I'm with you on that one. I'm more worried about kids dropping out of playing or doing anything physical nowadays, over the lack of interest in any single sport for another.
Last time I was in an elementary school, doing a volunteer event, over half the kids in gym class were just standing around the bleachers chatting, while a minority of the other kids were playing basketball.
Kids need to play physically to expel extra energy and get necessary exercise, to help them focus and perform in other functions of school and society.
It's not even just a single day. Nearly every state is offering some form of "early voting" so that polls are open for a week or more, further spreading out the congestion of in-person voting.
Data were weighted according to age, gender, race, education, and 2016 presidential vote.
I'm interested in this weighting as well - does it give more weight to young, non-white voters? Or what?
Even that's not entirely true. It's mostly the older generation who opposed immigration, and as they die off, the younger generations just don't care, as they're too busy with their jobs and own problems.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/23/japan-immigration-policy-xenophobia-migration/
In fact, the latest immigration reform [increasing foreign visas] has faced little scrutiny by the media or in wider conversation. “In general, there has not been much controversy regarding the law,” Yashiro said.
Japan ranks moderately high on global indexes of acceptance and tolerance of immigrants. Nationalist and xenophobic far-right voices protesting the new law have failed to gain momentum. In fact, most of Japanese society supports the changing immigration policy. In a recent survey by Nikkei, almost 70 percent of Japanese said it is “good” to see more foreigners in the country. “The nationalist, anti-immigrant groups here only make up perhaps 1-2 percent of voters. It’s not like Europe. And they have not raised their voices about this so far,” Oguma said.
Much like how Twitter doesn't represent the majority of US voters, some pictures of anti-immigrant protesters in Japan doesn't represent a majority of Japanese voters.
in a pussy way
You should check out some of the videos of what happens after crime; it literally breaks their mind, and they try to create weird logic to justify it. As in, interviewing people looking at a murder scene where the weapon was a gun, and saying "this is impossible because guns are illegal here!"
They also have this amazing mental disease パリ症候群 or "Paris Syndrome" where they have such an idealized view of Paris that when they see it for real and how disgusting it is (relative to the image in their collective minds) they have serious mental and physical symptoms.
They seem to be respectful and cultured in public and business.
At the high levels in business. If you don't work in a blue collar or higher job, you're treated as the scum of the Earth, and not worth anyone's time. They won't be outwardly mean, but in bars and social settings, sometimes the masks slip and you get to hear their 本音, or real opinion. A lot of Japanese society is still extremely feudal in nature, caused from their excessive rapid change from feudalism to modernism when we forced open their borders for trade.
Not understanding that shows you accept what they present on the outside, much like how China always puts its best face forward as well. And many of the Japanese are extremely proud of Japan, and defend it zealously if you doubt or question the image they present.
Otherwise, we don’t know what their domestic lives are like.
Plenty of people do. I used to live their and was engaged to a Japanese woman and was close to her family. When out at the bars, I got a lot of the "real stories" but the men (and a few women) who were aware of all of the problems of the country and culture. Just because you don't, and you just know of the idealized views of it from online forums, doesn't mean it's completely unknown. Their culture is going through numerous failures right now, and it's exactly why their government is looking at bring in numerous foreign guest workers (mostly Chinese and Australian, but the former queen had some cool stuff working out with Ireland).
The men seem to rule their households with a strong hand.
This has greatly gone away, and even then with the older generations, not as much as you think it does. Traditionally, women run all of the aspects of the household, including handling all of the money and spending, while the men's job were to work and protect the house, and be a figurehead leader. But now, they're having their own "awakening" for women, where many don't want to have families or work, and are content to stay with their parents, who cannot kick them out due to the potential social shame (had one bar buddy who had this exact problem), so instead they give the daughters hush money to go out shopping and/or whore themselves out.
TL;DR - Don't drink the Japanese kool-aid. The country is not as great as they want you to think they are.
Japan is full of effeminate men who are absolute cucks to their government and oppressive corporations. We don't want to be like Japan. Enjoy their food and traditional culture, sure, but their modern culture is nearly as bad as any of the big cities in the US.
Yup. Claims we need more tax money to make up for what is lost from the lack of tourism and businesses being closed, and to make up for the increased welfare spending, but when the budget doesn't work out, the adjustments hit the police and schools instead of welfare and the lockdown.
It's the worst, ain't it?
A lot of the touristy areas are cucked to all hell there, because they want to virtue signal to all of the CA and NYCers who are there visiting to escape their own lockdowns. Then all the gun shops too have people from those places trying to buy guns, and being disappointed that the stores won't work with them, even for what could be a legal transfer of like a low-cap pump gun. Pigeon Forge and Sevierville are all sorts of fucked right now, and not even mostly their own fault.
They stopped when BLM and Antifa were using other protests to start violence and riots. The last thing any reopening movements want to do is be the cover for terrorist groups to commit acts of violence against the communities they aren't even a part of, and have MSM report "Trump supporters who want to reopen the economy burning down buildings and shooting people".
If you're in the tourist areas, especially around a holiday, then yeah. The local places have the signs, but literally don't give two shits.
very low property tax
Not for much longer if the Dems get their way. They're trying to raise the prop tax by 34% in Davidson county to offset lost tourism revenue from everything being shut down and increased welfare spending.
Tennessee is amazing, but Nashville is slowly becoming a shit hole of uncontrolled spending.
Big thing right now, is due to the city losing on tons of tax revenue from tourism because the city is shut down, and because of massively increasing spending on homeless and lazy, the politicians decided the best way to solve the issue is a 34% increase on property taxes. There was a petition to add to the ballot a rejection of that tax, so the government declared that if the new tax was rejected, then instead of reducing spending on welfare, they would cut police and other first responders.
Within the city though, there's plenty of based people; way more density-wise than I ever met in NYC. Tons of small family-owned restaurants still fly US flags and offer military and first responder discounts. Outside downtown and my job's office, I very rarely see no guns allowed signs (note they have force of law in TN). Churches are hit or miss; few I've been to are hyper-progressive "Jesus was a communist" types, while others are more family-orientated moderate conservative.
Like a few other brands, their high-end products seem to be made in the US (at least in part or assembled), while their entry-level products are all or nearly all made in China.
Just go in the morning, before they had a chance to wake up post-noon and go get their sugar bomb drinks from Starbucks and post on social media how they're going to "bash the fash today".
I had a similar situation awhile ago, where I reported one of those fake accounts pretending to be a woman that was full of hardcore nudity and sex. Reported it, was denied, and appealed, only for it to be denied again. And I'm sure the reviewer was probably wanking it to the fake account.
Insert obligatory Try the Walther PPS M2 for a single stack ccw and a PPQ M2 SC for double stack ccw. Both are fantastic, with the PPS being my summer/thin clothed ccw and the PPQ SC being my winter/jacket/coat/bag ccw. Then of course is the regular PPQ M2 (Walther's competitor to the G19).
Only a bill that sadly did not pass.
Blocking public highways and streets in Tennessee is a crime. Only a misdemeanor, but still a crime.
Sad we didn't get the partner bill that would have given drivers exemptions from civil liability for injuring protesters blocking traffic as long as the drivers were exercising due care.
It's not the first time. George Zimmerman, among others, saw it happen, too. Many news commentators will lighten or darken the skin of those being discussed to fit whichever racial narrative they are playing.
I with you. I still love Dolly and all she does. It's okay to not be a hardliner, and folks need to understand the difference between someone trying to be caring, versus "a social justice ally".
Am I disappointed she renamed the Stampede? Yeah, I sure am. But most everyone calls it the Stampede, not its full name, and it's such a little give compared to all the good she does and still does, like her work with the American Eagle Foundation, the Imagination Library reducing children illiteracy, and the raw amount of money she's put in to pay her employees while businesses were closed, and to early as soon as possible to revive the economy in Eastern TN.
Now, being highly involved in GOA and FPC, I understand worries about the slippery slope of little gives turning into a massive landslide. But I trust her to not allow herself to go down that rabbit hole, especially given how much she fought to reopen her parks and other businesses. She's not a politician or city urbanite, she's a part of Eastern TN itself - one of the key parts of the state keeping it red and free!
Only for the add-on channels, not for Amazon Prime itself. Whatever PR intern or employee is running the Facebook page isn't that smart it seems. I'd say they aren't sending their best, but they probably are.
You forgot to mention, for those rolling into the state to do any conservative or libertarian protests, they'd be arrested for breaching quarantine almost immediately, and made to disappear in the NY prison system, probably into forced labor making hand sanitizer for Cuomo to further enrich himself.
Walther is one of their sponsors on the show, and so they are always giving Walther some mentions, as well as using Walther firearms in any graphics they show on the show, such as the "7+1" rundown, which uses a PPK.
Yeah, it was good, pointing to the fact that the modern SJW bull came about when corrupt money and politicians were threatened, but then it turns into "the Jews" at the very end instead of "the Establishment".
There are people of Jewish ancestry in the Establishment, but the Establishment is not some Jewish cabal - most people of Jewish ancestry are not connected to or benefit from, as we can see in places like NYC where Gov. Cuomo (part of the Establishment) is actively attacking the local Jewish population.
It's the same bull as "White Privilege" where there are many rich billionaires who are White, and SJWs act like this means every fucking white person is a billionaire beating down on "lower classes".