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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Samurai Sanders posted:

I had always heard that their unions were sponsored by the management and wondered what that meant and how it could be a union in any way I understand them.

Japanese unions conducted collective bargaining on a firm basis as opposed to a nationwide basis as in Continental Europe. That doesn't mean they were powerless or that they weren't real unions, it basically amounted to a similar tripartist system as in Europe except decentralized to the firm level. They have been greatly weakened since the early 90s, but the same thing happened in Europe, and in the USA and UK of course they've long since been annihilated by Thatcher, Reagan and Co

It's basically another one of the vast multitude of manifestations of the racist "Japs are a shame culture insect hivemind" trope that gets sprayed as if from a high-pressure diarrhea hose in middlebrow, partly-educated discourse on Japan

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100158110

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100097430

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism (on the fascist hivemind french, germans and scandanavians)

icantfindaname has issued a correction as of 10:33 on Feb 22, 2017

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Trumps Baby Hands
Mar 27, 2016

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

We had no idea how good we had it with Robotic Mormon Dad until we got the Rabid Cheeto Monster

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Pener Kropoopkin posted:

imo part of the problem is that Japanese society is so work-oriented that for many people the best times of their lives was when they were in high school, which leads them to fetishize youth. You can see this kind of stuff all over America where high school football is the most important public ritual, but in Japan it's cranked up to 11 because there's very little adult leisure time. Grown men can't relate to women in that quote because it's too difficult for them to socialize outside of the workplace, and workplaces ban fraternization to begin with. Their sexualities are informed almost purely by juvenile experiences. Even non-pornographic anime is broadly centered around high school narratives, because for many Japanese people that was the last time they had social lives.

But I guess that pretty much boils down to metastasized capitalism.

japanese workers in aggregate don't work meaningfully longer than american workers.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS



even if these OECD numbers are significantly underreported 2000 hours per year is 40 hours per week, and there's sort of an upper limit on how far you can plausibly argue that the perfidious Oriental is systematically falsifying basic economic indicators (that seems to be the operating assumption in most discussion of the topic)

there's probably lots of variation in that average, with irregular temp work working fewer hours at one end and high-status white-collar work working more at the other

i'd be happy if people would at least conform their racist stereotypes to data that's less than 30 years old, but that's apparently an impossibly high bar to clear with japan and asia generally

icantfindaname has issued a correction as of 06:02 on Feb 22, 2017

Telephones
Apr 28, 2013

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

We had no idea how good we had it with Robotic Mormon Dad until we got the Rabid Cheeto Monster

Mitt Romney looks like the kind of guy that thinks a banana is spicy! No thank you!

cmerepaul
Nov 28, 2005
That's not chapstick!

The Wiggly Wizard posted:

Houses are typically not made with bricks in the Bay Area because they can't withstand earthquakes.

Also cars sold in the Bay Area typically don't have Texas license plates.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

One things for sure Mitts the goddamn president of the united states of stealth jackin it.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


https://twitter.com/OnlyInBOS/status/761392139649646593

Gravy Jones
Sep 13, 2003

I am not on your side
Can someone rename thread "Top 10 Sex Offenders Who Look Like Video Game Characters" in honor of Milo pls

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
no je ne veux pas honor cette prique

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
oui, mon francais est terrible wanna fight about it ?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Gravy Jones
Sep 13, 2003

I am not on your side
hard working british tax payers are the real victims here

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



I specifically paid him a million pounds.

I am also George Bush.

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Yeah, that money was rightfully the Queen's.

break-up breakdown
Mar 6, 2010


Nebalebadingdong
Jun 30, 2005

i made a video game.
why not give it a try!?

comrade Jeb was patrolling for nazis to punch. an inspiration!

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Nebalebadingdong posted:

comrade Jeb was patrolling for nazis to punch. an inspiration!

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

https://twitter.com/ggooooddddoogg/status/834233845373399040

The_Book_Of_Harry
Apr 30, 2013

icantfindaname posted:

Japanese unions conducted collective bargaining on a firm basis as opposed to a nationwide basis as in Continental Europe. That doesn't mean they were powerless or that they weren't real unions, it basically amounted to a similar tripartist system as in Europe except decentralized to the firm level. They have been greatly weakened since the early 90s, but the same thing happened in Europe, and in the USA and UK of course they've long since been annihilated by Thatcher, Reagan and Co

It's basically another one of the vast multitude of manifestations of the racist "Japs are a shame culture insect hivemind" trope that gets sprayed as if from a high-pressure diarrhea hose in middlebrow, partly-educated discourse on Japan

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100158110

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100097430

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism (on the fascist hivemind french, germans and scandanavians)



Hail, all hail!

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde


https://twitter.com/squeedgemonster/status/720379573058207744

H.P. Hovercraft has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Feb 22, 2017

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

it's the same reason there's anime fascists, both appeal to the same demographics

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 226 days!

I'd march with antifa furries

like as part of a coalition i mean

i assume there would also be antifa cosplayers

powerful lizard
Jan 28, 2009
anime cosplay streetfights would be making anime real
politifact rates this mostly true

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012



Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

helps to have brain damage

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
i thought it'd be taken down by now

https://twitter.com/starfoxacefox/status/825041509703643136?lang=en

man that guy's timeline is somethin else #foxlivesmatter

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought it'd be taken down by now

https://twitter.com/starfoxacefox/status/825041509703643136?lang=en

man that guy's timeline is somethin else #foxlivesmatter

There's a Fox News joke in here somewhere

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011


lol

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought it'd be taken down by now

https://twitter.com/starfoxacefox/status/825041509703643136?lang=en

man that guy's timeline is somethin else #foxlivesmatter

Can you imagine how satisfying it would be to punch those nazis

It's a big dumb mascot head AND a nazi, like... gently caress

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Grondoth posted:

Can you imagine how satisfying it would be to punch those nazis

It's a big dumb mascot head AND a nazi, like... gently caress

their restricted field of vision puts them at quite a disadvantage yeah

tho that means you'd wanna avoid knockin their head off which i mean c'mon you know that's what you wanna do first

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

their restricted field of vision puts them at quite a disadvantage yeah

tho that means you'd wanna avoid knockin their head off which i mean c'mon you know that's what you wanna do first

Work the body for a bit, then punch off the head.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



H.P. Hovercraft posted:

their restricted field of vision puts them at quite a disadvantage yeah

tho that means you'd wanna avoid knockin their head off which i mean c'mon you know that's what you wanna do first

How can I get to the good crunchy bits inside if I don't smash through the sugar-coated shell? You know this dude can't fight, he's in a loving furry costume.

Telephones
Apr 28, 2013
You'll notice that on the armband is not actually a swastika but a pawprint. I don't know what it means.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Thump! posted:

How can I get to the good crunchy bits inside if I don't smash through the sugar-coated shell? You know this dude can't fight, he's in a loving furry costume.

There's nothing crunchy about him.

Ammanas
Jul 17, 2005

Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

Telephones posted:

You'll notice that on the armband is not actually a swastika but a pawprint. I don't know what it means.

It means he's a stupid loving rear end in a top hat

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

Ammanas posted:

It means he's a stupid loving rear end in a top hat

wow rude

Molentik
Apr 30, 2013


Please tell me Albanian slang for a bunker is 'icecream'!

Jollity Farm
Apr 23, 2010

Volcott posted:

Work the body for a bit, then punch off the head.

I imagine the costume might provide a bit of padding, but it'd also weigh them down - so knock them over, then take the head off to reveal the (probably sweaty and disagreeable) Nazi underneath. Then punch.

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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

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