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Posted in: Why are so many voters frustrated by the U.S. economy? It's home prices See in context

The article failing to even mention immigration as a factor speaks volumes.

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Posted in: Vietnamese trainees told to undergo contraception to work in Japan See in context

Should've just massively incentivized abortion instead like American tech companies, then you'd have people here praising them as progressive.

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Posted in: Biden’s burden: 4 percentage points, a struggling economy and fragile democracy See in context

Just last week, he said that should he win the election, he would be a “dictator” for day one of his presidency (but not after that).

It's funny how whenever Trump refers to something that has been discussed for decades (executives orders and the 'imperial presidency' concept), suddenly Democratic partisans go apocalyptic. No, Trump acting like Bush, Obama, and now Biden and using the executive branch to enact policy doesn't make him a dictator. We literally just had 4 years of Trump, and he never once acted like a dictator. Stop acting like this already.

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Posted in: Talks on border security grind on as Trump invokes Nazi-era 'blood' rhetoric against immigrants See in context

@Cards fan

Why?

How about because the country has zero social cohesion and is rapidly degrading into the dysfunction typical of Brazil? Because low-skill immigration suppresses wages, and this fact is well-documented no matter how much double think and cognitive dissonance liberals have over it?

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Posted in: After summer's extreme weather, more Americans see climate change as a culprit, poll shows See in context

Strange how the 'weather != climate' point is no longer considered relevant when those arguments are made to blame climate change for weather events.

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Posted in: Why doesn’t the U.S. adopt the metric system? See in context

You realise the rest of the world does have a choice, and they mostly choose metric?

You don't. Go try to sell something in American customary units - you're government will use its monopoly on violence to stop you. Always makes me laugh when Europeans are ignorant of how unfree their societies actually are.

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Posted in: Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 grams of heroin See in context

Imagine whining about another countries laws while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of OD deaths in your own. Asia in general but especially Singapore are proof that being tough on drug crime actually does work if you're serious about it.

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Posted in: Montreal has worst air of any major city in world as wildfires rage: monitor See in context

They've been predicting global warming for decades; certainly they were expecting more forest fires. Why haven't they invested more resources on preparing for this?

Because that would be an actually pragmatic response to climate change. There's far more money to be gained in financial instruments like carbon credits than there are in levies, fire-fighting brigades, etc.

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Posted in: Support dips for Indigenous recognition referendum in Australia, poll shows See in context

new advisory body, called the Indigenous "Voice to Parliament"

Isn't their 'voice in parliament' supposed to be taken care of by their duly elected representatives? The US has a few of these but they're for overseas territories that don't vote in federal elections. Having something like this on top of normal representation seems ill-conceived.

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Posted in: 85-year-old man arrested for stealing condoms from convenience store See in context

Shoplifting condoms in national headlines..

Another proof that Japan is one of the safest countries of the world!!!..

The employee detaining a shoplifter stood out to me more. Every retailer in the US explicitly discourages employees from confronting thieves. In fact you're liable to get fired for it, apparently.

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Posted in: The Japanese public has been clear about their position of inclusion and equity, so I’m not a solo voice. All I’ve done is advocate the U.S. policy. See in context

promote equality and eliminate discrimination

Which in the real world translates into men with autogynephilia being allowed into women's restrooms. Nobody needs your Western perversion masquerading as civil liberties.

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Posted in: The Japanese public has been clear about their position of inclusion and equity, so I’m not a solo voice. All I’ve done is advocate the U.S. policy. See in context

Cultural imperialism to go along with the good old regular imperialism (occupation of Okinawa). Gotta love neoliberalism.

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Posted in: Nearly 70% call for regulating development of AI bots: poll See in context

I'd rather be replaced by an AI than an immigrant. At least the former, if repeated at large enough scale, will lead to a political movement that forces universal basic income. Oh and you know, maintain the high trust society that is reliant on having a relatively homogeneous society.

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Posted in: Cool Biz campaign begins across Japan See in context

Masks trap heat, necessitating more AC usage. Therefore advocating mask usage during the hot summer months is in effect advocating for more global warming.

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Posted in: LDP wins 4 of 5 Diet by-elections See in context

Where is the innovation and the new industries?

Who cares, the epicenter of new tech and innovation in the West is also synonymous with homelessness, drug addiction, and unaffordable cost of living (San Francisco).

The swing to a knowledge based economy?

No need, AI is going to make 50% of it redundant in the next decade alone.

The END to the endless red tape and the threatening conditions on importers?

Why should the Japanese worker be forced to compete with foreign workers that get paid $2/hour and have no labor or environmental regulations?

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Posted in: Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrates advances in LGBTQ rights See in context

Hopefully Japan don't import the gender dysphoria portion of the movement.

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Posted in: ‘The Super Mario Bros Movie’ is a box office smash See in context

woke

I didn't notice any race-swapped characters or references to contemporary American politics so if anything it's right-wing by virtue of liberals claiming anything non-political to be 'problematic'.

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Posted in: Virgin Orbit bankruptcy casts shadow over Japan's space dreams See in context

Musk success with Space X like Tesla is due to the United States government in particular the US taxpayers. His businesses rely heavily on US subsidiaries. Compare that to how his competitors are funding their businesses, and you will understand Musk's snake oil.

Tesla's competitors include other US auto manufacturer's that got bailed out by the government (e.g. GM), which in fact were the ones that lobbied for EV subsidies in the first place. And SpaceX's major competitor is the United Launch Alliance (Lockheed + Boeing) which is notorious for cost overruns and delays to the point where their latest rocket costs over 1 billion dollars per launch, all of which is put on the government's tab.

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Posted in: Oil powers announce surprise cuts of more than 1 million bpd See in context

Russia wants higher oil prices to increase its revenues because of the war and the sanctions

Russia would want higher oil prices regardless of whether it was at war or not, as would all these other OPEC members whose financial fortunes are tied to the price of oil. It's less that they're siding with Russia and more that they're not blindly doing what the US wants even at the expense of their own self-interest and the self-interest of their people.

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Posted in: Japan's food self-sufficiency alarmingly low; 72 mil could go hungry, magazine says See in context

This is an embarrassingly bad article. It's full of stream of conscious nonsense, and the author just goes through a laundry list of gripes from nationalism to gay marriage that he doesn't even attempt to tie convincingly to food security.

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Posted in: Sister-city relations are different from relations between countries. If we cut ties, we will no longer be able to have a dialogue. See in context

Cutting ties like those is purely symbolic, no better than burning a flag. Neoliberals who whine about something as irrelevant as this just come across as really immature and juvenile.

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Posted in: Soaring U.S. dollar spreads pain worldwide See in context

Well, the Fed didn't predict that Putin would invade Ukraine

Once again with this absolute bollocks. Russia invaded at the end of February, yet US annualized CPI was already at 7.9% then (February 2021 to February 2022). This constant attempt to shift the blame for inflation to Russia is a blatant attempt to cover for politicians and the Fed for screwing up.

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Posted in: Some risks too big: Insurers withdraw from fossil projects See in context

Under invest in fossil fuel extraction/processing/logistics and one day a supply shock will trigger a mass casualty event. Famine, people freezing to death, etc. It's a matter of when, not if.

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Posted in: To buy Twitter, Musk has to keep banks, investors on board See in context

Now struggling to find people to purchase debt 

The article literally suggests the opposite.

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Posted in: Japan's forex reserves drop by record $54 bil following intervention See in context

But no, it’s away and uselessly burned away.

I don't think that's how it works. From what I understand, they sold $54 billion in foreign securities and bought $54 billion equivalent of yen. It didn't disappear into the ether.

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Posted in: Europe faces dilemma on Russians fleeing Putin's draft See in context

If Russia is as bad and dystopian as Westerners claim, then protesting let alone attempting to 'overthrow' it would be suicidal. You'd literally end up dead in a ditch. So Western leaders literally expect these people to throw their lives away rather than flee. After all the 'refugees welcome' nonsense, this is a rather grotesque standard to suddenly see them take.

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Posted in: Amazon bid to scrap historic union win blocked See in context

Unions are little more than a political distraction when the actual labor policy of both Democrats and Republicans is wage suppression via mass immigration, free trade/globalism, and a Federal Reserve board whose explicit goal is to control inflation by killing wage growth via rate hikes causing unemployment ("some pain").

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Posted in: Yen sinks to new 24-year low against dollar See in context

The steep decline has mainly been driven by the differing approaches of the Bank of Japan and other central banks including the Fed, which have raised interest rates to tackle soaring inflation fueled by the Ukraine war.

It is absolutely wild how mainstream news services will just repeat Democrat talking points obediently. If you look at a graph of annualized inflation rate per month, it's been rising steadily since 2021 and had already hit 7.9% in the US by later February when the Ukraine war started. Journalists bemoan the plummeting trust in them from the public, yet more than ever they're making it clear that they're little more than tools of the politically powerful.

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Posted in: EU ministers to study call for ban on Russian tourists See in context

The travel ban on several Arab countries initiated by Trump was also defended by citing surveys showing significant pluralities in Arab countries support suicide bombings and other political violence committed by Islamic extremists. I'm all for banning Russians if we apply this standard equally.

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Posted in: Court refuses to recognize trans woman as parent of child born after transition See in context

Many children grow up without fathers. Does it matter as long as they’re loved and raised properly.

Considering we evolved to be raised by two sexually dimorphic parents over the course of millions of years? Yes, it probably does matter. The data on children raised without a father figure is a devastating repudiation of this belief that it doesn't matter.

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