• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    …do I see a Japanese and Korean flag in there? Is there something about maga cultists I don’t know?

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      Not sure about Korea but Japan has a weird little MAGA cult going on. They have had little pseudo-rallies, although I dont remember the details clearly enough to say anything else on it.

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        I know there are enough low-info or ultra national voters in Japan to maintain a bit of a maga cult-- some people just liked him simply because he screamed about CHYNA a bunch and they don’t like China. It’s just weird to see it in the J6 setting. I wonder if it’s any crossover with the manosphere bullshit about how all Japanese women are totally submissive and thus the ideal spouses for the ultramen living in their parents’ basement.

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      There’s this weird overlap between the Moonies, The Epoch Times, and the American Far Right. I think the Shen Yun group is also involved. They’ll all hard core anti-CCP and went far, far too into Authoritarian Capitalism as a result. The Moonies were the cult that Shinzo Abe had connections to and his assassin’s mother gave all the family’s money to.

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      There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam

      https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot

      The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.