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Why did Gamefreak make a game with... weirdly anti-immigrant themes?
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>>59601843
>why is japan, a widely known xenophobic nation, like most of asian, anti immigrant?
Gee, anon, I don't know...
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>>59601843
How is this anti-immigrant?
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>>59601843
That's very real, aren't the bowing deer in Japan scared of black people in particular?
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>>59601885
OP thinks that if everything is political then the time he spent consuming media for children is worth more.
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>>59601905
>stantler are scared of galarians
Explains why Stantler isn't in SWSH.
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>>59601885
>iconic cultural service is unceremoniously discontinued in the name of being more welcoming to hostile newcomers
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>>59601843
>Naveem, obligatory black guy of the main cast, only person not totally fucked up on how ~*AWESOME*~ mixing croquettes and curry is.
>"I like them separate but putting them together like this is gross."
>Other characters: "B-but... um... co-operation or something."
>They stop bringing it up eventually.
You can tell the writers for this game really did not want to touch on these themes and tried to express their viewpoint subtly without upsetting their investors.
>>59601885
If you played Legends ZA and didn't get a single thing they were hinting at you're blind as fuck.
>Literal 5G tower giving the entire city cancer
>3,000 year old man responsible for a ton of fucked up shit that affects the modern day.
>Holograms that can appear anywhere in the city at any point in time meaning you have no privacy whatsoever. A literal surveillance state.
They couldn't be more obvious if they said "the government is controlled by jews trying to kill you with depopulation."

Even Digimon's new anime targets similar shit.
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>>59601912
how do you explain wyrdeer? thebonly nigger that ever made it to japan was the one from assassins creed so its not like they were around to dumb down everything
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>>59601986
asians typically hate jews so this tracks. granted other than a few they all just cuck to china, russia, or both instead. idk which is worse, atleast china anyway.
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>>59602012
Sad thing is, every country needs an ally. If you have no allies, you will get invaded, slaughtered, replaced and turned into a cattle farm.
I noticed a shitload of media I consume from japan has progressively more obvious anti-WEF/NWO/Israel rhetoric and hints and I couldn't be happier. Genuinely feels like they're still fighting the good fight while western countries bend the knee.
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>>59601986
>Literal 5G tower giving the entire city cancer
Conspiracy theory. If it was true, the entire first would would have cancer.
>3,000 year old man responsible for a ton of fucked up shit that affects the modern day.
Yeah, boomers are the root of all the world's problems, the sooner those senile old fucks die off the sooner we can have a world that isn't shitting itself constantly.
>Holograms that can appear anywhere in the city at any point in time meaning you have no privacy whatsoever. A literal surveillance state.
You don't know what a fucking hologram is you midwit. It's a light projection. It is incapable of anything you're alleging on its own.
>They couldn't be more obvious if they said "the government is controlled by jews trying to kill you with depopulation."
If you're a schizophrenic.
>Even Digimon's new anime targets similar shit.
No, it's just bad. Poorly written, ugly designs, terrible music, Digimon's anime has been slop since its inception.
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>>59602065
this has got to be bait.
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>>59601878
The Kitakami storyline in SV was pro-immigrant.
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>>59601843
It’s a flex. Game freak knows they are the only company who could get away with it because normroids are either too cowardly to criticize game freak or too blind to see it. It like how they turns Emma into a retard who dickride Corbeau) . Imagine ANY other game having a cop (or whatever Emma’s suppose to be) shill for a loan shark that explicitly targets children to trap them debt slavery forever. Leftoids would burn that studio to the ground. Game freak is just waving their dicks around because they now they can
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>>59602105
>or too blind to see it.
Even the ones who CAN see it refuse to acknowledge it. Most people are weirdly committed to thinking anyone who can recognize a metaphor is a conspiracy theorist. Bad actors? Genuine retards? Idk.
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>>59601843
>anti-immigrant themes
If you played the game they literally tell you the tower was attracting all those pokemon
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>>59602113
yeah people usually immigrate for a reason.
now talk about how the mass immigration is causing problems and a lot of characters are pretending not to see it by talking about co-existence next to a violent alpha pokemon barely contained in a hologram jail.
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>>59602119
Sorry schizobro, your headcanons are'nt real
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>>59601986
>Ange = 5G tower
lel, that's one way to interpret it. Add to that
>hostile environment benches
>Wild Areas = No-Go-Zones
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>>59601843
It's pro though as the government and corpo impose Megas and Pokemon permanently into the city. These NPCs and flavor text are supposed to depict people who you are to disagree with.
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>>59602313
The gameplay is literally about cleaning up the mess that is being caused by the wild megas threatening people
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>>59601843
Gamefreak got hit with Paris Syndrome
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>>59602015
japs got retarded for a second and let all those muslims in and then they elected a woman and somehow she was the one to get rid of the fuckers.
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>>59601986
bitch was probably inspired by ursula von der leyen
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Everyone in this thread is delusional
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>>59601843
They merely made a game with pro-corporate themes, everything else is an unintended consequence of that.
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>>59601885
dunno
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>>59602012
Japanese read the Elders of Zion and decided they needed more jews in their country.
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>>59602932
Pokemon are animals.

In europe only racists are animals.
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>>59601843
Purely accidental. WiWa is already confirmed to be based around the wef's sdg shit.
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>>59603061
>clean water
>clean air and healthy ecosystems
>no hunger
>be less wasteful
>safe and fair working conditions and job opportunties

damn GF is really pushing some radical themes in WiWa... well, after the undeniably successful boycotts launched against Gen 8 and Gen 9, no doubt the Gen 10 boycott against this extremist propoganda will have just as big of an impact
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>>59602083
No it's pro-you
You're not built like tourists, you are a blessing wherever you go and Carmine is going to have your mixed babies
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>>59602932
Saved.

>>59602124
>>59602892
>>59603053
>if you notice patterns and call them out, you are considered sub-human and crazy
Grim, but what else to expect from retards brainwashed by leftist propaganda.
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>>59602932
you can tell the writers are undergoing extreme fatigue when they're willing to entriely retcon the human-pokemon (see: the machop in vermillion city, machoke movers in rse) )connection because irl immigration (see: jeets in japan) have gotten THAT bad
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>>59603240
Only the first one is like that.
The plot of the game is that what's happening in Lumiose breaks the usual status quo.
It IS retarded though.
>>59603171
>if we say cute things that means we're correct!
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>>59603053
They're monsters, not animals.
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I'd imagine 3rd-worlders (assuming in the pokemon universe) would commit many of (horrific) the pokephilia and/or abuse
it'd be horrific to imagine what [pokemon] a Somalian would own, if ever
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>>59603248
>the blacks living so rent free in your head that you actively imagine them invading whimsical settings to rape and beat the creatures there
anon...
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>>59602932
>There’s been more Pokemon related incidents lately. But that’s the cost of coexisting.
Kek. They might as well say “immigrants are ruining the city!” and people here would still say we’re making it up
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>>59603215
I always wondered if boomers ever understood that their "memes" make them massive hypocrites.
I guess the "great" generation being raised by gunpowder and lead water was going to be brain damaged by the end.
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>>59603053
classic animals that join the workforce
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>>59602932
>People must be luring all these Pokemon into the city!
is this the first chud Pokemon game?
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>>59603409
There is no hypocrisy in their logic, only doublethink.
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>>59601843
>anti-homeless benches in the Pokémon world
Still funny.
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>>59603417
Probably 1984 was more than just a random number.
I mean, in the 80s things were so good, and then everything went to shit.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZ-CpINiqg
All the cool guys died with the coke and aids, and now we are stuck with the hall monitors and nerds.
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>>59603533
>Probably 1984 was more than just a random number.
Orwell wanted it to be set in 1948 (which was also the year the book was published) but he was told he couldn't so he swapped the last two numbers around.
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>>59603533
The 80s were shit to, for precisely the same reasons today is shit.
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>>59603542
He is probably rolling on his grave, knowing that shit happens the same every 40 years.
>1948
>1984
>2024

And 2024 is more like 2020, but you get the idea. 4 decades in (give or take), shit stays the same.
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>>59603409
>I always wondered if boomers ever understood that their "memes" make them massive hypocrites.
If they know, they don't care. They're called the Me Generation for a reason.
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>>59603551
It's never going to stop, because there will always be people who just can't be happy unless everyone else is miserable. Now, if everyone was legally allowed to kill anyone who behaves like that, maybe things would change, but good luck selling it at this point, they've already rigged the game in their favor.
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>>59602083
Is it? You merely visit the region, not settle there
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>>59603171
It's never just that simple.
Never.
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Your governments should be machine gunning those boats.
>Bu-but they're human beings too!
Don't want to hear it. To let them in by the millions would destroy you. You don't
want to become little Morocco, do you? What about little India?
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>>59603651
I agree, you are a libtard if you do not sincerely wish for the firebombing of the entire third world
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>>59603409
"Rules for thee but not for me" has always been their thing.
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>>59603651
But it's okay when Europeans show up in boats and take over other countries, right?
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>>59603819
And you're definitely not saying that because you yourself are of European ancestry, and therefore stand to gain from any system that elevates Europeans at everyone else's expense, right?
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>>59603216
You’re confusing confirmation bias with pattern recognition.
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>>59603819
Africans had civilizations you fucking donkey. And they were doing pretty well until pale apes came in droves and raped the continent.
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>>59603867
Did you not notice that he completely failed to answer my second question? That absence of an answer is the only answer we need to know that he's just a fucking rat. A cowardly, self-serving rat who will do or say whatever benefits him the most right now, even if he contradicts himself. If he wakes up tomorrow as an African, he'll immediately flip to saying that Africans should rule the world.
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>>59603878
I'd kill myself if I woke up as a nigger.
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>>59601843
The Japanese are simply a very honest people. It's not as if they are strictly anti-immigrant, but they will not hide away any possible flaws and present things as being perfect.
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>>59603899
You'll never kill yourself, rat. They may say that suicide is the coward's way out, but you're too cowardly to take the coward's way out.
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>>59603787
You're just proving his point. The locals need to fight to keep invaders out or they will be destroyed
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>>59603931
Except it's okay when the invaders are his side, unless they lose, in which case he'll probably beg for mercy from the locals, the same mercy he refused to show them before the tide turned. He wants to always be on the winning side, no matter how many times he has to switch sides. Because. He's. A. Fucking. Rrrrraaaaattttt.
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>>59603867
Not only have we given Africa trillions of dollars, but all the riches the Europeans “stole” are actually still there, still plenty of gold, diamonds, emeralds, cobalt, lithium, etc. I understand they need centuries to restore their beautiful African empires but how many more decades do you think they’ll need to be able to pave a road again?
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>>59603944
Kek what are you talking about? When did the Europeans lose during colonization?
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>>59604044
Hey buddy, you aren’t saying that bombings and shootings in Europe are increasing because Europe keeps taking immigrants from countries where bombings and shootings are common right? that’s racist, and racism is illogical.
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>>59603651
>not massacring a boat of migrants
>then you must be for them invading en mass


if you take a game series for children too seriously, you get cognitive and intellectual deficiencies.

No political discussion on the pokemon board wiill ever be more than just retards yelling at each other…

unless it’s about how racist and conservative neoliberal japan actually is. that shit’s hilarious. A lot of japanese media shoehorns in a lot of weird bureaucratic or neoliberal bullshit like they’re proud of it. Anti-homeless benches in the pokemon “utopia” is rich. Any perceived subtext about real-world immigration policy is a joke
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Pokemon is a world where racism is minimal because the race issue has long since been solved.
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>>59604057
Hey retard, how come Ukrainian refugees aren't committing crimes and attrocities en masse, even though they come from a place where bombings and shootings are common place? Sounds more like certain groups are simply more primitive and violent by nature and culture. And denying that fact makes you part of the fucking problem.

>>59604069
>>59604084
The same game series which repeatedly delves into light-hearted, non-political topics like insurrection (Plasma), wars and genocide, scarcity (as retarded that might sounds in a world full of creatures which can create energy and matter out of thin air, but it's canon, so it counts), child abuse and poverty. But surely, the ones discussing possible political ramifications of the presented lore are the retards, even when the games themselves take these premises seriously.
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>>59601843
No Gogoat shuttle in nu-miose? :(
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>>59604044
I was talking about your ridiculous contention that Legends ZA is anti-immigrant. This is a Pokemon board, stop your off-topic schizo rambling.
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>>59603533
And now you realize you're doing the same thing by idealizing a period you didn't personally experience.
90s-10s American media did an amazing job of making everything seem cool and wonderful with suburban utopias but most if not all of present day issues where there too.
It's just that the issues were easier to ignore back then, and by doing so everything has only been exasperated. And guess what, we're not solving anything in the next few generations either. That continent of trash in the ocean is only going to get bigger, the rain forests get smaller, and now we have data centers funneling resources so retards on twitter can make grok produce EPIC MEMES.

The American Dream is the best propaganda in history because despite the overwhelming poverty, failing education system and the justice system being generally ineffectual for decades the average American still has some kind of hope inside that they'll suddenly be the cool guy doing coke off escorts in their private jet. No end to the boomers who talk about winning the lottery and quitting work or young guys blowing their paychecks at casinos.
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>>59603248
(From the leak revealing what country WiWa was based on)
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>>59604030
>Not only have we given Africa trillions of dollars
*Israel
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>>59604551
Are you aware that the countries most responsible for water pollution in the modern day are not western countries?
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>>59604037
I'm just saying, he doesn't care which side he's on as long as it's the one on top.
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>>59604431
Maybe because the game's littered with clues >>59602932 hinting at that notion?
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>>59604695
Once again, you’re confusing confirmation bias with pattern recognition. No one who isn’t actively looking for examples would interpret any of those statements as anti-immigrant.
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>>59604431
>I know Japan is one of the most conservative countries in the world but I sweeeaaarrr Gamefreak actually has the same politics as a California 20 year old
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>>59603600

Actually, I feel like humanity in general has a way of overcomplicating, overthinking things. And even still, since when has something not being simple to do ever been a good reason not to do it?

>>59604044

That's if the power is concentrated at the top, among a small but dominating group of people. If the power is concentrated among the masses, then people will be more inclined to push for what benefits their lives especially as people adopt the mentality of "if my neighbor is doing better, I'm more likely to be doing better." Something like Quality Education benefits everyone because the more educated and skilled the population is, the more advancements and efficient society becomes. Same with Good Health and Well-Being. The more healthy people as a whole are leads to less strain on the healthcare system and lower costs because covering the costs of medical bankruptcies aren't being passed on to the masses and people can be more productive participants in society because they are healthy and strong. All of this requires a shift in peoples' mindsets, yes, but how people have viewed the world has changed over the centuries, so these goals becoming the worldview of the majority isn't outside the realm of possibility.

And if games made by GF that are played by millions of players and is also endored and promoted by TPC which oversees the largest IP in history, the needle can start to move. And I'm all for moving the needle, because given the state of the various countries around the world right now, arguing against this in favor how things currently are is honestly a baffling position to take.
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>>59605401
Consuming is not going to move the needle anon. No amount of good morals in fiction is going to affect reality and you shouldn't be expecting those good morals to come from the people concentrating the power at the top in the first place.
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>>59603651
capitalism is about making money sorry senpai
whites don’t reproduce, bad for economy
you vote for people that think this
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How to end racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrcFHHfCfW0
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>>59605448
No, I vote for people who hurt the people I hate! I don't want the consequences of my vote to affect MEEEEEEE!
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>STOP NOTICING
lmao they're here.
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>>59605448
all people you can vote for think this because all politicans serve the rich elites that donate to them
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>>59602083
It's pro-tourism.
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>>59601843
The eiffel tower itself raises up to fight the immigrant hordes and you, an immigrant, kills it and turns it into a moss covered relic after it was a bright shining building.

Make of that what you will
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>>59606547
On my defense, the Tower was going to kill inmigrants AND landborns, because a nepobaby didn't accepted I beat her in a children's game, so I HAD to fix that before France was deleted in it's entirety.
Fuck modern France, but I still love my cheese, wine, and croissants, so they get to live as long as I stay hungry.
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>>59603787
Correct. Europeans built civilizations out of dysfunction hellholes and wildernesses. Third worlders destroy and take advantage of systems already in place.
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>>59606590
>it's okay when WEEEEEEEE do it because we're the GOOD GUYS™, only WEEEEEEEE have the magical make bad things good when WEEEEEEEE do them powers, because whatever side I'm on HAAAAAAAAS to be the best side
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>>59607474
yeah it was wrong of whites to stop civilizations from fucking children and performing torture rituals to invisible gods.
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>>59603787
considering they've stopped shit like human sacrifice, yes
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>>59608150
>>59608252
>the world belongs to meeeeeeeeeeee and people who are similar enough to me that my brain registers them as extensions of myself!
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>>59608252
Every time I read history my head gets one question I can't never get rid off, no matter how much I doubt.
If places like Asia, Russia, and Europe managed to create big empires, why places like Africa, Australia, or America didn't? What was so different (beyond geography) that no "big" empire survived all the way to today?
The British and Spanish Crown are still standing (with less political power, but they do), China is as expansionist as it was in the past, russians believe they still own the right side of the world, and japanese traditions are set in steel, folded over 1000 million times, and worked over 1000 million times more.
But why here there was only 3? And they aren't that old, they only survived around 500 or 600 years. The Inca Empire only had about 200 before the spanish conquered them, and it was the widest.

Why the west world didn't built an empire that survived?
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>>59608320
Kek you can feel the seethe from your backwards history
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>>59608337
Are you the rat from before or a new rat? Because I've seen ships that didn't have this many rats.
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>>59608333
Stop noticing, also nice gets to spite the jews even more kek.
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>>59608333
The short answer is that they did.
The long answer is geography.
If you keep getting unsatisfactory answers then you are either asking the wrong questions or using the wrong sources. Maybe stop trying to make the square peg fit in the round hole.
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All nons should be killed desu, all it takes is a few nukes to their shitholes and piling up any invaders.
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>>59608468
>Stop noticing
Never. Because you guys (not you, but you get what I mean) get my ball rolling, and then get mad I noticed something you didn't.

>>59608484
I guess I'll never have an answer. Well, at least the temples look cool. Those are more mysterious than a castle or a "forbidden building".
Mainly because we still haven't found everything inside, so the mystery (and possible treasures and adventures) are still to be found.
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>>59603171
>says this as if "clean water/air" isn't code for "do what we want or pollution will magically happen, ignore the pollution in places like India and where it came from"
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>>59605401
>That's if the power is concentrated at the top, among a small but dominating group of people.
Which will be even more true with the advent of advanced AI, when only a handful of people or corpos control everything.
>Something like Quality Education benefits everyone because the more educated and skilled the population is, the more advancements and efficient society becomes. Same with Good Health and Well-Being.
The issue isn't those goals being bad or immoral, but how they are defined and achieved / enforced by whom. If you have bad actors, then those goals are worthless and just an excuse to push worse stuff in favor of an agenda. No one's against protecting children on the internet, but they are against more censorship which conveniently always comes along with those laws. Another example being last pandemic's free vaccines, which were more a threat than a benefit because safety checks were blatantly skipped just to have an immediate solution for a problem. And before you know it, you were one of millions of human lab rats, as info about potential health risks would be gathered after one gets jabbed.

>And I'm all for moving the needle, because given the state of the various countries around the world right now, arguing against this in favor how things currently are is honestly a baffling position to take.
>>59605438
Teaching those goals in Pokémon of all things is ridiculous, since most problems there get resolved with the inclusion of magical creatures able to generate matter or energy out of thin air. Nothing we in RL can relate to. Not to mention GameFreak just makes it really hard for scarcity or an energy crisis to have any impact, when the introduction of pokemon like Eternatus renders those existential threats illogical.
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>>59608333
Geographical and social factors, luck as well. Europe was a very dynamic place over the centuries, with lots of trades, exchange and wars going on, which forced all involved to adapt or be ruled by their superior neighbors. During colonialism and moving forward, non-European nations were simply disadvantaged, either due to being hundreds of years behind or simply missing out crucial decisions or events (gunpowder for example was longer known in Asia, but only Europeans started using it first for warfare, with success). Also biological factors; most indigenous people in America weren't killed due to guns or numbers, but because of mundane pathogens Europeans were immune or used to. In other words, a tribe being subjected to all kinds of events and misfortunes becomes stronger, another that's isolated doesn't.
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>>59608934
No no no, what actually happened is that God, with His all-knowing wisdom, looked into the future and saw that I would eventually be born as a European, so He made sure that the Europeans got a bunch of exclusive benefits and advantages so I'd be born into the best group and would never have to question my obvious inherent superiority. True story.
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>>59603787
Mate Europeans if they hadn't have been cucked by Christian Universalism they would have been the DOMINANT and possibly only race left on Earth.
Think about that.
The only ones that might have stood a chance would have been China.

You anti-white motherfuckers do not understand just how MERCIFUL the Global European Conglomerate of Empires where to the rest of the planet.
When they had technology that could have leveled every city with a port around the globe.
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>>59603867
>>59603825
Notice only the European defense got Jannied.
The Anti-white racism, perfectly fine.

4chan has Anti-white Jannies and Mods.



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