at least you’re being honest with your oppo bullshit instead of the “oh geez, fellow leftists, I don’t know…” facade.

Japan will do anything but address the root issue of their toxic work culture. How do they expect anyone to have and raise a family with the economy as it is while they continue to normalize and allow companies to exploit their workers.

Underpaying, “encouraging” working extra hours (for free) to show “dedication”, nomikai (see: more forced work hours, unpayed)…

A middle class Japanese person will work 10-14 hours a day, get paid for 8 of them, and then be “encouraged” to spend 2-3 hours a night a couple nights a week “bonding” with coworkers and drinking (see: spending their money, on work)… neverminding all economics of it all, how, more importantly WHEN, tf is anyone meant to have personal time to themselves to meet, date, have a relationship? Let alone raise a kid.

-The Mainstream Media!

and, apparently, some people in lemmy too.

that’s not at all what I said, but okay, use your cool reference. Everyone thinks you’re soo cool now, sooo cool, you’re so cool dude, cool meme.

If you think it’s all behind him, and want to support him over the corpo picks… why even bring it up? It’s old news at this point. The people who care, already know. The only thing you’re doing now is running oppo by keeping it fresh, unasked; that’s the opposite of support. At least be honest with your bullshit, rather than trying to play the “concerned voter” schtick.

Don’t forget the Seven Tenets of Satanism

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God youre annoying.

Youre just looking to be combative. Youre cool dude, so cool, just so so cool that you should go back to reddit. So fucking cool how you intentionally need to argue the most braindead niche “uhm actually” talking point you can muster.

Right,but theyre not banning it for people like her… theyre banning it for people born after 2008. Is your mom 18 years old?

1930s didnt have overwhelming evidence that smoking was stupid, addictive, and disastrously dangerous to your health.

Smoking doesnt produce the same euphoria and consistency of drugs on the current blackarket. The juice wont be worth the squeeze. Financially, there wont be enough “consumers” for a cigarette black market.

I remember when the pilot came out and I was like, “this could be fun to watch”… then the first season aired and I was like, “nevermind”…

I would definitely classify John Denver as more folk than country. The two often overlap, but Denver is majority on one side of it.

Oh yeah, for sure. I was just trying to think up modern artists to illustrate that good country music is still being made today. Otherwise I’d add people like Willie Nelson, Woodie Gunthrie, Johnny Paycheck, etc etc etc… and the list would be eternally long.

It’s like, generally accepted that old country is good, but modern day country sucks. I just wanted to disprove that. There’s still great country music being made post Garth Brooks.

EDIT: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Charlie Daniels, Chris Stapleton, Kenny Rogers…

The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.

Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…

Skip past all the “pop” country; the “bro” country; and there’s a lot of good country artists. Artists that have real songs and stories to tell. Not just jeans, pick up trucks, and being “southern”. But are actually sorrowful, thoughtful, and sometimes, extremely progressive.

• Lost Dog Street Band / Benjamin Tod
  • Brighter Shade of Blue
  • Using Again
• Sturgill Simpson
  • Turtle All the Way Down
  • Life Ain’t Fair
• Amigo the Devil
  • One Kind of People
  • Hell and You
• Tyler Childers
  • Nose to the Grindstone
  • Long Violent History
• IV and The Strange Band
  • Son of Sin

and so many others, Matt Heckler, Dead South, Colter Wall… go listen to real country, indie country. Not corpo country.

I think you’re a making a lot of cope to defend casual misogyny instead of just calling it out.

“nono, you don’t understand, Cranston did tv first, totally different”. They’re both actors, and actors frequently alternate between movies and shows all the time. For various different reasons.

OP wasn’t attacking her views on AI, he was attacking her, as an actor. Using language that wouldn’t be used on similarly aged male actors (don’t like my examples, there’s hundreds others to use… DeCaprio? McKellen, Nicholson?). Language, mind you, that dogwhistles and normalizes popular misogynistic takes on women with long careers (especially if they started young).

If that seems acceptable to you but you earnestly believe Hollywood misogyny is a problem, you might want to do some self-reflecting on those two statements. Think about what it means to normalize attitudes and the words used to describe actors and how/when they’re applied.

washed up? What are you talking about? She’s been the lead on two different, highly rated, shows for nearly a decade now. And that’s discounting her decades prior of accolades.

But here’s the real problem, you jump to call her “washed up”, she’s only 49. Is Brian Cranston washed up? Was Pachino? Calling a female actor “washed up” because she’s older with a long career just exudes and perpetuates the culture pushing out women as they age.

Just because YOU stopped paying attention to her doesn’t make her washed up. Sorry she’s not the bangable 20something year old “Legally Blonde” anymore. Say what you want about her hot take on AI, that’s fair, but don’t normalize your misogyny as part of it.

“Most transparent administration”

We need Ja Rule’s opinion on this. Has anyone asked him?