US Politician: “Anime is Why Two Nukes Wasn’t Enough”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 28, 2010 00:01 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Facebook, Internet, Mass Media, New Hampshire, Politics, USA, Video Gallery
An American politician is in exceedingly hot water after remarking that “Anime is a prime example of why two nukes wasn’t enough.”
New Hampshire State Representative Nick Levasseur, a Democrat, posted a tasteless statement on his Facebook profile decrying the survival of Japanese race:
Naturally, his comments will not endear him to anime fans, but more pressingly for him he was immediately savaged by Republicans for making “hateful” remarks, and Japanese and Japanese Americans will also doubtless be joining the queue to lambaste him for insensitive if not racist remarks.
He has since apologised for the remarks.
He is apparently no stranger to glib remarks about killing people he doesn’t like – in 2008 he was accused of listing one of his hobbies on his now defunct MySpace profile as:
“The hunting of neo-conservative Reaganites (a shooting sport brought to you by the republican party in more ways than one!)”
When confronted about the remark he threatened to report the complainant to authorities for harassment.
Fortunately, those worried about such a reprobate finding his way into the halls of power need not fret – his voting record shows he hardly ever bothers to vote in the very state legislature he was elected to.









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Damn those wacky Japanese cartoons, surely the justify more death!
Can you say ASS-HOLE... see i knew that you could!
How about LevASSeur? You know he has double letters in his name...
(stamps photo of Levasseur)
ASS!
This dick just go Fuck himself with.... a Nuke!
I lol'd
Thank you, Mr. Levasseur, for proving why I'm glad I have dual citizenship and feel safer traveling abroad with a Canadian passport.
Typical Racist Democrat
Sigh. Just another example of the depressing fact that after more than 20 years of commercial anime release in America, a lot of people still think it's all about tentacle porn.
It IS all about tentacle porn, silly!
Many people can't be bothered to be intelligent or informed. It would make things too easy on everyone, so naturally, it's "Let's condemn the shit out of everything we don't understand, because we are both smart AND logical."
What a tired game they play.
That politician is a moron, but had America not dropped the nukes, the Japs would have kept killing and raping millions more.
like your mother
But that didn't happen, did it?
Moron.
No. WWII would have ended quite soon anyway.
yeah, after they all fought to the death, forcing kids and women to kill themselves like in Saipan:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan#Civilian_surrenders_and_suicides
Also, the Russians would have invaded Japan and the country would have been split like Berlin, and the country would be drastically different today and there probably wouldnt be any anime
U.S. politicians is why crashing 2 planes into the twin towers is not enough.
That's what I would've said. The United States of America is truly the worst country in the world. 99.99999997 of the world hates us and wants us all dead. Plus, we all hate each others guts. The American Empire has outlived its usefulness. We should split the country up into smaller nations so we'd be less of a threat to the world and to ourselves. The first thing to do is to take our troops out of Japan where they don't want or need us. The sooner, the better.
A disgrace to the Democratic Party!!
BTW, I'm a Democrat and I love Anime!
What an embarrassment to Democrats, this is normally something I'd hear from someone like Glenn Beck.
This isn't to say the left is perfect, either, but I don't think it's quite accurate to say it's as bad as the republicans either. Compare this one state representative to people on the national stage saying unspeakably stupid, overly nationalistic things to please their base.
I bet this troglodyte you expect me to call a "politician" was dropped square on his face when he was a baby. And then got butthurt over how anime seems more popular than whatever trash he adores.
At least he apologized... I guess...
It never ceases to amaze me the way the left wing portrays the right as being intolerant. Lets put this in perspective:
All left wingers are socialists.
All communists are socialists.
All fascists are socialists.
Therefore, the left wing has some of the greatest leaders to ever grace the world such as: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim Jong Il, and the list keeps going on and on.
Who imposes socialism on the majority of the country? Who stifles free speech in the name of tolerance?
Also, lets just go ahead and debunk the "I'm left wing and therefore smarter" mentality. The fact is that the left wing adheres to a group mentality and mindset. Socialism is, after all, about creating uniformity at its heart. Those who are inferior tend to ascribe to the virtues of being part of a group and forcing everyone around them to be part of that group as well. If you were truly intelligent, truly independent, you wouldn't feel the need to bring everyone down to your level.
Therefore, do the world and the majority of the US (Yes, you are a minority and you only make up 20% of the population at most) a favor and wallow in your own inferiority and insignificance quietly while the rest of us actually do something with our lives.
Ah, ignorance take me back to the day when my American english teacher asked each person in class what are our fave tv show. I answered I like anime. You know how he reacted? He looked at me strange an in a weird tone said 'You like that kind of thing? I can't believe you actually watch those'..yeah, he had this idea that anime=hentai. Ignorant idiot who never heard of Doraemon or Chibimaruko Chan before.
Insulting the Japanese is a greayt idea.
They're just our largest credit holder shit for brains.
If I owed a lot of money to a bank, I'd be kissing the ass of everyone who works there to get a break.
Japan should be nuked for creating anime.
What do you mean my STATE was foreclosed on? You can't do that. YOU'RE NUKING NEW HAMPSHIRE!?
Yea, we forgave your countries debt in exchange for 1 state. That's why we're kicking you out and nuking our own property.
Japan is dangerous in culture invading, that's right, but saying two nukes wasn't enough is just like saying Chinese deserve of that earthquake, totally unhuman.
LOL, anything wrong? prove it.
I want this "politician" out of congress. Moreso because Americans never bother to pick up articles about times where japanese people say that they should've joined the Axis in Europe so they can wipe out the Americans and thus wipe out the whole comics and spandex-clad morons industry that's half-ruined by Rob Liefeld, before moving back to asia where they can monopolize the whole manhwa and manhua scene while they throw rabid dogs at the poor korean and chinese kids.
Yeah, not nice hearing that, isn't it? That's why loser pies are for everyone, not just japan.
Racist Bastard should die!
What's with the retarded way the news reporters say it? "could be insensitive"? WHAT THE FUCK? Would they have said the same thing if he had posted "dradles are proof shoving the jews into ovens wasn't enough"? No, he'd have been thrown out of office, and worse. What a crock of shit.
so is this guy really a democrat?... sounds more like a republican.
No, no... sounds more like a retard to me.
Sounds more like one of those teabaggers, to me. Japan probably sings "Another One Bites the Dust" every time an American is killed in Iraq.
Japan still wants revenge against us. World War II didn't work. The semiconductor scandal and corporate takeovers of the 1980s didn't work either.
Relations between the US and Japan is just going to get worse before it gets better. It's people like Levasseur that make ALL Americans look bad.
Levasseur should apologize for what he said, step down from Congress and commit seppuku. Jeff Zucker and Jay Leno should do the same.
He is correct: the third one should have been dropped on... Nick Levasseur.
Nothing good can come from a remark like that...
If it motivates the anime makers to actually churn out better shows, so much the better!
Why did the news play twice? With the same wording, but with a different person?
On topic, hypothetically, if no nukes dropped onto Japan, it could have altered history in a way that anime developed completely differently from how it developed into what it is today.
Though I'm assuming he wanted that third nuke in not because of anime, but because he wants lots of Japanses people dead or something, considering anime was invented before the bombings.
Good side of it now the Japanese are motivated to making more Anime titles just to piss him off :D.
And this is why we can't have nice things......
his a racist fuck and deserves to die in a fire the end.
He needs to get b& IRL.
he is gravely mistaken
anime is the result of nuclear bombs
There's a special place in hell for hateful, genocidial racists like this guy.
Maybe if there had been no anime I wouldn't have become a NEET...
Oh, no, wait, that's World of Warcraft's fault. :-[
dam americans and their nukes
@ anon 4:45
Ahhhh a person who states his opinion is more stupid than a person who states that That people should suffer more because they make anime on his "public" facebook page.......................Yeaaaaaaahhhhhh..
And I wasn't born in America and my choice to live here wasn't my choice so if your getting at that......Ahhh fail....Wasn't born here and I'd prefer Japan..Stupid person ^_^
BAM! Lol, admit it, the guy has a point. Example: look at yourselves. xD
everybody knows that lolicon and the way they show women and girls(even though it's meaningless since they are fictional) in anime sometimes is to troll the americans,just because they relate fiction to reality.:P
( ^)< united states anti anime ppl sucks and have to go to hell 3 times after diyng
the chiken sayed it...
Thank God I wasn't planning to move to Derry, NH. I'm fine in Massachusetts... or am I?
What you all have to know is that New Hampshire is like the deep south of New England so your average NH Democrat is more conservative than most Republicans. And I'm betting if any of the Republicans who are criticizing him had actually watched any Anime they would be agreeing wholeheartedly with him... In secret of course.
He should have been nuked instead,
Bloody Conceited American
What a jackass.
Few question springs to my mind...
Which anime(s) triggered that comment?
and
Why was he watching anime instead of doing something productive?
America is a crime
That's all you got?
Alright, then let me tell you who the bad guys are. They're us. WE BE BAD.
We're the baddest-assed sons a bitches that ever jogged in combat boots. We're three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, Spain, and France, roll them all together, and it wouldn't give us enough room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Hong Kong. And we've got an American Express card credit limit higher than your pissant metric numbers go. Our country's never been invaded because I'd like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning and eat railway track like pretzel sticks. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying "Cheers." Hell can't handle our birthday parties. We walk taller, talk louder, spit farther, fuck longer and buy more shit than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in New York City than King, Queen and jack-shit of all you other countries. We can project power all the way to the fucking Moon and if it wasn't for us, half of you would be speaking German and the other half Japanese. We eat countries like yours for breakfast and shit them out before lunch.
There.
Satisfied?
Is this the first recorded instance of an elected official being an actual /b/tard? Sweet.
I felt the same way after watching End of Evangelion
...then you should watch it again :)
can 4ch come out and destroy this man already?
This asshole deserves to watch Ranka Lee's Kira meme with some grapes keeping his eyes wide open until diarrhea comes out of his dick
Blame New Hampshire.
That's excellent advice for anyone!
Send a Gundam 2 nuke his house
anime is the main reason why 2 whores weren't enough for tiger woods.
Yeah, you're totally right! I learned that by reading Japanamerica by Roland Kelts. Good point.
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There are more important things to be angry about.
anime isn't one of them
True.
You know what isn't retarded? All the posters decrying him while posting shit that would be just as scandalous if a politician were to say it. You ought to be castrated with bricks if you can't recognize the difference between a private joke and public comments, and the very notion that his personal exchanges have received any attention at all is much more annoying than anything he said.
true
Damn Amerifags!
No U!
So much butthurt here. Are you neckbeards keeping your parents awake?
No, but I'm burning whatever's left of Rob Liefeld's shitpile. Next I'll start burning Joe Madureira's.
Ah, yes; a Democrat. Same party that did the Japanese-American internment system in WWII.
They love the mexicans and the hakgwei; they hate all Asians and white democrats are self-loathers.
Republicans are not much better.
What does nukes gotta do with anime? *sigh* Stupid politician...
Since we're on the issue of Politics...
Dual-Party governments are second only to Communism when it comes to corruption.
You Americans can talk all you want about Freedom and Liberty ...fact-is, you all live in a Federal-State where Money is the ruling-law and NOT Democracy.
Comparing a cartoon's nationality to acts of war, you gotta be fucking kidding me
It's quite the opposite...
The 2 nukes is what made Japan more vigilant in creating more anime...And with it, more tentacle sex!!!
Lulz.
this isn't that surprising. white foks hate everyone. especially american whites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QSUJT-1Os
He is just trying to look for Agnes attention.Maybe he is not loved by his family which love the 2d more than him.
To be honest, I would have said this if I saw something particularly lame.
Problem is, you have to be careful with what you say at all times when you're a public figure like a celebrity or a politician D:
damn political troll
Nick needs a nuke up his ass.
Extremist Democrats tend to make stupid comments like that. They seem to get a rise out of it.
we should get him a starring role in a live action tentacle rape vid , with him as the transgender loli...
fuck you, the japanese are the source of my entertainment. EVEN if they enslaved my race for a brief period, Anime and games made from ideas of them are more than a enough to satisfy our hunger for revenge ~.~.
...or he just did it for the lulz, and the PC legions jumped on him.
I think what the politician said is kind of funny. It's dark humor alright, but I like that kind of humor.
That's just my opinion and I'm not saying I have a problem with anyone else's opinion.
Ironically, WWII and the two nukes played a major part in restarting japanese culture and bringing about the coming of anime versus traditional japanese artwork.
this article is a prime example why everyone hates americans
Stop hating Americans in general based on what you hear about us. Thanks. No one likes a generalizing idiot.
Actually the reason people hate americans is because they are jealous of us. You sir are probably a butthurt european/south american/arab/asian who wishes they could live in a huge house and drive an expensive car, but instead are stuck in a tiny apartment with 10 family members.
Could we have done without some of the inferior titles if we had somehow used a "fractional" nuke?
I will murder him and then I will kill myself.
You have my blessing! Godspeed sir!
what an idiot
Politically and grotesquely irresponsible.
To make light of a horrible moment in human history when so many had to die. To use a war that cost so much incredible loss and devastation.
He owes more than just an apology to every service person that participated in that conflict. He should be fired.
I'm not saying this to defend anime, anime is just anime. I'm pissed off as an ex serviceman. He won't have many friends in uniform if he doesn't shut up. We don't like people using sacrifices as a means to a one liner.
Japan has been friends for us and do no harm for 50 years over.
The real enemy today is TEH ARABZ, which cause death and destruction on no-war zone across the world.
USA, Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world must stop the invasion of MUSLIMS, aka TEH ARABZ, by nuking that black cube to ensure peace.
transmission end.
If one thinks 2 nukes weren't enough for someone,then one of the solution is for one to shut up......or a nuke in his own arse.