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Japan - famously a country without crime, particularly organised, highly visible criminal groups in urban environments.

Cynicism - "they're all in for themselves etc" plus Republicans not viewing abuse of office as corruption per se

Partner I think

Also, literally her boyfriend.

Once again it is too Ireland's eternal blessing that this fucking moron became the preferred spokesperson of it's reactionary political wing.

Indeed.

Only slightly tongue in cheek when I answer "attempting to govern the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland "

No better illustration of the ethos of this crop of FP "journalists" than to argue strenuously for a return to facts-based reporting, yet, when faced with a failure to correctly describe facts in the course of reporting, offer to pivot to a vibes-based podcast discussion

As an Irishman who has long taken a "just join NATO already" stance, I fully endorse this (though not much point in joining NATO these days, sadly).

Fun coda to the story, Bari Weiss is now head of CBS news and Radley Balko was fired from the WaPo mostly because he was such a good actual journalist on his beat

Professional solidarity played a pernicious role here too - there were too few voices pointing out she was disdained by her colleagues for being a lazy dullard who wrote stuff like Australian politics being devoid of culture war issues, rather than her dipshit politics.

The centre right itself is more or less gone everywhere these days

The more pertinent question is where is the Republican party and the answer is that it's the same party that it was in 2015 by and large which is why Trump can do this shit.

First and foremost - the Republican party in it's entirety is a pernicious conspiracy against liberal democracy and the rule of law. Can't have the BBC saying that out loud to Lindsey Graham!

It strikes me as a combination of parochialism and status quo bias, as well as downright cowardice. Calling out the Trump administration for what it is - an authoritarian project led by a tacky fascist which includes several genuine Nazis - means other uncomfortable conclusions need to be drawn.

If you have noise cancelling headphones you can insulate yourself from the problem but it is incredibly annoying. When I am king it will be a capital offence, subject to summary judgement and execution

I'm praying for you.

In other words she wanted to be fired so she could claim she was cancelled and had to quit instead, with no actual impact on her bad faith grift.

She published outright falsehoods about the Derek Chauvin case and when called on it said "debate me."

That's more or less the same thing. And I don't think it's possible to credibly claim the rich and the powerful have been more constrained in their ability to get goodies over the past decades. What has changed is their ability to insulate themselves from criticism.

Also - the idea that Bari Weiss's advancement is a product of insufficient deference to the rich and powerful regardless of their actual talents is absolutely fucking wild.

You mean like a bank's lending committee determining who gets credit and on what terms? Or using opaque criteria to decide that certain clients should pay higher interest rates and have more stringent repayment terms? Sounds terrible!

Not the exact same field but I'm aware of similar... Care being taken in the political risk field during a Trump One.

I don't want to get into stereotypes here but she also just seems to be genuinely incredibly lazy.

The English pay no attention to Northern Ireland - Part 3094

It's a personality cult - Farage gives them permission to be odious bigots and they repay with loyalty.

January 21 2029

I joked with him a while ago that the least realistic part of it was the Republican party subsequently voting to impose consequences on him and remove him from office.