I mean it’s not inconceivable for “nice” masters to be let off lightly during a slave uprising, so that tracks to an extent.

Rule 1.

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.

What?

On one hand, yes, but on the other hand you can denounce one war criminal without propping up another.

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.

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”.

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.

You’re getting downvoted but indigenous people in, say, Canada and Australia tend to be the staunchest pro-environment advocates so there’s merit to this idea.

Okay everyone, get your pitchforks ready because if he does veer off to the center and doesn’t get significant backlash from the left y’all are doomed, no two ways about it.

Why would they ever do that? Buying a new Tesla is one thing, but using one they’ve already paid for doesn’t benefit Musk. Why would there be a threshold for them to get rid of their perfectly fine car?

Uh… I guess that just happened. Insert that meme whre the ninja says “c’mon, do something”.

I think I lost a a few braincells looking at this.

“I’m not getting bought by your anti-leopard face shields! Long live leopards!”