I voted for Al Gore, and Obama twice before I voted for Trump. (I forget who I voted for in '04).
In principle I'm not opposed to abortion. I'm opposed to communists.
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Because I'm rich.
My team is team "fuck anyone who wants to tax capital gains".
I went from poor as fuck Piroko to Scrooge McDuck Piroko right around the end of Obama's first term. But I voted for him again because Mitt Romney was so brazenly stuck up that it offended my sensibilities. A guy who thinks horse dressage (that is, horse PARKING) is more deserving as an olympic sport than wrestling, doesn't get my vote.
I don't give a flip about what he thinks. He could be a satanist who doesn't just want to abort babies but grill them and serve them at Applebees, I wouldn't care.
We're well past the point of politics over principles or policies. We're in pick-sides times.
Did the good guys win?
Well, the same guys won. It's still an LDP-Komeito government.
The thing you have to understand about Japan is that the LDP IS the uniparty. They've been in government almost continuously since 1955. They're conservative and nationalistic but they've been dragged left to stay in power. It's a sign of their weakness that even with Komeito they don't have 2/3rds majority.
The ultra-right is Ishin, but they're like Japanese AFD, they're small and nobody wants to work with them. An LDP-Ishin government will never happen because it would swiftly be replaced by a CDP government in the next election.
I would have to delete my Microsoft account entirely which is just cruel.
Clearly someone has never worked with a database admin or they wouldn't think to appeal to humanity.
Arbitrary capriciousness is half of what makes DBA a profession.
the depression
That was deflation, it's a totally different phenomena.
Your attitude on the usage of wealth is hyperconservative. Yes, it's safe, but it's also blind to opportunity.
The situation we are in today does not resemble the end of the 20's at all.
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Uh, no.
As it happens I already thought most of what's come out of Kadokawa in the last twenty years was cancer on its own merits. In fact the only title of theirs I actually like at all is FSS, and from my understanding Kadokawa has no editorial control over Nagano; he's the Japanese version of Bill Watterson.
I'll break down the industries I singled out there and why they won't be coming back.
Textile milling will not return to the US because it was (and remains) one of the most dangerous industries after deep sea fishing and subsurface mining. Textile mills operate in countries where life is cheap, because fingers and lungs will be lost and there is nothing that can be done automation wise to fix it. That's why it was one of the first industries to LEAVE the US in the post-WW2 world reconstruction.
Consumer electronics assembly happens typically where the injection molding is done. For this, both in the molding and integration, you need CHEAP laborers who are basically dexterous robots. We don't use robots because frankly products change designs often enough that automation isn't worth the effort. The same factory with people can produce multiple devices for multiple brands, with outwardly different shells but the same internals. The people can adapt faster than the machines can be reconfigured.
And in particular, LCD assembly will not come back to the US because it remains hideously toxic and only really feasible in countries with no water pollution standards.
Yes, but I'm realistic about the prospects of accomplishing that.
Textiles aren't coming back. Consumer electronics assembly probably isn't coming back (even if we manage to claw back chip fabbing from Korea and Vietnam, which frankly I'm not hopeful about).
Large appliance and furniture assembly we can probably claw back, as it only went south of the border.
We're not being stupid.
Not at all.