Women “would have their uteruses removed when they turn over 30,” Naoki Hyakuta, leader of the Conservative Party of Japan, said in a stream on his YouTube channel on Friday.

On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”

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Later, Hyakuta posted an apology on his X account. “I cannot deny that the expressions were too harsh,” he said. “I apologize for those who were offended.”

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      I’ve been saying it since 2015, but it bears repeating!

      The global conservative propaganda machine — lead by the US and Russia — is using all of the data obtained from surveillance capitalism to target, A/B test, and iterate on psychological warfare across social media in real-time (as close to as the platforms allow). The most criminally corrupt and sociopathic benefit the most, as there is no limit to how depraved they will go — bots, lies, disinformation, deep fakes, utilizing actual criminal enterprises and scam operations, illegally obtained data — they will do whatever it takes to succeed.

      There really isn’t much difference between persuading you to buy a product and persuading you to vote for a political party; they both attack similar weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and the process of building the data pipelines and statistical models is nearly identical. People who knew history were always saying that this is what surveillance capitalism would lead to eventually. I don’t think any of us thought it would happen so quickly, but the lack of regulation and highly centralized nature of social media meant that a relatively small operation could access 90% of the Internet using population.

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        Persuading you to vote for their guy, or if you’re disinclined to do so, persuading you to not vote by instilling disgust/outrage (see also: “Genocide Joe”) or just a blackpilled sense of powerlessness.

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      Unchecked access to the internet by people who aren’t emotionally mature enough to handle it.

      Allowing all of humanity onto the internet when 30% of people still believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows was a mistake.

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        Allowing all of humanity onto the internet when 30% of people still believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows was a mistake.

        You are referrering to children. Right? And I’ve lived a considerable amount of my life taking this as an urban legend. Not a fact.

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      Russian state media just showed nudes of Trump’s wife during prime time tv.

      We’re in a weird spot.

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    What the fuck is even going on here, this doesn’t even align with their own weird agenda? This just seems psychotic for it’s own sake.

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      Shock and Awe. He will say some heinous shit in a few days that’s slightly less evil and that will sound reasonable to the rightoids

      Basically how Trump speech got normalized in the west.

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    Just in case anyone is wondering, this is a fringe right-wing party with one seat in Japanese Parliament’s lower house.

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      good point, but I worry about a loop of the media giving attention, making people more aware that this party exists, ignorant people give them more support, repeat. seems like a similar strategy happened in the us with our media giving trump endless headlines.

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      This is how it started in most EU countries: one MP who is an idiot, but gains in representation every election by also taking advantage of the contradictions of governing. These idiots did not use to grow, but now they do…and they are networked too now.

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    Right, so to fight the declining birthrate, they entertain the idea that women over 25 should not be allowed to marry. And on top of that, women over the ripe, old age of 30 get their uteruses removed.

    I am sure this totally would serve as an incentive to breed more and not at all make existing problems worse.

    What a baka.

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      Right? It doesn’t even make sense for their own world view. I kind of suspect a translation mistake, but then again there seems to be no limit to conservative idiocy.

      The only way it makes sense is to create an environment where women out of FOMO Mary and give birth early.

      Also imagine asking the same thing for men lol these people would lose their mind. But that’s just the usual hypocrisy

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        They reason (and I want to stress that it’s their ideology, not mine) that men can keep doing crotchspawn when they are old. So the obvious solution is to force girls to marry and get breeded by men off all ages. /s but unfortunately not so much

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          men can keep doing crotchspawn when they are old.

          But if women can’t, why would there be need for sterilization?

          I know you’re probably right, just trying to point out the absurdity.

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    Because reading those sentences severely reduced my intelect, can please someone explain the brain dead logic of that loon? in very simple terms

    What is to gain from sterilizing women? In a severely aged country with low birth rates, as it is?

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      Its a threat to woman that if they don’t get married young and have babies, the government will hurt them.

      That it. Do what we say or else. The standard conservative line with women.

      With trumps win, expect more of this. Being a complete piece of shit clearly works, so this will only escalate. Getting attention, even by being a vile misogynist, is a winning move now.

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        I would very much enjoy having the reasoning behind that low bar explained to me.

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          There isn’t one. They are repeating a technically kind-of-true funny ha-ha internet factoid.

          The effective age of consent is higher, as prefectures all have local laws setting it to something sane, but people say it’s 13 because it was the old national minimum on record up until last year.

          And that national law was literally from over a hundred years back, and was finally updated last year to raise the national minimum to 16. Still lower than the 18 in effect in places like Tokyo.

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              That’s a completely different conversion.

              And you might want to check Japanese conviction rates before making assumptions. Their system is damn near “guilty until proven innocent”.

              Now, whether such crimes actually get reported, is again, another, different conversation. There absolutely are vile predators over there, as a judge publicly commented he thought it was weird he could get arrested for banging a 14-year-old.

              But the ensuing scandal is also the reason why that dude is no longer a judge, and why the national minimum finally got raised.

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                Good to know.

                I had the opportunity to socialize for some time with an immigrant couple in Japan for about 20 years and everything that transpired was essentially against modern liberal egalitarian social norms.

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                  Yeah, things aren’t clear-cut. There are several matters in which Japan is painfully behind, and being such a populus country you can find people with views across the board.

                  But a lax justice system isn’t one of them. In fact Japan almost certainly has a huge problem with ostracising and convicting the innocent. You might hear about people losing their jobs just for getting arrested, even if found innocent.

                  And while laws also definitely need improving, it’s happening.

                  The main problem with stuff like age of consent, is going to be communities and groups of people who are behind on these things, and thereby shielding individuals from justice by keeping the bad things happening out of earshot of society at large. Their justice system might be brutally ruthless, but that doesn’t help if it never finds out about the crime in the first place.

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        Not since last year, when it was raised to 16.

        Even then that was the national minimum set over a hundred years ago.

        In practice it’s 18 in most prefectures, and has been for years, due to local law setting it to something sane.

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    Maybe a Japanese politician should be aware of his country’s history on the matter before discussing forced sterilization…