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Oh you want more? How about:

number of medical bankruptcies?
Lack of workers rights?
The school to prison pipeline?
Lack of mental healthcare?

Capitalism, sure, but how about child labour in first world countries?

Okay, so how many times do you think a student has to be caught vaping for even half of these things to be justified?

That was part of the problem with the story. How many times had this person been caught?

Considering she was already student council president and captain of a debate team and legal minimum punishments were enacted, I would guess first time.

By high school you should have a pretty good grasp on how rules work

By high school you should also have a pretty good grasp on how the punishment should fit the crime and how zero tolerance policies go way fucking overboard.

The regulations outright stated that it has to be allowed. So they knew it was going to be allowed on iOS. Like I said, the only question was how: Mozilla didn't know what the mechanisms made by Apple to make this work would look like, but that can be worked out fairly easily later, once they have a working build.

They didn't have to. The EU regulations have been public for a while now, the only question was how Apple was going to comply.

Imagine what the developers of Rogue must feel. Games in that vein are still called Rogue-likes 43 years later

They didn't directly take BoTW's sound track and put it in. The most they did is use very similar concepts. Which is legal.

Pokémon doesn't own the concept of cute magical anime animals either. Infact I'm pretty sure it's a common anime trope.

If they could do shit about this, Digimon and Yokai Watch would not exist.

Well no shit, it's copyright infringement. That's what DMCA Safe Harbour provisions are there for.

They're being forced, by nothing more than the mere reality of their situation, to accept outside culture because their societal failures have led to their own population death spiral.

No one forced their hand or made them take on such damaging traditions and policies. No one is forcing the Japanese to take on elements of other cultures.

Try doing a bit of research before spouting nonsense theories.

Right but the history behind Native American beauty pageants takes place in the aftermath of ethnic cleansing and subjugation. You simply can't divorce the two subjects because they affected everything in their culture and way of life.

Ethnic cleansing, put simply, is the form the whitewashing took form of, and it took everything from the Native Americans. Their homes, their land, their history, their identity, their cultures were either all gone or held on by a thread.

It has taken so fucking long for them to rebuild even a fraction of what they had, and the pageants were part of that process, an attempt to rebuild an ethnic identity from the ashes.

Japan never had that history. The Japanese were not nearly wiped out by European colonialists, they were not hunted to the point of extinction and cultural death. Their issues right now stem from their own societal failures.

So when you invoke native American history as a comparison, you should consider the context. In your example, it would be understandable that people might be offended if a white person won a native American beauty pageant because their entire race and culture was pretty much completely wiped out by white people, and this could be seen as someone trying to take yet another thing from them.

Japan doesn't have that history with white people, so that comparison with Native Americans simply does not stand, and trying to make it stand is kinda belittling to the native Americans.

It's absolutely insane, especially when it comes from those who claim to want to preserve ethnic identities.

If they're gonna invoke other national identities in conversation, the least they could do is learn about them. If anything drawing comparisons to ethnic cleansing over a fucking beauty pageant is more insensitive than pretty much anything else in this thread.

Other than their connotations that someone cannot be a real Japanese because of their skin colour, that reminds me a bit about America's history of treating black people.

Have you considered maybe that the Japanese are nothing like the Native Americans, and that what's happening in Japan has nothing to do with racism against the Japanese?

Oh fucking get over yourself.

The Japanese are hardly an oppressed people, at least by outsiders. They're a first world country. With their own customs and culture.

The only dangers to their identity have been those of their own societal making.

Japan's native population has been in critical freefall for a long time not because of any white person interference, but because their culture has become increasingly incompatible with family life for a significant amount of their population. If you thought America had an out-of-whack work culture, your jaw would hit the floor when you see what salarymen and salarywomen over there go through.

It's not like they've been pushed out by a colonial force with some manifest destiny bullshit. The problem here simply isn't whitey.

Mario + Rabbids

There's a bit of a tonal difference between an unrealistic, brightly coloured cartoony hand cannon not unlike mega man and an AK47. Just saying.

And let’s not pretend that Pokemon isn’t a glorification of actual fighting to solve things and go up the ladder…

The thing is, Nintendo puts a hell of a lot of effort into pretending exactly this. Not to mention the similarities to IRL various animal fighting tournaments that are absolutely fucking barbaric.

edit: changed comparison slightly. The Rabbids guns are even more cartoony than I remembered.

There is basically only one or two people involved with any sort of denuvo cracking, someone named Empress and another I can't remember.

Who is the second one referring to?

Here's the thing though, COVID can linger for a long ass time, especially in a population. And it only needs one unwary cave explorer to disturb the bats and get bitten.