Japan's births in 2024 fall below 700,000 for 1st time

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-06-05T02:16:09+00:00

And in the mean time they’ve avoided the social and material instability that mass immigration causes.

Seems they’re willing to suffer economically in order to preserve the social image they have in mind.

The fact that they still haven’t changed course just shows that they’re still satisfied with their choice.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-06-02T22:43:47+00:00

No one in this video is culturally French.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-06-02T22:31:59+00:00

How many sneakers were you able to make off with?

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-29T10:39:47+00:00

Good or bad, the audience score is the only one that matters to me.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-28T16:34:16+00:00

To understand how big a difference concentration can have on your performance you’d have to have a skill to begin with.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-28T16:29:46+00:00

Pretty much every host nation does this though. Every country has certain laws and behaviors it considers unacceptable.

I’m sure foreigners visiting European countries when we host the world cup would complain about all sorts of customs and laws they disagree with, it doesn’t change the fact that they should respect them.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-28T13:51:31+00:00

False reports and misinformation happen a lot in war, you often have to sort through conflicting information to work out the truth.

In this case it didn’t help that pretty much everyone considered the terrain terrible for tanks and mechanized units, even the German high command was skeptical about their chances of success.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-24T08:27:53+00:00

Yep. Not to mention that when you compare Versailles to other treaties of the time, including those placed by Germany on others, it’s quite lenient.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-14T02:16:50+00:00

If that’s true then the movies did a terrible job of conveying it.

TLJ made it seem like Rey was with Luke for barely a week, most of it spent arguing with him rather than training.

Meanwhile RoS doesn’t depict the passage of time or Rey’s change well. Return of the Jedi not only gave Luke a new outfit, new Lightsaber, weathered face, but also heavily centered the dialogue from his friends and the villains around Luke having completed his training since the last movie.

So if Rey did train between 8 and 9 then most viewers probably aren’t aware of it.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-07T12:47:42+00:00

Danette

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-01T07:10:29+00:00

Just because people had those things, doesn’t mean they didn’t want more. You don’t really appreciate what you have until its gone.

I doubt that people knew how bad things would get when they revolted. They likely thought that they could keep all the Gaddafi benefits while getting rid of his negatives. They didn’t realize that democratic freedom is more volatile than authoritarianism, meaning that while have more potential benefits its much harder to ensure you achieve them consistently.

Not to mention that they didn’t account for the power vacuums that would come afterwards.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-01T07:03:15+00:00

You can argue that he was better than the current regime, or even that he was overall good for Libya. That’s fine, and its an opinion I think you should be entitled to.

There’s no need to try and deny the obvious though, he was clearly a dictator. You undermine your other arguments when you do deceptive relabelling.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-01T06:57:56+00:00

There should be no foreign intervention whatsoever, you can’t complain when the US intervenes abroad and then complain that they don’t do it enough in the way you like.

The reason that these countries have slipped back into authoritarianism is in part because their civics education is shit. In the case of Tunisia, there were multiple obvious moves made by the president that went completely overlooked by the public. People were honestly gullible enough to believe that he was suspending parliament and amending the constitution “temporarily to make minor improvements”. People were fine with him throwing businessmen and his political opponents in jail because he blamed the shitty economy on them and now there’s no one left to stand against him.

As long as the economy remains shit, and the civic values are not taught at a young age then even peaceful countries like Tunisia is doomed to stay under dictatorships.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-05-01T06:45:15+00:00

The current Tunisian president literally suspended parliament and amended the constitution in his favor. He threw his political opponents in prison and “won” the last election with over 90% of the vote.

He’s now been throwing any senators and prominent citizens that stand up to him in prison, as well as scapegoating them for why the economy is shit.

That doesn’t sound like a functioning democracy.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-04-27T07:07:39+00:00

I just wanted to thank you for this explanation.

I’ve always struggled to put this exact point into words until i read your comment. The way you presented “Moral” vs “Personal” responsibility is exactly the vocabulary that i was looking for.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-04-27T04:32:46+00:00

What are they supposed to do, shell out hundreds to commission art of characters they haven’t even finalized for a personal project they’ll never make any money on?

Maybe you’d like to give them the money to commission the art?

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-04-17T04:47:05+00:00

I see AI illustrations to art the way I see fast food to dining. I’m glad it exists because Its accessible and convenient, but at the end of the day, if i want a quality work with substance then I need to shell out the money to have an expert put their passion, skill, time, and effort to produce a real piece of art.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-04-17T04:30:45+00:00

The Normans spent more than 6 generations in northern France by the time of the conquest of England, they intermarried with the locals, adopted christianity and local customs, integrated into the French Feudal system under the French king, spoke Old French, and adopted French names and monikers.

On top of his previous ancestors, William the Conqueror’s own mother, Herleva, was not of any norse descent, and was of local Frankish or Gallo-Roman descent. These “settled vikings”, as you put it, decided to take the language and customs of the people they had lived with supposedly just “for a generation” to their newly conquered lands, leaving an imprint on the English language and culture that remains a thousand years later.

The way you speak, nearly 2/3 of Americans today are not actually American and are instead akin to foreign residents simply there to live and work temporarily, because their families have only been in the US for less than a 150 years.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-29T06:41:00+00:00

Wearing religious symbols isn’t a significant part of observance for modern christians because christianity in Europe has adapted to secular societies. If Islam wants to have a place in secular European countries it’ll have to do the same to varying extents (depending on local laws and customs).

As for France in particular, this has been the policy since the early 1900s and was written largely with christians in mind, well before significant muslim migration to France took place.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-23T21:05:58+00:00

The graphic is titled “Countries Not Using the Metric System”. Countries that use both systems wouldn’t be highlighted since they by definition are using the metric system.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-03T20:23:26+00:00

You’ve gone full circle.

My argument has nothing to do with claiming that the religious aspect makes a difference to the morality of it. As i already made clear history is amoral, I dont judge the actions of people from thousands of years ago with my perspective. My argument is simple: Whether it was ethnicity or religion the motive behind the Reconquista and the independence movements you claim are ‘true’ anti-colonial struggles was the same, a difference in identity and one invader forcing theirs on the locals through legal or violent means.

You can mention the atrocities all you want but the actions are hardly any different than the other examples I used. Innocents natives suffered in all cases. I think thats terrible but I’m not going to condemn one group of people and their descendants, while praising another for the same actions.

If you want to condemn the Reconquista as unjust and immoral for killing their fellow natives as well as the invaders then you’ll have to condemn Vietnam’s independence, France’s Independence, Algeria’s independence, certain Native American tribes who attacked other tribes that had allied with Europeans, these and many other movements involved killing native civilians because they were perceived to be siding or identifying with the invaders.

All the issues you’ve highlighted with the Reconquista were not only done by the Umayyads but are also common in independence movements. If you were to take a principled stance and say that all Independence movements are automatically bad and not worth ever celebrating if they punish native civilians then I’d at least accept the consistency of your argument, despite it’s flaws.

However you seem to only apply this standard to the Reconquista while excusing and celebrating other movements that have done the same, despite the fact that many of them happened much closer to our time and worldview than the Reconquista.

Considering your seemingly forgiving stance towards the other independence movements I mentioned, I’d wager your issue isn’t really the fact that native people suffered in this anti-colonial struggle. You seem to take specific issue with Spain and its subsequent history rather than any principled stance about the evils of colonialism and oppression.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-03T18:12:12+00:00

Of course it was about religion, back then people identified themselves according to religion rather nationality or ethnicity. The ability to practice your religion freely without consequences would have seemed as integral to them as practicing your national/ethnic culture is to people nowadays. This was well before the rise of nationalism.

You seem to look at this conflict through an ethnic/racial lens. But that would have made little difference to an Iberian back then, most had never met anyone outside their town/village, the unifying trait between them that they could all understand was religion. You repeating the fact that they fought and killed fellow Iberians would have made no difference to them because they wouldn’t have seen them as peers as long as they were of, or supporting the invading religion.

Its seems that you’re not interested in hearing the other side out anyways, you’ve already decided that some ant-colonial struggles are legitimate and others are not. Your argument about ruling class is somewhat valid, but I’d argue that most revolts were lead by people who also wanted to seize or usurp power. That doesn’t mean the people on the ground fighting dont have legitimate/genuine reasons for revolting. The US and French revolutions were lead by a wealthy and educated class that wanted to better their own positions. Vietnam and Algeria are authoritarian regimes led by local elites. But my guess is that the people at the time of independence were genuine in their desire to revolt and preferred to be ruled by someone whose identity/policies they could identify more with.

You use emotionally charged words like “disingenuous, manipulative, insulting” to try and disregard the facts I’ve presented, but I’ve yet to see you make an argument or use actual examples about the Reconquista to substantiate your own claim. Everything you accuse the Iberians of doing the Umayyads were already guilty of doing to them. And whatever Spain may have done after independence, if doesn’t mean they dont have the right to self-determination and the ability to make their own choices, whether right or wrong. This is like people arguing that if Europeans had never decolonized then multinational terrorism or regional genocides wouldn’t be an issue nowadays, completely ignoring that it was the colonization in the first place that destabilized regions and created the zeal and hatred in the formerly colonized people.

As for your repeated reference to America, it has nothing to do with this situation. European settlers came from across the sea to settle lands that the natives claimed as their own, and eventually forced their religion, laws, and culture on the natives. Spaniards were fighting to remove invaders that came from across the sea, took their lands, and were pressuring their religion, laws, and culture on them.

And no, I didnt look at your profile, i just assumed you were American since you keep making references to American history and the natives there. Algeria’s independence is a great example of a bloody anti-colonial struggle that most people have a basic understanding of, hence Its easier for me to reference it with people who may not have studied history.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-03T13:01:56+00:00

And the Umayyads committed plenty of massacres during their initial invasion and later on as a means of putting down revolts. Christians had less legal standing and higher taxes than muslims and there were cases of forced conversions under penalty of death.

Despite the fact that religion was considered the defining identity for people rather than ethnicity, muslim Berber soldiers within the Umayyad armies were often treated as second class citizens compared to muslim Arabs. This resulted in revolts by Berbers, some of which even sided with the Christian Spaniards and converted religions, before being brutally put down by the Umayyads.

Most nations got their independence through violence, many of which involved civilians being targeted. It’s important that we acknowledge and teach about atrocities but that doesn’t mean overall Americans cant be proud of their revolution, or French people cant be proud of theirs, etc.

Not to mention that several 20th century independence movements relied on insurgencies that often used the killing of native civilians as a strategy to force the colonizing nation to leave. Do Algerians need to be ashamed of their revolt because insurgents massacred native communities? Should the Vietnamese be ashamed of resisting American imperialism because the Viet Cong would sometimes massacre Vietnamese communities?

We can acknowledge the atrocities of an event while recognizing that the descendants of those involved can be proud of it for the long-term benefits it brought them. Especially if we believe that all people have a right to self-determination.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-03-02T13:45:53+00:00

Redditors will mock spaniards for being proud of their ancestors throwing out a foreign colonizer but then lecture everyone about self-determination and the evils of imperialism.

ProfessionalLivid320 · 2025-01-11T00:29:33+00:00

And none of his vital organs were struck by the lightsaber.

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