u/Uruanna

RPCS3 is the name of the emulator. It's an acronym but I don't suppose anyone knows or uses it off the top of their head. Like MAME, also an acronym AFAIK (as far as I know), no idea what It means, the acronym is the name of the emulator. So not really initialism.

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 In all of those fields there's probably a bunch of issues about outdated standards everywhere, but there's no big issue about entire spans of population dropping out of education or housing or feeding.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.

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.

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.