What am i not comprehending? You implied that researching Thailand would “update my worldview”, when I merely mentioned cultural preferences and better amenities. Researching Thai culture would not make one like it any better than Japanese culture nor would it eliminate the fact that Thailand is a poor country with poor amenities, especially if you’re moving to a rural village.

Also if you can’t handle the word “fuck”, then you might consider getting off the Internet.

Why the fuck would researching Thailand suddenly make me like their culture and amenities any better than Japan’s

what if you like Japanese culture and first world amenities

Season 2 does get better. Episode 1 is mostly for recap purposes. The low budget for season 2 does really show during one of the arcs but if you can ignore it, then the story is great. Season 2 isn’t like season 1, where there’s one overarching antagonist. Instead, Iwanaga goes around solving different cases over a few multi-episode arcs. The format is basically the same though, and there’s still lots of talking.

People who didn’t like the first season’s pacing probably have had their attention spans whittled down to nothing. I loved the first season. Iwanaga is such a great protagonist and I loved the themes explored in her battles against the main antagonist and in her attempts to solve the other cases.

In/Spectre Season 2’s OP, Yotogibanashi, doesn’t get nearly enough attention, much like the show itself.

Because he’s a degenerate scam artist who influences young men to do things which are harmful for society. Society needs standards.

Please if he helps young men go to the gym and improve mental health then what’s the problem

That’s not what Andrew Tate did. Andrew Tate tells men that they are worthless unless they’re wealthy, strong, and promiscuous like him, and then extracts money from them so they can attend his “hustle university” and learn surface-level Investipedia knowledge from a moderator on the Andrew Tate discord server.

People like this should absolutely be ostracized. Being mistreated by society does not give any of us an excuse to be fucking stupid.

I don’t give a shit, Andrew Tate is not how you solve this issue.

Who are you to say he is a bad role model?

Andrew Tate’s entire schtick is being a misogynistic chimpanzee wearing the skin of a man and bragging about how wealthy and sexually successful he is. Anybody who believes this manchild to be a good role model ought to be treated as a laughingstock, much like the man himself. Andrew Tate and people like him capturing the minds of the youth, or young people living a meaningless and depressive existence with no role models or aspirations at all, has direct negative effects on society, and therefore me as well. Therefore, I will continue to tell people to stop following shitty role models like him and to get good ones, because I wanna live in a society where people actually have standards for how they conduct themselves, instead of a society dominated by people like Andrew Tate.

If men have no positive role models and no framework through which to interact with their emotions and their place in the world, they will find horrible role models like Andrew Tate and come up with crude and self-serving frameworks through which to view the world. Since people find religion cringe for some reason nowadays, personal philosophy and virtue ethics are now our only good option.

You’re literally a communist, you don’t get to speak to anyone else about respect or having a backbone. Your specialty, as shown in this comment section, is twisting others’ words and running from your prior statements. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s two hours until midnight and you’ve proven yourself not worth speaking to. I like to stay off social media on Sundays. If you are ready to engage in good faith discussion and apologize for your statements about non-whites come Monday, then we can continue this conversation then. Goodnight, and I hope you can become an adult someday.

It is an easily discernable fact that western nations who value inclusion, democracy, economic freedom, property rights, and tolerance are more moral than countries like Russia, who value none of those things. This is also visible when America wages war. America makes painstaking efforts to avoid civilian casualties even when enemy action makes it exceedingly difficult to do so, especially in modern times, and that’s why only 46k civilians died in Afghanistan. America’s war was also justified because we were attacked first, but you seem to think Al-Qaeda’s attack on a civilian target was justified because of the acts of America’s government, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what other atrocities you believe are justified by your own logic.

Meanwhile, Russia is systematically raping Ukraine and Russia’s predecessor, the Soviet Union, killed or exiled a third of Afghanistan’s population. Numerous genocides and ethnic cleansings were also committed in service of the Russian ethnic group by the USSR, and another one is ramping up in Ukraine as we speak.

Note that Russia is also white, meaning that there is no racial dimension to this. You brought whiteness into this, and you have exposed what you really think about non-whites when you stated that being moral is a trait of the white man. Your obsession with me being a fascist or a white supremacist is merely projection meant to obscure your own beliefs.

Sir, you literally said that non-whites being moral people means that they are acting white. I gave you several chances to explain yourself, but you doubled down. The only white supremacist in this comment section is you.

Also who the fuck is Clyde?

I appreciate the honesty. You are clearly either a troll or a red fascist. I sincerely hope that you go outside and speak to some non-white people so that your opinions on them can be proven wrong through experience. I sincerely hope that, one way or another, you stop spouting this garbage about morality being a characteristic of the white man. Preferably by becoming an adult. Throughout history there have been many cases of non-whites being more upstanding than their white peers, and some of the most upstanding people I have met and come to look up to are non-white. Every race and ethnic group has people who behave immorally, but the vast majority of them are just as upstanding as you and I. Simply speak to them and you shall understand this.

Aaaaaaaaand - you’re a rabid white supremacist, Clyde… or would you prefer me to use the term “western chauvinist”?

Explain what the fuck you meant or I’ll assume all this white supremacist talk is just your fucking projection. You implying that non-whites are either immoral or “acting white” is an unforgivable insult to my non-white friends and family, and all upstanding people everywhere.

Why? Is the current levels of rape, torture and murder in Saudi Arabia not enough for you, fascism-boi?

Nah, such a beautiful country simply deserves better than the House of Saud.

Can’t let a jungle get in the way of white supremacist murder-sprees, can we?

Actually, the murder-spree was anti-communist, significant difference

So, again… it’s just fascist fantasy and nothing else. Your “tribalism” only exists in your right-wing ideology-addled head and nowhere else.

Get back to me when you’ve studied a little bit of psychology

Come now… tell us why you believe the KKK is merely “misunderstood.” We know you want to.

Oh hell nah, I want you explain why the fuck you think being moral means someone is acting white. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Oh, the poor, poor US… what were those dastardly Saudi’s thinking, forcing the innocent and righteous US to treat Saudi Arabia like a client state for it’s neocolonialist agenda in the middle-east?

Would you rather we invade Saudi Arabia and establish a client state directly, so that we can establish a country that doesn’t commit rampant acts of evil against its own citizens? I can get behind that.

They’re almost as bad as those evil Vietnamese, who forced the US to innocently drop more ordnance on south-eastern Asia than it dropped during the entirety of WW2.

Well, ya, they hid inside a jungle where we couldn’t see them.

Poor and innocent US… oh won’t somebody please think of the poor military-industrial complex billionaires and oil tycoons?!

The MIC deserves more credit for the jobs they create and the technological innovations they pass onto the private sector, not to mention how powerful they make America.

So… it’s just fascist fantasy and nothing else. Your “tribalism” only exists in your right-wing ideology-addled head and nowhere else.

Nowhere else except every civilization and time period across human and pre-human history

Oh… so if non-white people act white enough you will temporarily view them as honorary “westerners” as long as they are useful as a propaganda prop for you?

So, you believe being moral to be an exclusively white trait? Because that sounds like what you’re saying.

Does this look like something that was built in Britain to you, Clyde?

I know the Sykes-Picot agreement and its consequences isn’t covered in Capital, but come on, I know you know what I’m talking about. The USA was just allying with who was already there, the Saudis would be rich regardless because of their oil.

So this (alleged) “tribal” gene of yours is just fascist fantasy? What a surprise.

Well, nah, there is no tribalism gene, there’s a bazillion of them that all interact with other genes and form the complicated being that is a human. Most of them are probably shared with our fellow apes, who act quite similar to how we did during the stone age.

Spoken like a true white supremacist - which means everything I said applies, fascism-boi.

Non-white westerners are morally superior to the Soviet Union and its successor states too.

Oh… you “regret” not murdering more brown people to satify your tiny little fascist hardon, eh? In Saudi Arabia? The Saudi Arabia that is the product of US foreign policy? The Saudi Arabia that only exists as a client state of the US? That Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia exists because the British fucked over the Sharif of Mecca and he got conquered by the Wahhabis. The reason I want them wiped off the map is because of that aforementioned Wahhabism, and yes, being friends with them was a mistake on America’s part, so what, every country does bad things

Proof for these (alleged) “tribal” genes, fascism-boi - you do know what actual proof is, don’t you?

First of all, I don’t think you know what fascism is, second of all, the science of genetics is not advanced enough for us to narrow down the thousands of genes that affect someone’s personality. If you’re not able to draw conclusions from observing human behavior, I don’t know what to tell you.

Oh, of course you don’t, of course you don’t… you just get sexually aroused at the idea of committing genocide against brown people - it’s not that you’re a rabid white supremacist at all, eh?

Uh, nah, I think you’re projecting since you watch too much porn. I said the moral superiority of the west makes my dick hard, not genocide. Also, genocide is only good by your logic, don’t blame me.

Riiiiiight… they just hid him from you for years for shits and giggles. Never mind the fact that all the funding and intelligence support for the 9/11 operation came from Saudi Arabia - yet another country you failed to invade.

Our failure to wipe Saudi Arabia off the map when we had an excuse to do so is one that I regret every day, but the fact of the matter is that the Taliban were harboring Al-Qaeda and refusing to cooperate in our search for them while Pakistan wasn’t. Also, America’s actions in the Middle East make sense when you remember that the economy would collapse if they decided to stop selling us fossil fuels. Unfortunate and scummy, yes, but I’d avoid pissing off my fuel source as well.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Talking about evidence… will you be taking long providing some for those “tribalistic” genes you were bragging about a few replies ago?

Studies have found that heritability affects everything from extroversion/introversion, disgust response, how compassionate someone is, how likely someone is to experience certain types of mental illness, testosterone and estrogen levels, and even whether someone is likely to be politically leftist or politically right wing, and when we selectively breed animals, we can get animals with completely different temperaments, but the idea that natural selection might’ve caused humans to have an affinity for the tribes we’ve been living in for the past few million years? Complete blasphemy, right?

Actually, scratch that, just look at human behavior and how people living in the same country and in the same economic class will find reasons to dislike eachother even in countries where ethnic tension is suppressed. Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats lived in the same regions, were all equally poor, speak the same language, are genetically almost exactly the same, and share the vast majority of their culture with eachother, and as soon as Tito died and stopped suppressing tensions between them, they started hating on eachother for basically no reason at all and then started a war over it. There are many such cases in history where people will hate eachother for almost no reason, especially during times of scarcity or hardship. As it turns out, most people will choose their tribe over their economic class when the going gets rough.

Also, genetics is complicated as hell and sometimes simple observation of behavior has to do. You don’t expect the same burden of proof when you assume that humans are all altruistic, as well, since you treat that like an article of faith for a religion.

Why? Because all the “Great White Hope”-wannabes lining up in the GOP are so cartoonishly loopy that even Heinrich Himmler himself would be embarrassed to be in the same room as them?

I have no idea what you’re talking about nor do I give a shit, I like Joe Biden’s policies better than the Republicans and think he’s more likely to win than people who’d do better than him. Simple as.