THIS IS USA

Imagine being so colonized in the head that you treat foreign military bases as a status symbol and rape by foreign soldiers as proof of female attractiveness.

A Polish clown lecturing others that historical responsibility should eventually fade is already comedy. Poland built its modern national identity around remembering the three partitions by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, occupation, Nazi crimes, and Soviet domination. Yet when it comes to fascist Japan, suddenly: “Almost a hundred years ago.” “Everyone is dead.” “Revisionism is inevitable.” Funny how history only “expires” when the victims are Asian. And the scammer screaming “AI-generated slop” writes paragraph after paragraph in the exact same synthetic political-template prose he claims to despise. At least AI can be trained. Selective historical amnesia is harder to fix.

In 2020, they said the National Security Law would kill Hong Kong. Six years later, Bloomberg is making videos about Hong Kong fighting to reclaim Asia’s financial crown. The obituary was published too early. Hong Kong did not disappear. It stabilized, reconnected with the mainland economy, and came back with capital behind it. Singapore is a financial hub. Hong Kong is a financial hub attached to China.

China responds to Trump’s allegations of election fraud in Brazil: You tried to influence the election. Your side lost. Now you call the result “rigged.” We recognize the Brazilian people’s choice. At this point, Washington is no longer being humiliated by others. It is humiliating itself.

In 2026, Japan still needs public warnings telling men not to take upskirt photos of women and girls on public transport. Nothing says “civilized society” quite like needing illustrated instructions not to photograph women’s underwear on the subway. Too Japanese.

Reuters says China’s AI bubble has already burst. Good. A bubble bursting is not the same thing as an industry failing. China’s AI-heavy STAR50 has fallen about 40% from its July peak, wiping out roughly $480 billion in market value, while valuations are being forced back toward reality. That hurts speculators. It may also save the industry from something worse. The real danger is not an AI stock falling 40%. The real danger is letting absurd valuations grow until they become entangled with debt, leverage, corporate financing, index concentration and the wider financial system. 2008 did not become a catastrophe because house prices fell. It became a catastrophe because the bubble had already infected the plumbing. Better to puncture an AI valuation bubble now than discover later that the entire economy has been built on the assumption that every AI company deserves a trillion-dollar valuation. Sometimes a crash is destruction. Sometimes it is drainage.

When Turkish fascists say “democracy,” apparently they mean: fascist Japanese aggression, territorial dismemberment, and colonial fantasy. At least take the mask off. You are fantasizing about another collapsed empire doing to China what your own no longer has the power to do. The most ironic part? His bio says “anti-Israel,” yet he openly advocates for and supports fascist Japan—the regime that invaded China, colonized Asia, and massacred Asians, including Chinese people and Muslims. Meanwhile, the Japanese are constantly posting: “I’d rather coexist with pigs than Muslims.” “I view Islam as a terrorist organization.” “I really don’t want Muslims here. They’re hairy, they smell..." “No Muslims.” “No halal.” “Japan must protect its culture.” The stench is unmistakable. Fascist scum recognize fascist scum. The most pathetic thing in this world is to grovel before someone who will never love you back. That is true self-humiliation.

The truly interesting aspect is not that "Japan has suddenly turned bad," but rather that the national image—meticulously cultivated over decades since the war—is now being dismantled, piece by piece, by the Japanese themselves. In the postwar, Japan successfully executed a long-term rebranding of its national image: It transformed itself from an aggressor, a colonizer, and a defeated nation into an "exemplary Asian state"—synonymous with peace, politeness, order, anime, technology, and shokunin kishitsu (artisan spirit). Through anime, video games, automobiles, electronics, and tourism campaigns, Japan consistently projected an image that was entirely depoliticized and stripped of any association with war. A key reason this image held up for so long was that the Japan the outside world perceived was the very version of itself that Japan chose to export. Social media has fundamentally altered this dynamic. It is no longer just diplomats, NHK, or animation studios speaking on Japan's behalf; ordinary Japanese citizens are now speaking for themselves. They tell Muslims to "get out," spout colonialist rhetoric directed at China, South Korea, or Southeast Asia, openly whitewash fascist war crimes, and insult the victims of those wars—all while framing their xenophobia as "protecting Japanese culture." Consequently, the elements once obscured by cultural exports have been laid bare. Two other variables are also critical: long-term economic stagnation in Japan, coupled with the rise of China. The former has eroded the confidence of a nation that once saw itself as a "success story," while the latter has shattered Japan's long-held self-perception as the "only successful modernized nation in Asia." As a result, Japanese identity politics has increasingly come to rely on a sense of historical superiority, ethnic purity, and outward hostility—a way to compensate for a profound sense of loss in the present reality. The greatest irony is this: For eighty years, Japan has told the world, "We are no longer that Japan." Yet, every single day on social media, the Japanese themselves are proving: "That Japan never went away." And as for a nation's image—it may take decades to build, but it can be destroyed with startling speed. In the past, people from other countries might have come to know Japan through Hayao Miyazaki, Sony, Toyota, or Kyoto. More and more people are encountering Japanese political discourse for the first time, only to be met with sentiments like: “No Muslims.” “Get out, Chinese people.” “There was nothing wrong with colonizing Asia.” “Japanese militarism is something to be proud of.” In a way, this does more damage to Japan's soft power than any so-called "anti-Japanese propaganda" from abroad ever could. After all, the hardest form of propaganda to refute is never what others say about you. It is what you say yourself.

China’s J-20 designers are proposing something far more interesting than simply “putting a bigger radar on a fighter.” The idea is to turn multiple unmanned aircraft into a distributed airborne early-warning network. Instead of relying on one large AWACS aircraft as the fleet’s eyes, radar capability is spread across multiple platforms. One node is lost? The network keeps seeing. Several are lost? Coverage degrades, but the entire force does not suddenly go blind. The real shift is simple: Old model: protect the eyes. New model: give the entire swarm eyes.

First it was “100 years.” Then “250 years.” Now “500 years.” Keep going. Maybe by tomorrow you’ll invent 2,000. None of your bargain-bin historical fan fiction changes the present. China’s population, industrial base, economy, military capacity, technological depth, diplomatic weight and global leverage all dwarf Türkiye’s. That is the part eating you alive. So you keep digging through Chinese dynasties, desperately searching for some old wound you can lick for psychological compensation. Pathetic. You are not studying Chinese history. You are begging history to give you a victory that reality refuses to provide.

If Confucius Institutes are really such a terrifying national-security weapon, China has been wasting a fortune on coast-guard ships. Why send vessels to drive out illegal Philippine incursions? Just install loudspeakers on the reef and broadcast the *Analects*. “子曰——” Apparently 2,500-year-old Confucius is now more dangerous than missiles, warships, and coast guards. At this rate, Washington should designate Chinese philosophy a weapon of mass instruction. 😂

Automatic translation has completely destroyed the image of two countries: Japan and Türkiye.

Turkish fascists tell their “Japanese brothers” not to be ashamed of what Imperial Japan did in WWII, but to be proud. The same Imperial Japan under whose occupation around four million Indonesians died — in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Then these massacre enthusiasts scream "Israel is slaughtering Palestinians" and lecture everyone else about genocide. Apparently Muslim lives matter only when the killer fits their politics. When Fascist Japan does it, suddenly mass death becomes something to “be proud of.” Meanwhile, the Japanese are screaming: “Deport all Muslims.” “Japan does not need Muslims.” “No Muslim burials in Japan.” Even Japan’s own embassy in Indonesia has felt compelled to issue a warning, urging Japanese tourists not to rape local underage girls. Apparently fascism makes strange bedfellows. The Turks once committed genocide against the Armenians and have consistently carried out massacres against the Kurds— now, these terrorists have recognized themselves in the mirror.