‘Taigyaku Jiken’, a 1989 piece by Iri and Toshi Maruki, was inspired by the High Treason Incident of 1910
Kōtoku Incident (幸徳事件, Kōtoku Jiken), was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, as well as the execution of 12 alleged conspirators in 1911.
Uchiyama Gudō, born on this day in 1874, was a socialist Buddhist priest who opposed Japanese imperialism, oligarchic land ownership, and the rule of the Emperor. He was executed by the state in 1911 during the “High Treason Incident”.
Gudō was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 1897. In 1904, he became the abbot of Rinsenji temple in a poor area of a rural region of the Hakone Mountains. Village tradition states that every autumn Gudō would invite poor villagers to divide the harvest from the temple’s only two trees equally among themselves.
Gudō was a self-identified socialist and outspoken advocate for redistributive land reform, overturning the Meiji emperor system, encouraging conscripts to desert en masse, and advancing democratic rights for all. He also criticized Zen leaders who claimed that low social position was justified by karma.
One of Gudō’s most widely read and circulated works was a scathing denunciation of the Imperial Japanese government. Contradicting official state doctrine, he argued that the Emperors of the Imperial family were neither divine nor the destined rulers of Japan, and that their ancestors “came forth from a corner of Kyushu, killing and robbing people as they did. They then destroyed their fellow thieves.”
Due to the popularity of Gudō’s subversive publications, he was arrested in May 1909 and charged with violating press and publication laws. When police uncovered an alleged socialist plot to assassinate the Emperor (known as the “High Treason Incident”), Gudō was accused of being a co-conspirator.
In 1911, he, along with eleven other socialists, were convicted and executed. In July 1909, before Gudō’s conviction, officials of the Sōtō Zen sect revoked Gudō’sabbotship.
“When I began reading the Heimin Shimbun at that time [1904], I realized that its principles were identical with my own and therefore I became an anarcho-socialist.”
Uchiyama Gudō
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Nah, I’m just a better poster. The only 3 accounts I have are all named Cowbee, and only on .ml, grad, and bear. Not a not either, guess dehumanization isn’t a bannable offense there.
Bonus: a certain history major calls Nazis “democratic socialists,” and seems to still be stalking my accounts even after getting Rimu to ban me so they wouldn’t see my comments anymore. Pretty silly behavior, very terminally online.
decided i’m gonna get in on the “manually adding a signature to all my posts” game
A communist should be able to change a diaper, follow a trail, tend a farm, raise cattle, criticize a political manifesto, drive stick, teach a child, play an instrument, resolve disputes, organize a union, bind a wound, care for the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, read a map, mend a garment, gather mushrooms, hack a computer, and cook a tasty meal. Specialization is for the bourgeoisie.
Okay i know the google lying machine tells lies but have you considered it feels really good when you ask it “how fit was i compared to the general population when i could do a thing” and it’s basically telling me I was the most elite saiyan warrior on the planet earth
(The thing was flipping upside down on a pullup bar, crossing my legs like im seated, and doing pullups upside down. I think im too heavy now to do pullups without worrying the bar would damage the door frame)
me: just chilling, having a good time, watching video while i eat my dinner super late
video creator: haha this guy’s a fucking loser, his voice is so nasally!*
me: GUHHHH
*paraphrased ofc
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i hate how nasally my voice is, and ive had a lot of people, both friends and online strangers, make fun of me by clearly pinching their noses and repeating back what i just said. idk i try not to feel too bad because like the person in the video being made fun of is a vile loser and i know im nothing like that but idk still fucks with my head sometimes, i already feel like others see me as an annoying person even without hearing my voice so this just feeds into that insecurity
and ive had a lot of people, both friends and online strangers, make fun of me by clearly pinching their noses and repeating back what i just said.
Yo fuck them i’ll fight them
Ive always kinda hated my voice. It sounds pleasant enough to me but it always sounds just fucked in recordings. I think i’ve got some nasal issue like a deviated septum or something, idk. Like half time i can only ever breathe out of one nostril, sometimes shifting if I’m laying on one side
I’ve kinda always liked the idea of being a singer but it always feels like my nasal cavity is fucking everything up whenever I try. But it’s like, i also feel like I’m so close to having this pleasant baritone singing voice… but can’t because it’s like half my face feels like it’s full of cotton
Yo fuck them i’ll fight them
aw thank you
a nasally voice doesnt really affect singing as much, at least in choir singing which is always what I used to do. i kind of miss singing in a choir but no chance in hell im joining any church choir and that’s pretty much all that’s available to me where i live
Okay, but maybe showing your post-breakup tattoo TO the person you broke up with is a stupid thing to do
Depends on how cool the tattoo is and if it’s meant to be a flex or not and if it is if you don’t fail a critical roll that makes it look lame
Not to start the Robots discourse again, but portraying the restaurant owner as an asshole small business tyrant is excellent.
spoiler
Yes I’m watching it again for the thousanth time this movie means a lot to me
Edit: The Mutual Aid housing and medical clinic is actually incredibly fucking based, and I feel that it isn’t mentioned very often
i should stop telling myself i can’t learn chinese, if I can learn German and Spanish and forget both TWICE I’m sure i could learn and then forget mandarin at least ONCE
and you know what, i think I feel like ive been taking too seriously memories of my mom having issues with my tone (disrespectful) and I probably don’t actually have issues actually discerning tone aside from being half deaf anyway. yea that’s what i should do this summer, blow off the maybe month i could work and try to learn chinese
I think I might be kind of good at cooking maybe
In Mexico, “Nacho” is a nickname for people named Ignacio. In fact, the guy who invented the dish “nachos” was apparently named Ignacio.
you could say it’s nacho’s special
“Umm the usage of military ai would complicate on whichever is to blame for war cri-” just gulag everyone for 60 years at minimum
Dude what the fuck this Lord of Mysteries Chinese anime has a fuckin ten year roadmap planning out six seasons, three special episodes and a movie?? literally just random slop getting more planning than Marvel right now lol
lmao ive been watching this with a couple of my friends and i looked up the natopedia article on the show and saw that roadmap and was similarly flabbergasted… HOWEVER
literally just random slop
PUT SOME FUCKING RESPECT ON LORD OF MYSTERIES NAME
In 2019, 10 web novels including Great Power, Heavy Industry and Nightfall were collected in the Shanghai Library. A total of 144 works including Lord of Mysteries and Battle Through the Heavens have been collected in the National Library of China
(also this show is batshit insane, we’re like 8 episodes in and like every other minute or so something happens that has us going
. absolutely gorgeous animation though, some of the best ive ever seen )I haven’t watched a lot of chinese anime so it’s been so weird to watch. All the weird CGI stuff they do, it’s interesting to see how much effort and detail they put into certain things and then the things they skimp on (or do very weirdly, like the water in the port looking like some PS4 cutscene)
The English voice acting is fucking nuts btw like i hate some of the anachronistic dialogue choices they make but aside from that it’s really high quality
Watching this and Release That Witch it’s also kinda interesting seeing the difference in pacing decisions, like all western media always has to end every fucking episode on some fucking cliffhanger, but there’s so many episodes in both shows that just kinda end in places that make sense
All the weird CGI stuff they do, it’s interesting to see how much effort and detail they put into certain things and then the things they skimp on (or do very weirdly, like the water in the port looking like some PS4 cutscene)
honestly i dont know if there’s been a single CGI thing in the show ive disliked, although maybe im just biased because of some of the absolutely horrific cgi ive seen in japanese shows making it pale in comparison
The English voice acting is fucking nuts btw like i hate some of the anachronistic dialogue choices they make but aside from that it’s really high quality
i wouldnt know, im a sub elitist and make my friends watch everything subbed with me lol
Release That Witch
never heard of it, any good in your eyes or?
Hehehe heh, just according to jì huà*
*jì huà means keikaku•
•keikaku means plan
