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  26. Couple of things to mention that Americans seem to miss, our leadership class is literally appealing to your own moral system of rule when they are rude about America, your ruling class hate America so ours act the same to get brownie points, it also always them to act aggressively in a direction that is totally safe for them. The American government has put massive pressure on both Canada and Europe to remain disarmed, indeed Canada was almost a military state at the end of WW2 (they were basically the crack shock troops of the British Empire, and very proud of it), when they offered that to the Americans your government was very reluctant to have Snow Spartans on their northern border and were quite active in seeing Canada disarmed and reorienting them into a welfare state so their financial commitments would not allow a repeat. Likewise in Europe, it's taken a long time to fully placate the European states (especially France, like seriously, there were colour revolutions over it, ironically with the communists backing the right wing despite the French thinking they were behind it), military security is directly linked to autonomy, if all these states are reliant on US military hegemony they can never pursue independent policy or get out from under American protectorship. The reason the deep state panicked is that Trump is not undoing stupid ideas, he is knocking over very subtle and well thought out mechanisms and backroom deals because as he has correctly assessed they are at a direct cost the Americans themselves, but the elite don't care about that, the structures are to the benefit of their own wealth and power and the American Imperial project, all the common American does it pay for it (and they'd say they should be thankful, as Europeans and other subject people's pay even more, indeed they've pretty much been drained, a bit like the rust belt but for longer depending on utility, with the borderlands getting an easier time and interior provinces having pretty much been sucked dry).
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  133. I'm currently studying to become a teacher. It should be noted that even with all that's going on most practicing teachers are only partaking in the ideology as default. The academics of education feel themselves to be at considerable odds with them over this and have getting everyone in line with 'praxis' as one of there for most goals. An example; teachers aren't stupid and can see differences in different students, as such they will refer to children being more capable, having difficulties, etc. The academics hate this and see it as a bad thing. Teachers are meant to understand that children are not different, society creates differences for them. Yes, in their mind someone with ASD doesn't have a condition but is rather created by marginalization and the blocking of access to the 'fair' amount of resources. This leads to considerably tensions as the academics view any failure by teachers meet their ideals as the fault of the teachers (unless the teachers are saved by it being blamed on evil neo-liberal policy makers) rather than the failure of their ideals to stand up in the reality outside of their heads. Oh, yeah and there are a lot more child predators throughout the history of the development of educational theory than are ever covered here. After looking into some of the schools which were essentially 'model schools' for progressive pedagogical ideas I'd say that a nation wide inquest into historical abuse at schools in the UK would turn up abuse on a scale that would blow even Rotherham out of the water.
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  155. Unfortunately the current Japanese government are neo-cons and the American ngos have been taking quite a lot of ground, indeed a lot of the hate for Japan comes directly from them in order to pressure out of touch Japanese politicians to do what they want (basically all the rest of the hate Japan gets is from nationalists in South Korea and mainland China and subversives within the domestic politics of Japan, basically the communists, westernized Japanese and the boomer liberals). Part of this is opening the country up, starting with tourism, and it should be stated that Japan is so peaceful and well ordered that western Europeans are 10x or more likely to be causing whatever kind of trouble than the Japanese are, especially the younger generation who are much less used to what a high trust society even is and act accordingly. For non-western Europeans it is much worse, there have already been signs of German style policing and from what I can glean Rotherham type stuff has already started. Previous to this plague of tourists the Japanese have a contentious relationship with the US bases, the soldiers of whom have a poor reputation and a very bad history towards Japanese civilians. The Japanese thought that tourism would boast the economy, this as it happened was GDP brain, the costs in infrastructure do not scale when dealing with people how have a disposable mindset towards their own things let alone others, also they need a major infrastructure redevelopment to deal with these people, and the profits don't flow through the economy much, also they have staff problems as even many Japanese would rather be on welfare than dealing with tourists, since covid many in the sector have not come back. Most Japanese do not speak a second language, they were taught English in school but it is to the level where you could consider it a government jobs program for people who took English in university, other languages are basically in the realm of high level academics or the book translation industry. Also the people showing up are largely the anywhere types, which culturally does not fit with Japan even slightly, once the exorcism wears off these people are like Californians in red states. Japan is great in a lot of ways, but the people they need are rural, conservative and at least 110 iq or so just for them to hold their weight. Unless the Japanese wise up politically, kick out American influence, realign slightly more towards China, or more likely India (who they have very good relations with), and start being extremely discriminating about who they let in, then they will basically good the way that much of eastern Europe currently is, in that they held out longer, but not enough. In the more likely situation of them being politically inept, they should at least preserve the people by blocking all immigration and anything that becomes immigration the moment they can slip away from having to comply with the term on the visa. Japan has a lot good about it, namely that they have a culture (even if one not great under the hood), they have a functioning state (even if a liberalized one) and they have cheap rural property (which honestly might be worth it under basically any circumstances if you can get the opportunity, a second hand home is in the tens of thousands of dollars range, and the livings costs are low as well).
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  252. The Norman's were the one's who were ultimately responsible for the outlawing of slavery and they discriminated against it from the start, Anglo-Saxon England was certainly continuing the policy of the Norse by having so many slaves but as they were Catholics this was abnormal at very least in scale due to the strong disapproval towards slavery (especially of fellow Christians) by the church. The Norman's were Norman, they very much did things their own way, one was the aforementioned centralisation which you can absolutely bet stood against the interests of the nobility, the late traitors among the nobility even discussed the breakup of England itself. However the power of the Monarchy under the Normans meant that the lower orders were largely protected from the capricious and\or arbitrary predation of the nobility who unlike the idealistic view of late mythmakers of English freedoms were in no way guardians of English freedoms before, during or after the Normans, if anything the expansion of liberties to the whole population was a clinical move by the Monarchy to undermine attempts by the nobility to accrue privileges to themselves as was dominant in France, ruinous to the Holy Roman Empire and would prove ultimately fatal to Hungary and Poland. By making the upholding of the liberties of the population ultimately reliant on the crown they monarchy also managed to make itself indispensable to order of the Kingdom up until the Civil War when parliament theoretical usurped that responsibility, though the modern parliament seems to have relinquished it.
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  260. The idea that crimes are simply not reported while true to a certain extent fails to account for the fact that it is as much if not more a fact in western countries. Japanese police are notorious for not intervening in domestic situations and for only going ahead with cases they know they will win, but it's not exactly like western police even reach that level. Japanese police have patrols and numerous local stations, this is not a capability held by British police. Also people have a very romantic image of the yakuza, they are not nice people, the reputation for honour is mostly media creation, they are mostly of foreign background, or are burakumin, they are not sympathetic to the common people, most of the nastiness in the underbelly comes from them. Even now many of the problems with the host clubs and sex industry come from them. While they were less open and brazen than the newcomers that is because they knew the game better and had more extensive connections. They are used that to mostly move into legally grey but morally repulsive areas with the recent crackdowns, but they have always been scum and still are. We have to remember that a big purpose for the western media is slandering other systems, if they have a narrative it is almost certain to be a pack of lies. The purpose of saying that Japan doesn't have lower crimerates is the same as saying Britain has no native people, it is to justify the power of our existing regime, nothing more nothing less. In Japan's case there are games journalist levels of knowledge, Wikipedia is a substantially better source for Japan than the BBC or Times, western journalists know nothing about the country and make no effort to try, when they talk about it they have information that is decades out of date or they picked up from movies, even those who live in Japan basically make no effort to get deeper than tourist level and even then the average tourist is probably much high iq and picks up more. I say this with real frustration, as someone who has tried to research the Japanese education system, these people are lazy and plain old dumb, they will talk about things that were perceived back in the 80's and forget to mention utterly vital education reforms that have transformed the whole system. The vast majority of content in western media and academic is cope or whining, and usually archaic in actual content. You will frankly learn much more about Japan from the Japanese themselves, but be ready as they are quite insulated from the west, and tend to have a very naive view of developments here due to not really understanding the underlying logic, a bit like a child looking at a drunken father and thinking that as an adult he must know what he is doing, they tend to assume we aren't just straight up idiotic with our policies and political structures.
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  282.  @voller340  My view is 100% that Europe increasing military capabilities is a good thing, I want the people's of Europe to survive and with current policies going they won't. On the America point there's a book called 'Generation 68' by kerry bolton that goes into how the right was barking up the wrong tree for most of the cold war, with the soviet union being seen as reactionary and socially conservative by the american deep state, and the student movements and the like receiving American backing and funding, not soviet. They were very active and there was a lot of money involved (like incomprehensible amounts), and got up to insane stuff like paying off respected academics to give bad reviews to right wing books, or running a radio show in California telling students how to make and use different drugs. Though McCarthy had an almost prefect record for finding communists (mostly because he went after people who had been very open about it) according to the KGB archives, he like most republicans didn't understand that the most radical revolutionaries were both within the American system and violently opposed to the soviet union, being internationalists who had been refused a world government at the end of the war by the soviets themselves (who saw it as a suggestion of global American empire), and were socially radical in a way the soviets had only been for a short period in the early 1920's (because unsurprisingly it started breaking apart the society at it's seams). Trump is a great thing, but I doubt he will be able to do enough, America needs consistent and strong leadership to root these people out.
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  323. On B's comments, Luther and Calvin were heretics, Luther was a pawn of the German Princes in their struggle for autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire, he was also behind the belief that all must come from the Bible, ironically just contemporarising the context of interpretation and making it so that the arguments over basics would literally never end, on top of this he tried to edit the Bible to suit his own theological interpretation and married a Nun, breaking two oaths of chastity in one, if you know much of medieval European culture and society you will know that oathbreaking was in a way almost as bad as outright apostasy and practically guarantees a place in hell without considerable extenuating circumstances. Calvinism other than being rootless and contemporary is the theological origin of progressivism and liberalism, they have an odious history due to their role is justifying the political destruction of Europe under the belief that the only valid King is Christ (that is not what the title King of Kings means at all if you know the history of the title) and they themselves should hold the secular power. Also both Luther and Calvin were not fans of natural sciences, philosophy or pre-Christian culture and if they had had their way those would have been extinguished. The guest was wrong about Trinitarian mass being ancient, it is itself a reformation creation, a standardisation specifically. Before the reformation there was considerable liturgical variety, in England the Sarum rite was predominant, which was an English expression of the Latin rite dating into Anglo-Saxon times. The common man did not speak Latin, but he did have considerable theological understanding and interest, as theology was of primary interest to the common man rather than politics, Bible sermons were not in Latin, they would hear what church fathers and important theologians thought of passages, often the messages were directly relevant and they were usually far more in-depth than what we get now. Bibles in vulgar languages did exist and most people were literate in their own language, but street preachers and defrocked priests were more common than public access libraries and tended to cause trouble. Medieval people weren't stupid, they were highly legalistic and cultured, the tenants of Christianity were deeply rooted in everyday life. Something that would not be the case after the reformation, theological understanding and interest greatly declined, many Churches were in a state of disrepair for a century or more, people supported the Church financially due to legal obligation but most energy was in the radical reformed movements that periodically swept public interest rather than the Anglican Church which mostly just continued on with state backing (and suspicion due to monarchist leanings and Catholic holdovers, which a largely non-conformist political elite did not like at all).
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  326. Western courts would use African doormen to look impressive and worldly themselves, as well as in a trend of following ottoman court fashions. A retainer was a concept in the west, and as in Japan proximity to a Lord did not make you a Knight, it was a specific title with corresponding duties and privileges, knights were expensive, very expensive, even most men performing their role in battle did not have the title, to give it to the domestic help would be silly, especially if their role was to stand around and look impressive, Knights had land grants to manage and training to undertake. Likewise with samurai, your swordbearer was needed to carry your sword, it was a pain if he had other duties, his wage was so that he would focus on that, also as he carried the sword him knowing how to fight was of no benefit, he could assassinate you with it, even if he couldn't fight he could be used as a shield. Usually though it was a position for young noble boys, they would learn court manners and rituals and proximity to a Lord was an honour, it was a period before they went on to other duties. Lord Oda liked exotic things and this was likely an example, in his youth he was mocked for foreign and extravagant dress and into his manhood he had a preference for Learned Christians, he was known as the demon king because he did not get on with the Buddhist monastic orders and had a full on war with some of them, being merciless even with the unarmed pilgrims and faithful, regardless of sex or age. If he had lived he might well have converted, he was planning to invade China, much like Alexander the Great's father, he unified Japan and was then going to invade Korea, his successors only went as far as Korea as his heir died in the coup.
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  330.  @themossad  Do you mean the president of Hungary? My issue is that Israeli NGO's and citizens are very prominent on the other side. I would be less critical if the Israeli right would work to undermine these group and I would be supportive of Israel were it to ally with us against the common enemy, Israel over the past days has shown it's experience and skill at operating media campaigns, it would be fantastic if skills could be shared or tie ins created. What has happened of the past days has been done by the same people in Europe but the rightful anger and necessary knowlege has been suppressed by western media, we would be greatly buoyed if a similar approach was to be taken around the Rotherham scale and type incidents across Europe. Just like in the past days the media must be made to admit to the reality of evil for people to even acknowledge it. I have massive sympathies with Israel in terms of these unspeakably revolting attacks, but my idea of cooperation would be the attacks we are undergoing being likewise publicised. At the moment Jews are an essential elite patronage group of the regime like the Baltic Germans were in the Russian Empire, this means we are very likely to be called anti-sematic merely for offending the sentiments of the ruling class. Organisations like the ADL are the face of this, it would be great if Israel would condemn the villainization of those who are fighting similar battles against the same people, often in circumstances not terribly far from what we are seeing currently in Israel and in a far higher volume even if not the same proportion or organisation.
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