The other irony being that Japanese people in Japan don’t give a shit about people celebrating their culture. They think it is neat when other people like their stuff.

Yep. Every environment you can’t visit in modern times is by definition foreign. Rome world, even if you are a modern Roman and related to Caesar, would be a foreign experience.

“there’s kind of a problematic cultural tourism component to the very idea of Shōgun World.”

Same. Maybe we should apply for the FIFA selection committee.

Saquon will really open up the field for Eli to throw longer distance interceptions.

Seriously between the US, Canada, and Mexico, FIFA will be getting a mountain of cocaine, sealed with maple syrup, wrapped in US dollars. That seems like a pretty great bribe. Morocco can’t compete.

Sometimes you just answer the question directly regardless of how stupid the question may be.

And according to the Ontario Human Rights code (which is the policy behind the law), that protection of class includes being forced to call someone by their preferred pronoun. This is unique in that it is the first time in the history of English common law that compelled speech is a thing. Restricting what you can’t…

Every famous artist who has either overdosed or killed themselves prior to whatever age that Kanye currently is.

Canada’s law stating that misgendering is a hate crime.

So your value system is to only feel empathy for people who have your value system?

“he does not have Camille Paglia’s deep learning and appreciation of art”

I generally don’t know what this means in the context of any of these examples. Modern day Marxist are almost solely bourgeois suburban kids. Islamic terrorists are usually well to do and educated. Ethno-nationalists run the gambit from poor idiots to educated assholes. And not getting laid isn’t a societal pressure.…

Yeah, that is why I don’t accept the oppression narrative. To use that language when it isn’t the case only justifies the action. Also, it buys into the ludicrous neo-marxist dialectic that everyone can safely be categorized as oppressed and oppressor.

You aren’t taught that. It is standard biological in-group preference. It is the same reason that gorillas troops fight each other.

“There will most likely always be the oppressors and the oppressed.”

“Ultimately, it’s these ramming attacks that serve as a reminder that the only way to truly prevent terrorism is to address its underlying causes.”

Bumpers are specifically designed to reduce the injury to hitting people in modern cars.

Unless there are companies producing beds with the express purpose of killing the people in them, this is a useless comparison given that one is an act of volition. It would be like saying more people die of cancer than war, so we shouldn’t try to avoid going to war.

We’re at the point where mass stabbings are a thing. The point at which you can reduce casualties to almost zero is the point at which we have a totalitarian government controlling every single aspect of life.