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I’m not going to apologize for American imperialism, but will point out that its benevolent compared to Japanese empire.

You do realize that this is literally American Imperialism apologetics?

Formally, the “But X was worse” apologetic argument is called the Fallacy of relative privation, less formally its called the “not as bad as argument” or “appeal to worse problems”, and informally (but most popularly) its known as whataboutism.

And its a very well known apologetic tactic.

Saying that you aren’t going to apologize for something, then using whataboutism is roughly akin to saying “im not a christian, but Jesus Christ is God”

It may not be your intent to apologize for American Imperialism, but that is more or less exactly what you are doing here.

If your goal is really to not apologize for American Imperialism, you need to learn and avoid the most common apologetics tactics because saying “I dont wanna do X” followed immediately by doing X just makes you sound either disingenuous or ignorant.

(Yes, the Japanese terrorism campaign in WWII was awful, but whataboutism isnt the way to bring it up).

This one was referring specifically to Nick Shirley.

There’s a bully market on YouTube now?

Mostly for Republicans. Punching down is basically all they find funny.

Or this kid thought there should be, not comprehending the legal problems involved with being on vid harassing people?

I mean, a Nazi went around harassing preschools and illegally trying to force his way inside, and Republicans made him wealthy and famous for it.

But then they cant give you a bunch of bad information and pretend like its accurate.

Edit: I should be more specific.

But then the techbros can’t feed you a bunch of propaganda and pretend like its good information.

Because America doesn’t want to maintain political neutrality.

America has a long-standing policy of using our military and various alphabet soup agencies to effectively subjugate foreign countries in the name of profit (for the already very wealthy ofc). We also have a longstanding policy of using our effective military and economic control over most of the world as a bludgeon to force other countries to play along.

Political Neutrality doesn’t get you an empire.

Its sad that when we got a new tool, that can actually be really useful for certain people (like people with vision impairment) the best we can do is immediately use it for sex crimes.

You still trying to pretend like this is an argument?

well, you do you I guess.

You went from funny to sad at this point tho.

Not really an argument tbh. That would require you to have some point to make, even if you where arguing in bad faith, at least it would then be an “argument” of sorts.

But watching you indulge your public humiliation kink has been entertaining.

Its like watching a train wreck, but I don’t like watching train wrecks because of all the pain and suffering from people who didn’t volunteer. Here I get to watch a train wreck, but I know you volunteered for it.

Republicans are out literally killing people for not being fascist enough…

Man, you just cant help embarrassing yourself in public can you?

All to defend a serial child rapist.

So that’s a no then.

I think that more or less says everything about you that you needed to say

So you think its fine that he is massively corrupt, its fine he is a serial child rapist.

Is there anything Trump can do you wont defend?

Sorry, worlds most corrupt serial child rapist

Its hard to say what the most popular are.

Star Wars is sorta explicitly not psionics, the force is an outside thing that force users can tap into.

Mass effect has psionics, but psionics in general play a really minor role, some psionic characters play big roles, but them being psionic is meh.

Warhammer 40K might be the most popular franchise where psionics plays a major role. Every major faction except the Necrons are defined/driven by their psionics.

Star Trek has some psionics, but those are generally minor plot points, not major ones.

Dune has the Atreides be psionic, the Bene-Gesserit are arguably psionic, as are the navigators.

Akira is all about psionics, and is arguably Sci-Fi, if a grittier, closer to current reality one.

Arguably the most popular series with psionics is Star Trek.

Arguably the most popular series where psionics plays a large role is either Dune or Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K has probably made more money, but I think more people have read Dune.

No-one’s out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren’t good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.

I mean, trashy sentimentalist is like half of Shakespeare tbh. Its all jokes about women, dick jokes and violence.

This is a terrible tragedy and we won’t know what truly happened until the NTSB releases their report.

Given how much support Bezos gave to the Worlds most corrupt president, I doubt we will be able to trust the NTSB report tbh.

Nazis will

Everyone except the already very wealthy yes.

Elect Republicans, get republican policies.

The country still hadnt really recovered from Reagan, then we got Bush, then we got Trump.

Obama and Biden could only do so much to stop the dumpster fire, and Nazis are famously bad for the economy.

2 or 3 reasons that Banks give out VP titles like candy.

1. Some regulation after Bush’s recession tried to tie shady shit at banks to VPs, at the time, that would have tied the shady practices to the actual people doing them. Since the actual people in charge wanted to have scapegoats, they just gave the title to everyone.

2. It makes people feel important, if they can call the bank and get a VP on the line, it makes them feel heard if they can complain to a VP etc.

3. Its another form of wage reduction, basically they give people the VP title so the people with the title feel like they are going somewhere, but they don’t actually give out raises to go with. It lets them keep people around for a bit longer without giving them any more money.

The last one has kind of stopped working since everybody knows what’s going on, and once you have 5 VPs at one branch, becoming a VP becomes a lot less important, but its part of why the title became so widespread.

The narrative could be worse, but a “factual” headline can very much be used to drive a fake narrative.

In this case, the headline (while factual) is guiding the reader to think that somebody high up at Bank of America (not some random branch manager) was stabbed because she was a wealthy banker.

Its then pushing the idea that violence against wealthy bankers is terrible because they could be a mother.

Everything about the headline is driving a really bad narrative.