• zarathustrad
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    8 days ago

    “Ha ha, dumb lady has empathy for a bug.”

    Vs

    “Cool lady reads manga and makes light-hearted comments about life, reincarnation and the nature of suffering/loneliness”.

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      8 days ago

      “Cool lady” who is politically far-right and openly idolizes Margret Thatcher and respects Donald Trump.

      “Cool lady” who is running legal immigrants out of Japan (some who have lived there for generations) and making it very hard for foreigners to be anything other than tourists at a time when Japan’s economy depends on foreign labor and talent more than any other time in its history.

      “Cool lady” who allies with Japan’s new right-wing extremist party Sanseito (jingoists, anti-vaxxers, basically Japanese MAGA) and helped them go from two or three seats in the Diet in 2025 to 15 seats earlier this year.

      Is that the “cool lady” you’re referring to?

      Talking to bugs is the least of her problems.

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        8 days ago

        Don’t know or care about her policies, in the context of this out of context fluff piece. However, if getting outraged about this is helpful, please proceed.

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          7 days ago

          Imagine the same post but substitute her with trump, someone in the comments calling him a “cool guy”.