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Says the fox news watcher! ($750 billion they've paid for their lies, and counting!)

I guess I should go to MSNBC for all my news but then I wouldn't learn anything other than that I should feel ashamed for being white.

The disadvantage to Kamala for having muted mics is that she wont get to accuse Trump of mansplaining everything like she did when she debated Mike Pence.

There is a supermarket chain I go to that has an amazing selection. Top notch bentos, meat, fish, produce, etc., for amazing prices. This place is CASH only. By shielding themselves from charges that come with people using credit cards, this place I went to is able to pass on the savings to its shoppers. Other places should follow suit.

I live in Japan and have a vegan friend. She took me to a vegan restaurant in Osaka where I ate a pizza that was 100% soy-based. It was one of the most disgusting things I ever ate. Even the cheese was soy.

Then a year or two later we went to a vegan place in Shibuya (this was to cater to her because my friend is vegan). I had vegan karaage with tartar sauce. The "chicken" was just massive balls of soy and the tartar sauce was yellow for some reason. Had to force every morsel down my throat it was so gross.

Cater to vegetarians, go ahead. Cater to vegans, at least try and make the food palatable.

Another thought is some women become pregnant even with contraceptives. Others are raped or victims of incest. In many states denied the morning-after pill.

The left always defaults to this when trying to take the smallest minority and paint with a big brush.

One position I have always held is "Do you want more abortion or less rape?" I have yet to hear "less rape" come out of the mouths of those on the left which tells me it's not really about that.

Most all states support abortion in the case of incest.

Lastly, I went to a party in college once and it was truly unfortunate but a rape did take place there. When it was discovered the party was called off and I hung around to help support since I was a neighbor. The police were immediately involved and the victim was given a morning-after-pill.

Only my feeling but if these cases are reported immediately then the issue can be addressed immediately.

You might argue that one might feel uncomfortable coming forward, however in that scenario the child is coming to term and people will notice regardless.

Avoid sex workers and unprotected homosexual sexual activities seems the best way to not catch this in the region.

-Unless you think children are using sex services you could not be more wrong.

Come on now, virus, we all know about the breakout that happened in the UK and the key demographic behind it.

To answer someone's question, it was rebranded as MPOX, because, as with most leftist run organizations, someone deemed the term "monkeypox" to be offensive and/or racist, because it's about being PC, right? Not about speaking facts about the actual disease and how it's spreading.

Gotta say, as a heterosexual male in Japan who doesn't shake hands (as bowing is the custom) I'm not too worried that it'll ever be an issue for me here in Japan.

Um, today?

That unhinged screed was political panic and it was all him.

None of his advisors thought that was a good idea.

How you gauge panic here exemplifies my point. You are crying "wolf" here.

To me, it's more annoying than it is anything else, but all the people who are like "look! Trump is shaking in his boots!" Like really? Have you ever seen him ONCE express fear about anything?

What I see is a LOT of projection from our friends on the left. It's not even so much that they hate Trump. It's that high school energy where if your side wins you get to pretend for a few moments like you're smart and somehow you made everything happen.

I can only see this attitude as a hinderance to one's ability to be financially successful

As a new parent with a son yet to turn two, I have thought about how I would handle the bullying situation in Japan now that I have been here quite awhile. ALT work was long ago but it also gave me good insight as to the school system and BOE and how they work. And yes, agreed with what everyone says about how it takes a death for somebody to act. Japan is a super REACTIVE country and that is why you only see people at the top apologizing, mostly because there are sooooo many layers of hierarchy that problems voiced from the bottom rarely make their way up. So anyway, knowing this, here's what I'd do:

If my son is bullied and I am aware of it...

I go to the school and request to see the Vice Principal. I tell him or her that the bullying is taking place and they need to be watchful and ensure it doesn't happen again. AND...I will let them know that I have a two strike policy. I will tell the VP that if my son tells me he is still being bullied I will go to the BOE and report the issue there. Making noise higher up the chain would be undesirable by the school so hopefully that threat would be enough.

BUT...I would also tell the VP that after I report the bullying to the Board of Education that if it still continues that I will go bang on the door of the Asahi Shinbun or local news until I receive an audience. No district wants to be in the news for a bullying scandal and hopefully the threat of such action would make them pay attention.

As long as I'm willing to follow through I expect positive results.

Please keep in mind that this is coming from someone who was bullied from elementary school to high school. And the difference with my home country is that we can at least change classrooms and teachers. In Japan, you are stuck with the same people for YEARS. So if you are being bullied you really have no means of escape.

As is typical, a lot of bias in this article. Trump has to be the villain so the article has to be skewed in Kamala's favor regardless.

And I'm sorry, was there a mention in THIS article about how the Sept 10th debate that was schedule was planned to be with Joe Biden and not Kamala? What happened to Joe btw? Oh yeah...

So once again another brutal assassination reminds the world that the Israelis have the right to defend themselves, but the Gazans don't, just as the Jews of Europe didn't. As the famous old Serbian saying has it: "the wolf has the right to the lamb", which describes to a tee today's lawless international order of impunity for a select few that the "democracies" have now inflicted on us all.

Dude, Israel is getting attacked from all sides. Why aren't all these Gaza defenders that support Hamas taking in these destitute Palestinians? I'll tell you why. Because countries like Iran want Israel wiped off the map and they don't care if Palestine becomes fodder as long as the end goal is achieved.

Israel, you keep up the good fight!

Here's what I don't get. It's become a habit now, every Olympics, to talk about how the beds are specifically made to be a bit uncomfortable so as to discourage sexual relations among athletes, and yet the equivalent of a small, hotel room safe can't be installed in any of the rooms? If you have millions to spend on the event, small safes seem like real low-hanging fruit.

Could be slightly more could be slightly less. Based on being a person of color who was living in America and being military veteran with 10 years of service basically meeting variety of people from different states. People of color don't say slurs towards or about white people just because, some don't and some do but only as a form of self defense. While you have white people who thing it is funny to say slurs just for the hell of it. But again issues you would not understand unless you are part of the problem or experiencing the problem with front row seats.

Because it doesn't affect you it means it doesn't exist is what you are telling me right? The same people who love to have the abbreviation "DEI" in their everyday vocabulary for example

In other words, based on the color of your skin, the numbers you put forward based on your personal lived experience must be held to be true to someone with the color of my skin.

I understand what you are saying but it is deeper than that. As a person of color I can tell you that about 90% of us had parents who did not teach us to have racist viewpoints, and the 10% that did probably have been affected by some traumatic events that made them think a certain way. For Caucasian folk in America maybe 60% were raised by parents who did not teach racist viewpoints to their children. But that 40% that is using slurs around their children behind closed doors, telling their children they will disown them if they ever bring home a lover of a different race, the ones with KKK or Nazi roots in their families are teaching their kids some really cruel and unspeakable things that make them grow up to be that way.

Even if you were not raised by parents who did any of the things that I mentioned, I will at least ask that you be open minded and don't pretend things like that don't happen. When he said the majority of the comments were from jealous white males he did not say all or only, he said the majority meaning some people of other race groups, as well as some white males have the opposite opinion.

I've been a victim of racism on numerous occasions (by POC believe it or not). Notice how your comments suggest that racism only works one way.

You completely jumped over the person who callously uses the phrase "jealous white males" and go after the white guy. The cycle of victimhood has to end, dude.

Yasuke was not a samurai and your comment suggests that I am a racist for not buying into the lie that he was a samurai because, what? I might hurt the feelings of non-Japanese, non-white people who want to wish it into fact?

All your stats about how much of the white population has been raised racist...based on what facts???? What does this have to do with a video game buying into a false narrative in the interest of making money??? How is your blanket assumption of how certain races are raised and what they believe in NOT super racist?

The majority of compaints are not from Japanese residents, but are from jealous White males that makes up the second largest demographic of RPG players after Asian males.

They are jealous that they cannot get a character that looks like them in a "cool RPG game" about ninjas and samurai, so they troll online.

White male here, and not jealous at all. What I will say is that on Facebook Japan group pages a statue of Yasuke is repeatedly posted and claims him to be a real samurai.

People of all races have, for months, provided evidence and debunked this repeatedly. No one is jealous. We ARE tired of super progressives rewriting history and presenting it as fact.

It's really not about how the Japanese feel about their own history. ALL of this is a result of the culture war that is predominantly American. And I say that as a fellow American.

The far left will just spew falsehoods repeatedly until those who advocate for truth simply give up.

No disrespect to your job, but I don’t think being an ALT qualifies you in this area.

We’ve had WW2 scholars, conspiracy theorists, spammers and a blizzard of sock puppet accounts weighing in here.

Truly ridiculous.

You know, one could be a doctor and have come to Japan to be an ALT for the experience. Way to assume.

Second, never said I was a health expert, you really came off nasty here.

Three, did not Fauci admit this year that he pulled social distancing out of his bum with no real science to back it up?

Now let me finish by explaining this in a simple way you should understand. As a parent of a child in this country and as someone who has worked with small children and has assimilated into the culture and watched how other parents raise their children I HAVE seen 2 years olds wearing masks and parents imposing groupthink on their children and when asked why they do things a certain way they have no logic to back it up.

Yes if you shelter yourself from everything you are not giving your body a chance to build immunity. That is common knowledge.

There are a lot of sickly and under nourished children in this country and in some cases the mask may be warranted but there absolutely is a fear for fear's sake mentality that is hurting children here

There are about 30 million unvaccinated people in Japan.

They had made it through 11 waves now.

The human body is amazing and natural immunity works.

We don't need corporate products from Pfizer or Moderna to live on this Earth.

Amen!

Was on the train the other day and I see a guy with a mask in his shirt pocket. He is standing in front of me while I am sitting before him in seat. He coughs in my general direction 3 times over the course of the ride and does not put on his mask. The lady standing on his right wasn't wearing a mask, and despite the train being packed like sardines, decided that that cough was going to be what got her to put on a mask.

Like someone else already said, how many shots has one already received at this point?

I received zero shots. I got COVID my first time last year when it was in Omicron stage. I had a high fever for two days and a low fever for a few days after. My infant son got it too. Thankfully he has strong antibodies now from this experience and if by the time he is 5 if he is forced to mask I will have a nice chat with the school. And lastly my wife who had gotten two shots during the first year of the vaccine being available...she got it just as bad as I did. None of us wears a mask now unless we enter a clinic or are actually sick with something like a cold or cough.

The problem with Japan is that it operates way too much on groupthink and not on logic. And there still are people who don't cover their noses if they do wear the mask or wear it like a chin diaper.

Self-proclaimed health experts are bound to disagree with me on this thread but at some point you have to consider how the body builds immunity and I dare say from my time as an ALT to now over these years and throughout this entire pandemic that you get a lot of weak children because their parents shield them from everything. Kind of like the idea of keeping someone in a house to prevent them from getting sick but by doing so it makes them allergic to many things.

Yet, people here are all vaxed to the max and still loads are masked up. And even men are walking around with parasols these days.

It's been absolutely wild seeing people masking in this heat. And while it is no surprise to most of us foreigners, it is still crazy to see some of those people masked up inside cars or out in public alone.

For those commenting about the price of olive oil there was an article a few months back about heavy droughts, I believe in Spain and Portugal, where a lot of olive oil is manufactured. That article mentioned there would be a stiff increase in price due to the drought.

Israel was created by taking other peoples land...

The funny thing about war is that land changes hands. This has happened over the course of centuries. It may seem easy to thumb your nose at Israel, but there is a high likelihood that the land you're standing on at one point belonged to someone else.

What I find interesting is that no native English speaking person uses the word "occupier". I have also never heard a Westerner use that word even if they support Palestine and/or Hamas by proxy.

Why can't people live in peace together? Blame Hamas? Okay. Blame Netanyahu? Yep, him, too. Both are guilty here. But right now, Netanyahu is showing little care for any Palestinian innocents.

I read "Blame Netanyahu" and I want to ask this person, okay, so in this situation, how would you fight a WAR?

Also if he showed little care for Palestinian innocents I imagine the body count would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher.

Sad that Seinfeld supports genocide against Palestinians.

To the best of my knowledge he was never asked if he did support it. Quite a wild assumption this is!

None of this is creating a future in which I won't have to work until I'm at least 70.

I think Hamas should do everything humanly possible to uproot and dismantle, hobble and destroy Israels ability to sabotage to hurt, harm or kill any Gazan,*

Why is it only ok to say one of these things and not the other?

It is called war. There are always casualties in war.

Hamas started this. Israel will end it and not move to the beat of anyone's drum but Israel's.

How many times must it be mentioned that the Palestinians support Hamas? How many times must it be mentioned that Hamas uses its supporters as human shields?

Why is it okay? Any loss of life is a tragedy, but consider this. Group A slaughters people on October 7th, kidnaps, rapes women and beheads babies. Group B wants to ensure this never happens again and pledges to eradicate Group A. The person asking why is one thing okay but not the other is Person X who is not in the middle east and is upset because Group B refuses to simply back off to appease Person X.

On a side note, America should take a long, hard look at all these anti-Semitic protests on college campuses. These our your future leaders America.

two failed former leaders at the exit. perfect photo.

I would rethink your definition of the word "failed"

This is Trump's fault for sure. Young people should not vote for Trump.

LMAO. This is exactly the kind of statement I would make if I was the CCP.

Now? "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that President Joe Biden was "pushing" for a ban on TikTok and would be the one responsible if a ban were imposed, urging voters to take notice."

Flippity-floppity....the new Trump campaign slogan...

Hate to break it to you lincoln, but if Biden signs off on this, he would be responsible. And flip-flop on abortion? Trump gave the power back to the states. Are you making this statement as someone who is pro-abortion but is upset because Trump didn't tell pro-lifers what they wanted to hear?

Attacking Trump for abortion in this way is as absurd as people who are angry at Biden because he isn't anti-Israel enough.

Been here how many years now and still yet to receive one of those...what do you call them...oh yeah, a pay raise!