Fergal Schmudlach
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Japanese First! (into the digital prison and the war machine)
🕑 Added 2025-07-17 07:00:28 +0000 UTCI have several episodes in development, but each one I feel like I need to read at least one more book before it’s ready, so for now, some newsy musings on current events mostly in Japan, where this weekend’s election sees a far-right populist party set to pick up a dozen seats: Sanseitō, whose draft constitutional amendments would abolish all individual rights and invest sovereignty in the state and not the people, and which is heavily astroturfed by all the usual suspects, including not only the original Unification Church but also Sean Moon’s Rod of Iron (known by the less openly violent name “Sanctuary” in Japan). All this they package under the racially provocatory slogan “Japanese people first!”, backed up by mass media campaigns about a wave of “crimes and annoying behavior by foreigners”—but of course tending in reality to shunt all Japanese class tensions onto the East, South, and West Asian captive nations that make up Japan’s proletariat, beef up digital surveillance and social credit systems, and further prepare Japan to become the Ukraine of the Pacific, an outcome that I increasingly suspect not only the Amerikkkan but also the Chinese and even the Japanese post-bourgeoisies are working carefully together to bring about.
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Fergal Schmudlach
Well that’s a bummer! Check your DMs
Bin
Big fan of the pod. Never was able to join the Discord. Any chance I could do so?
James Brock
The fundamental theorem of parapolitics: Anyone less noided than me is a limhang. Anyone more noided than me is a shitcoat.
James Brock
Haha shitcoats and limhangs
