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The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies
  • I agree with what you say, but we should also be very careful of expressions like "center right".

    If we have issues where the vast majority of the people agree, that should by definition be the center. However, quite clearly that's not how the words are used. Instead, mass media and politicians always refer to everything in reference to the two-party system, when representatives of both parties are actually way off in the fringes, at least some of the time, on issues like these.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • The alternatives are around now, and we know that many YouTube content creators are exploring other revenue streams, so it'll be interesting to see how exodus works. Clearly YouTube is going to continue to get worse and some people are going to leave. What's next? I'm excited.

    It's always interesting to watch companies implode. Apparently Reddit is blocking non-Google search engines from indexing them, and Twitter wants you to be logged in to view people's profiles. Those types of moves guarantee that the platform won't be relevant a decade from now and possibly sooner than that.

  • Oh jeez
  • Who is "we" and what are "our" goals? Those definitions will answer your question quickly enough.

    All movies that glorify military violence should be treated cautiously even if the overall message is anti-war. Take Apocalypse Now. What will some people remember? The helicopters, Wagner, napalm in the morning. That's not saying there's no value in such movies, though.

  • Too spicy?
  • Good cops don't let bad cops do bad things. Which is another way of saying that I agree with you, but I would prefer to categorize cops based on their actions and not based on their theoretical potential, because we have to live with the former. Or die from it, as happens all too often.

  • House GOP leaders urge members: Stop making race comments about Harris
  • I love how even this simple message is actually signaling the base. When the GOP leaders are saying to stop saying racist things, they're effectively telling everyone to keep thinking them and just to shut up for a while. The message is loudly sent and will be partly received, no doubt.

  • Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great?
  • This one is easy to explain away... If you're ranking countries on greatness, then you put America at the top. But then unfortunate things happen, like minority presidents and gay marriage and solar panels, so that makes America not quite as great, but still far better than everyone else. But if we could roll back the clock, maybe to some time before women's suffrage and the civil rights movement, that would make America return to the extra high standard that it's capable of achieving.

  • Too spicy?
  • The ACAB people have never been opposed to laws or prosecution of criminals. The problem is that the cops and their powerful friends tend to be immune to those laws.

    It's certainly true that some laws and some sentencing ranges are unjust, but that's different from saying that laws themselves ought not exist. And although we've seen several high profile cases recently where prosecutors are clearly dirty as hell, that's probably less common than the dirtiness ratio among the pigs.

  • Why would a chain retail employer take more than a month to give you shifts if at all?
  • Chain and large businesses have bad internal communication. Assume that hiring and scheduling never speak, ever. But it doesn't matter, because the fact that it's been a month means they don't want you.

    That all being said, we would love to get an update if they respond to your email. What excuse will they give? Let's find out together.

  • Dems Mock Trump as ‘Too Old’ to Run—Like He Did to Biden
  • That's the point of Trump's leadership style. Things aren't equal. There are rules for other people, but they don't affect him though. Hypocrisy among his flock is a virtue. It shows they will all reward each other.

  • Interesting titles

    Can you think of any titles from real journal articles or essays that are eye-catching?

    I'm writing a document for high school students taking an English writing class, and rather than create my own examples, why not use real ones? Several of my students have expressed frustration, and I have some guidelines and brainstorming tools, but what I don't have are two dozen neat examples.

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    www.japantimes.co.jp Controversial U.S. livestreamer arrested over trespassing in Osaka

    Ramsey Khalid Ismael, known as 'Johnny Somali' on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch.

    Controversial U.S. livestreamer arrested over trespassing in Osaka

    > OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday. > > Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as "Johnny Somali" on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student, according to police. > > Ismael's videos include those in which he makes light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes racist comments about Japanese people. > > The two men allegedly made an unauthorized entry into a hotel construction site in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 30 with Branch filming a masked Ismael at the scene, according to the police. > > They have told police they will not speak until they see lawyers, police said.

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