Comments by "CaptainVanisher" (@captainvanisher988) on "TAKASHii" channel.

  1.  @kinzdarell5447  Actually true. Didn't think of that. He probably visited them as they started to grow in and out of their peak periods (70s, 80s, 90s).
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  2.  @SisterTheohild  My bad. I meant to say that Germany has the lowest amongst countries of the Western block (excluding Greece and Italy). Most former communist countries have lower fertility rates but Germany also has pretty low fertility rate hovering around 1.5.
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  3.  @mike4088  sure but you can't force a culture or people to change and accommodate the way they are beautiful. They either accept and adapt or move into a culture that cherish their beauty. They are beautiful for some guys and some cultures. They are not in this culture and that's okay.
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  4.  @WAFishQuest  If we removed the births from the religious communities and immigration, the Us would be down by tens of millions in the past few decades. Immigration in general, if used correctly can be a good thing. Mass immigration is never a good thing though. There is a reason why the Us is on a boiling point and multiculturalism is one of them. For immigration to be a long-term positive, you need to make sure that immigrants fully assimilate, which usually entails the rejection of immigrants from culturally completely different countries. You need to preserve the local cultural majority while keeping the different cultures as small minorities. Otherwise, there will be culture clashes and high crime rates. The way current Us immigration is going is destructive. It didn't pose much of a problem early on because the Us was already a non-homogenous country, but as the decades go by we see how American society is heading towards collapse.
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  5.  @JohnSmith-li7xe  The Us is below replacement levels in procreation and marriages have taken a deep dive. You receive millions of immigrants yearly that usually have more children than the average american. So yes, if not for mass migration to the Us you'd have tens of millions less in population and the birth rates would be at least 0.2 down.
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  6.  @77jamess  You do understand that even in a salary of the Us standard of poverty you can provide good and healthy food for your children right? If you are not stable then sure add that to the list too. Children don't need much, just the essentials. Food, clothes, a roof over their head and maybe a couple of toys. An average salaried couple can provide that for at least 3-4 children.
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  7.  @understone86  Statistics don't lie. That's the median salary after tax. But I'd be happy if you gave me some sources of that claim.
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  8.  @letgo4331  You seem to forget that I never mentioned any of my standards. I only mentioned biological and cultural standards. So you are clearly projecting here. P.S. I am a strict Orthodox Christian, I don't think of adultery as an option and I also don't think of non virgin women as an option either. I also don't think of divorce as an option. But I can understand nature and biology. Christianity is there to prohibit those hellish desires and bring fourth a more healthy relationship in the image and word of God.
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  9.  @tl1533  you are in the Us which is far from a homogenous and monocultural country. A lot of immigrants means that many of them will not assimilate and create ghettos. This is insanely bad for homogenous and monocultural countries like Japan or European countries. The dire effects of it were seen in Germany, Sweden, France, the UK and more of Europe that allowed mass illegal migration. Now countries that did not allow mass illegal migration like Poland or Romania may be poorer overall, but they have safer, cleaner and more cohesive communities.
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  10.  @Bradgilliswhammyman  Japan's bureaucracy has nothing to do with their demographic issues. In fact I'd say it's better to keep the country relatively homogenous and preserve the culture, so the bureaucracy is a plus and a filter for people that are not really ready to fully assimilate. They have demographics issues because all the 1st world countries (besides Israel) also have demographic issues. Heavily urbanized populations, lack of religious values, lack of communities and feminism. All detrimental to having a healthy birth rate and demographics.
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  11.  @Clownk1ller  Never said everyone can afford to have 5-12 kids in Japan. I said most can afford to have at least 3-4 kids. And that's going with the average salary of 1 earner (the man) and then part time earner after having kids (the wife). It's 100% economically feasible. And crazy work hours? I live in Greece, we have even crazier work hours than Japan (or about the same depending on statistics). It's not even that much. If the man works 50-60 hours weekly the woman can work around 30 hours weekly and it's feesible. Let me remind you though that 100 years ago in developed countries, people worked far more than we do now and yet still managed to have multiple children.
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  12.  @fluxuation87  importing mass immigration in generally homogenous and monocultural societies is destructive. Japan would be better off dealing with the consequences of population collapse now than they are by importing immigrants that will never assimilate and will degrade their society and in the end will only postpone the birth rate issue.
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  13.  @qtaro-7097  Nope. It was punishable a lot of the times by death if the woman cheated in Imperial and pre imperial Japan.
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  14.  @likearollingstone007  The Us is 35 trillion dollars in debt. Their base of the 50s and 60s still holds but their economy has been going downhill for many decades now. And the economic strain can even be seen politically. They are on a verge of civil war and with corruption at all times high to the point of the rigging of entire elections (2020). Canada is in even worse shape than the Us. Mexico is trying to come up but they have insane cartel problems.
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  15.  @joshuaguerrier7392  Reversing abortion won't fix the fact that we are still a materialistic and not a religious society. It won't fix the fact that relationships and marriages are at the garbage. It won't fix the fact that we have destroyed our communities. But it will definitely be a good step towards a better society.
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  16.  @joshuaguerrier7392  Well true that plays a role too. Although it wouldn't entirely fix the problem. But banning most abortions would be a decent start.
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  17.  @korndawggy1801  No it's not lol. Have you seen how low the population density is in most places in the Us?
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  18.  @understone86  Simple statistics. It's completely delusional to simply bring on anecdotal evidence whilst also being so disillusioned with reality. I will make another comment sourcing everything because youtube will probably hide it but you'd be able to see it because I'll mention you.
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  19.  @N.I.S.C  Male marital loyalty. Women were never allowed to cheat in a marriage and still are not in most of Japan besides Tokyo it seems (even there I doubt many husbands would tolerate that). But it's true, male fidelity in a marriage/relationship is a Western concept. In fact monogamy by law was adapted by much of the asian world through Western influence. In countries like China polygyny was legal and men could have multiple women (usually if they were nobles). In Japan although men couldn't have multiple wives officially, men were allowed to cheat with mistresses and prostitutes alike. That's most of the non Christian world. Male monogamy is a Christian concept. And whilst it is very successful certain criteria must be met for it to succeed. And those criteria have not been getting met for decades now in the Western world. I can expand on this if you are curious.
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  20.  @andreas131298  But that's not a solely Japanese thing. All of the Asian countries have been like that for ever. And all of the world was like that prior to Christianity. Christianity brought monogamy and male fidelity into the picture. Islam made it so that male fidelity can only exist inside a marriage with women (which can be up to 4 women) and that's partly influenced by Christianity.
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  21.  @gordonbgraham  Glad to see you here once again. I remember we had a conversation a while ago in one of Takashi's video's although I don't quite remember (I think it was about cost of living and birth rates). I agree with most of what you're saying here, yes Japan has problems but those are not "incredibly high suicide rates", "homelessness", "high work hours", "child prostitution". As an outsider, I'd say Japan has a destroyed dating market, similar to the ones in the West but I'd like to hear your opinion on that as an older father that actually lives there.
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  22.  @nyankomaomao  I don't know from where in asia you're from. But in most asian countries men were always allowed to cheat/have multiple wives or mistresses. In islamic asian countries they are allowed to have multiple wives instead of "cheating". And no it's not mental gymnastics, it's plain understanding of male nature. These women partly understand male sexual nature which you clearly don't (and most Western women don't). And even in Japan adultery is far less common than in the West and that's a guarantee. Even from the male side. And no using prostitutes is not cheating in most asian countries.
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  23.  @thebush6077  The mother needs to be around her child in the developmental years 0-3. Then if you don't like child care, you should do it the traditional way. Family members with no children come and care for the child for the little hours that the mother is gone. The father is also present for a lot of the time even if he works a lot of hours. Although the father's job is to lead and leave an impression which is not done by being 24/7 around the children.
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  24.  @Seoyeaji921  Ancient Christian people did NOT have multiple wives. If you mean Jews prior to the coming of Jesus then yes but after Jesus came and the early church was created by the apostles, the church enforced male monogamy as well.
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  25.  @carilaeeduardo3055  Even tourists are highly disappointed at Paris in the past 10 years. But overall there is a reason why 40% of the French and even more of the native French voted for someone that promises to diminish immigration and deport illegals.
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  26.  @fm0363  the damage of feminism is too deep to reverse by media alone. If it doesn't become a widespread phenomena throughout Japan then it will most likely fail to draw any real results.
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  27.  @jm1835  Nope. Even in Japan it's gendered. Women physically cheating is unacceptable even if we know that women in Tokyo are promiscuous, in most Japan it's unacceptable.
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  28. Most Japanese women would tolerate their husband using prostitute services. Whether they would like it or not is another issue on its own. People have to put through things they dislike in order to be in a relationship. However the use of prostitution by men was a widely acceptable thing throughout all of Japan's history. In more older days, even mistresses were acceptable.
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  29.  @Haz-Zzz  It's materialism, loss of community, loss of religion and loss of family values. People are afraid of change and people are ego centric and materialistic. That's the issue most developed countries face. Half of it was caused by feminism and the push of women into the work force. Instead of teaching women to be good mothers and wives, they teach them to be good work slaves for their bosses. And women eat it all up until they reach 30-40 which they lose constant male attention and begin to understand that they are lonely and miserable.
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  30.  @davidlamb7524  I meant median salary. Not average. That's my bad.
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  31.  @Clownk1ller  I am 20 so 0 yet. I plan on having anywhere between 5-12 children depending on my future wife's opinion. However, my parents had 3 children and were planning to have more but an enormous bankruptcy hit our country plummeting our economy and deleting many jobs and job opportunities which heavily affected both of my parents.
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  32.  @deckhead33  Risk of complications and death? Child birth for healthy and of age women is so safe that it is far more likely for a pregnant woman to die in a car crash than in child birth. It's outrageous to think that I don't have to worry about anything considering I am working my ass off to pull one of the hardest majors (electrical engineering) so I can comfortably provide for as many as 12 children. My mother experienced child birth thrice and even had some complications in the third one. Guess what though? She wanted more children. Fearmongering as if we are in the middle ages and women are gonna be left crippled or dead after child birth is insanely dangerous to attempt. It's probably a factor to low birth rates although I'd it's used more as an excuse rather than an actual deterring factor. Maybe some women that fell for the propaganda "child birth=dangerous" have had it as a factor to not have children but no sane and knowledgeable woman would. P.S. to add some statistics. In Japan for every 100,000 births 3.4 end in death. And probably all of them had one of these three driving factors : 1. Old age 2. Prior health problems 3. Obesity (I put obesity at 3rd because Japan has barely any obese people, but in the West it's the main factor for maternal mortality rates)
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  33.  @pinkmiku12  Bad? Women love children. She'd love being around all of her children, especially if she has family and religious oriented values. Besides, if we are to have 12 kids it would be up to her. I said minimum 5 which would be kinda disappointing but I can work with it.
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  34.  @markfullerton8354  Men 70 years ago worked for a living. Just because they had a garden doesn't mean they didn't spend currency on food. Besides, in small towns or people who have houses, have gardens and have every opportunity to plant fruit trees or vegetables. I live in a 80k people town and we have a garden with lemon trees, oranges and other trees. Does that mean we don't spend money on food? No. Of course we do. But some people want to go out and build themselves up, either through college or just plainly working. No time to plant and garden. And that was a very common thing even 70 years ago. Nonfarmer men barely did any farm work. Homeless people 70 years ago would just die off. Homeless people 1000 years ago would either be enslaved or killed. Paying money for someone else to build you a house was a thing for millenia now. You think people built their own house 70 years ago? You think they created their plumbing and electricity by themselves? You're delusional if you think so. Currency has to be present for bigger societies because each person values a trade differently and that can cause imbalance and later on death. Economic systems existed since the ancient Phoenicians, it's not something new.
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  35.  @obitouchiha6439  Legally no, socially yes. The only legal theocratic aspect I fully support is the abolition of marriage by the state and the church being responsible for marriage since it's a religious concept. The state can give civil union sh*t if they want though.
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  36. Definitely a coincidence. No one wants mass immigration. Germany and France thought it would be a good idea to fix their birth rates and replenish their work force but it didn't end well. France is literally being destroyed to the ground by mainly immigrants. Same with Germany. Hence why heavily anti immigration right wing parties are on the rise all over Europe. For Japan it would be even more devastating than it was for France or Germany to import a bunch of immigrants due to them being more homogenous and monocultural than both France and Germany. Besides immigration is only a temporary solution that will push back the problem a decade or two. Germany is still facing declining birth rates, same with France.
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  37. Societal collapse is imminent if women do not start prioritizing family over work and if men grow some balls and start relationships with intent to marry. That's not only in Japan. But South Korea, Germany, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, France, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal etc. All of the West is collapsing and we only look at getting more money and material wealth.
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  38. Japan's consequences will come faster than the rest of the West because it started a decade or two earlier.
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  39.  @obitouchiha6439  Social theocracy can 100% exist. Public humiliation and shaming tactics have always been the main core of religious punishment and not legal means through the past centuries in Christian countries. Marriage was never an institution prior to Christianity. At least not in the sense of how it was codified in law in Western countries and how the rest of the westernized world (Japan, South Korea etc) adopted it. It was a Christian institution, hence why it was purely monogamous and hence why the grounds for divorce were adultery and severe abuse only. The only 2 instances where the Bible allows divorce. Since then the government has fully hijacked the institution and made it into a clown show. Marriage, family and relationships are at their lowest point in the history of the West and I don't think anyone can disagree with this statement. "since they won't be subject to arrest or imprisonment for making life choices that don't align with a religious doctrine". My issue is not people living non religiously or having non religious lifestyles, my issue is normalizing those lifestyles and showing them publicly and glorifying them. Example: Do I believe people that have homosexual relationships should be locked up for it? No. Do I believe that these same people should be able to show off their lifestyle to children or in public? Nope, I don't. Bitterness? Maybe at the modern liberal globalist government but even then I have come to an understanding that I cannot do much about other than to sit back take care of myself and my family whilst everything goes down and gets destroyed. The West's days are numbered if we keep going this trajectory. And yes westernized countries like Japan are included in this.
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  40.  @ActuallyEvil2  The animation for 1997 was severely lacking. It was just static images for much of the last episodes. The soundtrack was top tier indeed, but the animation was lacking, especially compared to other bangers of that time (NGE, Cowboy Bebop etc). Also do you really want to call the remastered movies good? They were mediocre at best. The animation style was okay, but they had a lot of CGI that was subpar.
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  41.  @jiminauburn5073  Exactly. That's the real situation. Double standards exist in Japan some are "beneficial" to men and some are clearly not. Men need to make concessions and so do women. But it seems like people have forgotten about that.
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  42.  @jiminauburn5073  The more correct term would be concubine in English, so yeah pretty much the same. Some countries recognized second or third wives, some didn't and don't. So they're concubines if they're not officially recognized.
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  43.  @fallenlegend8888  True but also depends. A man agreeing to his woman being able to sleep with other men will destroy his social status and become the laughing stock. It's not really the same the other way around. Because there is a vast difference between one gender cheating and the other .
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  44.  @coyotefire69420  "How did people find their partners?" Depends on when. Back in the day it was through arrangements and family friends. More recently it was through work and the past 2 decades is online. Women do actually find men with many women more attractive. And here's a reminder that the man women end up with is rarely their first option. In most of the cases, it's not even in her top 10 options. It has been widely studied that women are attracted to men with women around them. It's even present in chimpanzees (our closest animal relative). It's called preselection. Any man that was in a relationship can attest to that. Any man that was having active sex with women can attest to that. Preselection is 100% a thing. That's part of the reason why there are far more single men than women in the ages of 18-30. The other part is because women date older men. However, you'd find it appalling that a lot of women are actually dating the same man nowadays. As ridiculous as that may sounds.
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  45.  @markfullerton8354  This system has worked for millenia. Yes it's good to know how to grow your own food and build your own shelter. But guess what, when humans used to live like that, they'd get easily sick and die. One year of bad harvest would kill millions. Extreme weather could destroy their shelter and kill them in the process. Half of your children were projected to die before reaching 12. Is that really the life you want? The system isn't breaking apart because of currency or because of lack of primitive survival skills. It's breaking because we lost our human identity. Humans are social creatures, the best thing we can do in our lives is form connections, relationships, family. Sadly though modern humans have been sedated by self centrism and hedonism. Something that was always prevalent but not as wide spread as today. In fact today, it's so wide spread that people would put material things and short term happiness over building the strongest bond, that of family. It's sad and pathetic. This system was working for a long time before it started cracking a few decades ago. But the moment we abandoned religion, we were bound to abandon other values and morals. And the moment we let the emotional gender have half of the power was also the moment our society started becoming more about chasing short-term happiness and hedonism over taking on responsibilities and living a fulfilling life. So no, it's not money. It's not labor. It's secularism and feminism.
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  46.  @M_SID21  This is an old comment but here you go. I use average as median although it's probably not the same. Median is a better indicator. Here's the median japanese monthly salary pretaxes : 471,000 JPY (3,470 USD). Which aligns with what I wrote aka 2300 USD after taxes. Now again studying statistics and actually having the IQ to discern what's real and what's not are two very different things. I am currently studying one of the toughest engineering degrees you can find and I had to learn very high level math to get into my uni. I understand statistics very well and statistics don't lie, people lie. I brought statistics before you, I didn't just state a mere opinion. Greece is paying for the price of corruption, socialism and EU expansionism. Our politicians were corrupt which is half of the reason for our financial ruin, the other half is that our citizens got comfortable with the idea of extended welfare and pay outs and government spending. But after financial ruin was achieved EU came to the rescue. Oh wait, they didn't. They actually did everything to benefit themselves. Greece became a puppet state which was ruled by Germany and France AND the euro was prevented from falling behind the dollar and the pound. You think they "paid" to save us? They paid to save their as*es and they expect every penny back with a decent interest on top. I can attest you that I'd prefer for our generations to suffer twice as much and our country to be rebuilt in the next 20-30 years than have EU "bail us out" and be an EU puppet state for the next century.
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  47. It actually is. But only on the male side. Women were never tolerated when committing adultery and still are not in most of Japan. However male fidelity was never a prerequisite. Although men could not and cannot have multiple official wives, they could and can use prostitution services or have mistresses. That's literally the tradition for most human societies that were and are not practicing Christianity.
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  48.  @annabelholland  Germany still has a declining population. They allowed 1 million immigrants in during the migrant crisis and it was a huge mistake that costed them a lot. There's a reason why the anti immigration right wing outsider party AfD is winning in polls. Because the German people fucked around and found out. Immigration can delay the problem, but if countries like the Us or the UK keep importing culturally and ethnically different migrants at such high rates their societies will be overtaken. France is on the verge of collapse because of it. If the anti immigration party of Le Pen doesn't win next elections then I don't think France will survive as a nation.
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  49.  @rich1051414  The planet is not overpopulated but I agree that we are going to experience a population collapse event that is common throughout human history. However the reason is mostly because we haven't adjusted as a race to the technological advancements of our eras and we can't support more population because our societies have become incompetent throughout the past 100 years. We sadly haven't found a way to retain a community, to retain religiosity and family values within an urbanized and technologically advanced society which is why we will experience the population collapse event. As we progress as a race we can 100% reach far greater population numbers than today. But that would have to entail a lot of human aspects of life being preserved which hasn't occurred in this timeline.
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  50.  @NeostormXLMAX  Indeed, although Japan has been thoroughly infected by the neo liberal world.
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