2y ago

American Police

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Published in 1980 and written by the late Haruo Mizuno, a man so obsessed with American cops that he actually managed to talk the NYPD and LAPD into letting him ride along with officers, this amazing book is but one of dozens he authored on the topic. None sum up the Japanese fascination with the American power aesthetic as much as this fetish-like pastiche of uniform, hamburgers, weapons, and mountains of french fries, though. In spite of the cover, the actual material is all straightforward (even reverential) coverage of American SWAT teams and such. Dig in!
holy shit lmao
- weapons
  billy club and a milkshake
  
  Milkshake cuck
  
  (Look up the Japanese RAF, it's some fuckin wild shit and Maoism gone very very wrong)
- Japan has a high volume of wehraboos, so this should not surprise anyone lol
  
  Funniest shit ever is that those types think Jin-Roh is cool because the Wehrmacht-esque power armor and fail to see that the protagonist literally turns against the fascist government and joins the rebels.
- Oh yeah I've seen these Japanese hobby magazines before, I know of SF magazine which used to publish Ma.K stuff, Guin Saga and Gundam model kits, I think. Old school otaku stuff is neat, obviously obsessing over cops is not.
Good LORD I haven't seen this meme picture since at least 2008.
Back then we called the pictures "macros", do kids still know what that is? We're not talking about VBA here.
- I think I remember seeing this on the Something Awful forums back in the day
- "Image macros"... fuck it's been a minute
More headlines from the Burgerpunk future past
I like how this implies that he went to 5 different fast food restaurants before sitting down and gorging himself.
- John 8:7
  
  You mix a bunch of fast food restaurants together. I mix a bunch of random stuff from home with my fast food. We 👏 are 👏 not 👏 the 👏 same 👏
Amerikan Porisu! I'm doing it! I'm learning!🥳
It makes head hurt though.😅 Also, fonts and colors make everything harder.

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