A new study has been published by researchers from Tokyo University with the horrible title of “Anti-vaccine rabbit hole leads to political representation: the case of Twitter in Japan”. The authors set out their agenda from the first sentence of the abstract.
I have never been a fan of the term anti-vaxxer. In fact, I don't even know how to spell it correctly. I prefer to call myself an anti-bullshit platformist. This concession has led me to the current situation I find myself in: unvaxxed and unmasked. I am a walking advertisement for the absurdity of this all, yet no has ever confronted me and asked why I am still alive.
Up, down, left, right it is utter madness when they assign political reasons for refusing an experimental injection or any injection for that matter. I refuse because I am concerned for the present and future health of my body, they are trying to keep the conflict and hate alive and will reach for anything to back up their cause. They put you on one side, give you a name then stir up as much resentment and hate they can muster. This "anti-vaxxer" rhetoric needs to die a death it richly deserves.
I just love that something so retarded as this can be called research AND get published! Thanks for the great laugh, Guy! I owe you yet another beer...
I wonder if the authors couldn't find people who are neither "anti-vaccine" nor "pro-vaccine", just apolitical. My children definitely belong to such a group! They don't care about or trust TV or the gov. Oh, they don't live in Twitter/X!
After reading Lee Fang's substack article on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on social media I wonder how many of those pro-vax accounts are industry promoted or nudged.
Seems funny that the characteristics they describe for 'low' accounts ('like games and anime, encompassing terms such as “adult” (mature content), daily life....No political keywords are present') sound just like the bot accounts that seem to plague X - is it different in Japan? Intrigued to know what table talk role-playing games and Uma Musume (name of a game) are.
My wife and I both voted for Sanseito on the basis that they were the only party clearly speaking truth about the coronahoax but their anti-globalist policies and interpretations of the historical conditions which brought us up to this point were also spot on.
There appeared to be some shenanigans with the voting as for some reason the amount of votes for the proportional representatives (where you vote for any party) was less than the votes for the local constituencies (even though Sanseito didn't run candidates everywhere), when the opposite would be expected to be true. They ended up about 100,000 votes short of getting a second seat in the Diet.
Shortly after the election, an Israeli newspaper had a picture of Kamiya Sohei with the headline "Japanese politician who railed against Jewish finance wins seat", so it seems their tentacles everywhere. Kamiya has been leading the charge for getting the government to recognize vaxxine injuries as he has chaired many of the meetings where the Ministry attends to make excuses for what happened.
Kamiya has made an alliance of sorts with the CDP's Haraguchi Kazuhiro who was diagnosed with cancer after the jabs and has also been speaking out against the dangers in public and in the Diet. Another CDP politician demanded the jabs be stopped in late 2022 citing the excess deaths (and his unabating arm pain) but Kono Taro said the CDC hasn't disclosed any reason to stop, which is a good indication of who is running things in Japan. Nevertheless, most of the opposition parties are useless and controlled.
I had hopes for Reiwa Shisengumi at one point but Yamamoto Taro wore masks everywhere, did not acknowledge what was happening with the vaxx and even made a point to try and pressure government to test raw sewage for spike proteins, so he lost me. It's obvious now he is a plant using populism to drive forward anti-Japan policies.
Sanseito was ranked 3rd among political parties for 10-19 year olds who found many of their speeches on TikTok, so that bodes well. Unfortunately, the party has been dealing with lots of infighting in the past year and some key members have left with no one else picking up the slack. Two steps forward, one step back.
Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs and everyone is against everything the LDP does.
I have never been a fan of the term anti-vaxxer. In fact, I don't even know how to spell it correctly. I prefer to call myself an anti-bullshit platformist. This concession has led me to the current situation I find myself in: unvaxxed and unmasked. I am a walking advertisement for the absurdity of this all, yet no has ever confronted me and asked why I am still alive.
Up, down, left, right it is utter madness when they assign political reasons for refusing an experimental injection or any injection for that matter. I refuse because I am concerned for the present and future health of my body, they are trying to keep the conflict and hate alive and will reach for anything to back up their cause. They put you on one side, give you a name then stir up as much resentment and hate they can muster. This "anti-vaxxer" rhetoric needs to die a death it richly deserves.
Pardon my language but F*** vaccines and F*** those who push them.
I just love that something so retarded as this can be called research AND get published! Thanks for the great laugh, Guy! I owe you yet another beer...
I always felt it was leftist pushing the jab as most are without common sense, so that’s the opposite of Japan’s research.
I wonder if the authors couldn't find people who are neither "anti-vaccine" nor "pro-vaccine", just apolitical. My children definitely belong to such a group! They don't care about or trust TV or the gov. Oh, they don't live in Twitter/X!
After reading Lee Fang's substack article on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on social media I wonder how many of those pro-vax accounts are industry promoted or nudged.
https://www.leefang.com/p/moderna-is-spying-on-you
Seems funny that the characteristics they describe for 'low' accounts ('like games and anime, encompassing terms such as “adult” (mature content), daily life....No political keywords are present') sound just like the bot accounts that seem to plague X - is it different in Japan? Intrigued to know what table talk role-playing games and Uma Musume (name of a game) are.
Thanks for the good summary.
My wife and I both voted for Sanseito on the basis that they were the only party clearly speaking truth about the coronahoax but their anti-globalist policies and interpretations of the historical conditions which brought us up to this point were also spot on.
There appeared to be some shenanigans with the voting as for some reason the amount of votes for the proportional representatives (where you vote for any party) was less than the votes for the local constituencies (even though Sanseito didn't run candidates everywhere), when the opposite would be expected to be true. They ended up about 100,000 votes short of getting a second seat in the Diet.
Shortly after the election, an Israeli newspaper had a picture of Kamiya Sohei with the headline "Japanese politician who railed against Jewish finance wins seat", so it seems their tentacles everywhere. Kamiya has been leading the charge for getting the government to recognize vaxxine injuries as he has chaired many of the meetings where the Ministry attends to make excuses for what happened.
Kamiya has made an alliance of sorts with the CDP's Haraguchi Kazuhiro who was diagnosed with cancer after the jabs and has also been speaking out against the dangers in public and in the Diet. Another CDP politician demanded the jabs be stopped in late 2022 citing the excess deaths (and his unabating arm pain) but Kono Taro said the CDC hasn't disclosed any reason to stop, which is a good indication of who is running things in Japan. Nevertheless, most of the opposition parties are useless and controlled.
I had hopes for Reiwa Shisengumi at one point but Yamamoto Taro wore masks everywhere, did not acknowledge what was happening with the vaxx and even made a point to try and pressure government to test raw sewage for spike proteins, so he lost me. It's obvious now he is a plant using populism to drive forward anti-Japan policies.
Sanseito was ranked 3rd among political parties for 10-19 year olds who found many of their speeches on TikTok, so that bodes well. Unfortunately, the party has been dealing with lots of infighting in the past year and some key members have left with no one else picking up the slack. Two steps forward, one step back.
Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs and everyone is against everything the LDP does.
I think to best response to this study’s authors is, “Baaaaa.”