Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "The Japan Reporter" channel.

  1. Happy to live in a country without tutition fees. All higher education is sponsored with taxation. Students can and often do apply for student loans, but that money is mainly for paying for your living and cheap student apartments, as well as paying for books for the classes you take. But the teaching and admission to colleges is free of charge and the only barrier is based around pre-requisites (you need certain grades in certain subjects from high school to be eligible to take certain courses in college).
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  2. Is there any way to make a donation to this girl?
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  3.  @pirotess2  Dude, they risk drowning in the ocean to get away from Cuba. That's not a mere "disagreement with the govt." that's desperation.
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  4. @Ann Nifödova To be a traitor you have to pledge allegiance to something first. Seriouslu doubt any of those people pledged allegiance to communism. ;)
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  5.  @NateROCKS112  Communism is fascist in it's very core because it doesn't respect property rights. Just like fascism.
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  6. Nobita, you should seriously consider running a tourist firm. I think you could be very successful acting as a tour guide or managing a team of tourguides helping foreign tourists to both be able to see the sights and places they are curious about, as well as helping the tourists understand and adopt the manners expected by other japanese people. It's the kind of service I would want when visiting Japan. A native Japanese person, proficient in english that I can travel around with, asking questions, going to restaurants and bars with and so on. I know i'm not alone in finding Japan a little bit intimidating as a travel destination. So a forthcoming and helpful Japanese tourguide would really help.
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  7. While the intent might be good, looking at how the western world has developed in recent years, I'd say that the word gaijin should continue to be used. As soon as you relent to people who demand to ban words, they will never stop making demands. They will never stop at a "context matters" level but will demand that words be censored and edited even in dictionaries.
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  8.  @ehtishamamin5601  So don't waste the 40 year old woman's time just because you have some creepy mommy fetish then. Is that so hard?
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  9.  @xcforce9067  Doesn't matter if you have pavements. Ground is still filthy since people let their dogs piss and shit all over it... Or in the case of the U.S, letting drug addicts piss and shit all over it. My floors staying clean is far more important than you are as a guest. Can't respect the rules of my home, then don't bother showing up. It's really that simple.
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  10. No, you do not need to let the gaijins in. You need to do what Hungary did: government subsidies for starting families. Immigrants are not necessary to fix a population shortage. Never have been, never will.
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  11.  @RealJohnnyDingo  Then clearly you've never been that tired.
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  12. Body building is beyond health though. And not without it's problems. You can build muscles to great size, but the capacity of your heart and lungs is pretty static. And with some training regimens that some of the gym junkies do, it really strains their bones. They won't feel it at a young age. But they'll notice it quite accutely in their 50's and 60's.
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  13. Diet might also be an issue. Seafood seems very common in Japan. I know plenty of doctors over here do not recommend that pregnant women eat a lot of seafood since most fish caught in oceans have a lot of heavy metals in the flesh, like mercury and lead from pollution, which cause things like miscarriages.
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  14.  @bobmclovinelectricboogaloo  What do you think the term "loser" mean in this context? Hint: it's not about losing at boardgames a lot. 🙄
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  15. I was being sarcastic
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  16.  @Capt.Steele  And they're resorting to the wrong method of solving it. Mass immigration has pretty much destroyed the European countries that advocated for it. Paris in France looks like a warzone. Stockholm in Sweden is a literal warzone with criminal migrants setting off bombs in residential areas where families live and even shoot at eachother outside of kindergartens. This is what Japan is setting itself up for. If Japan wanted to solve it's demographic problems, it ought to take more inspiration from Hungary where the government subsidize families and especially mothers with financial incentives like cheap mortgages and tax cuts.
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  17. @Ann Nifödova He rules the country. Your little communist minority does not. In fact, the communists LOST the power over Russia and the entire Soviet union, like the losers they are. ;)
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  18.  @redpandaz5146  No, in fact communism also ends up being far worse than the USSR. Like Cambodia, North Korea, Venezuela etc. Communism is an inherently dysfunctional ideology that won't ever fulfill the promises it sets out to fulfill. That's just fact.
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  19. How do you drive up your salary in Japan if you don't often change jobs? I mean pay raises tend to always be small. So you need to look for jobs elsewhere while working at one company and then get the next employer to pay you MUCH more than your current employer does. Once you find the one willing to pay the bigger salary, you quit your current one. Simple as that.
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  20. Yes, I think modern Japanese culture has accidentally creared hikikomori. There is a darker side to the culture with issues that do not get adressed properly, which make some people feel forced to retreat from society in general.
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  21. You definitely should not live to work. And the NEET's who reject this mindset are doing the right thing. It's time Japanese employers are forced to change their harmful and destructive work ethics they impose on employees.
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  22. Well, western women are generally awful. Entitled feminists who think they deserve the world for no effort.
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  23.  @xcforce9067  We do in my country.
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  24.  @xcforce9067  No, it's far more civilized than the barbaric nations where stomping inside people's homes with your fecal matter encrusted shoes is the norm. You only get hospitality by first respecting the host and his or her home. Not very respectful to drag filth from the streets inside to their carpets and floors like you do.
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  25. ​ @MrTobi013 Yeah, fellow Koreans rejected them. While Japan has accepted them and even given them special priviliges. So which country is really the bad guy here? Korea with it's massive racist population? Or Japan who tolerate zainichi koreans even to the point where they don't need Japanese passports?
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  26.  @tizi087  It's because germans maintain the stigma. Whereas Japan tried to move on. Germans really need to stop dedicating their lives and the lives of their children to apologize for WWII. It's very cult-like and creepy.
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  27.  @tizi087  No, but you shouldn't run around apologizing for actions made by some of your grandparents and great grandparents, and always let your ideology be dictated by thinking "What would Hitler do?" and always choose the extreme opposite from that. That's the problem with you germans in general. You have no concept of doing something with moderation. You always resort to extremism in everything. During WWII, you were extremely far right. Today you are extremely far left.
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  28.  @tizi087  To showcase an example of the ridiculousness of the german mindset. Angela Merkel was confronted a year or so ago by the fact tjat german women were being subjected to a ridiculous level of sexual assaults by african and midddle eastern migrant men. Her reply was basically "Well what about Hitler?" As if germans living today should just accept being subjected to sexual assault by foreigners, because Hitler did bad things in the past. That's why you have to stop going on this idiotic self-imposed cultural penance for WWII. You're not helping anyone by doing it, and you're only hurting yourselves and turning your society into something twisted and depraved. The lesson from WWII should be "Let's not engage in wars of conquest and ethnic cleansings again. That was a mistake." But instead you're engaging in cultural self flagellation with some strange hope that the world will "forgive you" for the sins of your fathers if you hurt yourselves enough.
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  29.  @tizi087  Yeah, how "middle" it is to open all the borders and just anyone flood inside, and then give them free money taken directly from the taxpayers, while also allowing them to commit heinous crimes in germany unopposed. Go anywhere else in the world and nobody will call that a "centrist" policy. They will call it extreme left wing policy. And yeah, those countries demand reparations from Germany because that's what countries do: they always try to get free money out of other countries by playing victims and moralists. Russia did that against Finland too. Forcing the Finns to pay "war reparations" because the soviet union lost a war against Finland which the soviets themselves started. It's hard to respect you germans until you stop kowtowing to every ill spirited actor who constantly drag up the ghost of Hitler to browbeat you with. Grow a spine please.
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  30.  @Greenforrest7342  Doesn't matter. Japanese men are still human. They need to retain some energy after a workday to be up for sex.
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  31.  @Alexander-dg8sh  This is complete bullshit. Marriage is very much a man-made an unnatural institution and no child is entitled to growing up with a married couple.
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  32.  @maeulrich4851  I'm not familiar with that part of their legislation. But over here, it's literally just a matter of informing the correct authorities that your current home adress is "over here" by putting in some paperwork. The only thing that would happen for the person who actually lives there is that they'd get the mail adressed to the "live in", which she can probably pick up on her own. So she's not physically living there, she would just have the adress as her listed place of residence that's all. I didn't mean to suggest that he'd actually take her in to stay (although I'd certainly applaud it if he did), I was just trying to think of some way to help that would mean the absolute least amount of trouble for him. And it's not like it has to be prolonged either. Once she's gotten her valid ID, passport etc. Those documents will be valid for a few years before needing to be renewed, but by that time she should've been able to open a bank account and get some aid from the social welfare office and may be able to find a place to live in that way.
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  33. @sanserif It's really dumb though. Again, not saying that you need to be best of friends with every other tenant in your building, floor or hallway. But it's good to know who they are and where they live and so on. Adds some security to the situation since everyone will be able to know if strangers come into the building and keep an extra eye out of what they're doing. Having every tenant being atomized from the others is a surefire way of enabling burglaries and other crime.
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  34. Yeah, and look at how you germans become when being subjected to an indoctrination of self-hatred like that. You're probably one of the least confident, nervous and neurotic people in Europe. You even have politicians who can openly say that the native german population is declining and that it is a GOOD thing that you are getting replaced by foreigners. And this sort of hateful speech is tolerated by your mainstream society, celebrating the gradual extinction of Germans. So maybe being bombarded with messages about the holocaust since the moment you're born isn't a very good thing after all? Maybe it's actually hurting you culturally and spiritually?
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  35.  @richardwhatever3231  Sweden
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  36.  @GeorgeMonet  Yes they were. But the fathers lawyers made some bleeding heart liberal argument about how the father had "turned his life around" and similar bullshit, and the naive idiots presiding over the custody court just swallowed it all, hook, line and sinker. Custody courts are trash in general and never know what's best for the children.
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  37.  Your Majesty,  Have you even checked the casualty ratio of the winter war?
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  38.  Your Majesty,  Doesn't matter who is the attacker or defender. You can still "wreck" an attacker.
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  39.  @Saltcrystalis  No, but winning one is.
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  40.  @Saltcrystalis  Of course you can. By crushing your enemies.
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  41.  @Saltcrystalis  That's where you're wrong kiddo. To the victors goes the spoils. Usually in the form of new territory, but also captured military technology. Also nothing spurs technological and medical innovation as much as war does. Without war and the preparatiob for war: you would not have personal computers. Nor would you have the internet. Nor would we have several medical treatments for things like hypothermia and various diseases and parasites. Many of these technologies are derived from research that originally came from the defense industry. And it makes sense that war makes such innovators of people compared to peace time. The reason is that during peacetime, not being as innovative as your rivals only means you risk losing what... Market Shares? Whereas during a war, not being more innovative than your rivals means risking to lose your very life, your society and culture. The incentives to perform are far stronger during war than during peace. This is also proven through history where the more warlike regions of the world (like the European countries since ancient times) ended up developing their technology much faster than more primitive and less war-ridden tribal communities like in Africa and the Americas.
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  42.  @Saltcrystalis  That's just your opinion. I got the facts on my side. You just "assume" these inventions would've been created without war, with nothing to back it up.
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  43. This is what feminism does to women
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  44.  @fistandantalasmajere1671  What an ignorant and illogical remark. If she was such a successful con artist, she wouldn't be living on the streets.
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  45.  @greod1006  But according to the Japanese mindset, being "self-employed" is also not considered to be a stable and reliable job
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  46.  @Gogglesofkrome  They don't have to do health research because the required knowledge is already available in physics. The radiation emitted from 5G repeaters just doesn't have enough energy a few meters away to pose any health hazards. To cause cancer you have to have enough energy to knock parts of your genetic code out of sequence. The energy of those radiowaves just decrease far too much to be able to do anything.
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  47. @Ann Nifödova Communism is slavery and death. Communism has killed far more people and brutally conquered and ravaged far more countries. Capitalism is inherently more free since capitalism protects the property rights of the individual. You are ENTITLED to that which you own. Communism would take everything you own if some upper echelon of "The Party" decides that they want to, and you'd have zero legal protections against it.
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  48. @Ann Nifödova What "protection" did Communism offer to the Kulaks? What "protection" did communism offer to the victims of the Holodomor? What "protection" did communism offer to the people who needed glasses to see in Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge?
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  49.  @feliph64  Why do you ask?
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  50. Exactly. It's just a shame that germans are taught in school to blame themselves for what their ancestors did. I've lost count of how many germans I've spoken to have wanted to express their regret for WW2. Some are so indoctrinated that they even got angry with me for telling them that I don't think they have any reason to apologize for anyones actions other than their own. Hitler is dead. The third reich is dead. There is no point in blaming germany for what past germans did. They deserve to build their country up with enthusiasm and pride just as everyone else does, rather than perpetuallt apologizing and making concessions to everyone else all the time.
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