r/teenagers • u/I_Am_Back_4UXD • 14h ago
Other Some white dude goes to Japan, desecrates the Japanese national flag in Akihabara, and then complains that people don’t like it.
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u/sansisness_101 17 14h ago edited 14h ago
OOP gotta be singlehandedly keeping the sanseito (Japanese AfD, more or less) voterbase up. Desecrating the country your living in's flag is already pretty controversial, but having another country's flag right above it is a recipe to make everybody hate you.
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u/theHrayX 19 14h ago
Japan is alalready ruled by the rightwing since 1955
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u/sansisness_101 17 14h ago edited 13h ago
Right wing to center right depending on cabinet. Not far-right. Probably been voted in succesively because the left wing shat the bed the times they were voted in.
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u/BlueLakeCabin 12h ago
That's kinda been their thing for a couple thousand years. But it's a bit more granular than "Japan is right forever."
Japan's far right has a combined 32 seats. Right and center right is 524 seats. Center left and left is 130 seats. Far left is 11. Independent is 14.
Takaichi won a landslide because CDP and Komeito fell apart, inflation, etc. But she also took an assertive stance towards China, immigration, etc. Plus she was the most likeable candidate.
Things tend to be move around between right and center, with center right being pretty common. DPJ (center left mostly) governed for a couple years. And then 3 bad PM's in 3 years. Plus Fukushima. And then they faced Shinzo Abe.
There's a wide range of parties. The center does get their act together and is influential. The left and far left has a more rocky past, although the Japanese Communist Party has pretty much always held a handful of seats.
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u/Totallity45567 13h ago
I don't see how the government's problems represent hating the entire country itself. What about it's people or culture? Are they all rightwing?
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u/sillygoose1220 12h ago
There's pretty much no "left wing party" in Asia by the western definition, that's just not something the Eastern culture cares about
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u/theHrayX 19 12h ago
CCP? WPK? CCV? LPDP?
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u/SkyBoxLive 12h ago
What's your definition of Left wing vs Right Wing
Its very broad.
Whilist the CCP might be left leaning on many issues, it still has an Authoritarian government, that is systematically purging certain ethnic groups it deems extreme which many consider to be inherently right wing.
Using a line to describe something much more complex than a line, is asking for misunderstandings on a constant basis.
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u/theHrayX 19 11h ago
Authoritarianism does not know whether it's right wing or left wing. Sure, many right wingers are authoritarian, but left wingers can be authoritarian as well. Revolutionary France, arguably the first left wing revolutionary state, was absolutely authoritarian and they invented the guillotine.
China uses some left-wing rhetoric to justify their horrible crimes. Like, they don't say it's a targeted persecution, like what Germany said when they were doing their thing under mr moustache. They use frames and their anti-counter-revolutionary behavior, re-education camps, anti-radicalization operations, using enough revolutionary leftist rhetoric, even if the policies are right-wing. But generally speaking, I consider the CCP to be left-wing in rhetoric at least.
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u/Left-Carry-2670 11h ago
CCP is absolutely left-wing in rhetoric, but they’re more close to state capitalist. I wouldn’t class the CCP purely into left wing or right wing, because they take what they want and put it into their government, they have a similar number of left and right wing policies.
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u/I_Am_Back_4UXD 12h ago edited 10h ago
And now even the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Japan has publicly expressed its concerns and condemned this dude’s actions.
The Permanent Representative of Palestine to Japan strongly rejects and condemns any attempts to undermine the longstanding friendly relations and deep bonds between Palestine and Japan through the misuse of national symbols or the distortion of statements.
We Palestinians do not tolerate any acts of desecrating or inappropriately using the Japanese national flag, regardless of the form they take. Such actions do not represent the will of the Palestinian people or government, and this mission categorically rejects them.
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u/omnigeese 4h ago
They need to own up that their movement has spread this. It has emboldend these people.
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u/AbleCaregiver9160 14h ago
People like this ruin it for foreigners that wants to visit to Japan
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u/kusuck 18 14h ago
I noticed that left-wing people started to hate Japan
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u/TheDonIsGood1324 14h ago edited 14h ago
They glaze China too when Xi and the CCP are pretty big Chinese nationalists and would probably be called fascist by them if they were a western country. I'm an Australian and I'm pretty left leaning but hate the idiotic culture war obsessed performative leftists like the guy. I'm not a China hater btw I've been there its a great country, just using it as an example.
I have no idea why leftists would hate Japan considering its an example of state driven development and social cohesion between classes with great healthcare, infrastructure, education and general quality of life. I always assumed progressives goals was to improve the lives of people but these people seem to care about stupid shit.
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u/Lord_Corves 14h ago
the problem with Japan is it's kind of a political football pretty much between the conservatives and liberals. a lot of conservatives tout Japan as being a perfect example of a country that's fairly homogeneous and very conservative in its nature running very well all things considered.
for many people on the left there is a twofold issue on one part there are a lot of people who still see China as a communist government and therefore the same as they are if they are people who identify as communists.
the other thing is that Japan is well conservative in its nature it's a fairly homogeneous society with a big focus on monoculturalism to some extent. not to say there aren't any minority groups in Japan there are actually quite a few but societal and social cohesion are so important to their society that it's ingrained in each and every person who's born and raised in Japan you can look at the schools if your hair even if it's a natural color is a different color than the rest of the students they'll have you dye it.
when it comes to Japan there's definitely a lot of nuance to be seen there's a lot of things they get right and I would argue quite a few things they get wrong but people are so polarized.
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u/TheDonIsGood1324 13h ago
Yea its stupid when conservatives act like Japanese homogeneity is the reason for success, lots of countries are and failed. Like I said I think if you actually look at economic policies Japan is a good example of state driven capitalism and its success, repeated in Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. I noticed One Nation in Australia trying to use Japan as an example of what they want when its their voter base who hates high taxes and government intervention the most lol, also anti-Japanese racism used to be really bad and Pauline defiantly contributed to it.
I think some people focus too much on social issues when it comes to politics when economics is by far the most important issue.
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u/Fragasm 11h ago
I lived there for years and I can tell you a few things for certain:
1: there's basically zero crime, you can wander around anywhere at any time and always feel safe
2: it's clean everywhere
3: the food is incredible, and I mean all the way from a McDonald's to a top tier Michelin star restaurant -- the service and quality is amazing everywhere you go
4: most people seem depressed there
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u/ShortToss202020 10h ago
The irony of conservatives touting japan as a conservative success while screaming about evil socialist commie destruction of the nation when someone tries pushing for policies that exist in japan.
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u/OnlyDot5223 13h ago
They simply hate him because the ruling party is right-wing, and of course everything right-wing is bad. They probably don't know what policies they support, what they want for the future, or what their citizens want.
Literally, several of the comments I see here are from people who "fight against fascism" and "protect democracy," but literally find it wrong that a country (Japan) r I held the votes and then respect the democratic result.
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u/NoxTempus 8h ago
I don't know who you're talking to?
I'm much further left than average, vote Greens above Labor, etc. and all my left wing mates love Japan. They've pretty much all been, are going, or want to go, and mostly just accept that there's a cultural gap.
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u/TheDonIsGood1324 3h ago edited 3h ago
No I mean worldwide or at least internet. In Australia everyone loves Japan lol, or at least that’s my perception because I do learn Japanese
I think the internet is a hub for unreasonable people to congregate and doesn’t reflect the majority of people’s views. We seem to be living in a more radical world but Australia at least feels like a moderate place to be with reasonable people, at least that’s my impression.
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u/Original_Working3823 10h ago
Antifascist aktion was created in 1932 as a paramilitary wing of the Communist Party of Germany.
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u/I_Am_Back_4UXD 13h ago
What’s funny is that these people seem to hate Japan more than countries with severe human rights abuses or hardline theocracies that would arrest you the moment you dared to criticize their ideology or leaders.
It’s like the more a country tolerates their behavior and allows criticism, the more openly these people express their hatred toward it.
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u/anti-sina-lies 8h ago
You’ve spoken the most despicable truth about this world. Global polls show that people in countries like China and North Korea are highly satisfied with and confident in their governments—even though they were locked down by their governments for three years during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, in countries that value freedom of speech and tolerance, people often take to the streets to protest, express hatred, or hurl insults at their own countries or governments.
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u/Aster_Katt The Katt is back 14h ago
I believe their current administration is more in line with right wing policies but that's a bullshit reason to hate them
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u/sansisness_101 17 14h ago
Takaichi is basically just Abe II, but I didn't see nearly the same amount of hate for Abe.
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u/foxtrotgd 18 13h ago
Shinzo Abe was literally assassinated
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u/Different_Baker_9949 15 13h ago
not because he was right wing though, it's cuz he had ties with a controversial church seen by many as a cult who sucks families dry of their money and ruined the life of a man who wanted revenge
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u/TheDonIsGood1324 14h ago
Different world I guess, people just seem angrier since Covid. RIP space cowboy
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u/Big-Farmer-2192 13h ago
China's propaganda works very well on reddits.
People keep mentioning Russia bots but really there's more China bots shit talking.
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u/Sonha999 8h ago
And that’s cause Japanese people try to protect Japanese culture and stand against mass immigration (esp from third world countries).
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u/Initial_Sail_658 14h ago
japan is verry right wing
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u/Akira-Orfanos 13h ago
Its right but not right wing...
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u/ChaosKinZ 4h ago
The current PM said she is following some Hitler teachings and wants to enslave workers into a 100 hour week with less salaries... She is also a huge racist.
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u/Akira-Orfanos 2h ago
She isn't racist... she's xenophobic, which sounds like a minor detail but changes a lot. Also, the Hitler thing happened in 2017 and was referring to the Great Depression, not what he did to minorities. The reason she came to power in the first place is because of Japan's financial issues since the 90s
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u/Millworkson2008 OLD 13h ago
Because Japan is right wing. The American left would never survive in Japan
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u/Apprehensive-Hair248 12h ago
because they stubbornly refuse to apologise for raping and butchering the rest of East and south East Asia during ww2
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u/Cuore_Lesa 12h ago
They've apologized for that many times already, Koreans and Chinese people online claiming they never apologized for anything doesn't make it suddenly true. I mean, Japan has publicly apologized for Nanking, they just don't bother with it anymore because China uses it for propaganda and politicking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
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u/VqUs2 7h ago
That was damage control, LMFAO. The current Japanese government keeps minimizing the scale of "comfort women", numbers of deaths in Nanjing and Manila, the treatment and atrocities in Unit 731, Unit 516 and all the other Units, and keeps victimizing itself by blaming the "evil Allied forces" for ending the war.
Let's not even mention the disgusting objectifying and sexualization of women in anime and j-pop (it happens in the West too, I'm aware lol, but the scale and severity of it in Japan is staggering). Or shotacon and lolicon...
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u/Ill-Prior-8429 5h ago
The US owes a lot in blood even and yet any time one of their politicians comes with the slightest bit lip service about their atrocities, that people comes out in droves about how "they don't apologize for America", so why don't we all go to their country and start treating them the same?
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u/laix_ 4h ago
Also, japan is an extremely conservative country. But its the opposite way to america.
Whereas America is "FREEDOM fuck you i got mine, i don't need no gobberment" individualism, Japan is "if you dare post a negative review of a game company we will drive you to suicide" collectivism. Salarymen have extreme rates of suicide, due to extreme workaholism and individual needs are never considered.
Minorities such as gay people and transgender people are very much not respected in japan, and colorism (treating lighter skinned people better than darker skinned ones) is the norm. Many japanese people think that because they never had jim crow laws, its ok for them to be racist towards black people (but they don't think they're being racist). There was a squishy doll of a black person, and after criticism from westerners, the japanese response was basically "you westerners don't understand, its not because we're racist, the stress toy only works when it's ugly".
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u/gioroaizin 3h ago
The official decree of the Japanese government is that they do.
A jsdf officer was removed from his post for revisionist rhetoric.
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u/Eric_Hartmann_712 14h ago
Rich country+ degrading population and increase of uncontrol imigration. I saw a pattern in here
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u/Akira-Orfanos 13h ago
tf you mean Japanese immigration is uncontrolled. Its hard af to get a visa
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u/AssociateTop1589 14h ago
Migration in Japan is not uncontrolled, it’s the fact that Japan is very open to tourism now to their own detriment. Unlike Europe and the USA most people cannot overstay on their H1Bs. It’s very strict. We’ve still maintained 98% of our population
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u/Devil5-Advocate 13h ago
They always hated Japan. They only turned to Japan because thats were male imtrest turned to because almost all western stuff have been turn to trash by them. Their real goal os to control and demoralize those what the ability to fight back. They push anything that is anit-western thinking they would be the ones in control not realizing that they wpuld be the first to be eliminated because they know how to topple government if they succeed.
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u/SmallNoBigYes 14h ago
They hate anything that's right wing unless they are a "minority" who hates leftwing people 🤣
It's always so bizarre they support Palestine so much when that place literally kills any gays and doesn't support women's right
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u/Impressive-Elk7907 13h ago
Why do you think Palestine is Afghanistan? Who told you this?
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u/SmallNoBigYes 13h ago
Legit illegal to be gay in Gaza bro and the locals legit would threaten and kill you given the opportunity if you dare even mention being gay
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u/Impressive-Elk7907 13h ago
I'm pretty sure they are more worried about surviving right now.
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u/XhazakXhazak 7h ago
Forget about that, look at before the war. Gaza was run by Hamas as a literal far-right nationalist fascist government. Yahya Sinwar earned the nickname "the Butcher of Khan Younis" for personally executing countless gay Gazans.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to accept that Hamas is very close to ISIS and the Taliban.
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u/Frequent_Major5939 14h ago
because it´s safe to do so, you won´t see these idiots doing stupid shit like this in the middle east
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u/AnarchistTerrarist Teenager 10h ago
Of course we would hate the country that is practically run by its corporations. We have no reason to hate its flag or people though that shit's just absolutely foolish
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u/1spywithmylittle1 12h ago
I love how whenever these extremist face criticism they always resort to "You are all bots". Is that kind of a self soothing mechanism?
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u/Exterminator-8008135 11h ago
He can be lucky he didn't had to experience Japanese Courts and Jail..
One of the toughest per Democratic Nations.
And how Japanese police will make an Antifa crack mentally with their interrogations.
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u/Fire1623 3h ago
for both sides (left wing and right wing call themselves bots everyday, specially in colombia lmao)
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u/Avocadooohhhh 8h ago
What's up with degenerate twitter people stepping outside bruh they always do random weird shit
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u/ntrkorean85 13h ago
If the title hadn't started with "Some white dude"
I should think a Chinese person did
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u/Mundane_Bit_8392 14h ago
i cant wait for the japanese justice system to lay down the hammer on this one
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u/hc37_126 18 12h ago
at a certain point they gotta be js plain dumb (90% of the time) or being outright paid by right wing groups no fucking way these people exist
leftists gotta go live a fucking life and get off twitter
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u/ShoxZzBladeZz 14h ago
People always go in about the far right. I’m glad the far left people are getting the limelight. I find them extremist left to be living in a bubble of their twisted “justice” ideology. Happy to have a civil discussion.
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u/jamathythrowaway 14h ago
By taking a step back and not even needing to read up on the story I can already tell you that we know where you stand and why you made this post lol
Your only public post is to literally r/Thailand talking about how it must be getting botted because there are accounts that talk on pro-Palestinian subs posting about Israel there. Not sure if you knew this, but humanitarian crises that have global ramifications are gonna be talked about just about anywhere you look, and understandably so. Fuck Israel
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u/Will-Conroy 13h ago
Is the goal of Palestine’s supporters to make themselves as utterly reviled as possible? “Let’s just piss off any and all potential allies! That’s sure to further the cause!”
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u/Booster_Seat_Enjoyer 12h ago
if white people have to tolerate that with their flags, so can the rest of the world.
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u/AndyMacht58 10h ago
Never understood why Lefties hate Japan that much. Are weebs fascists by their metrics?
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u/Fit_Bench_2838 13h ago
So self-rightious. So stupid. No wonder Japanese people grow more and more xenophobic if this is the type of foreigners coming to their country.
Imagine them trying this shit in China or NK that they love to glaze so much. They'd land in a black site faster than they could call them a Nazi
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u/DingleYourBerry 7h ago
People that try to force their ideals on foreign countries should be "taken care of". You won't see these types of people going to countries with any skintone darker than off-white and doing this shit
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u/FretfulCoD1917 6h ago
I mean as a communist (an internationalist) I don't think countries should exist but even I think this is pretty dumb lol
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u/Maximum-Flat 1h ago
He only dare to do this to Japan because he knows Japan ain’t arresting him. Imagine he does that to China and he will be in jail.
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u/therealfinthor 14h ago
trans flag+palestine flag tells you everything about that person..
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u/NagitoKomaeda_987 12h ago edited 12h ago
I'm an autistic queer furry (being AroAce and having ADHD myself), and even I find these types of people to be absolutely stupid. No wonder Antifa has a bad name and everyone hates them.
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u/Argentum9999 10h ago
Pick a struggle bruh
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u/NagitoKomaeda_987 2h ago edited 1h ago
How can you tell that I struggle with any of those things?
But then again, as someone who happens to be a member of that community, the vast majority of furries that I know tend to be LGBTQIA+ (with roughly 75% to 80% identifying as queer) and a significantly disproportionate number of them are neurodivergent. Does being AroAce count as queer, too?
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u/FactBackground9289 18 14h ago
Desecrates the flag for no reason btw, it cost em exactly 0$ to not do this lmao.
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u/Zealousideal-Leg-531 13h ago
Round trips are over 1k too, what a waste of a trip, to potentially expand your mind how other ways the world can work
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u/L3tsseewhathappens 10h ago
This used to be a child who never once got spanked in their entire life. Like seriously. These assholes need punched in the mouth. Or go protest in Iran.
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u/TheOnvoy OLD 12h ago
Even worse a "white" Antifa
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u/NagitoKomaeda_987 58m ago
What's the difference between white Antifa and colored Antifa? I'm not American btw.
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u/Playful-Middle-244 12h ago
I guess they took inspiration from what protesters were doing to Hungary an Romania when they had far-left dictatorships but that's not even close.
That dude here is just insults national symbol of a country, which flag been here for a lot of years like what the heck.
Same with waving this insulted flag when someone other flag is on above. +1 national insult.
Of course people wouldn't like it and it's pretty fair
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u/PoopScoopAndRoll 11h ago
Was it his personal flag or did he steal it from someone?
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u/Floridaish0t 17 10h ago
Probably personal, although Texas V. Johnson doesn’t apply in Japan so desecrating both foreign and domestic flags is illegal and taking a picture of you committing a crime in a country like Japan which has some of the harshest legal systems in the world is certainly a choice.
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u/LatePresentation2669 11h ago
Idk it looks like a pretty good design though. Its not red but the nature the flag has in its gaze
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u/BoiledHashbrown4444 9h ago
Yknow, I see a pattern here. Some random person makes a statement or commits an act so horrendous that they should probably be stoned or put to jail, and then another person notices and calls out the "identity" of this horrible person and that "identity" seems to correlate with the community that the right wing really really hates (e.g. Trans/LGBTQ, Flag of an oppressed nation, someone's political stance), so the right wing swarms them like locusts and in turn those community has to pull the weight of the sins of this horrible "person".
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u/LowerEntertainer7548 8h ago
I look forward to next weeks story about him being deported, the Japanese don’t mess around
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u/ZadriaktheSnake 8h ago
Maybe agree with the sentiment but I have no idea what compelled them to do that
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u/BassBeneficial6699 7h ago
Boggles the mind the people who support them, they would literally be beheaded if they ever stepped foot in the land they support.
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u/Al3x_the_frog 7h ago
Westerners tend to forget that not every developed nation on the face of the planet hates themselves for all sorts of arbitrary reasons.
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u/sonnikkaa 6h ago
What a dumb dude. He should go to palestine to see how well he and his pride stuff is accepted over there
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u/OkAssociation9870 4h ago
Look inside Pronouns and Palestine This has to be some kind of psyop right
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u/theacp127 4h ago
People like this don't realize how much they are wasting their time and no one cares about whatever victim narrative they are on about this week.
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u/just-another-UNGOC Teenager 3h ago
that is defacing the Japanese flag and is a crime in Japan as of august 13 2026
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u/theshiniestbrighstar 3h ago
Why do these people need to go to Japan? Go to Palestine or Israel or some shit and do that there. Esp since they love waving that flag around so much.
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u/Forsaken_inflation24 15 3h ago
Im also a leftie but... thats a LOT of disrespect, hope that person goes to a jail because im pfetty sure desecrating a flag gets you a charge.
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u/The_sleepless_idiot 18 22m ago
If you wanna hate on japan piss on the graves of their war criminals, this is just an insult to japanese nationals for ego
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u/Open_Vanilla5048 14h ago
Even if you got a reason to dislike Japan, you shouldn't do that.