Xerodin

We're drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won't forget that turd, but there's literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It's amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C'mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.

I mention it partially to be a contrarian, but also to not lose sight of the fact that there are people who wake up everyday to leftist ideology, and some of those are going to be American active duty service members and veterans. Mike Prysner has done a lot to help people leave active duty while planting the leftist seeds in their minds with his Eyes Left Podcast, and his work with The Empire Files has been great, too.

It's anecdotal, but I've had a lot of luck myself convincing veterans to go down the pipeline of "Bernie Sanders baby's first socialist thought" to full-blown commie who reads Lenin and abhors American Empire.

Do they really count as veterans?

In the literal, yes, they served in the military. But it's more of how they self-identity. Some refute the title of veteran altogether. Others still use the moniker as a means to get in with other veteran's groups and begin changing minds. Educate, agitate, and organize works on veterans, too. IMHO, I think purity testing someone based on prior military service does the left a disservice.

What about American dissenters and civil rights activists like Andy Stapp?

Imperial/metric flame war! Fuck it, let's get even more pedantic and go back to using decimal time. 10 hours a day, 100 minutes an hour, and 100 seconds a minute, all altered in duration to fit into their superlative hierarchical tier. A day would then be 100000 decimal seconds. Does that make the metric powers of 10 part of your brain happy?

/s for fake passive-aggression. I'm not actually upset, your comment just reminded me of decimal time.

On a related note, 60 (seconds per minute, minutes per hour) is a cool number because it's divisible by so many factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60. It's because 60 is divisible by so many numbers that we can have increments of an hour be in while numbers of minutes without decimals. A quarter hour is 15 minutes. A third is 20 minutes. One tenth is 6 minutes. Base 60 seconds and minutes are flexible and convenient.

Anyways, that's enough late night rambling. Enjoy your day, internet stranger.

Holy shit, I haven't thought about this in years! I remember back in 2008 I had a copy of Stepmania on a flash drive and played it on school computers during class.

I had the exact same thought when I read the premise. One of my favorite indie games of all time.

The second sentence of the Wikipedia article literally says about 2/3 were American citizens.

The section on 'Exclusion, removal, and detention' says "[s]omewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program, of whom about 80,000 Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) were U.S. citizens."

So yes, second and third generation Japanese Americans, natural born citizens, were held in American concentration camps.

British Columbia, a Canadian province.

It's there purposely as a part of the satire. It's meant to be a critique of the use of passive voice in news headlines.

To add onto what @[email protected] said, there is a bit of a learning curve. Once you can consistently get the angle right it's like shaving with a stick of butter. I also shave my face every other day and I even use it to shave my head once a week.

I'm coming up on 2 years of ownership and have barely gone through 2/3 of my initial 100 count pack that cost $15 USD. It's one of those products where there's a bit of an initial investment that saves significant money long term.

Why does he look like Tim Allen if he was stung by a dozen bees and huffed some paint thinner?

That fantasy looks like the Western government offering tax cuts and incentives for a private company to set up shop in a rural town, hiring a bunch of employees for as little money as possible, cutting corners in safety and quality to boost their revenue from the investment, and ultimately delivering a shit product by comparison. Then, when the public finds out, the company will "downsize" by laying off most of the employees they hired, stranding those that are laid off in a rural town they can no longer afford to move away from while protecting the company's profits.

The CEO gets a bonus for record profits, a couple hundred people's lives are ruined, a small town has to deal with the fallout of high unemployment and the socioeconomic issues that come with that, and the Western government is at a loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Lawmakers get their kickbacks from the company in the form of political donations and lobbying vacation trips.

I'm sorry, my internet friend, but I have little hope for that fantasy without significant change to the system at large.