Japan spent 17 years developing its premium “Red Princess” citrus, priced at ¥500 each. Just months after launch, Chinese sellers flooded Taobao with stolen saplings grown in China.
When confronted, one Chinese farmer smirked on camera: “Don’t you also hope that Chinese people can eat delicious fruit?
Ehime farmers and officials are left heartbroken and powerless.
The """chosen""" one just drove up to me in a highwayman, showed me his pip-boy with this EXACT post and said "I am the reason you don't have this" before driving away cackling
I don't know if you meant this as a joke, but America is quite literally a Shinto nation that just doesn't admit it, and I will absolutely talk anyone's ear off defending this.
America is a land of millions of gods, living spirits, ghosts from a thousand battles, and yokai/cryptids behind every tree. American gods are real figures of flesh and blood who attained godhood through mighty deeds: John Henry, George Washington, Johnny Appleseed, Lewis and Clark, Grant, Lee, Patton, Edison, Armstrong, Glenn, and millions more. Americans invoke these gods, fight for these gods, and lay down their lives for these gods. You can go to Graceland or Gettysburg and meet these gods yourself. There are family gods known to few, national gods known to many, and everything in between. Your gods fought in wars and touched the Moon.
American spirituality literally grows from the land. America saw the mighty canyons, perennial geysers, mountainous redwoods and mighty rivers and fell to her knees before them, and then Americans added to this pantheon by hewing their gods' faces into solid rock and building new canyons that lit up the desert. Americans turned Death Valley into a paradise, touched the face of god in space, and made the hamburger 50 cents. America knows and loves the machine gods in their cars, their computers, their tools. America's values are those of thrift, effort, constant creation, and an eternal clear-eyed and total war against the darkness on behalf of the betterment of man, beast and god alike. You know and love your gods because you fight for them and they fight for you.
I'm ranting, but you get the point: America may be one of the most Shinto non-Shinto countries on Earth. You're all just too scared to admit it because "American folk religion" sounds hokey or whatever, and yeah, there should be a better name for it, but that's what you are and you should be incredibly proud of who you are.
I absolutely love talking about both Shinto and America, so please, I will yap for HOURS if anyone wants to talk about it.
Americans will have a flag code that mandates that their old flags are sacrificed as burnt offerings to their gods Before they wear out, on a holiday that religiously venerates their flag, and will then look me straight in the eye and tell me they don’t practice Shinto.
Turks are now much more eligible for being considered White due to their proven ability to co-opt initially insulting memes as their own identity.
Non-Whites can’t do that. More investigation is needed.
Trotskyites? Kuffar.
Leftcoms? Kuffar.
Democratic Soycialists? Kuffar.
Maoists? Kuffar.
Anime pfp? Kuffar.
Gamer? Kuffar.
Rightist? Kuffar.
Liberal? Kuffar.
Genuine belief is decisive only for those who follow the golden, revolutionary path of Marxism-Leninism. The rest are devolving into apes, pigs and other nonhuman beings.
In fact it is said that apes, pigs and other human-like animals today descend from wicked people who abandoned the golden path. Lysenko’s advanced science of speciation may confirm this in the future.