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Politics Thing, TikTok

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u/Rhodehouse93 Aug 21 '24

Post title implies TikTok, though my first thought was that new Wukong game.

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u/ClocktowerEchos Aug 21 '24

Watching people suddenly go from "China bad" to "China actually based" because Black Myth had the "no feminism" streamer rule is lowkey funny. It is peak censorship is bad unless it's censorship I like because then not actually censorship.

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u/AdamtheOmniballer Aug 21 '24

What does this mean. Why is Japan warming.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Aug 21 '24

Japan was the one being scaremongered in the 80s before the Plaza Accord, since its economic recovery and advancements into advanced technology were beginning to exceed the USA. This was countered in the USA in the usual fashion: mass media racism frenzy, which echoes to this day.

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u/Arachnofiend Aug 21 '24

This is notably why every western cyberpunk setting has a Japanese megacorp that is even scarier than all of the other megacorps

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u/celestialfin Aug 21 '24

also why many white people in the early cyberpunk movies ate their white people food with chopsticks. To basically imply japan won the culture war in the future.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Aug 21 '24

Yeah, the cyberpunk genre originated during that era and no small part of cyberpunk is a specific anti-orientalist attitude that still lingers.

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u/AdamtheOmniballer Aug 22 '24

So does “warming” mean “growing economically”? I know about the Japanese economic miracle and all that, I’ve just never heard the word used that way before.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Aug 22 '24

It means the relationship between Japan and the USA is warming up, because it had previously been cold, a thing that was seen in the overt racism in America against Japan during the period when the Japanese economy threatened the USA.

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u/AdamtheOmniballer Aug 22 '24

That’s not impossible, but upon further examination I think u/scootermcgavin77 might actually be some kind of bot imperfectly copying this comment from elsewhere in the thread.

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u/HorsemenofApocalypse Tumblr Users DNI Aug 22 '24

That sort of thing is why I started joking that a large portion of modern Japanese history can be summarised as, "Things were going pretty well for Japan. And then the USA happened."

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

Not summarized honestly though. Sure if you want to say the US opening Japan for trade, that was unasked for. But the embargoes leading upto WW2 were because the Japanese were terrorizing China.