Which revolutions were inaccessible to the poor?

And honestly, yeah, revolutions like the American one where a bunch of rich people used propaganda, money, and threats to secede so they and an oligarchic "democracy" of white male land owners could pay lower taxes and privatize public land weren't as radical or revolutionary as subsequent propaganda made them out to be.

It's a 1000 times improvement the same way riding a horse is a 1000 times improvement over riding an army of snails. It's possible because nobody was doing the old thing because it was garbage.

insurance crisis That's like calling a pandemic a funeral home crisis.

The insurance rates are accurate. Florida is just becoming uninhabitable. (At least, for standard postcolonial architecture).

Clearly your country's immigration system isn't labyrinthine and bureaucratic enough. Add enough systematic hatred and anyone can be turned into a burden to society.

Here in the Netherlands, immigrants are not allowed to work, so everything has to be provided to them by the state. The construction industry has been regulated and defunded so that building houses for the lower class is never profitable and is only built through quotas that are too low to meet demand, leading to immigrants competing with locals for extremely rare housing, leading to abuse victims being forced to stay with their abusers or go homeless. They are not taught the local language and children have to go to segregated schools to prevent them from forming attachments. There is an army of bureaucrats, cops, lawyers, judges, and public defenders involved in determining whether they have the right to stay, regulating how they live, enforcing how they live, litigating how they live, appealing litigation, and going after immigrants who are required to leave.

Suburbs were deliberately built to have low density to keep groups away from each other, with "inner city youths" (nonwhite people) demonized and their public services defunded. Public transit was bought out by car companies and deliberately destroyed, even leading to General Motors being convicted of conspiracy (and given a slap on the wrist). Highways were built to tear apart neighborhoods and empower suburbanites at the cost of locals, and draconian zoning laws were installed to ensure nobody could build something reasonable that could serve as a third space or impromptu hangout. All of this at a massive cost to taxpayers through subsidies and government contracts, with cities now often facing bankruptcy issues as they're unable to maintain the low density suburbs.

It takes hard work and strict government interference to make cities as inhospitable as the US'. Even just loosening up zoning laws would naturally give you cities like Japan's over time, dense and mixed-use. What real estate developer in their right mind wouldn't want to build high or medium density shops and housing as close to public transit as possible?

I remember the DVD commentary on the 2004 Spongebob movie talking about this. It's bad, but it's not new.

Going by the NOAA's data, it isn't even getting worse, and the five year rolling average has decreased steadily since 1995. It's inevitable that some years will be above average with that amount of variance.

A plan to slowly decrease it is in operation, the cause and consequences are known and accounted for. As far as climate disasters go, this one's pretty tame.

Coronavirus?

Your original comment is passive-aggressive. You decry that people aren't doing their due dilligence but don't actually provide your perspective on the story or give any indication that you've put in any effort of your own. Unless you believe that legal definitions and jury trials are simply right, in which case, wow, you're such a leftist.

I (don’t) wonder how this might change if the child in question wasn’t cisgender and/or heterosexual.

Simple: non-cishet children quickly stop being part of religious communities, and so the religious community is very accepting to all its members. Classic survivorship bias.

it becomes the first nation on earth to avoid civil war by allowing its military to rape prisoners

If this is true, it is only because usually the rapists got their way before enough people heard about it for it to become a civil war. Soldiers threatening mutiny unless they were allowed to rape people is a pretty common phenomenon in war.

Incidents like this almost certainly took place during the US American occupation of Okinawa, there just weren't smartphones to relay the information to the general public, other soldiers, and the government so they could take positions. Maybe the prisoners will be tried at a later date, like the US did with some rapists in the US armed forces.

I seriously wonder about the credentials of this psychologist. There are forms of CBT like ACT and other approaches like Prolonged Exposure or EMDR or group therapy that specialize in dealing with anxieties about things that are real, massive, ongoing, and out of someone's control. Things like chronic illnesses in oneself or loved ones, abuse that someone isn't able to escape for financial or social reasons, homelessness, discrimination and bullying, or even just mortality itself.

Climate change is not the first and it won't be the last. Treating it like it is realer than other phobias and special enough to need its own field seems like it's feeding and taking advantage of an actually irrational phobic response.

Honestly, this looks like a grift to sell her book. Maybe a self-delusional one, but a grift nontheless.

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