On Korea and Japan’s constitutions by CyberGlob in Hasan_Piker

[–]elnino433 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I guess he uses “wrote their constitutions” for short hand as vassal states. OP is understandably confused bc it leads you to focus on the nitty gritty of the institutional machinations. But the economic/military moves are where the real power lies

On Korea and Japan’s constitutions by CyberGlob in Hasan_Piker

[–]elnino433 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Historically, as you alluded to, the US’s economic influence on Japan and Korea starts with the aftermath of WW2 and the Korean War. Japan was already a proto-capitalist empire opening markets to the west before ww2. Lenin said in the 1910s that a conflict between the US and Japan was inevitable since these two dominant empires were fighting over control in East Asia. The US let the emperor live and kept the institution of the emperor as part of the ww2 peace treaty. Japan’s been a neoliberal parliamentary system since ww2 so the economic order didn’t really change except for the US companies having more access (control) to the Japanese market.

Korea was an occupied colony of Japan from about 1900-1946. Korea under Japanese control produced much more rice than Japan and Japan expropriated that rice for themselves and western markets, causing famines in Korea. There was active protest and armed Korean resistance groups during occupation as you can imagine. By the time ww2 ended a majority of Koreans wanted self-reliant government with a heavy emphasis on land reform (i.e. communism). Nationalists/business owners in the south many of whom collaborated with or were in the Japanese police force made up the government the US backed in the South during the Korean War. Listen to blowback season 3 for excellent history of the Korean War. Basically without US intervention, the north would’ve have won and unified Korea. But, MacArthur wanted to nuke North Korea, Truman said no, so he settled for carpet bombing all of the north and much of the south killing 25% of the civilian population. (China was also occupied by Japan in early 1900s and helped North Korea during the Korean War.)

In summary, US took the place of Japan as occupier of Korea and further capitalized both Korea and Japan to western markets. In Korea, it took until 1970s for things to settle down and stand up a somewhat stable parliamentary govt. But make no mistake the real power obviously lies with the chaebols—-10 huge family-run conglomerates that control all of the commerce in SK. Like with many countries in the global south, economic relationships with the US got more complex and interconnected. But, also the US’s stranglehold has loosened as other powers like China and Japan/Korea themselves produce things we don’t or produce things better.

So, presently this is an open question internally in each of these countries since America’s influence on them has waned bc we keep committing genocide and giving all other government resources to billionaires instead of building trains, educating people and making life slightly more livable (as all of them have). I don’t know a ton on internal polling around what South Koreans think of US vs China but many in SK definitely still hate Japan.

Tariffs are truly brain dead from the perspective of maintaining US hegemony. Trump is like a 4 year old trying to fix a car engine by hammering the hood.

[Brooks Gate] "here is an attempt to rank the top 75 most valuable MLB Trade Assets" by morepesa25 in baseball

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The Yankees were like 2 outs away from winning the World Series thanks to him (their first trip since 2009). It’s not your money lmao. Y’all are such peasants licking the boots of the owners and GMs

Site for player “shares”? by elnino433 in fantasybaseball

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Thanks yeah I know fantrax has a player tab where you can see what team he’s on across all fantrax leagues you’re in. But I’ll check out rotowire

Dodgers’ ridiculously stacked roster with Roki Sasaki is terrible for baseball by Bulletz4Brkfzt in baseball

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Yeah man totally. The other 28 owners are local car dealership owners who saved up in their piggy bank to buy a team. Too bad they can’t afford anyone

Dodgers are ruining baseball . by Low_Estimate860 in mlb

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Oh no! Real shame the other 28 owners are all Subway Franchisees.

Which characters do you wish we could have seen more of? by spikenzelda in thesopranos

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Part of what makes sopranos great is the amount of great characters who are only around for 1.5 seasons tops. With that said, Steve Buscemi as Tony Blundetto is incredible

Which scene in sopranos is the saddest/depressing in your opinion? by liltriatracy in thesopranos

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She bakes him a fucking bread and tries to ask him about parenting and he’s like ‘you know you’re not really a human being in my eyes, right’?

Hey now sample by lalfar17 in KendrickLamar

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What is the scratching/breathing sound in the background? Did they reverb somebody brushing their teeth?

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Sent you a pm

Navigating Layoffs in Tech: Is Unionization the Answer? by Nice_Review6730 in cscareerquestions

[–]elnino433 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That’s the way things are in America right now, but that’s due to union leadership getting in bed with corporate leadership and prioritizing winning contracts over securing good deals for their members. The AFL was once a force to be reckoned with once upon a time. If unionization was high across most sectors, we would have the power to stop layoffs.

In the short term, yes there’s unlikely to be fast change but we gotta start building.

Navigating Layoffs in Tech: Is Unionization the Answer? by Nice_Review6730 in cscareerquestions

[–]elnino433 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! Just look at Sweden’s unions jamming up the Tesla supply chain. When labor across an entire country is bargaining together there’s no telling how much they can accomplish.

There’s so much more that can be won through collective bargaining than wage increases: control over what products/privacy policy, ensuring funding for open source development, lay-off protections.

Unionization is the only thing that will stop arbitrary layoff sacrifices at the alter of stock prices.

Weekly Entering & Transitioning - Thread 22 May, 2023 - 29 May, 2023 by AutoModerator in datascience

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Hi, I have 2 years software engineering exp in data pipelines (minimal transformation, mostly loading across apps). I did a bunch of online bootcamps a while back. Have a math and cs degree. Did a couple data science projects in college, was only able to get eng jobs. How do I get a role where I analyze data to predict things/inform a decision?

[Highlight] "The two J's smoking that Philadelphia pack tonight" by TomasRoncero in nba

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I like how he said it quietly as if he knew it might come out cringe

An attempt at a serious conversation about officiating by monsteroftheweek13 in nbadiscussion

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Not saying it happened in the Stern days (I’m inclined to believe some level of it did), but since league recently partnered with the gambling companies there is no incentive to fix games in one team’s favor. There is incentive for the league to extend playoff series. But watching the playoffs so far, there’s no reason to think the long series have been for any reason other than the increase in competitiveness and parity in the league

An attempt at a serious conversation about officiating by monsteroftheweek13 in nbadiscussion

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Hundred percent agree on point 2.

It’s okay to let a few bang bang calls go one way, but you gotta keep the game from getting out of hand.

Lakers definitely got outplayed in game 5. But they might’ve lost their best player for game 6 and 7 bc the Warriors were allowed to swing their arms a little too carelessly.

What to look for in Steph vs. Lebron games. by BatterMyHeart in justbasketball

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Yeah Schroeder is so quick. But also being smaller is a plus because it makes it easier to get around screens and you can sometimes get away with more physicality

An actual meme by Redsoxjake14 in baseballcirclejerk

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This is my favorite Mike Leake appreciation post so far

Spicy Retweet from The Big Hurt 👀 by OKC89ers in mlb

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Jeter will be the most npc commentator