It’s projection all the way down. Every accusation is a confession.

100% this. This exactly how they operate and nothing will stop them. There is no moderation or honesty in anything they say or do.

You can’t convince me this and the trump shooter aren’t right wing gambits.

Liberal and liberty have the same root — libre — freedom. There’s nothing in the word itself that is inherent about individual freedoms versus collective freedoms. Balancing the responsibilities and liberties of the individual versus the group has been in tension for as long as society has existed. Japan in particular tends to prioritize group needs over individual. You just pulled most of that shit directly from your ass.

Now to answer the actual fucking question: Japanese culture tends to prioritize stability, seniority, and lineage — as such Japan is essentially a one party democracy — and history has settled on the LDP for that. If you actually want to be in government then you need to join the LDP. For the minor interludes where a non LDP party was able to build a governing coalition, it has generally been considered a mistake by the electorate.

While on the surface the LDP governs, the LDP itself is *highly * factional. When Japanese PMs resign they’re usually pressured from within the LDP and replaced from within the LDP itself. And though the LDP are usually the leading party, they often require a coalition with other right wing parties. Those parties effectively act as cadet LDP factions.

While in the US you have only two highly monolithic parties, in Japan you have one very fractured party, and bunch of right wing partners. The LDP is right of center, but in Japanese politics it’s about as left as government gets. The Japanese themselves value stability, conformity, and the collective good. Post WW2 the US was afraid of communism in Japan and did a lot to maintain a center right establishment. In the 1970s the far left did a lot delegitimize themselves.

I’m sorry — I’ve been told for a very long that the only thing you can axe is the tax.

Get lost. Getting a yearly booster isn’t an obsession, its good planning. We’ve been doing that for decades before Covid. Fuck off completely. Civilization is tired of your shit.

Why can’t you get a job anymore?

But that’s no different from any other kind of conflicting evidence in any scientific process. What’s required to distinguish plausible from not isn’t “intelligence” per se, it’s determination to continue asking more questions in order to gather more data.

For example if one source says “tariffs will pay off the debt”, and another says “tariffs will cause inflation” reasonable disambiguating questions to ask might be “have tariffs paid off the debt in the past?” or “have tariffs caused inflation in the past?”

The key is to 1. Not stop with positive evidence, but to continue to fail to find negative evidence 2. Not stop with opinions but find a balance of facts

Teach her about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

tl;dr: it’s not enough to find a theory that fits the facts — famously “all swans are white” — you have try and then fail to falsify your own theory — for examplefinding a single black swan.

In this case it’s not enough to watch Fox News and hear something about Trump that sounds good — and then stop — you have to look for evidence that Trump is not a good leader and then fail to. But of course we know there is lots of counter evidence so…

This is a basic premise of scientific method.

If they didn’t want to be burned by the sidewalk, why did they choose to become homeless?

We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.

I don’t know that we’re necessarily need to “run” two fighters, but it’s clear that there is no single platform that meets all sovereignty requirements. I don’t know what the split should be, but we can neither have zero air force, nor one that is completely ineffective against 1 of our top 3 threats. Buy some planes that come with technology transfer, and start looking at the next 30 year window.

Or quickly hop on board one of the Future Combat Air System / Global Combat Air Program.

The F35 is simply the best air weapons platform available — that’s why the military wants them. But the whole episode speaks to the need for a native air defense industry. We have ship building.

The gripen is the only option that comes with technology transfer, so regardless of how many F35 we get, or how inferior the gripen is comparatively, we have to diversify — even if the short maintenance costs are higher.

We’re too stupid as a race to survive…

Look what you made me do…

Reddit keeps throttling attempts to organize over it.

How about Canada?

The good news is that not only is what you want possible — it’s the normal default. That’s how most people who are not “deconstructing a mountain of lies” feel.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with consensual sexual power play — but the emphasis is on consensual. People choose to be a sub or dom because they have agency in their sexuality, and feel that meets their needs best. A dom who does not respect consent is a rapist not a dom.

So yes again — women with normal sex drives do indeed like sex, and frequently initiate it. This dynamic can even evolve with age — women who hit their peak in their 30s can be positively ravenous about it. It is also normal to not have a high sex drive, or to only experience a sex drive under certain circumstances, such as when in a emotionally safe relationship, or with people you admire intellectually…

Lies are apparently the gateway to cruelty.

Hero for sure, but clearly not trained in how not to get killed in a rip tide.

If you go out to save anyone’s life in water — take a floatation device with you — otherwise you’re just adding to the body count…

If you live near water, keep life saving flotation devices with you as standard equipment.