Boy won't wear hearing aid because "Super heroes don't." So what does Marvel do? Creates one

croutonsoup · 2012-05-25T05:13:51.810975+00:00

Better title would have been:

Boy won't wear hearing aid because "Super heroes don't." So what does Marvel do? Creates one that does.

crashin · 2012-05-25T05:02:55.165767+00:00

If you're so well aware of the AWF, you should also know that it was only conceived of by the government; the funds come from civilian donations. On top of that, I explained in length why money alone is not adequate reimbursement, and why it should not come from civilians. You should go read it again.

This is not true, if you read carefully you'd know it actually comes from both. The reason it's semi-civilian is for political reasons - it has to be in context.

You're backtracking now by saying you were sarcastic after I quoted you. You were first saying you never said such things but then I quoted you. How much further will can you backtrack?

crashin · 2012-05-25T04:18:59.530192+00:00

Sorry but this is how diplomacy works. They're the leaders of Japan speaking on behalf of the country.

There is never a chorus of the diet reading everything together. We are at an impasse, you keep denying it by not acknowledging the treaties and resolutions which are legally binding.

crashin · 2012-05-24T17:56:28.446760+00:00

Those ARE formal government apologies. PLEASE ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE WIKI ARTICLE.

You keep saying that it's only the Prime Minister and not the rest of Japan so somehow it doesn't count, yet I gave you context that the speeches and apologies were approved with unanimous approval of the cabinet, and majority of the parliament in virtually every instance. Why? Many of these apologies were part of treaties, resolutions and commemorations making them as diplomatically solid as you can get.

Edit: Plus Japanese people are practically the Canadians of Asia now - they add "sumimasen" (sorry/apologies) behind every other sentence. You can't even be inconvenienced mildly without a long drawn out apology process. Suddenly we're supposed to believe with all this overwhelming evidence that they did, including videos that the Japanese people don't want to apologize for anything? The Japanese won't even hold a semi-important diplomatic talk without starting off with an apology for WW2, yet somehow apology speeches that require the unanimous approval of cabinet and majority of the diet is somehow "not from the government".

solinvictus01 · 2012-05-24T17:48:26.289286+00:00

By that point, I was wishing I could have nuked them both.

Yes the thought has come across sometimes.

The worst part about Mass Effect 3 is that I'd like to have been able to have my old Mass Effect 2 squad fight in my squad again instead of having Kaiden back - at least there they had quite a few memorable characters. Mass Effect 3 squad mates were kind of boring.

crashin · 2012-05-24T16:53:44.675939+00:00

Again, the way it works in Japan is that it must be unanimously approved by the cabinet and have majority approval of the parliament before the Prime Minister reads the speech. Each time its backed by monetary and other bonuses so it's not like a private thing or a one man thing either.

They're read by the Prime Ministers of Japan because it would be silly to have it read back by a chorus from the parliament. No other country does that anyway. Plus that list includes the Emperor of Japan.

Now does each speech contain everyone's signature? No. Out of the over 800 or so parliamentary officials in Japan, about 5 are part of a fringe group, you can't win them all because it's a democracy with freedom of speech. But overall they make less than 1% of representation so it doesn't matter much anyway. We have crazies in Congress too.

Japan's apologies are actually unprecedented compared to most countries - take the USA, we've never had a president that make a public speech to apologize for the massacres committed by our troops in the Philippines - we tried ti execute all Filipino boys over 10 and wiped out countless families out of bloodlust. But we won that war so the Filipinos got basically nothing.

bembo · 2012-05-24T15:16:20.859464+00:00

Killing US citizens was especially disgusting for me since Obama is an expert on the US constitution.

solinvictus01 · 2012-05-24T14:27:03.007096+00:00

Frankly I feel the same way as Forbes. Yeah, Williams is something to look at but almost nothing that comes out of her mouth is intelligent. She's like the Worf of Mass Effect 3 - you constantly have to contradict her stupidity. She's brash, she's partially why her squad died on Eden Prime. She racist and has no diplomatic skills which is a pain in the butt when it comes to civilians or races. After a while looks is not all you need in the end, you need someone with a brain as well.

Mordin and Garrus are far better bros for reasons we all know. For love interests, I think Tali (who helped you out in the beginning at great risk to herself) or Liara who dropped everything to assist you are far better love interests. Even Miranda is at least smart and has a heart underneath her cold exterior.

the_wizard · 2012-05-24T07:01:55.843034-07:00

Unfortunately no, I believe the last one was early this month. Usually there are posters are notices at your local 7-Eleven.

crashin · 2012-05-24T07:01:23.155412-07:00

Generally I think these political playing cards do more harm than good. Demanding apologies 4-5 times a year and getting it just weakens the whole thing. Makes it meaningless and creates resentment on all sides for what? So a couple of politicians can grab a few votes by flying on nationalism.

I'm tired of being tricked by that kind of game.

crashin · 2012-05-24T13:58:31.004102+00:00

As this link shows, these are apologies from the Japanese government. What you do not and refuse to acknowledge is that each apology requires the unanimous approval of the cabinet and obviously they are only read by one person not a whole chorus because that would be silly.
The current Japanese government is different from the previous Imperial Japanese government. Why refuse to acknowledge that?
The Asian Women's Fund is exactly consolidated Japanese government action to affect the comfort women. You keep pretending it either didn't happen or that it wasn't set up by the Japanese government.

Your problem is ultimately that you can't have 100% of the Japanese populace to agree on something, you're unsatisfied with 99% that you've gotten that agree that WW2 was the shame of Japan because there is still less than 1% of Japanese dissenters but can't offer a concrete suggestion on what can be done about that 1%. But this is what happens in a democracy with freedom of speech, there are going to be nutjobs that you don't like. There are Neo-Nazi in Germany that don't believe they should have ever apologized to Israel but they only make a tiny fraction of the populace, yet here you are essentially blowing up the Japanese equivalents. This does NOT negate the apologies of the vast majority to other nations and it shouldn't here.

How many straws can you grasp?

crashin · 2012-05-24T13:53:47.308101+00:00

Did you read this link or not because it's absolutely contrary to everything you're saying.

the_wizard · 1 day

I've got some. Fantasy Frontier expo in NTU, happens 4 times a year.

Here you go: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seansu/sets/72157627316308784/with/6006498468/

Beartholomew · 1 day

Some? I'd say most people never back down even if they know they are wrong. At least that's the way it is in Asia. Here in Taiwan you can have unlimited appeals, so this small team of overzealous state prosecutors have been charging the same 3 guys for a murder they didn't commit after 20+ years in court and failing time after time because they are 'losing face'.

crashin · 1 day

Yeah I agree. What else can the Japanese government really do at this point? Since the 1940's they've apologized and handed money and made monuments and put it in history textbooks and museums. There needs to be a clear demand, not "we will pretend we don't hear any apologies and anything else" on the part of the descendants of the victims because anyone educated on the matter will know that's a lie. The ball is on the court of the descendants of the long-dead victims and they should act on it instead of trying to use it as political playing cards.

It's like whenever Israel today demands free money from Germany and then uses the Holocaust card. I think today's Germans don't need to pay for that kind of thing anymore.

crashin · 1 day

I am indeed responding to claims you made. I will be quoting you below:

When I consider on top of that the fact that WWII was basically a culmination of what they've been doing for thousands of years in the past and that the Japanese government shows no signs of repenting for their actions, as someone who lives in a country neighboring Japan it makes me rather nervous. Happy 7th sexagennial of the Imjin invasions.

Okay see, there's your problem. First you incorrectly said it's something the Japanese were doing for thousands of years - is that based off anything or a huge misunderstanding of the Bushido code? I know Iris Chang says that in her book but that was thoroughly debunked by actual scholars on the Nanjing Massacre such as Joshua A Fogel.

Then you claim that Japan has never repented... and I put a link that they did many times. If you live in a neighboring country of Japan, I'd be surprised if you were ignorant of this information - which is why I came to conclude that you might have been somewhat deceptive about it or you know something I don't.

The fact that the Japanese government doesn't bother to stop or prevent textbook reforms, the fact that territorial disputes continue and are endorsed by government officials, the fact that there was no concerted effort at establishing an official stance or reimbursing afflicted parties (such as comfort women)

(I prove that it's false by providing references, especially the comfort women part so you make a rather interesting about-face...)

That being said, yes, the Japanese government offered money to the comfort women, which many (the ones who live here, at least) have turned down.

Okay so did you not know this (which is incredible if you're in South Korea) or you knew this but was spreading falsehoods anyway? This is HistoryPorn - historical facts kind of matters here. Since you mention the Imjin invasion in your first post, you already know that the South Korean government took the money intended for comfort women and used it for infrastructure, such as for the nice subway system in Seoul. The money that the South Korean comfort women rejected was from civilian funds.

As a tangent, I'm not even really comfortable with the phrase comfort women, because quite a few of these women actually don't qualify as such since they were forced into prostitution, not voluntarily. However if monuments, monetary pay, historical remembrance, and apologies don't count; what punishment should be doled out to the Japanese and what reward should be doled out to the victims? Remember quite a few ex Japanese Imperial soldiers came out with lots of important details that could have been easily covered up, such as on Unit 731 (that happened in closed doors, it wasn't a public exhibit so at the time not so many Chinese even knew it happened until after the war) their ancestors have contributed to huge civilian funds designed to recompense and apologize to the victims and their families so it can't even be said the soldiers did nothing either. Now most of them are dead due to age or other factors, what kind of punishment should be given? Should their families pay? Should someone die? I don't see what else they could do.

Same thing for the USA, I lived in Manhattan. Should we return Manhattan to the Indians? Should people kill themselves for the crimes of their ancestors? Should we jail random people? What kind of punishment should the USA do for atrocities that occurred in the essential theft of Manhattan island other than apologize and try to recompense people? How about the American war against the Phillippines? Or how about the Mai Lai massacre?

Hakker · 1 day

Whoops wrong conversion.

ldscr · 2 days

You are not all the students at NYU. At least 15 of my classmates were trust fund babies. I used to hang out at this girl's apartment - as in she owned the whole building in the East Side overlooking Central Park. It was a gift of sorts.

runswithpaper · 2 days

It's the hip bone. This is normal in skinny girls.

PaperInFire · 2 days

Actually chances are you will. This is a brilliant exception. This Israeli was basically consigning himself to death. Carrying someone down a steep treacherous mountain with little oxygen yourself in harsh weather conditions when you can barely make it yourself is a death sentence for many.

themindset · 2 days

He says he rents, he has no land, just lives off the land, he is as nomadic in a sense as your ancestors.

idonotexist12345 · 2 days

It's a combination of both.

JustMosh · 2 days

For anyone who doesn't know, it's now Michael Bay's Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles...

Hakker · 2 days

The real outrage is that this is $60...

crashin · 2 days

I remind you, that's why there is threaded comments on Reddit, so I can respond to your topic rather than only talk about what OP posted. I found what you wrote to be false and provided well sourced Wikipedia links that you either didn't read or are outright denying.

Anyway I was responding to your statements so I'm not talking about bayonetting a baby, I was talking about your false allegation that the Japanese didn't apologize, covered it up, among other false allegations. If I see a wikileaks video about something atrocious the USA did, does this mean it's okay for me to spread easily disproved lies about the USA? Should no one be allowed to respond to me in the context of my message? Should I get mad when someone disproves me and then I'll be like "But but, it's a wikileaks video" even though it has nothing to do with my false allegation?

If Japan has a long and very well documented history of not admitting to their past atrocities, prove that it is widespread? I think you're overblowing it like the way some people think that Japan has used panty machines everywhere. Even the USA has the same history of not admitting to their past atrocities - sometimes even having to be sued to do so. The problem is in Japan it's limited to 0.039% of their schools and even then it's a national debate. In the USA omitting the atrocities of the Philippine American war is seen in the vast majority of schools due to the power of the Texas Board of Education but there is no national debate over this.

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