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KulakRevolt  1mo ago (anarchonomicon.com)   5904 thread views

FILM REVIEW: India the Worst country on Earth

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4Chan's First Feature film is also the first Feature length AI Film.

The Conceit? Aside from a few Joke stills, none of the visual film is AI. It is a "Nature Documentary" Narrated by David Attenborough... It is also maybe the most disturbing film ever made, and possibly the most important/impactful film of the decades so far.

Reality is more terrifying than fiction.

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While criticizing Islam might be more controversial, westerners generally regard Islam as a distinctive civilization, and I’m also wondering why the criticism doesn’t apply to Japan.

Japan is rich. It’s safe. Most of its problems are attributable to low birth rates, but they’re more lower end of average than exceptionally low the way Taiwan’s or South Korea’s are. It’s distinctly not-western culturally.

Because America bombed the ever living shit out of Japan and "Islam" in its recent history. These people have been squarely defeated.

The Japanese went from suicidal bombers capable of the worst massacres on planet earth (rape of Nanjiang) to the most docile in 1 generation.

Islam.... well, some times you don't have to critisize something if you feel like there is an existing concensus opinion that already agrees with you. Google's gemini refuses to shit on Islam and only Islam. This means that someone had to come in and say, "Hey, people love to shit on Islam more so that other religions, and we have to preemitivaly make that harder".

You don't get it, do you?

Japanese aren't docile. They're still the same people.

They're just not at war.

I am going to join the others in disagreement and point out that it definitely seems like the Japanese have been pretty anti-war since 1945. Now, sure, attitudes can change, the Japanese aren't ignorant of the rising tensions and potential threats of the current age, and there isn't exactly a political monoculture, but one needs only to look at the freaking cartoons they make to see that the population seems pretty inoculated against the more warlike tendencies they had in ages past.

And wait a few short generations, and we start getting shit like this. It's still relegated to the sketcher and trashier side of fiction for now, but generational memory is pretty short.

Care to elaborate?

That given a few years of the right propaganda and a state of war, they'd do the same stuff all over again.

People have a switch in their mind that allows them to wage war and to be at peace. For most people, tripping it takes a lot of social pressure , combat and deaths of friends etc.

True, the Imperial Army was extremely brutal but you don't need brutality to cause someone to be brutal.

Waffen SS had for the era rather humane training methods, and ones that were largely copied by western militaries, yet people who are barely criminal in real life were pretty good at being war criminals.

All that matters is that you have young men, lack of accountability and a hated enemy. That said young men are from a population that isn't fond of random acts of senseless violence doesn't really matter. In war, the stress ensures someone will snap.

Interesting. I was under the impression from the finality of your earlier post (and its abrupt "You don't get it" rhetorical move) that you were suggesting insight into Japanese national character specifically. It seems you're just generalizing on the brutality of man during wartime, and suggesting in a deterministic way that we are all William Calley (or whoever) under the wrong circumstances. Correct me if I've misunderstood.

Yeah, pretty much. Although Calley was just stupid. Terror tactics can't be used in the age of TV when the domestic population isn't a blood frenzy like today Israelis are.

And even then, they're of dubious use as even if the terror successfully intimidates Arabs, the loss of support due to the disgust and horror of Israeli's naive foreign allies might outweigh the benefit.

that we are all I'd say you'd be hard pressed to find a population that would not commit atrocities in warfare if they had impunity. Certainly, the rate at which they would behave so would vary a lot, but in the end, no matter how good our impulse control is, we're all humans, we're not infinitely moral angels, and we're all descended from a long line of animals who generally picked the right choice when they had to decide between becoming a killer and becoming a corpse.

People were talking recently about how Germans tended to obsessively follow laws. Eichmann in Jerusalem points out that, in the 3rd Reich, the Fuhrer's word was law, above any of the written laws. And the result followed logically from those two things.

I can believe that about Germans, it also spills into the electronics and machines they develop. I've seen overwrought designs with double and triple redundancy with security and safety interlocks so overcomplicated that the final product can't even perform its intended function properly. That is until you go in and remove half the safety interlocks and defeat some of the redundancy to get a workable solution that will work non stop for years.

I was reading recently that contrary to common narratives the Kamikaze bombers weren't that thrilled to sacrifice their life (under those terms) but this was in 1944 and they knew Japan was in a desperate situation. In other words, their perspective on the matter was not as alien as we might imagine. They weren't eager to be suicide bombers.

And from what I've read at least some of the 9/11 hijackers were at least somewhat conflicted. There was that hijacker who called his girlfriend before boarding the plane and just kept repeating "I love you".

"Hey, people love to shit on Islam more so that other religions, and we have to preemitivaly make that harder".

No its because Google doesn't want literal heads rolling.

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