@ChristiJunior@LouisConde Now that all of the World War 2 vets are dead or too invalid to speak up, they're going to start toppling memorials to their service because they were too white and unapologetic for it
@Moon@sugarbell@izaya Speaking up and "acting out of turn" is also a pretty bad taboo there. Stuff that would make an American rip into their boss, they just shoulder and tell themselves it's a normal part of life. The same line of thinking they have that keeps crime low is the same one making them live out of hotels for months and work 90 hour weeks. You know your place and your place is your worth, so you'd better not do anything that would let you fall a rung or two down the ladder.The social cohesion only looks good to us from afar because we're fed BS from their media and the country's clean and well-kept. It's actually pretty awful once you get down below the surface.
@Moon@izaya@sugarbell I visited in 2003 so mine is very out of date, but after two weeks there I became convinced it's a pretty rotten environment to live in. Very stifling and if you fall through the cracks, you're not getting out.My wife had a high school friend that married a Japanese exchange student and it ended in divorce because of how differently they handle marriage. Family is more of a mutual support system, where the wife supports the husband's career and the husband supports the wife's home life and child-rearing. Distance between husband and wife is to be expected because working those long, grueling hours means you're a good and loyal husband and father. If they never see one another apart from sleeping, that doesn't matter. It's easy to see why so many turn down relationships or check out of society entirely.
@shmibs@Secftblgirl@Moon@Nudhul "I should be free to maximize productivity and minimize cost from my employees as I choose.""I should be free from a work environment where I work 40-50 hours a week and still have to ask the question of if I can afford insurance.""I should be free from hearing harmful rhetoric and statements about what I am.""I should be free to say as I please, no matter who it upsets.""I should be free from ending up homeless due to an act-of-God disaster shocking the economy into a halt.""I should be free to enforce how contracts between me and my tenants are handled as I see fit.""I should be free from careless people behaving in ways that spread a disease that risks great harm to me.""I should be free to do as I please with my body and participate in commerce regardless of how my actions impact others."And so on. "Is it freedom" is a pretty dogshit metric to base how we rule on because freedom can mean anything to anyone, like you said. We had the right idea with the Bill of Rights putting definitions in place of what freedoms are and what we can expect, but the only part of the Bill of Rights that hasn't been out and out ignored by the state is the amendment prohibiting the government from forcing Americans to quarter soldiers in their homes, so it's not like that's worked either. What's sad is I don't think it will get any better anytime soon.
@Secftblgirl Remember when Mazie Hirono made up a definition during the Kavanaugh hearings and the dictionary added the definition in 24 hours later to make her look good?
@newt@Moon@einziggurat It's absolutely a thing in America. You have to make up for height with other factors here or end up with a less Americanized partner to find someone.
@einziggurat@Moon@newt It's hypercapitalism all the way down. Relationships here are very commoditized and transactional. I saw a study that said they believe that as society progresses, what people look for in a relationship goes up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and we're seeing people move from love to self-actualization here. I mean, look at the kind of woman and the kind of standards your average Poaster demands despite arguably being at the bottom of society's barrel here and tell me that's not the case.
@moth_ball@mactonite@ItsSkyDragonz@basadeskaiser Because it would turn into "there are kids too poor to buy uniforms" which turns into "uniforms are racist because more poor people are minorities" vs. "my tax dollars shouldn't pay for schools' social projects"I'm 100% in favor of uniforms at schools, but I know it would never fly here. Too many bleeding hearts and retarded libertarians.
@lain@shmibs@augustus I saw him speak live a while ago. It's really sad that he's mainly known for being an atheist, since that's one of the least interesting things about him.
@meowski@dubh@Moon@dude@feld It's worse than that. Expecting any sort of support from a political entity as allergic to collectivism as your average Republican is a fool's errand. It's why you see so many grifters come and go. As much as we can shit on Redditors turning in grandma for karma, the only reason why this happens is conservatives refuse to look after their own like the left does.I get why they did what they did, but the system had made very clear by then where they were planning on going politically, and Trump was in the rear-view mirror. Does it matter how rigged the election is if the political apparatus rejected him like it did? They won't entertain any of his complaints, even if he had competent lawyers.@shmibs Yeah, the cops round them up and let them spend a few hours in jail before the Soros-funded DA drops the charges. Totally comparable to the FBI crowdsourcing a manhunt and using phone data to go after anyone that was in the general vicinity of a protest and the media plastering their faces all over local news to declare them persona non grata.
@meowski@Moon@dubh@dude@feld@shmibs Top brass are all Romney Republicans that want to play with their army men in the sandbox. Trump's tendency to simp for anyone with enough medals pinned to their chest was a detriment. if the military gave a damn about the direction the country was going they would have been speaking up much more loudly about Afghanistan and what it was doing to our readiness.
@Moon@meowski@dude@feld They thought that because Democrats let antifa get off easy all summer, that Trump would let them get off easy and/or pardon them after they convinced Congress to accept the election was fraudulent and he was "rightfully" given another four years. Not only did Congress not listen, but Trump turned his back on them to save himself (which likely won't work) and now they have the full weight of the federal government bearing down on them.A lot of people are learning a lot of hard lessons from this whole debacle.