Notices by sim@shitposter.club, page 11
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"I don't want any of them [persons of Japanese ancestry] here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty... It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty... But we must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is wiped off the map."
-Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt.
Oof. I guess that is the problem of citizenship, whether you have it or not... it doesn't mean that you will be loyal to the nation or the government. How can you determine that? You used to bribe people... but that was easier when you only had to bribe the nobles. Then again, even they turned against the monarch from time to time.
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"According to a Los Angeles Times editorial,
A viper is nonetheless a viper wherever the egg is hatched... So, a Japanese American born of Japanese parents, nurtured upon Japanese traditions, living in a transplanted Japanese atmosphere...notwithstanding his nominal brand of accidental citizenship almost inevitably and with the rarest exceptions grows up to be a Japanese, and not an American... Thus, while it might cause injustice to a few to treat them all as potential enemies, I cannot escape the conclusion...that such treatment...should be accorded to each and all of them while we are at war with their race."
Big oof.
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@Moon The war isn't the ordinary people's war but geopolitics at the higher levels of society... so why not?
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@Amikke @Moon Not really. Ordinary people are led into war by their leaders and the propaganda put out to justify the war. Ordinary people are the biggest losers in war.
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@Moon @mangeurdenuage If you commission, I really think it should be a given that you own the copyright because someone is working for you since you are paying them to make something. This is a problem that I ran into. Otherwise what is the point in commissions since they tend to cost a lot more?
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@DocScranton @grillchen @lain @jeff This is tragic. It does seem like unions become another form of corporations and suffer from the same problems. It's almost like we'd need unions to watch the unions which are watching the corporations.
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@grillchen @lain @jeff @DocScranton Interesting. I wonder how the regulation impacts things here, because I can imagine that could easily be corrupted but there may be a balance which can be reached that benefits the workers and providing safe and healthy working conditions.
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@lain @grillchen @jeff Basically. Which is a shame... but then again, this is what happens when the writers seem to run out of good ideas and drag projects down with politics too. This is basically the worst time for them to be striking because there has become less and less value in what has become produced and you can be better entertained by independents. Are people really supposed to care at this point, especially when they encourage mindless consumption and support of their products? When there is fanbaiting?
I don't know where this all puts me as a writer. What it even means for my future if I can get my foot in. Then again, Hollywood has oversaturated the market and caused a talent drain as people go to them, making the industry cater to their politics.
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@Moon @lain @grillchen @jeff I often forget that is even a thing.
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"We live in a time where mediocre people force everyone to walk in line.
As a German, I get scared when I see this happening."
Context: About the writers strike and how they basically bullied people like Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher into not returning their show and called them scab.
Oof.
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@thatguyoverthere Yeah, when I think about my own goals then this is the impression that I had, even some that happened later in life than childhood. Some of it was achieved in spirit or in some unofficial way.
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How many of you have managed to achieve your childhood dreams?
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad Why would they expect someone to co-operate with a divorce anyway? It's a horrible process to go through.
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@coolboymew @vriska That wouldn't surprise me. I guess some people just like the atmosphere of Starbucks. I don't get it personally, but then again... they aren't from my country.
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@vriska More of an American thing, right?
Looking it up, the latte is a Starbucks thing apparently.
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@dcc @PurpCat @mint Why are these people on a decentralised platform? They sound like they would feel more comfortable on a corporatist safe centralised platform like twitter or facebook.
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@ageha I'm not sure that we've never had to worry but otherwise I do take your points about superpowers. Right now, we just invite the superpowers in... let the wealthy there invest in our land but then that actually means they have effectively stolen it from us. This obviously doesn't just happen here. So yeah, it feels like we have changed tactics because in the past there would have been fights. Now, perhaps because of trade agreements, we just let people in, take the land and resources, change our culture and more. We basically let the US do this to us. And we look to them to decide on what we teach our next generation as we share education resources, for example. How else do we get critical race theory with a focus on black relations in the US or about decolonialism? In fact, how else do we decide to have children here read stories from and about the US in English? It has replaced our classics. If it weren't for Shakespeare, I'm not sure that I would have read a British story in class in high school. Hard to remember.
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@ageha Consider that the council and civil service in some of these areas is no longer predominantly English, especially in London. Minorities get preferential treatment due to investments from wealthy people in places like India, Saudi and even China. But also because of awards that reward diversity. I think that it is more similar what happens now than we'd like to think or that is shown to us. They have more power than we think. And not all of them respect the British. Or, rather, they prefer how they do things over the British/English way.
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@lina Fair, although living in a society makes it difficult that we just burn ourselves. But at least avoiding politics so you don't bring others down that way helps. Then again, it is difficult to avoid politics now as it has invited itself into the personal realm.
Still, it has been nice to talk with you about stuff like this. Europe has a lot of interesting history and it is interesting to hear what others have to say from other countries within the continent.
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@lina I envy Russia one thing in this, the multi-national mostly US-based big businesses left. They still plague the high street where I am, displacing my own country's food so it is very hard to find traditional English food when I go out in places. You know those corporations also rob income from this country too.
But yeah, if I stay off the news, social media and just avoid certain entertainment... then aside from seeing the Ukraine flags up in public and the rising costs, it isn't noticeable. I do not appreciate any of the geopolitics here.
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