Actually, it has been identified as one of the bigger issues. Lack of childcare options means one parent needs to stay home, means one income, means lots of women tend to just work a few years in office exclusively to find a good husband and then drop out of everything (cue the incel population who understands that if they can’t have a huge income, they might never get laid). Also, single income participates in the terrible work culture where staying at one company forever is the better option because people who leave get burned everywhere. And this lifestyle, this work identity, this lack of prospectives, is a big part of why young people are losing hope fast. This vicious cycle has been pretty well known forever, and childcare has been recognized as a major starter of it for a while.

Housing in Japan is often a culture of 3 generations living in the same home, single income participates in that too, but there are housing options - Japan has a notoriously high number of empty homes, abandoned and falling apart; we don’t have any perspective right now on what direction this could go if the demographics started improving. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone ever bring up that education had any particular problem, as far as I can tell they get what they need. In all of those fields there’s probably a bunch of issues about outdated standards everywhere, but there’s no big issue about entire spans of population dropping out of education or housing or feeding.

Yeah, Japan is notoriously deep in a hole about that: the total lack of child care support has long been identified as a major drive for all the gender inequalities they have (employment high up above everything else, then salary), which is super bad. There have been talks about something like child care for a few years, and apparently only now they’re actually doing it - they’ve been extra dragging their feet for a long time, and if they’re doing it now, it’s only because they finally accepted that their known demographics disaster will not be miraculously fixed by checks notes doing nothing. Hell must be freezing over right now.

Both arms was my first take too considering he’s specifically named the one winged angel because of the one black wing replacing his arm, but he does have a whole extra head visible behind the text, in the same way Bizarro Sephiroth had a big Sephiroth and then a tiny Sephiroth on top - the topless, black wing form sits on a cloud that sits on top of another bigger Sephiroth with white wings instead of just having 6 wings replacing his legs. And there’s still more werid shit going on behind that text that I can’t make out. With how they brought Bizarro Sephiroth in Rebirth, they could be doing the “multiple teams attacking different sections” take again.

A great modern game much better than the original. Worth it even if you played the original.

100%. Great story, great characters, classic gameplay, cool skills and spells. Best of the series in the opinion of someone who never got into BoFIII (which most BoF fans view as the best)

Can confirm, my experience says there’s been a massive increase in Teslas on the road in my region these last ~3 years, and lately VWs (ID3, 4, Buzz) are increasing too. There’s other brands too that are also going up a little, but they’re less easily identified at a glance if you don’t know the models.

but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.

Man, they are literally executing anyone they see for just existing in Gaza. Americans, health workers, ambulances. They literally said that babies born in Gaza are already terrorists. They make prisoners confess that they are Hamas by threatening to drone their whole family. So yes, they do execute your whole family just because they live there.

You’re not getting it. Macron does in fact control the legislation.

Sure it’s not what the president is supposed to do, there’s a prime minister and speaker for that to decide what laws will be voted on in what calendar. Except when Macron forces his pick on both (and straight up ignores when a new national vote says the left wing opposition gets to name the prime minister), forces the voting calendar, forces passing his laws by skipping a vote he knows will fail, etc.

The 5th French Republic has laws like this that give the president some exceptional powers to get over the head of the parliament. And Macron uses those exceptional powers all the time.

So yes, Macron does do all the things you say the president doesn’t do. And that’s why people are mad at him.

Democrats let fascism ramp up without doing anything, and now they aren’t doing anything to even slow it down. Are you denying that this is the American situation?

I’m saying this is what centrism does when the slightest hint of fascism starts pushing and shoving: they give in, pretend to compromise, they’re happy when the fascist says “fine, we’ll cut our expectations for 20 crimes against humanity down to 10, but it’ll be back next week” and they pretend that’s progress. Sometimes they put their foot down, but only when putting your foot down has zero effect, and they say “see, we tried”.

That is centrism, that is what Democrats did, and that is what’s happening here too with those “reasonable” parties. The “reasonable” argument is only on this side of the Atlantic, of course the Nazis in the US aren’t even pretending to have any reasonable discussion. But they did have a phase claiming that the Dems were rude and not doing anything bipartisan, which is why the Democrats tried so hard to project this image of reaching across the aisle for so long. See where that got them.

The “reasonable left”, the PS, wants to say that they still play ball, that they can be part of a government, that they’re not here to destroy the country, that they can work to keep the institutions working. But they never get any compromise going in their favor, and when they say “see, we tried” it’s already too late, and nothing they do gets anywhere, after they’ve killed anything the actual left tries.

This is not reasonable. This is collaboration. We have proof of where that goes with the Democrats in the US. Only the right wing calls them reasonable because they allow the right to pass everything they want. Reasonable means you sign off on everything and get nothing.

Some places translated it as popular new front instead of new popular front? That’s missing the point of the claim that it’s reviving the old popular front from the 1930s.

There is no working with the “center” / center-right, they proved that again and again and again, they have not made a single compromise while constantly complaining that the left doesn’t want to work with them. Working with someone means both sides give something to the other, and the right only ever takes and never gives anything. They have to learn to play ball.

100% garanteed Bardella and the whole party do Nazi salutes between themselves. Just never in public - those who do get kicked out. The US far right simply tested the boundary long enough to realize that no one will do shit about any of it - but Europe still pushes back when we see it.

Only because Russia is failing to do what they’ve really wanted to do since the beginning, or did you forget Bucha.

They’re still stealing children by the thousands though.

Yeah, whatever Trump decides to do with the US membership, there’s nothing he can do about everyone else. He can pick his the US’ toys and leave, NATO will be weaker, but Europe will still want an alliance to defend themselves, even if Trump tries to pressure individual members.

People claiming it’s dead are delusional.

SR Venus, SSR Mars (or UR in some games)

Not having sex doesn’t make you at fault. Rapists make that claim to pretend they’re right. But they are not, they are lying. Only rapists defend that lie.

You start from the conclusion that it makes you at fault, and you deduce that it must be part of the vow. Your reasoning is nonsense, you are trying to justify a conclusion that is already wrong by inventing a premise that doesn’t exist.

There is no such thing as a promise for sex in marriage vows, you fucking clown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_laws_by_country

France Explicitly criminalised The law criminalises rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence, and the government generally enforced the law effectively. The Court of Cassation authorized prosecution of spouses for rape or sexual assault in 1990. In 1994, Law 94-89 criminalised marital rape; a second law, passed 4 April 2006, makes rape by a partner an aggravating circumstance in prosecuting rape. (Article 222-24(11) of the Criminal Code)

I figure the crux of an argument would more likely rest on defining consent, which is where there’s always progress to be made.

Also there was a massive trial that ended just recently about the mass rapes of a wife who was drugged to sleep by her husband and offered to people for years without her knowledge. Of the 50 guys including the husband, most of them got prison I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapes_of_Gisèle_Pelicot

All over the news for months here and it made some degree of International noise, at least in Europe. Dunno about the US.

Edit to your edit - “not true anymore” is an understatement, it hasn’t been true for 30 to 35 years.

By calling it “starting a war” (which is a lie) and insisting that it has never gone well, you are implying that they should lie down and let Israel genocide them. Because that’s how that goes.

You’re mixing up what people say and what they think. Biden and Blinken both denied the war crimes and the genocide, and we have evidence that they knew what it was. Nazi Germany might have spread propaganda about security, but they DEFINITELY knew they were exterminating entire “races”. Maybe not the randos in the streets, but anyone operating in a camp or the government.

Propaganda is not what these people actually believe, it’s the tool they use to give cowards plausible deniability. Those participating actively, and those not stopping it.

Yes, there are people who are in fact monsters.