Sooo… we only need the AfD to win in Germany to get the old gang back together? /s
The /s ruins the joke :(
Bitchzilla
How progressive -_-
Japan? Progressive? Japan is hugely patriarchal. I guarantee this lady is nothing more than a face for the all-male leadership behind her.
The whole world is fucking trippin
Late stage capitalism + social media engagement algos. It’s impacting almost every nation.
Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹
To be fair, a lot of things are but I think it’s still an important detail
Agreed. It’s got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.
“Why is world getting worse? We need a strong conservative to get us back before the world got shit from strong conservative policies” - dumbasses
People understand that their position is getting worse and worse every year. The liberal parties are all promising to stay the course and maybe throw a couple bones to token minority groups. The conservatives are promising to punish all the dirty minorities that ruined everything and make it all better. Your average voter has no political inclination and when one group says they aren’t gonna change anything, and the other offers radical change, it’s not surprising why voters will go for the change option.
It’s striking how little many people know about history and politics, but more concerning is how little they care. My old coworkers just don’t seem to care much. And they won’t even feel shame because their only priority seems to be protecting their ego.
Reminds me of Brent from The Good Place, honestly. “No. No. I’m a good person. I’m a good person!!”
Like MORE ultra conservative to standard Japan politics?
Yes, socially. But also a weird flavor of Japanese conservatism economically. She supports strong economic interventionism, massive stimulus funded by additional debt, cash distribution, etc. Not at all a free market type.
I was commenting the other day on how she says that Margaret Thatcher is her greatest hero, but that she’s an advocate of economic policy more in line with Shinzo Abe’s stuff, which really isn’t in line with Thatcher.
IIRC Liz Truss had some similar statement, and the policy that she went for during her time as Prime Minister was also pretty loose.
Why are all these women conservative? What’s there to gain for them? I feel like conservative views work against women rather than for them? At least that’s what I’ve grown up believing.
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“Rich” is actually the best gender to be.
Some times I wonder. But yeah… Probably.
The class war almost invariably underpins the other apparent social conflicts.
I don’t they care about other women. Or people in general. If you an upper class woman running for politics then such policies would never affect you personally. Consequences are for “lesser” people.
This is just what she choose to built her political career upon, because such views are popular in Japan and therefore she would be able garner support and boring base. What matters is that it will get her to power. I sincerely doubt she actually believes into any of that.
Women aren’t immune from being stupid fucking idiots. Just look at all of the Republican female politicians and entertainment pundits.
Not idiotic, just evil and self-serving. Hell is not a male-only space. 🤷
Oh so true. Stupidity is not tied to gender, innit.
It’s so fucking spineless. People shouldn’t be able to pursue a political career. They should be chosen to lead by peers or some other weird system. Like okay now it’s my turn to bear the responsibility. Otherwise it becomes something people pursue, and it becomes all about the power and the money. Disgusting.
Well the usual response to this is that people who don’t want to be in position of power would do a shit job at it (to the point of being net negative).
Most people don’t want “bear the responsibility”, they want someone else to do it.
I say let’s have a system whereby if the ruler(s) do a good job according to the wide public, they are rewarded accordingly with taxes. If they do a shit job, they are rewarded with nothing. This way, we get politicians working for us rather than for themselves. I mean it would be also for themselves, but any net gain for them would be forced out of altruism. This way, you would aspire to be a hero if you could manage. And if you weren’t fit to rule, you’d resign very quickly because it would be a waste of your time to gain nothing.
Any holes to poke through this? 👂🔥 All ears! Let’s build a better system!
If you are in power, your gender becomes irrelevant.
Why else would a fuckton of oppressive monarchs be women?
I got it, yeah. Depressing af isn’t it.
Ah the suspicious and somehow expected rise of conservative ideologies…
Just another insane Moonie cultist?
exactly
Conservatives: a small group of people should control the world!
Liberals: half of them should be women!
That’s how we got here.
