Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1. Honestly the fact that she would do this for kicks while having a husband and child says more about her than anything else. Also the I didn't tell my husband but I knew he would understand because he's a logical guy is a hell of a take, I am usually opposed to divorce but I'd say this would be a justifiable cause for one. Frankly something is telling me that it is an extremely dysfunctional family, and practically everything she says raises red flags. Pretty disturbing all round.
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  2. The issues around the cost of education in Japan are probably a major motivating factor for many of the younger people in entering the industry (especially for university students) but just as much for married women entering it (cram schools aren't free after all nor is their husband's job necessarily as stable as in prior decades). I imagine a lessening of the burden of education fees would lead to manpower shortages in the sector as well as raising the birth rate by making the pooling of resources in fewer children less necessary.
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  3. Youth poverty is hitting worldwide. My country has similar but different problems.
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  4. What a surprise. Next we'll be hearing that birds have wings. All the best to the lady, but she should never have married him in the first place.
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  5. It is important to note that Japan is not an outlier among developed countries with its birth rate, Europe has very similar one's. The thing that makes it distinct is that it does not engage in mass immigration and then pretend the problem doesn't exist. Let's be clear immigration is not a long term solution to demographic issues but much like bringing people into a ponzi scheme despite the fact that it's what western experts generally recommend to Japan, as birth rates are falling worldwide becoming a demographic black hole will only work so long and could be considered immoral for siphoning off skilled people from countries that desperately need them for any hope of internal improvements as well as having been the ones funding the education that western countries will take advantage of. On top of this a lot of the cover in a paper thin veneer, here in Britain living standards are declining rapidly but immigration (notably including illegal) are encouraged in order to pump the GDP figures and give the illusion that we aren't in a major recession, we also have the problem of cheap labour being used in place of technological advancement. This in not going into the many many other negatives. In short solutions at the ground level are vital and only real solutions will be able to fix such difficult issues. Personally I would recommend getting rid of government pensions as all they do is hide the fact that people need children to pay for them in old age. Likewise the modern dating system is not fit for purpose and indeed in the Japanese context seems to conflict badly with the culture and attitude of the population. Ideology which promotes and justifies family will also likely be necessary, in Japan this was traditionally fulfilled by Confucianism and the the West Christianity, people after all tend to act off what they believe in.
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  6. Too be fair the behaviour of many westerners even within their own country isn't great, in a country with higher trust and standards like Japan a lot will be guilty. As for non-westerners, let's just say the the exponential increase in every kind and severity of problem within the West as been fuelled by something other than the zoomer generation receiving a useless education. Honestly I'm not sure it's wise to be influenced but any foreigners, but you should avoid letting some in at all costs.
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  7. In terms of daughter, I would first want to know why and if I had raised them so poorly, but if they couldn't give a good reason I would disown them. In terms of wife there are almost no excuses, the lies would be the nail in the coffin of it, I am not typically one to support divorce (especially ones so flippantly undertaken as many seem now) but in such a case I not sure other options are open. If one has financial problems you discuss it together otherwise why call yourself family. This might sound old fashioned but I would rather the people I care about don't go to university than pay for it in such a way. People who act in such a way without pay I might as well add are to my mind worse, they demean themselves the same without even asking for recompense, in my country such most university students are in such a category (and yes both sexes, manwhores are if anything worse, as they must put effort into their actions or else have standards such that they are demeaning themselves to an even greater degree).
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  8. Half of many developed countries GDP is made up of government spending, it's taxes, as well as immigration and women entering the workforce driving down wages, financial inequality has got worse sure but not at a scale large enough to explain the shift in living standards. Things like interest rates are also basically hidden taxes.
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  9. Interesting guests, the first lady was a narcissist most likely given her many odd comments, I have a feeling that she didn't only get a lot of work done on her face. The other two seemed very nice and gave quite insightful commentary and a real look at the experience. I have heard that back exercises are beneficial. Interestingly medieval Europeans disfavored large breasts (or even middling ones really) due to them being associated with a lack of virtue. This lead both to a lot of chest binding and also a likely genetic disfavoring. Ironically the opposite seems to be happening now. As for the morality of such channels, I'm not 14 anymore and if I was then youtube wouldn't be my port of call. I frankly don't see the point, though I imagine that for the content creator at least the point is monetary. However if a women wants a health long term relationship then a certain exclusiveness will be a part of the bounds of that relationship, something rather difficult when you have already commercialised yourself.
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  10. No. Not really a complicated one, that.
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  11. Bloody interesting, and I hope the increasing awareness of these problems along with the increasing accountability of the companies involved for dodgy sourcing methods leads to a decline in the industry. Personally despite you're discussion of social issues your videos have given me an overwhelmingly positive view of Japan, my country along with many other western countries has many similar issues however they are in both degree and number a lot worse and there is little awareness of them or room for civil dialog about them and increasingly any discussion of anything is merely part of a larger dogmatic ideological war and not a issue in it's own right. I'm currently training to become a teacher and your videos have made me think about moving to Japan once I've finished as it's become very clear that I don't want to raise children in the political and social culture that currently pervades nor in a state with institutions that fundamentally won't protect them if needed.
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  12. Same everywhere, Japan at the very least has less issues with drugs.
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  13. Let's be honest, the focus on love is a big part of the issue, it is heavily pushed by advertisers, probably because it sells tat without delivering but really a large part of it is the social conditions and norms which allow two people to make a relationship work as well as the kids. Relationships are something that must be built or maintained, but like everything our society seems to tell use we can buy, neglect or abandon them at will with no real consequences or responsibility, really it is to the point of saying we should and holding moral evil as a moral good. People need to have less options frankly, if you say some bullshit about falling out of love when you have children then frankly you need to grow up and stop being self-centred, you are not the centre of the relationship, your children are. There are unhealthy relationships but to often they are such by lack of effort and a sense of entitlement rather than anything more irreconcilable. As for getting into a relationship working out what you want is fine, if they don't want that then right there you have saved years of potentially dancing around it. To be fair relationships aren't about self-actualisation, that just comes about once you get into a rhythm, they are about children, all the rest is a later product largely out of very Christian concepts about consent and the enjoining of humans into one flesh (and yes that is most certainly a reference to the literal as well as the spiritual), unless you are counting political alliance, which is ancient by probably not terribly relevant. The main issue today is that the culture and legal framework is not accommodating of marriage, there is a rampant individualism, almost to the point of farce, and an overreliance on taking from the state without acknowledging that costs are a universal and people will be needed in the next generation to support you no matter what. It is best that the obligation is relational as frankly in current conditions it is a race between the finance departments and the younger generation to scrap pensions. People are happy to look after their own, but an old market principle the Soviets proved is being unearthed, farmers will let the cities starve if they don't get paid, and young people will prefer not to work than to have all of their money taken towards people too irresponsible to have children of their own.
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  14. People have literally done studies on this, the vast majority regret not having kids, and of the current women who either aren't able to have them or are likely not to most wanted kids, they left it too late. There is a reason why IVF has exploded.
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  15. I have a feeling he's never going to go to her for relationship advice.
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  16. Here in Britain we wish we had a media that cared about the concerns of the population.
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  17. Grim if this is becoming a norm at any level of society.
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  18. Church social groups, also local community events and lots of touching grass.
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  19. It is ultimately cultural, it is about the values people hold, liberal individualism is sterile while the more traditional dogmas like Confucianism and Christianity are intensely pro-natal as traditions which aren't died quickly just as liberal society is dying. It ends up that welfare will not fill in what has become morally degraded and economically inconvenient. The state wants to have its cake and eat it too, they want thriving families, but each member of said family to be the private serf of a corporation for the sake of the precious GDP. Thus they talk about giving women money to not see their children rather than questioning if increasing women's work hours is a good solution to an aging population.
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  20. So Japan teaches about LGBT curriculum but not it's religious and cultural heritage or about worldwide religions to the point of them becoming widely misunderstood. Seems like they have the wrong priorities.
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  21. Being a decent person is pretty high up the list, personally a desire to have a large family is also a must.
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  22. I definitely think double eyelids is prettier. The examples shown didn't look unnatural which is one of the big issues with plastic surgery. Many plastic surgery operations push people into uncanny valley and they end up looking worse off for it. The funny thing is that I don't know a single man who doesn't find plastic surgery outputting or ugly and I have a feeling that the benefit to women from it is coming from an improvement to self esteem rather than looks. I have also noted that beauty standards are very much internalized among women themselves which leads to very misinformed assumptions about how pretty they are seen as by men. I think it's important that Japanese women know that they are quite beautiful already (but I do wonder how such a message could be sent, I certainly would be in no place to spread it) as they seem to have severe and, from an outsider perspective, puzzling self confidence issues which no doubt hinder them in the rest of their life. It would be worthwhile for women focus less on the cultivation of idealised beauty and instead cultivate their personality, or better yet if they want to benefit society and pursue fulfilment rather than fleeting happiness; get married and have 15 kids.
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  23. Profile pic checks out.
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  24. Younger as well, onlyfans is pretty notorious for not caring about cp unless it becomes a pr problem.
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  25. He still does good stuff but unfortunately he has financial difficulties and seems to get sponsored to do publicity for porn companies, at least if I am understanding correctly what he said in the comment section of a video a good while ago. From how he frames the questions it is obvious that he is very socially conservative if not reactionary but my impression he has kids so it is quite likely that putting food on the table is the priority, personally I think he should set up a patreon and make the sort of good content he seems to want to make.
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  26. Yes, this is correct. Social degradation makes life difficult. Community building is probably something to be investing in as an actual thing and not just a corporate buzz word. The number one investment is time, as social relationships are built on the social stuff, not government grants, even if grants are measurable.
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  27. They took the gothic elements a bit seriously, on top of this Christianity has a mostly aesthetic presence as the Catholic church will be given a heavy symbolic presence and then the author will make it known that he has no idea that Catholic priests take vows of celibacy, can't marry and don't burn people alive on Saturdays.
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  28. This is basically an ad unfortunately. These ones with pornstars always are, not only is it how you get them to talk but also he has said before that he's paid by the company to do these.
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  29. Cope.
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  30. Not sure she does like it, the whole thing is very sad.
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  31. The likelihood of that massively goes up past 35, which is when women with such a mentality typically have kids. But I can sympathise with the feelings of a lack of security. Though I doubt that is a cause, wars cause baby booms.
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  32. Terrible idea, women in their forties have birth defects at a similar rate to children of incest. Women should have children young and focus of education and career later if indeed it matters at all. Likewise women who have children young have far less problems with birth later on than first time mothers who are older. Also quantity has a quality all of it's own, and the future belongs to those who show up to it. More kids are better.
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  33. No, the culture existed for thousands of years, social liberalism has been around for much less and has the same effect everywhere. Look at the west, are Italian birth rates due to Japanese cultural traditions.
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  34. If I am wearing an SS uniform and spend my days taking pot shots at minorities from my lawn then my claim to be a social and political progressive are not to be taken as fact, self-identification is not the be all and end all. While there are plenty of groups in contradiction with their principles there is a point at which they are such basic fundamental principals and so many that the organisation may be said to be it's own thing and any attempt at association merely an attempt at cloaking themselves in part of the legitimacy and reputation of the other group. This group is one that is in violation of many basic Christian teachings and is offensive to Christian morality, they are very much like a scam email that tell you that they are from a legitimate company and are treated with similar contempt even by very unorthodox groups of Christians (though perhaps not all as Christians are not nearly good enough at gatekeeping), academia also categorizes such groups separately.
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  35. If you are talking to the commenters then we don't control government fiscal policy, nor do we control nature, resources are finite. The number one thing to do it to change social contexts and the perspective of people on life. The declining birth rate has hit countries irrespective of wealth. It is about much more than it, even if of course people would feel better with more in the bank.
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  36. The Japanese military desperately needs to expand, but it should have as much industry as possible within Japan. Total self-sufficiency is not possible due to a very weak resource base, but as much of the supply chain as possible must be local, as if there is a war America will not only have to produce for the world, but will be able to dictate prices. The British empire was bankrupted by business with the Americans, for whom the intention was very much to destroy the British economy and steal all their wealth. America is not a friend even of its own people, it benefits a small influential class, some of rich, but mostly the management class, who run the actual systems. The whole insulting Japanese self-preference is merely pressure to conform, Japan has become a model for western politically opposition, they say 'a slow economic decline due to low birthrates is better than destroying the nation, people and society with immigration ', this worries those who are benefited by low wages or are motivated by animus towards civilisation. The Japanese should not have US military bases, American influence is undoubtedly bad, while they remain Japan is stuck within a westernized political framework at a time of western decline and it's cultural, social and political degradation. Japan should think about another period of isolation, and possibly reinvigorating Confucianism as a way to strengthen social bonds and reform the system of social life which has proved infertile and depressing.
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  37. From what I have seen westernized Japanese import western social problems and actively make the culture worse, is citizenship rules a matter of importance however, probably not. It is the definition of a minority concern, there are much bigger issues for the Japanese government to focus on.
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  38. Someone always has to pay.
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  39. Obvious bait is obvious bait.
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  40.  FIGHTFANNERD10  She makes it abundantly clear that she did it for herself. I doubt her son will gain any benefit considering that she was not suffering any financial hardship in the first place.
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  41.  @jamilgonzaga7081  Exclusivity is an important component of a relationship. There are open relationships and the like but in such things there’s usually one party who comes home at night to cry into the pillows of an empty bed.
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  42. 1. Yes, at minimum. 2. No, the opposite. 3. i, this is a social problem, not a financial one.
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  43. That was literally not in the terms of the question and was probably edited out even if they said it for use on a different video on a more relevant topic.
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  44. I think arranged marriage will probably make a comeback in the future.
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  45. She basically said she did it for kicks.
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  46. London is straight up the worse place in Britain by a country mile, and I say that as someone who grew up there. Plenty of charities it's just that most are poorly disguised money laundering operations or fronts for political shenanigans (guess how extinction rebellion are funded). British is unfortunately a sinking ship under there is absolutely no possibly of democratic reform given the current state of the political system. Yeah the cultures awful, the problem is finding people outside of it, it's easy to not participate but have to form counter-action without anyone else, the traditionalists have the problem of being a large movement of people who want to break out of the paradigm, settle down and start families but they are over 95% male and a lot of the outlier don't seem to understand that it's a genuine sentiment and not a bizarre sexualized roleplay movement and so the tend to not fit in very well by sexualizing themselves thinking it will earn them brownie points. We'll have to see were things go but from where I'm standing the only thing the establishment is doing is piling up kindling around themselves alongside earning the deep enmity and resentment of significant portions of the population, increasingly the only card they hold is compulsion through hard power, most of the legitimacy has been stripped away and is now viewed with contempt.
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  47. My God bring you to himself.
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  48. Don't be split, be proud.
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  49. Knowing how a lot of young Asian men dress you wouldn't even be able to know if they are just gay friends.
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  50. Such is a social death spiral, there is a reason Confucianism and Christianity assign a social structure in which the young look after the old and have children to look after them. In a sense the social structures and norms have to be designed to combat these issues and it is only natural selection that those which did became dominant. This in large part seems like a justification for dewestisfication, many of the social structures and norms adopted by Japan are simply not functional in perpetuating society, if Japan is to succeed they should look west for errors rather than models. As to solutions social pressure to marry, a prioritization of prestige for large families over career progression, a robust legal and moral strengthening of successful family structures and possibly a reintroduction of arranged marriage are likely to work. Whatever is done however the dating system, liberal social attitudes, norms and legal protections and an obsession with corporate professions are proven failures. Japan does not need economic growth, it needs people.
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  51. What is a 'good' person. Is it the same as being a patriarch or matriarch. I see a lot of weak parenting that is meant to be nice, and a lack of responsibility from parents as much as their children.
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  52. The best thing about being friendless in Japan is that you don't even have to be in Japan to have no friends there.
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  53. Stephen Shaw (who is japan based), has pointed out that mothers have As many children as ever. The problem is people who don't get or stay married, basically the old social structures of arranged marriage and courting, as well as large but close family and community structures served a purpose. Capitalism has It's place but it is a consuming force, if you put all your crops into the fire it will burn ferocious but you will have nothing to plant; it will go out and you will be both hungry and cold. Ultimately the national, social, ethnic, cultural and human existence is worth continuing over GDP figures or short-term prosperity. The real trouble is uncertainty, if people feel like they will be supported in having kids they will have them, this is not in child care, which has serious detrimental impacts on children and costs a bomb, this is in community support structures, reliable work and a feeling of purpose. There is a reason that fertility is heavily tied to religion. Likewise Japan should learn to decouple from western innovations, many of these are hardly good, and only become worse when made more efficient in the hands of the Japanese. Also if you have immigration limit it to native European families and Chinese and Koreans who speak the language, even that would be a struggle, but it would not destroy the Japanese people. Also your politician is mad, and ignorant, and I say that as someone to the considerable right of him.
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  54. You are getting people from a newly low trust society, who are coming to gawk at a high trust one, let's be honest, most tourists have an entirely superficial interest in the culture, they aren't going to conform to a new set of behaviours for the sake of a few days out of their life, no matter if doing so is easy or hard, they are driven by convenience, not care.
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  55. A couple of things, one the guy at the beginning might be handsome but he's not what most people with serious relationships in mind are looking for, indeed he does not at all seem like someone even looking for something serious in the first place also his personality will be an impediment if it has any crossover with the online persona he has. Two, shy guy's find rejection painful and have doubts about whether someone likes them just as much, not trying is a lot easier than either meanwhile women who are too aggressive come off as not taking things seriously (one issue is that is actually the case with a lot of men who do "well" at dating), ultimately friend groups might be the most important in solving such issues as they can confirm interest without upsetting the status quo, that said friends often don't want to involve themselves incase things don't turn out well so as to not be responsible for starting a failed relationship or having to take sides in the fallout. The fact that such conversations are even contemplated however is a very good sign, one that many western nations markedly lack.
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  56.  @anananana5366  These people typically want to have children in their 30's, find it too late in the late 30's and grieve it for the rest of their life. They don't wake up at 75 and wish they had a family.
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  57. 'I've never cheated because I've never been loyal', ok then, not sure that scales well though.
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  58. Ban it all.
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  59. Yeah, they are way too welcoming, if they knew a bit more they would be a lot less.
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  60. In my country the countryside is facing the same problems due to mass immigration, a quarter of the country are now foreign born immigrants, more if you count the generational immigrants, most of whom haven't integrated much if at all.
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  61. Christ, this is probably the most twisted outlook on life I've ever heard, and I'm used to dealing with Marxist academics.
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  62. Fantastic video as usual, here what I think of some of what was said. The economics of Japan is so much better than many western countries, sure it isn't modernised and the work environment is tough but young people can afford a house, that isn't a thing here. A lot of the men need to get their priorities straight, it is fine to suffer hardship if you can have children, were is the purpose in dying without having ever contributed and to be buried as the last in your line, your ancestors gave you your opportunities you shame them by putting your life to waste, they brought up large families with a much worse economic situation and suffered though tragedy, don't complain about such petty things. With what the women said a mother contributes many times what a working woman does, a working woman does the labour of one, a mother provides many workers for the future, she if you are high flying you could give the nation and world as many high flying people as you have children just by passing on your capability at home. There is a reason only recent societies have been foolish enough to put women into the workforce, they deflate wages now so that there no people to get paid tomorrow. Technology won't help, selecting sperm in IVF and the like leads to birth defects as does waiting to long to have children, it is only in contravention of nature that women don't have children young, it is what their body is designed around and thus complications are much more likely to occur the later things are left. These areas with better birth rates largely work by attracting people who want to have children, they are a statistical illusion. People have duty, it is not a right to steal from the future in order to ruin now, that is what debt is. People do need to have kids and if the government has to kick women out of work, ban porn or suppress the entertainment industry then so be it, the costs would be much less than doing nothing. I agree that Japan needs more positivity, it sounds like you do too, Japan is very insular many of the things you thing are bad are much worse in every other country, the fact that it is not ignored is a very good sign but perspective also needs to be understood, things not being prefect is an expectation treating it like a justification to not do things is only relinquishing the future to those who care less. As God commanded be fruitful and multiply. That should go before anything else as without it that anything else won't matter at all in just a little time.
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  63. The way to deal with this is to track down the financial links and the breadth of the operation. Snap up as many of the operators as possible and the publicly make an example of them. Raise the risk threshold for behaviour like this. Also stop sending lone girls to university, it's always been a bad idea and serves no real purpose, developed countries need stable families and large ones, not even more wage slaves for the GDP charts. Women working only deflates wages and is the definition of a short term solution to a long term problem.
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  64. May God bless and be with you always, in this life and the one to come.
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  65.  @AlwaysHope_  Of course I’m biased, I’m a westerner myself (British), and of the current generation (zoomer, though I’m on the older end of that and it shows). I don’t think its too far to say that modern western societies aren’t Christian (especially in western Europe, but that fact that values systems today are being spread through education and mass media today more than parents means that its a concern everywhere), but rather believe in a socially constructed reality and the same marxist hogwash which has been inspiring human tragedy for the last century.  I am a Christian myself and fundamentally believe that values and the philosophies based on Christianity form the best system for life, but I also live in a context where I am the only Christian my age I know and the church is counter to its mission (the church of England that is). There is a lot of internal literature by academics which is extremely forthright about where they come from and what they aim and at current there is little possibility they will fail to put in place what they wish for, my country has a conservative government, we also had 1 million immigrants last year, the economy is being driven off a cliff and talking about publicly accessible facts about what happened at Rotherham and is still happening elsewhere on a public account could get me a criminal record. Thus I feel it is imperative that east asian countries absolutely do not take of board what the west is giving at the moment, plus we have the same problems but worse in regard to the thing supposed solutions are being given for.
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  66. Lol, most of us were raised by older mothers, they usually saw the wall closing in. Terrible mothers for the most part, though a lot is the fault of society as much as age. Hopefully you are talking early thirties, because after that the risk of being born with problems because of it shoots up.
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  67. I come from Europe, you don't know what you are talking about, we live off debt as well and living conditions are deteriorating, things are terrible and there is a profound sense of hopelessness and nihilism. On top of this talking about it is increasingly restricted and the media and government lie to our faces.
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  68. You sound like you are outlining historical British foreign policy.
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  69. You are merely the follower of a different religion, it is unsurprising that you have antagonism towards the opposition.
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  70. It's because Japanese people are comparing standards of living to Japan 40 years ago and foreigners are comparing Japan to everywhere else. Literally all these problem exist and are much much worse in western countries, and unlike them Japan isn't also unsafe and their government isn't actively malicious. Nor is it being destroyed by importing people into a nation with a 1000 years of history and displacing whole regional cultures at a time with the ancient and intractable foes of those very people. Japan is incredibly rosy to a foreigner. You can buy a house, you are relatively safe, the institutions are functioning. Things like the economy looking good or a set track to professional success are not something they were ever expecting, indeed young westerners mostly don't expect pensions as they don't see the modern state winning it's battle with financial irresponsibility.
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  71. This is the norm with history lessons, in Britain even very important events have little to no coverage. The extreme lack of context means that most people in the younger generation literally don't care as they have no means of evaluating the utility of knowing anything about the subject. A lot of other subjects are hit by a similar mindset and circumstances, as someone almost totally self-educated I can't even begin to tell you where the education system could fix the issue, it frankly seems like the whole thing is a lost cause. That said it is certainly the case that older generations have a much better knowledge base stemming from education so in way the decline does show a possibility of doing things better.
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  72. Closed borders are good borders.
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  73. There are plenty of jobs so long as you don't insist on being an office worker. Japan is as short of farmers as it is doctors.
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  74. It is one of the easiest points to fix, changing your personality is less good if in is merely a facade. Weight is a matter of willpower and time or just buying less food.
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  75. Prostitutes exist everywhere, the issue is the inability to form relationship not the ability to buy them. Those guys are wanting wives rather than anything, it's a common historical social problem in polygamous societies, usually a violent one.
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  76. I think it is important that Japan does not westernise. It might not seem like it from the outside but the west is the sick man of civilisations, these problems are endemic in western countries alongside many many others and the nail is that it is all heading in a worse direction without regard. Solutions to social issues should be found in successful examples not loud ones. A return to Japanese Confucian principals or the strategic adoptions from the old foundational Christian social models that the west used to have would be far more useful in actually solving problems rather than pathologising or obfuscating (which is what people who claim that social issues are just the cost of progress do) them. The responses in the west are entirely ideological so Japan is already greatly ahead in finding solutions and at this rate will continue to be just by not engaging in self harm.
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  77. I am of the younger generation, 20% of those who went though such a curriculum say they are gay, which makes me think either that it is not very balanced or that it is socially contagious, my interest is history I can say with certainty that history would have been different if there were actually that many people hiding their sexuality. Personally I think it should not be taught until an understanding of what is going on is reached, unless that happens then the idea that sexuality is something you are born with will likely be delegitmised and I don't need to tell you the chaos that will cause, I would at least hope that it doesn't extend worldwide, but I guess it will be another factor in the mess which will be the next decade.
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  78. Ban porn.
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  79. You don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and given some of the stuff experts have come out with in the past that is probably a good thing.
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  80. I would say that the bombing is a lot less complicated than what happened afterwards. Japan was planning to fight to the death under the military, this is not hyperbole, the military plan was to make Japan so costly to take that no one would bother, from the allied perspective they would likely lose millions of men to a conventional assault and from the Japanese every civilian would be expected to die for the national good, on top of this was the wider situation, Japan is not a rich country and by this period in the war supply lines had largely been cut, even as things were people were starting to starve. If anyone knows anything of the early months of occupation they will know that many did die of starvation even with the full efforts of the red cross and the newly arrived occupying troops. If Japan had not surrendered when it did starvation would have killed more than the fighting itself, a large portion of the population likely would have died. As such the quick ending of the war actually saved lives. The controversial point is what happened post war, the war trials were frankly rigged, innocent men were made scapegoat and guilty let off for political expectancy, especially those of the imperial house but also men who have inflicted grotesque human experiments in return for their research notes. The country was made a puppet and the constitution written to American interests, the old educational establishment was destroyed by banning the old teachers from working and in effect the subversive elements of Japanese society were given reign, this lead to decade's of educational strife as the communist aligned teaching union fought with the department of education and the parents organisations. The conduct of the occupation troops was in large part disgraceful (I'm talking about the mass r*pes) and very few were properly punished. American extended a hand in rebuilding Japan, but it was largely as a logistical hub and bulwark against enemies in the region, once Japan started doing well they changed tact and started treating Japan as an economic threat, as Japan is resource poor they had little recourse and the economic downturn this caused is ongoing. The cultural influence of America while it has been useful in implanting a more stable political system and finally ending some of the more barbaric native practices (such as the selling of children) has caused immense harm culturally, imports like the American dating system and various ideologies are immensely destructive to a nation built on extreme particularities largely alien to the systems with which they are forced to interact, these things are a disaster in their home country, they are cataclysmic in foreign ones. More current American influence is just plain bad, the influence of failed western ideological projects is being heavily lobbied for by western NGO's and diplomacy, but to be blunt western ideology is based in western assumptions and entirely destructive to native culture as it supplants it, in terms of policy, mass immigration is the single best means to put an end to the distinct existence of Japan and the Japanese not to mention the utter civil strife it has caused in the nation's already victimised be it. To listen to American at this point is to listen to the devil for the results at least are much the same.
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  81. There are a lot of studies and have been since the 70's sex and violence are not at all the same in terms of normalisation, porn is more like watching gore videos than videogames, the psychological effects are massive and people quickly build up tolerances and move on to worse stuff. Turkey Tom did a video yesterday, I recommend that to see the effects in the flesh.
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  82. As was pointed out it's in the case of people wanting their kids to get the best education they can, most counties don't allow single mum's to send their kids to private or additional tuition just off of welfare and some of those countries are so generous with said welfare that single motherhood is seen by some as a life choice because of it. If you want your kids to have the best opportunities in education in Japan then that is expense even if you are married to a salaryman or both work, which is why income is such a big demand for women of such a mindset when on the marriage market.
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  83. People need purpose to live. Purpose requires responsibility. Without either is there is only really social pressure, pride and survival to make living like a ghost insufficient in justification. Give people a role and they will fight to honour that trust. The best role lays in family as that is the buildingblock of civilisation. Work on the other hand can only be measured in money.
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  84. The no dyed hair and only black hair rules contradict, they should only keep the no dyed hair rule. Strict school rules mean that troublemakers end up fighting against school uniform rules rather than something more important, it pushes out the frontline of the school and means that hopefully the students act of rebellion will be harmless to themselves (if you know teenagers you will know that their acts of rebellion are often self destructive) and if contain as much as possible any impact on those around them. The whole human rights discourse is unhelpful. You don't innately deserve anything, you must fight for what you want and be thankful for what you have. The schools do need to teach about prioritization however, the salary man ideal is worthless without something to work for, and that thing must be more important than work by being the motivation for it (e.g. spend more time with your kids rather than working to pay for them to go to a million clubs and extra curricula activities).
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  85. Sex ed had completely the opposite results to what was claimed would happen. Teen pregnancy went up and commitment went down after it was introduced. This is unsurprising if you ever got to experience it yourself. People who are paid to deliver it or who want an easy solution will of course suggest such things, it doesn't mean they are good ideas.
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  86. It's to do with social competition among females, not objective reality, for many women objective reality is socially contingent. It is a prestige marker and way of identifying status.
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  87. It is merely that other religions have become dominant, though they prefer the name ideologies.
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  88. Only Afghanistan and Africa don't have declining populations, but that doesn't meant that people can't still be shifted from one country to another.
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  89. This video seems to have attracted the wrong crowd if the replies are anything to go by.
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  90.  @raylenn4444  That is an utterly materialist and inhuman perspective, though also an exceedingly common one. Humans are group animals not lone survivors in a post-apocalyptic fiction and families are not just for tax benefits. Morals are necessary for a society to grow in the first place as people will find it difficult to cooperate without common understanding of acceptable behaviour, if you think people run roughshod over it now you should see what would happen if they could plead ignorance or find offence at every slight. Societies are made up of people, it is natural that they should restrict freedom because different people’s personal freedoms conflict, the society mediates to find a compromise so that the right of strength, coin or power does not dominate over all.
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  91. It is generally a good idea to lose weight after and to listen to your doctor during (they will often say that even what most people consider in the average range is putting the child at undue risk), but on the whole there are much bigger things to worry about unless you are so poor that the food costs are genuinely a burden.
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  92. Japan should limit foreign influence, wealth does not have any seeming effect on the number of children people have so focusing on the wealth of the population is of secondary importance as wealth is worthless if there is no-one to inherit it. The fact the the West is having the same problem as Japan is enough to not bother with their solutions, one should only adopt solutions that actually work and most western solutions have if anything proven the opposite. The eraser of traditional values and culture is not reversible and thus is not something that should be entered into heedlessly.
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  93. Your plan goes awry when you fail to ever pass on your genes in the first place, this is why the birth rate is so low btw, married people are still having as many kids as ever is just that a lot of people never have any at all due to chasing pipe dreams or wanting it all.
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  94. I wonder if the attitude towards prostitution was taken into account by the study. Either way the numbers are very high, it might in part be that a society with community based morals has adopted increasingly a individualized structure from a society where individual moral accountability (to absolutist moral principles and in an internally consistent reality) supervised by a higher power with the threat of eternal damnation was the context of development. Certainly the move away from such a framework and the implementation of the results of other belief systems is not going terribly well in the west (you end up with problems like the undermining of belief in objective reality by competing ideological faiths), but in a country without the same foundations it is dubious that it can hold up at all. The family vs work problem is certainly one of the primary ones facing Japan and I will get off the fence and say that family is absolutely more important and a touch of Confucianism might be in order to fix the current problems even if westerners would likely screech like they had been doused in holy water.
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  95. It seems like the solution doesn't lay in normalizing divorce or becoming westerners (considering their divorce rate that actively wouldn't help). The solution seems to be to demonize cheating and to hold people responsible for it in the eyes of society whether it leads to divorce or not. Changing attitudes around marriage might also help, if you want love you have to cultivate it, it takes hard work but 'discovering' it is like panning for gold and has the same chance of long term prospects. If you want to work for the sake of your child work on your relationship. Obviously in this case the woman is faultless and once someone has broken vows it is beyond fixing. Demonizing the women who sleep with married men might be something as well. But such men can always lie, cheat with cheaters or go to prostitutes. Maybe we need some ancient wisdom, I believe the bible's was 'stone them, stone them all'.
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  96. Yay, a corporate oligarchy in which children are farmed, what a bright future, I look forward to the soylent green.
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  97. Sexuality and violence are very different in terms of normalizing things, indeed given they you are defending it you likely already know that as it's on the level where it's observable. Porn use leads essentially to a tolerance building up and people moving deeper into depravity for their kicks, it also engains fetishes. Violent videogames are more at outlet for violent impulses than a magnifier of them, those they don't really help either. Both keep men, including possible predators of the street, by porn creates more predators, spreads depression and despondency and with the internet you don't need to be on the streets to cause harm. Turkey Tom did a video yesterday, I recommend you watch it as the whole thing is basically an example of the problem. The argument isn't at these point whether it is bad, it's to what extent, whether we should deal with it, and how, as I'm not a libreal I think yes and Jesus respectively, on a wider level banning it and improving society are needed.
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  98. The probably just haven't got with the program yet, unless they are all in Harry Potter merchandise it's pretty likely that they are part of the wider movement.
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  99. It's just that women the same age as the older party try to gatekeep as they are either jealous of a women who can attract a younger man or upset about the fact that men their own age aren't interested in them.
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  100. Have you tried patron, I think your videos are well made and important, you could probably raise money from the viewership.
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  101. Pretty much, and even that can only make things easier, there is no magic cure all for her conditions. I'm surprised by the number of people with options at odds with what is shown who think that someone who can't manage basic paperwork or a job can manage to ride off into the sunset happy and sitting on a pot of gold, she does not just exist in the video, she will have to manage her issues her entire life and the issues themselves leave her hardly in a state to do so.
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  102. Sounds like the usual, people need to go back to living as large extended families and look after their own.
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  103. Saying you are the brother of Jesus is typically taken as announcing that you are a cult, it does after all imply that you are the son of God and a perfect human, both of which are pretty substantial claims. There are a variety of cults which are semi-derived from Christianity but they don't tend to be classified as Christian by anyone but themselves if there their beliefs are in contradiction to the religion enough of an extent. Likewise Mormons call themselves Christians but are classified as their own religion by everyone else, same with a number of stereotypical exploitative cults including communes of Nazi (as in straight up WW2 ones) child abusers and any number of death cults. The Chinese even had a civil war with a different proclaimed brother of Jesus and received western support in doing so (famously Gordon of Khartoum was involved). Equally I can claim to be the long lost twin brother of the Prophet Mohammed but the fact I would claim such a thing is probably a sign that I'm not a Muslim. I believe the channel ready to harvest made a video on this exact topic which probably explains it better than I could and he's an academic on the subject as well.
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  104. Guess some people felt personally attacked.
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  105. I don't get trying to minimise the reality of a situation which could kill the country, we need solutions not empathy. That said I don't think virgin men are the issue, the lack of marriage is an issue, the problem is likely a mixture of dating being poorly optimised to lead to successful relationships and the education system turning out overly passive people. Honesty it also seems like the just get by attitude is having a negative effect due to a belief in things not being good, material comfort is secondary in life, given the great amount of opportunities in Japan especially for young people there is a great deal to motivate. There aren't many first world countries were a young person can reasonably expect to be able to buy a house, not to mention that even for working class the soft factors like danger from crime are far better than anywhere in the west. I know that urging positivity is irritating, I'm a pessimist myself, but the attitude of things being hopeless just seems like an excuse to give up and not try, an attitude which is frankly disrespectful to the ancestors who suffered so much more than you to put you in your position. Japan should just pick it's poison wether Confucian or Christian, nihilism gets you nowhere and is just a waste of life and potential.
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  106.  @sijul6483  I agree. In Europe I think the suicide is unfortunately a conscious one. Though I might as well state that I have no expectation of the permanent collapse of polities in the region but rather the destruction of the current systems and the likely loss (or cementing of the loss) of the historical legacies of most of the continents cultures, peoples, and political entities. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if France (which I say through gritted teeth as an Englishman) was still kicking about during and after that as they seem to be the most active in not drowning.
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  107. Japan was a highly religious country, just not a Christian (or Abrahamic) one. It could perhaps still be considered spiritual, or maybe just somewhere where traditions die hard.
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  108. Read into the grooming gangs, vote farming was a big part of why politicians were willing to turn a blind eye, or rather instruct police to persecute victims.
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  109. Unfortunately while the positive stereotypes are hilariously wrong the negative stereotypes are pretty spot on in my experience, cheating probably isn't a bigger problem than in Japan but commitment certainly is, and the dating market is toxic and not serious. Personally I feel that extremely conservative westerners and traditional Christians would probably find Japan a breath of fresh air but most others have already been got by the sexual revolution and social atomization and will find it to be a massive culture shock, not helped by the fact that they probably believe their way is the right way. That is not to say that Japan is socially right wing, just that they continue to value things (like family, consideration for the group and Christian compatible (some of them are certainly Confucian in origin but others likely cultural influence that made it's way in during the meiji period and became seen as tradition) ideas of moral decency) that only strong conservatives continue to appreciate as valuable in the west. Given house prices I'm surprised that there aren't already many more culturally out of touch westerners who feel more at home in a society which marginally better fits what they are comfortable with.
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  110. 30's isn't, any older and IVF is the only option, and it has a low success rate as well as a very high rate of problems in children that are born (like incest between siblings level high).
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  111. They weren't, your timeline is wrong, the first nuke was before the Soviets and the confusion in the command structure helped their invasion considerably. The deal among the allies was that only unconditional surrender would be accepted, the Japanese didn't offer this until after the second nuke and an attempted coup.
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  112. Been watching him since the first couple of videos so it's pretty insane to think where he ended up. Though some aspects are a shame, like his western attitude to relationships (he broke up with and then didn't date Japanese women because they took relationships seriously and want to start families) and that he's moved to Tokyo so he can collaborate with the typical insufferable weebtubers.
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  113. Ban the industry, it is a refuge for shady practices and the underground yakuza.
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  114. As someone from the UK avoiding mass immigration and gay propaganda aimed at little children sounds like a paradise to me, their issue is not having enough children and it's one every deployed nation (and near every non-developed nation outside of Africa, in fact I believe the exception is Afghanistan and that's literally it) has the same problem but covers it up with massive immigration and a wilful refusal to admit that it's not a long term solution, especially when your social welfare programs are literally constructed like pyramid schemes. We have absolutely massive social issues, a declining economy and a situation where my generation will never get a house or a pension, the property prices alone are a source of hope for Japan, people just have to break out of the current paradigm, stop being miserable, move to the country, farm and raise large multi-generational families, I wish my country had options for improvement short of revolution. Personally I find the whole line go up mentality asinine, it is the type of logic that would lead to one selling their own mother, and in many western countries it has lead to the political elite selling out the country itself from underneath the feet of the population, it is not an answer to anything tangible however, only the creator of tangible problems. If Japan wants to solve its problems the way is more children, not more degenerate westerners or soulless hordes of urban economic nomads, the foreigners already within Japan are enough trouble. A short term economic boast is the same logic that lead to them encouraging women to enter the workforce and just like it it will backfire massively (wages go down in proportion to women in the workforce and make two incomes an economic necessity, thus lowering the freedom to have kids and making the whole situation a whole lot worse).
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  115. Of course this sort of thing is very hypocritically from western states who sexualise children heavily. The BBC outright supports children being shown porn and told to masturbate in primary school here in Britain, also like other media institutions they have covered up child trafficking cases on mass, and have a history of being an organisation filled with predators. On top of this western states are mostly certainly heading towards a relaxation of the laws Japan just strengthened as part of the LGBT campaign, in certain places (like California) they have already done so. All that said, two wrongs don't make a right and pornography is massively damaging. Just ban it all. Ban the sex industry too while at it, these are innately predatory both at the organisational level and in their wider effect on society. Largely they just seem to exist as a shelter for the yakuza and something to make highly questionable actions and aspects of society technically fall within the law, or better yet be hidden from it. It might be beneficial to the state to entice all the cockroaches into one sack but it hardly means anything unless you can tie it up at the end and have a cricket bat to hand. Such a tactic without the end amounts to throwing a funeral shroud over the areas of national life lost to you, and it's not like rot will cease it's growth of its own accord.
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  116. She's not happy, the constant giggling is a sign of anxiety.
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  117. Goes the other way pretty heavily as well, a lot of Americans think that Japanese women all look like their entertainment stars and that they are traditional in a Christian sense, instead of being modern in a Japanese one. Such impressions are easy when you don't speak the language and have an idealised view. Though Japan is certainly functioning more as a society, it isn't in important ways like fertility and long term thinking, which are important. Likewise the country is in the same process of decline as most western nations. And while the house prices will attract many Americans with a homesteading tradition good luck convincing young Japanese women to stay out of the city and raise ten kids in substance farming. Ironically these types of Americans are the eligible ones, those steeped in their own culture are unlikely to take relationships seriously, and have a complete lack of any virtues, they are typically successful, at least the older generation, as they are the urban managerial class, so technically hold elite status even if that means less each passing day. But status sells a dream that toil does not, it just happens in this case to be a false one.
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  118. Historically gays weren't punished with violence (usually repentance) unless they forced themselves on others or children in which case they were burnt as abomination. A sin is the natural inclination towards evil, despite the fact that left wing thought doesn't acknowledge it as originating in humans (but rather though society) you are a human and can probably attest to being tempted into negative actions by your own inclinations, Christianity is a religion focused on struggling with the negative aspects of yourself and living harmoniously in a community of social and relational bonds, it is interested in directing the nature of humans in a positive and constructive direction while acknowledging our innate flaws. Of course remaining loyal within intimate relationships and creating and providing for future generations is a big part of that. Though you will find that most modern Christains and churches don't even have the basics down so if they are being overly aggressive it is likely to make up for not being able to actualize and of the generative philosophies of the religion and just scapegoating on people who aren't even members of their community. Unless it's an Amish criticising you just tell them to take the log out of their own eye first.
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  119. You don't set the definitions, likewise if you say you worship the devil people will call you satanist not matter your claim to only follow certain demons or to not be a member of an official satanic group.
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  120. Things have become pretty dysfunctional as the focus hasn't been on social relationships or even trying to be a decent person but material gain, many people were brought up with little guidance and have trouble bringing their own children up in a decent manner. Unfortunately it is simply the case that sometimes you have to cut people off, you can't pretend that things are fine if someone makes no effort to change and takes their family for granted, though I wouldn't cut them off unless they were morally indefensible. Unfortunately society as it is really doesn't help, people are given a malformed set of values and told that arrogance and disregard for others is good. I don't lament families not getting along, I've seen too many cases where it's justified, but I agree that the fact that things have reached that point for so many is a sad thing.
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  121. I believe you are correct, Japan has a serious need for small business, funneling everything into big business is one of the major problems. A wife running home business while raising children (within the wider family and community setting) if what the bible urges women to do, the ideal of the inactive housewife (though until the invention of the tv and cleaning appliances they were often anything but inactive) very much comes from aspiring to the nobility of the 19th century (who again were seldom inactive but were often perceived as such, especially within idealisations of lifestyle) with the increasing wealth of the population. Humans have a long history of surviving as a species and thus there are not shortage of lessons which have had to have been forgotten for us to get to this stage.
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  122.  @alextorres8635  People can recognise it as cheating and a violation of trust without judging it worth it to break up the marriage over it, when children are involved that is especially the case.
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  123. Women drinking more in old age might be related to the declining happiness and life satisfaction of women in western countries. Certainly I have noticed that it is very normalised for women to drink a bottle of wine by themselves in the evening, meanwhile male pub culture has seen a decades long decline having been a very pervasive social activity right back into the middle ages, the young idiot demographic has almost entirely moved over to drugs though some also mix it with alcohol and then presumably go driving near a school zone.
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  124. The right person will never come, the emotion of love might tell you that they have but in actual fact they are not perfect or completely compatible (and the emotion dissipates with time), the important part of the relationship is working together to fix the flaws you find in each other or at least come to terms with them. Long relationship are born out of effort not idealism or fate.
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  125. @Hopium Jesus Outdated, yes it would seem so. How society is changing, yes also agreed. Filtered from reality, that is a matter of perspective but I believe a vision of that reality was presented and that was what I was responding to. I don’t see how any of that is a counter however to my stance that such a situation and it’s direction is grim. It’s a moral argument and for context I’m not a determinist so saying that something ‘is’ to me has no moral bearing on what it should be, if anything saying that something is outdated just proves that there are and have been working alternatives to what is now and where we can head in our future. New is not better, new is comparative.
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  126. The government welfare and pension system are basically a pyramid scheme and the population decline is less like a decline than a collapse (if you halve every generation then in 4 generations 10 people become 0.625, has that given perspective), these taken together are why people are so fatalistic. Though in truth the math works both way, increase birth rate the opposite way and the population rise is very fast, but of course to do this pensions, welfare and most government spending as well as many modern sacred cows would have to be sacrificed, or you can go with the western plan of just funneling foreign young into the drain to keep things going and ignore the long term viability and suffering of those involved.
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  127. Try to investigate the foundations of basically any ideas and then get back to me.
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  128. This is a point, more generations leads to much higher population growth.
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  129. No, we don't, and we reserve the right to use force to not have to. This is our country, culture and people and those who wish to destroy it are enemies.
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  130. Errr, yes.
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  131. The traditional way is to live in an extended family and in return for having help with childcare looking after your parents in old age. Personally I think the birth crisis is as much to do with values and material expectations as wealth as people in the past were almost unfathomably poor while still having very large families. A focus on relational bonds would probably be of great aid as would romantic movements or religious revivals like happened in Victorian times, paying people to have kids hasn't really worked so far though taking away the costs of having them (e.g. things like state education fees) is wise and things might end up differently if instituted in Japan due to the different social and cultural circumstances.
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  132. People with conflicting belief systems tend not to have a history of harmony no matter what those beliefs may be, though unlike the major religions those of the belief systems which are ideologies don't even have much history of harmony internally.
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  133.  @GeeMannn  I know, but once they can farm children the game is basically over.
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  134. I'm not sure you even understand what religion is.
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  135. Confucian holdouts (if there are any) would be interesting, as would schools run by traditionalists and the like.
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  136. Hey, if you did Britain's social issues it would be far more depressing than this. As human trafficking, underage grooming and police corruption aren't just major problems, they are commonplace ones. Plus you'd get your car firebombed within at week. Your Japan videos are really cheerful in that a discussion can happen in the first place. The experts you bring on are also sane (and have something of value to add), which is abnormal in western countries media. And there doesn't seem to be a pervasive fear around talking about things. Also no redefinition of terms to try and twist what the problem is. The widescale apathy to the issues is the same though.
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  137. Yes, as he stated with the teaching in schools.
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  138. Men are not the bottleneck.
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  139. I don't think bad policy is red pilled, arranged marriage and banning contraception are.
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  140. Western society in general at this point.
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  141. Too where, sorry to say but most westerners would move to Japan in a heartbeat. These problems are all much worse in the west and we have many more on top of them.
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  142. Is they are businesses then many of them have an aweful business model.
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  143.  @borrico1965  Don’t think it should be based on income, really you want the most successful people in society to have the most kids and pass the success on to them (though if its anything like my country they’ll get sent to private school anyway), plus wealth being split between heirs is one of the most effective ways of curbing dynasties and stopping large parts of the elite from becoming trust fund kids who never contribute anything to society. I would have thought that scholarships would already be common, the more you know I guess, my country doesn’t do them much because they think its unfair on stupid children.  Do you mean Shinto by pagan? What is the belief or tradition it stems from? Isn’t it possible that people just haven’t thought about it much, after all more control over the education your child receives is something any parent would support and funding your kid is the role of a parent. I only bumped into the problem because it would be something to effect me personally if I ever moved there from my country and I already knew I wanted lots of kids, and was researching living costs towards that end anyway. If I was local I would probably never have questioned it, though on the whole I think foreigners have a lot less useful stuff to say about Japan than they think they do and some of the their suggestions seem straight up malicious when you take into account how well they’ve worked in western countries.
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  144. I can't say I really like any of them, and your favourite I actively dislike. He's a type of person you find in Britain, someone who is outspoken but won't talk about actually controversial issues (like the grooming gangs, or fact that Britain is worse with a lot of the stuff he complains about) or do basic research. It's all surface level and smug, I'm happy he's no longer over here but sad for the Japanese for having him. He lives a sheltered life and complains about nonsense he doesn't understand nor have workable solutions to, it's all just so much whingeing, he should grow up.
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  145. Have you seen North Korea's Birthrate. Give it some time and the only Koreans will be North Koreans.
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  146. It is not healthy, at all. Biology isn't changing any time soon, you are up to date.
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  147.  @nickkerinklio8239  We can only pray.
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  148. It never isn't.
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  149. Not if he is legitimately at Christian he doesn't.
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  150. I mean the Borgia were still popes.
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  151. Okay, I'm now pretty certain that all the other comments were just trolling.
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  152. Even with that how much people give is heavily correlated with religiosity.
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  153. Yeah, come over to europe, we have that, plus unaffordable housing, plus an invasion of the continent, plus a massive crimewave by the invaders. Also our politicians are actively trying to destroy us.
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  154. Yes, immigration is the greatest crisis of our time. But Japan has been making worrying moves towards accepting it.
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  155. It also describes girls who look underaged, it comes for the infamous Lolita book about a sexual predator.
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  156. First time I've been called that. Anyhow nah terrible idea, kids shouldn't be having kids, it's wrong in pretty much every way.
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  157. There's a lot of that in the western dating scene, just less of a public narrative acknowledging the fact. A great deal of the massive human trafficking problem works like this but with the emotional manipulation of young girls, not the whole idol and host club aesthetic.
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  158. Cities built for people to live in don't work well as theme parks.
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  159. Like no it's not the no true Scotsman as their beliefs and practices outright contradict many of the principles and tenants of the faith, most notably the witnesses believe in doomsday prophecies despite the bible directly saying they are baloney, the Mormons believe in a new prophet who was big into marrying multiple underaged girls, plagiarized from the freemasons which he was once a member of and renounced his faith shortly before dying. If they are indeed legitimate variants of Christianity then Islam is on an equal footing with them as a branch of Christianity (hell it's a more legitimate one than Mormonism as it's founder never renounced his faith, and it's not apocalyptic either nor does in encourage people to die rather than undergo critical medical procedures like the witnesses like to do). It's not like there's a shortage of recognised church's either and it's the fanatics from them that are engaging in no Scotsman though theology a science in its own way so there's a pretty sure gap between arguing over doctrine and accusing the pope of being the anti-christ.
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  160. Yay, consent morality. At least nihilists are true to themselves, you guys expect cowardice to be taken for morality. I will 100% tell people how they should live, because the thing is, I care about them.
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  161. Find Christ.
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  162. Spot on, this is not genuine, she is selling herself.
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  163. Generally a good idea to outlaw divorce in general.
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  164. All comment sections under these sort of videos prove is that democracy is a mistake, everyone ends up talking about opinions shaped by mass media. Ban it, it's that simple, destroy the sex industry and rebuild the old social institutions, teaching means nothing, humans aren't rational to a significant enough degree to be responsible about this sort of thing. Ultimately one must live up to their obligations towards the wellbeing of their people or else the people will pay the devils due, and he takes gold for iron.
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  165. Consent morality at it's finest.
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  166. Rents in Japan are way better than basically anywhere in the western world, outside of the cities housing is outright affordable, it is a place that young people could buy a house in, something that young people here would literally be willing to fight a war for.
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  167. Depends on the age of the teen massively, under 16 is dangerous, over 17 or 18 is the highest period of fertility and safest so long as they do not have delayed physical development. Someone who starts at 18 or 19 can have a lot more kids a lot more easily. Younger is dangerous for the mother, over 36 and especially once you get to the forties it is very dangerous compared even to that, including for the baby as the developmental difficulties are at an exceptionally high rate. Women should probably have kids at the time they currently go to university and go to university in their thirties, which should be paid for as the whole problem of finances currently is not enough children to pay down future expenses, if that is solved then it is less of a worry.
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  168. Ah yeah and a truly great video btw, these ones are very much what I'm (and I believe many others) are subscribed to the channel for, though I think you are a great interviewer 'pornstar talks about japanese cheating!!!' type videos are not really very interesting, quickly become repetitive and feel a little too like freak shows.
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  169. Oil does that.
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  170.  @raylenn4444  Necessity and comfort aren’t the same (they often have opposed mindsets formed around them) and the idea that they aren’t moral makes me wonder if english is your first language as its a very broad statement to the point of assuring that it’s own inaccuracy. Pleasure is the only one that is generally associated with immorality. You seem to subscribe to wig history very strongly (that is the idea that we are in an inevitable march of progress towards the ideals of whoever happens to be speaking) but the reality is that human progress is tangible rather than deterministic (advances in medicine come through the efforts of researchers and doctors not the passing of time, if they made no effort there would be no results) if you cut away existing systems for the sake of it often enough all you will find is why those systems existed to begin with.
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  171.  @Dac_DT_MKD  How sad.
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  172.  @Dac_DT_MKD  Evolution is uncaring, those who pass on their genes matter, the rest are irrelevant. The people who chase robots or cartoon women are no different from dead in the process of evolution and the values that allow such a situation is thus pressured to die also.  We happen to be heading into a population bottleneck with very low birthrates as things are which other than most likely laying waste to wellfare states due to an unmanageable tax burden, will mean that the values and norms of today will undergo extreme pressures over the next century or two which will likely kill them, in previous conditions it was value systems like Christianity and Confucianism which flourished, we will have to see if we end up with them again or new systems are come into being with but considering that people have been starving themselves based on the same grouping of ideologies for a century now my bet is that they won’t have anything very impressive to show.
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  173.  @DarwinSmyth  That language is a bit dense and I’m not sure I fully understood. This is a youtube comments section not a polite dinner party you shouldn't have to worry about causing offence. I see no reason to destroy tradition for the sake of it, and it seems like often only after the fact it becomes obvious why the tradition was in place due to the effect its lack has. I have no particular scruples about changing society but I tend to think it should only be to the benefit of society itself. Confucianism and Christianity are both family based ideologies and both put considerable emphasis on how they think families should run and on ensuring they bear decedents, modern ideologies are very often based on the pursuit of money or the chasing of power, they are also overly reliant on influencing centralised education systems to ensure their spread rather than on the followers having kids, indeed kids are an afterthought and the personal freedom and expression of adults is often prioritised over their wellbeing. Humans are logical creatures who follow ideas, but if those ideas are resulting in unhappiness or are unsustainably over generations then I would tend to classify them as bad ones no matter their claims of moral legitimacy.
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  174.  @DarwinSmyth  The flaw of Confucianism is certainly its conservatism with many opportunities throughout history being lost due to it, but population decline and a massive rise of stress without outside factors like mongols was never a concern. Christianity is not nearly that simple, if it makes sense it is both very individualistic and very communal at the same time, the social and political life is the life of the group but one has personal responsibility within that group due to the very particular view of morality it has, the extreme individualism is not Christian in a religious sense but comes out of people who made the assumption that the society that Christianity built is free of the moral foundations that built it, it might be a bit confusing but europeans fight with ideas like wars which means that a great deal can change over a short time. Basically the ideas of liberalism though they are very much based in a Christian view of the world are secular and outside of American conservatives the ideals of Rousseau are also very influential but are also downright anti-Christian, there is a belief that freedom and goodness are the natural state of man and that any impediment to personal freedom is oppressive (Rousseau also thought the natural human passions, vices as christians call them, are good because they are natural, I’m frankly surprised he wasn’t burnt). If you get into old Christian literature you will quickly discover that it is deeply at odds with modern western society, even if many church's attempt to placate or fit in to the new ideology and some were always a bit on the strange side (Quakers and Jehovahs Witnesses).  The are no ideologies that don’t have up and down sides, they are ultimately a mediation of different peoples interests for the sake of a vision, but I don’t really think they become toxic aside from the effect power has on drawing in the power hungry, many of the flaws are inherent to the structure itself and the view them as toxic is often a matter of what values you prioritise in your perspective, but they ultimately will have a real world effect and values will have to face reality. If people don’t have families society will collapse and if people don’t have meaning they won’t be contented. We have to find a solution to our problems and taking about the flaws of the solution is irrelevant if they outweigh the cost of not implementing them.
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  175. The guy has publicly admitted to operating a catfishing scam and is currently under investigation for sex trafficking. Go recruit for your cult somewhere else.
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  176. I would be interested to see the marriage rates for any schools that continue in the meiji style, also any Confucian families would be interesting. I think Japan takes a very long time to come to solutions for problems that have long been apparent. In this case arranged marriage is most likely and even if only adopted by a minority, with the birth rate they would soon be a majority.
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  177. Yep, or liberalism more accurately, though for the Americans out there I mean the ideologies and philosophy that came out of the enlightenment.
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  178. People need to accept the decline in living standards.
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  179. The plan was Germany first but they didn't get them ready in time.
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  180. I'm pretty such he's said before that he's not Christian, he may have some morals in common but that is hardly out of the ordinary in Japan due to historical western influence.
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  181. Randian perspective.
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  182. I'm pretty sure the idea of age gaps being creepy is a psychological operation by middle aged women to stop their dating pool from being composed entirely of old aged pensioners.
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  183. Wealth is created not shared as anyone with a half passing knowledge of economics would be able to tell you.
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  184. On one side most African-Americans have by no means insignificant European ancestry (largely Scottish or Ulster-Scotch if I'm not mistaken) on the other I'm almost 100% sure the vast majority of current African ethnicities have double eyelids. It's more that East Asians and some small people groups don't have them than it is Europeans being in any way particularly unique (though if I recall there are some European ethnicities included under the small people groups proviso and some where individuals have a higher than miniscule chance of displaying the trait).
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  185. The West was exactly them same prior to their elites deciding that they liked cheap labour and hated existing cultures, happy people and low crime rates.
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  186. These media pushes are laying the groundwork for mass immigration, they will suppress all dissent using these excuses once it starts. As a Brit all I can say is that Japanese have no way of conceptualizing how bad things will become, you have a highly cohesive culture and identity, you are not used to parasitism of your people's trust and decency, cry-bullying as an ideology of resource extraction, and having your women and girls treated as the spoils of war by groups who do not recognise moral universalism and thus find the claims of humanists merely a means to avoid punishment. If you let them these creatures will eat your society from the inside out, they will abuse all norms in order so take what they will and have the weak suffer as they must. Your politicians, media and police will be enslaved to the desecration of your society, your people and your humanity. Communism was never such a big threat, it killed histories, classes and individuals, it did not wipe out the people as a whole. The progressive liberalism being cultivated is an existential threat to all, it corrupts even those who use it, the exploiters need a constant inflow from their homeland for they ebb away under the evil power of deracination just as the majority population it is deployed against.
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  187. Economics means that isn't a solution, the cost will come from somewhere else, banning women working, reforming education (or just getting rid of state funded education), getting rid of welfare and pensions, banning contraceptives and shooting western lobbying people out of the country with a cannon would probably be a lot better. Moving money around has been tried in Europe, hilariously only the gypsies started a permanent trend of higher birth rates as a result, probably because they were the only group for whom money was actually a limit on children rather than motivation and circumstances.
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  188. Oh god, please no.
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  189. The lesson is to not allow women to decide beauty standards as they'd wear dead rats on their head if it became a symbol of prestige. Same with a lot of this stuff, intra-sex competition is fierce and among women it can turn very nasty as the more social nature of it can allow it to escalate to considerable heights and go in ridiculous directions.
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  190. The economic problem is mostly time, if people are busy with work they don't have time for kids and daycare is expensive. Money is a problem in Tokyo as the living and housing costs are high, in the countryside it is the opposite, though prestigious jobs are basically non-existent. Attitude is the main issue, housing isn't expensive if parents live with kids or people share rooms, people can live on a lot less than they want, companies can have people working from home and not everyone should be working for a corporation, a country requires a diverse workforce, Japan has enough resource problems without running out of farmers. The material wealth on tv is an advert not reality, for this reason many in Tokyo end up in sex work to living in the big city and pretend they are living the high life. Japan desperately needs to deurbanise and dewesternise, most of these materialist values come from the west and are causing chaos in western society despite it being much more resistant to individualist extremism due to the individual emphasis of traditional (e.g. Christian) western morality.
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  191. Greater part of comments are probably not appearing, mine is gone.
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  192.  @teary3109  Civilisations need a growing population more than economic prosperity (A civilisation like Carthage was always going to lose to a civilisation like Rome because the game was rigged). Education that is not utilised is wasted and plenty of it is inefficient anyway. Japan needs farmers as much as doctors, having less children to afford the children you do have aiming to become doctors doesn’t work it merely hollows out society. People need to understand that having children if a far bigger contribution to society than their career ever will be as children are a force multiplier (even if you make 40,000 good luck outcompeting your three children who make 15,000, and thats if you are so talented that your children can’t match you). On top of that children will likely give you more fulfilment in life than your career anyway. A move back to traditional Confucian family structures would probably be for the best.
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  193. Have you ever met the average woman at university, I'm surprised if wasn't higher, though perhaps the other 50% were the one's who actually carried it out.
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  194. He probably has contacts at this point.
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  195. Contraception makes this moot.
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  196. Remember both that the problem is only being realised now and that younger people as this video demonstrated are perpetuating the cycle, in many ways even more radically. Though we have a great deal more cause to upset the status quo I don't see any purpose in resentment or vindictiveness when it comes to the older generation even if they are very far from prefect and their interests are not of the principal impediments to change, at least where I am many more would be willing to make the sacrifices necessary given the situation than could be with my own generation given the circumstances and playing on that is likely the most direct path to solutions.
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  197. I wrote something last night but it seems like YouTube deleted it (no clue why, it was a fairly mundane comment). To put things in very simple terms there is no need for indoctrination, the nature of pro-natalist religions is such that their adherents have a much higher birth rate, the only reason this hasn't translated to the problem solving itself is that mass education is installing top down values onto society rather than allowing people to learn from their parents experience and outlook. A lot of the obsession with prestige and corporate jobs exists in a bubble and without things like media and educational support not only would it have always been less dominant but it likely would have popped once it started failing, such perceptions exist within the ambitions of a post-occupation japan, the reality now is that it is oversubscribed and there are much bigger issues for the population to worry about, in today's climate a farmer with ten kids is worth his weight in gold, there aren't enough jobs for the people who want to be salarymen. The prices should show the way, move to the countryside, form communities, hunt deer and farm, that is a far better option than chasing temp jobs in an expensive and competitive city. Without the indoctrination which already exists the opportunities would manage themselves and people wouldn't be drained into cities which don't want or need them.
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  198. Instead of universal income just lower tax on property and make farming easier, support smallhold farming and encourage families. A high tech sector would be good and the break up of large corporations better though difficult due to the lack of entrepreneurship.
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  199. Yeah, not going to help, the issue isn't that she can't read, it's that she can't retain information, like someone with reasonably advanced Alzheimer's.
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  200. It will be the same set of interviews cut up and turned into many different videos.
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  201. Er, it is religious dogma, though certainly there is a lot of poor theology and lack of knowledge as to historical philosophy (of which there is a great deal).
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  202. We can only hope.
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  203. As a foreigner I find tourists really annoying, you should get rid of them.
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  204. It was a mish-mash, religious cults are rarely original, both in theology and the scams (though I don't believe any thought that killing their followers to test out publicity stunts was a good idea before), they even stole the magic headwear from scientology.
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  205. Pressuring them is exactly how you get through to women as they respond far more to social incentives than logic. I mean have you ever met a woman, it's pretty clear that they just parrot things they've heard (from TV in particular, you often hear appeals to what the neighbours will think when you know them and what they actually think), especially the one's young enough to actually make a change.
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  206.  @MakeSureYouCleanUp  Nor do you really, all this liberalism crap is how we got into this situation in the first place. If people don't acknowledge reality then they will merely be replaced. The main issue is the transition back to a traditional society, a widespread social collapse in nuclear armed countries would not be pretty. If you let people decide they will go with whatever they are being pressured to do. The origin of the problem was women being propagandised that should become wageslaves and contribute to GDP and short term corporate profits, I'm sure under the exact same circumstances they'll not do exactly the same thing they always have and play prestige games within the current paradigm as it burns to the ground. History is pretty long and one of its lessons is that women are the most conservative sex by far, they enforce social boundaries and like people in general are exceptionally unoriginal. If you have bad incentives then more freedom will just funnel people into them harder. The male equivalent of this are pick up artists, they see a failing system and try to play into it rather than against it. While there is a new feminist movement against all this (they're behind the case against the sexual revolution and many other recent works on related topics from a female perspective) they most certainly to not present moral freedom and lower standards (so more of the same) as a solution and on top of this many of them are autistic and thus think very distinctly from average men or women. While men will probably get on board, a new structure will already have to be in place for most women to.
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  207.  @MakeSureYouCleanUp  Not at all, I was literally pointing out that most just follow social norms pathologically (same goes for men but to a lesser degree as they are both less conformist (evolution sets out men to be more expendable so that it experiment with less of a detrimental impact to the wider group, in the wider course of human history it's fine for men to be reckless as the stupid ones will just die, of course in non-hunter gatherer times it leads to a large underclass of angry young men, and due to the sexual revolution they can't pair up, if I was a women that's the demographic I'd worry about as polygamous societies have a long history of extreme violence and unrest spearheaded by them ) and less tuned into the dissemination vectors like TV. The thing that will get the current paradigm in the long run is that it doesn't work and we will just be outnumbered and replaced by societies with social norms and expectations better suited to successful family formation, procreation and the like. You already see this within western societies, Amish are growing in population at an exponential rate in America and orthodox Jews are an increasing proportion of Israel's population. Basically Traditionalism and patriarchy are in for a major return and due to the decline in Christianity (the primary factor in the historical relaxing of social conditions for women) the expression of it might be fairly grim. There are fairly big male movements opposed to such an eventuality, but as it isn't feminist it can't get women onboard in big enough numbers. Ultimately they'll just have to build a boat and hope that women start jumping on board once they realise that the ship they are on is pretty much sunk. The better option is making the movement comfortable to women, but that would basically be setting up meaningful communities with clear social boundaries and norms in which women find place and pursue social prestige. But that would mean much less freedom and individual determination, the thing you were after.
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  208.  @MakeSureYouCleanUp  A general statement is a general statement. You've heard that the exception proves the rule right. You didn't pick me up on calling men expendable by for treating women as broadly similar, which by definition they are, if they weren't broadly similar that thing wouldn't be a similarity and thus not worth mentioning. This is the top layer of the discussion, most people would try to refute me with whether it was social or biological in cause, instead we ended up talking past each other, I don't refute their are women who are exceptions, I literally called them autistic, who've characteristics wouldn't be of any note were they arbitrary. I don't know how much of an exception to norms you are, I don't know you. We are all unique in a way, but usually less than we think.
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  209.  @MakeSureYouCleanUp  If women don't have children then things aren't exactly going to go on for very long, I'm a historian, I know they only parrot the TV because talking to them quickly tells you that their knowlege of the last decade is warped and once you go further back its almost insane how misinformed they are. As said giving idiots freedom results in idiocy, I'm perfectly happy for them to have freedom once they are put to head in the right direction but frankly the feelings of morons is insignificant compared to the continuation of the human race. Women are the most miserable they've even been, our social problems manifest all around us, the last thing we need is more of the same, we wouldn't be here if it was working.
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  210. In my experience they look better without make-up because you look better without make-up, women who go without are usually religious, married or zoomer (and basically can't be asked, or afford it). All those people are displaying a healthy mindset by not engaging in the dominant culture. So far I see no sign of high status women using going without as a prestige marker, they will however show their skills by making it subtle and then lying that they don't have any on, though part of that will be a shit-test to see which of their hangers on go along with it and which are potential rivals. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
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  211. Yep, all we get are Tudors and WW2 if lucky.
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  212. Err, if you discounted those you could discount a large portion of the hate in the world.
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  213. It's called desensitization.
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  214. What, did he have a sex change.
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  215. It is not America, there are plenty of virgin women as well and a massive sex industry, not trying is a choice, personally I get waiting for marriage, but you have to be in a relationship to marry so no doing anything doesn't really let you off the hook.
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  216. Wise advice
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  217. Important point and answer is usually no or at least that it could be done better for less (both in time and money) if the existing structure was abandoned and only results mattered.
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  218.  @RonJDuncan  Thats fascinating, I’ll try and take it into account in the future.  The way they do loans is different and university is just the last in a long line of educational institutions with fees attached. University and supplementary education are probably the least important ease the burden on as japan has less of a shortage of professionals that a shortage of people so if that was solved the other would be a lot easier. Though it would be expensive to remove state school fees it would remove a principal inhibiter to size in family planning as the income is only able to support a certain number of children in the first place, without what is in essence a number cap based on income people try to do more with less and thus a lot of children have high expectations placed on them when Japan is short of farmers and doctors alike. The reality’s of parenting in japan mean that parents will likely use some of the saved money from prior education to pay university costs for the kids in the future anyway. I can imagine the move causing all sorts of other minor problems but the population issue is so major that it quite overshadows any ramifications if chipped away at even a bit. I could think of a dozen other proposals for reforms which is fun because in my country such an easy approach is rather less possible.
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  219. From what I’ve seen the logic and values in Japan are more Christian than in many western countries. But it seems like there is little awareness of the fact and tradition is viewed as tradition whether meiji, edo or earlier in origin. If it doesn't seem very christian thats because the bar when comparing to western nations is very low other than the US most western countries are about as christian as China is Buddhist. Any influence is influence on the ideological assumptions that make up the key circles of thought but thats on the same level as calling Christians greek pagans because they built off their logical foundations.
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  220.  @aabb-zz9uw  Japanese buddhism is largely notable for its militarism and they have the death penalty, they executed 3 people in 2019 and 15 in 2018. Korea meanwhile released Cho Doo-soon who’s crimes are such that youtube would delete my comment for going into detail on it after only 12 years and Korea seems very poor in dealing with similar crimes. The only Korean state I know of the that is brutal or medieval is the northern one though considering the actual medieval era that would be considerably underselling how bad they are.
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  221. No.
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  222. If they knew they guy they wanted then they'd already be married to him. Obviously it's vague they were giving a general outline and there's only so much you can say, most of it unoriginal because the good things are not exactly strange ideas nor to they change much.
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  223.  @kmdreacts  Same unfortunately, the problem is where to.
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  224.  @AdamOwenBrowning  My family's been here since conquest and the last time things were this bad was before even that. I guess at least know how the Romans felt in the last few decades before Anglo-Saxon invasion. I suppose we can only trust in God to preserve us.
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  225. @ Youtube keeps banhammering the comment, but take a look at North Korea's fertility rate, and then South Korea's.
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  226. Nothing basically about it, it is cheating.
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  227. It is dangerous at that age and leads to infertility in a lot of cases, literally just wait a few years until they have developed properly.
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  228. Don't worry the doom is globalised.
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  229. It would be fine, the structures would conform, intelligence has gone up and down throughout history. The trouble is he is literally wrong, as things are intelligent is negatively correlated with fertility, clever people work, the underclass have kids. Even in Japan where welfare fuels this less.
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  230. Not yet.
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  231. Women with aspergers are rare and hard to diagnose as most are still more pro-social than the average man is.
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  232. Jehovah's witnesses I'm guessing, they harass us as well.
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  233.  @nianbozhang9070  Thomas Sowell talked about it. The thing that sent it down interestingly was the release of the Iphone, but that was relatively recent.
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  234. Shinto could probably be argued to be on the spiritual side of things but even then it would be a mistake to apply the way it is treated now to the past and the Buddhists were certainly nothing close to secular and were often engaged in lively theology. Today one can call it superstition because no one acts on it outside of ritual (they do actually but it's mostly invisible to westerners), in the past however that was in no way the case, when mothers raised little piles of stones for the children they had killed there as no question of the afterlife and when schools of monks fought the way they held their cups was the least of the issues at hand. Religion was certainly a great deal more superstitious than that of the West but no more did it mean that Hindus aren't religious, every level of life was coloured by religious conviction.
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  235.  @jacklaurentius6130  Ok, I think I know were you are coming from. East-Asian Buddhism and original buddhism are not the same thing. Certainly it is pretty different from christianity but it is also not the indistinct thing that yoga classes and hippies in the west seem to understand it to be. If you ever get into Chinese or Japanese history you ultimately understand what I am on about, the ikko ikki and the like were not philosophy clubs and the monks while not monks in the Christian sense were also far form merely being contemplators of the indeterminate. I think you might be well served to talk to an actual (that is not a new age) Buddhist.  If you know about pre-war Japanese society then the idea it was really religious also falls flat, state shinto well hard to pin down in western terms was pretty explicit in the effects it had. The place of the philosophy which westerners confused as religion really goes to Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism when it comes to Japan.
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  236. One can be both the best and not perfect at the same time, he did specify in the world.
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  237. Men are not the bottleneck on this, many many more want to have kids in our generation, if women find men who don't want kids then they've done a pretty good job of searching to find them. Men should of course take responsibility, but in large part with this sort of thing women are going for the men who are fairly explicitly not going to take it, or they are divorcing men who do. There is a reason that gender relations are so toxic. Women respond to problems by asking that men take responsibility and then complain when we do, but it is on us to do so at the same time as ignoring all the commentary and hysteria, it's pretty clear than men and women communicate differently and can't be expected to hash things out rationally. Most of the problems women complain about are ones men already want to fix but get flack for trying, your deadbeat boyfriend isn't going to shape up if you tell men in general to, men are going to stop that relationship happening in the first place and probably make his life pretty hard depending on exactly how bad he is to our group interests (which are aligned with the interests of our daughter's as much as our Son's). Men taking responsibility is actual patriarchy, that means listening to your Dad and not your bad sense. Matriarchs are mothers, if you want to be taken seriously and treated with respect you need to turn girlish entitlement into a stage of life and not a personality. I short to be respectable you have to become it. And before I'm accused of double standards men are perfectly happy enforcing our own boundaries with violence, women are getting the kid glove treatment. Because women are socially suggestable, men who can't be trusted shouldn't be.
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  238. Wat?
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  239. Fertility it inversely proportional with liberal attitudes. It isn't normal, it is a fad among those soon to be extinct, and it couldn't happen soon enough.
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  240. There are none, literally none. I come from a state with replacement immigration, life is hell. Never ever listen to foreigners about opening up, it will destroy your society and economic for all but the very wealthy.
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  241. There is plenty wrong if you want society to continue. Children are the future of the nation and as such they are worth more than any job or personal vanity. It looks like the Mongols of the next era will simply be whoever has kids, values when mixed with evolution do not lie, it doesn't matter what the west thinks their values are doomed to die just as they are doomed to stop generations from ever coming into being.
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  242.  @lonebeagle  Correlate. The word correlate means the to traits are associated it does not mean that one nor the other is exclusive. It is not that most people don’t give, it is that on average the more religious you are the more you are on average likely to give. I was making the point in response to the seeming insinuation that tax credits are the main motivating factor in charity in the us, the fact that it is correlated with how religious people are suggests that that isn’t the sole motivating factor or even the most important one.
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  243. Yes, they are statically far more criminally inclined, of course compared to the Japanese population so are white people but even if you call it racist it is also true.
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  244. Population decline is an inverted pyramid, the decline isn't steady but exponential. This will destroy the welfare state and pensions and a lot of childless old people will either strangle the society to sustain themselves, import their own demographic replacement by an alien and largely hostile people or die of starvation because people look after their own. This is the biggest crisis since the dark ages at least and if things go bad the bronze age collapse.
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  245. Is it reasonable to see your line die out so that you can fill up a room with marvel merchandise. Very clearly value assessments have to shift, or else the people with different one's shall inherit the earth.
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  246.  @Menion98  This is why you are doomed. You are a degenerate materialist, you assume that children must either be alien or a commodity. I don't even know where to start with how moribund your sense of morality is. different
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  247. He is also wrong in that in this system the bottom has more children than the top. He is literally advocating for a system that gives him the opposite of what he wants.
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  248.  @Sup_D  Less taxes and the population is less productive, but yeah it concentrates wealth. And that is almost certainly part of the motivation in the west. Though it will be very short lived as a hollowed out society is easy pickings, but I'm not sure people with no future anyway care. The thing is that the politician didn't say that, and didn't come off as intelligent enough to think it and say otherwise. Also from my understanding the Japanese elite are suggestible rather than malicious and most of these negative policies need considerable backing by the US state department and the NGO network. Though they seem to be on the trajectory to get what they want.
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  249. Observant as that is what's happening, the danger is if the counter-reaction is just another go at old failed ideas (if people start setting up communist slave societies again honestly they'll deserve the resulting famines, though knowing how these things go the actual people who die in them won't).
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  250. They are merely responding to the North Koreans being crazy, the Russians desperate and the Chinese powerful.
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  251. That men would fool foreign women is of course a scum move and they should probably be held legally responsible just to fuck with them, what she is doing is not healthy at all, I have a feeling that everything she said was just a self-justification. Neither set of actions is in any way excusable, I will say that women in general should hold out until marriage as men most definitely perceive your value in how you value yourself, and loyalty is a major thing they are looking for which the ability to hold out displays the likelihood of. In terms of men what can one say, no one likes manwhores and they are very low in character and manliness, being a reliable, honest and honourable person is a good part of being a man and men who relinquish their natural duties deserve scorn, frankly I can sympathise with the old tradition of the family of the dishonored women being able to call out such a man fight him to the death, likewise the legal accountability for oaths (and yes marriage was basically just a particular oath for a very long time and one would be held to it).
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  252. They clearly aren't being viewed as a baby factory, if they did they might actually have some children.
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  253. Institutional culture. A 40 year old business man has the ability to pay for companionship. An 18 year old university girl, at a place with rankings and set up specifically to play off female psychology, yeah, it's pretty clear what the intention is. They are pimp brothels, they hook up vulnerable women with a means to drain them, in industrial times there were factory stores to stop wages leaving the business, same setup. Female host bars have a long history with organised crime, but it seems like male one's are entirely run by it, just with plausible deniability.
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  254. Not even old, it's everyone's wealth into the hands of a small elite.
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  255. People equivocating nonsense really doesn't help, modernity and liberalism are the problem, ultimately but playing a rearguard action for the problems we face all you are doing is fighting solutions. Appeals to human freedom are stupid, feel free to die free, we intend to live constrained as we are after all constrained by reality.
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  256. I sense you have skin in the game, please report to local law enforcement.
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  257. Yep, ban abortion and contraceptives too. And criminalise adultery. Restrict divorce. Bring back the old Japanese laws about family roles. Change education. These would all solve it from a statistical perspective, but more could be done as people's security, wealth and social context are also important.
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  258. True, ban it all.
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  259.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  I literally can, that's what laws are. The problem would be instituting and enforcing it.
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  260.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  No, you just enforce them, if people don't comply enforce them harder. The legal history of the last century has been public opinion coming into line with whatever power did a decade before. Prohibition was full of holes and barely enforced, all it did was give incentive to criminal groups to increase demand. The political campaigning that lead to prohibition was more successful than it.
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  261. Doesn't everyone hate tourists?
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  262. More likely cohesied, also the reply is a guy literally defending rape. Fucking youtube comments.
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  263. Tell that to the victims of the massive western European crime wave, also much of that crime is sexual assault. As someone who lives in Britain I would rather import bears than immigrants.
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  264.  @kinghazythethird  As said it's far more about relationships, I've spoken to plenty of men of this mindset, most of them aren't in fact virgins, they just can't hold a long term relationship. I hear the same from women, the current dating system is a bit of a dumpster fire, there is a reason marriage rates have gone down so much and the result is a lot of very lonely and unhappy people. The issue with young men in particular is that they tend to react strongly to adversity and are easy to be sold on violent solutions, at the moment this is mostly used by cult leaders and crazy people but in the long run you are looking at ready made armies for any ideologies that want to enforce their vision in the next couple of decades.
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  265. Within three generations immigrants adopt the birth rate of the country, they don't however adopt the crimerate, culture or attitudes towards welfare/work. On top of this multi-ethnic democracies factionlise based on group interests, politics becomes resource extraction by ethnic coalitions. Immigration is in a real sense a trick solution, it holds of problems temporarily at an insane price to the population (who are the victims of crime and a large welfare class), the benefit to governments is that it increases the amount they can borrow based on GDP at the cost of GDP per capita (in other words they can resource extract better at the cost of making people poorer, you can see why the western elite are pro-immigration, they hate the population anyway, stealing from them is just the cherry on top). Different immigrants are different, but so is Japan, the migrant workers from Korea and China are already the best you will get in terms of immigrant groups, if you have problems integrating even them then don't bother with other groups.
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  266. Different type of Asians, it's probably India v Pakistan in action as ever. In American cities it's intercity Americans going after Chinese people in a manner that belongs in South Africa, even the Indians and Pakistanis tend to keep it to brawling, what happens in America is deadly.
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  267. I don't know how many western women you know, they typically won't ask directly for money but doing very little and not having to contribute while having a cut of every pie is quite typical, there are also plenty who don't want anything long term at all. It wasn't terribly long ago that a wife would run all the finances in addition to the household, going into a relationship knowing that you can be supported seems fine so long as you can pull your own weight (e.g. wanting lots of money, to be a housewife, to do no housework and to put the kids in childcare sounds like you are just a parasite who can nag).
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  268. Depopulation. You know the subject of this video.
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  269. Many social issues are related to US pressure and influence, and they are a declining power that can easily drag one into conflict. The problem is that Japan must build it's own system if it is to be independent and it has hostile neighbours to contend with. Not to mention that America does not relinquish its toys, America at this point will destroy the Japanese economy if given the opportunity, as that is their MO in occupied territories, but Japan likely couldn't deal with sanctions, this is not to mention the problems internal to Japan. If Japan wants autonomy a realignment towards China and Russia and closer relations with the third world will be necessary, but this should not include concessions on immigration or defence like the US are insistent on. Japan must increase it's birth rate and accept it has a failed economic structure and rollback the obsession with corporate jobs, Japan needs farmers and the like as much if not more, not jobs that don't exist. They will need to rollback state spending and return the social system to something more Confucian, ending the American inspired social norms and moving back to a model of arranged marriage, multi-generation households and many children. The will also need to expand the military into a first rate one, especially focusing on naval and air defence. People are saying that North Korea and China are hostile cultural, while this is true and will be a pain it is not an overwhelming factor, it persists because they are international rivals, if there is a realignment the governments of those countries will probably pull the Orwellian 'we've always been friends of Japan', if Japan becomes a neutral power they will likely just start to lose interest in such matters, though they will not like military expansion. Such a policy change will need about 50-100 years to properly see results, as Japan needs to cultivate the economy, reform the social system and birth continually larger generational cohorts, however if they remain a vassal over that same period into the future Japan will not just become a husk, it will no longer be Japan, at the moment American policy is so destructive that I'm generally surprised that China and Russia make any effort to oppose it, why intervene when your opponents is heaping up their funeral pier.
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  270. All societies were clan based and worked at least somewhat like this prior to Catholic social reform in the early medieval period.
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  271. Unfortunately western media don't know the first thing about Japan and tend to always be pushing terrible policy suggestions on it, this is a case of a broken clock being right twice a day, especially as they have many sympathies with the opposite stance in their own country. I wouldn't be surprised if these articles were in fact influenced by Korean or Chinese lobby groups.
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  272. Takes one to know one in his case.
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  273. And I am a horsefly.
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  274. Trump is about as subtle as a purple elephant, if he says something it doesn't make it true, but it does mean he believes it. He mostly responses to flattery and instinct. He is a believer in democracy, and various other boomer sacred cows so politically he is less a real danger and more of a warning shot, the establishment however are terrified of him, and are actively destabilising the system and breaking political illusions in an attempt to banish him, this in a sense does more damage than him as it is killing legitimacy. He meanwhile is probably just going to wave a big stick for four years, keeping everyone's heads down, talk about himself a lot and suppress overly overt plans by his opponents while being incapable of dealing with double dealing from his own people.
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  275.  @jsoe81657  Literally the same in every western country, in fact japan is doing better than most of them by having an industrial base at all.
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  276.  @Quinceps  If that happens the Japanese will not survive, and it is the people who matter, not the state.
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  277. Britain put male sex offenders in women's prisons because they said they felt like women, a lot of actual women prisoners were involuntarily made pregnant as a result.
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  278. Countries are always driven by ideas born out of dogmatic presuppositions, and as a result for all intents and purposes will always we a result of a belief system, whether they call in religion, ideology or principles, indeed the less codified it is the more likely that the population is being taken for a ride but unaccountable elites.
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  279.  @ohauss  Stephen Shaw, the demographics expert has himself made the comparison as they follow almost exactly the same trend line. The trouble is people not pairing up to create children within their fertility window, whether married or not. By the way the trend line is very economically sensitive, both Japan and Italy have a long history of a fairly fragile economic order. I imagine the factor of the collapse of traditional family structures and social norms coinciding can be called happenstance, though the fact is that both were underlined by American cultural colonisation of the protectorates that make up their informal empire.
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  280. Bombs have trouble discerning their victims.
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  281. I’m not sure that pluralism extends far enough for it just to be a matter of context or mindset.
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  282.  @jamza7994  I don’t quite get your drift. Humans are animals whether we like to refer to ourselves as such or not, we are certainly defined by intelligence and moral introspection even if not all of us possess them, I agree.
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  283.  @piotr004  The power of human record has preserved at least some of their genius but their lack of children deprived later generations of genius from springing forth from their bloodline and allowing the genius to be imposed on later contexts to build upon the greater knowledge gleaned since. If their is ever a break in human record the knowledge of their achievements will also be venerable to loss.  Considering that a larger population allows for more talent to be present and the serious issues with fertility currently on display in almost the entire world which has effected the most intelligent most severely (though one can perhaps point out that it is there own fault if they are really so clever), along with a whole host of the other issues, anti-natalist ideas are only evolutionary in a Darwin awards sense, indeed the whole wig history natural progression of humanity view of things is extremely at odds with evolution which is an attempt to define a values free natural process, humans being humans can and of course will apply positive or negative attributes to that process depending on what their value set, priorities and sometimes personal interests happen to be.
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  284.  @nunupon1359  I wish they would, but one must first convince them.
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  285.  @Cecilia-ky3uw  To be frank you don't want to give me the options that include destroying the entertainment industry, I would take that option even on it's own.
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  286. Yes things are economically bad, no that means we will start being more clan-like, not throwing our children under the bus.
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  287.  @michaelrmurphy2734  The UK.
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  288.  @Ksl9393  That is merely digging a deeper hole, unless the underlying issues are dealt with there will only be decline and the nation will never recover.
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  289. A scam artist selling a ponzi scheme (part of which is promoting him on social media like this) and a fake masculine aesthetic to young man without father figures in their lives. He makes the occasional obvious or contentious point and the expects people to take him as a messiah when he is a slimy scam artist who boasts about material wealth and tells men to act like whores and to cheat, the guy is a greasy sleazebag with a loose mouth (which I'm sure will be helpful to the prosecution of any case about the many illegal and immoral dealings he has boasted about).
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  290. As in they tend to lay on assumed beliefs which are ultimately dogmatic in nature. If you get into the history of ideas you'll find that modern ones are even quite flimsy as they very often rely on centuries old assumptions which were disproven a very long time ago.
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  291.  @xXDESTINYMBXx  I don’t consider the modern economic and social distortions which are resulting in the salaryman obsession, unproductive work culture and overemphasis on university to be traditional in nature or origin. Nor do I see solving those problems to have any conflict with traditionalism, and if it did then that doesn’t matter, traditionalism is useful in so far as it is of use in solving current issues, a dogmatic approach would turn medicine into poison.
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  292. Europe is aging as well if you don't count the importation of foreigners by governments.
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  293. Ah, sorry I clearly misunderstood what you meant by different.
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  294. Accepting the situation isn't an option, obviously some people mean to mock but others wish to offer what support they can given the depersonalised nature of the internet, and yes personal relationship and bonds of sentiment are 100% the path out of this.
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  295.  @ThaFuzzwood  I could get into a whole thing but very basically not it's not their fault even if they absolute cretins in a whole lot of ways (basically the whole never ever taking responsibility for anything ever), the breakdown of monogamy means that unattractive men with bad personalities are basically never going to have a chance when even the better of men have a very nasty time with the dating market. It's much better to think of them like the unmarriable men in polygamous societies especially as that underlines the fact that they are a very dangerous group who will literally support anything which overturns the current order, seriously some of China's most major civil wars had this group as a vanguard (or more cannon fodder really, its apparent even as they are now that they don't value their lives at all).
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  296.  @PossibleBat  Pretty much, though intimacy is also major issue for men, even those in relationships. Unfortunately our current culture is unbelievably twisted.
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  297. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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  298. She would be doomed no matter what society she was in, she has multiple layers of serious problems, the thing that would have helped is if the childhood abuse didn't happen but I would be surprised if her parents also had problems as a good few of these things are partly genetic as well as the old cycle of abuse. Attempting to facilitate a small minority of society is likely to come at the cost of the society as a whole, one of the reasons that east Asian society is so ordered and harmonious is that they were historically incredibly harsh, with outliers not procreating or straight up being murdered over some perceived slight (not uncommon during the edo) or historically circumstance (known in China at least as Mongols).
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  299. I hear that King Charles is also personally responsible for the global interest rates. Criticising the government at least is fair as they have actually made decisions which have shaped the situation.
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  300. In Britain there is actual public support for returning to absolute monarchy due to how deeply hated parliament are at this point.
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  301. They should go back to tradition; Christian tradition. As the op said the current circumstances are not sustainable. Adopting systems that have been catastrophic in foreign countries is not clever, the power of respective parties is irrelevant compared to success as those who remedy the problems of now will be the powers of tomorrow.
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  302.  @Neonlight.  Not they had Confucianism, which I don't see coming back.
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  303.  @dannielz6  It isn't it's just that the popular religions of today call themselves ideologies.
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  304. Whatever presuppositions you are teaching will indoctrinate them into it. In trusting one dogma over another you are merely displaying your own loyalty, not helping people in any way. Allow parents to make the choice and allow the future to decide what is right, if you don't everyone will be taught the same and so will be mislead the same when sent down the wrong path. We see in the current education system a lack of accountability for the results of what is taught and no method of feedback, it is better to allow people many options so that we don't as a society put all our eggs in one basket.
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  305. I'd say now is as good a time as ever to go back into Edo style isolation. You don't need to be competitive in the international economy, since Meiji the only time you ever have been was during American preferential trading. You need extended families and many children. Hopefully as under Edo there will be a cultural flowering. If you continue down this road you will face replacement migration and your civilisation will not exist to see the next century, nor will the decline be pleasant, it will be a desecration.
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  306. It's not an attitude it's economics 101. The idea that better off people merely steal wealth has been one of the most pervasive ideas that have caused social tensions historically, notably China saw stagnation due to that attitude around it's merchants and craftsmen meaning that despite all the ingredients for the industrial revolution they would never be able to capitalise on them, likewise the Jews often faced persecution under similar logic as did other groups (though they never survived past the first purge) and the soviet union justified mass murder on the same terms. Certainly not everything in the economy is above board but we shouldn't exchange our problems for worse ones.
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  307. The modern west is explicitly anti-Christian, one of the reasons Japan shouldn't westernise is that they already did, but with the western values of the past western society, we have seen what the undermining of those values has done to the west, Japan would be wise not to tolerate it.
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  308. Yeah I know that, stop copy pasting it everywhere.
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  309. What Italy? Germany was into all sorts of weird (mostly made up) pagan nonsense and had a difficult relationship with both the Christian denominations and individual Christians (more than a few of whom ended up in the camps as a result).
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  310. All belief system are laid over dogmatic presuppositions, it's why post-modernism tends to be really annoying to refute.
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  311. Sure you can Timmy, now go back to bed.
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  312. The celts engaged in blood sacrifices and like the Romans and other pagans mass infanticide, Britain is built off of Christianity, the church is at the centre of every village and was once the centre of every community.
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  313. Yes, but in most of them the birth rate is also declining, the number of countries with high birth rates now is much lower than twenty years ago even if they have basically all been poor countries for much longer. The exceptions are central asia, that is more low wealth than poor, and certainly richer than many of the poor countries with low birth rates, and Israel, which is a first world country. People have studied these countries to gain policy ideas but it seems like the big things are social and cultural, and thus it is hard to replicate.
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  314. This is already happening in western countries, it is just able to operate with less of a face to it. A lot of human trafficking from eastern Europe is done using these tactics, also the grooming gangs across Europe use many of them, in addition to drugs and violence. Police corruption, pathetic laws and a toxic political culture towards responsibility, as well as problems with media reporting, mean that many of these problems are not addressed and indeed are facilitated.
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  315. Unless it went nuclear it would largely be a naval war, they would try and cut off supplies to China and China would try and bring in food from Russia. Land invasions would probably be not very successful. But the Americans might just start indiscriminate murder of civilians and make it legal after the fact. They are basically Satanist at this point. The big zones would probably being an invasion of Iran (in which they would learn that missiles are a pain for naval fleets, and invading through mountains is not the best strategy), and Russia, were they would win by attrition but learn than mines do the job they are meant to. The bigger issues for them would be overwhelming hatred for the regime by their own populations, and a lack of willingness to die for the cause of evil by the younger/non-tv addicted population. extreme political instability is likely.
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  316. That they were accepting was a cultural failing, just as it is in us now.
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  317.  @NukerOfFace  Same, but I don't know the full situation, only what he said in a moment of weakness and then scrubbed. Seems like he doesn't like it either.
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  318.  @mikicerise6250  Yep.
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  319.  @FC-py6xk  This is his channel?
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  320. The problem is how many go to university, however if you are going to be stupid and funnel everyone though the same system then having an incentive which makes bleeding students for all they are worth (especially as this is probably the last opportunity to do so before economy makes people realise that they should probably think about other options) is probably a bad idea, if you really really want to waste a lot of time and money then publicly funding it is probably the way to go (just so the universities aren't actively impoverishing people). It would however be much much better to diversify the economy and stop funnelling everyone down the same path with the expectation of them serving the economy of 40 years ago. Really the primary focus should be the continued existence of the country economic policy be damned. A country of rice farmers is better than a country of nursing homes no matter how much wealth there was during the boom.
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  321. Poland and Lithuania having been doing badly from my understanding and obviously even the Russians can tell themselves that things are better that they have been in the past (though it's the 90's the remember moreso). I live in Britain, we have very serious problems, some are to be sure that people have been spoiled and don't know how to deal with even slight hardship but there are things that are very bad, my generation will likely never own houses or take pensions and even getting by is becoming hard for the less wealthy, we have not been doing great since WW1 but things likely haven't been as bad since the reconstruction period after the end of WW2 (indeed our taxs haven't been as high as this since the war), the feeling that the nation and the culture are being killed intentional and that we will almost inevitably cease being a distinct entity probably doesn't help with the depressive mood. I think much of western Europe is feeling similarly disillusioned.
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  322. *have not been doing badly
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  323.  @WilliamSantos-cv8rr  Fertility is not genetic it is cultural, and a refection of a social and policy context. Likewise it works on an exponential growth and decline trend. If the Japanese get the birth rate up enough they are a generation away from recovery. Diversifying the nation, especially in a democracy introduces considerable weakness to a country, Japan has not been able to integrate it's own diaspora, any foreigners would form parallel societies, its just that those groups would cause the least trouble. Immigration and multiculturalism only work in Kingdoms and Empires as the Monarchical form of government by nature allows for considerable autonomy and a political structure in which fighting between groups is not encouraged by the need for ethnic blocks to fight for interests, or America in which immigrants are re-educated into an ideological project, in much the same way as a shared religion breaks down ethnic boundaries (though not nearly as effectively as a religion like liberalism, which denies the differences in the first place).
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  324. No. This is the number one way to cause ethnic political blocks that will do damage most Japanese can't even comprehend. No, if they still haven't integrated this will just be a scheme of votes for welfare. Have parties that are actually different in policy, or disenfranchised the boomers.
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  325. Economically maybe, not in any other way.
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  326. I think you have struck at the heart of the problem.
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  327.  @707bear3  If they have more children then they can have both.
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  328. Wait you get sponsorships, how is this channel being run exactly?
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  329. They were not near surrender, the closest possible was a conditional surrender, with the allies had agreed among themselves weren't to be accepted. Japan was to be turned into a fortress as were the mountains in the North of Korea. The Japanese had ascertained the landing locations for a naval invasion and had started building the air hangers and factories within mountains that were necessary to avoid bombing raids. The military had prepared, they were ready, the two points of failure were the nuke and the political volatility of Japan, command was thrown into serious disarray by the bomb, less because of a lost city than that political manoeuvring started because of it and everyone was trying to play a role or work out what the hell was going on. There was a failed coup, the Soviets attacked Manchuria and the planned retreat was not enacted as had been prepared, senior officers argued that there was only one nuke and even if not they could endure it. At this point in the war Japan's victory was clearly understood to be impossible and thus they were willing to surrender under the condition of the emperor retaining his position, this was however against the agreement among the allies and the public sentiment, thus only unconditional surrender would be accepted, later policies don't matter, the commitment was towards unconditional surrender and it was to be kept to. The means to force the issue were three, to invade at vast cost to both sides, to blockade indefinitely and allow much of the population to starve until presumably opposite day came and the sunk cost fallacy caused the leadership to given up rather than dig in, or to us the experimental weapon meant for the purpose. The Americans had already killed 100'000's of innocent civilians in the fire bombing campaign naturally they would pick the cheapest option. The fact is I am very sceptical of the intentions of the US (which tend towards maliciousness in my estimation) but intentional or not within the restrictions of the circumstances the choice made was the least destructive one. As said post war decisions are much more.objectionable.
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  330. Have fun once everyone wises up and drops the dollar, all those dollars will flow back into America and it is in the international interest that you suffer and are balkenised rather than giving you the opportunity to have an imperial revival due to the innate strengths of the country.
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  331. A little secret, guys find most girls naturally pretty and there are always way more guys that will think someone below average attractive than women who think the same about men in that position. Personality is also a huge factor as is the impression one gives off (one of the reasons that being funny is seen as so important to many men). Make-up of over done can make even pretty women unattractive especially if done in a particular style (felt tip eyebrows, terrible fake tan and a melted face look are the thing where I am) as that can imply connotations of lifestyles or personalities that many find unattractive. Men who don't like make-up tend to be more conservative (unless it's just nonsense meant to round out someone's individualism, like all the people with fake allergies) and is because they are looking for someone modest, comfortable with themselves and who is likely as they are to be inexperienced with relationships and\or looking towards something permanent where the two sides will be open about and share the responsibilities of the burdens and feelings of personal inadequacy.
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  332. They printed so much they they have to tie it up somewhere, getting it destroyed by the Russians is more productive that burning while doing the same thing. Giving it to corporations is however a less bright idea if you don't count the fact that government is basically a corporate entity and is run by the same managerial class of elites.
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  333. The word is normalisation.
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  334. I don't think it worthwhile to throw around blame, certainly the older generation started many unhelpful trends, the important things is that we concentrate on changing them. It is preferable that we get them on side politically but the priority is not repeating the same mistakes under the falsehood that we are not morally culpable if we merely pick up what we were left with, we shouldn't rely on the next generation being better than us and doing our hard work for us, that could perpetuate the same mindset forever.
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  335. Rather than becoming a theme park it is better to have children. Likewise in the west as well, the future is worth more than pumping current assets to their maximum price.
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  336. 85% of women who will not have children wanted to have them. A lot of work is done on understanding this problem, the habit of justifying bad things and malaffimation so common among women is very bad as at best it perpetuates inactivity and at worst it actively sabotages young women who have no way of knowing better. Probably the worst of the toxic feminine traits is giving malicious advice to other women to affirm one's own mistakes. It's really evil.
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  337. Weird Japanese number system of counting in 10,000's is probably playing a part.
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  338. In a white coat.
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  339. Err without the considerable amounts of foreign aid they probably wouldn't be able to support their population, though the economy would probably be better due to foundational industries not being undercut by free stuff and corruption enabled.
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  340. You guys have been saying that for 150 years and yet any time we let you within half a mile of the economy it implodes and you come up with shooting civilians, famine and ethnic genocide as the economic recovery plan.
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  341. It was a South Korean cult which claims that your ancestors are doomed to hell unless you give them money, if you are familiar with Christianity you will know that the claim is heretical and even the crazier denominations would denounce it.
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  342. They are a cult as I was pointing out, I know plenty of churches are pretty bonkers (especially ones where they don't even pretend to know what they are talking about) but the moonies are out there enough to not even make it into that group (likewise with Mormons). Personally I'd say doomsday cults (Jehovah's witnesses) should be kicked out as well but I don't get a say.
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  343. Atheists aren't a cohesive ideology (or at least aren't meant to be), a much more comparable example would be a practicing ethnic Jewish Nazi, a state welfare libertarian or a communist who supports free market capitalism.
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  344. Mohammed liked little girls and the teachings of your religion make you sound like a sex cult, your members also act like it in my country and as most of their victims are underaged I can't say I have a lower opinion of any other religion. Which is a shame as both Persian and pre-islamic cultures were fascinating and I can even say I like Turkish culture despite the foul history of the ottomans. What the Soviets did to central Asia was also a great shame.
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  345.  @bobbruce4135  Dude, all I can really say is I'll pray for you.
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  346. It doesn't sound like they will miss you, I feel sorry for your kids. You will find the issues mentioned are problems everywhere and worse in most places, it has merely been that case that Europe is much more willing to not admit or hide issues from public view. Tokyo is not the nicest place in Japan for raising a family or first world problems, personally I just would have gone somewhere more rural but you seem to have built up a lot of resentment so I guess that's not a possibility. I'm sorry to say that whatever you are looking for you will likely be disappointed.
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  347. The is a lot of pressure on Japan at the moment, the sort of people advocating this are probably employed by non governmental organisations funded from America to push these policies. This is how it works everywhere, they grease the wheels.
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  348. Unionically they are a subversive force, look to Sweden to see the future of Japan if it goes that way, the Swedes are also a highly collectivist society, that is why they have endured such evil policy and results.
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  349. No, colleges owe their success much more to making people think they are required than any objective usefulness, even in the areas where they are certainly required (like medical training) they are often hilariously inefficient and out of touch with reality or a sense of the worth of time or indeed the money the extract from students. Also in non results focused subjects academics are to the intellectual discussion what politicians are to the political structure.
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  350. Salem witch trials was the puritans, who had fled England due to their religious differences with the church of England and the fact that most people didn't like them much. They are basically about as far removed from Catholics as you can get without being a Satanist, very extreme protestants. The Catholics did do some witch burning but the official stance of the church had always been that Witches didn't exist but crazy people, liers and charlatans did. Most of it was done by scared civilians in places where centralised power had collapsed and the midst of civil war and mass war crimes and depopulation, there were also a couple of kings who thought that Witches were out to get them and organised their own hunts (notably James the I of England and VI of Scotland, who tortured, strangled and burnt a good few people up in Scotland over it (though to be fair he was completely right to be totally paranoid, the Scottish political situation was a mess and assassinations were very much in fashion) and is the reason Macbeth has Witches in).
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  351.  @GameFuMaster  Bible defines it that way and it's good enough for me.
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  352. They were occupied by America after the war and part of that was reforming the education system, though it should be noted that the Japanese education system is much much better despite being outwardly structured the same. From my experience with university in Europe I would say adopting neither is the best option, people should go to university to actually learn things they couldn't otherwise and they should have a reasonable chance of being able to make something of that education.
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  353. Not dyslexia, seems like she can't retain what she reads rather than having difficulty reading it, unfortunately that is rather more severe.
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  354. No it isn't, that idea comes from the perverts who were involved with the sexual liberation movement, many of whom are now most famous for wanting to have the right to diddle kids. Throwing yourself around like an object actively deteriorates your ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships.
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