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Obligatory this is not medical advice, but what happens if you "say," for example, "eat shit, Sarah, I don't care about you"?

A few Zionist stragglers exist, but they almost invariably get downvoted to oblivion.

I mean, the capital is all there. If Uber doesn't hire these people someone else will, or they can start their own operation as a workers' co-op.

They know, and consider that a threat.

Maybe the real progressives were the Democrats we made along the way.

Yes so New Yorkers need to get out there and raise hell if Trump even so much as tries to touch Mamdani. Fail to do that and democracy is well and truly dead.

Unless we cut taxes and encouraged investment in Canada and grew GDP at a non-per capita level.

I mean this strategy has failed pretty decisively on multiple fronts over the last dew decades all over the globe. Cutting taxes means weaker social welfare, leading to an unhappy population and a one-way ticket to fascismland.

It has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with unaccountable authority.

I mean, they're two sides of the same coin. Authority capitalizes on bigotry (and division, more broadly) to avoid accountability.

But I'm charmed by how they describe Japan as a nation where omnipresent surveillance is still not considered normal. This wasn't the case with the EU 5 or 10 years ago.

Fair enough.

I mean, one look at Japanese work culture should be all demonstration you need for that.

Wow, it's actually amazing how far they can combine self-awareness and denial so effortlessly.

The only reason Japan isn't in the same boat as America and Europe (yet, far-right parties are slowly rising in popularity) is that they never got on the immigration train, so their population is mostly homogenous and there are few things for bigots to complain about. Of course, this came with a price; the dismal state of Japan's industry, academia and economy compared to other first-world countries is at least partially due to their rejection of immigrants. Of course, they can't keep this up forever, which is why they've been recently allowing more immigrants in, fueling the rise of the far-right. Unless they can change rapidly, what Japan is "enjoying" now is the calm before the storm. "Still has something appearing to be a democracy" is how the EU was described five years ago.

And that's pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.

I mean, looking at the Lost Decades it seems to be quite the opposite. Sometimes it helps to take things slow, but other times you really have to think "come on get on with the times already".

I mean, screw his housing policies but immigrants are pretty much the lifeblood of developed economies. You cut that stuff and GDP takes a pretty strong hit. The end of the low-immigration path is a Japan-style slump, which is... not fun.

In that case anime is your best friend. Well, and any other Japanese video content. Even with subtitles it helps your ears get used to the language.

In case that wasn't clear, I'm cheering on the hopefully impeding dissolution of the US here. If America becomes a bunch of small to medium-sized state Great Satan might finally stop spreading death and destruction on the other side of the world. The more dysfunctional the Union becomes, the more states are going to want out, so yeah.

this is a bad sign.

Some of us out there consider it a very good sign, but yeah potato potato.

Wow, two hours in and nobody taking a dig at the Catholic Church yet.

Small tip: でも can only be used to start a sentence; for connecting two halves of a sentence you should use けど or が depending on formality level.

China is the answer. Nobody does anything about North Korea for the same reason China doesn't invade Taiwan.

Learned Japanese on a whim so I could watch anime without subtitles. Now by complete coincidence I'm in Japan and not banging my head against the nearly insurmountable language barrier (Japanese people are really bad at English).