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@romly2023 Fixed that for you

@Timcast what is your rank?

Everyone has gone fucking crazy The goal is to convince people politics is not worth it. I'm going to start streaming marvel rivals instead

@CacheThatCheque This has been a notorious problem in Canada. The foreign population has ballooned by a lot with family reunification visas. It hasn't exactly made the country better.

One thing going largely unnoticed is that Japan has already been quietly allowing "chain migration"of immigrant families. Japan's (SSW) type 2 visa category effectively allows for de facto permanent residency (no limit on renewals) along with the right to bring family members in Japan. I see many Vietnamese now in Japan with families and young kids. There are also now record numbers of babies in Japan born to foreign parents.

@SethDillon Funny how regimes that did socialism and communism were strongly atheistic, without basing their things in the bible whatsoever.

No, Christianity does not promote or require socialism. And it is not at odds with capitalism. The idea that socialism is a biblical model requires you to ignore the difference between willing generosity and forced redistribution. When the early church in Acts shared resources, it was voluntary; it wasn't mandated by the state. Peter acknowledged private property rights and so did the ten commandments. Stealing is only wrong if private property ownership is a given. Same with coveting. All virtues require freedom, including charity. Socialism removes the freedom and kills the virtue. If the state takes your wealth and gives it to someone else, you've been taxed. You haven't been "generous" because it had nothing to do with your heart. Capitalism creates wealth — so there's something to share — and respects our individual freedom to share it. The charity that results from the wealth that's created is real charity; it's actually an act of loving one's neighbor. And it isn't just theoretical or idealistic. Free markets paired with Christian values have produced the wealthiest, freest, and most generous societies in history.

@bumbadum14 Well, they're freaking out that someone actually moved from the complaining about the world to actually doing things. It's like those people that are all bark but no bite

The reaction to this from the "online right" has been nothing but pathetic. For 10 years, since I was in HIGHSCHOOL, I have watched and participated in endless posting about "saracens", "bring back the crusades", "retake constantinople" and all sorts of pro-violence rhetoric against muslims and the middle east. Now we have a president (likely bluffing) who is stating he wants to do that and you people blink. How pathetic. None of you people are serious. None of you are the "strong men" that you pretend to be. Every leftist is serious, they wouldn't say they want to "liquidate white people" but they will happily go work for NGOs to defraud the country, or work as pro-bono legal clerks to keep repeat offending murderers and rapists out of jail. Every leftist was serious when they went to go work for the CIA, FBI, and NSA they did the dirty work for Bush, Obama, and Biden against their precious browns as hospitals and weddings were bombed. You know why? Because after that they got to spy on Americans, they got to debank and arrest people for memes. Leftists do this shit because they are serious, because even if they are opposed to the random inbred browns getting drone striked 7,000 miles away, they know that at the end of it they will still get to weaponize their will, even the smallest most infinitesimal amount of it to enact their worldview on YOU. None of you people are willing to do that which is why we lose. Even those who will go and say "well Yarvin is right about the hobbits" are hand wringing at the idea of displaying true and real power, and more importantly getting the fuck out of this mess. But no, you keep posting crusader crosses and Kingdom of Heaven edits while crying about Iran. Meanwhile leftists are going to do everything they can to ruin your life and will do anything at the opprotunity to do so. Including nuking Tehran.

@DrewPavlou Read on the Twelver Shia doctrine. The pure fanaticals there ain't going for pragmatism.

It is extremely dangerous for the Iranian regime not to simply surrender at this point. Obviously they can’t win the war, and every moment they continue this doomed enterprise puts innocents at risk. The whole world must unite to call on the Iranian regime to surrender, it’s the only way.

@DrewPavlou Do remember it was France who brought in Khomeini in. Maybe it's high time for them to teach Iran how to surrender.

We need everybody - the international community, European leaders, Democrats, Iranians - to unite tonight to call for the Iranian regime to surrender The Iranian regime picked a fight they can’t win against a much more powerful military and every second they keep this going they create risk of World War III They spent 47 years attacking America and attacking its sphere of influence, and now the risk of terrible tragedy is just too great We need to all come together to call on these madmen in the Iranian regime to surrender. This is just basic realism. They can’t win, they are a smaller power that spent decades poking a bigger power with terror attacks and proxy wars. Now the risk of disaster is too high. They must surrender now for the good of the Iranian nation and its people

@Osint613 Remember that it was France that brought Khomeini

French President Emmanuel Macron says French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who had been detained in Iran for over three years, have been released from prison and are now on their way to the French Embassy in Tehran following mediation efforts, including through Omani authorities.

@zkurishi The influence from the western department is rampant. It is ridiculous and unnecessary

You can't use "male" or "female"; you have to use "Body type 1/2." Everyone was surprised when this inexplicable rule was introduced to Japanese games a few years ago. And many people in Japan, including myself, wonder if there are really that many people who are happy about this.

@GadSaad Funny because the societies that enacted socialism and communism doctrines were all atheist.

What's happening?!

@itsjustnickm Must be a Dickhead

Come on bro. I am not shipping a card to Mr. Penis 😭😭

@teslaownersSV And what is going to be done about that? Throw more money at it like finland or hungary which also have abysmal rates? Import more foreign labor and don’t care about the baggage they bring? Or actually tackle the sociocultural problem that is the main cause of this?

JAPAN’S BIRTH RATE COLLAPSE: A NATIONAL EMERGENCY IN SLOW MOTION Japan just recorded another grim milestone. In 2025, the country saw only 705,809 births — a new record low for the 10th consecutive year, down 2.1% from 2024. The total fertility rate remains critically low at around 1.2–1.38, far below the 2.1 replacement level needed to maintain a stable population. This is one of the most extreme demographic declines in modern history: • From post-war baby boom highs of ~3.6 in the 1950s to today’s sub-1.4 level. • The population is shrinking rapidly, with deaths far outnumbering births. • Labor shortages, strained pensions, healthcare overload, school closures, and entire regions emptying out are already happening. Despite government incentives (cash bonuses, childcare support, housing aid), the trend has proven extremely difficult to reverse. Economic pressures, high cost of living, intense work culture, delayed marriage, and shifting social norms are all contributing. Japan is the clearest warning sign for many developed nations heading in the same direction. Reversing this will require more than policy tweaks — it may demand deep cultural, economic, and societal changes. This is the slow-motion crisis that quietly undermines everything else: economic growth, innovation, national security, and long-term civilizational continuity.

@ApostateProphet What benefit does an immigrant bring if they're hostile to the country's culture? This just ends up on erosion of social cohesion

Every immigrant who is hostile to the host culture should be deported, no matter if they are legal or illegal immigrants.

@romly2023 I wonder if there is an actual common definition of what feminism is in Japan. I've seen it all over the place in Japanese media/tv/manga and I couldn't really tell what it is. Is it 正々堂々？女性のエンパワーメント？Care for women? The word フェミニズム gets tossed so much.

Female critics of feminism are practically nonexistent in Japan. To be precise, you can find some, but if you watch them long enough, eventually their true colors start showing, and they end up just saying like every other cookie-cutter feminist account lol

@ChibiReviews You could sue for defamation

So Diesel a channel with a Million Subscribers basically called me a PDF in his latest video for defending lolis, but a year ago in his Community Posts he was making loli jokes and privated a video being positive about lolis as you can see That's kind of weird right?

@nikitabier @girdley did you like working at facebook?😀

The article avoids the central historical issue that pre-modern Islamic societies did not operate with a distinction between “Islam” and “Islamism.” While practices varied across time and place, the integration of religion and governance (din wa dawla) was a persistent feature of Islamic political thought. Legal and social frameworks such as dhimmi regulations, hudud punishments, and laws concerning apostasy or blasphemy were historically justified through the Quran, Hadith, and the example of Muhammad as both religious and political leader. The modern distinction between Islam and “Islamism” is better understood not as a continuation of historical categories, but as a contemporary attempt to separate religious belief from its political and legal dimensions as grounded in traditional interpretations of the Quran and Hadith. While many Muslims today do not support or practice these frameworks, the article does not explain what consistent criteria can be used to distinguish between interpretations that treat these elements as essential and those that regard them as purely historical or contextual.

@HikaruiTen @takaichi_sanae philosproject.org/the-crucial-di…

🇯🇵🙄 It will STILL be up to the Japanese they choose to convert to Islam or not. Plus, the current Japanese government under PM @takaichi_sanae and business lobbies like Nippon Keidanren fail to recognize the real threat Islamism poses to Japan's existence.

As you said, many suits come from people thinking that it's more expensive to fight it than just settle. And many companies will just pay to make it go away. However, as long this keeps happening, it encourages scammers to keep doing it more and more. A lot of behavior in society is encouraged because it's less trouble to let it go than fight it. At one point it's going to take too much to correct it.

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@yz7sha @andyd10 25.55%は多すぎる

Population pyramid of Barcelona, 2025 0-14: 11.14% 15-64: 67.87% 65 and over: 20.99% Foreign population: 25.55%