• OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I know they have a pretty brutal work culture, which suggests a dismal political landscape, but that’s about it. That seems like a pretty typical knowledge level for westerners, so you’re probably right.

    • Avatar of Vengeance@lemmy.mlOP
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      20 hours ago

      Western media acknowledges the worst excesses of neoliberalism as a gesture towards reformism, it will never expose the underlying structure that makes brutal unrestrained looting the driving force of today’s world

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        And sometimes they make controversial super bowl half time shows to give the optics of resistance the placate the masses calling for it.

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      They also have a batshit judicial culture and women apparently never get justice and most courts are a kind of semi-scripted kangaroo court.

      Ace Attorney was specifically made as a parody of Japan’s courts IIRC.