. Yesterday we built cars on an assembly line, today we un-alive women and children, tomorrow we'll return to the latter. That's why in Poland we lost 20% or our pre-War population and had the painter won, we would have lost 80% and ultimately 100% once the settlers settled in. The Japanese did not have such plans. Their m--er machine was accidental, the reich one was purposeful and matter of fact.
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  579.  @carstenmanz302  True. Anti-Slavism came from Berlin while the Austrians were partial to Sobieski for saving them from the Turks. And that was a mistake. The Turks should have had Vienna.
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  580. OK, so you're saying no war crimes should be punished. So if someone harms you, we'll let them off because somewhere someone got off scot free. Good logic.
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  581. I don't think the West will win against China. Chinese have the highest average IQ in the world and there are 1.4billion of them. Yes they built themselves up as a factory for the West, BUT the tech genie is out of the bag. One can't unlearn what one knows. And unless one believes Chinese are racially inferior and can't innovate on their own (I think they can innovate and their higher than European IQ actually shows they can and have the potential to do better) one has to admit that unless some tragedy or cataclysm will befall China, in our lifetimes, China will win the economic war here. More resources (because also Russian resources), more people and higher average IQ plus patriotism and discipline shows that they will succeed in the long term. I think the West will have to make peace and concede to the Chinese in the long run.
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  582. The guy is an Anglican priest. Why do you bring Catholic faith into this?
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  583.  @silvercoins  Not attacked. Occupied and Poles did not kill Czechs, you Russian liar.
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  584. 99% of war crimes on the balance were committed by the Axis. Remember that Nazi Germany wanted to extermi-inate ALL Jewish people, all Roma and almost all Slavic people like Poles and Russians. Hans Frank said so himself that once the war was one all Poles would be ex-terminated. So yes I think most war crimes were committed by the Nazi Germans. Note that after the Allies won, West Germany was rebuilt and most former Nazis were pardoned. In East Germany most people were also pardoned. This was a far cry to how the Nazi Germans treated the Russians, Poles, Jews, Roma, Greeks and other people. Remember that Nazi Germany bombed Polish civilians on the first day of WW2, in Wielun, they targeted women and children and a civilian hospital. So yes the Nazi Germans perpetrated war crimes from day 1. Remember also Nanking and Unit 731 of the Japanese who experimented on little children and put them to deat-h. But keep on relativising things like a Nazi sympathiser. It shows your ignorance or hatred.
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  585.  @connysmets8548 Do you know the Dutch slave trade to the Cape? Do you know how the Dutch lied about Catholics to the Japanese which led to terrible pogroms of Catholic Japanese? Do you know Dutch genocide of Indonesians? Do you know about Dutch slave trade? Etc etc... dude a country which got rich off the backs of so many people in Asia and Africa, should not be having black faces, no matter the etymology.
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  586.  @seanniemeyer5437  Germany had a lot of Soviet RPG-7s but they were sub standard (too old). They tried to send them to Ukraine in the first months of the war. That was when Poland was sending tanks - yes Soviet era but upgraded with modern Western night vision and optics.
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  587.  @seanniemeyer5437  This was mostly under the Duda/Morawiecki government of PiS, the government which is so hated by EU elites. We must understand one thing. Ukraine was saved by Polish conservatives. PiS (Law and Justice) don't like Russia. They were re-arming since they got into power in 2015. PiS was also the one which tried to convince GWB to put in an antiballistic missile shield in Poland. When Tusk took over he dragged his feet and the current ABM shield in Poland is weaker. When PIS took over again in 2015 they went crazy with weapons purchases. Previously Tusk (PO) was scaling down the military. Now the kicker, if PO was in charge in Poland in February 2022, the Polish borders would probably have been closed to Ukrainian women and kids and most aid would consist of first aid kits, kevlar vests and helmets. That's it. Note also that it was Kaczynski and Morawiecki who were the first leaders to visit Kyiv in 2022 and speak to Zelensky. Nobody else dared to do this. PO have already dropped the ball since taking over. PIS was buiding something the US NATO generals recommended, the CPK, Central Communications Hub, a real airport, highway and train hub which NATO planners have said was an excellent idea because it would help bring in NATO forces to any Russian attack and provide logistic support. Guess what, PO is already dragging their feet over this. They often say, we don't need a real airport, we have Frankfurt and Berlin. I know you guys in the West think 'conservative= Pro Putin" but that's not the Polish right. Polish left is more into appeasement. The Polish right is very anti-Russian. And you'll also see the other right parties in Europe and Russ bots not promote PIS at all. They will promote French and German right but not the Polish right. So be weary.
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  588.  @Emperorli90  Yes it's a known fact that you charged Poland the costs for the Polish army fighting on your side. You came with help, you charged us money, you left us to the Soviets. You also let our generals become factory workers or barmen. Maybe study some history Emperor. You can watch the video titled, " Why do the British hide the truth about Polish history "
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  589.  @jandrews6254  What would you rely on instead? German first aid kits? The French who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in September 1939? Or the British who also did very little while Poland was being destroyed in 1939. So tell me, who would you rely on? Because so far, it was America who helped us out in the Cold War and America put soldiers in Poland right now and Trump wants to increase US presence there. Don't let your wokeness condemnn Polish people. So tell me, who will help us? We're under no lllusions. We're helping ourselves but we do have a Polish diaspora in the US who voted 84% for Trump and Trump is someone who remembers both insults and favours. After 4 years a different president will come and we will have to deal with him and so on. But for Poland the worst president was probably Obama. Reagan and Bush were the best and Trump actually put soldiers into Poland.
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  590.  @valdius85  There are no politicians like that in Poland. While the last crew was also pro own career at least they wanted to build the central airport hub and build a new container depot and deepen the Oder River for traffic. The Germans oppose that. And my PO Tusk voting relatives all say, why do we need a central airport when we have Berlin? And why do we need a strong army when we have NATO? It's a joke. Poland is honestly st-ffed.
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  591.  @robertprice5039  There is a general chauvinism about towards us 'Poles' from the Brits, French, Dutch, heck everyone. So yes, in general you guys do consider yourselves superior human beings. Maybe not always explicitly. Now you may not experience it, if you're a Brit or a German but we do. Hence whenever one compares people from the region they usually elevate themselves. It's just how the world is.
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  592.  @Emmaem111  That's nonsense. Their culture allowed them to do that. Other soldiers in other countries did not do such things and they had suffered even more. Japan had a toxic culture in the 1930s. Some of that still remains.
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  593. If pedophilia is wrong, is it wrong then to allow CP to stimulate pedos? Of course it's wrong. Hitler was wrong as was Lenin. But ignorant people will defend these freaks who had to create parasitic economies, un-alive millions and steal property from millions to keep their sick regimes afloat. Sadly some people like that sort of thing. So again, if pedophilia is wrong, is it wrong to show materials promoting it? OF COURSE IT IS.
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  594. @ Pooty keeps his money safe in the UK my boy. You guys have always been pro-Pooty.
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  595. In Switzerland, you can't really tell a white foreigner from a white local, ok by dress maybe or car license or if he opens his mouth but it's not as obvious. In Japan, every non (short) East Asian looking fellow is a gaijin. It could be the former CEO of SONY Corp but it's still a gaijin.
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  596. It's cyberbulling. Maybe the industry needs to tell their teacher or parent. Hugs will follow and the cyber-bullying will end.
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  597.  @hihopeyouhaveaniceday6992  Belgium in the 80s/90s was heavy into child abuse networks. There is a case of Marc Dutroux for instance.
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  598.  @Coltnz1  It's not being that. It's giving respect where none is due. In English we don't capitalise general titles or occupations. You make him into a god the way. Some people maybe do consider that as they're w-e-e-b-s.
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  599. It started in 1939 because that's when Britain and France joined. Like it or not the centre of power was in Europe at the time. Once Britain joined, inevitably the US would also join, sooner or later.
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  600. @Penny-mk7fv LOL Easter bunny is a joke. It's not a religious symbol.
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  601.  @crissdiamond1907  No Poland on that list. You know the country which opened its borders and was the first to support Ukraine. The country whose prime minister was the first to visit Kyiv before it was fashionable for everyone to do it?
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  602.  @SiliconCurtain You have to remember who the first Western leaders in Kyiv were, the very first ones. As for divisiveness you can see that the overall goal is security against Russia. The people here are using cheap political tricks or are Russian trolls who are taking advantage of the situation because Russians always exploit weaknesses. They may as well be pro-Russian regardless. Rachon was pushed out of TVP when TVP was taken over by a new regime. Now he's on the sidelines on TV Republika but you have to remember that 35% or more of Poles still side with him. You can bring in pro-Ukrainian figures from the current ruling party, nobody will be offended. But note how undemocratic the hate here is.
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  603.  @denmaakujin9161  This is silly. How about just asking people not to come to Japan. Charge $1000 per visa. I'm all for it. I say let's stop ALL FOREIGN TOURISM to Japan. Japan is too precious to corrupt with us foreigners.
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  604. I don't see anything wrong there. The employee is a salaried worker who has to follow general rules and 9 out of 10 times if a foreign race person buys stuff it's just better to make sure the sizes are correct. The woman was just taking a survey. You didn't have your residency permit stamped to your chest. Again 99% of foreigners in Japan are likely to be tourists or short term business travelers. Most working people don't have time to consider the rare exception and nobody is there to be microagressive to you. And let's face it, you Americans can be obnoxious too. Poms and Yanks are some of the worst. Japan has a xenophobia problem (as do many other countries), even pandering to racism as in these video reports, but these two examples were ordinary behaviour. I would not have been offended.
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  605.  @TheExtremeIRON  These things are also being implemented in the developing world. I live in South Africa although I'm a dual EU/SA citizen. Here (SA) many people now enjoy rights that previously whites enjoyed. Things like maternity leave, long holidays, overtime pay, etc. These came earlier however to the west, back when Daimler could implement these, their cars had few Chinese components or none at all. The thing is that these things were implemented in the West post WW2, back when Europe/US were still manufacturing. It's only now that we find that they're becoming less affordable. But China is manufacturing only since the 90s in appreciable amounts. The issue now is that Europe has too much socialism and even cheap Chinese labour can't compensate. But this is from the Frankfurt School. I didn't really say capitalism itself was some sort of Arcadia. I'm saying that the West using the economy/political model it had and I think Christian Democratic subsidiarity compliments capitalism very well, eg free Sundays, was what drove development. We were able to for example develop vaccines and new methods of agriculture which feed the Global South populations and reduce infant morality rates. What did the Soviets give us. NOTHING. As a black South African mine worker would tell you, FOKOL. All we have which is good, is because of non-communist states.
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  606. @ Because Germany invaded my country on the 1st of September 1939. My grandmother was snatched in the early 40s by the Germans who needed slave labour and was taken to the Reich. She had to leave behind her 7 year old daughter. My father was born in the Reich as my mom there met a British POW from a nearby Stalag. That POW was also shot d-ead by the Germans despite being a POW. My grandma's father was walking in the countryside one day carrying food but did not know the Germans annexed part of Poland into the Reich and part of it was renamed the General Gouverment (German spelling), a colony for them. It turned out the walk he would take every day from work to home was through a new border and he was stopped by the German soldiers and arrested and put in prison where he later died from stomach cancer. Everyone in that prison died from either stomach cancer or heart problems. They were all tortured to death and the Germans made up causes of death. My cousin/uncle was shot on day 1 of the war as a young soldier at Westerplatte while defending it from the Germans. Numerous other relatives faced repressions and near misses with loss of l1fe. So I don't need CIA documents to know that Germany invaded my country and un-alived millions of people. The village next to my maternal grandma's one was ex-ter-minated. These were Catholic Poles who lived there.
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  607. You watch too much anime
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  608. Why do we care about that pervert?
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  609.  @יונהאליראשון  Ahem
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  610.  @nousername4125  Anarchy eh? You want that?
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  611. Given the way you pronounce croissant, you should pronounce Sokolowski correctly also and it's pronounced sokowovski, with the first w said as the w in Wendy. It's a Polish surname and comes from sokol which means falcon. So it's Peter Falconer. But given the chauvinism in the past against Poles (and others) pronunciations were dismissed. But times have changed maybe people should say these names correctly now.
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  612. So according to you Gonzales it's ok to k1ll POWs, women and children? Yes they declared war because Hitler attacked Poland. Hitler knew about the military alliance between Fr/Br and Pl.
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  613.  @Jakob_DK  North Korea is funny. They seem to have abandoned China and now look to Russia. Threatwise we're told that NK is a bigger threat to Japan and South Korea while China is a threat to Taiwan. China however doesn't want to nuke Taiwan, they want to incorporate it like Hong Kong. North Korea may want to nuke Tokyo or Seul, maybe, or at least they threaten to do so. If MAGA sides with Russia they are siding with Iran and North Korea and so what will Japan and South Korea think? Already being pro-Russia is making American allies in eastern Europe nervous. MAGA has to decide. Is the deal with Russia worth it. Because I don't think Russia is going to be disconnected from China. They are next to each other and millions of Chinese live in Siberia. Russia can't ask the US to replace China for them. The US is not big enough for that. It's a tightrope all right and at the end of the day the Russians won't go for this because China will always be there and 1.4 billion Chinese with a higher IQ than Europeans are not going to forget if they're betrayed by Moscow.
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  614. The division isn't about the "Holy Roman Empire", neither holy nor Roman, but it is about the Church which influenced the society and also the alphabet and likely the type of civilisation. You have the Byzantine (Orthodox) world influenced by the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire which is the Catholic world/ Roman. With that you find Cyrillic and you find the Latin alphabet. You will also find different types of civilisation, you can look to Felix Koneczny for that.
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  615. Won't happen. Not for many years. And if it does, all Europe will fail.
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  616.  @Cindy-1965  Cindy, you started demeaning and attacking in your first response. You're born in 65? Then why behave like a little TikTok kid? Come on. Why the emo? Too many emo responses from kids here. Cheers. Have a good day.
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  617. Setting aside this war, why do you speak of Poles, Lithuanians and then you speak of Nazis? Why don't you speak of Germans? The Germans invaded the region with the Soviet Union. Why say Nazis? Why do you keep on whitewashing Germans but turning Poles and Lithuanians into thugs? Be consistent in how you refer to countries, either it's Poles or it's Pilsuskites... but not Poles vs Nazis. Come on man, be precise and avoid whitewashing certain people because they're wealthy.
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  618. Good video. But you excluded the USSR which was a de facto Axis power initially. They not only attacked Poland but also provided Germany with food, fuel, use of their harbours and radio transmitters in Germany's war of aggression. This is important because Mr Putin called the collapse of the USSR the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century and we live in an age where a global conflict may ignite, one started by revisionist Russia. Some say WW3 has already started. Apropos what Putin called it, a normal person would surely call the creation of the USSR as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe. Germany's Weimar Republic also trained up their military in Germany for example in the tank school in Kama, USSR.
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  619.  @MikeMPharmaCyclist  Depends on what sort of priest. Not anyone can be a Catholic priest, it takes many years of study and prep. But I suppose for some protestants, anyone can be, I suppose. Note that he appears on a Lotus Eaters Podcast channel which also features the atheist Sargon of Akkad.
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  620.  @selenacaemawr  This guy, called a priest by many, is Anglican. That's all that's relevant. He's not Catholic. He's Anglican. According to the official website of the Canadian Anglican church they say: "Minister and priest are both terms used in the Anglican Church". So you're mistaken.
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  621. It's now fashionable to be pro-Polish now that Tusk has won. Hence "Radek" gets so much hype. But it was the previous government which saved Ukraine, which started to rebuild the Polish military and which travelled to Kyiv before it was popular to do so.
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  622. This tells me this guy is a full on BSer. NATO ambassador, my foot. So Poland is to extend its air defense into Ukraine? How? Poland has at best 5% air defense coverage, and he wants Poland not to use that on key strategic locations but on Ukraine? How can you guys invite someone who says such utter nonsense. Surely he'd know the air defense capability of Poland and Romania, or is he just blabbering random things?
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  623.  @RawPatrol  My Dear RawPatrol, From my experience and it's now a long one and experience of others whom I've interacted with, on the balance the Poles were and still are seen as useless. We're seen in an instrumental way at best and as a nuisance at worse, and often completely disregarded. There for example is a good chance that Poland will not be invited to provide an opinion as to any future security network in the region, in the best case scenario if the US stands against Russia, Germany will decide as per their MittelEuropa concept, with the US, France and UK. In the worst case scenario, Poland will be sold off to Russia to allow the German economy to survive and make good business with America. Either way we are still seen as useless and were seen then as useless. Have a good day.
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  624.  @JoeLukes  If you look at how many German war criminals were actually brought to book, you'll see that it's in the hundreds figure. And you're assuming the Allies committed as many crimes. But the fact is they didn't. Ask the Jews, Roma, Gays, etc. Heck we Poles had the letter P and on day 1 the Germans carried out Intelligentzaktion against us, from day one they would exterminate Polish civilians. How many of these guys do you think were brought to book? Are we going to argue that low percentages vs very low percentages of war criminals brought to book? I'm quite offended being Polish and losing relatives, and none of my lost relatives except one were lost in combat. And he was like 18. The others were murdered or enslaved and nobody was ever punished for that. My country lost 20% of her population, mostly to the Nazi Germans. Some to the Soviets.
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  625.  @FrancisGalton117  Well they would say that. But unfortunately for them this happened. And this was even corroborated by actual Germans who sided with them.
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  626.  @FrancisGalton117  They bragged about it. That should tell you everything about the ancient Japanese ways. Thankfully modern Japanese learned from America and Europe and China to be peaceful.
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  627.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Because the Brits offered certain enticements. But the Commonwealth is irrelevant now.
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  628.  @offlimits4635  How do you know he m-ered them? Maybe it was trumped up. Was this case re-analysed. Back then the standards of martial law were low and to avoid unrest the military would exact swift justice. Could he appeal? Could he be retried? Was he assessed for criminal insanity? Where other suspects looked at? For all we know other Germans who hated the foreigners blamed him and the American MPs who sided more with Germans than Slavs (America had a prejudice against Slavs and Jews) just took everything at face value.
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  629.  @offlimits4635  Tried by who? Investigated how? MPs? In martial law? By people who would consider him less than then? The Americans were racist back then to the Eastern Europeans. They still are, you still get pol-ack jokes.
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  630.  @offlimits4635  How do you know he m-rdered them? Could he appeal? Was the investigation fair? Was it meticulous? These days investigations have to be meticulous and an MP would NEVER investigate such a crime scene. The suspect would also have access to a lawyer and the jury or judge would have to be impartial. Americans in those days were racists especially against Eastern Europeans. You guys are still racist toward Eastern Europeans. You still make Polish jokes. My value system is based on JUSTICE and not assuming a narrative because a rushed investigation by MPS who are not trained to do such claimed this man was a killer. Do you understand English? Do you live in a Walt Disney movie? How old are you?
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  631. I'm anti-Communist but all this China hate is BS. Please CIA, stop.
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  632.  @robbiekop7  China is doing what Japan did in the 80s and 90s to the West.
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  633.  @mwojciec79  Former colonies need to demand reparations from the UK. They need to return all the plundered wealth.
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  634.  @Invictus_Mithra  It's sick though. Don't you think people who get off on that have problems? And would you tell your boss, if you were so inclined, that you got off on that? Maybe Visa doesn't want their brand name smeared with that. You do know that PayPal does not allow paying for adult content of any sort either?
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  635.  @jimmycarburator2012  Very few people would put that on their resumes, that they watch or fap off to stuff like that.
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  636.  @Real_Person_Not_A_Bot  East is also a synonym for the Eastern Roman Empire and the West for Western Roman Empire. As such those countries which use the Latin alphabet and are Roman Catholic would be Western and those which are Orthodox/Byzantine would be Eastern. Nothing to do with Soviet. And what the heck is Post-Soviet? Is that a country which broke away from the USSR or a satellite?
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  637.  @ii4826  But you put NO FOREIGNER signs. Tell me why Japan government advertises to foreigners eg Cool Japan and then if foreigners come to spend money some people hate on them? Maybe stop. We don't have to come to your country. Besides the earthquakes would be too dangerous anyway. You are welcome in the EU, as long as no war here.
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  638.  @Tenebris_Sint  Are you an expert on 1st c Judaism and you can tell that happened regularly, even with Passover starting?
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  639.  @mariaavalon3730  Catholics believe that Christ's Body is present in the Eucharist. The Church explains these verses in a logical way. You should google that. But then I have to ask, what has that to do with the dating of the shroud? Can't you let your rabid antitheism go for a few seconds and instead focus on this or are you so triggered that you're a single topic person? Go debate theology elsewhere. Oh and if you're Muslim or Jewish, OK, that's your religion, go debate that elsewhere.
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  640.  @mariaavalon3730  These have all been debunked and they are materially different to what happened with Christ. But even if similar occurrences occurred how does this prove that Christ did not rise from the dead? You're pulling a kind of ad hominem fallacy. Two guys, Habermas and NT Wright wrote some good texts to rebut all your concerns.
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  641.  @Tenebris_Sint  Your rabbi taught you that.
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  642.  @windblownleaf6450 Japan is a collectivist country. Japanese emperor wants tourism and Japanese people should fall in line. Nuff said.
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  643.  @dannil10  This is talk of treason, mate. If you're in Europe, you could be prosecuted for insinuating certain things. In your place I would not post such things. NATO is an alliance ratified by all member parliaments, it is law. If you want to claim US will be an enemy to European countries (lol democracies) you're either Russian or hysterical.
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  644.  @pankochanko  So essentially they're just as entitled as most other people. Can we stop the cringe Japan worship?
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  645.  @aronhelios1734  Japan tourism is pushed though. So if you're interested in authentic old Japan, Kyoto is the place. Weebs will go to Tokyo where lol-i-cons can see school girls, maid cafes, he-n-tai, see some tech stuff etc. But Tokyo isn't a city of ancient culture, you know. It's more of a modern, pick up g-rls (or pick up JK's-- google what a JK or JCs or JSes) type town for enjo kosai and so on, that's why tourists may want to go there. Meanwhile the tourist who cares about ancient and old culture, Kyoto is more for them. Kyoto can also be cool though-- they have companies like Volks there which has many niche fans.
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  646. Not ww2.
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  647. Radek is an embarassment. RU-JAP war? Jap is a slur. Say RU-JP war if you're using PL. The international abbreviation for Japan is JP. Please don't quote Radek.
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  648.  @captaincat1743  Nobody hates them but why do you think they are not the same? What's changed?
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  649. He's not a Catholic priest. He's an Anglican priest and he has atheists also on his channel.
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  650. If thought crime was legal your support of anarchy would be considered illegal and the law would arrest you. Then the judge may say, oh this person deserves a lot worse than prison because anarchy is a crime against humanity, it really destroys society. Next time think through the implications of emotional thinking.
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  651. We need to ban Japanese products in response because you took our jobs in the 1980s. Damage to us was also huge. Do you want to play that game?
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  652. I'll be honest, they really don't look pretty. I don't know why people are so obsessed with seeing them. Don't give me grief for voicing an honest opinion. Now some Japanese idols look very nice but these geishas are not attractive. I would never bother them.
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  653. Japan is not for you then. They like it that way. Everyone country is different, I know weebs will say Japan is that oh lala special place all unique but that's not true. If you live long enough in any country which is different to your native one you'll see differences. Anyhow as the saying goes HOME is best. Japanese back to Japan, Yanks back to America, etc. That would make everyone happy.
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  654. It's the nostalgia of youth which blinds you. The socialist systems of the Eastern Europe were sh-t. People forget how bad they were.
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  655. Mearsheimer is a slimy fellow. Ukraine: we can't let Ukraine be independent from Russia. Taiwan: We must do whatever it takes to let Taiwan be independent of China. Russia deserves its sphere of influence. China: she can't have a sphere of influence as that will lead to competition. Let's face it Taiwan is more Chinese than Ukraine is Russian. And how far will USA go to defend Taiwan? Will the US sacrifice Washington DC for Taiwan? Will the US sacrifice NYC for Japan? Slimy fellow who contrives his points of view. No good.
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  656.  @craigoliver8712  I heard about the Battle of Britain millions of times. Brits can't stop talking about it. It's as if WW2 was just the UK and Germany and nobody else and the rest of us non Brits should just shut up, eh? Eh Craig?
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  657. Strange. I live in Cape Town, I'm from the EU, and here there are many things which are not trashed and well maintained. Your part of America must be a total sh-t hole.
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  658. I learned about him because he enslaved my Roman Catholic grandmother and had my grandfather who was a military POW put to death. His speeches are not the reason he is now in hell.
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  659.  @Lipi19821  You can visit all the camps he created. We have many left over in Poland from when he occupied us.
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  660.  @zsweetxdreamzz8224  So how was Hitler right, my Neo-Nazi sympathy interlocutor? Germany is currently No 3 world economy behind US and China. They have the 3rd richest country in the world. None of that was because of Hitler. Had hitler not started his war, ultimately Germany would have reached that level without causing so much misery to so many people.
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  661. I think you don't have resources. Also the myth of the Japanese navy from WW2 is due to BRITISH TECHNOLOGY. Julian Lindley French says that it was all due to British ships and ship designs. So I'm not so sure.
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  662. Don't worry. Most German Nazis were also not prosecuted after the war. Most SS men got pensions. Some of the butchers of Wola in Poland got mayor jobs in West Germany. The Germans were also let off free. Only a handful of German and Japanese criminals were brought to book.
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  663. If US sends navy seals to Russia it's nuclear war. US is not even willing to back Ukraine properly so they will never send SEALS to Russia. It would be a one way trip and 3rd World War.
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  664. No. Germany took Poland because since Frederick the Great of Prussia many Germans hated Poles and wanted to get rid of them. Please study some history.
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  665.  @avitalsheva  Sadly many Europeans will still make Polish jokes. That's why I am thankful for migrants into Western Europe. Let us 'backward' Eastern Europeans be backward, and you Western Europeans can become diverse so that the people you colonised can get some payback.
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  666. Women decide if they will fall pregnant. Unless you think guys will get pregnant.
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  667.  @WTHenry2023  Not to weebs who together with Wehrmachtroos make up the bulk of incel online commenters under these videos.
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  668. Elder abuse? Please don't.
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  669. I suppose had the guy flushed and washed the toilet bowl Muta would have not put that most evil clickbait thumbnail. It would only be evil but not most evil. And when is murder not evil? Is it less evil if someone kills an adult or an elder? All murder is equally evil.
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  670.  @d.optional3381  Did you? All murder is equally evil because murder is defined as taking innocent life. Note that killing is not always murder, for example a legitimate target killed in war, such as soldiers killing each other in combat is not murder, nor is killing in self defense not is capital punishment. All people regardless of age who are killed if they are innocent are by definition murdered. All murder is equally evil. What don't you agree with?
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  671.  @d.optional3381  The act is evil regardless. The culpability of the child, if the child could not tell evil from good are a different issue. You see you need to consider that as well. The act of killing the parents in your example is evil unless it was in self defense i.e. the parents were not innocent. I would exclude accidental killing here such as maybe a child got angry and pushed them and they fell and broke their necks or the child let the gas run and a fire started by accident. But if the child is not capable of telling wrong from right the child is not culpable and is then judged either insane or incapable of knowing good vs bad. But the act itself is still evil. Two innocent people lost their lives because of an action of another person. So one can discern as the act being evil but the perpetrator in that case may not be evil. I agree the topic is complex. Hence there is no need for degrees of evil. An act is either evil or not. Taking innocent lives is an evil thing to do although the person at the time may not have realised it was an evil thing or that death would have occurred and had they known or been capable of knowing maybe they'd have acted differently. So we have an act = killing of an innocent = evil. And the perpetrator, did he do it intentionally and did he know it was wrong to do it? Could he have predicted that his actions would have led to death?
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  672.  @ryanedwards5980  You're repeating Nazi lies. I've reported your comment for disinformation.
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  673. Like a palace jester. He's as much a rich a jerk as any of them. He's a celeb. But he's not a celeb doctor, philanthropist, scientist, etc... he's a celeb wise guy. F his jokes and he's as rotten as Hollywood. It's all an Anglo cabal where English speakers get favoured over foreigners.
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  674. Dude, the Japanese government advertises tourism. They want tourists. If their own government wants this then who are you or the Japanese Reporter to complain or TV stations. Japan is about collectivism. It's all about harmony and the state itself. Ordinary Japanese who complain about tourists are being the dirty gaijin here. They are behaving in an a-Japanese way. If the government says you take in tourists and you host them, you do so. It's for the good of the society as a whole. If it wasn't then the government whose head is the Japanese emperor would not want tourism and facilitate it. The Japanese who complain are weak and soft, and the Japanese of the 1940s would commit mass suicide if they saw how p-ssified people have become. If the government ordains it, individual Japanese man or woman, you OBEY and you FOLLOW. End of story. What I see is bad behaviour from the Japanese. If you don't want tourists, petition your government to stop tourism. Otherwise you voted the government in, you live with it. Pathetic behavour.
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  675. YES and it will continue to get worse as other countries pick up the tech from Japan and Europe. Japan took over business from US/Europe in the 80s, now others are taking from them. Things will never be as good as they were.
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  676.  @gordo6908  Well the effects continue. In the old days there was pressure to marry and have kids. Now it's about the lifestyle. If the guy marries, how can he continue to fap to that?
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  677. Scotland being part of the UK has been anti-Polish for most of its history. Your ancestors hurt Poland so much. Sadly attitudes carry over. Poland has no friend in Britain.
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  678.  @Veren60  Algeria was r-ped by France. France should pay big money for all the misery they brought upon Algeria. France is another of those evil countries which has great marketing. They even sold weapons to Putin a few years ago.
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  679. You got Polish military helping you in Iraq and Afghanistan. You get contracts worth billions for Apache helicopters, Abrams tanks, F35s, HIMARS, maybe even F15s and lots and lots of ammo for these and other systems. Which means many Americans get lots of work. You also have a country in Europe where people don't spit on you.
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  680.  @rahulshine3317  If a country has no resources then will doesn't matter. China -Russia has virtually endless resources. The idea that China and India are divided is an American wet dream but I don't think India will take US side against China. I think the US will ultimately be pushed out of the Pacific. Japan will be in a worse predicament then. They are still and island so they will be safe but they may be blockaded once Taiwan falls to China as will very likely happen. The US has the best navy on earth right now but can't be geographically everywhere. And the geography favours China. As for Japanese being great people you must remember that they were defeated by the KMT and Red Army. Most of Japan's losses were to the KMT and the Red Army. Secondly Japanese naval strength was largely thanks to British ships and tech.
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  681.  @Navigator001  No. The Japanese downplay their war effects and they even deny this occurred. You need to stop being a weeb and the Japanese need to own up.
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  682. It's Clickbait BS. Caspian Report is being outdone by Good Times, Bad Times. Watch that instead.
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  683. Hello Putin, is that you?
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  684. But Japanese don't treat foreigners as guests.
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  685.  @foodchi314  There will be quotas. Poland will have to accept refugees or pay a large amount of money for each and every refugee they refuse to accept.
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  686.  @zbigniewp1810  And more will be brought in, because why should migration now stop when Europe is taking people in?
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  687.  @entombed2594  If you cross illegally, you may be fine. Not recommending it for obvious reasons.
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  688. @@Araknos66 According to data from the OECD and EU, Poland has lower sexual harrassment and violent crime figures than those countries. So Poles do commit crime but Poland is one of the safest countries, safer than Germany, France, Sweden when it comes to sex crimes and homicide and terrorism than those other countries where immigrants and their second generations struggle to assimilate. So Poles do commit less serious crime than Western Europeans. Meanwhile the crime rates in those refugee countries are even higher than Western Europe. It makes no sense to bring in random people from those countries. What should be done is that those countries need to be fixed, Europe needs to pay back for colonialism and interference and unfair business tactics, and only skilled people who want to come to Poland and can get work should be allowed in. That's what PIS was already doing. Have a good day. There is no need to be ashamed of anything, after all one more terrorist attack is one attack too many. There are many Muslim extremists who have a grudge against the West, it may or may not be a justified grudge, but Poland's not involved here. The French oppressed Algeria and Morocco and still abuse the offspring of the people they brought from those countries. Why should Poles who are less used to foreigners be put in situations where conflict can occur? It makes no sense. Try to think of the big picture and not Poland alone. Colonialism is the problem and BRICS countries know this and in the next decade there will be calls for reparations from the Global South. That's not Poland's problem, that's the problem of Germany, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, UK, Italy etc.
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  689. To replace the population they would need to import foreigners for like >100 years.
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  690.  @rsuriyop  Don't live in Japan. Weebs.
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  691. They don't consider Russia a threat because the Yanks are in Ramstein and America will protect Germany, Stacie. SMO? It's a war.
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  692. Why do you feel pain? You're an Anglo. You're elite.
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  693. @ Jeff you're a Jeff, you're Anglo, you rule. It's your world, no wonder the Chinese want their slice.
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  694. Irving was a dunce. The Brits have needed to keep a balance in Europe. Hitler was too strong and he'd threaten the British empire. His non Aryan friends, Japanese, were already dismantling the British empire in Asia. Hitler then would have taken places like South West Africa back and no doubt other territories. Britain, a maritime power, would have been reduced to a rump state with no influence and would have to play second fiddle to the Japanese, Germans and Italians. You'd be a zoo now for the Japanese.
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  695.  @maximusthezoura  Many of these countries are not eastern geographically. You're just poorly educated.
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  696.  @Alejojojo6  What are you on about? Why do you prove that you can't reason? You use ad hominem. That's a logical fallacy. It makes no sense to divide Europe like that because the Iron Curtain was a recent development, it was imposed by Russia against West (the West did not want it i.e. the US and Britain did not want it) and it was not wanted by Poles either. Secondly the Iron Curtain is OVER. It makes no sense to arbitrarily decide to use the Iron Curtain when for the past 1,000 years Poland was CATHOLIC, LATIN and was Christianised/Crowned by the Pope in Rome i.e. the head of the Western Church and the head of the Western civilisation. No it did not culturally shape Europe because Poles like Brzezinski and now Kaczynski or Duda or anyone else are not Russian or Orthodox or communist in their outlook. Poles were always Western. Poles Kosciszko and Pulaski are like Americans. Poland is a British like country and is different to the Germans/Austrians who were authoritarian but Poles like Jefferson were always LIBERAL, liberal in the classic sense. Poland had similar laws to Habeas Corpus and similar laws to the Magna Carta that the British had and the US is based on. It therefore makes NO SENSE to speak of Poland as eastern culturally. Never mind that we are also Catholic, and we are Latin and we look to the West. There are 20million Poles in the US who side with democracy and liberal (classic liberal) ideas on average. So again it makes no sense to call a CATHOLIC country Othrodox, a country which always had liberal and democratic traditions and which had personal liberties and which had Western classic music, Western art, Western architecture and now sides with the rest of the West. It is only because you are Russian you are saying silly things.
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  697. That's also nonsense. That girl is also incorrect. Which other countries hug people? That's some BS she's seen in ads or romantic novels. She should stick to her 12 hour per day job and make the empire powerful. Collectivism rules.
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  698.  @michalinamarkowska8930  That's not entirely true. Poland was reborn because of the efforts of countless Poles at home and abroad, many of whom maintained the Polish language and Catholic religion. Remember Poland was being Russified in the east and Germanified in the West. Wilson helped Poland but was not the sine qua non of why Poland returned. Poland would have returned ultimately if not for WW1 then in WW2 or later. But for Poland's return you needed POLISHNESS and that was the Polish language with traditions and mainly the Catholic Church. Without the Catholic Church, no Poland. Without the maintenance of the language by Polish parents at home when Polish school was forbidden, no Poland. Thank you. Remember also that America owes a lot to Poland too. It's possible the Americans would have lost their war against the British were it not for Kosciszko saving Gen Washington and for Pulaski for not strenthening and actually founding the US cavalry. Countless Poles contributed to America, including the inventor of the hydrogen bomb, of the Uman-Teller device.
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  699. As men as the women. All worth each other. Often the good men are around good women.
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  700. Far fewer satellites.
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  701. You like BMW, Mercedes, Audi etc.
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  702.  @chubbbubb6870  Lotus Eaters are hacks. Mr Metokur made a whole series of videos about that bearded fool, Sargon. They're also youchubers. W-nkers. Ignore them.
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  703. 100%. And it's also the fact that GERMANY replaced nuclear and local coal with RUSSIAN GAS. Look at how Nordstream 1 and 2 are still not being dismantled. The Germans can't wait to return to business with Russia.
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  704. The US is smaller population wise than India and China and therefore the US should be No 3 power in the world. And it will be. Once the tech genie is out ultimately these people (Indians and Chinese) who have had civilisations while we caucasians where still living in caves, will be stronger than the US.
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  705. Zeihan is a moron.
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  706.  @jc_so_riyl  They are not clueless. There concept of honesty and justice are Western concepts. Japan, unless they are Westernized will not follow that and so it's honourable to worship killers. It's also OK to lie in Japan as long as you don't upset the society or make things uncomfortable for others. In the West we grew up that lies per se are bad, they don't have that unless they grew up in the Christian tradition - about 1-2 million of them.
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  707. That's the thing. Japanese don't want tourists. They are the 3rd RICHEST country in the world because in the West and other parts of the world we bought so much of their stuff and closed our own factories because our products although better were more expensive. I think it's time for Japan to be for the Japanese, but also in products too. Let Japan ban foreigners and we ban her products. I think fair is fair. Our factories can re-open and we can have jobs.
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  708. As you know the new government is more pro-German and may want to cancel these contracts, that's why the previous one was rushing deliveries through. Tusk will be afraid to cancel US contracts but South Korean ones may get cancelled.
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  709.  @elchinpirbabayev5757  Russia is the reason there is North Korea.
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  710.  @samueldougoud3289  who's seen 80 years of peace. Only Western Europe. In the Eastern Bloc we were under occupation. And in the Balkans there were several wars.
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  711.  @osric1730  Europe isn't monolithic, but the 4th Reich, i.e. German dominated EU, wants to see it that way under German leadership. The problem is that the Germans lead in such a way as to benefit THEM only. For example the Germans never wanted Americans in Eastern flank NATO countries. They still oppose it. The Germans wanted and still want appeasement with Russia. They built Nordstream 1 and 2. They force the green order as it's called by some which will open up the EU food market to Mercosur which has lower standards, thereby k1lling local farming but allowing South Americans to have cash to buy BMWs and Mercs. The calculus of Putin is not as complicated as you want it to be. Russia, Putin or no Putin, has always been an IMPERIALIST state. It is still stuck in that 19th century mentality. Europe really needs to come to the table and do all it can to keep the US presence in Europe but at the same time, a rich union like the EU can't rely on American boys from the mid west to fight our wars for us. To be our bodyguards.
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  712.  @mayaram2411  They took advantage of the Americans and at the same time hoarded the Americans for themselves. WHy the heck are there so many US bases in Germany. We Poles and others would prefer to host those bases in Poland etc. But the Germans oppose that. Germany lies. Germans would sell the former WP countries to Russia for cheap gas and 'peace'. And Russia won't invade Germany. They only have to corrupt their leadership like Schreuder. The Germans are really disgusting as a government. And their people should do more to understand other Europeans and not be so SELFISH. Because for us in Poland, Romania etc it's EXISTENTIAL. For Germany it's just more money. Poland, Czechia, Romania etc will be buffer states for Germany. They don't worry about Russia. It's all Molotov-Ribbentrop. And that's why I'm not anti-Trump. The former Bidens and Obamas didn't want to put US soldiers in Poland and kissed German behinds. Trump at least seems to favour people who are also conservative and pay. In Poland we're happy to pay. But we don't want Ivan here and we don't want to be controlled by Germany either. Saying that we understand that in the EU and NATO compromises sometimes have to be made and you also have to listen to others. But as things are, the Europeans don't really care about their co-Europeans.
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  713. Don't say human beings are disgusting. It's these individuals.
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  714.  @jeaniebird999  ALL IDEOLOGY is a HUMAN CONSTRUCT. LOL. That means that all you believe is nonsense, it's all memes. Whether left wing or right wing. Only nihilism follows and one can't judge natzees either way, American.
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  715. Especially as what Biden did recently with the export of computer chips to Poland. We're on the level of countries which have been pro Putin, at least rhetorically.
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  716. Are the Czechs delivering or are they don't what the Germans are doing and pledging?
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  717.  @stargazer-elite  Maybe you don't know what you're talking about. What autocracy? And as an American, why are you still preventing Ukraine from using American weapons to defend against Russia? Why do you attack small countries destroyed by communism when you live in a big US of A which is filthy rich which is also pussy-footing about? And what autocracy? This is about a war of aggression and not 'autocracy'.
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  718. Austria is very friendly to Russia. They the centuries of co-operation with Russian tsars and later the commies.
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  719.  @goenzoy712  Austrians were 100% pro their painter fellow. They and their German brothers were despicable in the 30s and 40s.
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  720.  @pikachue602  It's a left wing thing. Most pro pedo groups were linked to Marxist organisations.
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  721.  @samwindmill8264  Lots of pedos in Netherlands and Belgium. And connected pedos up in high places.
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  722. What must I learn? I treat people with kindness. Why do you paint everyone with the same brush? Do you see things like this happen every day? Think for 5 seconds, dude.
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  723. Jake, Molotov-Ribbentrop was not a pact between the Russians and the Nazis but between the Russians and the Germans. It's in your Wikipedia link. And if you want to use Nazi instead of German, you have to say Communists for Russians and not Russians. Be consistent.
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  724.  @bigdongbob838  SS were not punished enough. The German atrocities are well documented. There was no innocence among the SS and much of the Heer.
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  725. Maybe. But in 1945 the Yanks sorted you guys out and then invested heavily and protected the Western part which still enjoys American protection. You so love the Americans you even did not want them allowing your neighbours into NATO and you've built Putin up. It's fun to make fun of the Yanks but had the Russians taken all of your nation, you''d be a sh-t hole now.
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  726. Terrible. But now Singapore emulated Japan kawaii lolita child pron culture. Sad. Japan never atoned for her sins.
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  727. Tusk? Really.
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  728. What a load of cr-p. Joe Biden just blocked export of advanced computer chips to Poland. VisualEconomik is BS.
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  729. You hate Jews or something? Or Are you turned on by those grey SS uniforms?
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  730. No. The Russians invaded on the 17th to help shirk some of the responsibility for it off them. They said they invaded to protect the Poles but that was a pretext.
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  731. Yes it's the US and UK and EU which invaded Ukraine. How is Russia today?
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  732.  @SylvainPUEL-j6t  Macron is pro-Russian.
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  733. Would never happen. 1/3 of white Americans are Germans.
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  734.  @themartialartsapproach8786  That makes no sense at all.
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  735.  @themartialartsapproach8786  That doesn't make sense. You're saying God should interfere in the world and affect peoples' free will. That's not perfection. God is perfect but people are not.
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  736.  @mecx7322  Most German war criminals never faced justice. As Poles and other descendants of German victims we need to continue to rub this in. And to be fair I'm quite happy if Germany is diversified with Middle Eastern and African people. At least their fathers didn't do such terrible things to us.
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  737. Hitler invaded Poland TOGETHER with Stalin's Soviet Union. Soviet Union was an evil axis power at the time of the invasion. Great Britain fought WW2 to aid Poland, Poland also continued to fight. This kind of historical revisionism is only fueling Putin.
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  738.  @abcdeabcde4877  The Chinese? Just wait for when they ask you to pay for reparations.
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  739. THIRD RICHEST country in the world and is asking for donations from other people? Why?
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  740. and junior idol 12 year olds otaku/weeb pervs perv over...
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  741. These two guys are the face of America. They're typical Americans.
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  742. LOL, weeb. And the Japanese youtuber loves the comment. LOL.
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  743. WW2 started with the defeat of Napoleon and Congress of Vienna as that set the stage for WW1 which set the stage for WW2.
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  744. Dutch are bigots to Poles. He must have been swayed by the money. But you Dutch hate Poles.
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  745.  @dondonjj3352  It is a barbaric practice.
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  746.  @dondonjj3352  We can name and shame. I think most people consider killing intelligent animals like dolphins pretty barbaric.
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  747. Still many 1000s survived and West Germany paid out pensions. Even here you see they refused to extradite the commanding officers who survived and lived long lives. So much for SS men being given justice. That's mostly a fantasy. Most got West German pensions into the 1960s.
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  748. This is not true. Catholics voted against Hitler. Hitler had the least support in Catholic parts of Germany. Why do you spread lies like this? Mussolini did not have Catholic support. He was an atheist. The left in Spain had pogroms against Catholics. Why do you omit this?
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  749. LOL, who gives af? Are you his mother?
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  750.  @aldraone-mu5yg  There are 1000s like him. Maybe they can get a chance.
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  751.  @Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove  You say so based on ancecdotal evidence. Maybe they have more evidence that co-ed dorms and such don't work as well.
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  752.  @skibidi.G  Gay means same sex attraction. That's all being gay means. It's not a sin. Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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  753.  @pewneosoby2108  I don't know what your malfunction is but why are you telling me that Catholics use the Catechism when I already said so previously. I don't know about the wives but culture was different > 2000 years ago. Christianity did a lot to make people equal.
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  754.  @petercarroll684  Openly gay as what- having sex with other men? Yes that would not fit with Catholic teaching for a priest. However a priest who says - I am sexually attracted to men, but I don't have sex with anyone because of my celibacy vows would not be an issue for the Church.
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  755.  @meraketh  No. If you are attracted sexually that does not mean you look at them with lust. Temptation is not sin. Sin is an act, sure it can be mental but it has to be an act of will. It's not a feeling, at least in Catholic teaching which is true and only Christianity. Looking at someone lustfully would be to look at them with desire. That's not the same as finding them sexually attractive. If you have a coworker who looks sexually attractive to you, having fantasies about her would be sinful but merely having such a colleague and having to interact non sexually because of work and such would not be sinful even though incidentally you would experience feelings of desire. Things you can't help are not sinful. Things you can help - such as fantasies, sexual flirting or actual sex acts - yes those would be sinful.
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  756.  @mnk9073  They discovered later that the specimens were not representative of the actual image under study. The repairs were known but strange that other people had to point out that the region was not representative. I believe they verified that using some of their own samples left over from the STURP project.
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  757.  @bookman7409  Most of his wall of text comment goes into the psychology of the church and some of the people mentioned here. I.e. it's chaff. Most of it is conspiracy theory stuff.
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  758.  @unarealtaragionevole  I never claimed there were lies or deceits. My point is that that the material is contaminated with medieval material. I think you don't like the word contaminate but there's nothing ominous about using that word. There was medieval contamination of the shroud with cotton which had been weaved in. The errors are that the material was CONTAMINATED or was not representative hence the results may be biased by known organic material which differs from the material under study. It's like a crime scene. If you have other peoples' DNA there, you can't claim they are the culprit when you know they had a right to be there because they lived in the house. Now the rebuttals there are that - trust me bro we checked for contamination, we found some and we removed it or, trust me I checked for other fibers weaved in or not and nope they weren't there. But people can make mistakes and later not want to admit or maybe they were just not as thorough. The whole sample was taken from an area which had been handled and fixed and others have come forth to say that there would be cotton there. Now as to why the Church won't allow more testing - here we're going off course. As to how maybe Rogers got religion - we're also going of course. As to why protestant universities and often a naturalistic Richard Dawkins like clique may want to rubbish these results - no, that's not possible. Let's throw all the conspiracy stuff out. Point is that the material was contaminated or NOT REPRESENTATIVE (are you fine with that term) and hence C14 being the only thing which suggests this is medieval, we may have reasonable doubts about it. The Church doesn't claim the shroud is real or not real. They did allow its testing once and maybe they are happy with the medieval result. We can however say the shroud is unique and highly remarkable with many lines of evidence pointing to it being much older and its uncanny how it still eludes mass duplication utilising primitive means as as what the naturalists among us claim this was all along or some one in a billion natural phenomenon of just the right circumstances for a recently deceased body to leave such an image.
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  759. @captainobvious2435 You need to know that the Church doesn't own the shroud, it's owned by the Savoy family as far as I know.
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  760. @captainobvious2435 A new specimen or specimens need to be taken with an assured chain of custody. There won't be significant destruction.
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  761. @captainobvious2435 Pope is not the owner of the shroud.
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  762. @captainobvious2435 And also, not scientists by technologists.
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  763. @captainobvious2435 We don't know until we retest. Often we do retest. We don't know what the source material was. We assume it was handled correctly and was representative. You've heard of stats, nice. You're like the guy who has textbook knowledge but also little practical one to go with it.
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  764. @captainobvious2435 We don't know that the sample tested was not contaminated by handling/cotton. Thank you. Take a piece of the image, and assess it for contamination and then test it. You're dead set against testing because you assume the tested sample was not heavily contaminated. You're assuming and speculating. A test will be conclusive. There are many people who think a test should be redone. We're going in circles. And repeating assumptions, does not render them true.
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  765. @captainobvious2435 Tests need to be re-run. The data for that needs 60% contamination comes with caveats. It's simple to retest.
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  766. @captainobvious2435 Nothing was refuted. To refute you'd need the samples which were tested and those were consumed. You need to retest them. What's wrong with you? Why you're so defensive?
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  767. @captainobvious2435 The image is a photo, if that and hence it is not perfectly clear. Your objections are simply thumb sucks, I'm sorry. Either this is real or it's a forgery and does not deserve any place of rest in any church. End of story. Sorry. Send it to a museum. I like your "would have" as though you were there. Buddy you're just set on not retesting it. It will ultimately be resteted. If real it will be a remarkable thing indeed, if not real i.e, made to fool people, a fake relic, it does not deserve any veneration at all and off to the museum it goes. If it was made initially as a fake as simple art, I would say OK that's an ICON, but one does not spill blood on icons. Sorry.
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  768. @captainobvious2435 agreeable?
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  769. If Macron was in charge in Feb 2022, Ukraine would have been overrun back then.
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  770. Japan used to have the tech edge in the 90s and early 2000s. Now, not anymore. Unless you want to buy an electric toilet seat (and we have American and German and Korean companies now make those for cheaper) you won't see anything special in Japan. Maybe some quirky gimmicky stuff but nothing super high tech. You use to get these tiny laptops made by Panasonic or Sony Vaio or NEC, but not anymore. Game consoles, well these days they're sold the world over. Maybe funny colour PS Vitas. 64GB PSVita memory cards. Now what? There is still lots of hobby stuff. If you're into doll collecting, there are companies like Volks. But Volks is a premium company and to buy one of their rare edition products (which actually appreciate in price) you must visit either an event or you have to pre-order via a lottery system. But you can get a limited edition "Dollfie" for $2000 which you can easily sell for $5000 after a year or two. There are some which sell for even more than that.
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  771.  @pequenoperezoso3743  Anyone who supports the EFF in South Africa can't be a serious historian or well read, he is a troll and a grifter. I live in SA and the EFF are what would turn SA into Zimbabwe. Bad E. is a troll and a bad actor. His work is not objective and is political red propaganda. It's polemical and sophist in nature.
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  772.  @kevinrath3988  Lekker my lanie.
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  773.  @helenchui8096 It's the Dutch way. These days you will find the Dutch, Belgians, French are not apologetic for colonial and racist oppression. They still rip their former colonies off. Hopefully the former colonies start to demand reparations. The Belgians and Dutch were the worst.
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  774. YES Britain is a class society. And racist, and by that not just racist to other races, but inside the race, white on white racism. I suppose Brits with their stiff upper lip and tally-ho all that BS, think by talking about this, they are fixing it.
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  775. 1211 AD? That's medieval, right?
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  776. Because Lithuania was not free. And since he did not hurt West Germans he was not pursued. Had Lithuania been free and not Soviet he would have been prosecuted.
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  777. Lots of xenophobia in countries like Japan. If you have mixed kids and they want to live in that overcrowded and over weeb popularised country, chances are good they will often have problems.
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  778. Japanese treats are not very good though. Average.
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  779.  @doderiolarkisso4038  They can isolate but PLA maybe will still visit.
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  780.  @missplainjane3905  You don't even need Fr citizenship. You get Permanent Residency in any EU nation and you are like a Frenchman. EU is one big coutry. How? Well find a job. Be born there. Sometimes political asylum.
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  781.  @MrL702  It won't appreciate much.
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  782.  @khayanqaba6299  But sadly there's no other way. People refuse to learn and it's easier to simply not educate oneself. People don't see the world 'out there'. They get used to what's here and think that SA is just black vs white and the rest of the world is not a serious competitor. They also don't know Russia or other countries. They believe Russian propaganda.
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  783.  @AnnaHFTBM  There is always some rationale for a limited BEE and AA but limited. So small quotas for additional black people but for majority of cases the hiring should be meritocratic. But as things are it's 90% based on race.
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  784.  @Hession0Drasha  You are one of the G7. You are Great. You are superior humans to us in the non-G7 countries. I am trash. You are better than me. So accept it and live with your imperfect salary. Be proud of your heritage while I enjoy my MB, my 5 bedroom seaside house with a panoramic sea view and my investments. Yet I'm not a G member. Be happy with what you have and remember you are of the G7. The bestest people on earth with 6 other superior countries whose people like the Elves in Tolkien's works live forever. We are trash. You are gods.
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  785. Not bloodsucker when the UK took cotton from India, while it was their colony, they made thread out of it and turned it into cloth in Munchester and then resold to the Indians at a big profit. No, that was fine.
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  786. Dude, it was OK when the US rejected Poles but it's now the greatest evil ever when they're repatriating Colombian citizens. Colombia needs to take their own people back. Trump is 100% correct here.
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  787. Go to Japan to sit in a cubicle made in China.
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  788.  @ThisGuyAd.  Yes, the reason was that often unliked comments get deleted by the YT. Only for that reason. Someone who responded to me did the same thing and told me about this. I don't know if this works, but it costs nothing to click the thumbs up. About Norway: sure. Just that Norway was not that instrumental in the past and the Brits often say, oh we were your allies. A prof of mine, a Brit, with big cred, once asked me, whether my parents had a potato field back in PL. He's a big shot on various WHO panels and on BBC or to the Guardian he'd never say such a thing, but to me, it was OK. I know that Poles can also be aholes but at least we were never in a position to dictate to Britain and the rest of the West. We were on the receiving end. ... Thanks.
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  789.  @ThisGuyAd.  One of the world's top experts in one particular infectious disease.
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  790.  @ThisGuyAd.  He's a particular highly educated and highly respected guy. He's in the top 10 league of experts in the world for a particular disease. He's published many papers and has many citations. He's the creme de la creme of the British society. And I've had other experiences with Brits but this guy was the highest ranked Brit who could casually say something like that.
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  791.  @ThisGuyAd.  You're English so I'm just sharing my experience with other English people on the topic of this video. I'm not blaming you. Cheers.
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  792.  @ThisGuyAd.  Typical Brit. Who enslaved half the world? Not us, my mate. I also like how you had to throw in a slur earlier "Polak". Is that what Norwegians say eh? I bet it gave you pleasure to say that. Cheers kid.
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  793. Bla bla bla. I served, bla bla. Dude, you guys elected your new president and this is your how things are. Might makes right. Please don't think you Americans or anyone else are angels. You guys didn't even want the collapse of the USSR and you don't even want a Russian collapse. But you won't let us in Europe even have nuclear weapons as deterrence. You are gods, we are trash. Might makes right. When a raepist attacks your woman, remember that's also might makes right. That's how the world works. But don't worry about it, you have your huge country and enjoy it. Cut a deal with Putin so that China can eat your lunch in Asia. Maybe that will be a good thing. Then we'll see less Hollywood trash.
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  794. I suppose Times Radio sees that one silver lining. When they're no lamenting the 'breakdown' of democracy in the States, they can at least be soothed that Trump is going to deal militarily with Iran.
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  795.  @Toribell1928  They are popular because they are well off. Japan kids like rich places. That's all. To want to visit Sweden because of moomins is ridiculous. Japanese in general see themselves as superior and want to go to places they perceive to be rich.
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  796. The fact that the Americans are not sh-tting their pants over this supposed strike on a Russian base by Israel and no fear of escalation to total nuclear war, shows that the value of human lives is different for Americans. Israeli lives for Americans = most important. Ukrainian lives = trash by comparison. Maybe Jake can comment on why different people have different value for his America?
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  797. Now, they're now totally woke and more like California or DC
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  798.  @tedcrilly46  All that could easily be overcome. They could just follow a scorched earth policy. Go like Nazi Germany or Genghis Khan, if a town does not surrender they exterminate every man, woman and child in it. However at the end of it all 2 things: Switzerland co-operated with Nazi Germany, it was useful to them. The Holocaust gold for example was deposited in Swiss banks. It was also needed as a neutral country. 2. There were no strategic goals there. Hitler couldn't focus everywhere. Once he had most of Europe Switzerland would 100% listen to him. Hitler needed living space in Poland so he had to exterminate Poles and take their farmland. Switzerland has no farmland and it is a Germanic Aryan country anyhow so it's also people like his there. People pump up Switzerland the way Musk pumps up Tesla stock. It's fake however.
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  799. Do Marc Dutroux in Belgium.
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  800.  @Kizaoners1  Because it's CRINGE and you guys have been appeasing the Russians. It's OK not to kiss Ukrainian a$$ but you're not exactly buying US weapons and you've also spat in the face of PiS.
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  801.  @mar1video  Perhaps it's a meme people post online but outside of semi literate people we don't use it. :)
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  802.  @rozpedzoneimado2090  Dude, you are living in comic books, Kajko and Kokosz. Nobody who has an average and above IQ in Poland talks like this. Online trolls post such things. Poland needs reliable partners - Finland, Sweden, Turkey, US, Japan and Korea. UK thrown in as well. What can Hungary offer us? Cheap coal from Putin?
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  803. China will win. West is declining. The Truth is what counts, with a big T. Once Christianity got the finger in the West, it's only a matter of time.
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  804. There are worse places. South Africa is one.
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  805. West vs East. It depends on the scale. West could mean Europe vs East meaning Asia. We have the near east or the middle east and we have the far east. In terms of politics the West would be capitalist. In terms of Europe: Western Europe = influenced by / part of the Western Roman Empire. Eastern Europe = influenced or part of the Byzantine Empire. The cold war division of east vs west as dependent on who the hegemon or security guarantor was makes no sense as they are defunct. Geographically one can also divide Europe but then a large part of "Eastern Europe" is central, given the European Russia is quite large.
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  806.  @Buppasiri1  Nonsense. It's about Prussian militarism and German chauvinism. Bismarck wrote that most Poles would have to be un-alived.
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  807.  @ii4826  Yes. And one guy out of 3million. Most media does not know. And most media treats Japan well abroad. Generally people have a favourable view of Japan. So people sometime expect high standards.
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  808. UK is part of Europe as is Russia.
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  809. And Germany should not have built Nordstream 1 and 2 but nobody blames them only small inconsequential countries. Don't be a shill for the Germans. by the way BIDEN approved of Nordstream 1 and 2, it was Trump who opposed it. You Germanics are all pro Russian.
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  810. Yes imagine... after all Japanese are gods and goddesses.
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  811.  @reillypaintsfrogs  As bad as that is, then it's way, way worse the world over. The world > United States. All children matter.
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  812.  @alex_P13842  Bulk of the crimes are committed by low life-s. Not all the crimes. Lower socio-economic spheres have much more of these crimes per 1000 population.
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  813.  @alex_P13842  From what I've seen from various crime shows, the Americans are more serious with crimes against kids than Asians and Europeans. For example in the EU the maximum sentence one can get for as low a sentence as 2 years. Some EU countries have a max sentence of 14 years, for indefinite counts. For example a person can't be sentenced for more than x years for the same victim. Meanwhile I've seen US shows where ra=pists get life for groping a child. That would not happen in Europe.
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  814.  @АлександрМолчюн  Strange you call him a "Nazi" when he was a PHILO-SEMITE. I think you are a Russian troll. You buy your iPhone from China? Russia sucks.
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  815. The Nazis also hated the Jews. So it was ok for them to perform the Holocaust on the Jews? OF COURSE NOT. Hating someone is not an excuse. They killed those airmen brutally. And in response the court had them hanged in a painless way. The two women were likely later acquitted by the West Germans.
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  816. John Mearsheimer said it recently, you can see his interview on a channel called HISTORIA REALNA on YT, just this month. The United States will NEVER ALLOW POLAND To have a nuclear deterrent because it could draw US into a nuclear war if Poland uses that defensively. He doesn't believe Poland would ever use it offensively. America allows Britain, France, Israel, even allowed racist South Africa, to have a nuclear deterrent but Poland is not allowed to have that. The treachery is in Berlin and especially Moscow, but Washington is only a little better. As Poles, we are fscked.
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  817. I vote we close the border between Poland and Lithuania. I think it's time you guys were on your own.
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  818.  @АлександрМолчюн  The German territories which the Germans gave over willingly when they signed unconditional surrender. But had Russia not attacked Poland in 1939 maybe the world would be different. Russia is always doing bad things. Russia is always the aggressor.
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  819.  @kjp1232  These high iq politicians keep the country running, mate. It's why a CEO of Barclays is paid a bit more than a teller. Britain was traditionally a class society. So accept that your betters are scoring and living the high life. In the past the average Brit had to slave away at the factory or go to the poorhouse. Now things are much better. But you are still in the G7, the no 4 or 5 richest country in the world. Be proud of that. Rule Britannia and tally ho.
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  820. Why do you visit? How do you know Japanese people like you? Maybe they're too polite. What makes you think you are so special? Stop visiting, please, let them have their country.
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  821. So much wrong here. First the drug user was ultimately responsible for this. Second, did the officer have to drive this fast? Probably not. A drug overdose victim who is conscious and speaking normally can wait a few minutes for the ambulance. It's not the same as maybe an active shooting or a cardiac arrest where someone is dead and needs CPR. These police vehicles are too tough for their job. Why did this car need to be so armoured? What's the NCAP rating of this car? And if you're going to drive these vehicles at speed they should have addition crumple zones because hitting pedestrians will occur sooner or later. The girl who was hit was listening to music. That's very dangerous. Should Apple be sued for this? Maybe. But if people listen to music and it's not illegal, then sooner or later emergency response vehicles will end up colliding with them. So maybe the speed was not appropriate. This may be an outdated policy this police force uses. All in all several things contributed here: Cops car, cops speed, cop's vision of the crossing, the view of the crossing for the pedestrian and the pedestrian listening to music which meant she did not hear the siren as well as she could have and the split second additional warning may have saved her life, the junkie who used the drugs, the response to the junkie and maybe other factors played a role. The cop who said she was a low value person was expressing the realities of what compensation would entail and likely she will not have good lawyers and she's not a brain surgeon or Elon Musk who would generate more in terms of lawsuit payment. It's sad but that's what life's about.
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  822. The "EU" doesn't care. That's the thing. Social state is king.
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  823. Look up Nanking.
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  824. For many Japanese you are no different to those 'idiots'. Know that.
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  825. Poor baby is crying because his 'leader' was defeated. He'll no doubt end up in West Germany and in about 20 years will be filthy rich and free while his victims to the east will live under Russian oppression. Oh poor crying boy. But he's alive. Poor H1ster Jugend boy. Not. He's alive and he'll be rich and well in a few years time.
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  826. Strengthen Europe by more Russian gas and oil? When Poland wanted to develop tanks with Germany the Germans told the Poles to sod off. Germany only looks after itself.
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  827. People like it when others express interest in their own things. It's natural she smiled. Most people anywhere in the world would have done so. And perhaps one of you was ok, but if there were several of you, you'd be yapping away and disturbing them so there would not have been smiles.
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  828. Japanese are capable of violent crime. Ask the Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese and numerous POWs. Heck even German ally civilians sometimes got un-alived by the Japanese. So if crime returns it could mean they're poorer and the rich/poor disparity has increased. Japan used to be a violent place in the past.
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  829.  @chariothe9013 This is not about immigration, it's about TOURISTS. Have you been to the Notre Dame in Paris? It's an actual church, it's sanctified. Yet you have 1000s of tourists walking through it during Mass and they take pictures and talk and so on. There are signs asking them to be respectful, but we don't see people especially Catholics moan about how terrible this is. We don't do this. Some of these Japanese people need to get over their superiority complex. Japanese tourists themselves behave poorly abroad. Not necessarily by littering but by crowding up and being intrusive and disruptive. But they get a pass. They should do the same here or they should simply stop all tourism.
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  830.  @DS-ve1xh  Dude, even one comfort woman would be evil. Japanese army was pathetic sack of sh-t army. They, the German Nazi Army and the Soviets were three of the worst armies to exist in the 20th century. Don't defend these pedophiles.
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  831. These severe allergies are very serious. I don't know if one can hold a restaurant responsible. The risk is too much to put one's life in the hands of low salaried employees. Essentially even a few micrograms of allergen can trigger an allergic reaction. The risk of cross contamination is huge. People who get anaphylaxis in response to say nuts or dairy, should rather prepare their own food from fundamental ingredients. It's horrible but that's the only way to be really sure. Now I could understand if this occurred at a clinic or hospital but in a lay restaurant, despite attempts to avoid cross contamination, because such small amounts of antigen/allergen can trigger a type I hypersensitivity response, it's always a risk. You'd essentially need to prepare food in different areas, a nut free area, a dairy free area, etc.
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  832. Blurring genitals of victims. Why do you ask such questions?
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  833. I'm sorry but in highly liberal and LGBTQI friendly South Africa, voter ID is required and has always been required. Even Nelson Mandela required it. You Americans simply need to have voter ID. End of story.
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  834.  @MontyCantsin5  This kind of thinking gave rise to Nazism. Of course there is good reason to think God exists: from nothing, nothing comes.
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  835. It's not weak. It's average. It's racist to think Japanese must be No 1 in everything or in the top leagues. At heart the author of this channel may have a pro Asian bias. Japanese are decent at hardware especially mechanical components, electronics, optics, but they're average at software and terrible at food.
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  836. 80s and 90s were the height of enjo kosai. Lots of adult pervs would take high school girls there in exchange for Luis Vuitton handbags. That's really the only sad aspect of this.
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  837. He's an Anglican priest. Why are you apologising for an Anglican?
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  838. No influence by Mein Kampf? Lots of Germans and some Dutch liked that book and that artist too. Now everyone's in denial.
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  839. Given this was a battleship which brought about suffering to so many innocent people, maybe you should not glorify it as much. Don't weeb out here. Japan was part of the EVIL axis in WW2. They masscared millions of innocent people throughout Asia. What next? The incredible engineering of the Bismarck? Or how about certain chambers where certain gas cans were thrown in? Please try to be dignified when approaching such a subject and don't glorify evil.
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  840.  @andrewhaydo7977  By making such titles he is. Incredible engineering, is glorifying Japanese aggression. Japan had no right to have had such a ship. And they used it to promote the murder of millions in the 40s. Don't admire such things. There are ways a decent person speaks about topics.Don't be impressed by the perpetuation of evil.
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  841.  @andrewhaydo7977  No. Simply he does not have to speak of incredible engineering. He need not glamorise this.
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  842.  @andrewhaydo7977  No-one has a right to invade another country and kill its people. Your moral compass is off.
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  843. Who said Article 5 is dead? Because Trump won't back Ukraine which is not a NATO member? Biden was also not backing them. Only sent aid on a drip. FFS please stop the FUD and bull=shi-ttery "Times Radio". We know that Trump is anti-woke. Cool it down.
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  844. Apple MacBook Pros are made in China too. China put a man on the moon. So their stuff is good enough. Nuclear weapons don't have to be pretty, the explosion is enough.
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  845.  @davidmrenton  David, you're looking at past history here. Japan had a niche. Japan was a primitive society until they started to copy the West. They had nothing of value so they were not simply taken over. Then through luck they partially modernised and then did some stupid things invaded China and Korea. Look at Japanese culture - Nanking was Japanese culture. The Americans then occupied them and rewrote everything for them and repurposed their established state. But everyone else was weak. Half of the world was under communism. Much of the world was not. Look how Japan was made. Japan was protected by the US as a bulwark against the communists (PRC and USSR). Same as West Germany. Markets were opened up to Japan and Germany. Both were protected. Both were allowed to and were guided along the Western capitalist way. The Japanese could not do this alone as they had their war of genocide. Do you know that Japan caused the PRC? Japan weakened the KMT so much that the Reds won in China. We have Japan to blame for the PRC. Anyway PRC now beats Japan in most industries. Look at PRC 20 years ago. They were nothing. Now they are second power in the world, and soon will be No 1. And other nations are also rising. Now Vietnam makes electric cars. Malaysia. Etc. When Japan was rising they were competing against whom? US and West Europe. They were cheaper workers than Europeans but they are not cheaper and better than mainland Asia. Look at the best computer money can buy these days. It's not a Sony Vaio. It's a Macbook. It's assembled in China. Yes US design but assembly quality is superior to Japanese and maybe even European. Japan now has to contend with others catching up. Japan can't compete as how do they compete against India or Indonesia? It's good that China is communist because if China was capitalist it would rule the world. Japan is on its way out. They have to, there is no other way, because the INDUSTRIAL genie is out of the box. The UK is also out. UK still makes money on finacial services but is declining too. The UK heyday is over. It will NEVER be as good and important as it was in the 1800-1930s.
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  846.  @davidmrenton  Dude, how old are you? I'm in my 40s. In the 80s all our kit was Dutch, German or Japanese. Now all our kit is Korean and less so Chinese. I can't even buy Japanese products anymore. My LG microwave is just as good as my 1980s National. My parents remember the days when Made in Japan meant GARBAGE. Later it was made in Taiwan and HK was garbage. When Japan started out they were the ONLY ASIAN country and were protected and built by the West. London gets a cut of financial transactions but UK was built on manufacturing. That is GONE forever. Why do you think the white man had an advantage over the yellow and black people? BECAUSE we had industrialisation. But NOW EVERYONE Has that. That genie is out of the box. Nigeria will take time to catch up. But they will and in some decades will be a powerhouse. They just need more time. But Japan? How. What can they offer? Look how ancient Chinese culture is. Indian culture. India gave China Buddhism. China gave Japan almost everything. The West gave the modern things. Dude the heyday of Japan, UK, even the US is over. The big reason is that industrialisation and tech is now available to everyone. The white man thought the Chinese were stupid. But Chinese now do better tech than the whites (us). Dude, look how China went from poverty to No 2 economy, how quickly.
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  847.  @davidmrenton  Japan has NO WW2 guilt. Japanese have less holidays but you can't work your way out of this. Chinese also have no holidays. They also work long shifts in the factory. And they are cheaper and better than Japanese workers. I don't like IQ measurements, but average IQ is higher in China than Japan. Dude, if China was capitalist, Japan would be their factory. I know you're smitten by the white faced painted geishas and the faux politeness of the people but don't let that make you not assess the world correctly and objectively. Being a weeb is OK but don't let it cloud your judgement. By the way, Americans also work long hours. But guess what, Germans work less than Japanese and I think this year have beaten them as No 3 economy. Working hard doesn't help when your potential is limited because you can't make the Vietnamese and Koreans forget how to build ships or electric cars. If they caught up this fast, imagine the next 20 years.
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  848.  @midgetydeath  US is a country of immigrants.
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  849.  @HackersSun  They're kind, respectful and clean? How are they those things? Maybe parts of it are cleaner than parts of NY, but respectful and kind? How do you measure respect and kindness? What units do you use? What methods? This is pure simping. Come on. I wasn't born yesterday.
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  850. Given the British always make themselves out to be exceptional, it's not amazing they would push the Anglo chauvinism. Elitist and chauvinist society of stuck of snobs. Perfidious Albion.
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  851. Poland will send troops only if the US sends troops.
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  852.  @strabwerry_jam  Do note that affect is taken into consideration in all cases. Your US of A, USA is No 1, Murica is No 1, your country, I'm not American, spends lots of money on this kind of thing and this is bread and butter for jurists, lawyers, prosecutors and judges. Anyway instead of being so selfish maybe focus on how negatively your country is affecting the world. Why is the US bombing Yemen and killing people there? Your tax pays for it. That you don't care shows how selectively callous you are strawberry.
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  853. Portuguese market
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  854. lol
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  855. The image is burned on the most superficial few nanometers of the linen fibrils. It's not made by contact with a liquid as that would soak through. It's not a vapour as that would also go deeper and be more blurry. It's not painted on as no pain exists on the image. Dead bodies simply don't leave such images behind. There are no traces of strange chemicals on the image or the shroud.
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  856. It's only like that because US kicked their butts in 1945 so now they're super peaceful.
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  857. Instead of watching Zeihan, who is a hack, watch what Marek Budzisz says. He thinks it's too late and war with Russia will likely come and Poiand is weaker than Ukraine.
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  858.  @henryt4695  Henry, what are you smoking. Poland is weak. What are they going to attack Russia with? 250 Leopard 2s which will be destroyed quickly? There is no seriousness for military prep in Poland. We've bought stuff but there's no conscription. And Russia can use one nuke on Warsaw. What are you saying?
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  859.  @jenny-DD  I'm a dual citizen who doesn't live in Poland. Also I'm quite old and I'm an MD, which means if I was in PL I would at best be drafted as an officer to work in a hospital. Have a good day.
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  860.  @theforsakeen177  Russia is the FIRST nuclear power in the world and has MORE nuclear warheads than the United States.
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  861.  @jenny-DD  How did you know I am an alcoholic? That's sus....
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  862.  @starscream007  Where did you see that? They aren't going to import Nigerians. Nigeria is far away, they may import Chinese or Filipinos or Vietnamese.
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  863. Just wait till when China asks for war reparations.
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  864.  @mikkoveijalainen7430  The US would not permit anyone else to build nuclear weapons. Neither would the Soviets. If West Germany acquired nuclear weapons and the KGB would have known, Soviets would have nuked Bonn.
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  865. Japan met with Trump and they are happy with him. I think Korea too. So those two Japanese countries will be on Trump's side.
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  866. The problem is that Russia is not stoppable. Europe has tried to reason with Russia by making Russia rich by buying their products. But Russia instead threatens Poland, Baltics etc. Which country on earth threatens to use nuclear weapons on cities like Russia? Nobody else. A doctor, I am an actual doctor, explains the cancer and provides ways of management. In this it was Russia which attacked first by telling Poland they have no right to have a defensive alliance with US. I'm sorry but Poland is an older country than Russia. And we will have defensive alliances with whomever we want. No German woman protected by the Americans is going to tell us in her broken English what we may or may not do because Russia may attack. Well Russia attacks anyway. That's the problem with Russia. And people who lie for Russia are going to have to answer to God one day, why they are lying.
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  867. Broe is a democrat. But Jake for us Poles it appears that Trump is better. Experts say he won't quit NATO but unlike Biden he didn't allow Nordstream 2. So for us Poles, likely Trump will be better because the democrats have treated us always like trash.
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  868.  @charlietwotimes  The Russians handed over Jewish people to the Germans from 1939 until 1941. They sent Jewish refugees back to them. Obviously there were Jewish people in the Baltic states regions prior to German aggression hence it's not those people who were un-aliving those people. Logic. Use it. Don't be a hater.
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  869.  @ecognitio9605  Many of those ultra rich will also be replaced by AI. In fact if AI is so fancy and can fix itself, stock will be meaningless. Something else will come along, Meanwhile the billions without work will rebel and there will be mass violence and they may overthrow the billionaires as the French did in their revolution.
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  870.  @goshawk17  People live for purpose. But working for money to do stuff gives people purpose and it keeps the occupied. If you remove that, you will have poor people who have nothing left to do. You could pay them off with a universal basic income grant but even so they will have nothing to do. They will find things to do and they make rise up and cause unrest and even civil war.
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  871.  @goshawk17  Dude, you're speaking in platitudes and dreams. Ponies and unicorns. Since written history began, rulers needed to occupy their people and keep them busy. For instance wars kept people busy. All the angry guys would get un-alived off. Likewise work would keep people busy. In a country like South Africa, where unemployment rates are high, youths join gangs or do crime in small groups and many others join political movements which cause unrest. There are waves of unrest which occur such as occurred 2 years ago in the province of Kwazulu-Natal. SA is not unique here. This happens across countries, cultures and epochs. I'm surprised you don't know this. Work keeps people busy, doing the work or studying to do the work. if you bring in AI for everything and have most people do nothing, that will lead to serious unrest, disorder, crime and maybe even overthrow of the system.
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  872. The same is said for Europe and even US. The rest of the world is catching up. The West had an advantage with the Industrial Revolution but now even Chinese make CPUs and India is sending rockets to space.
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  873. The US were not on the receiving end. They got the guys who ordered Pearl Harbor but for Americans these people in China did not matter as much.
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  874. Cop should have cited and fined himself for having his gas cover blow open.
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  875. POWs? These guards would be illegal combatants. They had put on civilian clothes anyway.
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  876. No darkness. The Americans will defend NATO. Hegseth told the Poles he'd love to put more American troops in Poland, something all the Democrats were reluctant to do. The Reps are only currently against NATO expansion to Ukraine but as long as Europe can keep the Russians out and China dominates Russia, one day US will be convinced to expand NATO. That's why voters in the US need to put pressure on MAGA, eg Polish voters, German ones, Italians etc. If Trump wants the ethnic European vote for Vance in 4 years time, he'll have to secure Europe and protect Ukraine from Russian aggression.
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  877. It's a way to break up the BRICS. But Russia has to obey China and G7 is a joke anyway. India is not in it and it is a democratic country. G7 is a post colonial club made up of people who lost the respect of the Global South anyway.
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  878.  @askarufus7939  I wish them full diversity.
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  879. It's not possible for Britain to fight China as it can't even fight Yemen. However, we may see the US defend Taiwan and there is a high chance of WW3 in the Pacific occurring in the next few years. Britain's imperial days are long gone and it's all going one way now, down.
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  880. It's also not true that Germany teaches about WW2. They teach the Holocaust only but for example most Germans don't know that their Third Reich killed 20% of the Polish population in WW2.
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  881. No. This is what happens when the rest of the world learns how to manufacture on an industrial scale. The 1800-1900s are over. You need to be better workers than the Chinese. Japanese are also getting f-ed. Nobody is buying Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi etc, when Hisense, Samsung, LG etc are cheaper and just as good.
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  882.  @Bixmy  US will lose Taiwan. US has no support in the area. So you have to forget about that. And you don't want to lose Europe because once you lose Europe you are on your own. Your closest culturally allies are in Europe.
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  883.  @tsenyenlee9437  I see US experts claim Taiwanese are lazy to defend and want to rely only on US. Taiwan is not doing enough.
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  884. Essentially American websites are no different to Chinese or Russian sites. They all spy. And they all steal data from other regions. Where is the pathetic EU here? Has any data of EU citizens or residents been shared? And what will Ursula van der Leiden do? Probably nothing. Pathetic.
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  885. And his actions un-alived millions of blond Germans. Such a friend of his 'race'. And you worship him? LOL.
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  886. Many Neo-Nazis here seem to be shedding tears.
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  887. As the Dutch would say, hy is vol kak.
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  888.  @captainobvious9188  You Americans have it best. You guys print US dollars because you are the world reserve currency for now. Chinese will one day take that over, but for now your Fed can just print dollars.
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  889. That's the thing. People like penguinz0 may be possibly promoting this stuff without knowing what they're promoting. They'll promote anything for a few bucks. That's what's delicious about Honey. While it may have scammed customers who used it out of better deals, it also nabbed the people who were promoting it, if those people had affiliate links. Delicious karma is delicious. Don't trust influencers. Unless someone reviews a product objectively and it's not some padded review copy, their promotion should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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  890.  @hewhodoes8073  Yes that was a mistake. Giving them the way to industrialise and what it led to in the 20th century.
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  891.  @josecoronadonieto6911  During the Cold War the Americans built Japan up. Previously the Europeans transferred tech to Japan. Japan was a beneficiary of so much good will from the West, all to offset the power balance against China in the late 19th century. It's no wonder the Chinese are peed off.
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  892.  @hewhodoes8073  Rape of Nanking? Korean comfort women? Mass murders in the Philippines, China and Korea? Really?
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  893.  @mugiwara929  I really don't care what China agrees with. But Japan weebery is not healthy nor is it rational.
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  894. Because they have money. They are rich so can keep tidy.
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  895.  @harshanid3636  You will find the more rich the area, even in Japan, the more clean and better upkept
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  896.  @harshanid3636  Just because you repeat something doesn't make it true. The Japanese are like other people. Stop being racist dude. Don't elevate people and make gods out of them by virtue of their common identity. Stop perpetuating stereotypes. Japanese are also dirty. There are many clean places outside of Japan, some even cleaner. Don't be a stuck record. Don't be a weeb.
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  897. People of poor character.
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  898. This is not true. Poland is so BELOVED in the US, that the Americans side with Berlin every, single, time. Now you have a pro-German government in Poland. The guy who said on twitter, thank you USA, when Nordstream was blown up, is the minister of defense. Really? Americans will choose Germany, the left will choose Germany and the right will choose Russia. Poland is st0ffed.
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  899.  @jasonfromguitarcenter  Who is HH?
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  900. Japanese want to be lonely because they're perfectionists.
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  901. It goes downhill from 17:00... pretentious BS. Did AI write this?
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  902. White people definitely can and do pick strawberries. We're called Eastern Europeans. And we've done it all over Europe. But we've always been heavily policed and gesta-po'ed when entering the US, LEGALLY. It's however OK to enter the US illegally from Latin America and expect to be treated with kid gloves and allowed to settle.
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  903.  @Jell0be3n  Anyway, in public health and law enforcement one prioritizes limited resources where they will have the biggest impact. And that's at home. Trafficking occurs but that can get priority at airports and border crossings. Sadly the urban myth perception is that most abuse occurs via some strangers somewhere but as said it's at home. I don't know if everyone who is abused at home has options as quite clearly some people are abused for many years, hence if they had options the abuse would have ended sooner, otherwise they didn't have effective options. Always focus efforts first where they can deliver maximum benefit.
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  904. Because of the Soviet Union. NSDAP and their sympathizers were never brought to book because they were needed against the Soviets.
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  905. He survived by running an anime forum with his girlfriend in the early 2000s.
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  906.  @mnk9073  So you're saying the image can't be detected to be formed by Silver Nitrate depite there being silver residue at the scorch marks? So the image is not made by Silver Nitrite? The silver melted and would be found at the edges of the scorch marks and not in the form of silver nitrite.
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  907. The world is an unjust place. There is no equality among people. Even now some countries can be hit by nuclear weapons and others can't be hit because they are allowed to own them and so nobody will attack them. Ukraine gave her nuclear weapons away in 1991 in exchange for promise from Russia and USA not to be attacked and now children die in Ukraine every day.
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  908.  @Livi_Noelle  They are mid? What do you mean they are mid? With the budget and manpower, they are not mid. They are the bottom of the barrel. Totally useless. American FBI is sometimes good but that's because of money and manpower. Japan is No 3 or 4 richest country in the world. They are loaded with cash. So cash was not a problem. Lack of evidence was not a problem. So they're either incompetent or they let the killer go on purpose. Both make them look bad.
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  909.  @dottieland7061  Why can't Japan be like Europe? Japan wants to be European and copied almost everything from us but didn't copy the best = tolerance and individual value.
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  910.  @kathleencove  That really isn't my problem.
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  911.  @muralk3153  Are you saying people work 24/7? I engage with people here about topics which take my fancy. And I'm sorry what do you mean deep insecurity about being belittled? Are you ok? Why the personal attacks?
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  912.  @muralk3153  Did I say they were unhygenic? I told you that Japanese women I know, ok it's one particular mother and daughter, mom in her 60s, daughter in her 30s, avoid public washlets as they consider them unhygienic. They're Japanese people, living in Japan. Anyway where did I say there were unhygenic per se. Secondly, I did say that they're not always effective. There seems to be misunderstanding here.
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  913.  @28-r8b  Nobody is entitled but once they let you in, you are entitled to be afforded protection. There are international treaties governing that. Also read what your passport says. This is about Japan letting people in LEGALLY and then some Japanese complaining about tourists. Maybe they should rather complain about their government instead.
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  914.  @GustafUNL  Last I checked, I did not attend Davos. No I'm not a globalist.
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  915. I think average IQ is higher in China.
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  916.  @lioneldemun6033  Because we're not in a kinetic war. Russians have been undermining the West since forever. Russia has always been an imperialist state. Under the tsars, under liberals when tsars allowed some democracy, under the bolsheviks and now. Only under Yeltsin Russia was on a bit of a backburner. Anyone who lived under the RUssian boot knows this. Even Gorbachev ordered the police and army to shoot at Lithuanian protesters. "Dr Goebbels"? That scumbag? RT is propaganda. And since Russia is a war with the West, non kinetic war, it makes no sense to amplify their lies.
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  917.  @lioneldemun6033  Because kinetic war is only one kind of war. Russia started the aggression.
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  918.  @lioneldemun6033  Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor.
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  919. The grain should be going to Africa but instead gets dumped in the EU. If the EU cared it would pay the farmers and send the grain to Africa where people are starving. It wasn't going there. The Ukrainian grain is run by multinational Western concerns.
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  920. lolicon?
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  921. Nobody is censoring Hitler. My Catholic relatives were un-alived by the Nazi Germans. Learn about that dude.
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  922. People in Scandinavia take such cold showers, it's healthy. And he was an Aryan, he was 'master race' so not sure why he complained. Yes he was such a poor dear. And common soldiers would belittle this SS man. What a poor baby. Maybe he should not have shot these poor boys he shot in 1940.
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  923. Japanese kids. In interviews on YT, Japanese know bogger all about the swastika even though those guys were their BFFs.
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  924. What are you trying to say? That people can't study this cloth to determine how it was made? It is truly remarkable indeed and all evidence points to it being from the first century as other dating tests show that and the C14 testing was not representative. Nobody is forcing you to believe this image is really Jesus Christ. Don't worry.
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  925.  @kowalskee360  Good that you said you're an atheist. That way we know you are better than those Christians.
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  926.  @purenkool2024  He means that weebs like him. Support of Ukraine and Europe: NO. Support of Taiwan and Japan: Yes. Yellow fever guys.
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  927. You learned this only now? Afrikaaners still resent the "soutpielle". But the Boers were very effective against the Brits, One Boer was worth a dozen Red Coats. Their superiority was second to none. Well they had home advantage.
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  928.  @nathanappleby5342 Afrikaaners still resent the Brits for this. When the English couldn't fight the Boers fairly they turned on their women and children.
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  929. Japan is not competitive. You were more competitive than European worker, but China/Viet worker is better than you. Look you are living beyond your means. You will have to become poor like before Meiji.
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  930. How about someone markets a slimming product to this poor man that he can get into?
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  931. You're a weeb. If you're going to Japan 9 times already and you feel ashamed and you think ordinary civil behaviour is not enough, then you are not well adjusted. Maybe speak to a counsellor. Because there is something wrong here if you are this careful. And if ordinary Japanese or your friends are this easily offended, then maybe you should not be befriending these people. This sounds like the Stockholm Syndrome.
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  932.  @Annimausi1985 Japanese love Germans. It's because Germans are perceived to be superior to other whites by Japanese and often Germans think themselves superior to other Europeans. Japanese also think themselves superior to other Asians and so you two fit each other. We know the history of how Japan copied Prussian militarism and had a hard on for those NSDAP boys you had in the 30s. But once you go into obatarian-magnet you start to sound like a weeb. Yes normal and polite (civil) behaviour and not one inch more is what's required. If Japan requires additional sensitivities then the problem is with Japan. It's good you can afford to travel to Japan so much. Being wealthy also means you dress well and so you are maybe the good tourist, the Duits and also the well dressed one. Poorer people who maybe get to go to Japan once in their lives and who aren't German, may receive a more negative reception from some Japanese people. We've hosted Japanese and Germans in Cape Town. And both were friendly but I suspect they'd be less friendly if I was either in Germany or in Japan.
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  933. Because overcrowding if it's their own people, is OK. It's racism, they don't want to breathe the same air as the foreigners.
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  934. LOL, don't believe these lies. For Americans, Germans and even Russians, we are trash, we Poles are trash.
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  935. Western Europe sucks because you guys have not as high work ethic as East Asians and are not as industrious. That's the fact and you have to accept it and move on. Even Vietnam is eating your lunch.
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  936. He's a snobby jerk himself. How many millions is that fool worth? He's like a palace jester. They were even rich. They could insult the king and any noble and could get away with it. Gervais is as much a hypocrite and a rich spoilt pseudo-intellectual as any other celeb. He is a celeb too.
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  937.  @ClockworkGaming101  It's all moot. Dogs don't feel guilt.
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  938. Westerners don't. Chinese and Koreans do. And anyone who survived Japanese POW captivity. So unless you mean Westeners by 'people' then yes, but if you mean people as all Homo Sapiens then billions do consider them evil at that time. And sadly many Japanese now seem to ignore this history.
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  939.  @ryelor123  Sorry this is not true. Yes Japanese are different but also Japanese are the same as us. I don't know if you personally know any Japanese but I do and I find Japanese closer to central Europeans than to Anglos. It's you guys who are different I could say. Secondly NO. The Nazis were not about simple eugenics which has been mostly ended unless you speak about termination of pregnancy for reasons of preference or to terminate babies with Donw's Syndrome. The German Nazis committed horrible acts of industrial un-aliving of millions of Jews, Poles, Roma, Greeks, Belarussians, Ukrainoians. Russians, and others. If you claim they can't defend that, that is pure nonsense. How can you defend un-aliving innocent people? What is your argument pro it? There can be no arguments from this. Japan gets a pass because the Americans needed and need Japan against the USSR and PRC. That's all. Japanese like the West Germans got off scot free for WW2. In West Germany many ex- NSDAP returned to work. You can see how the German BNP was made up of Gestapo for example. Or how NSDAP doctors returned to work for the West German republic.
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  940. Japanese tend to be racist. Why? Because you can see their media has a feel of the zeitgeist there and knows what buttons to push. They pander to the hate of the other, the distrust of the other. The Japanese government wants tourists but many people seem to hate on them. Surely a logical person would then vote in such a government which would reduce tourism. But that doesn't happen. Japanese get a major shock when they visit Paris and see how rude French can be. I do not find French to be particularly rude but anyway. Still it's even a diagnostic entity in the science of psychology. If you like Japan maybe you should not visit then. It may disturb you when you see it's not all roses and unicorns over there, either.
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  941.  @ryanscottmurphy86 It should. Japanese are polite, but who isn't. I've been to many countries and lived in several and to be fair, it's very rare to find a rude person.
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  942.  @ジュニアー05 Hi Junior, thanks for your explanation. In fact I didn't confuse it. I actually said that politeness is a basic thing, people around the world are polite. Maybe Japanese sometimes take it to extremes but that's not helpful, overt politeness which crosses the line is actually inconvenient and impolite and as you say they have an underlying philosophy or dogma which supports this. When it comes to clutching bags I would do such things myself. I tend to not want to inconvenience others and I sometimes go above what's reasonable in my profession, I work as an MD. That's just me though, I have lower expectations for others. What gets me is that the Japanese government encourages tourism and they push soft power overseas. Their emperor and government is pro tourism. In this regard, in line with their Confucian thought they should surely shut the heck up and their media should support tourism and downplay the minor inconveniences. Either they support their state or they are opposed and so this can lead to loss or harmony and disobedience. I suppose nobody is perfect, even Japanese can't be perfectly Japanese.
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  943.  @ジュニアー05 Ultimately it's about seniority and authority, isn't it? The JP government promotes tourism. Much to the chagrin of some Japanese locals. But that's too individualistic in approach. The government knows best and wants tourism and the people should go along. Criticism is negation of that. The emperor and the gov are the seniors and for the sake of social harmony and good of all the figure in authority should be obeyed and NOT UNDERMINED. This kind of thing undermines the authority of the government. If the government considers tourism to be necessary, they will permit it and locals should shut up. They're favouring their own selfish comfort over the welfare of the other members of their society, those 10s of millions who don't interact with tourists.
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  944.  @ジュニアー05 Yes it's not that much anymore but it's more so than in say Europe and as you say it goes with the Confucian system they have. Apparently the Koreans are even worse. Look gov wants tourism, locals should bear with it.
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  945.  @dorian6021  You would definitely show respect to my face given that highly ranked people do so. I do the same to everyone. You're not brought up well. Maybe you're a punk kid. Anyhow I don't see the fawning over Japanese fashion as it's nothing special. It's not better to other things people produce the world over. People like it because Japan has a weeb attraction and also a big marketing budget. I'm also an egalitarian. In the way I would oppose discrimination against Japanese I oppose too much simping for them and glorifiying them as though they are gods and their fashion is so special. It's not. If Harajuku fashion is fading it means someone else has taken over. Why not study other fashion trends instead of being aggresive with strangers and accusatory? Anyway I doubt your parents are proud of you. I would not be if you were my son or daughter or my student.
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  946.  @bigfrankfraser1391  Too many weebs worship Japan. I for one am (ALMOST) happy China will dominate them but as said, ALMOST.
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  947.  @alestane2  Nothing is stopping them. My point is that one groups loss is another's gain.
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  948. M's a hack.
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  949.  @ianshaver8954  Mearsheimer has a PhD. He's not stupid. He's just a b-ser. And people give him a free pass. Not bad info. He is pro big empire politics, except for USA, USA is No 1, rest is big powers >>> smaller.
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  950.  @allo-other  Why not use the term worldview? Anyway Putin's process is rational, if you take Russia for an imperialist state which it always has been. It's just you Westerners who have been kissing Russian butt. Take the French. After the defeat of Napoleon the French experience of Russians is the temporary occupation where Russian officers paid hard currency for every chicken their soldiers looted. The French even picked up a term from the Russians, bistro. Putin is and was rational if you consider Russia an imperial state, he may just have been given bad info or did not predict the aid Ukraine would get.
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  951. I knew a British engineer who married a Japanese woman in the early 80s. Her family disowned her. These "elderly" people are younger than those who would have been alive during WW2 and even before such as the parents of the woman I knew. As for wanting to live in Japan, they need not worry. Most people don't want to live there. There are much more welcoming places around the world which are actually as beautiful or even more beautiful. Besides each country is beautiful. Japan became rich because we Westerners close down our factories and did not do what they did to the Koreans and Chinese in WW2, after the West liberated Japan from the stupidity it had prior and during WW2.
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  952. Westerners are not being replaced. UK is still a class, elitist society where all that counts is who you know and not what you know. You guys need to stop scaremongering.
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  953. So why does Russia want to de-dollarize in BRICS. Don't be a traitor to the US.
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  954. Minor eh? We lost 6 million people. Minor? You're disgusting.
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  955. I like how he identifies as an East Asian, yet he is a total American lecturing Poles about how to make their country better after being still a punk kid and only being there for several years. And those clickbait thumbnails are not true, Poles don't shoot at unarmed border-crossers. Come on.
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  956.  @WheresWes  My response was a bit hyperbolic. The sort of 'get off my lawn' response. I didn't miss it. I don't mind people lecturing. Just that you said you're East Asian and of that temperament but those people tend to be subdued, docile and quiet. They don't like to stand out. It's the Americans who are loud and in your face. So you're American, like it or not. Those guys who put the feet on the coffee table. In the 1960s my grandfather had his car knocked by a US diplomat. It was in Warsaw. The guy rear ended him. The man told him to meet him at the US consulate and actually invited him for a drink. He put his feet on the table and went on and on about something. But when it looked like he didn't want to pay for the damage, my grandfather told him that, well - it's nice that he invited him but he's beating about the bush and being cheap like the Russians. He should not waste his time. Anyway the guy got angry but paid up. My grandfather later had a dossier at the UB for that visit to the US consulate. Have a good day. :)
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  957. Too much lolita complex
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  958. I just don't see how pro-Russian channels such as this one applaud Trump. He said he's going to hit the BRICS with 100% tariffs if they continue the anti-Dollar BS, and Russia is a kingpin of that. Russia is f-ed. She has to stick to China and China is the key part of the anti-US BS going on, and the Americans have finally noticed. You can already see Trump taking on South Africa. JD Vance quoted John Paul II. In the US, we Poles are going to work extra hard to make Europe more American.
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  959.  @gracebgray  There is also the gnostic fallacy.
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  960. I really call BS on this. The stories are ordinary. It's just Brits hyping up their British exceptionalism. Anglo chauvinism.
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  961. geishas with small g.
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  962.  @danielwalker5682  Nothing is justified here. But you have to understand the context. The Germans exterminated all Soviet POWs. The survival rate for a Soviet POW was like 1-2%. The Russians actually treated the Germans better than the Germans treated the Russian POWs and women and children. I'm Polish and I don't like either WW2 Russians or WW2 Germans and I don't like Russian imperialism now, but this discussion is about WW2 and back then the Nazi Germans and their allies were actually worse. I'm anti communist by the way.
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  963.  @danielwalker5682  The German war of aggression of 1939 to 1945 was one of the worst examples of inhumane barbarism ever. I think it would make Genghis Khan blush. It would likely make the Khmer Rouge blush too. Russia is bad. We know. But let's not defend Nazi Germans. Silicon Curtain is tarnishing the Ukrainian plight with Nazi German revisionism here.
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  964.  @Calligraphybooster  I'm not sure what the etymology of scorched earth means to the relevance of what the Germans did to the Russians in WW2. TIK History has some videos about the eastern front and what the German army did i.e. take food from the peasants and cause them to starve to death. Secondly we all know that the Russian POWs were treated terribly. Finally him being Norwegian does not mean he knows how much worse the fate of most Slavic people was compared to fellow Aryans as the Norwegians were at the time. I actually know that most Western Europeans know very little about WW2 and likely because inherent racist and supremacist biases consider us Slavs as lesser human beings. I mean look at you. You bring up Napoleon. We're discussing WW2 here in the context of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and you speak of Napoleon. For you this is a navel gazing exercise in bringing up anecdotes. Hence I don't know if he knows.
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  965.  @Calligraphybooster  Let's be good and let's not make a joke out of mass human suffering.
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  966.  @JingleJangleJam  I don't think the rest lowered their standards to the level of the Nazi Germans. For one the Nazi Germans were systematically eliminating people, they started with Jews but the first people they targeted in Poland were not Jews but Polish intelligentsia - some were Jewish Poles too, but targetted not for their Jewishness but to decapitate the Polish nation. Google the Intelligentzaktion. Now tell me where did the Western allies implement this in Japan or Germany after defeating them. They didn't. This is but one of many examples of how the Allies never reached the evil of the NSDAP Germany. The Soviets were evil too, we know, but their intentions were not to mass exterminate entire populations but to subjugate entire peoples. And the Soviets did have an Intelligentzaktion in Poland in 1939 and in 1944-1989.
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  967.  @JingleJangleJam  Of course you are anti-Slav. Take the recent movie about a bunch of guys fighting Germans in Africa. Not a single Pole among them. You get Dutch or Belgians but not a single Pole. Take Inglorius Basterds, any Poles there? But Poles were the real deal back then. Google Pilecki. As for anti-Slav, that still contiues. Ask any "Western European" what they think of Slavic people and usually you guys hate us. And for that reason Western Europe cannot become diverse fast enough. I
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  968.  @TrueGrantsta  The shills made it bad for everyone. But at least they got burned too. Moral of the story is to not listen to clueless influencers. All their promotions are worth what Honey was worth. They are all overpaid, underqualified, loud mouths who are seen as little gods, in this personality cult of the internet.
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  969.  @kynchan3332  Non religious are usually left and hate Christians. They usually pretend to hate Jewish people and they support other religions. Right atheist is a rare thing and is usually someone like Sargon of Akkad - or Mr Applebee's - look up Mr Metokur take down of him.
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  970.  @McLovinHandle  Great England is not compatible with MAGA.
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  971. James Fanell thinks the Chinese navy is best or will definitely be. Most serious American analists think the US is bluffing.
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  972. It actually is stuck in the past. Their economy is going downhill because the rest of the world now outcompetes them.
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  973. Trump said he's going to keep the sanctions and the aid. And the new US secretary of defense told us Poles that he'd like more US troops in Poland. Russia is fcked. Sorry Panie Sas, you're not as important to the States as we are and we'll continue to keep Russia out of Europe.
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  974.  @lilacer6841  Germany can't wait to fully trade with the Russians. Sas thinks that the Germans want anti-Russian sanctions. Tell me you don't know Germans without telling me that.
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  975.  @powershift2025  How will they find out? US will not go to nuclear war against the Chinese. Chinese have the highest IQ in the world.
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  976.  @GOATMENTATOR  Then be like Finland
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  977. Too much appreciation. All based on manga/anime and racist stereotypes.
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  978. The names at least in the first part of the film were Western. Were these Westerners or should you not rather use names which are more representative of average Singaporeans? So Chinese and Malaysian names?
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  979. Oldest country? China? Iran? Egypt?
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  980.  @vicsingularity1040  Yeah the way I constructed my initial comment sounded as though they were S&F boys. Only the last one is. Bartosiak is a bit over the top. He wanted no armour for poland initially he just wanted to hide a few tanks in barns and have TDF with Javelins. I think Budzisz is the most balanced and measured.
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  981. Also Brits are quite racist and elitist. Anglo-chauvinism. As a Pole living in South Africa for 30 years, it was mainly the British who were chauvinist. The more Germanic Afrikaaners were more friendly.
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  982. You should not have looked or smiled. You probably profaned her with your Western ways.
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  983.  @PRCutie101  I listen to mostly Western analysts. Even Zeihan thinks the US is going isolationist.
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  984.  @covenant_mog05  Japanese navy was British made and based.
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  985.  @redrocket604  Americans were soft. The difference in how Americans and their forefathers (Europeans) fought is that Americans would bomb everything to sh-t first. Americans had a very good navy but they could have let Japan alone and let the Reds kick them out of Asia and Japan would starve and have to surrender.
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  986.  @ElieGroff  Not always. Plenty of junk made in Japan stuff from brands such as NEC, Hitachi and Sony. Stop being a weeb man.
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  987.  @MrDnong  I don't think 'eat' but I think definitely the Chinese would have had their own areas of occupation and would have stayed on - being Red Chinese, being Communist was about expanding the way expansion occurred in Korea and Vietnam.
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  988.  @MrDnong  Not as much, but they would aid their Soviet allies with manpower and they would also help occupy Japan. You know the way North Korea is helping the Soviets today, i.e. Putin.
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  989.  @MrDnong  I'm a Westerner but also not a Westerner. I'm from the Soviet Bloc. And I know about the skirmishes between China and USSR. But I also know there was a lot of co-operation between them. I know that we hosted North Koreans in Poland in the late 50s. I know that there was a lot of co-operation going on among the comrades, at least that's also how it was presented to us in the 80s. And for sure we know that the comrades would have co-operated. It's not the same world however, as Japan surrendered to the Americans. One thing about communistic Chinese people that we knew in the 1990s was that they were of similar mind to us from former Eastern Europe. I don't know where you're from nor your age but maybe it's a generational thing.
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  990.  @sextoncardew903  Ah you're from the blame the victim school of thought. So if your child is r-ped one day you can blame her that she wore a pretty dress and the 'poor' attacker was made to attack her or maybe if she surrendered and said 'yes, have your way with me' than the issue would have been avoided. Sick logic from a Neo-Nazi mind (yours).
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  991. Populism. Funny enough the unwashed Poles are moving left.
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  992. Not Anglophones but Anglo-saxons. Many people speak English, most of us are not native Anglo-Saxons.
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  993.  @RmnGnzlz  My comment was deleted. A conservative society would not permit children to be used this way, eg in "junior idol" swimsuit photo spreads as sold on Amazon Japan and other sites. Laws would be passed banning that. I'm sorry but Japan is not conservative if people tolerate others exploiting minors this way.
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  994.  @mehgandanae1663  Google definition of pedophilia.
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  995. Well that's a given. We could also say that just because an argument is logically sound the conclusion could be incorrect if any of the premises are false. Likewise if you have correct premises but your conclusions are incorrect because you're following a fallacy you have an incorrect conclusion. In all cases however we need to know what the conclusion is but if we don't know at best we can say, this argument proves or disproves something or is invalid. An invalid argument does not prove or disprove the proposition one is arguing for.
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  996.  @ELMQ  Maybe they're not weak and you're just so good.
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  997. LOL, of course the Germans have always been about Molotov-Ribbentrop, i.e. cheap hydrocarbons from Russia uber alles.
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  998. I just noticed the ENGRISH. It's WORK STATION and not STATION WORK. For a rich country, they don't have one person who speaks average English to translate for them? Come on.
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  999. They're degenerates to drug these women and abuse them. And what's also a bit strange is that the guy wanted a threesome as in 2 guys and his wife, normally dudes want to invite an additional woman into their relationship for a threesome.
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  1000.  @mosquitobight  That's how it's been in places like China and Korea. Those products are cheaper for a reason. Now it's the UK's turn. Sorry but that's just how the cookie crumbles. Life's not fair, never was. You guys exploited those people when you had a chance and now they're not letting you anymore so to retain some productivity your bosses have to exploit you.
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  1001. True. Asian tourists still cause trouble in other parts of the world. Japanese included. They are inconvenient in their way. Locals would also want to be left alone but these tourists come, snap pictures, crowd shops and create queues and cause prices to go up for locals as well in tourist sites.
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  1002.  @teoleno4019 Japanese are rude too. They crowd up. They don't behave like locals. For example there should be a ban on non Christian Japanese in Notre Dame. In Vatican we should ban all Japanese who are not Christian. If Geishas are sacred to Japan and a foreigner profanes them then pagans profane our holy sites. But even beyond that, the volume of foreign people who walk awkwardly and snap pictures is also bad. I think fair is fair. It is precisely because we European people are so tolerant and have been so kind, that we are taken advantage of. If Japanese want to ban foreigners, we should reciprocate and specifically BAN JAPANESE (exception would be Christian Japanese, as those should also be banned from geisha sites as they also don't consider that culture their own.)
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  1003.  @cezarstefanseghjucan I think you're confused. Just because they're not stealing does not mean they are not a problem. Most tourists don't steal. What is a tourist going to steal anyway? You can only take 23kg in Economy. If you are first class you are rich. I think you are a weeb and you worship Japan because of anime but you have zero experience of them or their products.
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  1004.  @cezarstefanseghjucan Japan tourists also caused problems. Better for them not to come. Japanese, stay home and enjoy geisha and junior idol.
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  1005. Potatoes come from South America. Poles hate Russia but did not arm until the Pissiors took over. Tusk will probably disarm.
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  1006. And nothing of value will be missed. You can keep your geisha but give us back our classical music, Western dress, Western art and science and so on. Thank you.
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  1007. Japan is too conceited for that.
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  1008.  @jandrews6254  I'm not American.
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  1009.  @MrGujesgujes  Polish with 1/4 English ancestry. You?
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  1010. Nothing will happen Mr Puck. We've already seen Jake Sullivan be concerned about Russian nukes.
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  1011. You have Asian fetish?
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  1012. Nothing of value will be missed. Hopefully the tourists will go to other countries.
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  1013. It's an organised country because it copied the West. Prior to Meiji Restoration Japan was not a very clean or ordered place.
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  1014. So when the South tried to break away in the American Civil War, it was allowed to have a 2 state solution?
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  1015.  @KenjaTimu  Dude, uneducated people speak poorly in English. Instead of posting BS here, read some books.
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  1016.  @LW1Tok  You don't speak for America. Stats show that most Americans are OK with LGBT.
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  1017.  @kagetsuki23  You need to realise that while Japan had gay people having sex, in the UK, you would go to prison for gay sex. That's what happened to Turing, the guy who helped invent the computer. So obviously Japanese attitudes were far more tolerant. Maybe they are not as celebratory and affirming, because some Westerners are puritan and push morality hard and overcompensate but Japan did not outlaw sex between men.
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  1018.  @jamiefroud633  Thanks for that. Japan banned kiddie porn in 1999 and banned onwership in 2014. Amazon Japan would sell movies which were banned in the US/Europe eg Maladosecenza. When you say teen idol industry has been left alone, if you search junior idols on Amazon it's not teens in these magazins, it's preteens. It's 10 year olds. Thanks for your explanation. Now I suppose bad things may happen in Japanese schools and probably way worse things happen all over the world, but the crux is that usually those bad things are in resource poor settings, Japan is the No 3 or 4 RICHEST country in the world. Japanese are filthy rich even though they don't know it. They are educated, they have top universities, academics, etc. They have money for jurists, judges, prosecutors, etc. People are well read. The thing is that despite that people seem to draw morality with legality. But let's face it, most of us, don't need to know that molesting children is illegal for us not to do it. We're inclined not to do it. We are sickened by it and we feel compassion for a child who would face abuse. We also can't stand idly by seeing kids being openly exploited. What I don't get is why Japanese don't seem to feel this. People I know from various cultures would not tolerate child abuse even if the kids were not their own. But so many Japanese simply tolerate it. Scandals in idol agencies are one thing but the usual junior idol swimsuit stuff and these are 10 year olds does not seem to draw scandals. And people seem to be proud of their country that yes, Japan is known for cool tech products and tolerance of pedophilia. Which other culture has euphemisms for pedophiles (lolicons)? I don't want to be nasty but I would not let my underage child out be of my sight if visiting Japan.
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  1019. I don't think you can make a case for someone else anywhere in the world. If you witness assault, you can call the police, but if the victim refuses to press charges, you can't press charges, unless the victim has been murdered or I suppose is in a coma. Then the prosecutor may be able to prosecute. THis is in response to time 43:43. If the victim is underage and you are the guardian/parent you will be able to press charges or the prosecutor must file charges. Of course some people do have sex in public and in that case it would make no sense to have at third party file assault charges. Sometimes couples get angry or role play and there are people who are into r-pe fantasies. It would make no sense to prosecute such cases if the victim did not file charges. Charges for sex in public would be filed though. If the victim is incapacitated however, the state has to investigate reports. In this case the woman was psychologically affected and if there was suspicion of wrong doing that would have to be investigated, I would think. Drawing of the perp's genitals however would not be the correct way of investigating this. . But two consenting adults, can't be reported by a third party for the r word.
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  1020. True. And the word "pod" is also dehumanising. Peas grow in pods. People are not inanimate peas.  @blr4076 
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  1021. Why do you say Americans would trash it? Some would, others wouldn't. Japanese have a lot of overengineering.  @OhitsAmina318 
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  1022. The CIA ran rat lines itself. America would have to investigate itself. Remember that maybe a 1/4 of all Americans are of German origin.
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  1023. It would be interesting to see China cut its defense budget, but that won't happen, As China wants a Monroe Doctrine in its part of the world. So will the US give Taiwan, Korea and Japan to China?
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  1024. For a supposed intelligent (educated) society, so many people assume stupid things quickly. And they don't seem to trust each other.
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  1025. It's not hard. What did the USSR give us? NOTHING but misery. Take medicine for example. 99% of the meds we use today, things I prescribe daily for my patients, are or were developed/discovered in the West. Same for most other forms of technology. USSR gave us nothing but misery. They rabble roused and funded wars everywhere. They dumped AK47s everywhere so that a country like South Africa is flooded by these things. And the tankie Metratron is arguing against is a big EFF supporter in SA. Most South Africans will tell you that guy is totally clueless.
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  1026. Likely there are 0 Germans or German-Canadians upset that Germany is also in that pro-RUssian camp.
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  1027.  @nathanbutcher7720 Well of course Japan didn't care if it appeared racist. Because Japan was in the US camp and became a US outpost and was built by the Americans. It then became a factory for the Americans, something which China has now become on a greater level. Japanese products used to be junk. Later they became better and Taiwan and HK was said to be rubbish, now some Chinese products are said to be rubbish, although the same Chinese are capable of assembling Macbooks which are very good machines, better in quality than Japanese made Vaio PCs. Point is that Japan didn't have to care because Japan was developed. Now the rest of the world is catching up and Japan no longer produces TVs and computers - there is nothing to see in Akihabara. They still produce some advanced electronics but at the rate the others are going they will surpass that. The thing is that with others catching up and becoming rich and Japan becoming more poor, Japanese will be in a weaker position and will not be able to dictate to others and will need others. They will be kissing Indian peoples' behinds when they visit Japan and they'll open up the geishas to them, once they are sufficiently poor. And they will be poor because Japan is a small country with few resources and had enjoyed the relative advanced tech economy based on US hegemony. That's going away. When I say racism, I don't mean the woke racism of America or Europe. I mean the open racism that is resented by mainland Asians, or rather chauvinism. Maybe racism is a wrong word. And those people have long memories. Anglo people don't understand this. Foreigners in Japan may continue to face xenophobia but once Japan becomes sufficiency poor it will change and they may kiss the backsides of foreign Asians or other formerly less developed nations. They won't change because they're woke, they'll change because they'll have to, to have any meaningful economy at all.
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  1028.  @squirlmy  The weebs on Yotube are Japan chavuvinists. They'd betray their own for Japan. And Japanese won't give them the time of say because they are gaijin. So work visas are brought in. But 99% of Westerners would never want to work and live in Japan. Japan is dangerous. You have earthquakes there. Secondly it's an alien culture and people. Thirdly you will always be a GAIJIN. Fourthly, you will get paid less, not have equal chances vs your Japanese colleagues and it's an expensive country. It's small and cramped. Japan is a good ally for us in the West. But it's not a country Westerners would want to go to work in. Unless they're weebs. Even Japanese would prefer to work elsewhere.
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  1029.  @kabob21  I'm not American. Japan has neigbours who have huge grudges against her, Chinese and Koreans. They also have others, Indians who are very touchy about racism against them. Japan can't relocate to Europe or America. She has to make do with them. The idea that tourists to Japan need cultural education is a troll. Tourism is a privilege. People won't come to Japan if Japanese are going to be aholes. I wouldn't. Only weebs will or the ignorant, but once they have one or two rude encounters with those Japanese who are xenophobic, they'll create bad publicity and Japan will be sidelined. Japan already has bad publicity, many people find the whole child obsession there to be problematic.
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  1030.  @Yamato-tp2kf  I know that being an EU member and being granted a visa free to another country, other EU members are already enjoying visa free entry, does not automatically follow. The EU does not negotiate visa arrangements as a bloc. So Japan could have visa free with one EU member and not with another. The converse is true that if you obtain a Schengen visa it's valid in all Schengen countries but that's an internal EU thing.
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  1031.  @Yamato-tp2kf  LOL managed by Yakuza. So a G7 country, the 3 or 4th richest country has establishments managed by gangs. What's going to happen if a tourist goes there? The yakuzas may kill him? Maybe kidnap his 8 year old child to work in a yakuza brothel? Really? If Yakuzas are running the show then the Japanese gov needs to clean them up. This isn't a video game.
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  1032. American freedoms.
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  1033. Guest caliber and quality of content need not correlate. There should be some sort of empirical measurement to say whether an interview is valuable according to some measure or not. Merely stating an interview is valuable or profound because some of the parties are experts in their field is an appeal to authority.
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  1034. Google Julian Lindley French. He says Japan was only good as a sea power because the British asked them too and gave them ships and designs.
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  1035. Several problems. Europe has no people to fight. Europeans in polls usually say they won't fight for their country. The armies are small. Secondly Europe does not have many arms. And ammo is running out. Finally Europe has no significant nuclear deterrent. UK and France have a deterrent but neither UK nor France will want to sacrifice London or Paris for Warsaw or Berlin. Europe also has no tactical nuclear means. America has a limited tactical nuclear arsenal but less so than Russia. The Russians can, as Bartosiak says, can escalate to descalate. They could fire off a tactical nuke. What will the West do? Tactical nuke capability is limited. The Russians could escalate which may bring the West to back down.
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  1036. I very much doubt you guys have love for us. You guys will go after the Germans. You even call yourself a 'keiser'.
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  1037.  @05KAR yes on TV Republika which is funded by donors.
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  1038.  @05KAR and gets donations from ordinary people. Now TVP is owned by Tusk and his crew. In Poland each regime takes over the TVP and runs it any way it wants. Wyborcza is a left wing paper completely . TV N has left wing sympathies and was biased towards the former opposition. Republika is the only TV news agency which is not biased pro the ruling coalition. So? There has to be balance in terms of the media landscape.
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  1039. Poland's been trying to build a modern airport in its centre because Poland has terrible airports. This has probably been scuttled by the new Tusk led government because why have a proper airport in Poland when you have good airports in Berlin? That Central Communications Hub has also been approved by American NATO commanders. Sadly our current government is going more with Germany in that maybe we can one day trade our way with Putin again. Joe Biden sadly supported these guys so I have little hope.
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  1040.  @Smartguy-22  America is not done as a NATO ally and head. This is pure FUD. Ukraine is not part of NATO. Simple.
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  1041. There is no such thing as white. There is English, Scottish, Irish, German, Dutch, Latvian, Slovak etc. The Brits have been perfidious in their history. As a Polish person, you Brits did so much harm to my country siding always with our enemies. Even after WW1 you Brits preferred the Germans and it was only American help, the French and our own efforts that we rebuilt our country. Britain even took our WW2 gold. Keeping gold in Britain is not even reliable. You Brits had your empire and you're No 5 or 6 economy because of that. You need to accept migrants and have a diverse society because that's the logical and rational consequence of being the global power. Accept it and move on. Let us backward people who were colonised and oppressed by your friends have our lives, you benefit from your former colonies and accummulated wealth. You need to be multi racial and diverse. Accept it and move on. If you want to say you're WHITE then you should not have had these colonies. You plundered other regions. Now the chickens have come home to roost. Enjoy.
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  1042. You lead a blessed life is this overpaid fatcat is your No 1 concern.
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  1043.  @3ndeavor  Good times are over for Japan. The rest of the world is catching up. The days of being the only electronics manufacturer outside of Europe and US are long gone.
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  1044. No such thing as NEVER. Next administration may be more friendly to this. Or Europe may get its sh-t together.
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  1045.  @NotSoGood-765  Russia refused observers. UN observers were offered to observe the Donbas. Remember Russia said that Ukraine was abusing ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
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  1046.  @Grouse2275  It may and likely will come to a total nuclear war at some stage. Sooner or later that probability reaches a 1 given how that's a limiting factor.
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  1047. Instead they grew their economy into 3-4 richest. They are too rich for what they really are. They should be no 12 in world rankings.
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  1048.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  The French communists also collaborated. Remember Stalin ordered them to in 1939.
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  1049. If they are operating there they're likely GRU connected. GRU are the real secret service of USSR and Russia. KGB/NVKD was the weaker service.
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  1050. Spot on. But City of London did get rich from these crazy Russian investments too. How much did they clean up of that?
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  1051. The problem Paul, is that China is catching up also in white collar jobs. A country with more people and of a higher average IQ and a longer history will ultimately beat the United States. It is inevitable. The US would have to increase her population to 1.4 billion and kids would have to go to cram school. It won't happen. The discipline is not there.
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  1052.  @joshportie  ?? No, what's invented is the "Church of England". The Papacy is a continuation of Peter the Disciple. His remains were actually found underneath the Vatican City.
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  1053.  @Player-re9mo  No it's not. Go away Russian.
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  1054. @ Self hating Romanian, sure. If you can't tell the difference between civilised and peaceful discussions about history and violent aggression, I can't help you. Your schooling has failed you.
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  1055. Well they no longer follow the minor prostitution practices, thank Goodness. They don't do kamuro anymore.
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  1056. No, that's not true. Only high ranking Nazis were punished. West Germany actually paid SS pensions for many years after the War. Even the West German secret service was called Hitler's boys by the Brits in the 50s. Do some research Richard, many German criminals were never prosecuted and West Germany covered up for them.
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  1057. For us Non-Americans, that guy is a typical Yank. You all are like him. That's so typical of the average Yank for us. Remember also that Japanese like Disneyland and McDonalds. They like lefty Americans.
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  1058.  @BradleySherlock-n4x  He can go to Akihabara to watch junior idol concerts then.
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  1059. Look up Japan "lolicon" culture, junior idols and check what year they finally banned child porn.
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  1060.  @harshanid3636  Yes and there are aiport hotels for such people so they don't need to leave the airport and don't go through immigration and customs/border control.
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  1061.  @underratedgod6899  Maybe because in the US even poor people get to fly. But if you put that in an international departure hall, it would probably not be trashed. However, there are better services than even that.
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  1062.  @stvn55  Lots of cops use in the EU use smaller vehicles in such situations. I disagree with your assessment. 1. The junkie was not dying. There was no need to speed. Had the junkie been in cardiac arrest, google it mate, then it's 5- 6 minutes before permanent brain damage. There was a potential risk of the junkie arresting and when that happened it would be 5-6 minutes till brain injury. 2. He was speeding too fast. They mentioned 70mi/hr that's highly reckless in a built up partially obstructed setting. Being a cop does not mean you can speed recklessly. Certainly in Europe he'd not be allowed to speed this way if his view was obstructed and why is a cop speeding to a junkie? A junkie needs an ambulance, not a take down and handcuffs. 3. Portable music use is highly common, what's worse is that people even use sound isolating and noise cancelling earphones. So all in all a woman died, the cop is going to have PTSD, her family will be in a bad way and the drug OD made it without the cop. In every decision you have to ask two things. What are the dangers of action and what are the dangers of inaction. All in all the car was too big and driving too fast for an urban environment with many people in it with obstructions and everyone and their dog sporting noise cancelling sound isolating wireless earphones. I called the man a junkie but that's not to disrespect anyone. At the end stupid decisions caused the death of this innocent woman who was listening to music as millions of others do every day.
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  1063.  @Niki_Hydn  Thanks for your courteous response. Niki if the caller arrested, then and only then we'd have 5 minutes or so till start of permanent brain injury. The cop at best would be able to do CPR. That would help if highly effective but the ambulance would be able to stop the cardiac arrest with defibrillation and so on. The ambulance should have been the speeding vehicle. The risk here was POTENTIAL and not ACTUAL. Had the kid arrested, had his heart stopped as happens in VF/VT then every second counts. Secondly use of noise cancelling earphones is extremely common. Every department should plan for that. Also hearing impaired people exist. They won't hear the siren. Every time someone speeds through urban environments there is a serious risk of tragedy with terrible consequences. This case should case a public outcry and the police should show the scientific evidence why this guy was speeding. Not that the junkie's family would sue, but that the overall risk of problems (such as this death) is lower when speeding over so many mi/hr in such and such scenarios. Thanks. I'm not necessarily blaming the cop but the decision to order him to speed, his procedure manual is incorrect and should be revised. In the medical field we always consider our actions: FIRST DO NO HARM.
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  1064.  @Niki_Hydn  Glad your father was OK. Your dad was probably being resuscitated while in arrest which allowed for blood to be pumped to his brain. In this case the caller was not in cardiac arrest. As you know someone in cardiac arrest is unconscious. If they are speaking (they are breathing), they are making sense (the brain is well perfused), they are holding a phone etc... they are probably fine for the next few minutes at least, so there is no reason to go at breakneck speed to them as though they were already without a pulse and unconscious, effectively dead. The thing is that cardiac arrest is only a potential outcome in this case but going at very fast speed through a town full of people is super dangerous and he we saw a woman die and the 911 caller did not even arrest, he was treated by whatever EMS got to him, stabilised and transferred to an emergency department for observation. For me this case makes little sense. A cop could at best offer CPR but an ambulance with EMS can do much more. I don't know if these cops carry AEDs (automatic defib machines) but even so what would a few seconds difference make if an ambulance got to him vs the cop? Unless there were no ambulances at all, but still it would have been better for the 911 operator to keep the caller on the line and despatch the cop and only tell him to floor it if the caller started to collapse. Look this could have been either of us. We could have been out and crossing the street maybe not even listening to music, maybe a little drunk or maybe not even that, and bam out of the blue the cop gets you on the pedestrian crossing because maybe someone out there could arrest and then would need CPR. Thanks.
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  1065.  @Niki_Hydn  I think, maybe they needed the cop because the EMS crew needed the security first? Maybe that was it. At best what could the cop do? If the cop arrived and the caller was waiting outside the cop could frisk him for weapons, get his AED out (if he had one) and asked him to lie down on a flat surface, so if the man arrested he could just start chest compressions / or shock him with the AED. But that could wait a minute or two to justify a lower rate of speed given the obstructions in the area. The cop however would not be expected to make that call. That should have been determined by medical public health officials. Hence for me this is much bigger than some cop muttering something bad under his breath. It's the actual policy of this police department and emergency / 911 system. It seems to disregard the safety of pedestrians and other road users over potential but not necessary outcomes in callers. Thanks again, sorry for the wall of text.
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  1066. There are Asian men/women/trans people who are attracted to white/black/etc men/women/trans people and so on and on. Many people like this attraction others don't. Just because someone finds someone of a different ethnicity cute or exotic doesn't mean they want to treat them as trash. Sometimes we look at other people and think they are better than our own. When I was younger and I'm white and I lived in an apartheid country, I thought black kids were nicer, I had been bullied by some white kids at school and was called a nerd, and I watched a show made for black kids with a black kid nerd superhero and I saw that his classmates did not bully him and I concluded that black kids are kinder. They don't have this concept of being a nerd or not and so on. We can sometimes look at other groups and admire them. We can also find some Asian girls cute, for me Japanese girls (some) are cute and I know one and she likes me too. I don't however like her because she is Japanese but I've seen through that within a few days of knowing her and for me there is only one girl in the whole world. I just don't find interest in anyone else even though other women of all races can be perhaps objectively more beautiful or cuter, this one person holds a special place in my heart. So not everyone who thinks some beautify feature or some mannerism is cool fetishizes those people. Otherwise what? Should we have apartheid and perpetuate racial seperation? Let's not exaggerate. By the way the castle in question is probably not the best castle in Europe to visit, in your place I'd visit Malbork, in Poland. It's like nothing else. And to see some other German buildings there is also KL Auschwitz one can visit in Poland to see the good and bad sides of Germany.
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  1067.  @anitacrumbly  Nothing wrong in using the term exotic. It's a positive term. Mind you, I'm in my 40s, maybe you're in your 20s so maybe it's a generation thing, but I think I've experienced more life than you.
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  1068.  @anitacrumbly I'm older than you and I spell colour as colour, that means I'm not in the US and I'm not as privileged as you, someone who reaps the benefits of the petrodollar, oppression of developing nations and racism against other nations, so I say you're WRONG. Check your American privilege. Travel to Africa and speak to any people there and they will tell you that you're wrong. How many Iraqis died in your wars there?
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  1069. You may not be able to respond but had they posted something bad about your commander in chief there, no doubt the punishment would have been far worse.
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  1070.  @SHONGA1974  It's just weebs gushing over Japan. People with so called yellow fever. Oh la la, Japanese are perfect. They have little bentos. And clean trains. And they have toilets which spray your butt. But guess what. You get two weeks of leave a year and you're only supposed to take one of those. Also the salaries in Japan are not that good. A nursing sister in the US earns much more than one in Japan, for example.
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  1071.  @homeybaloney1059 I have two passports.
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  1072. Then it will fall apart with normal wear and tear.
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  1073. If CHina's food is so fake, then how come there are still living people in China?
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  1074.  @XB4711  German tragic? Do you know how much they hated us Poles in WW2? For example Hans Frank the German governor of Poland in WW2 in Warsaw took out the golden eagles in the throne room of our king and gave them away. After the war only one was found bought from a private auction. Recently the Germans discovered an old medieval Polish text, they will 'investigate' and then maybe 'negotiate' with Poland. What's to negotiate? They stole it. The Germans still treat Polish people like trash. They are still racists. They were racist before Hitler and they are racist after Hitler. Why does Jake always kiss their butts? Why say Nazi when these were Germans? He then says Italian. He says Russian. He says Polish. He says British. Yet Germany is the only country which gets a pass. It's all Nazis. I'm sorry. If it's Japanese then it's German. If it's RUssian and not Bolshevik then it's German. Maybe Trump will be better for Poles. Because Biden OK'ed NORSTREAM 2.
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  1075.  @murphy7801  French are absolutely useless.
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  1076.  @bogi9358  Then where will Russians get their civilisation?
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  1077.  @MarkKlimaszewski  France wants this war to end ASAP and they wouldn't mind if Poland et al fell under Russian domination. France is like Germany, they will sell eastern NATO out to Russia in 5 minutes. The French and Germans do not feel threatened by Russia. France has its own nukes and France is protected by the presence of Americans and the fact is also that there is a big buffer between them and Russia. Never mind that the Russians have a love affair with the French and they have no need to act militarily on them. There is nothing of fancy in France. Countries like Poland, Baltics, Romania etc are considered inferior by the Americans, the Germans, and the French. We are trash. You - you're probably a US citizen, you're a god. Your life is worth protecting with nukes. We are mindless brutes, and we are not allowed to protect ourselves or even have our own nuclear deterrent. We are trash people and I wish people would be open about it, that Kamala Harris or even Mr Silicon Curtain says - you're Ukrainian or Polish-- you're built different, you're not fully human, not like a Brit or an American or a Frenchman or a Dutch person. Those are gods. You are trash. That's what the West thinks of us. It's also what the West thinks of the global south and now they're peeved and upset by China because how dare China be like America?
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  1078.  @toledochristianmatthew9919  They watch mainstream non (hentai/ecchi or loli) type anime. They do it casually. These casual animes are not a problem. It's the late night and OAV BS which is an issue and hentai manga/anime.
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  1079.  @smithynoir9980  I'm not easily offended. You're the easily offended one. You had me for a prog but I'm not a prog. The issue of shame in Japan is central here. People try to justify and say oh but loli anime is normal and Japanese like to fap off to such things-- but that's not true. Japanese tend to be tolerant of the filth but they will shun you if you do it and they won't support your anti-Visa crusade to save anime cp for Western weebs.
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  1080. Grew up in China and f-ed off to America? So not representative of typical Chinese, who think their way is the best way.
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  1081. Why did Borhmann want to keep Himmler from owning a house at Obersalzberg?
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  1082. Trump is maintaining military support and sanctions. He also said he wants to increase the number of US forces in NATO Europe.
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  1083.  @tonybony5805  You are spreading lies and misinformation.
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  1084.  @biggerdoofus  Nothing. The image needs explanation. As far as we know that's the only image around.
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  1085.  @thadtuiol1717 Spot on. Imagine taking in refugees, giving them work, school etc, for free. And then if a local is nasty, they can report them for racism and then cops come for the locals. In Poland we took in 2 million Ukrainian refugees. Despite bad history between Poland and Ukraine, and Ukrainians being very right wing and sometimes pro Bandera who was a murderer of Poles and Jews, we took in war refugees. And these people have the same protections as locals. They can work. They can go to school. They have free insurance. Japanese - complain about tourists who come to Japan for maybe 2 weeks and bring in money to spend. Japanese are spoilt and narcissistic.
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  1086.  @ジュニアー05  Thank you. In that regard Japanese are a bit like the English. Poms also smile, never complain and say everything is fine, and then complain behind your back, all the while you give them a pass and brush off their issues. When working with an English person it's important to be weary of this. Japan is a civilised society, a FILTHY rich and modern society. It's the 3-4 most rich country in the world. People there have benefited from globalisation and being rebuilt by the US after WW2. They should show politeness. Service people in developing nations are also polite to visitors. To say Japanese are kind because they smile or appear eager to assist is coming either from weebs or is coming from people who have only been to Japan and few other places.
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  1087.  @cantinadudes  Because people should not have to bend over backwards. Do you understand that is not the same thing as being a jack-a$$? Why do you insult me? Are you not capable of basic argumentation? I guess not.
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  1088.  @Sonderling-ml2ny  Dude, they were sentenced by a court after a trial. Many countries still have the death penalty, and in 1945, all countries had the death penalty and usually non combatants were so sentenced.
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  1089. Without that US military, Japan would have been like North Korea. Japanese people told me that.
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  1090. Keep the refugees in Dortmund. The less Germanic pagan BS the better. More diversity in Germany is better. The Neo Nazi thing is starting to return and these Muslim guys can help dilute that. Also with Syrian Muslims in Germany, less chance for another Molotov-Ribbentrop as the Germans want that.
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  1091.  @renegadesigma  No ideal worlds' exist. Did you come from space or something? Most tourists are fine. You must be a kid to be this naive. You are in your 20s, right?
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  1092.  @henriikkak2091  Americans only want to weaken Russia but don't want her to collapse or get too close to China. China is America's No 1 enemy.
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  1093.  @hungrybraineater2  No it doesn't. You make people trade oil and other goods in USD and you trade with US. So you print USD and others have to buy those USD to trade with you. US is the only country which can do that because of your global hegemony. Now China wants to challenge that and all of a sudden they are the bad guys.
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  1094. European supermarket --- Polish supermaket man, given Chicago is like Little Poland. You can say it. It's the Polish version of "orangina". In Poland there are better fruit juices than this one as the Western European stuff is of lower quality.
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  1095.  @rickatatastan2695  You do and you won't change this because this is basic contractual law. It's not international political law like from the United Nations Charter but ordinary commercial contract law.
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  1096. This was the pre-Western Japanese culture. The West made Japan be more humane. Weebs still worship bushido BS.
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  1097. Harry, if the USSR was a peaceful country, Japan would have been made to pay for her sins in the late 1940s. But she was needed as a bulwark against the USSR and her allies. Same happened to Germany. Germans make Polish jokes even today even though in WW2 they killed 6 million Poles (3 mil Jewish Poles and 3 mil Catholic Poles).
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  1098. East Germans knew they were propagandized yet they were almost all involved with the government. The amount of spying on each other was exceptional for East European countries. Now they know they're being propagandized because Russia is OK. Youth was OK. So Russia is OK, nostalgia.
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  1099. Good. Europe needs more diversity. Especially WESTERN EUROPE.
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  1100.  @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044  Benefits won't run out for decades or even centuries. Europe is fat and rich, my boi.
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  1101. Many Japanese have a superiority complex. Thankfully the rise of other countries will make you people more humble and that will be good for your mental and moral health in the long run. You still have too much self absorbed nationalism.
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  1102. Ford apparently held them in high regard.
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  1103. Greedy influencers who promote rubbish get a taste of their own medicine. Karma. Good for Honey.
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  1104.  @cloudsn  Japan is quite narcissistic. Self absorbed. Entitled. All because the Americans built them up the way they built up Germany. And we let them close down our own factories in the West. Japan is not a good tourist destination. But if people want to go and be considered like animals, they can go.
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  1105. Why has Youtube a Context note under Titanic videos. They used to have these under Covid videos as well. They don't do this for more modern and controversial videos, yet here....
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  1106. Interesting because in the West a public street is OPEN TO EVERYONE. You are allowed to go on any public street. Japan is not a Western country, it seems. My respect for them has dropped.
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  1107.  @MarcosElMalo2  The plan under Donald Tusk was to retreat to the Vistula and let the Russians have half of Poland. It would not be possible to defend that. Poland has about 48K combat troops. That means Russia needs 200K to win, and the Russians are planning a standing army of 1.2 million.
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  1108. So if somebody attacks your country, until your village is at risk, you'll sit on your behind?
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  1109. After Biden lumped us Poles with the BRICS, I think even Trump can be better.
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  1110. They could have waited and had Russians joined in as well.
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  1111. They are anti foreigner. My father's friend, a Brit, married a Japanese woman in the 1980s. Her family disowned her for that.
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  1112. None of this counts. Morality and ethics don't exist in international relations. I think America wants to pull Russia away from China. I don't think this will work despite the tensions between Russia and China, both want the US hegemony to collapse meanwhile Trump would like Russia to team up with him while Biden wanted Russia weak but not collapsed and broken up by internal tensions. If you have lots of nukes, you're a god. That's the truth.
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  1113.  @emilefouquet9005  I think the Holocaust is taught in US schools. Maybe you were asleep in class.
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  1114.  @emilefouquet9005  Maybe you were asleep or attended a 'special' school.
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  1115.  @emilefouquet9005  In the United States, the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin. In total, 23 states have mandatory Holocaust education. So we know that 23 states have mandatory education. That's mandated education, there may be more education or use of the Diary of Anne Frank or other literature books and so on in other schools.
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  1116. Japanese buy up all foreign brands given we bought their products in the past so they bought up our brands. They are also perfidious for doing that.
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  1117.  @mecha-sheep7674  They then take the profits. That's why Europe sucks more.
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  1118. As a Brit or American you were a rockstar in Japan back then. Of course for one night stands only as most in laws would never accept you. That's why you say it was so unique. But you were colonising them then and parasiting on them. Why didn't you stay in the UK or US?
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  1119. Strong enough to keep Biden and the Germans from allowing Ukraine a free hand.
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  1120.  @tomels8  Don't be so rude. We Poles will also not defend you then when Russia attacks.
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  1121.  @tomels8  You distanced yourself from Slavs as though we are a pox on you. We know you're not Slavic as a country but the way you worded that makes it sound as though it's bad to be Slavic. If you think Slavs are trash, ok. Just know that those closest to you will be Slavs who will be protecting you from Russians. If our pro German fraction doesn't have its way we'll have the CPK and that may be used by the Americans to resupply this area in case of hostilities with our Russian friends.
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  1122. Oranges grow in France? Really?
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  1123.  @jesaispas1304  perhaps.
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  1124. I can understand that A is a problem. But B? Why is it an issue that the clueless and careless shills who profit from this rubbish also get ripped off? Part B actually makes this rip off a bit of a bitter sweet pill. On the one hand the end user is ripped off but also the people who did not do their proper diligence and promoted this to their sheep audiences. Part B is justice.
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  1125. He's ending his second term. Elections are coming this year.
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  1126. Racism does that. They didn't consider the Chinese human even though Japan was civilised by Chinese culture in ancient times.
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  1127.  @scroopynooperz9051  Well it's sort of valid. It was never conducted properly as research methods were in their infancy in the 30s and Japan was also way behind the West in those.
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  1128.  @sinaiis957  People do this to people right now, today. There is no need to speak of animals. What gets me is that some people concern themselves with the plight of animals more than of people. I think the NSDAP party was such a party which was more worried about trees than human beings. The Society of prevention of cruelty to animals was founded in Britain ahead of laws to protect little children from exploitation.
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  1129.  @sinaiis957  Forgive me but I see an environmentalist agenda here. These people were seen as inferior because of racism but not even that. People of same race have been seen as inferior. To this day people from former Eastern Europe are seen as inferior by those from the rich countries. I think for lack of better use people were seen as animals because what else is there? There are human beings, animals and plants and inanimate objects. Man is the only rational animal. We are special because we think rationally and we are self aware and we make moral judgements. (other) animals don't. But that does not justify cruelty to animals. The sad thing is that here we had experiments on even children and obviously on people who could communicate that they suffered, similar to what the Germans did in the 30s and 40s. As for what's acceptable it is definitely acceptable to experiment on animals for important reasons but not cause them suffering. And it is definitely acceptable to un-alive animals to eat them or use their byproducts but only in the way that does not incur suffering on them. It is only acceptable to un-alive people either in self defense or defense of others against aggression and also try to do it with least pain and also in the case of capital punishment where that is judged to be moral. Both of these fall away in the matter of innocents. It's never permissible to harm innocents on purpose or by intention. The bombings of London, Warsaw, Tokyo, Berlin, Hiroshima were all immoral acts where the civilians were purposefully targeted. If military or factory objects were targeted and civilians unalived incidentally and unavoidably that was permissible. It is never morally acceptable to un-alive or harm an innocent by intent.
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  1130. One doesn't need to know how much a kg or km is. You work with what you have in your environment. If the locals use miles, you put that in your GPS application. You buy food and other products in predetermined packets, for example there is a container of milk or a bag or flour you will buy. There is no need to visualise these things.
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  1131. Covered up to appease Japanese conglomerates.
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  1132.  @ghostfaced4893  The channel owner deletes them.
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  1133.  @cezarstefanseghjucan  But your Wotan of your Mein Kepmf hero fame would protect him. Your painter mate, the one you probably f-p off to would protect these Christians.
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  1134.  @repairman2be250  ??? The universe is upheld by God. So one could say all are born and all die by the hand of God. But that's incidental and reliant on the fact that all that occurs has God as the prime mover, because God sustains the universe and without God there would be nothing. So if you want to say that all die by God's hand, that's because all is by God's hand. To die you have to first exist and you exist because of God, and existence exists because of God. From nothing, nothing comes.
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  1135. @sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 You are not right in the head bud. Take your meds and see your psychiatrist.
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  1136.  @xxstrongerxx7026  That's like a 5 year old's idea of Christianity.
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  1137.  @silverhawkscape2677  You don't have to say 'Emperor', say emperor. Unless he's still your emperor.
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  1138. So what gave the Poms the right to go into China and kill people? It's pure evil. It's little different to Hitler invading Europe just without the death camps. War of aggression caused by the UK.
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  1139.  @TheHistoryChap I'm not sure why you're attacking me. Yes I watched the video. I still ask what gave the Poms the right to go into China? The question was rhetorical my friend. Nothing gave them that right. There is no justification for it. The Chinese didn't go to the British Isles, the Brits went to China and caused death there. Again,, same as that painter fellow. Have a good day.
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  1140.  @BubbaThaumaturge  Neither did the millions of other civilians who had to lose their lives because the Germans wanted to rebuild their empire.
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  1141. Yes tariffs will mean the goods from Colombia will be more expensive and merchants will stop importing those goods as long as alternative sources are available. Hence tariffs can be painful to Colombia.
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  1142.  @williamchow7533  Lots of Nazis also escaped in West Germany. Some of the butchers of Warsaw were never prosecuted in West Germany. West Germany was like post War Japan. And it was all because of the piece of sh-t country called USSR. The West needed Japan and Germany against the Reds. The Reds were evil, read about their massacres. But in order to have strong Germany and Japan against the USSR and later PRC, they needed to allow many scum to get away.
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  1143. Why should China hold up agreements with the UK? UK took Hong Kong by force. I'm anti Communist but UK were scumbags for what they did in the past.
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  1144. Why do you say Nazis but then say Russians? Either say Communists for Russians or say Germans for Nazis.
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  1145.  @TOGade-dj6jh  The KGB were angels compared to the GRU. Soviet military security was far, far worse.
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  1146.  @dinosaurusrex1482  South China Sea is also close to China. By the way the English Channel is not called that in French and other European languages on the continent. Being called something doesn't mean the thing belongs to it. Japan has territorial waters and an economic zone but the rest is international waters.
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  1147.  @DK-gj5sp  Only territorial waters belong to China or any country. The rest is international.
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  1148. If only Germany did not feed Putin.
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  1149. How can you consider Japan developed when women are treated so poorly by men in Japan? When CSAM material was legal in Japan until recently? When they still sexualize kids as 'junior idols'? I think you do hate Korea and China when you say Japan is fully developed and they are not. By what metric? By cherry picked economic metrics, but sociological ones? How do you account for the things I mentioned and the revisionist attitude of Japanese? Developed? Really?
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  1150.  @themk4982  Who isn't racist? But who invaded who in WW2? Japan invaded them and not vice versa. Secondly Westerners are also racist. America was built on slavery and exploitation of immigrants who were treated poorly. Europe too. But only a few countries stooped as low as Germany and Japan.
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  1151.  @lady_acid  They are not malicious because they were beaten in WW2 and they are protected by America otherwise they'd be a Russian/Chinese vassal by now. They lost the war completely. They got off very easy by the West pumping money into them and protecting them after WW2 whereas maybe they should have been turned into an agrarian society as was the plan for Germany. So they and the Germans got off very lucky.
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  1152.  @alixver2488  The Japanese were never seen as white. In Versailles after WW1 ended the leading Western negotiators lamented the presence of the Japanese and said they were 'ugly' people. So you are mistaken. This is some sort of orientalism you've read up.
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  1153.  @alixver2488  But Japan was not developed prior to Meiji. I think you're cherry picking people who probably had business interests and wanted investment to set up trading stations there.
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  1154.  @isabelledupond1660  People can feel superior but may not be superior, well superior in cruelty maybe such people can be. But let's forget those times. There is no excuse to not formally apologise and own up to one's past sins and teach about them. One should always take the good with the bad.
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  1155. Times always has these headlines full of clickbait and FUD. Please stop this tabloid style media. Is Times Radio like The SUN?
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  1156.  @Karazahn  How did the Polish people treat the Germans? There was active Germanification of Poles in the 19th century and early 20th century. Poland was carved up by Russia, Germany and Austro Hungary. You sir are a Neo-Nazi. You repeat the lies of Goebbels. There was no persecution of German people. German people even had MPs even in the Polish parliament after the 1st World War.
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  1157.  @MikeT-yl6eb  Report his comment as misinformation. He's a neo-Nazi.
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  1158. Tipping culture is bad. Still as a hotel employee you get paid very well to be able to just get up and go traveling so many times.
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  1159. Haha. Bushido did not work against the Red Army, Russian Red Army destroyed them, even KMT destroyed the Japanese. The navy of Japan was fair because it had BRITISH ships and designs.
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  1160. Total nonsense. The Russians have nuclear weapons and Poles have none and America fobids Poland from having any. Zeihan is smoking weed in those mountains. Secondly Poland has a weak army and a woke and weak population. Poles these days are not supportive of conscription. And the new government is pro German too so re-armament will be slowed down. Poland is fcked. As a Polish person I'm sorry but the days of peace are over and it's likely the Russians may invade Poland in the next few years. Colby Eridge already said they won't sacrifice Seattle for Soul, neither for Warsaw.
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  1161. It actually didn't work like that. If you do actual research on the Inquisition you'll find that it's what we base our modern Western justice system on. But you don't have to go to witches and stuff, you can merely look at the 20th century- as in Soviet occupied Eastern European states, Germany in the 1930s-40s and even Russia today. So it's no reason to say 'europe' with witches when more contemporaneous examples exist.
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  1162. Watch the interview with Mearsheimer (In English) on a YT channel called HISTORIA REALNA. The US will not allow Poland to have a nuclear deterrent because as John Mearsheimer said, he doesn't think Poland would ever use that OFFENSIVELY but if Poland uses that DEFENSIVELY, US could be drawn into a nuke war with Russia. Essentially that means Poland can't rely on the US for nuclear deterrence and the Russians have said they could nuke a Polish city to show who's boss. Finland is in a similar situation. But Fins at least have a better reputation. We Poles are seen as racially inferior while you guys have Nokia and a mythos of Scandinavian superiority. Poland is fcked. Finland is OK because it's less strategic, Poland is essential for Russians to be knocked out. Americans long term goals are NOT TO DEFEAT Russia but to only keep them a little weakened, Ukrainian or Polish blood can do that. Still Americans are our best friends. Fins in WW2 sided with Hitler. So even you are sus.
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  1163.  @experience_japan  Citation please. I've purchased Japanese products which were poor quality. Made in Japan things. I'm not impressed. Also not impressed by business ethics and not by the large amount of fraud from Japanese companies. Please don't spread racist stereotypes.
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  1164. And PERFIDIOUS ALBION.
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  1165.  @backloggamereviews  Maybe if we stopped buying their products and stopped sharing our tech with them they'd become more courteous. Japan like Germany pretends to be a courteous country but the people are like everywhere else, good and bad, and worshiping people isn't good.
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  1166. But Europe has also not been investing in defense, especially Western Europe. Why should America protect a giant that is the EU and why should Americans have no free healthcare so that Europeans can sit on the hands and enjoy social benefits while investing little in defense?
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  1167.  @tawanhua  Well Ainu are pretty much sidelined. Aren't they?
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  1168.  @ScarFo92  I know he's doing it for clicks or more likely dicks and that 'Romanian' weeb likes to post rubbish. The problem is that clueless fools watch this dope and that paints us all with this weeb's negative brush.
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  1169. The game is censored. How? Well to get some of these sexy outfits you have to platform like crazy. And if you make one mistake you die and have to start from anew. For some people that's just not do-able. So while Sh-t up have created an "easy" mode for fighting, the terrible platforming is locking away some content. It's censored. You pay full price, and you can't get it. I hope this game tanks.
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  1170. May have been different if Japan was a Christian country.
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  1171.  @TheRezro  No. Good customer service is important. The service in many stores in Europe is rude. Polish service used to be terrible where they would curse you out in the 80s but it's still not the best service. They take a tea break and tell you to sod off. Yes PLUS cell phone outlets in PL do that. Good customer service isn't about ki11sing a$$ but about being courteous and efficient.
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  1172.  @SuperVlerik  Nude medical images of patients of all ages are still common in medial textbooks. Not everyone who studies medicine is a pervert.
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  1173. Terrible themes. You had these Ustache massacres. You had the genocides of Armenians. You had Wolyn massacres by Ukrainian nationalists. You had the German Nazi camps. You had German Nazi street reprisals and places like Wola in Warsaw in 44. You had NKVD actions. You had Nanking. You had the Yugloslav war in the 1990s. You had Rwanda. You had Cambodia. And so on and on. Recently you have massacres of Ukrainians in Bucha, Irpin etc by Russian invaders.
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  1174.  @vterans8804  If Japanese companies want to sell abroad, they have to make use of payment methods which work abroad. If Japan wants to be part of the West, it has to behave like part of the West and loli/shota BS is not part of that.
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  1175. Hegseth told the Polish left wing defense minister (he'd prefer the Law and Justice one) that he'd love to put more American troops in Poland. MAGA is open to European engagement but the Europeans (Spanish, Italians, Germans, Dutch, Portuguese, etc) have to put in the effort to the common defense. Same for Canada. Canada is also a parasite on the US. If we can all get +5% for defense, MAGA will put the same to common defense and together that will be more than enough against Russia.
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  1176. They also have to decide how they will survive with a strong China and no US in the Pacific.
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  1177.  @BoredInTheComments  Because Japan is a protectorate of the US. And China wants to dominate the area and maybe one day even who knows. install a government in Japan which is pro Chinese. It will depend on how people accept China as their master. Why? Because that's where China is heading. US is currently there but US uses a mix of soft power and hard power. But US influence is waning and Chinese is on the rise.
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  1178.  @happyfelix1440  That's good. Norwegians are OK although Fins and Swedes are more serious when it comes to NATO.
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  1179.  @user-sf3ks1yl5b  Norway is not really threatened by Russia. And Norway gets to export expensive LNG and so take advantage of the situation, Essentially what Trump wants to do but nobody complains about Norway doing it.
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  1180.  @user-sf3ks1yl5b  Putin in 2021 asked the Americans to pull out of the new NATO. He is happy for Norway to be in the Western sphere of influence. So not much of a threat in terms of Russian tanks rolling in.
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  1181.  @noneya9866  Go back to kindergarten kid.
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  1182.  @postmortemarg  I'm sorry but why should there be US hegemony in China's backyard? US has the Monroe Doctrine. I think fair is fair. We round eyes must stop causing sh-t among the Asians.
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  1183.  @JohnDoe-pd4jo  Japan was not advanced before WW2. Their tech was behind the other powers. Planes were bad. Tanks were non existent. Ships were OK because based on British. Japan copied what was best from the West, on their own they had sh-t tech.
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  1184.  @demoneyezgamerz3500  WW2. Japan was very cruel to most of them then. In 2001 some Muslims blew up WTC and 4,000 Americans died. Well millions of Asians died due to Japanese war of aggression in WW2 and people here expect them to love Japan while America started a war with Iraq over 4000 deaths.
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  1185.  jordie4423  You need to look at the geography. The US has very little land support in the region.
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  1186.  @_Devil  Hitler wasn't a fascist. Nazism and fascism were different. But sure.
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  1187. How old are you? If you can ever visit Japan, you'll be respectful? You should do that everywhere. There is nothing special about Japanese. Be respectful in your own country. If you have to make it a point then there is something wrong with the way you lead your life.
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  1188. It's better to not have any Japan trip. Japanese don't want you there.
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  1189. Many tears were shed for him. He died a free man. His son who had the swastika on his arm remained rich.
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  1190. The American strategist George Friedman says that Russia is pathetic and weak. But Russia is China's friend and both want to make US much weaker.
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  1191. Probably polite. And should be. Had Japan won WW2 they would have decimated Asia. US won WW2 and now Japan is No 3 economy and a magnet for weebs. Old people in general tend to be laid back and more reserved. As people age, psychologically and physiologically changes occur which make them get less angry.
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  1192.  @etas1c  My original country? It was one of the most tolerant countries in Europe. Japan destroyed whole industries in various countries. They should be happy that any foreigners visit. We helped Vietnamese and Koreans too in the 20th century. Please don't make light of the Japanese genocide of various Asian peoples. And now Japan complains when other countries create monuments to Korean comfort women. Can it get more real. Imagine the Germans complaining when the Brits commemorate the Blitz or something or the Holocaust.
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  1193.  @EdwardRLyons  I am pro American but I can't stand hypocrisy. The Chinese are merely doing what the US does in its own backyard. What is the name... ah the MONROE DOCTRINE.
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  1194.  @RandomGuy-om1vy  The guy who drives fast in school zones?
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  1195.  @bewawolf19  I'm sorry I attacked your hero, Metatron. There there, he's an intellectual but in his own specific field. I've watched a few Metatron's videos and I never judge his takes on the ancient world, but when he veers outside the area such as the realm of biology or medicine I do see he is out of his place often enough. This object is likely outside his sphere which includes ancient Roman and Greek history, medieval Japan and video games.
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  1196.  @angamaitesangahyando685  Nazi pagan Europe was not European. You are truly lacking education.
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  1197.  @thecreatorr7  I don't follow your incredulity. Usefulness is judged in terms of cost. You can't fault poor performance when you're spending peanuts. But Japan spends a ton load. It's the 4th richest country in the world. If you want a rational comparison give Brazil a Japanese budget and then see or correct for that using scientific and statistical means.
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  1198. To be fair, some Japanese do get away with garbage. There is a sister city programme all over the world. Well some Japanese cities have dropped their twin/sister city program with those cities where memorials to Korean comfort women were built. Korean comfort women were women in Korea, during WW2, who were forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers.
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  1199. ​ @michaeldavison8007 What are you on about? No decent person laughs about addiction. The Brits were the drug runners. End of story. You want to laugh about Auschwitz too?
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  1200.  @seanpatrick1243 Putin was built up by Germany. Where is Gerhard Shroeder? Why was Germany investing more in Russia despite the annexation of Crimea and war in the Donbas? My ideology? I'm more of a libertarian but unlike you I've endured actual communism. I'm sorry an Irishman who knows nothing about Poland is going to lecture me? Look you co-operated with Germany in WW2. And you're far from Russia. So kindly educate yourself. Orban? I don't love Orban, but for Poland Schreduer and the Germans were the people who made Poland weaker (by being against the Bush/Obama led anti-ballistic missile shield) and by building Nordstream 1 and 2 all the while Poland paid higher prices for gas and petrol from Russia, which went to build up the Russian army. I'm sorry. Orban helped to offset the German/French heaviness of the EU. By the way the Germans don't even hate Orban, they're doing good business with him. Please my Irish friend, stick to your own country, you know NOTHING about Poland.
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  1201. It's OK if Germans move to the right, wrong if Hungarians and Poles do it. TLDR, inside this channel is racism and German superiority. Whatever Germans do is fine, whatever unwashed Poles and Hungarians do unless it's at the behest of Uber Berlin, it's populism and authoritarian and racism etc. The post colonial states hate on the refugees yet the underlying problems are German, French Belgian, Turkish and British. These states should assimilate migrants to atone for their colonial sins.
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  1202. That's the value of this clown's geopolitical analysis. He's a hack.
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  1203. America will not permit Poland to have a nuclear deterrent because as Prof Mearsheimer put it, America could be drawn into nuclear war if Poland used that defensively. He doesn't think Poland would ever use that offensively. This tells you all you need to know about our allies and also about clickbaiters like Task and Purpose, who don't ask serious questions but post sensationalist but empty BS. For the recoerd the Russians and Germans are WORSE. Russians would enslave us while Germans would sell us out to Russia in a heartbeat.
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  1204.  @hh-kv6fh  It was originally a Polish city, the architecture there is Polish.
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  1205.  @hh-kv6fh  Lwow definitely has Polish architecture and was a Polish city. You're getting your history from the Austrian Painter.
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  1206.  @hh-kv6fh  You're a troll. Lwow was originally a Polish-Lithuanian city. Austrians conquered it the way a pedo-f-i-le conquers a child. That doesn't mean it was theirs. Anyway, the Polish highlanders are not based on the Austrians. All Indo-Europan cultures are similar. You need to go back to school.
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  1207.  @ekesandras1481 So you're saying Poles and later Ukrainians did not add more buildings or remodel? And all buildings in this heavy Polish city (in the 19th century) were built by Austrians to their style. That's not true. Sorry. As for the Austrian Painter many here are deeply inspired by the guy. Keep on going on about Austria and Lemberg to show off your admiration for this guy. Austrians have a long history of racism toward Poles and other Slavic people. The Austro-Hungarian empire was a cesspool of filth and racist oppression.
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  1208.  @victorhovat3954  Not so sure about this. They could have chosen to enter the regular army though. So still the same thing. Also not sure if you're correct. West Germany had actual SS officers as mayors of towns and the intelligence service was known by the Brits as the "Hister Boys".
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  1209.  @victorhovat3954  Article on DW, Halt to ex-Nazi pensions urged The Kriegsverbrecherlobby (War Criminals Lobby) by historian Felix Bohr tells how from the 1950s on — after World War II — only a handful of German war criminals were imprisoned, and how death sentences were turned into life sentences.
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  1210. They pick up the xenophobia in the environment and culture. Now it's OK to be xenophobic, but then don't advertise to tourists. Stop hosting olympics and football world cups. If Japanese don't want foreigners, their stupid government can stop issuing visas and entry permits. Ban all flights to Japan for non Japanese. Problem solved. That's what gets me. These pathetic TV stations and reporters wanting their cake and to eat it too. If you want tourist money, you need tourists and it's not WW2 where you can threaten people with violence so they shut up.
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  1211. Britis are anti-Polish though. Tommy, you can keep your Britain. You Brexited and so showed you hate other people, like the Poles and other Europeans.
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  1212. Have you forgotten Kosciuszko and Pulaski who fought for America in the American War of Independence? When did Russia fight for the US?
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  1213. Belgians are also haters of Poles. And your country was also always racist. You need to pay reparations to Congo.
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  1214. PUBLISHERS (not developers)
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  1215. Asians tend to be the most racist and privileged though. Let's face it, the Dutch can be nasty, but at least there is diversity in Europe, in Korea, Japan, China etc... there is almost ZERO diversity. Foreigners have NO RIGHTS. If we want to call out racism, we can call out the Dutch, and as an European person of white ancestry with some distant Asian roots in the 15th century, I can call say that there is racism in Europe, especially the more liberal ex colonial countries, but there are more mechanisms to obtain redress. There is little to none of that in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, etc.
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  1216.  @toolegittoquit_001  If so well mannered why were they so barbaric in the 1940s? What changed since then? And why only ban child porn 10 years ago?
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  1217. Please use sensible measures of distance i.e meters.
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  1218. Yes let's blame everyone else. Women can't be evil. Why? Because a woman posted this eh?
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  1219. It's you. The problem is the Chinese are doing it now. It's OK if American companies do it. There is a US vs China war right now.
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  1220.  @StevePeckatr0n  It's MAGA. It was OK while the Chinese were only making for Amazon. Now that China competes with Amazon, it's cheap Chinese junk. ;)
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  1221.  @Porkypies6m  I'm reporting you for being pro Nazi.
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  1222.  @OLIIE-gs5rj  Environmental degradation. Even foreigners moving around disturbs the area, even if they don't touch. For example carbon dioxide from tourists can damage certain things.
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  1223. If you import loli anime into the UK or Australia you will get arrested as a p-do-file. Visa is just protecting the fools who may do this.
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  1224. Jake wants non nuclear countries to send soldiers to Ukraine. Really Jake?
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  1225. Life in Korea and Japan is long hours. I think we in the West should reclaim our manufacturing and offload all this hard work from Koreans and Japanese. Westerners are lazy.
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  1226. The Americans forgave. But Americans were not the victims of the Germans or Japanese. Still forgiveness is necessary. Thank you for saying German and not Nazi. These days Germans whiten themselves by claiming all the bad stuff was done by a handful of Nazis.
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  1227.  @KT-pv3kl  Easy. Sentient beings like you and me who think rationally, who are able to create abstract and physical works often far removed from their ancestral habitat, record objective information, overcome perceptual shortcuts via the use of rational analysis and observation, have immense abilities to adapt to various situations and environments using tools, technology, naturally occurring and artificial items, and so on. Now go on and apply that to an octopus or a dolphin. Why do you say "damn sure". Are you like a cowboy? Do you chew tobacco? or are you a pirate?
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  1228.  @KT-pv3kl  A rational person like you and me who is able to reason in an abstract way, is able to manipulate abstract and physical objects, is able to record information and analyze it using instruments, is able to overcome instinct, is capable of making moral choices (i.e is a moral agent), is able to adapt to environments which are far removed from the natural habitat, is able to enjoy and has the capacity to perform art, may have a spiritual element as in considering the divine, etc... Now apply this to a dolphin.
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  1229. Same happened in Germany. Many thugs did not get punished because of the Soviet threat. The same threat meant that Japan had to be rebuilt as a bulwark against Joe Stalin.
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  1230.  @ProfessorVandeVeer  What is happening? I lost relatives in Poland in WW2 to Nazi Germany. Tell me, are similar things happening now?
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  1231. But he's buying German tanks. Only Poland is buying US F35s, airline buys Boeing only -- not British/French Airbus, Poland buys US tanks, choppers, HIMARS, etc. Poland will spend 100s of billions of dollars in the US which generates jobs in the US. Orban buys stuff in Germany. So think who is your real ally.
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  1232. I like how so many defend CP cartoons. Do you guys get off on this? Most Japanese don't like the CP cartoons either. Don't be supporting CP cartoons.
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  1233. They have woman only carriages too because of groping.
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  1234. US isolationism is apparently to blame for Japan's aggression in Asia. But there is only a period of about a year between the passage of the isolationism bill and Japan's aggression in Asia. Is this enough time? Dr Paine says that Japanese moderates were pushed out because of US isolationism because Japan could not afford to lose the trade with the US so instead she chose to invade, conquer and exploit Manchuria and further afield. But 1 year seems to not be enough. Such invasions take many years to plan and to think up. Japan had imperialist ambitions in the region for many decades, you don't go from international friendly player to aggressor in one year.
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  1235.  @evgeniya7853  As long as we can keep the Russians out of Europe under Chinese domination, no. I hope China reclaims those territories robbed from them by Russian tsars. And China is becoming strronger. The average Chinese IQ is much higher than Russian one and there are more of them, they will totally take Russia one day. Evgeniya, your grandkids will speak Mandarin, and ONLY Mandarin. It will be like with the Mongols again but this time the Chinese are much kinder.
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  1236. The UK got rich for two reasons. 1. British empire and colonialism. 2. Industrial revolution. You guys lost the colonies. And others are making and innovating too. Nobody wants to buy your products. So why should your country countinue to be rich. Invent perpetual motion and maybe you'll be rich again. But failing that you must become poor.
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  1237.  @DrAhzek  No such thing. There are no joint European forces because most Europeans do not feel threatened by Russia.
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  1238. Would you mind having some respect for your audience and not use the s word? I can see you're angry. And we all lost relatives in WW2. I lost a relative on day 1 of the war. He was shot in the face at Westeplatte. But there is no reason to use expletives. Thanks.
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  1239.  scold-y4f  Stalin got a bad rep. Actually under Lenin the Bolsheviks were already un-aliving 10,000s of people. Stalin was one member of a criminal gang who got in with Trotsky, Lenin, Beria, Dzierzynski, etc. Felix D at least put a lot of fellow commies out to pasture as well. Even Stalin was afraid of him. But all of these people were bad. Even Khrushchev signed warrants.
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  1240. Japanese know and they think they are unique in the world. You won't teach them anything. Thankfully more Korean and Chinese products and impoverishment of Japan will actually do well to them. Poverty brings humility.
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  1241. As a Catholic, I can also say that we'd need to hear the entire speech and context here. Because saying all religions are a path to God, does not mean all religions are the correct way to reach God. All religions could be said to be attempts to reach God, well all honest religions, not fake ones created to get money or create armies of servants. But there is a teaching in the Roman Catholic faith or tradition that some of God's nature can be known by reason and that God has created or instilled in us a Sensus divinitatis, which is also found in Calvinism and even Islam. Catholic teaching says that primitive man and later on, even the pagans did have some sort of idea about God and hence there are religions, it's just that we need the Christian Revelation and so the Church to complete this. If we understand the Pope's words in terms of "All roads are an attempt to lead to Rome, but most fail, or perhaps all fail but one" without saying the last bit explicitly, we can understand that the Holy Father is not being heretical here. I would really need to know more context here. And while the Pope should be more prudent with his language because it can lead to different understandings and the idea that he believes in universalism, it may be that it's not the case that he believes that all religions really are the same but it's true that all religions are a way to try to understand God or get to God, (but there is only one correct way to achieve this). For example all methods of audio recording are a way to preserve music for posterity, but we know that wax disks, phono records, magentic tapes and digital media vary in the detail captured. We know also that all philosophical systems are attempts at understanding reality but it's not the case that all are actually correct. We know that there are many ways of interpreting Quantum Theory but it may be that there really is only one correct interpretation. It may that the Pope is just not using the language correctly here and may only mean that all religions are man's attempt to reach God, and he just said it in short-hand which sadly can be interpreted as heresy. This could be the starting point for further dialogue with other faiths. We all want one thing. We're all trying to know God. And God wants us to know Him. Thoughts?
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  1242.  @weebotaku3132  America does buy certain critical raw materials from Russia. Titanium is one. Some nuclear materials too. Maybe some rare earths as well.
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  1243. I think it's important to repeat Wielun. There are more and more neo-N-azis about who harp on the 'suffering' and 'ge=no-ci-de" of the "German people" these days. On has to remind them that the first bombs were those dropped by Germany on civilians.
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  1244. Haha Joe Biden showed Poland how much he cares for their support. Poland is not a country the US will export her advanced chips to. What a joke. Joe Biden gave the Poles a nice F-you :)
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  1245. MAGA doesn't think that NATO is galloping to Russian security. Russia is in dire straits because much of their rocketry was Ukrainian in origin. They're also f-ed. MAGA wants a bigger NATO. But Germany prefers to pay paternity leave and German workers want high salaries, so little is spent on European militaries. Europeans have to tighten the belt and put much more tax revenue toward the military.
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  1246.  @donhaddix3770  Then tell the Germans to dismantle Nordstream I and 2.
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  1247. Do some research into what life under these guys was in Poland and other Slavic countries to the east.
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  1248. @ Well Soviet POW were usually Slavic. But yes, even the Asiatic ones. Nazi Germans were very cruel.
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  1249.  @ashtongiertz8728  I don't get that. There is no uniform foot. That's why shoe sizes exist. Your finger nail is roughly a cm across.
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  1250. Russia is partnering with Chinese to bring down the US. So that makes sense.
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  1251.  @captainholy1558  They don't have any experience at all. And even the US has experience fighting insurgents. The only experienced Western army right now is the Ukrainian one. People with actual combat experience against a real army. Japanese don't engage in combat. To be fair China has little experience either. But they're probably willing to sacrifice more men while America will back down as soon as people arrive in coffin bags. Best for America is to focus on Europe. And sign peace with China.
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  1252.  @visalserei  They lost big time on land to the Red Army of the USSR. Russian soldiers were like decimating Japanese. Secondly the KMT decimated Japanese too. Japan couldn't keep it up. Also Laos, Cambodia etc were backward. Japan took Western tech and invaded but they would do nothing with their stupid samurai swords. Secondly the West kicked them hard. Finally note that we're in 2024. Japan has not fouught a single war since 1945. And China has equal tech now to Japan and soon will be higher. China has an average IQ which is higher than Japan's and many more people and the communism is holding them back. But if China was capitalist they would be smarter than Japan and 10x the population. Japan would be a colony for them.
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  1253. RICH and PROTECTED. US is a sh-t hole because protects Japan and closed factories so that Japan could produce stuff for US markets.
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  1254.  @RubMySweatyThighs  People need to stop the weeb stuff. Japan is not ideal. In fact it's regressive. The West is fine, it just needs to be less woke. Remember people, Japan was medieval feudal until it started to copy the West in the Meiji Restoration.
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  1255. And Biden supported Nordstream 2. Your democrats also don't want Russia to fail. As secret documents show in the 80s you did not want the collapse of the USSR either.
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  1256.  @emmetnolan2329  He's pointing out how it's always Soviet or RUssian soldiers, American soldiers, French soldiers, British soldiers, Japanese soldiers or Italian soldiers but hardly ever German soldiers, it's 90% of the time "Nazi" soldiers. German money pays for this. Poor Japanese don't get named by their political ideology. The equivalent of the NSDAP in Japan was called the Taisei Yokusankai but we never hear of Taisei Yokusankai soldiers perpetrating Nanking but the Holocaust was perpetrated by the "Nazis". It's just how nicely the Germans are treated to distance them from the abuses of WW2 vs how the rest are treated. Japanese are Japanese. Russians are Russian. Soviets are Soviet. Brits who dropped bombs on Dresden are Brits and not Tories or whatever.
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  1257. The problem is that Japan is not making tech for everyone anymore. It must go back to pre-Meiji times.
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  1258. He's yours. He's a true, red blooded American. When we think of American tourists, we'll think of Johny Somali and Logan Paul.
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  1259.  @luluflowers9277  He did mock the Korean comfort women monument which the Japan government doesn't like. So like an ally of Japan???
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  1260.  @Karpp1nen Spot on. Germany never did fully de Nazify. They beat their chests these days but if you scratch some Germans, you will still find Nazi sympathies. A more serious de Nazification should have followed, alas America is large German founded and at the end of the day the Americans had sympathies for the Germans. The various ADL groups despite prominence could never fully clean them up. The Russians use this now as propaganda but their system was just as evil.
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  1261. To be fair, the whole "you're a diversity hire" is nonsense. If that happens, that happens in passing and is not significant. If people are fazed by that then they're really precious snowflakes.
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  1262. The West was making business with Russia. German economic growth was based on Russia. Nordstream I and 2. Cheap hydrocarbons. Russian investments. Us former communist bloc countries are EU 2 and NATO 2 and we are trash for all Westerners, including the people here. That's just how life is. They chose Russia and Putin overplayed his cards. If he did not invade but continued to coerce and pressure Europe he would have ultimately won and remained Europe's darling. He lost his nerve and invaded. But even now the Germans and the Austrians would like nothing better to do than to return to the previous status quo with Russia. It's all about money.
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  1263.  @mitchyoung93  Mitch, pay reparations to your Native Americans and Black people. Pay Iraq the billions for killing so many of their people and then we'll talk you Russian troll.
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  1264.  @vladimirnovakovic3495  They spend more per capita than Germany I think on defense. What did you do Vlad?
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  1265.  @Lanedl1  Because you or your countries hold us in disdain. We are lower value humans to all of you. Racism is rife in the West.
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  1266.  @torbenalstrup3902  Yes Russia with all these oligarchs and imperial ambitions.
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  1267.  @apersondoingthings5689  Without American aid the Soviets would have lost. Of course they still needed many men to to win but the Americans and British were destroying German factories while supplying equipment, ammo, fuel and food to the Soviets.
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  1268.  @Cutieliko  yep
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  1269.  @Cutieliko  We tried but we got fscked. Anyway, it all doesn't matter. One day the sun will swallow up earth. Have a good day.
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  1270. They are still the third richest country in the world. So they don't need so much critical thinking skills yet. Don't worry they will be fine. Weebs will always love Japan.
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  1271. There will probably be protests from the German embassy and the EU.
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  1272.  @berserkeroflove  I am paraphrasing from Dutch as I speak some Dutch but no German. The show is called Our Mothers, Our Fathers and it has been an issue in Poland as how Polish soldiers are portrayed in it.
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  1273. He is originally Polish. Like old Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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  1274. I have a bridge to sell you.
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  1275.  @Lyrielonwind  How could the European Union 'get rid of him' when the European Union has been a thorn in the side of US world leadership since 911? FFS the EU approved of Nordstream 1 and 2 which fed Russia. It approved of sales of advanced weapons to Russia. It has still not released all the COVID funds to Poland because Poland had an anti-Russian (PiS) government in 2022. Dude you're repeating Russia memes. Germany has been pro Russian since forever. They sent virtually no aid to Ukraine until we Poles (and others) embarrassed them.
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  1276.  @jezalb2710 Ah so you would put me in prison. How's St Petersburg?
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  1277. It is but sadly this channel warps reality for clicks. Most abuse occurs at home either by a close relative or at the hands of the boyfriend of the mother. It usually involves dysfunctional families and poor socio economic conditions. Child trafficking maybe makes 1% of overall child abuse which occurs.
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  1278.  @ingloriousbetch4302  These are easy to find. Statista, look for this:" Number of perpetrators in child abuse cases in the United States in 2021, by relationship to victim " They cite figures for 2021 in the US for child abuse. Where abuser is a parent: 338,747 cases, Relative 30,033, Multiple relationships 18,684; unmarried partner of parent: 17,026; Unknow: 11,184; Friend and neighbor: 3,622; daycare provider: 1,215. You can find multiple sources online where you'll see that >93% of the abusers or more, are well known to the child. Not some random trafficker, but actual people like parents, foster parents, boyfriend of mother, teacher, etc. If this channel makes it look like the majority of abuse is perpetrated by strangers or traffickers it is doing a disservice because more children can be helped by intervening in pathological families and not spending millions on hunts of traffickers. There is finite money to save the most children.
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  1279.  @xcatnayx  I'm sorry but she was an adult. What the guy did was disgusting but it does not warrant murder. And if what you describe is true, she'd be declared insane or the murder would be in affect and she'd get manslaughter or second degree murder.
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  1280. Nintendo needs to sue. And you guys need to follow the copyright holders' wishes. If you want you to emulate your legally purchased games on some other platform, you then can't do it.
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  1281. The Reich is your fatherland, no doubt.
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  1282.  @peterjones5353  The French can take it back. Trump will return it and ask for maintenance costs.
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  1283.  @chadkennedy2314  I'm not attacking you then. :)
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  1284.  @TheLAGopher  French don't have a credible deterrent. The Russians have 6000 warheads, the French have 300. It's no contest. Moscow could nuke all of France and forbid anyone else from responding because they'd still have enough for every other industrialised country on earth. It's not enough to have a few warheads, that's why Russia still has some respect from China. China is increasing her arsenal and maybe in 20-30 years will surpass Russia.
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  1285. It's a rather xenophobic place though. It's not only this. They dislike all foreigners everywhere.
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  1286.  @darthvadeth6290 Geishas are expensive. So not banned. I am sure if you're the right sort of foreigner you can find many a geisha but you need to be chosen, i.e. you need to have lots of money.
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  1287.  @darthvadeth6290  You do understand that the world is older than a few years and passport bros is a recent thing you kids are naming other kids who travel? People have been charging geishas for 'services' for ages. It's part of their job, they sell their bodies, maybe not always for s-e-x but often to lecherous old men.
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  1288.  @krispino4610  so just sleaze?
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  1289. It would be worse. After WW2, it was America which built Japan the way America built Germany. Even in 19th century, Japan got free Western tech. Japan gave the world nothing but cartoon porn and we gave them so much.
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  1290.  @abemanzur6985  Because the wealth and tech Japan achieved was Western. If they were left alone they would not have achieved it. And they would not have been built up by America and the West would not have been buying their products if they were a belligerent aggressive Axis power.
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  1291.  @abemanzur6985  I responded already. Japan's navy was British in origin. The British made a deal with the Japanese before WW1 to keep the status quo there contra the Germans and Russians and so transferred ships and ship building teach to the Japanese. The West also transferred industrial tech to Japan. Who developed industrialisation in the 19th century? Europe and later the US. So if Japan chose to invade Korea they would have become a threat to the Western powers and the West would not have invested there or opened markes to Japan. Before WW2 Japan was not very developed. It really developed after WW2. Now you think. Japan became filthy rich after WW2 despite not having Korea. Why? Because the US and West gave them all they needed as long as they were peaceful and a bulwark against China and USSR. Thank me for the history lesson.
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  1292. If they don't demand higher wages than those cost to company savings get passed on somewhere, maybe better return on investment and Japanese people still benefit, eg Japanese investors.
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  1293. You can study WW2 and occupation of Poland and other countries easily. You can read the diaries of Hans Frank for instance and how he told his son that all Poles would be un-alived once Germany won the war. Nobody is censoring this. You have the internet, make a basic effort to find the info.
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  1294.  @Mentzer1987  But you can hear what the bad guy had to say, his writings and speeches are available. There are many books written about Hitler. Even "My Struggle" is available. But giving him a pleasant English voice is not good, as that's not the voice his victims heard. Hitler is not censored at all.. NSDAP documents are not censored. Everything is available. I even have my grandfather's Kenkarte which would get you sent to KL Auschwitz if you forgot to take it with you.
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  1295.  @inthebeninging-m6h  Why do you a "Sutton" want to tell me about my country? Sutton is English, Welsh or Irish? Why do you think you can teach me anything? Tell me.
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  1296. Poland is too junk a country to make their own kit. So has to use FInnish. Poland is weak and will always be inferior. I'm Polish by the way.
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  1297. Poland for Americans is a third world country. For decades Poles had to change their names in the US to avoid racial persecution. Racial stereotypes of Poles in the US still exist. Americans love Brits, Germans and especially Japanese. But Poles are trash for most Americans. For the US government Poles are also trash. America will never allow Poland to have a nuclear deterrent but has allowed India, Pakistan, Israel, racist South Africa, France and Britain to have a nuclear deterrent. This of course does not mean that the Germans and Russians are better. NO. The Germans would sell us out to the Russians and the Russians would enslave us completely. But our best friend US of A, also thinks we are trash people good to be cannon fodder and not worthy of serious consideration. Average Americans also consider us Poles to be trash humans. So all in all our best friend, America, does see us as trash but the Germans and Russians see us as even worse people. We are stu-ffed. As a Polish person I can understand how blacks and others feel being labelled racial trash by most Americans. But such is life. You live for so many years and you die of illness or old age. And hopefully either something better follows or well you're now equal with all the other UBER races and countries - Americans, French, Germans, etc.
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  1298. LOL. Watch Bartosiak and Fanell and Lindley French. It is likely Chna will achieve her goals or there will be a war. If there's a war in the Pacific, Poland may get attacked by Russia as there won't be any more US presence, all will go to save Taiwan. There is trouble ahead.
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  1299.  @kathleencove  Not sure what your point is. I'm not the one producing endless videos about Japan and tourism. Cheers. I can understand you love Japan and Japan can do no wrong. There are people who feel some sort of weeb attraction.
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  1300.  @TeknoTim2002  The Whites would have been helped by Poland, the only country to actually defeat the Soviet Union in 1920. But the Whites wanted to recreate the Russian empire and enslave Poland. Hence we didn't help them. Note that Lenin was helped and sent to Russia by the Germans. The Germans created the monster of communist Russia. The Bolsheviks were aided by American money from New York. It's funny also how Red China was essentially made by Japan. In inflicting such heavy losses on KMT (and KMT on them) the Japanese allowed the Red to take over China. Now I suppose if PRC decides to attack Japan it will be their own chickens coming home to roost.
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  1301.  @aquariandawn4750  No. If you're visiting a country because the Japanese government is encouraging it, you're going to spend money there and generate jobs. You should not have to learn any language. The idea that someone should do that is beyond ridiculous and strange. If you emigrate and want to naturalise it depends on the law and it's very hard to naturalise in Japan and I'm sure you will have to pass language exams. So they have that covered. But tourists spending money having to learn Japanese phrases? How about no. How about I go to a 100 other countries which are just as beautiful and there' s no army of weebs or child hentai fans defending them.
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  1302.  @CordeliaWagner1999 You are a Neo-Nazi? Millions? Really? Who invited those migrants, your democratic governments did.
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  1303. Being an American, I'm sure it will go well for you. Americans are rock stars.
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  1304.  @tk80mufa5  True. But they would have had all of Germany and they enriched the German DNA significantly during that time to put it bluntly. Yet still the Germans love them. The East Germans were the most loyal of commies out of all the Eastern Europeans. The West Germans traded big time with Russia. Now all of Germany built its wealth on Russia and Nordstream 1 and 2 were built despite EU members objections.
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  1305. Why do this? Japanese people are complaining about foreign tourists. Why promote your country to more people and have them face the anger of your compatriots and also make your compatriots angry?
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  1306. In some Asian countries there is a practice called ENJO KOSAI which involves child prostitution. It's copied also in Korea. We also find sexualization of children in pop culture and in comics and video games and anime. I'm also not sure when but child porn was only banned recently in Japan, don't know when Korea banned it. In contrast European countries banned child porn much earlier. And many Asian mangas are illegal in European countries. But in Asian countries they sell these child abuse comics.
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  1307. Yank tells the whole world to respect other cultures. Yank heal thyself.
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  1308. Why did you guys put the Brit first? Why the chauvinism?
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  1309. I'm not from Europe when reading German.... I doubt he's that clued up. Of Course Germany runs Europe. But he's not that clued up. In Europe we all speak Deutsch.
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  1310. Hello little Nazi.
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  1311. Thanks for the PSA, Weeb.
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  1312. The problem is that America is a rich country and uncultured people can visit Japan and be rowdy there. That's all that this is. Poorly educated and poorly cultured people visiting other countries. In some countries you Yanks can get away with being rowdy. If you visit former Eastern Europe, people in general will like you. Because they need you against Russia. Japanese on the other hand think themselves superior to you, while you think yourselves superior to them and so they insist you behave well and many of you are poorly educated, stuck up a-holes and so you misbehave. And it's not such bad misbehaviour. In fact you could be loud on a train or in a street or restaurant and that would be terrible behaviour. There are worse things you can do in Japan though which are probably not illegal such as go to those junior idol concerts to drool over little kids in sailor uniforms. Japanese are OK with that, but speak loudly on a train and you're a barbarian. Anyway educated people don't have to be told to conform, we simply conform. We see what the locals do and behave the same or even more timidly. I'm more reserved when I;n abroad and I'm a bit of an ahole at home where I'm more confident. Having two nationalities is also funny.
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  1313.  @michaelhartle9737  Pay what's appropriate. But the Europeans are not paying enough because we've been lazy for the past 30 years.
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  1314. You are a Putin loving guy? You like Hitler too?
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  1315.  @ask-televisionmartingremme9253  But without the US, no Ukraine. Also without Poland, no Ukraine, because if a pro-German party was in charge in Feb 2022 then the borders with Poland and aid to Ukraine would have not followed except for some first aid kits and helmets.
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  1316. I mistook geishas for royal family. Who is harassing Japanese emperor's guards?
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  1317. No they don't. Japan gets a total pass on everything. In Europe we are forced to take migrants but Japan doesn't have to take anyone. Japan has rampant sexism. In Europe we are forced to accept gay marriage and so on, Japan doesn't have to. Japan can produce movies which are not racially diverse. Their games don't have to be racially diverse. In Europe The Witcher which is Slavic (white) had to be made mixed. Japan is definitely not targeted. Japan as ALL NON WHITES are exempt from anti-RACISM and pro-LGBT and pro-abortion. So please don't say Japan is some country which is targeted. It's not. Japanese have actually said F-YOU to Koreans and Chinese. For example they attack cities which create Comfort Women memorials. Imagine Germans stopping doing business with cities which have Holocaust memorials. Japan is protected.
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  1318.  @GhostSal  You do know that Japan was violent and dangerous until it was defeated by the Americans? Defitely pre-Meiji times were very violent. Meiji times were also violent with banditry about and warlords still needing to be reigned in. Japanese crime had been dropping since the 1950s and it's thought that reliability of remuneration for work rendered seem to play an important part: An Economic Analysis of the Post World War II Decline in the Japanese Crime Rate David Merriman Journal of Quantitative Criminology Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 1991), pp. 19-39 (21 pages) Published By: Springer
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  1319.  @GhostSal  That is racist. Because you claim Japanese ethno culture (mono race culture) is superior. So everyone else is inferior to them. This is classic racism. This Japan simping makes me sick.
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  1320.  @knossostellel-amarna8502  They pay their health care professional peanuts though. The doctor salaries in Japan are lower than in the UK. A friend of mine is a nurse in Japan and she earns peanuts compared to what people in the UK earn.
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  1321.  @DragoshZeroFTW  They won't destroy it if they bring in weebs like the weebs on Youtube. So many international weebs will come, in more ways than one.
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  1322.  @tramdriver123  Zelensky is a joker. He is insulting Trump. He previously insulted Boris Johnson and Andrzej Duda. Zelensky needs to learn humility. He has to show respect and SPEAK LESS and LISTEN MORE.
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  1323.  @TheBozn  Well said. And in addition most of Europe does not want to do that because most of Europe is either FAR from Russia (i.e. it has buffer states) or it thinks "NATO will protect us" i.e. "The US will protect us". I am ashamed of Europe. I am European but I am ashamed of Europe. It did almost NOTHING for the past 3 years.
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  1324.  @GoldilocksZone-665  And so taking Russia on without the US. That's crazy.
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  1325.  @tonibaker3823  Why don't you spend more on defense?
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  1326.  @danaeckel5523  Canada?
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  1327.  @tonibaker3823  And it will be implemented in 2040?
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  1328. Very simplistic. Since always work wasn't only about productivity but about keeping people busy. Idle hands do the devil's work. In Rome they had bread and circuses. Work gives meaning to billions of people and keeps them busy. It keeps them focused, allows them to focus their energy on that and not on envy or pride or boredom and then violence and so on. So if AI replaces all work and billionaires will have control of the AI, 99% of the population will be poor and maybe will live on these grants but they're going to not have anything to do. There will be wars, crime and unrest. It won't be pretty. Society will be worse off than it is now.
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  1329.  @Lilliathi  You need to think. You are an individual and you can make up your mind. A dog can't do that. A dog is by nature a dog, bred to be a hunter or support for man. A cow is bred to give milk. Chickens to lay eggs and not fly. But man can change his mind. That people exist in a groups does not make them not individuals. People live in communities, have support networks, families, romantic relationships, kids, etc but that does not mean we all think alike and we all act the same, like all dogs behave the same way if the same stimulus is applied, all dogs do the same thing. People don't do that. That there is pluralism in political thinking shows you that people come to different conclusions. One can be wrong however if one thinks incorrectly (lacks critical thinking skills) or has inaccurate inputs. TIK tries to explain to you how Hitler was wrong and how his form of socialism is but more of what you already have and is making your life miserable. But go on and keep repeating that we're social animals and therefore animal by nature and socialist or some other BS you're repeating.
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  1330.  @Lilliathi  Did you use instinct to type that up?
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  1331.  @Lilliathi  That snark, is that instinct?
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  1332.  @Lilliathi  That's just it. None of your activities here are instinct. What you post is thought up or interpreted (in your case incorrectly) but it is not instinct. Although maybe lashing out is instinctive, but the stuff you type, is not.
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  1333.  @Lilliathi  That's fine and I didn't say you did. If we're not all instinct, we are as TIK says, different to animals. We can reason and rise above instinctive impulses and propensities.
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  1334.  @Lilliathi  Yes we are an animal in the biological sense but we differentiate people from (other) animals and we don't have to be pedantic about it. I don't know if instinct will be there in the background - there is wide breadth of human behaviour and I'm not sure I buy that instinct is ALWAYS there. Maybe it rears its head in times of stress but I'm not sure it's always in the background. And if it is always in the background the way that biological functions are always there - eg the need to eat and drink, it makes any real difference to what TIK is saying. Saying that untaught people maybe will revert to instinctive behaviour does not negate the rational nature of Homo sapiens. Where does this learned behaviour come from, somehow the first people acquired it. And yes even animals need socialising skills, eg monkeys removed from their mothers do worse in social settings. But mankind is so much more. Going with the flow will be easier for instinctive and for fully rational creatures. It's just easier. Economies always follow. If you can earn the same money working less hard, chances are you'll do that. So I'm not sure how this is an issue. It seems totally irrelevant a point. I don't know if capitalism uses human competitive instincts. Some people are competitive, others aren't. Also not sure if competitiveness here isn't acquired through learned behaviour. Also not all capitalism is competitive. Just working hard and/or smart can get you enough to survive and have enough to spend on your hobbies or family. Not everyone is a workaholic and not everyone is greedy and not everyone cares about political ideologies, at least explicitly.
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  1335. He was a pompous fool. I don't understand how anyone could be enamoured with such a concrete thinker. He was absolutist, a sort of black vs white guy, no nuance and he was a demagogue, a sophist. His whole spiel were silly meme like aphorisms but which were based on false premises and he was not a seeker of truth but a antitheist. His brother is a historical revisionist and a Putin apologist from what I see online. His brother is Christian supposedly but that hasn't spared him from being hit with the anti-intellectual Hitchens stick.
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  1336.  @Saskfinest1  Is it the failure of universities that most people don't have a PhD?
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  1337.  @Saskfinest1  Ok, you're sperging on some weird tangent.
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  1338.  @Saskfinest1  I don't know why you have to sperg. Do you read what I write. Why do you say religion is failing? It's failing to get the numbers, maybe, but no failing per se. Which religion? There are 100s of religion. You do know that not all want more converts? Secondly, whether anybody is religious on earth has nothing to do with the truth value of any given religion. Please read what I write instead of repeating nonsense. To summarise: the truth of a religion is not related to its popularity. Population is not same as popularity. If a religion is failing, to get adherents, it does not mean it is failing per se in its goals, its goals may be to save a handful of people at the end. The rest may burn in hell. Come on man. Anyway this also goes for anything. Religions are not ad companies. Neither are universities.
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  1339.  @PJRayment  Think it through. Whether you're convinced by something, is not related to whether that something is true or not. Appeals to popularity are a fallacy. It's a type of ad hominem fallacy. Secondly, people need not be convinced by rational argument to follow something. This is basic logic. The fact that people are becoming less religious does not mean any given religion is true or false.
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  1340.  @PJRayment  well then you're just arguing to argue. Summarise your point dude.
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  1341.  @PJRayment  I don't think I'm wrong. I think that popularity of a religion has little or nothing to do with its truth value. It's not a given, you can't claim, religion has failed because less people follow because all religion is is following the truth of a given teaching or revelation or doctrine. I also don't think we can discount a religion because few people follow it. Discount it from a truth standpoint. Maybe we can discount it from the point of view of influence of its teachings sociologically although even then we can dispute that and say-- (some or many of) the teachings of Christianity are so ingrained in European culture that people take them for granted and take them as obvious default positions. I don't think I'm wrong. I don't think religion has failed because 1. There are 100s of religions. So which religion has failed and how? 2. Some religions have failed. Those which predicted the end of the world etc and it hasn't happened have failed. Christianity hasn't failed - to fail Christianity we'd need to find the bones of Jesus Christ. Christianity unlike all other religions can be proven false empirically. No other can be, be it Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Judaism, etc. Christianity can be falsified. Anyway I don't think Christianity has failed because 1. We're not at the end of time. 2. Christianity even so, has no targets. As a Christian, it's not your job to convert 1000 people and if you don't, you've failed as has your priest. It's also not failure to sin or move away. Christ didn't say- you must convert so many millions of people or you've failed. Christianity cannot fail. Christians can fail at some task, sure. But you can't say in a blanket way Christianity has failed. Failed because people prefer hedonism or are too busy? How is that a fault of Christianity? And what is Christianity? Is it God's failure that people don't convert? How is it God's failure that people reject Him? How can we judge this? Anyway I hope you see the OP said something nonsensical. Happy Easter.
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  1342. Same German countries promoted by Germanic Youtubers. Same racist elitism continued. The best, the OP, etc. We heard it all in 1939.
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  1343. Survivors and not survivalists
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  1344.  @OceanlinerDesigns  Good one :)
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  1345.  @OceanlinerDesigns  I'm used to South African English :)
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  1346. While it's true that women die more often in sexual assault, men die far more often in war. Throughout history the men made the bulk of premature death.
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  1347.  @iceblu4713  Second thing is that people with nothing to do do bad things. Idle hands do the devil's work. But there is truth to that saying. Throughout human history idle populations had to be kept occupied. This often occurred through war and conquest or working for the master on his fields and mines. But if AI can farm, mine, etc what will people do. Well there will be unrest and we already have no major wars which means those with high testosterone levels can't be keeled off leaving more sensible and docile people, we'll see big problems emerge unless the AI think reaches some limit and ends up having little effect in the long run. Or we invent perpetual motion and food, clothes, housing from nothing, but that is impossible according to the Laws of Thermodynamics.
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  1348. That was probably bad enough. I never traveled to Japan but hosted many Japanese people abroad (often for free). I don't care for buildings or clothes, I like individuals.
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  1349.  @theamerican7131  Because Americans protect Germany. For all the bluster here, German economy and love for Germany by common Americans means Americans remain in Germany and will protect Germany, so Germany has no need to protect anyone else.
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  1350. Then ban tourists and isolate like North Korea. I propose a $10,000 visa for all tourists.
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  1351. Hopefully Christian Japanese will reproduce and make Japan Christian.
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  1352. Why do you say ONLY place with very little crime? Can you trust Japanese police stats. They're dubious. Also Japan leads many countries in s-e-x crimes eg groping, theft of underwear and peeping. Women face a lot of se-xual harassment at work. Japan under reports these because there is a stigma to reporting while police charge only those crimes they can be sure of winning given the high conviction rate. But weebs will say it's a low crime country, always say 'it's thought or alleged to be a low crime country', whatever that means. They even have seperate women only trains to prevent groping.
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  1353.  @williammclean6594  It's probably a bias. Crime shows cherry pick cases which are easy to dramatise and sell to TV networks.
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  1354.  @maidsua4208  Japanese people have little or below average empathy. There is a problem with social services and people not caring for others. It's not particularly quiet in that video.
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  1355.  @Ash_18037  He is a weeb.
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  1356.  @UchihaClanFamily  True. In Japan they grope the hot woman but not speak. And you can also go and watch 12 year old girls do junior idol videos and shows because soft core pedo glamour is also socially acceptable in Japan.
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  1357. In the States the engineers and scientists use the metric system. Medicine uses metric, they give their patients 5mg of enalapril or 40mg of furosemide. US military also use metric for most things outside of caliber.
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  1358. You're not the bad guys. You're just no longer the world cops. You've been world cops for 80 years. Now you're taking a break. You're not invading Ukraine. Russia is. The fault lies with Russia.
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  1359. Many of the people in the west of Poland are from eastern Polish lands which later fell to the Soviet Union. Stalin and co relocated them after WW2 ended westward to the territories reclaimed from Germany, places like Breslau/Wroclaw.
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  1360. And don't give visas to foreigners.
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  1361. Other words, eg SICK OR BROKEN. Broken may mean overpowered and sick is now cool.
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  1362. Why do you say there is "minimization" of an Asian woman's life? Why add Asian? And why add woman. He's a murderer of another human being and he tried to take a second life. Why divide society using these additional adjectives. So if he had murdered an Anglo-Saxon woman from Ohio it would have been better? had he murdered a man it would have been better? Let's stop divisive language.
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  1363. It's really rich to claim to know so much about one's "Europe" and at the same time use incorrect currency to represent the Polish zloty. Especially as the Baltics hope that Poland will be one of those chief countries to defend them from Russian aggression. But hey, it's fine to hate on Americans, while silly Europeans can't even get their act in order.
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  1364. It's all because the Germans sent Lenin back to Russia in 1916 and the the British gave shelter to Marx. Without those people, Vietnam would have followed a capitalist system after it liberated itself.
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  1365. Where are these troops coming from? Because European militaries have no soldiers.
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  1366.  @Knight_Kin  That's very unpopular. But also there are shortages of such people too.
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  1367. Hitler was an American friend until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Why do you not condemn your own people?
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  1368. Are you willing to go back to the factory to produce everything as in the old days of the early 20th century?
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  1369. Oh they know.
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  1370. East Asian countries are less free speech and more collectivist than the West. They need to be more civil rights oriented.
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  1371. The thing is that if you look at what Gazeta Wyborcza (Radek's party's paper) says about the Uprising, it's not always positive things.
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  1372.  @Coughinggonzalo  People bring up the Warsaw Uprising but it's Radek's party paper (GW) which has been dissing the Warsaw Uprising. They like to be edgy and deconstruct things. They've written factually incorrect material about the Warsaw Uprising. That's the connection. The current party (PO) is more skeptical of the Warsaw Uprising than Law and Justice is. So bringing it up in this context is a little incorrect.
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  1373. If you guys respect the ojisans at Nintendo Japan, you will not emulate their games (even if purchased legally). Buy their consoles and buy their games.
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  1374.  @vayne7556  You can't. The developer or rather the publisher (or IP holder) does not want you to play their games. Strictly speaking you don't have a right to play those games. I'm sorry but that's how it is.
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  1375.  @jay_sooning  This is racist.
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  1376.  @geobot9k  China gets a bad rep. Meanwhile Japan got original culture from China.
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  1377. Because you colonised them. It's called BLOWBACK. Old folks' wisdom: the chickens have come home to roost. If you didn't want a United Nations in your country, you should not have had that empire, my friend.
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  1378.  @DrumRoody  Ahem... Taj Mahal? Dubai?
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  1379. J's were cruel, but unlike the G's they didn't plan to unalive all the J's and even the P's. Posted this way to avoid censor.
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  1380.  @cjackmond  Yes they were cruel but only the guys led by that painter had a plan of industrial mass you know extinction of first Jews, then Roma and then most Slavs (except the Croats and Bulgarians).
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  1381. Austria = German. And we know Hitler was very popular.
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  1382.  @rikkafe6050  3 hours is not much.
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  1383. That is a weeb phrase. We know some of you guys are weebs and fawn over anything Japanese.
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  1384. You're not European. You Brexited. Please don't make up stuff. Also Eastern Europe? Slovakia is in central Europe.
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  1385.  @cosmosj7907  It's bad everywhere. All countries have cost of living crisis. There is stagnation, inflation etc.
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  1386. It is 100% racism and typical Anglo-chauvinism. They're saying countries like Poland or Romania cannot outperform Britain on their own, it has to be a question of Britain's economy declining and not that people in those countries managed to improve their economies to a level higher than that of the UK. It's pure bigotry.
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  1387. Rich consumerist countries. Some of their people turn to perversions.
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  1388. Poland is not becoming any regional superpower. Germany and Russia will always be stronger. And US sides with those. Poland will always be an instrument of Americans until they don't need us any more. Russia is even worse and Berlin is best friends with Russia. Poland is truly lost. We just don't know it yet.
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  1389. You do know that these US MPs could have made a mistake. It was easy to blame a disposed person who couldn't speak English and was shell shocked.
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  1390.  @GraphicJ  Your crimes are investigated by military police and settled in 5 minutes? You 'come on now'.
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  1391. He killed my Catholic grandfather and enslaved my Catholic grandmother and killed her father. Darth Vader did not do such things as Darth Vader does not exist. Hitler existed and killed millions. Including his own Germans. Keep on worshipping that pedo-phile. He apparently liked little girls too.
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  1392. What a joke. So tell me how is this Tanaka of 1930s different to a Tanaka of current Japan? If they don't know what their ancestors did - and that's BS too as people do talk - how can they prevent becoming like that again? Of course they can't become like that again because, China can destroy anyone who attacks it and the US controls Japanese military the way it controls the German one but ask yourself why and how? And come on -- peaceful? Who isn't peaceful, Jayne Read? Which country in the world isn't peaceful? Yes there are some places with war and there are places with gangs and criminals but most people are peaceful and have morals and so on. But it was Japan murdering and raping her way across Asia and not say Korea or China or Indochina or India or anyone else. Come on.
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  1393.  @ReturnToNothingness32147  That will bite them in the butt because for sure South Koreans and especially the Chinese are taught every detail. That's also why I don't kiss Japanese a-$$ so much. Japan needs to be just and ADULT and not be a child here. Japan needs to admit - we f-ed up. We lost. But we murdered millions of people. We did bad things. Yes it's true. We are not perfect people. That would be that. They are not mature enough to swallow their pride, but Japan was beaten in WW2. KMT, USSR and US kicked their butts.
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  1394.  @yaneyobe3147  Poland is lazy. We Poles are lazy AF. Where are the Polish Volvos, Philips, Siemens, etc? Poland only has one sh-tty company called CD Project Red and it's a so-so business. Unless Poles get off their a$$es Poland will have to be a colony for the Germans or Russians. But Poles enjoy being a German colony. As long as you throw Poland a bone, they will lap it up. The best Polish generation was the inter war one. Poland had decent industrial growth then but now it's all BS service industry and dishwashing in the UK.
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  1395.  @StudleyDuderight  So? It's not the 1600s anymore. Poland also had a significant input in the development of the US cavalry, I think Pulaski was the first guy to organise the US cavalry and create a manual for it. But for all of that you Anglos treat Poles as excrement so I don't buy your BS bravado and faux- Hussar fanboyism. Let Poland have nuclear weapons to show you consider Poles not racial trash and animals but people you consider also have a right to protect their own existence like your best friends the Israelis, Brits, French and others. You even let apartheid South Africa have nuclear weapons. And Poland will need that as a deterrent against the Russians. Otherwise please leave Poland alone and maybe become a weeb or something and simp for Japan.
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  1396.  @GreyEagle_35  It's a meme. Besides these are not real F35s. Only Americans fly the real F35s. These are export versions. Much weaker.
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  1397.  @SteveFreeman-v4d  No, they never actually fought on horseback. They dismounted and used anti-tank rifles. German tanks of early WW2 were susceptible to anti-tank rifles. They only fought infantry on horseback.
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  1398.  @anthonykaiser974  There is hardware and software which only the American variants have. There are small differences but the Americans keep the best for themselves.
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  1399. If a country doesn't like you, don't visit it. If people gave Japanese a time out, they'd learn. The anti tourist sentiment is BS. Tourists visit less than 1% of the country. The other 99% parts are pure Japanese, clean and virginal. No dirty, smelly caucasian or other person to disturb their precious balance.
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  1400. Often kids are stupid and look at other countries. Weebs are people obsessed with Japan. They are usually younger. But Japan is like any other country. Well a country which was saved by America from communism and treated kindly unlike how Japan treated most of her enemies. We also buy a lot of your products which are not always very good. Now Korea makes superior products. But everyone always knows their country is the best unless there is war or something. Enjoy your country and know weebs love it and buy a lot of Japanese stuff which makes you guys rich. As long as you pander to weebs with anime, manga, lolicon and so on, you will stay rich.
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  1401.  @maritaschweizer1117 Polish farmer? All EU farmers. The others are also striking. Why are you anti-Polish?
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  1402.  @maritaschweizer1117 When Poland JOINED the EU. But Ukraine did not join the EU. Ukrainian grain is farmed in old kolkhozes which are foreigner and oligarch run. They don't follow EU practices. The whole point of Poland in the EU was that Poland had to meet EU conditions. It's more expensive to grow in Poland because we follow EU laws and regulations. I'm shocked you don't know this. Come on.
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  1403. Yes Russia started a war in 2022.
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  1404. Terrible click bait. Why do you guys publish this BS? I'll start to ignore your content.
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  1405.  @amberinthemist7912  Tell me about the Polish and other Catholic priests martyred in Auschwitz and Dachau. Do you know about that?
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  1406. I don't know. Eating raw fish and one of the highest rates of stomach cancer in the world, and cleanliness...
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  1407. Finally beating Herr Friday Checkout? The Gen3 beats the A18 Pro in GPU performance. But the Gen3 definitely beat the A17Pro in graphics performance. This is just a new version which will beat the A18 while the A19 will beat the Gen4. It's just a stupid race. So Herr Friday Checkout - you're making money on this, but do you want people to dump their Android Gen3 or Gen1/2 devices and buy the S25U when that launches in Feb, 25? And then buy an iPhone 17 Pro Max when that launches in September 2025 and so on... why do you post this nonsense and encourage people spend money on silly benchmarks? And what about the planet? Do you want more greenhouse gasses and devices which may take millions of years to decompose if that at all? Come on man. Choose some other topics instead of shilling for the makers so that people buy the bestest each year or even every 6 months because all know a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is now useless so our Samsung S24s need to be thrown in the recycle bin, they are all dog slow.
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  1408. British video producer won't mention non Anglo contributions. WW2 was won by Britons, for him.
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  1409.  @rickfresher  ???
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  1410. Poms always have to be d1cks about the war, why the comment about the Pole in the beginning? Really pathetic.
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  1411. At the end of the day the guy who did the cocaine was responsible for this. Had he not done cocaine, the cop would not be rushing to save him. The crash was probably unavoidable. The victim was also wearing Apple airpods and listening to loud music reduces your situational awareness. It's very dangerous to do that while crossing streets unless you really have a good view of the street and can tell no vehicles are approaching. She would maybe have heard the siren earlier had she not been listening to music. The police remarks are sad but they're real. People do say stupid and cruel things sometimes however that's not what killed this poor woman in this case. Another thing: do these police vehicles have to be so armoured in front? If you're racing through city streets hitting pedestrians is likely given there is no law forbidding the listening of loud music and hearing or vision impaired people do exist. Maybe if the car had a better pedestrian collision safety rating the woman may not have died. Also, should cops drive this fast for a potential drug overdose? I can understand a cardiac arrest but maybe in potential cases when the drug victim is speaking on the phone it's not necessary to go this fast in a urban environment where people listen to music and road works obstruct view.
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  1412. Elimination of jobs is Chinese and Vietnamese and soon Indians taking factory jobs from Japanese. As the Chinese silicon tech improves in say the next 10 years Japan will be too expensive and not competitive. It will become a dump.
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  1413. I'm not sure what you expect. Britain built its wealth on being a coloniser and on being industrial. Now that others are outcompeting Britain, what do you want? You're still coasting on accumulated wealth and London is a big finance centre-- I have no idea why that's still the case but that will also fall away. Then things will get rough. You'll not be G7 anymore. G7 = Great 7. Great Britain home of greater better human beings than all the other non-G people. Sorry, we'll all the same and your island has had its heyday.
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  1414.  @designeedesigner6182  Food was just as good, if not better 15 years ago. 15 years ago is nothing. We've had high food standards in the West for the past 50 years or longer. Last 15 years gave us more Tiktoks, more social media, more GMO, more consumerism, more throwaway culture as companies now throw things away instead of fixing etc.Less competition and more collusion is what we see.
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  1415. That's called WHATABOUTISM. You're saying Japan was fine to do this because Mao was a bad guy. There are movies about Mao too.
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  1416.  @SimonsRandomRants  Nonsense. Killing a PM does nothing. How long is a PM's term? Not long.
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  1417. @chrisx-vq4wo No. Japan has to obey the US of become China's vassal. They can operate with independence to some degree but after they got too successful - the way China is now - Reagan (US greatest president) forced them to open up and since then their economy has stagnated. Hey but under China they'd be a North Korea. So it's better under the US.
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  1418.  @kokea4349  I didn't know that. But Amazon Japan and other sites still sell "junior idol" material.
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  1419.  @JoJo-gt7ty  Dude, Japan banned real CSAM production in the early 2000s or late 90s and ownership of CSAM recently. The loli stuff is sick and it can foster incorrect behaviour in people who have such tendencies. You can't hide violent crimes like murder and so on but rape can be underreported because women aren't always beaten up terrible when they are abused. And there is a stigma to reporting in Japan. It's well known. And their police keep stats in a funny way. They also charge people mostly in cases they are assured of success in court, given the high rate of convictions. There is a lot of sexism in Japan. It would be better for Japanese women to face less of that.
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  1420.  @cooterhead_jones  I don't know what a top student is. You basically don't do area specialists anymore. US is also full of hubris.
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  1421.  @cooterhead_jones  I don't know what a top student is. What's the science? There isn't any. You don't need "top" students. You just need average students who work diligently. This type of nonsensical characterisation of people makes me think you don't really know much about how professional people perform their work. Secondly why do you speak of things you don't know anything about? You posted platitudes here. How old are you and what's your education level? How do you know other kingdoms had higher levels of hubris? How do you know people follow propaganda? Maybe they follow culture? Maybe they follow experience? Maybe they read? So much wrong with what you wrote here. I mean you're trying to sound smart but it's a word salad. What do you mean you have a right to feel superior? How do you feel superior? What do you feel superior about? And how do you feel superior when it's not your achievement? Just to add how do you know the Western world has done it optimally or the best way it could be done? There is no way to know that. Also how do you put value on different aspects of life? Also as a Yank, you have control of the world and you use that to your advantage but you also exploit others, it's not clear they wouldn't have done better without you. This is an example of your own personal hubris in assuming what you have is optimal and best for others while it benefits you as you interfere even in your so called "allies". And why can't it be DNA? I suspect you think that some races are superior. You had to defend that but I suspect there is something in you which suspects that. Dude, US has much hubris because the US is world super power. It's not about healthcare or accountable government. It's about affecting billions of people through bad policy, pride and ignorance. I can't speak for Alexander the Great but it's not as if his successes or failures effected the whole world. Your whole response smells of hubris. Was it written by AI? Or did you come up with those brown nuggets yourself?
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  1422. The UK is still not convinced it's not an empire. It's still one of the top economies. The Brits are still riding that empire train. By justice, the UK should be no 25 to 30 economy in the world. The world will be fair and peaceful when that happens one day. US should be 3rd economy. Japan should be no 15 economy. Germany should also be behind Indonesia, India, China, Brazil, etc.
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  1423.  @Kingcarparpeggio  Who is Boris, Trumper? Or Mr Biden who supported Nordstream 2 which made Russia stronger. Search your own soul for sins before accusing others of being 'Russians'.
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  1424.  @Kingcarparpeggio  Who is Boris? I'm not Russian unlike you. Who is No 1? No 1 are G7. And No 1 is also Russia for America, Biden authorised Nordstream 2. At least Trump was against it. Germany is fully pro Russian. The UK still won't tell us which Russian owns which part of London. Why don't you ask Bill Browder, Yuri? And Boris is not a common Russian name either. I'm Polish by the way. More anti-Russian than you will ever be.
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  1425. One can afford to build junk (and often also sell it to Russia - as Thales France did) if one is protected by the Americans in Ramstein, West Germany. Anyone can be a hero if you're safe and don't have to defend your own borders. You can develop your own nukes. But the Germans were not allowed to develop their own nukes and certainly not the Poles either. The Polish lead scientists who tried to do that was assassinated in the 80s. So what you say is not entirely correct. It's very simplistic.
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  1426.  @SS-zg6of  France is still a big power and has US respect though. That won't change.
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  1427. This is a facade. When Poland asked for reparations for WW2 the Germans laughed it off. Germany was made to apologise for murdering Jews and American POWs. But when it comes to Poles and others, the Germans are clueless or maybe don't mind. Remember that West Germany paid SS pensions after the war. And most Nazis returned to work for the West German and East German governments after the war. Few were prosecuted.
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  1428. It will never happen. US and UK will never cash out Russian money because that would mean all foreign investments in the US and UK are at risk. It would cause outflow of foreign funds and the West would lose credibility.
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  1429.  @playfulpatyy57  At the end of the day the doctor also has to eat. Medicine is a job. Some of us, go above what is expected and we suffer financially for it. Instead of using our skills to earn big bucks in the States or the Middle East, we continue to work with poor people in poor countries despite being very good medical practitioners. We have to get good or our patients die. But I can understand that not everyone is like that and it's unfair to judge everyone by the same. I'm lucky because I inherited resources and so I afford to offload a bit on the remuneration and offer world class service in a poor country, others have large families and so need to work to be able to provide for them. Let's not judge people because we don't know their lives. The other doc who dopes people said that courts judge, well it is the job of courts to judge. She also judges homophobes and such but I'm sorry a doctor has to provide the same medical care to homophobes, heterophobes and everyone else. For reporting of unethical behaviour there are medical councils and the like, and the rest is up to the governments, which are usually elected by people. Have a good day.
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  1430.  @esseaem1451  If you think someone is acting unethically you can report them. If patients say something you can advise them where to report their concerns. If your colleague is saying he won't treat pain either he is saying so in jest - or maybe he is serious in which case speak to his superior or head of the department if you think a patient is in pain and is mismanaged. One need not be accusatory. That's not easy I know. Doctors are not more special than other people. You're young and in your generation it's more about money, I'm a bit older, and for us it was more of a calling even though yes, you'd always find work being in medicine. But these days everything is like this. Doctors again are not special, civil engineers have to design buildings and bridges to specs. Aviation engineers have to design airplane parts. Mechanics have to make sure brakes in cars, planes etc won't fail. For me, I usually give more than I'm expected to and that sometimes has created problems for me, with certain types of colleagues. But medicine is about livelihood too. In this country doctors do years of community service and do more years of community is specialising. I don't know about other countries but the debt to society is repaid even for those who do those USMLEs and run away to the States and those others of us who prefer to stay behind at least for now. What's worse is that work in resource poor settings is way more taxing than in 1st world settings. If you have to struggle to get your patient an echocardiogram and it may take a year to get it, it can be off putting. I booked a g scope for a patient with anemia today, it's for April. My patients with debilitating palpitations will no longer be seen by cardiology opd because they don't have the capacity for that. Either I can capture the offending rhythm (and I attend them for other problems not as primary care, forget about primacy care help, they're even more busy) or they have syncope, otherwise reassurance. There is no colorectal cancer screening programme etc. So frustrations are there. Thanks.
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  1431. No footage available of that atrocity hence they use similar footage.
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  1432. Brits stole the Polish gold and sold Poland out to Stalin. In 1919 they sided with Germans rather than Roman Dmowski. Perfidious Albion.
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  1433. Good. So either buy the game and console or avoid Nintendo. People need to respect Nintendo.
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  1434.  @LE_Arasaka  I agree. But the copyright holder has a right (legal and moral) to decide how you use their IP. If Nintendo does not want you to play their old games, you're not allowed to play them. They want you to buy their new things. Property rights allow Nintendo to deny you the right to play their games if your old (no longer sold) conmsole breaks but you still have the purchased games.
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  1435.  @RetroReviewYT  Do what Nintendo wants and don't emulate. If they no longer sell the games and h/w, don't play them.
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  1436. Thank you Mark for shedding some light on these German corporations.
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  1437. Trump will help you. But you have to contribute 4% of GDP. You have to make a choice. The free ride is over.
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  1438. It was 100 years too late.
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  1439. Or maybe locals realising that tourist money comes at a minor inconvenience.
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  1440. They don't want to see you. Japanese don't like foreigners except in some designated areas, eg you can go but be in a cage, so to say.
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  1441. There's lots of religious people around. If you let them worry you, you'll work yourself up and chronic high cortisol levels are not healthy.
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  1442.  @bratwurstmitbiryani  It depends on the religion. It's like saying books are bad or physics is bad because of the atom bomb.
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  1443.  @bratwurstmitbiryani  You are making a category mistake. The morality can be in the eye of the beholder, also in physics books. People have derived moral views from scientific texts. So you are incorrect. The point is that all can be used for good and for evil. You're trying to set up an argument using sophistry to win a rhetorical argument but it doesn't approach actual reality and truth. My advice for you would be to see things without any preconceived bias. You also have that.
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  1444. No. Trump did not say that. Trump and his SECDEF have said that they're considering more troops for Poland and that they will defend Europe via article 5. Please don't spread Russian propaganda. Trump did say earlier that those countries which don't contribute enough may perhaps find the US not helping them if they're attacked. BUT those countries are Germany, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Those countries will not be attacked by Russia because Russia has to go through Poland first and there are also US troops in Poland and Ramstein in Germany.
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  1445. Japanese food isn't good. They have one of the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world. Japanese who move to the West have similar levels of stomach cancer as natives.
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  1446. It's not the birthrate. It's the fact that Asia and others are outperforming them. When last did you buy a Japanese product? In the 80s and 90s, all our products were Japanese or Dutch, now it's all Korean, German and Chinese. Even German is made in China. When China makes better anime games (Mihoyo) and Japanese play those, than Japanese can make you know the heyday of Japan is over. In the 90s and 80s Akihabara was about newest tech. Now newest tech is made by Nvidia/Asus/MSI/Apple/etc. Even SONY no longer makes laptops. Who makes OLED panels? Korea and China. SHarp has closed their business. Pioneer/Panasonic/Sony/Hitachi closed their OEM business.
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  1447. Marie Curie Sklodowska was Polish. You don't have to use the French pronunciation for her name. Don't be a Polonophobe.
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  1448. Well done. Too many people think American bluffing won't be checked by China or Russia.
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  1449.  @valdius85  I have many years of experience across continents and countries. Being successor to Ursula vd Leyden is a big deal.
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  1450. Suntory.... Japanese brands buying up European properties. :( All the while being protected by the Americans. Time for Trump to make them pay more for defense.
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  1451. Haha. My Danish friend and what? Sacrifice Poland, the Baltics and Finland for you? Get real mate. Europe has little to offer. There is no will to actually tighten the belt and put tax revenue towards the military.
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  1452.  @antonnurwald5700  Will never happen. Unless US surrenders to China. Russia is China's slave.
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  1453. Do you think Germans were superior people to Poles?
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  1454.  @robertprice5039  Good for you. I have 25% British ancestry rest is Polish. Germans killed my grandfather and great grandfather and other relatives. That's just how the war went. Had the Jerries won, I would not have been born because my parents would have been un-alived in childhood. Thankfully the Germans did not win.
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  1455. It was built by the conservative anti-Berlin government. The new pro-Berlin one which came to power in December 2023, would probably not have built it.
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  1456. Oupa = old father in Dutch/Afrikaans = grandfather.
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  1457. I run AdBlock but not sponsorblock. I do see occasional ads, there are ads in terms of some videos listed being actual ads for companies. Those don't autorun but are in the grid of videos YT shows me. I don't mind those. Maybe having a banner or two won't affect YT. But I suppose the revenue woudn't be good enough.
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  1458.  @BrianGilbert-r8j  LOL. America prints dollars and because it is world reserve currency Americans get stuff for free, essentially.
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  1459. Little naked boys and Japan is something which would get popularity among some Japanese and would be socially acceptable. Than again Belgium is dodge.
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  1460. MPAI (Most people are idiots).
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  1461.  @BWater-yq3jx  Lots of former Nazis got good jobs in West Germany and became very rich. They won too. What's your point?
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  1462.  @kathleencove  Enjoy your trip.
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  1463. You do know that it's justifiable and rational to say all these events were bad. Simply un-aliving innocent people is always bad.And it started when Japanese came to China and Korea and started to do it first. The Germans did it first in Europe.
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  1464. And yet, the sanctions are continuing,the military aid to Ukraine is continuing, they want Europe to increase military spending to defend against Russia.
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  1465.  @TheLaughingMustache-oh5ff  No dude. Vance said "reduce the leftism". And we are afraid of Russia. And also there is no such thing as 'people of Europe' that's a leftist concept. Now go away. He quoted St John Paul II, who was anti-Russian.
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  1466. It was an issue with an Oprah school in South Africa. South Africa has a high rate of assault of women and children, so called gender based violence. Every 20 seconds a woman or girl in SA is assaulted sexually.
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  1467.  @justawaitress8421  Social services are usually understaffed and underpaid. If you want better outcomes, gov should pay more and have more staff. But governments don't do that because the money has to be spread everywhere. For example in Korea they spend a lot on the military, money that has to be spent to keep North Korea away could go to social services. In Poland we spend a lot on the military too otherwise Putin will do massacres like Bucha in Poland. Money that could go to social services has to go to fund the army and buy arms. So you can't really judge social workers on outcomes of how the children do. Also cases are unique. You can have harder and easier cases. Harder cases may get bad outcomes even if you try your best. Then what are you going to do? Social workers will only take on easy cases and avoid the harder cases where outcomes are harder or maybe many will quit the profession.
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  1468.  @justawaitress8421  It would never work. Punishment doesn't really work for adults. You'd have fewer social workers or they'd seek easier cases.
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  1469.  @justawaitress8421  Yes children in care can go whoopsy daisy. Because social workers usually have dozens if not more children to look after. But even if they didn't, even under 24/7 watch, things can go bad. Punishing people for merely not living up to a non existent standard makes no sense. If that were to happen then you'd not have any social workers. And then without them, who wants to be punished, then what? Also social work is not a well paying gig. The people with the best skills would go and work in better paying jobs. If you want good care, pay and educate your social workers well and also provide them with resources. Professional people take pride in their work and do it well. But you have to pay professionals. And you can't overburden them.
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  1470. You have your own nuclear arsenal James. Remember that Americans value your life more than they value the life of a Poles, Romanian, Hungarian etc. We are trash compared to you. We all know this that's why we resent you. You won't let us have our own nuclear deterrent because our lives are worth less.
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  1471.  @brandonnguyen9680 I am part of the reason the world is civilised. People like me built this world. You are a weeb.
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  1472. Japan is not happy? None of my Japanese friends know what this game even is, and so I doubt Japan is not happy.
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  1473. Japan's been rich since 1970s and had no wars and utter peace after 1945, Korea had wars until recently, still is officially at war and they started to get rich in the late 90s.
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  1474. Which part wasn't on fire? The death toll here was 600+ people in 2 years of hostilities. When you bombed Iraq you contributed to the loss of 100,000s of people in that country. You destabilised it and made a mess of it. All for what?
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  1475. Murray being an atheist is promoting the things this channel rails against.
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  1476. When was such a time? Because tourism to Japan is a new thing. Only from the 70s or so.
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  1477. It's pure English, as pure as it gets. Be proud of your language. You also talk that way while watching the footy and at the pub or rather at the council office when collecting your unemployment :)
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  1478.  @David_Lloyd-Jones  Language evolves, my son.
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  1479. Chinese are a dictatorship. But let's be real. This is politics. US vs China struggle.
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  1480.  @goranvujasinovic2888  A lot of people who got out early were well off. How were they well off? They were connected with the socialist/communist party. Some people were refugees sure but many got out because connections, post communist connections.
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  1481.  @stephaniechambell1493  Spot on. :)
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  1482.  @anata5127  It wasn't one of the best. It was one of the best in the Eastern Bloc.
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  1483. Depends on who the other people were. It could be improved upon. Remember it is us Westerners who gave Japan modernity, before us, they were a medieval society.
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  1484.  @Imfphas20  Japan is clean but the junior idol CP is not good. Can you comment on that? Do you support it or do you think it's a bad thing?
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  1485.  @Imfphas20  I would consider it weird that people don't ask why so much of Japan's pop culture is devoted to things like this. It pretty much seems to be taken for granted over there. Deutsche well runs programmes about this. English sites about Japanese pop culture also frequently mention such things and Japanese websites like Amazon and cdjapan sell such products openly. So I'm curious how come such is tolerated. You seemed to be in the know. Anyway look into it for a shadier side of Japan.
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  1486. An Anglican priest. Not just any priest. A priest from Lotus Eaters podcast channel I think. That's the one with Sargon of Akkad.
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  1487. What do you mean several times bloodier? In Poland we lost 20% of our population thanks to Germany. What percentage of China was lost to Japanese? They were all equally barbaric and evil. White Germans, White and Asian Russians in the Red Army and Asian Japanese were committing mass atrocities. Read up about the Wola massacre by Germany. Or read up about Wolyn massacre by Ukrainian UPA. Or Read up about Holodomor. Or read up about all the Jewish ghettos murdered by Nazi Germany. Don't forget to read about Croat atrocities toward Serbs.
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  1488. Rapists get a few years? Maybe in Asia but not in the States.
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  1489. Dominic Sandbrook reminds me of the French correspondent/ guest editor from ? La Monde or Le Figaro who appeared on a BBC World discussion show every Sunday. They could be twins.
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  1490.  @tarasbulba7476  Taras Bulba was a thug though.
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  1491.  @konmoe121  Swiss always play both sides, that's the reason you guys are so wealthy.
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  1492.  @SiliconCurtain Bring in people from Stategy and Future, I would recommend Marek Budzisz.
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  1493. We have to thank the British or the Dutch for the way Christians and especially Catholics were persecuted in Japan because they instilled in the Shinto Japanese the idea that Christianity would be used to control Japan. Dutch and British, their interference has caused so many problems for the world.
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  1494. There's a joke about that. A comedian speaks perfect queen's English and says to the English audience: "You may not recognise my accent, it's educated". The educated people especially younger will use meters.
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  1495. Putin is not the problem. Putin is a symptom. Russia is an imperial state. That's the issue. The next guy will be like Putin.
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  1496. That's why you read the Pravda, i.e. The Truth.
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  1497. Eve, Ewa. She too could speak Polish. You could also use her Polish name. Marie Curie-Sklodowska always saw herself as Polish first and she even taught her kids the language. The French never deserved her genius and like Copernicus also featured in that Mendelejev's table, was also Polish, hence Polonium. Of course all you Anglos are always Poland haters.
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  1498. @LokiFarbautisson France is chauvinist.
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  1499.  @Skinflaps_Meatslapper  Yet you don't even know her name. She is called either Marie Cure-Sklodowska or Marie Sklodowska-Curie. It's better to say Maria Curie-Sklodowska. She was a POLISH woman and not a Marie but a Maria. She made a point of that herself. Please have respect for the woman and call her by what she called herself and not by what chauvinist French and English call her.
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  1500. I think problem is the strange people who come from overseas. I think your people don't like foreigners. I don't know why foreigners come. Why come to a country which doesn't want you? I can't understand this.
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  1501. Poms are Germanic, so would work.
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  1502. That Tankie guy is a complete sophist. He throws out insults but there is little substance to his objections. What are HIS qualifications?
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  1503. They voted in Tusk so not a smart country.
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  1504.  @dorinpopa6962  I'm sorry but the mass unalivings have been well documented and there is ample evidence of them. You're hallucinating. I'm sorry but the USSR was a terrible sh-t hole. It was an oppressive system which stole property and un-alived people. You should study some soviet archives. Google the work of Vladimir Bukovsky who studied these archives before they were SEALED again. Yes they are still sealed.
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  1505.  @dorinpopa6962  You also have to face it. A good number of Soviet losses in WW2 were due to their own actions and not due to the Germans even. USSR did not care about human life. You can see how Putin does things today. He learned those lessons back then. Russians don't care about their own, but it was especially bad under the commies.
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  1506.  @IbnRushd-mv3fp  I just looked at that BadEmpanada guy and he must be a grifter. He supports the "EFF" in South Africa, which is not even a real marxist party but a troll party. Also a pro ANC guy. Terrible person who really hates black people in Africa.
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  1507.  @ghostthelizard  We left in 1982. I can relate. One should never trust tankies. They use fake data to argue for things which were not so in the 20th century.
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  1508. Contracts with US arms makers and nuclear power. Pressure on Germany by leveraging Poland vs Germany. 10 million Americans of Polish descent who can vote Democrat next time.
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  1509. If Germany does not want war mongering maybe Ramstein can be closed and moved to Poland? Maybe then Germany will be safe from Russian attack? But Germany and these pro-Russian guys will say NO.
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  1510.  @moisty254  No you are. You are the real deal. With your primary school education and lack of any travel anywhere, you know it all. Edgelord you are.
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  1511. Imagine if their volunteers in the SS actually won the war for Hitler. Then they could repopulate Europe after all of us (well me for example) would be gone. Yes Dutch are the best. People like me are trash. Yet people like me still live and we take the oxygen super productive Dutch could take. Dutch, what do you think? As efficient as you are, we all live for some years and then we leave this world. It all doesn't matter.
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  1512.  @benahaus  Anglo-sphere. (I'll include Germans too because you are the rock stars, hence all the Wehrmaroo stuff on the internet).
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  1513. The Russian-North Korean-Chinese system. Is that the one you want to offer Japan? BRICS one?
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  1514.  @CatroiOz  I think loli anime is illegal in Germany. You must be careful what you import from Japan.
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  1515.  @nibulux  You can do that right now. But most businesses don't want to trade in BTC because it poses tax issues for them. But you can work through middlemen but you'll pay a markup.
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  1516.  @nonamepasserbya6658  People who like loli anime won't babysit anyone's kids, mate.
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  1517. Good South African accent.
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  1518.  @HackersSun  Did I call you a weeb? I don't think so.
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  1519. No. The real deal is that without work, people will lose meaning in their lives and they'll have nothing to do. Work occupies people. It keeps them focused on activities of work and getting to work, getting back home, preparing for work, studying for work, etc. But if work is replaced with some handout of money, these people will be idle. Time won't be spent on recreation. It won't be spent on education. It won't be spent on emotional family things. Much of it will be spent on boredom and envy and perhaps mass unrest.
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  1520.  @darkowlwisdom  The US had way more than that in Afghanistan and it didn't help one bit.
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  1521.  @Jose-r2p6z  We'll see if Trump can bring the businesses back to the US.
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  1522. As a Korean, you guys need to overtake Japan and then humble them. Being rich they think they are untouchable. Well overtake them and then use your financial clout to force them to apologise.
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  1523. And they need pompous Brits to save them. LOL
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  1524. Pedo = under 13. So not pedo.
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  1525. Poland is not serious. We've not been serious since WW2 ended. We have 50K combat soldiers. And we're not allowed to have a nuclear deterrent. Poland is f-ed. I say that as a Polish person who laments why Poles are so complacent, lazy and full of empty bravado. What does Poland produce? NOTHING. We really suck as a country. We could improve but we're too lazy. And we're seen as racially inferior by the Americans and Germans. Russians hate us, and would destroy us.
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  1526. Trump wants to break up BRICS. He supports India and Russia but opposes China and South Africa. It's a simple game.
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  1527.  @reggieluv31  Trump won't "pivot" to Red China. Because Red China is the only threat to AMerica right now.
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  1528. You are one of the Great 7. You do know that Mendel? You are one of the G7, Great 7. You are no punk kids. You are superior to us. We are trash and you look down upon us, that's why BRICS and other groups are taking off and many Europeans are also getting tired of the G7 also.
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  1529.  @Herzschreiber  Order online. This one is available in 'lowly' Poland so in your great Germany, it will be available if you order online.
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  1530. Not just that unit. But across Asia Japan was horrible to people. Japan was one of the evil powers in the 1930s/40s.
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  1531.  @Alejojojo6  You write absolute rubbish.
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  1532. LOL, you are worried? Why are you worried?
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  1533.  @spammus1  Sex work as it is now called.
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  1534.  @thathandsomedevil0828  Prostitution is the oldest profession.
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  1535.  @thathandsomedevil0828  I concur.
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  1536.  @justinwillingale2086  Are you OK? Do you need to see a doctor?
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  1537. The problem Pyotr is that the Chinese have a higher average IQ than Americans, Ukrainians and Europeans. There is no getting around that. They will win ultimately the tech / economic war. If China deregulates a bit it, will be a Japan on steroids. Caucasians will not be able to stand up to that.
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  1538. Russia and China are out to break the US. Sorry that you don't understand that.
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  1539. He said they were Jewish. Stop your hate.
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  1540.  @xanclips.gg48  At heart is narcissism. Self love. People who hurt others love themselves the most because it's hard to hurt someone if you love them. The worst thing is for a parent to lose their child. It's therefore makes no sense to tell this woman who knows unbearable pain of child loss that some anon was moved by her plight. Yes that's nice that you were moved but would you really consider her knowing that as being that important. I've noticed that with many people lately. It's all about how they feel. The story is about something else but we'll see countless comments here about how this story made them feel, well it's a billion times worse for the mother. Try to understand this.
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  1541.  @Cindy-1965  You need to evaluate how you approach people, people who live on the other side of the world. You are attacking me. You need to re-evaluate how you approach other people. Don't judge other people, there is a saying in England, not that I'm English: PLAY THE BALL AND NOT THE MAN.
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  1542.  @Cindy-1965  You can have your opinion but don't attack me for saying a grieving mother who lost two daughters doesn't need to be told some anon wants her to know he or she shed a tear for her daughters. Happy? :-)
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  1543. Remember that the first Western leaders to risk their lives and go to Kyiv in 2022 were Poland's Morawiecki and Kaczynski. Conservatives. When did Scholtz and Macron go there? Long after Patriots were installed.
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  1544. Japan can't win against China. Ultimately without the Americans, and they're on the decline, Japan will have to submit to China.
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  1545. Japan arrests guys for selling silly pokemon while Amazon Japan sells "junior idol" child gravure. Japan has really f-ed up laws.
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  1546. Stratfor are wankers. They let their customers data leak and did not notify them.
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  1547. They are usually small people. So it's spacious. Nothing to do with culture.
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  1548. What was left out because of the narrow and racist video, was how the Germans thought about Poles. Towards the end of the war, the Germans studied Polish Home Army tactics and structure and planned to base their resistance to the Allied occupation based on the organisation of the Polish Home Army.
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  1549.  @trevaperes5343  No. It is an atrocity. He just wants you to know that many such occurred in the eastern Parts of German occupied Europe. That's all. You don't have to be uncharitable and defensive. It's as though you think it's not worth mentioning that such things occurred more commonly in the east because Nazi Germany had less empathy for the Slavic people than they had for the French people.
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  1550. Ask them about junior idols and ask why Japan only banned child porn about 10 years ago. DO you know that had this guy gone to an event where he can gawk and sing along with 12 year olds, it would have been acceptable? Ask those nice people about that. By the way Japan is trying to stimulate tourism. It's a major Japanese government issue. The way I see it that many people there are unfriendly and not so tolerant despite voting for governments which want to stimulate tourism. They're a somewhat xenophobic society. You know rowdy and rude tourists occur everywhere but we don't lose our sh=t over them. Somehow something this mild occurs and weebs around the world rush out to defend Japan. My goodness.
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  1551.  @marymegrant9438  The Anglican Church which is protestant, does.
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  1552.  @selenacaemawr  No attempt at slam dunk. Point is that this guy is not Catholic because the Catholic Church is being attacked for this fool.
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  1553.  @marymegrant9438  It's a protestant church though and the guy is English and appears on Lotus Eaters. It's more Anglican than anything Catholic.
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  1554.  @ProfessorTimWilson  I don't like Radek. I think Poles made a big mistake in bringing Tusk ("we'll take Russia as she is") back. I've actually met Tusk personally some years ago, before he went to the EU, I think Poles made a poor choice with PO. We've already had PO yield to Russia before. They'll do it again. Poland's in trouble. I'd recommend following Strategy and Future on YT. They do English sometimes. I think if the US leaves or gets distracted by China, Poland will not be able to hang on unless there is a more serious government. Remember that under PO, the plan to defend against Russia was to let Russians take half of Poland until the Vistula river. The serious military modernization started under Kaczynski. PO did almost nothing while they were in charge and they gave in and allowed an EU-Russian deal in 2006. Kaczynski was always anti-Russian in part because of Smolensk. Smolensk is by the way the only time the PO government says that Putin did not lie. He can't be trusted in other matters but once his commission said that Russia was in no way to blame for the Smolensk disaster, Poland's Miller commission under PO basically rubber stamped what the Russians said. Radek is popular among some Westerners because of his wife.
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  1555. America will side with Germany and Russia. Poland is always last. Biden even chose Germany over Poland in this war. Poland is lost. Stay in your US and you'll be safe. We Poles may get nuked.
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  1556.  @KotkaPsotka369  Voting for a guy who only has high school education also.
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  1557.  @eMDiKhamPha  Speak for your own country. It depends where the thing was located. If at the airport, after security, with cameras around, it would likely not be vandalised. If in some dingy neighbourhood, maybe. But Japan also has dumps and trouble makers.
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  1558. Jake doesn't understand that might makes right. Jake, you're American. You're going to be all right.
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  1559. He's a friendly interviewer. He's friendly to M's political stance.
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  1560.  @itsawoodchuck4330  But you'd have to be those things to judge the "German people" to be those things. So answer me this, how does someone like you who achieved nothing can claim that the Germans were all these wonderful things? It's like a cargo cult with you.
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  1561.  @aqrealestateking  They needed to be to keep Europe strong against the Soviets. They were made to be so and heck money is money. Look at Germany today. They build everything on cheap Russian gas, fuel and petroleum products and cheap sub-component manufacturing in China. But Germany's days are numbered as they can't compete with the new tech, the cheap Russian resources are gone and the Americans will make them cut ties with China.
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  1562. Thank you for this insightful story.
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  1563. Tusk is not Poland's president. Secondly Tusk is a terrible PM. He's not good for us in Poland.
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  1564.  @theresadegrandpre667  I'm sorry but Biden f-scked up Ukraine. He gave too little aid, too slowly.
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  1565.  @dancortes2164  Oh you mean how Germany under American peace and economics is the 3rd richest country in the world? And Japan 4th? When they were on their own they didn't do so well and they had to steal from Slavs and Chinese. Now they are coining it. Even Red China is making a fortune because of these horrible Americans. Dude you are wrong and you are confused. You are ignorant as well.
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  1566.  @FrancisGalton117  If you study ancient history in countries like Japan you'll know that for the most part things like human rights did not exist. These originated in the West. Like it or not. Yes Japanese militarism and disregard for the defeated and women and children of the defeated was not something brought with the Meiji Restoration. I do know that soldiers would commit atrocities but the sort of thing which Japan got up to in Asia was not comparable to anything the French or the British got up to. The navy was based on the British and the army also based on the Prussians. But for the most part Britain was the leading influence. As was the US. By that time there definitely existed the League of Nations and the earlier Geneva Conventions. Never mind the Just War of St Thomas Aquinas. Please don't tell me that Shinto Japan had such a concept as Just War of Thomas Aquinas. I know it's nice to muddy the waters the way you do but you're nitpicking an attempt to win an argument. We may as well argue that modern hygiene did not exist in the late 20th century because there were slums in some parts of the world whereas there were ancient Romans who liked to bathe frequently.
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  1567.  @FrancisGalton117  1640s to 1930s. Seems like a fair comparison. Not really. Yes the conduct wasn't super but the logic behind the treatment of non combatants was emerging. It's without a doubt that the concept of human rights emerged in Europe but also had some good push in China as well. You're muddying the waters. Japan was definitely behind in these concepts. They did not get Bushido or whatever they had in the 30s and 40s from Europe., ergo it was home grown and drawn upon their own traditions. Have a good day.
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  1568.  @FrancisGalton117  One last thing. Tell me why did it take Japan so long to ban CP production when in the west we did it ages ago? Why does Japan still have junior idols? Why was ownership legal until 2008? What were kamuros in Japanese society? We did not have such in the West. I'm not trying to diss Japan but comparing the attitudes to individuals including kids and women in these different societies. You do know women still face an uphill struggle there? Do think through the sociological implications.
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  1569.  @FrancisGalton117  You didn't provide a challenge. Japan did not get her Bushido and Nanking from Europe. I'm sorry. Japanese behaviour in Nanking was more like Genghis Khan than anything in 19th century Europe. You will only muddy waters because you will point out outliers and misbehaving troops in Europe rather than the standard procedure of WW2 Japan. Even the NSDAP run Germans had to have Einsatzgruppe. And the Reds on their entry into the Reich were also not following sanction but were misbehaving and at least one could argue their country had experienced aggression. What aggression did the Japanese troops experience? Go away man, you pseudo-intellectual hack.
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  1570.  @FrancisGalton117  LOL many examples, but one here: Is there such a thing as just wars? A Confucian approach By Yves Vendé.
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  1571. 1y 6 mo is nothing for child abuse. In the States people like that sometimes get 25 years to life, in prison.
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  1572. That was "long ago". That's not the standard or expectation now. That was when you guys jerry-rigged a fix from some spare parts to fix the Apollo craft and allow it a safe return to earth. Support is now cheap and outsourced. And products are cheaply made because the price is meant to be cheap. Most products are throwaway products. Now car mechs plug in a computer and get the part number of the faulty part and replace that. It's a different world.
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  1573. Second class people according to the West but still people which differed from the German view in the 30s. Now it's were all still seen as thieves by the Germans. And in the 1950-70s the Germans thought we'd not be able to handle the 'reclaimed lands'.
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  1574. Nazis, people who came from the moon. Nothing in particular about them.
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  1575.  @cagneybillingsley2165  That just shows that you don't know actual Japanese people.
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  1576.  @skymarquise2105  caffeine actually can increase migraines. Caffeine actually vasocontricts (closes) blood vessels.
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  1577.  @supersaiyanalex2570  Cram school is so 80s-90s.
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  1578. He is an Anglican priest. Not Catholic. Man you Americans are really ignorant.
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  1579. You guys wanted Brexit, you got it. You blamed those "dirty" Poles and Romanians, now you will blame the poor Africans and Arabs. Well sucks to be you but the rest of the world has industrialised. And you can't produce wealth with TikToks.
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  1580. For you filthy rich Americans, that's peanuts. And at 2.47 m subscribers, Kyle Hill probably makes this much every week. You guys are filthy rich by reading out basic 1st year BSc undergrad lectures. LOL. You Americans don't know real hardship.
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  1581.  @ika32  Look up junior idols and check when Japan banned child porn. It was not long ago. Unless you tell me kids in child porn is not abuse.
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  1582. You should not visit Japan. Your mere presence upsets the true blooded Japanese. If you really respect Japanese, we'll leave them alone. But they can give back our Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and so on.
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  1583.  @Chadrick2  Neutral? Your empire was being taken away (Italians, Japanese and Germans) and you would not have been able to hold it. It would all go independent.
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  1584. This is misinformation. Evidence shows that the German Heer committed mass war crimes. Don't be racist.
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  1585.  @tucktruck8232  German. Germany invaded Poland and not the NSDAP. The Heer were mostly non-Nazi and committed war crimes against my people. Sorry bud but back then all Germans would spit on us and not a single German protested that 6 million Polish cititizens were un-alived.
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  1586.  @gerohubner5101  If a person is exposed to severe trauma it may affect him and he may no longer be in a position to tell right from wrong. Returning soldiers have often committed terrible crimes. We however would differentiate those crimes from routine sadism, robbery, un-aliving of people. I very much doubt this was as common back then and I would say that the chance is 99% that he was not assessed properly. It was martial law and the Americans had to prevent a riot by the locals so they finished this man off in a quick show trial. These days people are on trial how long? Years? They can appeal? They can be on death row for ages. And most countries don't have the death penalty.
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  1587.  @TSD4027  They 'looted'. They pumped the Germans up, they did the same with Japan.
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  1588.  @Wuppie62  The Brits invented industry.
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  1589.  @SamuraiAkechi  They did the same in Japan. They did the same in Japan under Meiji. That Japan had any successes in 1905 and in the 40s was because of the British ships and tactics. Germany and Japan were always American (and British) fronts. Without America, Germany and Japan would have never taken off the ground.
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  1590. The Germans in WW2 committed so many atrocities it's really sad that videos like this try to give them a voice. Remember this is the armed force which caused the Holocaust.
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  1591. No officials told you that. If you believe kids you're not very smart.
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  1592. ​ @czarlito_  West is not Western Europe. West can mean European - i.e. white culture usually Greco-Roman, vs say Eastern or Tartaric, so West vs India, China etc. Or we could say it's Western Europe vs Eastern Europe as Western vs Eastern Roman Empire, in which case Scandinavia would be inherit the Western culture as would Poland, Czechia etc because of the Roman Catholic faith and Latin alphabet (Protestant splits were later).
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  1593. Sokolowski is pronounced SOKOWOVSKI. W as Wendy. The L is originally the L with a dash in it, in Polish, it's said as w is said in win or Wendy.
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  1594. I get you. And Stratfor has been prophesizing the collapse of China since the early 2000s and a conflict with Russia over those eastern territories. Nothing new.
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  1595.  @abrakkehakka1357  China also does not have an expansionist agenda. Let's face it, the US has the Monroe Doctrine, but all China wants is to secure the seas around it even less so than the West has security of its oceans. No the Japanese undercut US and Western European labour. There was significant anti-Japanese sentiment in the US and Reagan finally had to tell the Japanese to back off. Literally everyone was worried Japan would own America and people were definitely not happy. The only reason the Americans are upset with the Chinese is that the Chinese have learned to produce things on their own and now compete with the West. The West thought with disdain that Chinese were simple people but China has the world's largest average IQ. In the long run the West can't win against China. They are too smart and there's too many of them. Now I don't like communism. But have to call it how I see it. All was ok with China as long as they were not too big, they could massacre protesters and so on, occupy Tibet etc. but once they started to produce too many products - now China is bad. Capitalist principles. So working 6 days per week and child labour are capitalist? It's not undercutting salaries and subisizing by having a shortened life expectancy and high pollution rates? Well China always had those. So China was fine in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, but now China is bad...? Really. You need to step outside your US bubble. I like America but I'm Catholic and we have to call it how it is. Expansionism? China is the worlds, oldest country. They're more or less the same size now as 3000 years ago.
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  1596. The problem is the decline of Japanese economy. Because there is now competition from others. How did Japan get so filthy rich? They built stuff faster than American and European workers. But now Chinese/Viet/Thai/etc workers are outperforming them. Chinese and Koreans make better video games than Japan. They make better music than Japan. They make better TV than Japan. They build better ships than Japan. They build better TV/electronics/etc than Japan. What can Japan offer?
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  1597.  @AsMoDlol  $1000 per entry visa
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  1598. As if entho-nationalist Japanese care what a clumsy, British, gaijin thinks.
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  1599.  @zeraphos5586  The dollar bill is a state tender. Visa is a private company for channeling of money. It's like saying that you deserve to be driven in someone's car because the road is public. No, that's still someone else's private property.
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  1600.  @smithynoir9980  There is no essential service in anime or cartoon CP or such. Most Japanese will be happy to have less of this rubbish around.
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  1601.  @RageKage987  You're speaking for the Japanese people. I speak about what I know and the typical Japanese person is not a fan of h- anime. They're also not big fans of late night anime. They all watch the mainstream anime. Dude your hentai anime will still be safe.
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  1602.  @GrippyClips  The terms weren't around before WW2. People spoke of the central powers or of empires.
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  1603.  @riccardogibertoni5859  And weebs, like you? always bring up Japan?
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  1604. Don't be too much of a weeb. There's nothing to love. They're people like you. Don't worship marketing stereotypes.
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  1605.  @crocidile90  And less fapping to hentai and JAV porn for Japanese guys, and less cheating from J girls
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  1606.  @williamberven-ph5ig  Unless one is John Ritter in 1989's Skin Deep.
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  1607.  @mariaavalon3730  Actually there were differences. Most of those did not involve bodily resurrection and many follow Christianity in chronology ie may have copied Christianity.
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  1608.  @mariaavalon3730  no empirical evidence except testimony.
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  1609.  @RustyWalker  You're making that argument Rusty Walkeror should I call you Johnny Walker?
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  1610.  @yoeyyoey8937  Roman concrete has been figured out. Stained glass windows are well known. There is only one such shroud though so it's extra remarkable. We just don't see bodies leave such images behind. If we did, nobody would care about it.
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  1611.  @Tenebris_Sint  Ah yes, that's why I didn't want to talk to you. Because now I'm an anti-semite. But if you were a protestant then I'd have said, your minister told you or your pastor. Now see how you're not charitable? Please go away, I don't want to engage with people such as yourself who are not charitable. Good bye.
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  1612.  @mariaavalon3730  I don't know where you get your ideas but you can find lists of these similar resurrected messiahs and you will find NONE are the same as Christ. Superficially there are some similarities but you have to remember that in terms of what people can do there are only a number of limited things which can happen. A deity can only do so many things. So superficially similar things occurring does not make them identical nor the evidence for them nor our evidence for knowing such a thing occurred supposedly. I don't know which historians or athropologists you speak about but the Bible is BIG. It has a NT and OT. In terms of the NT the Bible actually teaches history because previously historians had no idea that Pontius Pilate even existed until some years ago a stone with his name was found. I understand you have some emotional need to think Christianity is zero and you think it's all bunk because you're young and you probably cannot fathom out how people survived in the 90s without GPS or smartphones. You also have no idea how much evidence there is for major historical figures of the past. For example there is more evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ than there is for Alexander the Great or even Julius Caesar. When it comes to religion there is a sociological idea that the sciences are independent of religious belief. Science texts will not go and speak of religious teachings because it would be politically incorrect to do this, or offensive or blasphemous and so on. When it comes to Christianity it is very well documented. We have writings about the early Church and early traditions which are documented, we have archeological evidence, for example the tomb of St Peter was discovered under the Vatican some years ago. Look on YT for this video: "Jesus was NOT copied from pagan mythology (Zeitgeist REBUTTED)" because the guy goes over the different ersatz Christs amateurs bring up.
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  1613.  @RemnantDiscipleLazzaro-Rev1217  Educate yourself mate.
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  1614. Make video about Japan in a post-US world. How will Japan respond to a dominant China, when US retreats from the Pacific?
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  1615. Japanese tourists are terrible too, abroad. And it's your government pushing tourism. But let's face it, there is nothing special about Japan. It's overcrowded with a horrible history in WW2. Japanese workers undecut Western workers and caused closure of Western factories. Japan is not a good friend of the West, Mr Reporter.
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  1616.  @michaelashby9654 They shouldn't. Nobody should. But tourists being tourists in touristy places is not disrespect. I think you're using a maladjusted not standard version of respect. Tourists are travelers on holiday, they're not at work, they're on holiday, and they come with their own behaviour to enjoy as much as possible in a short a time they have, so they take pictures and maybe occasionally litter, BUT THEY BRING MONEY! Japanese tourists also cause problems for locals when Japanese are the foreigners. But people give tourists a pass unless they are really criminal. In Europe we don't mind if people are a little noisy in tourist places, Japanese should not either, if they want to belong to the civilised world.Tourists only visit less than 1% of a given country unless your country is San Marino, Monaco, Singapore of Vatican City. The Japanese government since their defeat in WW2, has allowed tourism. They promote it. Those Japanese who exaggerate the minor inconveniences of tourists should STFU because they're DISRESPECTFUL to their emperor and his government which wants tourists there. Obey the government.
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  1617. To be fair the guy did lose the parts. It's not that the chair failed. It's that the guy did not take good care while moving. Perhaps his insurance or the mover can be billed for a new chair. Or maybe the guy can get a second hand chair on Ebay and take those arms off or fix other arms or 3D print arms. At the end of the day the support is a little rude and should have said "I'm sorry" and "We're terribly sorry. However there is nothing we can do given that we do not have access to spare parts and all our chairs come pre-assembled from China. At best we can put you on our mailing list and you're welcome to purchase one of these chairs once they go on clearance." On the other hand Luis' mom and I doubt he scolded her when he was 3 years old, had a fair point. If the toy was in a returnable condition it was obviously not abused and it should have lasted at least a year, which is what standard warranties have always been. Yes it's being dishonest but then the company is also dishonest in selling junk. Remember an abused toy would look scuffed up and one would not be able to return it even when under warranty.
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  1618. Notre Dame fire was a tragedy for Roman Catholics. The anti-theistic French have no right to care about it. I like how Jake says it's a world cultural site, but do people who call us "faith heads" and deluded really matter when it comes to a landmark for humanity? Culture?
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  1619. This is false. Very few Poles collaborated. Poland had no SS regiments and even the Grey police which had to co-operate with the Germans or face death was not involved. Poles were the first to fight the Germans. So please don't spread lies about Poles. What did you do? Poles also died in their millions.
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  1620.  @brandonkew9122  YOU should read history books. Poles were the victims of WW2. Stop your hate. I lost relatives in WW2. Stop spreading lies.
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  1621. LOL, come on guys, I'm not even American but 10 days is not enough to affect the air traffic control industry. This is really stretching it.
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  1622. It is still used as a pain killer, just in either a more refined form or in a modified stronger form - hence the term OPIOID and OPIATE.
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  1623. Would that product include US troops in bases in Europe? No, those guys have to risk their lives for free so that Europeans and Brits can have an easy life.
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  1624.  @dannil10  I would not be too concerned. Americans won't abandon Europe. But the pendulum has swung towards the conservative side. Which means the constant dehumanising by so called liberals of anyone who was not enthusiastic about progressive policies will hopefully give way to a more balanced and reasonable and moderate approach to politics in Europe and beyond. Both extremes are bad, liberal extremes and right wing extremes. Europe needs to become more moderate and more liberal in the classic sense.
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  1625. Japanese are inherently racist. Not all, but at least the ones who make these TV reports and the audiences they pander to. Some even say that when foreigners want to clean up the child abuse comics, it's attacking Japanese child abuse comics, culture.
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  1626. US saved Japan. You should thank the US for being so kind to Japan.
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  1627. Keep Japan as it is? You mean keep the child abuse comics... look they banned real child porn at least several years ago. And they still need to apologise for WW2.
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  1628. Good story. Thank you for sharing. My grandfather was a POW, killed by the Germans, while he was a POW. Other grandfather was put in prison for nothing and died there-- they tortured him to death. My grandmother was a slave labourer taken fron Poland but she was treated well by her farmer masters.
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  1629. But Japanese tend to be against Comfort Women memorials.
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  1630. Other side? POWs in a death camp? You do know what the Germans did to Russian POWs? They let them un-alive. How do you think these 'criminals' got to The Reich from distant lands? The Germans brought them after they STARTED A WAR of AGGRESSION on 1 September 1939. Stop defending Nazism. Pick up some books.
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  1631.  @codesymbi  Thanks to foreigners. Japanese tourists are not the problem. Unless they are being emboldened by Western tourists who do what's allowed everywhere else in the world.
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  1632. Brits sadly have a long history of Anglo-chauvinism. Being exploitative and racist towards others is a British thing. Hopefully future generations change.
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  1633.  @MissMoontree No it doesn't. Not in most places.
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  1634.  @legalfictionnaturalfact3969  It's how in Europe, Brussels will say EQUAL RIGHTS for all Europeans, meanwhile Macron from France comes along and bans Eastern European truck drivers because they charge less money. Brussles (EU) will say oh but same rights but not enforce because Berlin and Paris are the overlords of the European Union parliament and commission.
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  1635.  @JARDSTRUIK123  Both are meh... :) I kid I kid. Stuck up and elitist, but OK. Oh yes, both sent many volunteers to the SS in the 40s and both defended Berlin to the last man against the Soviets.
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  1636.  @The_Binninator  I'm aware of that. I have EU citizenship as well.
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  1637. Looks staged af.
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  1638.  @dera6347  Look customers pay the tariff but Trump wants to reduce demand for Chinese (et al) products with these tariffs. In reducing demand he hopes people with be more likely to buy alternatives which may be more expensive but at least locally produced and so he'll bring the outflow of US dollars down. Raw materials may be taxed too but raw materials have little value added processing applied to them so the percentage which is additional tax will be little relative to the total price of domestically made goods. Now there is also a way the Chinese could pay the tariffs themselves. If Chinese exporters (maybe some of them) rely on large export volumes and they have Chinese gov subsidies then it's also possible the price of the pre-tariff goods may go down further, making the tariff inclusive price similar to the old price, thereby he would be weakening the position of the Chinese govt. We often hear how many products are subsidized by the Chinese govt. On the other hand to really ramp up coffee maker production in the US millions of Americans would have to be willing to return to factory jobs and those are low wage jobs and they're menial in character. It remains to be seen if millions of Americans want to do what Chinese people do, albeit with some slight improvements to their human rights.
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  1639. Japan is a country it's best to not visit because I think we Westerners offend Japanese people with our presence and behaviour. We are not as good as them. But we live our little lives in our imperfect countries.
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  1640. The whole gospel has been revealed. You have what was given to you. People choose not to follow Christ. That's on them, one day they'll meet their maker.
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  1641.  @14Aymara  Same humans or different ones? Germans are very peaceful these days. As are Japanese.
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  1642. The problem is the non-Japanese faces. That's the problem. Japan is overcrowded. But some locals just don't like foreign looking people. Have respect and don't visit their country.
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  1643.  @Idou-i3p  I'm European, mate.
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  1644.  @lavinder11  Maybe some Japanese people are too xenophobic rather?
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  1645.  @pollutingpenguin2146  Nah. It's all tourists. I think some Japanese want to see other Japanese at their important spots. Japan is an island society. They don't have lots of experience with foreigners. Maybe we should not visit them. People don't visit Japan and keep it pure.
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  1646. Most historians consider 1 September as the start of WW2. Even the US Department of Defense prefers this date.
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  1647. He got a new left boss who fired him. Polish TVP is controlled by whichever government is in power. I suppose you're ok that your guys are in power, so they can control the narrative their way?
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  1648. Unforgivable things as in 350 casualties in 2 years of hostilities. OK. Likely the same or more people would have died from childhood measles in the same time. Have perspective man. Next they'll call it the Lithuanian Nanking. You'll soon see Russians in the area call it that and how good it would be to rejoin the old Matushka Rosyiya.
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  1649. Mearsheimer is a slimy snake. In a talk with Lex Friedman he says, Russia deserves her sphere of influence but China does not. Russia can have Ukraine but China must not have Taiwan because that will interfere with the US sphere of influence in China's backyard. He is a total hack and he contrives his points. He's a sophist. There is a debate with Bartosiak and Radek Sikorski one can also view and Mearsheimer is not a good analyst at all.
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  1650. Belgium is also full of pedohilia, isn't it. There were these famous cases and lots of connections to European child sex slave networks. You have one f-ed up political system there. It's sad that my EU taxes support Brussels.
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  1651.  @r.l.marcelle8665  Dude that makes no sense. Did you watch this video? Did you hear about the 300-400K men, women and children raped to death? Do you currently see 1000s of men, women and kids being raped to death in 1st world countries by their armies or police? Why do you post this nonsense? Go back to school.
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  1652.  @viktordickinson7844  Not all Japan companies do that. Some tell you to f- yourself. In my experience only Kyocera does that, or did, in 2010.
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  1653. How do you rate better? It's all subjective. There definitely are better or similar products made in smaller batches all across the world by smaller companies. So yes, "as far as you know" this is the best. There is nothing special about organge juice and carbonated water. It's not 'champagne' which is protected because sparkling wine from that region of France is only allowed that name.
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  1654.  @KathleenBittner-n9w  No. Google it. There is no long history of support of "nazism". There Catholic Church actually saved many Jews and helped the allies. After the war some members of the clergy assisted some Germans including Nazis to get away from the new enemy, Stalinist communism. Please don't spread misinformation.
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  1655.  @velmadunkin18  Total rubbish.
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  1656. Trump is correct though. Our Western leaders are useless. Look at Von Der Leyen. What sort of a minister was she? And why did Europe completely ignore Putin's invasion of the Donbas and annexation of Crimea? Why was Thales France still selling weapons to Russia? We can go on and on.
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  1657. You Yanks should move out and let China move in.
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  1658.  @mischr13  yes pretty much any place you have anarchy, where you decide what the punishment is on your own feels and not some codified law, goes to misery, mass suffering and death
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  1659.  @Tbeeisi  Every country has a culture. It's also one subtype of old culture.
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  1660. He spoke "European".
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  1661.  @JohnBurman-l2l  Who travels widely?
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  1662. As someone who escaped Eastern Europe I would disagree. While people may or may not have believed what Russia was saying, they followed what Russia told them to do. Meanwhile Russians still believe they are the strongest, Russian Mir is the best and so on. They so don't believe their own propaganda they still think they won WW2 singlehandedly and UK/US destroying via bombing all of German industry while arming, fueling and feeding the Russians, did not explain the Russian taking of Berlin. You guys need to actually meet some real Eastern Europeans.
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  1663. Well Chicago is full of Poles or ex-Poles. That was probably a Polish shop and not an European shop.
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  1664. Japan also love u! America, Germany, Switzerland, France and Sweden and Russia. All places Japan love. Korea and China, they hate.
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  1665. Cormac Smith believes in fairy tales. Unfortunately there is only a rules based order when the most powerful subscribe to these. The rich use the weak as pawns. And as for different rules, remember that Ukrainians are Slavs, Slavs are considered a little inferior to Germanic people, by the Germanic people namely Brits, Germans, Dutch.
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  1666. This is silly. How old are you? If you travel to a foreign country- 1. OBEY the law. That's it. Definitely don't have to learn language. If you're wanted by a Japanese business and you're valuable they will make the effort to communicate with you. If you're not valuable, to anyone, don't apply. If you're a tourist, you definitely should not have to learn any local language. Tourists spend money and the Japanese government is on a tourism promotion drive. They want tourists and ordinary street Japanese and weebs should close their mouths.
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  1667.  @paulbarker5915  Nobody ingnores the Reich. Biden approved of Nordstream 2 and sidelined Poland. Later Sholtz and Macron sidelined Tusk. Only hope for the eastern flank is a conservative Polish government with appeals to Trump to convince him that America needs Europe to not be in Russian hands. The Germans would return to trade with Russia ASAP.
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  1668. And yet Czechs kiss German a$$
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  1669. To this day so many Japanese media are obsessed with 'hentai' and other perverted things.
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  1670. Japanese don't want foreigners. Learning Japanese and becoming a weeb who knows what a JC or a JK is, is not what they want. They want a nice Buddhist/Shinto Japan. I have Christian Japanese friends and even for them some things are off. Life's hard there, some people want to move.
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  1671.  @darkangel8068  Japanese gov does not have the manners of Europeans. In Europe we can insult foreigners but we at least do it fairly. Japanese will say, all foreigners bad, all locals good. End of story. Europe and the US should sanction Japan. Behave or your Japanese companies are out of our markets. You can see your products to China at 1/10 the price.
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  1672.  @ImRezaF  In 2023, tourists spent $38.6 BILLION USD in Japan. That's a lot of money for a little trash.
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  1673.  @ImRezaF  Their debt is 9 trillion USD. Now I don't know how that $4.2 Trillion is calculated and how Japan itself can influence it or it's left to sway in the wind with the others, but 1% of GDP does not come cheap and for little in cost. Never mind that it all adds up to SOFT POWER. And tidying up rubbish would not cost that much. But then ask yourself, do ImRezaF know more than the Japanese government because they are pushing the tourism. By the way Japan sank to No 4 world economy position behind Germany and Germany's economy was already declining.
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  1674.  @ImRezaF  Because money doesn't come cheap. Did you read what I wrote? Why does the Japanese government promote tourism? Why are you not the Japanese government? I know you're smart and you can work out fractions and yet those Japanese officials won't hire you? Why do you think that's the case? Because maybe that 1.1% adds up? Because maybe to achieve a percent in agriculture you must put in way more? Maybe this is easy money? And why does the fact that others have debt make it fine for Japan to have debt? Do you think Japan likes having this debt?
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  1675.  @ImRezaF  By the way the US government prints dollars. It can sell its debt. That's why the BRICS are getting peed off.
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  1676. Just behave normally. There is no walking on eggshells in Poland. Except maybe, don't diss the Catholic Church. Some may like it, but in general don't diss it and you'll be fine.
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  1677. They were defending their imperial empire which was created by a war of aggression. Look at Germany now. It's the 4th richest nation on earth if not the third. It's US, China and Germany. What did their horrible war do? It destroyed so many lives especially of their victims, people they invaded. They died to keep Germany from being No 3 economy in the world. What a joke.
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  1678. Europe often protested or did not take part in these actions. So you're wrong and he's wrong. I mean sure we can all say, oh but the Romans were invading others, where was China condemning them? Or how about Genghis Khan not being condemned by the Apaches?
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  1679.  @Neonblue84  Know what?
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  1680.  @francefradet2116  You're seeing things through rose tinted glasses. You're forgetting how riot police would break jaws. How products were not available and you had to queue up. How expensive or unavailable foreign products were. How the health ministry hid child epidemic outbreaks warnings so that kids would get sick and sometimes die from various viral illnesses. How you had to bribe people to get good service. How nuclear war was only a moment away. How private property was confiscated. How living in communal housing was. How books were censored. How religious practice was not allowed or at least very career restrictive. How cops were above the law. Etc.
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  1681. It made no sense for Sony to sue Bleem. Sony does not make profit on consoles. It makes profit through game sales. I suppose Bleem could allow for easier piracy. But if not for that, a Bleem user still had to purchase the actual DVD or CD (PS1) to play the game. Bleem could be asked to co-operate with Sony and check to make sure the games were legit and not copies.
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  1682. Which Eastern Europeans are those? Why do you say Eastern Europe for Central Europe? You are also one of those elitists. You "Western Europeans" are racist at heart. Elitist. I'm sick of always hearing about the G7 and the rich, fatcat post colonialist states which exploited everyone and now feed on the entrenched wealth you guys have stolen from your colonies belittling people who were behind the Iron Curtain. I can only hope the former colonies one day demand reparations and make you poor because you all deserve to be poor or at least not as filthy rich as you are. But that will happen one day. You will be average too. The stupid G7. The stupid preening of fat cat rich G7. And still refusing to investigate Russian investments. Still hoping to return to a status quo with Russia.
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  1683.  @rangda_prime  You need to ask your cousins the Germans and Austrians to stop feeding them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop lives and as soon as this war ends, the Germans want to return to business with Russia. Also ask Bill Brawler why London won't disclose which Russian owns which part of London? The West is fully complicit. The sad thing is that we in the east and perhaps you in Sweden will die if Russia invades but the profits go to the Germans, Austrians, French and British.
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  1684. The Dutch also contributed volunteers to SS regiments.
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  1685. We use abductive reasoning when deciding what the symptoms and signs (and other findings) may represent. You have your differential diagnosis and then depending on resources run every test possible or as happens in the real world, go for what's more likely and should not be missed and target that. Diagnoses are rarely clear cut initially. Often the presentation differs from what's taught or reported and one has to apply some experience.
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  1686. This video and Takashii starts with a xenophobic and racist premise. He says FOREIGNERS, but there are things other Japanese should also not do. Secondly this is not a foreigner problem, Takashi, I know you think foreigners are inferior per se, but it's a problem of education and culture. America is a rich country. Japan is also a rich country. Your two countries are closely connected and Yanks go on and on about America and for Japanese every European person has to be American or maybe a German, likely everyone else for average Japanese does not exist or is trash. That's because typical Japanese are also poorly educated. Poorly educated Americans visit Japan and are their confident loud mouthed selves. The Japanese whose government sucks Uncle Sam's finger and encourages tourism and needs the US defense against China, (previously the USSR) wants more tourism. Well tourists sometimes misbehave. What does this mean? They may behave as they do at home. And given America is rich, and Japan is America's darling, rowdy and relatively uneducated but wealthy people visit Japan and act in a boorish way. The well educated ones, usually work hard or have a wider choice of countries to visit, it's not all about weeb culture, or lolicon rubbish, or anime or ninja rubbish but they have the whole world they can visit and less time to do it and they behave. So in summary this issue is not so much with foreigners Mr Takashii but is an issue with poorly educated but wealthy foreigners, chiefly Americans. So all in all, you should say VISITOR BE EDUCATED. And I'm sorry but if one does behave the same as one does in any other country and that is politely and Japanese people still don't like one, that's just on the Japanese people. Maybe they should stop exporting garbage to our countries and stop their government from promoting tourism.
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  1687.  @Caballaria-sc2sj  The West has no sphere of influence in the Pacific. The point is that Taiwan is China's sphere of influence. I don't know how you can be so irrational. If Mearsheimer does not want Ukraine with the West he must not want Taiwan with the West either. The two are linked directly. Taiwan and Japan, like it or not, are closer to China. And China is the second (recently first) most populous country in the world and is an ancient empire, it is the oldest continues country in the history of the world. It's as old as Egypt but still continues to this day. Taiwan is not in the Western sphere of influence. You may as well say Ukraine is in the Western sphere of influence because de facto Russia has had little influence on Ukraine since their puppet fled after Maidan. Man - think for 5 minutes. You are using a logical fallacy called special pleading. You are saying this is different for arbitrary reasons. But Taiwanese are Chinese, and Formosa was part of China, like it or not. If US wants to keep Taiwan Western it has to keep Ukraine Western too otherwise Mearsheimer is as per usual being irrational and cherry picking/special pleading his arguments. The man does not reason rationally. He is a sophist. You know very well that the US does not fully recognise Taiwan. You do know that Taiwan's place in the UN P5 has been taken away and given to the PRC. Most countries follow the one China policy. The United States' One-China policy was first stated in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972: "the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China.
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  1688.  @Caballaria-sc2sj  Back when Chang Kai Shek left for Formosa China did not have the capability to invade him. But China always said that is part of their country. And America in fact agreed - which you keep on ignoring. America is interfering in China's back yard. America has no rights to that part of the Pacific. It would be as if China or Russia started to make demands on the western hemisphere. I don't really know why you create arbitrary distinctions between 'long established' and recently established. China had no power to reclaim Taiwan back in the day but now will have this power increasingly so. Ultimately if we follow the trajectory, China will be the No 1 superpower in the world. They have more people, a higher average IQ than the US and have easy access to Russian resources. On the other hand Ukraine has been pro-Western too for many years. Their people have voiced their opinion that they want to be part of the West. Russia is a declining power while the PRC is ascending. The Chinese are now having the means to enforce their demands while Russia failed in her influence on Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting Russia and is denying Russia's supposed sphere of influence. I think Mearsheimer is a sophist and a hack. He is only repeating that what's good for the US is what's correct and is ignoring the same issues in Ukraine. But it's not good for the US or Japan to start a war with China, a war they will likely lose because Japan is an effeminate society spoiled by wealth and America is too far away and overstretched in the Middle East, South America, Europe and all over East Asia. I know what you want to say but you're trying to pidgeon hole reality into particular categories which suit your model. The reality is that: Taiwan was always considered a part of China by even the US. Many Chinese there would not even mind returning. China is now becoming stronger and will become even stronger in the future. Taiwan is probably the most important issue for them after taking back Hong Kong. For America, Taiwan is a CPU factory. That's all. There is not the need to keep Taiwan. Now in Europe I would argue that Europe out of Russian hands is key to the well being of America. We Europeans are closer culturally to Americans than Koreans or Japanese or Chinese people on Taiwan. Also we are physically closer. And sort of often form one sort of bloc. America will lose Europe if she refuses to support Ukraine against Russian aggression and thus far America is able to weaken Russia using Ukrainian peoples' own blood. And they are willing to shed it. So unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, the Ukrainians feels Western and one day will make for good allies the way Poles are good allies now. As for Taiwan, if it can deter aggression, that's great, but overall in the long term America will definitely lose against China over there as Americans are not as desperate to keep Taiwan. Remember America lost in Vietnam and lost in Afghanistan and that was against weaker enemies when the tech difference was larger back then when it is now. It's sheer hubris to believe otherwise.
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  1689.  @Caballaria-sc2sj  No. Mearsheimer may not even want what's good for the US. Because many experts think that a weakened Russia is good for the US because Russia had almost succeeded in getting America out of Europe. He is inconsistent because he claims that it's bad policy for the US to 'upset' Russia but good policy for the US to upset China and much larger, stronger and more resourceful and more ancient nation. Heck it's not consistent. That's the point. His goals may be consistent, and I think he promotes his views to sell books and get paid for lectures. But he is a slimy fellow. You need to watch the debate he had with Bartosiak and Radek Sikorski. And if Sikorski can beat you, you are a hack. You Americans are too full of hubris. You are a declining state and you run on poke like bluffs. I know this from American experts. You need to consolidate your friends, those who like you and not f- everyone over.
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  1690. To be fair, I think it's too soon to blame Trump for this. Suspensions of some higher ups doesn't mean that the staff who've been working there for years suddenly forget how to do their duty.
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  1691. That's why they only banned child porn about 10 years ago and they still produce it as "junior idol gravure". Amazon Japan sells these. So much for honour.
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  1692.  @gracevandenbergen  Poland did not exist. It was partitioned. It was cut up in 3 parts and occupied by Germany, Russia and Austro-Hungary. Please learn history.
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  1693.  @gracevandenbergen  Poland did not exist between 1795 and 1918. It was cut up by allies of the United Kingdom, namely Austro-Hungary, Prussia (later Germany) and Russia. We were oppressed and Germanifed and Russified. Polish patriotism survived largely thanks to the work of the Catholic Church and numerous people who wrote in Polish around the world or composed music in Polish (Chopin, Penderecki). Poles were not allowed to use Polish officially and schools only taught in Russian or German. Kids had to learn about Poland at home. And in 1918 after the snakes turned on each other (Austro-Hungarians, Germans and Russians) we managed to get freedom with the help of Woodrow Wilson (who is so hated by so many American 'patriots') and our own hard work.
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  1694.  @gracevandenbergen  Dude, I said that originally. Saying it did not exist prior to 1918 in the context of the conversation is not to say it never existed and the people didn't exist under occupation. Why are you so needlessly pedantic? Context matters.
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  1695.  @gracevandenbergen  It's nice to see Dutch people defend my country so much.
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  1696.  @gracevandenbergen  That was chosen by YT for me. You chose van der...
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  1697.  @gracevandenbergen  It's still nice that a non-Pole is so strong for Poland. Are you strong for a pro German Poland (EU), pro-Russian Poland (Rus troll) or independent Poland (independent and good relations with USA)?
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  1698.  @Moszan  Catholic Church did not officially help Nazis. A few rogue officials did. The Church however gave out 1000s of fake Catholic baptismal certificates to Jewish children, especially in Poland and France. The handful of Nazis who were saved in rat lines were a drop compared to the people they were saving during WW2 from the Nazis and the 10s of 1000s of fake Catholic baptism certificates they issued. Israeli diplomat and historian Pinchas Lapide estimated the number of Jews saved by the Catholic Church to be between 700,000 and 860,000.
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  1699. Japan was created by the US my friend. The development aid is just recyled US money from factories Americans and Europeans closed to import your TVs and Hifis.
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  1700.  @keurikeuri7851  That's nonsense. Do you think the US did not subsidize its own car manufacturing? Or Germany? German business owns the German government that's why Germany has been sucking Putin's member for the past 40 years. There is too much anti-China nonsense. For me as an European I see Americans close to China but I don't see Chinese close to America. Taiwan will return to China because these are the same people. Japan is not China and will not be annexed by Chinese. American hegemony is on the decline because racist Anglo-Saxons thought that Chinese are not capable of industry.
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  1701.  @Peregrina  Women have to find a partner to reproduce because they age and reach menopause. It's biology. Otherwise the human race will end. Of course individuals can decide but those who want to have kids, as women, have to do it quickly or not do it at all. Frankly immigration of black and Asians to the rich countries can fix these problems too. Also don't say men. Women can be just as bad. Don't think because it's your gender the people are good and the opposites are bad. Since I can remember I never thought that way and judged people regardless of their gender or sex. Women are just as evil as men, and can be just as kind as men. Sometimes because of the body strength the evil of the one group is more obvious but that's a biased view.
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  1702.  @candyd.4398  I didn't delete my comment, kid. Someone else did. I think you need better parenting and better education. The sex culture is something you Yanks have. Most of us in the outside world are more traditional and we tend to have very few partners and we marry and stay that way for life. I pity your people and your generation.
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  1703. There are three issues. 1. The sample was not representative is what the best evidence hints at. 2. Yes the fire could cause problems. 3. If the image was formed by radiation, the C14 isotope levels would possibly be affected.
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  1704.  @Ksanet.17  This illustrates how the thin the veneer of civilisation is. Groomed guys with nice "aristocratic" Germanic names, Hitler would be proud of, but they behave like this. Back in the 40s many of these guys would be lining up to join foreign Waffen SS detachments, many Frenchmen and Belgians and Dutch joined the SS. It's better to not engage these kinds of psychopaths regardless of the country, at the top, it's all barbarians in suits and Christian Dior dresses.
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  1705.  @kylee-cc5mg  There is nothing offensive here. The fraternity was made up of Dutch upper class people who value their own over others. I'm European from the EU and as a white person I would have problems in such a situation, never mind a foreigner from outside the EU. There is no deflection. It would be like asking a black man to join a KKK group or a group of similar values which just hides them more. Think through what I'm saying. Oh but a black man should have a right to join a KKK group, well of course, but rights did not save him, did they?
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  1706.  @truehw3789  You sure like to write a lot of kak.
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  1707. It's not gonna happen. China will control all of Asia and Japan has no resources. I think the future looks bleek for the West.
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  1708. So then back to the factories Brits and Europeans or do we still continue to use the Chinese workers to make stuff for us while we onanize ourselves with self actualisation?
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  1709. Poland is a bit f-ed. There may be a war with Russia and then Poland will be blitzed. Poland is in more trouble than the UK. So stay in the UK, at least she has nuclear weapons.
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  1710.  @nataliamach7248  Not as much. Poland was not an imperialist colonial master state. The different people who moved to the UK did so because of the colonies and the common language. Poland had no colonies. And Poland speaks Polish a relatively exotic and extremely difficult language which people in the middle east and parts of Africa don't speak. Also Poland is very homogenous while the UK already has these migrant and diverse communities. Also the UK is seen as far richer, stronger and so on, Poland is poor and will continue to be seen as poor. We're happy with that. Poms- we are poor. You stay on your Island or go to your former colonies and travel on your 1st class passport. Don't come too much to Poland unless you are a charitable, well adjusted, and decent person. We have too many hooligans already.
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  1711. "fullest extent" lol.
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  1712.  @agiosovindex333  I think you are stretching the degree of their intelligence. Look in some ways even microbes are intelligent. The kind of rational intelligence we can be sure of, only humans have. Maybe some animals have some aspects of it, or we think they do, we can't really ask them, but at this stage they are nowhere near our level.
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  1713.  @agiosovindex333  How do you know microbes are not aware. Some believe that even rocks are aware. Have you spoken to a dolphin? Maybe what you see is not self awareness but appearance of such or it's so incomplete it's not far from our own experience. Lots of assumptions. But we simply don't know. We know we have self awareness, because you have it, and I feel it first hand.
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  1714. No. He's the president from 2015. His second term ends this year. He's Poland's sixth president since Poland was freed by Reagan from the Russians.
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  1715. Irdeto is a South African company. They're just as hated here as elsewhere. They now threaten to arrest people who watch pirated TV streams.
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  1716. My country was betrayed at the end of WW2. We were sold out to the Russians and enslaved by them. The Germans who were killing us became free and when we emigrated they ridiculed us because we were poor. We were betrayed. We didn't turn on anyone. Millions of people did not turn on anyone. People who lost 20% of their relatives. I'm sorry but pictures are no reason to kill.
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  1717. Don't visit Japan. Leave Japan to its people. Stay home.
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  1718. Austrians welcomed the Anschluss with Germany. Don't be silly. It's all one culture and language.
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  1719. You're really a troll, aren't you?
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  1720. @YeeterMcyeeterson The Treaty of Versailles treated them well. Actually it was the Great Depression but Germany was aggressive and by the 1930s the world was recovering. The money the Versailles treaty was speaking about was exaggerated and the real amounts Germany was meant to pay back were far, far lower. The Germans were aggressive back then. And you claim that some money justified their war of annhilation on the Jews and Slavs? Really? Please see a doctor.
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  1721. @YeeterMcyeeterson The treaty of Versailles was a pretext. The Germans wanted their old empire back. Stop defending the Nazis.
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  1722. Or go to jail like in WW2.
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  1723.  @Lipi19821 The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland addressed to the Governments of the United Nations, Dec 10, 1942. Published in London.
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  1724.  @pawerac8460  True.
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  1725. That's what lounges are for.
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  1726.  @marijo1951  I think the West is on its way out. The West had the industrial revolution advantage but now others are catching up. Chinese were thought to not be capable of anything and now surpass the west in 5G and also send rockets into space. In the next 10-20 years they'll overtake us. The West doesn't know what it's like to be the underdog.
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  1727. LOL. With who? You do know that Germany can only make 50 Leopard 2s per year. How many years do you want to take to prepare against the Russians?
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  1728. There is nothing special about these performances. I think as Europe we should ban Japanese from sites like Notre Dame.
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  1729. Because Russia wants to end US world hegemony my lad. They're your enemy.
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  1730.  @frankishempire2322  What oil you get from Iraq?
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  1731. He speaks English. Translators are used. You don't even speak English yourself Russian troll.
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  1732. It happens with all systems. For example Poland could not send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine without German permission which took many months.
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  1733.  @christophjoerg2783  It's not easy to just refit engines. It would require a lot of engineering, testing, time and money.
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  1734. But you're not Japanese. There's also a lot of whites coming to Japan. Do you think those should go home too?
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  1735. US is not out of NATO. Europe is bluffing and won't defend or pay for Ukraine. As usual the Germans are spreading nonsense. They always make their contributions much larger than they really are. And US is not out of NATO. I know woke people hate Trump but Trump actually likes Poland. He said he wants to move forces into Poland. Poland just needs a sensible pro-American and not a pro-Berlin government.
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  1736. Well the Germans fed and armed Putin, they built Nordstream I and 2 with him. So yes Germany is like Ribbentrop and Putin is Molotov
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  1737. Some people want tourists to walk on eggshells in Japan.
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  1738.  @Alpha-Omega-TFOA  Japanese were also a nuisance in 90s and 2000s and we allowed you guys to come. Be tolerant and reciprocate. Ask your parents when they traveled to Europe or US how that was.
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  1739.  @gotakazawa408  Things will only get worse for Japan as other countries catch up in technology. Already few Japanese products are sold abroad. And once US leaves the Pacific, as is likely, because US is going into isolation phase Japan will be alone to deal with China.
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  1740.  @cottoncandykawaii2673  Why did they want to host the olympics?
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  1741.  @cottoncandykawaii2673  LOL? Are you serious? Those corporations employ people. You also invest your savings and retirement savings in these corps. How do you think economies run? LOL. Dude, try to think rationally.
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  1742.  @sanepillow59  Dude, you're a kid. Countries don't pick and choose. You don't become Samsung by being Sharp. Look at Japan. All their consumer electronics are outpeformed by Koreans and Chinese.
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  1743. Thank you for the thumbnail too.
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  1744. This is tragic. Korea is a rich and educated country and one would have thought that the cops would behave professionally and would have the necessary training. Alas, no, that's not the case. Tragic for the two Korean women who lost their lives. A real story of suffering. I don't know how some people can be this cruel. And these are well off people, not some alcoholic, drug using, pathological cases from the gutter, but film directors, people who earn good money and have gone to film school, so also educated.
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  1745. Google on Youtube about pedophilia and child exploitation networks in Belgium. Yet this country is allowed to decide how other EU countries run themselves. It's a joke.
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  1746.  @JB-bm1to  Liewe fok, those names...I'm sorry.
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  1747. Pay back for WW2.
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  1748. That's why the Germans want to stop Poland from making the Oder River deeper so that ships can sail up it into Poland.
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  1749. I doubt they force a victim to draw the perp's genitals with crayons in the US though. This would be unheard of in Europe.
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  1750. As the West Germans. It was amazing they even prosecuted him. They paid pensions to SS men.
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  1751. Polish Americans voted for Trump, 84%. Also Kosciuszko and Pulaski were Poles. Pulaski created the US cavalry.
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  1752. That's nice. In Europe when we see a Thai or a Japanese or Chinese, we assume he is Chinese. We don't even say foreigner, we say Chinese or Asian. And that's that.
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  1753. But this is exactly what Japanese tourists did or still do abroad. They're also notorious for these tours where they occupy whole busses or take over museums or crowd tourist spots filming everywhere. It seems that as the Yen has gotten cheaper, Japan exports less and now wants to export tourism, some locals are being xenophobic. It's OK if a Japanese abroad does this, but a foreigner in their precious country - oh no! How can they? Well maybe we should stop buying Japanese products? Many already have. Soon Japan will be poor.
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  1754.  @madhusmitahajong4665 You do realise that if America did not win WW2 there would have been no culture except Japanese in all of Asia?
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  1755. I have to question this harassment. It's probably overblown and exaggerated. I think most Japanese people are extremely spoilt and despite the long working hours they had peace and prosperity after 45 and did not have to face the turmoil and wars and soviet occupations and oppression and so on. They live in a bit of a bubble. And while rich it's OK but Japan is becoming poor because other nations are doing tech too now.
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  1756. That's the difference between a Western country (any country following Christian ethics can be such) vs pagan Japan, where truth is relative.
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  1757. 100s of people? That's not even representative of that country.
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  1758. If Russia uses a nuke on non-UK/non-US/non-France then it's doubtful any of these would use a nuke on Russia because they would not want to be nuked in return. That's why Poles and others want their own nuclear weapons and the Americans have said fsck you Poland, you can't have, you are lower humans than us, Brits and French,.
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  1759. Japan, it's not the 1860s anymore. Take Paris and Notre Dame Cathedral. It's a sanctified church and a Mass is conducted all the while tourists stream around the periphery. Strictly speaking for Catholics that's sacrilege but we still permit this or we have to permit this but we don't raise a stink about such things. Japanese have to come to the modern world. Their own tourists also cause problems when they travel in big groups. It's also incredibly inconvenient to have them crowd up places and take pictures and generate queues, but we allow it. We're happy when foreigners come to our world class tourist attractions. Japanese should too. Japanese people: you should obey your emperor and government which promotes tourism. Don't be rowdy and negative. Obey your emperor.
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  1760.  @askjapan9669  The good times are over. The Americans are collapsing. I think the decline is shown how incompetent they have become at handling the Russians and they have nothing to offer the EU. We in the former Warsaw Pact at least rely on their defense as do you, but their time is coming. People like Elbridge Colby say that the US won't sacrifice Seattle for Seoul or Berlin, and they won't for Tokyo either. Your country will have to go nuclear and you will have to be serious about your defense or accept Chinese protection. Do people in your country speak about this? Because some people claim we are not far from a US-China war and they think US will be pushed out of the Pacific.
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  1761. To be fair, Colombia needs to accept its citizens. It's ridiculous that a country can decide not to accept their own people back. That's against international law and normal behaviour.
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  1762. They have some cleanliness but they also have many illegal things.
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  1763.  @Amynity  90% of abuse is in the family or someone the child knows. Stranger danger is relatively rare. Greater risk of death from a car accident.
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  1764.  @str.77  True. In science we deal in probabilities and likelihoods. .
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  1765.  @alexbarn3841  Thank you for sharing your state of mind.
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  1766.  @geodkyt  Now you're speculating. Let's forget about Christianity and re-date the cloth and explain the image. And why do you even capitalise the cross?
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  1767.  @geodkyt  You need to summarise your ideas into short succinct points. But you're not an expert, nor are experts even in agreement, nor do experts not change their opinions. Have a good day.
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  1768.  @geodkyt  Dude you can believe what you wish but you're obviously not an expert and an amateur at best. It's a sign of a non expert to claim to know and dictate to others how things really are. But you're only bluffing mate. At best you read a book or two and those are usually filled with speculation. How do I know? Because I lived through some of the biggest changes on this earth, collapse of the Iron Curtain and collapse of apartheid. And the sherbet I read now from Youtube experts is unlike what I witnessed or what I found while living that world which has passed. Same with WW2. I had relatives who lived through the German occupation and when I hear big d1cks like Timothy Snyder pontificate I shake my head, because it was unlike the experience of my grandparents. There's so much chaff out there. Experts also often bluff. I am involved with some medical research and am sometimes on calls with some world class infectious diseases experts and the amount of amateurish speculation present is quite extraordinary. So mellow out a bit and don't be too sure of yourself. You probably read a book by some clown who made up half of it and embellished the rest.
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  1769.  @geodkyt  You've added that polish that one polishes a t-rd with. One clue, how you made a claim about the character of the Romans, based on...? and relating to....? and all pure speculation. Either you copied this from someone or you synthesized it and now you want to appear smart but again, unless you make money from this professionally you're at best an amateur. How old are you? You can't be your age as in that pic and still write such things. Do you not know how the world works?
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  1770.  @geodkyt  I don't have expertise, neither do you. But I can tell a confabulator from miles away. If you're not a professional in this, and professionals usually don't type walls of text in comboxes, you're speculating here, an amateur expert, an armchair general so to say.
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  1771.  @the_H369  Same as 90% of US products.
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  1772.  @jiridrapal7512  To be fair, only soldiers are protected by convention. If the SS were paramilitaries and not real army they wouldn't be protected. Illegal combatants.
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  1773.  @jiridrapal7512  Only legal combatants are protected. Criminal formations are not. Remember Nazi Germany was actively ex-termin-nating civilians to make Lebensraum in the east. The whole German army and S S were actively co-operating and supporting this. Without them there would be no replacement of Jews and Slavs with Germans. The replaced people were un-ali-ved.
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  1774. So similar to Nanking. Except everyone knows about the Red Army but few know about Japanese Army.
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  1775.  @InquisitorXarius  Nagasaki was also largely a Christian town. But these days because of the hatred to Christian people, well Youtube commenters will claim Kyoto > Nagasaki.
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  1776. Orban is not buying US equipment. He buys German tanks.
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  1777. A bigoted anti-Catholic rant. America has always been anti-Catholic, from the left and from the right. The antenatal care would be included in the consideration and care of the needy.
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  1778. Dude. Japanese government wants tourism. Tourists don't flood all of Japan but only a small number of sites. Less than 1% of Japan is involved in tourism. Japan is about COLLECTIVISM. At the head of their government Japan has their emperor. He and their government have ordained tourism with its ups and downs because they want it that way. Ordinary Japanese who complain are those without consideration and with a lower sense of cohesion. They are the problem. They are more gaijin than Japanese. Obey the Japanese government and the emperor and do it with a smile. That's the true Japanese way. That's Bushido. The rest is weak and not Japanese.
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  1779. Hudal was estranged from the Vatican and was in charge of a German diocese in Rome. He was not an official Vatican representative or official. Funny enough he also gave shelter to victims of Nazism during the war such as escaped Allied POWs. "In his posthumously published memoirs, Hudal instead recalls with bitterness the lack of support he found from the Holy See to give to Nazi Germany's battle against "godless Bolshevism" at the Eastern Front. Hudal claims several times in this work to have received criticism of the Nazi system rather than support for it from the Vatican diplomats under Pius XII."
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  1780. But no kamuro because "filthy" Western practices banned that Japanese tradition.
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  1781. IT'S = IT IS, ITS = indicates possession.
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  1782. This is BS. I'm also former East European. You fell for the orchestrated-pandemic propaganda yourself.
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  1783.  @spaceowl5957  Many people also think Poland has polar bears. You make no sense. The division of Europe is based mostly on religion/alphabet and that is either Rome or Constantinople. It has nothing to do with Slavic. So why are Portuguese and Germans and Celts who are completely different to each other in the West while the Slavs are in the east. It makes no sense to use this.
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  1784. Surely this is a Japanese company just being Japanese. It's corporate rule to the extreme with no leeway, their way or the highway. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. Most Japanese anime is made in such sweatshops.
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  1785. I'm sure they notice. Even as a white guy I can often tell them apart. It's even easier with whites for me, from looking at a face I can guess where in Europe one is likely from.
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  1786.  @aretou774  You can tell Korean vs Chinese vs Japanese often by looking at the face.
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  1787.  @aretou774  They consider them worse than Europeans.
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  1788. Was Poland one of these 3? Guess what, According to Samuel Augustus Mitchell, non-free people were emancipated in Poland in 1347 under the Statutes of Casimir the Great issued in Wiślica,[4]
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  1789. Yes foreigners should stop buying Japanese products and stop visiting Japan. Those two things should go hand in hand and we should leave Japan alone and stop buying their products which is what we're already doing to a large extent.
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  1790.  @David1991.  ??? Why racist? It's that it seems that visiting Japan requires one to walk on eggshells. If I'm not good enough for Japan as my usual self, then I'm also not fit to purchase their products.
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  1791.  @David1991.  My point is that all foreigners maybe get on some Japanese peoples' nerves. Maybe we do. I see so many videos about what we as 'foreigners' should not do, but I don't see such videos coming from the EU or US or any other touristy place. If Japanese people are this sensitive to foreigners, that maybe we harm them with our very temporary tourist presence, then we should maybe spare them the discomfort and leave Japan to the Japanese. And we can also leave Japanese exports to the Japanese too because sure as heck their companies want to sell us their products. I'm already offended by the fact that some Japanese are offended by ordinary tourists.
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  1792. It doesn't matter.
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  1793. They will have to lock up their granddaughters, probably underage ones, as most otakus are likely lolicons.
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  1794. Maybe they don't want to be admired either. Let them be alone.
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  1795.  @nurlindafsihotang49  They're made into a curiosity.
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  1796. I agree. Also note how he goes Nazi, Nazi all the time but only occasionally Germany. He was pro Biden the same guy who OK'ed Nordstream He also perpetuates the Eastern Europe thing.
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  1797.  @BaBaYaga1999-p7u  Ah yes the white (Anglo) Saviour complex. I see my comment was deleted. Yet in America we still hear "Po11ack" jokes.
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  1798. Yes Austria is the Eastern Reich, while Germany is the third one.
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  1799. This guy looks like a younger version of a Polish journalist, Gadowski ( GadowskiTV on Youtube ). They could be brothers or even twins.
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