Re: Japan - WTF?
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This isn't 100% true but it's close enough that I can't take too much exception to it.
Japan is scary. It's turning into more and more of a neo-fascist state these days. On the outside you see a supposedly high level of personal freedom, high standard of living, "free" elections, and overall peaceful position on world affairs. Behind the kuromaku is massive political corruption, a media controlled by right-wing militarist yakuza elements that want to bring back the emperor, an ever-widening income gap that has led to a new class of working poor and a government looking to punish these people with regressive consumption taxes, widespread collusion among businesses to keep prices artificially high and pay low, the list goes on and on. Japan is just as bad as any communist country ever was, the only difference is that they are more successful at it because they are less transparent, making things look democratic instead.
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Hi Haji,
You write well. Please post more.
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