It always amazes me how a nation of shopkeepers (Japan) managed to convince the world it’s a nation of warriors. What’s funnier is how people are convinced China can’t fight when it’s a state that has had continuous warfare for millennia. The post-1979 era is a bit of an anomaly.

A Proclamation to Suppress the "Cantonese Bandits" In February 1854, when Zeng Guofan led his troops out of Hunan to suppress the Taiping Rebellion, he issued this proclamation, calling upon all Confucian scholars under heaven to rise up and defend their faith.

Grasping the sheer scale and intensity of the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) - history’s largest and last pre-industrial war - is so hard. ​The best analogy I can come up with: ​Imagine if Mormon prophet Joseph Smith had stayed on the Erie Canal. His followers, armed mostly with spears and swords, rise up and capture the entire US Midwest, seizing the nation's agricultural breadbasket. They systematically slaughter anyone from New York City and starve out huge towns like Chicago. The war kills 5% to 7.5% of the population, double the actual US Civil War. ​Then, right as the Federal government completely collapses, the British Empire sails steam-powered gunboats up the Hudson River. They arm a ruthless mercenary force with state-of-the-art rifles to crush the uprising: not to save the US, but to keep Wall Street and the Atlantic trade routes open. ​Meanwhile, in a completely separate conflict(!), official British and French armies sail up the Potomac and loot and burn the Smithsonian, the Capitol and Mount Vernon. ​The Taiping Rebellion killed 20 to 30 million people, more than WW1. It was World War China.

x.com/nomadtravel012/status/… Guess u forgot to ask them about the Bhumiputra laws or npr.org/2023/07/18/118393552… or about anti Chinese massacre of 1969 or attacks on Hindu temples even going back to 1970's in which temple guards killed 4 jihadis & injured 5th (google incident at Kerling)

日本でイスラム出てけとかぬかしてる奴は多分マレーシアすら行った事ないと思う 自分は初めて訪れたイスラム教国がマレーシアでムスリムのマレー人かなり親切で良い人だらけでインド人中国人と平和に共存しててムスリムへの好感度が上がった

Right-wing pagans adopting the same arguments as 2009 lib atheists, lol

Kesilapan Malaysia adalah selalu bersikap terlalu baik. Satu benda kita kena ingat, orang hanya akan nampak seseorang tu jahat bila meluah perasaan tentang orang ditolongnya. Orang takkan pandang orang yang tutup pintu awal2 (baca: Singapore, Sarawak) sebagai pihak yang jahat.

I think this was the turnaround when the first generation raised entirely under the new american coerced japanese constitution reached adulthood. Lots of things changed to adapt to the new constitution and it ended up reshaping society in a major way

lol, what a story, she was most concerned with how much arm he had left

x.com/Rjrasva/status/2063843… Marriage of Shigeru Mizuki of GeGeGe no Kitaro fame in 1960 to his wife No laws passed in Japan to make this disappear, it disappeared on its own as the economy grew rapidly with increase in energy use & all the social changes that entails