ComradeConnie [none/use name]

Japanese-American here. NHK is currently reporting the shooter was a Japanese national.

Is it appropriate that I’m feeling the smallest, tiniest sliver of hope in my parents’ birth country right now? I don’t know what all this will lead to, but this is probably the biggest political event in Japan since the fucking atom bombs, holy shit.

I am Japanese-American who is more loyal to Chinese-Americans’ country of origin than my own.

Because the Ukrainians were killing 10,000 Russian soldiers everyday around Kiev

-R*ddit

I’ll admit I’m not educated on this, but don’t most Yakuza and other organized crime syndicates tend to be made up of Zainichi and Burakumin and other marginalized social groups?

As a Japanese-American who has long given up hope on Japanese politics, I’m fucking desperately hoping otherwise right now.

So is Brandon’s student loan forgiveness thing actually going to get stricken down by the courts like the chuds are saying? I just need to know that this is a done deal before I use my savings to pay off the last couple thousand I’ll still owe.

Any sources he was possibly an Aum Shinrikyo member?

I’m closeted, trans, and AMAB. I’m not attracted to men in the slightest.

But I still go to adult/NSFW places on the internet, advertize myself as a woman, and have sexual conversations with men.

…Why the fuck do I do this? :doomer:

Honestly, I think the best way to do it is just to point out that garbage content is garbage content, no matter what your views are. It’s what I did back when Trump was president and every top sub was filled with the same lazy-ass one-line tweets from Jeff Tiedrich and Co.

“I don’t like Trump, but this doesn’t belong on this sub”

“Trump is bad, but this is just a lame tweet that’s been reposted a hundred times”

“Fuck Trump, but this isn’t good content”

It may not change them politically, but it might at least make them realize that they’re being way too hysterical by ranting about their political delusions in a place where it doesn’t belong. Anytime you can shine at least a little self-awareness on how deranged Westoids are, I think it helps at least a little and is a tiny step in getting them out of the mould.

in the translation to this situation it would be good to find a way to communicate “you’re being hysterical” without the initial concession

Oh for sure, in this particular case the initial concession isn’t necessary. I would just say something like “imagine what this site would look like if every post about something that happened in the U.S. was filled with irrelevant comments complaining about issues in American politics. That’s what you’re doing now.”

Some people in that thread actually did say something similar to that and they were surprisingly upvoted, so I think it actually is a good strategy for getting R*dditors to think and process the word “China” without immediately going berserk with their usual bullshit.