Is that the Indian Lady who helped Lewis and Clark discover the Pacific Ocean in *Googles* 1513? Aunt
I knew she founded Land O'Lakes Dairy Company after discovering the Ocean (hence the name) but I didn't realize she was such a philosopher too.
I can not tell just how sarcastic you're being here.Is that the Indian Lady who helped Lewis and Clark discover the Pacific Ocean in *Googles* 1513? AuntJemimaSacajawea?
I knew she founded Land O'Lakes Dairy Company after discovering the Ocean (hence the name) but I didn't realize she was such a philosopher too.
There is a part of me that wants to cringe, but there is also a part of me that cannot help but laugh. There is another, larger part, that thinks this is a-ok. Americans tend to live highly fictional lives these days, lives in which trained deceivers (actors) are held up as celebrities and treated like heroes for spewing their ignorance on their audience. For those not of an accelerationist bent, those who want to try to roll things back, it is necessary to speak to these people in their language -- which is Harry Potter, Disney Wars, and other vapid shit.Making a small throwaway reference to Star Wars or Harry Potter is one thing. What was shown goes too far into cringe territory like the 'Hey kids' meme, or the guys who call the politicians they don't like 'Voldemort'(hell, I wouldn't say anything if it were the quote alone). But like Urabask said, if they want to use it, can't stop them.
I was about to say something about 'right-wing' memers, but it occured to me that with so many having gone natsoc, ancap, or Christian monarchist, are they really 'right-wing' by American terms?Which is part of what the Right needed Trump to reinvigorate it, and get it more pop culture savvy; young people are more likely to listen to shit from Harry Potter or Star Wars than from Locke, Aristotle, or Ayn Rand.
Trying to act like the old ways of reaching and communicating ideas/viewpoints/policies are as effective as doing the same with pop culture bits, that the youth may actually recognize and listen too meaningfully, is part of the Right's stubborn refusal to update much of it's political or social playbook.
Someone is still sore about being ditched for Japan as Allies prior to WW2.
Made In China... Just saying...
History is weird.
Prior to and during WWI the Japanese were the best Asian ally a European power could hope for. They offered to join WWI on the British side less than a week after the British got dragged in, were at war with Germany within three, and sent the first naval airstrikes ever towards Germans in the Pacific roughly two weeks later. The Japanese were doing carrier warfare years before aircraft carriers even existed.
And then American racisism basically went and said "Us, or them. You can't have both as allies." to the British.
Without racisim the US and Japan probably could have worked out a somewhat amicable "let's share this" agreement instead of what actually happened.America and Japan were on a colision course because both sides wanted to dominate the Pacific and only one person was going to win that fight. Even with out racism they were on a colision course for geo political reasons.
Without racisim the US and Japan probably could have worked out a somewhat amicable "let's share this" agreement instead of what actually happened.
One way to describe the rougly 90 years of US-Japanese relations between Commodore Perry saying "hi" and the US going nuclear: a violently bickering married couple who hate each other and aren't allowed to get divorced. Both of them want
"arranging my spouse's funeral" to be on the list of "things to do today".
True.Plus the Japanese were also plenty racist and were hardly innocent little angels themselves, as time would show.
"violently bickering married couple who hate each other and aren't allowed to get divorced."No that deal was not on the table, both countries back then had massive egos and were not about to allow rivals expecially when there was money on the table.
Japan wanted all of the China, USA was never going to allow that.Without racisim the US and Japan probably could have worked out a somewhat amicable "let's share this" agreement instead of what actually happened.
The US also wanted all of China, as did practically every other power of note.Japan wanted all of the China, USA was never going to allow that.
The US also wanted all of China, as did practically every other power of note.
One thing neither the US nor Japan wanted back then and could agree upon: Chinese people.
Without racisim the US and Japan probably could have worked out a somewhat amicable "let's share this" agreement instead of what actually happened.