I think it's just cultural although that's a problem. Even their language emphasizes hierarchy and otherness with the honorifics and how they work.

But they've been doing right wing economics and policies since the 90s and have been in a permanent recession since then. It's the definition of insanity.

And they basically just elected Trump in a dress.

I know the Yakuza there are used as Union busters. I used to wonder why they didn't have any push for unions like we did here and that's why. In America the unions cuddled up with organized crime to get the muscle they needed to push back against the Epstein class but Japan didn't have that because the upper crust got to the organized crime first.

In America we use racism and homophobia to divide the working class along with certain religious divides but I don't quite get what does it in Japan. They are ridiculously homogeneous. Then again I sometimes meet people from Maine who are racist against black folk and I know that they come from towns where the only time they see a black guy is when a new Michael Jackson album came out

When you radically increase the number of interactions with police you slightly reduce crime and you greatly increase the risk of innocent people being killed and the incidence of them being killed.

This is just a fact. If you want to reduce crime you fight it with social solutions like fixing the economy and fixing wealth inequality and more education not by sending more cops to beat the shit out of people.

All more cops do is broken windows policing which is where the cops constantly bust people from minor infractions which cause them problems in society leading to more problems and more crime. It's like the whole thing where Batman is creating his own villains.

You need a handful of police to stop crazy people with guns and they need training in de-escalation not military assault. You also need a handful of police to prevent people from doing dumb things in cars because public transportation is for weenies.

The basic problem we are all dancing around is that we heavily militarized police and then we trained them to believe they're in a war zone. Seriously go look up some cop training especially the stuff they get after the academy and it's basically military training but more ridiculous and extreme. The cops view themselves as an occupying force in constant danger. They are trained to think of themselves like soldiers in Vietnam surrounded by Charlie...

So since we can't reduce the number of police and fix all the social problems because voters won't go for that people have been trying to reduce the number of times police interact with the public. It's an incredibly stupid way to solve a problem but as the saying goes America will always do the right thing after it's tried everything else

They have a massive database with social credit scores for everybody. So the cops can check that and find out if you're wealthy or not. That way they only kill the right people.

So check your bank account if you've got at least 10 million in there you're probably okay. Although you probably need to multiply that by a factor of 10 if you've got the wrong skin color

Every piece of information that people have gleaned from you goes into a database that a private company maintains with your name on it.

Police have access to this database and when they pull you over they run your plates, pull up your name and check the database to determine how dangerous they think you might be.

So far I don't think there have been any death because of it but realistically it's only a matter of time and statistics.

One of the things I've noticed is that when it comes to threads like this you never see the right wing show up and comment. They avoid these threads like the plague. Because a mass surveillance Network run by the people at the top of the hierarchy who they worship for being at the top of the hierarchy doesn't gel with their worldview.

That's kind of the problem with being a right winger. It's the old joke, reality has a left wing bias. So if you're going to be all right winger you've got to stay in safe spaces and avoid threads like this where your ideas might be challenged by reality and facts. Basically go back to Ben Shapiro who tells you that you have the facts after all.

You know this would probably be more true if the Republican's had come to their senses and nominatoed Nikki Haley or even DeSantis instead of Trump in 2024 but there's an ever-increasing possibility that Trump's absolutely inability to govern is going to turn the public against those policies.

Immigration for example, the concept of "abolish-ICE" was fringe lefty shit 2 years ago and now it's going mainstream. Also on that topic for all the circus of mass deportations have American's seen positive results from that? Is the job market better? Is inflation going down? Is crime going down faster than it was already? The answer to all that is no and people are starting to see that and some, (definitely not all because for many this was always just a bigotry based position) are realizing that the "your problems are immigrants" people were selling them a lie, and it's always been a lie.

The Republicans have also pretty much bled away all their gains with minority voters because they just can't stop being racist.

The truth about the immigration issue was never a lack of enforcement dollars but enough funding for the legal system around it, judges and courts along with reforms to the refugee process, which is exactly what the Lankford bill would have improved and what Harris would have signed so we'd have ended up with basically the same or better result.

Same with climate change, same with taxes, same with the courts where we now have more mainstream politicians talking about SC expansion and the public being more open to it.

The silver lining of Trump may be that he ushers in an era of a second New Deal because he managed to be such a colossal fuck-up.

Please link us to one actual signed deal.

There has been exactly one signed deal, the 2015 JCPOA because Obama was a better negotiator than Trump and actually understood how international relations and incentives work.

There is no "gulf coalition" because Trump is a terrible leader who is incapable of building coalitions. That's your boy you put your chips on and are too chickenshit to show your face now, a real dumbfuck following bigger dumbfucks. Seriously, eat shit.

Everyone trying to answer this with technical responses is just dead wrong, sorry.

The explanation is simple: Republicans have been claiming "climate change not real" for 40+ years now and in that timespan the actual evidence keeps stacking up against that, it was already stacked up in the 90's.

So what's a political party to do when faced with overwhelming reality? Change course in light of new evidence? No, make your new reality with force.

That's all this is, a continued denial of reality because Republican politicians and voters would rather die than have to admit the libs were right about this, because after all if they were right about this what else could they be right about?

The same reason you see folks here whip out the same tired arguments about wind and solar power we've been hearing for 30 years.

What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state."

Oh like say, Peter Thiel or the other cadre of billionaires taking advantage of Sleepy Don?

Also you admit there is 0 evidence of "autopen" anything with Biden right? That it is in fact a fabricated story that you fell for? Meanwhile Trump can't even explain what EO's he's signing and falls asleep during cabinet meetings.

This is the Republican playbook and too many supposedly smart folks here fall for it like a 78 year old grampa. So ready to eat slop all because you all love chicks with dicks too much for your psyche to deal with.

Critical infrastructure to the internet. But it's good for corporate profits when we do that because it means you can have remote monitoring on a dirt cheap Network. And corporate profits matter more than your water supply.

Irony really is dead.

We will build our own inputs with blackjack and hookers!

It was supposed to be about jobs coming back but it looks like it's so painfully obvious that was a lie even the Trump cult can't pretend anymore. After all Donald Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted on television that even if the factories came back the jobs wouldn't because of automation...

So now it's no longer about jobs I guess it's about making a deal! I feel like that's a shift we didn't notice the TDS crowd make.

It would be hilarious that manufacturing jobs have gone down thanks to Trump's bullshit if it wasn't so fucked up and tragic. We lost 23,000 jobs last month I can't even imagine. And still his cult are waiting for orange Jesus to save them. There's video of people crying because they're approaching bankruptcy and homelessness pleading with Donald Trump to save them. It reminds me of North Korea really

Dude it's a bot. America is in the middle of its election cycle and this midterm is a huge deal because it could potentially slightly reign Trump in and slow down project 2025.

Sad thing is if we had spent all the money the billionaires are going to spend on this election on jobs we wouldn't have lost 23,000 of them last month

Because the weird Astro turfers show up on this dying forum. Normally nobody's going to pay it somebody to post to this dead old technology forum but when we're going into an election season yeah there's unlimited money. It's really bizarre. As if anyone cares about what anyone around here says or does.

But when 90% of your news media is billionaire owned and they have literally trillions of dollars because we gave it to them I suppose it doesn't matter how much money gets spent on propaganda and Big brother bullshit like this.

It is weird seeing the levels of TDS. We lost 23,000 jobs last year I see people crying and pleading for the Donald to save them. I don't understand why people can't put two and two together and get past their crippling addiction to Trump but I guess that's what happens when a third of your population joins a cult

- Except for solar every power generation system requires concrete. Coal and gas plants aren't built on soil and nuclear takes ungodly amounts of concrete. This is a nonissue bad faith talking point.
- Metal is recyclable and turbine blades last the life of the unit, 20-30 years. Link a source for the 7-10 claim. Also landfills are fine, do you think your cities trash ends up as fairy dust?
- If you think 300 gallons of oil is a big deal you don't know anything about industrial machines. Look up KT3406E on Youtube, he refurbs CAT engines and I was surprised many of them are filled with drums of oil instead of quarts. Also you do think a gas turbine takes no lubrication? Nonissue bad faith talking point.
- Notice the tricky bad faith language here, It takes 3~5 years to install a wind farm. A "farm", that means dozens or hundreds of turbines, he's trying to make you think a single turbine takes that long. Meanwhile there's a decade long waitlist to get gas turbines.

Your entire post is a worthless racket.