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Also, "Tax the Rich" implies "the Rich" are not taxed at all, which is obviously false. Anyone working under that slogan is either deliberately deceptive, or too blinkered to notice.

When it comes to the relationship of crime and poverty, people don’t often continue to put their earnings into communities that will disregard, steal, and harm them. A person is not going to keep a business open when they get their windows broken and their store robbed regularly, they will move to a place where that doesn’t or is far less likely to happen. These things do play into each other to a degree, but there is a reason why many would rather leave the ghetto than stay and try to build up infrastructure and community in the area. And there is a reason why people from poorer areas will advocate for more police in the area while more those from wealthier neighborhoods shout ACAB.

The problem isn’t the hardware, but the software. They are running on Microsoft 11.

Fun fact. The Japanese in general don't under the American custom of tipping. However, the Japanese citizens who regularly encounter American customers understand tipping and accept it as apart of our culture of generosity.

And part of why they don’t understand tipping is that in East Asia, they still have the sort of beliefs we know best as “the evil eye” (though this is actually a different belief, known to anthropologists as “gift poison”). To gain a benefit you can’t pay back is to incur a curse—go look up advice about gift-giving in China, for business travelers, if you want another example of how perilous this mindset is.

Thanks for clarifying. I will remember that all interactions with them are like trying to diffuse a bomb. I love living alongside a culture that seems to have the social mores of the Russian aristocracy about "respect" but then has zero actual honor. We might as well pretend they are samurai and we are peasants who can get cut down at their pleasure as they test a new blade.

The narrative: Those evil racist white supremacists couldn't kill this poor little child so they ruined his life sending him to prison instead.

I'm losing my patience with these people. And frankly? I'm tempted to hit up my trucker friends and film myself dumping their piss jugs on the grave of "Saint Floyd of the Fent". Get in my face. I dare you. I'll show you what real barbarism looks like.

Serious question: what, other than mysticism or legal abstraction (which mysticism and abstraction, to be clear, I accept), says she shouldn’t be publicly hung by her entrails, as a warning to others?

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And maybe they haven't learned from America but doing this tends to have the opposite result. And it tends to make people more discriminatory. Because it looks to them like you're defending them all of them even the person who did it. And given the history of European countries protecting grooming gangs......... At this point they're positive that that's exactly what you're doing.

Also, the rioters targeted cop cars, and I don't see any evidence of the face-stabber's motive.

The authorities should have listened to the victims ages ago instead of silencing them. It may not be too late for peace and compromise, but it's definitely going to be harder than it was just a couple months ago.

If anything, rioting just makes the cops look more justified trying to prevent riots. By, um, asking nicely.

I'm simply reiterating the warning that people who feel like the authorities are hostile to them tend to become volatile. Situations become unpredictable and dangerous. People listen to folks who encourage their worse nature. Last straws become much more common.

I suspect the riots would've started no matter what the cops said, given the already existing tensions in the UK.

Riots make bad situations worse and I do not endorse them.

This is all true. But personalizing the threat Islam represents can be more useful in getting people to realize how evil it is.

Using a knife to open a box makes it a tool. Using it to stab someone in the chest makes it a weapon.