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Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of.
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I find it pretty funny seeing people talk about how Japan is not as advanced as people think. Meanwhile my home state the majority of people don't have Internet. I've been getting pretty convinced that most places use fax machines due to how few places have Internet. Anyplace that has any amount of beurocracy uses paper files. There are a considerable amount of places were cell signals simply don't work. The only way reason I know of public transport busses is because of movies. VHS player are common place for house holds. Many work vehicles were made in the 60s and we still use buckets to collect sap when sugaring. Card readers are rare so some gas stations require you to pay with cash. All around the only advanced tech things Vermont has to offer are our winter cars and the f13s that occasionally blow peoples ear drums out.
Okay but Vermont is basically a white people nature preserve, isn't it?
Congratulations! You have discovered that changing the words in a sentence changes its meaning.
Yeahhh but when the race you're making fun of isn't threatened, doesn't face any meaningful discrimination, and pretty much runs the world, I think it's safe to make fun of us.
Either race-tinged observational jokes can be funny if good spirited (I subscribe to this view) or they should be considered poor taste 100% of the time. (That's fine too)
But this self-flogging "lol but it's ok to be racist against people that look like me because the stereotype is some bad people also look like me, so I totally deserve it based on my ancestry, right guys?" Schtick isn't good for anybody.
(Unless you literally don't face any injustice on your way to running the world, then I totally misunderstood lol.)
But the idea that you should denigrate yourself to appease others' misguided hatred of your racial "impurity" is...the exact concept we want to eradicate isn't it?
Indeed, you have shown all of us that blocking you is both ez and wise.
As a white person, I am authorising and allowing this joke to be made, and I am retracting and removing any racism labels associated or attached to it.
You're welcome!
As a comedian, I am writing you referral for your doctor for a humor-transfusion. Any of the four will do.
I see, so context has no meaning, except when it means everything.
I think you need to learn the difference between punching up and punching down.
When white people become oppressed and stop being in control of practically everything in the U.S., you will have a point.
"the Philippines is a nature preserve for Filipino people" fucking I wish, leave us alone colonizers
Well it's a pretty shitty preserve
Bro time travelled from 1992 to make this comment
I did too, but it took 30 some odd years
Tf is sugaring
Making maple syrup at industrial scale
Ahh yes. Typical Vermontian behavior
Come to Quebec where everyone and their mother have a maple syrup shack.
Can confirm. Everyone in Québec has a mononc(uncle) Réjean who is like the 5th biggest maple syrup producer in the world.
Your country has a strategic maple syrup reserve. Maybe you guys need to calm down about the maple syrup.
That's the only thing we have, might as well go all in.
Most people don't have home Internet because almost everyone has it on their phone. Plenty of people don't own a computer anymore unless it's for work.
Both things can be true, but Vermont doesn't have a giant "We're a high-tech place!" image harped upon constantly that can feel like false advertising.