He is her daughter’s Godfather. They haven’t talked since the story broke.

She even recently sang a song at a concert, that contained references to him, but apparently she changed the words, essentially writing him out of it.

-Source is my wife who is a huge Tori Amos fan.

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SNL does a good job at least.

Why is the artist’s name scrubbed off?

*Edit: Then down voted for this question?

What the hell?

Served in the Navy and was stationed in Japan for three years.

It is not inaccurate.

TLDR: The U.S. is not taking over Japanese assets and under any circumstances barring alien invasion and kaiju. (In the case of kaiju, we should probably operate under Japanese control.)

While we practice/train with the JMSDF, and have ok interoperability, there is zero infrastructure for us to control them.

It would actually hurt us and would be easier to tell them to stay home while we did everything than to try and control both assets at the same time.

However, we can work together, by assigning each service their own responsibilities and let each perform those responsibilities within their own chain of command. That would work peachy.

In that sense, we may have overall strategic command, but the Japanese would absolutely have a seat at the strategic table, and the Japanese would and should take their toys and go home, the minute we asked them to do something against their best interest.

Now that you say it, I am remembering.

It has been almost 40 years since I read that book.

Thank you for the correction!

I like spiders, but I don’t think I can feed it a horsefly out of my hands like that.

And how did he not get bit by the horsefly himself?

According to the book, Kobyashi Maru, I though Scotty also found a solution.

Of course that solution landed him as an engineering officer instead of a line officer.

Do you need help?

If that is what you truly believe then I fear that you are a danger to yourself and others and should not be trusted to be alone or around children. There are a lot of resources available to use, even in the U.S.

I implore you to seek help from professionals.

In the book, “Fatline” came from the acronym FTL, for “Faster than Light”, as it was a means of communication that was instant across any distance.

Man, you really need to keep reading the series, I wish I could forget it so I could he it again, for the first time.

Why the fuck are they making that an issue?

Fuck them.

Easy. They are not mutually exclusive?

How many TP Link routers, were found to be compromised by China and had to be removed from U.S. infrastructure?

Salt Typhoon hack?

Why does China restrict access to the internet without massive censure?

Your link just takes me back to your parent comment.

Your entire argument is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you were just discussing the shitty things the U.S. is doing, I would be in total agreement, but you are trying to shoehorn “How great China is” into the discussion.

No matter how terrible the U.S. is and gets, it will not erase all the terrible things China has and is doing too. No matter how much you argue otherwise.

No one is giving the U.S. a pass. This is a deliberate mischaracterization.

Until this regime, the U.S. had some of the best solar subsidies on the planet.

The U.S., as a surveillance state, is still in its infancy when compared to China. So it is laughable that you are using China in any comparison to the U.S., in almost the same breath.

“Carceral State” is a tanky propagandist dog whistle.

Why don’t you debate faults on their own? Because you are deliberately trying to use current bad conduct, of the U.S. to whitewash another country’s bad conduct.

“Oh hey, the U.S. is super shitty, but we have made so much solar in the past year so we’re all about global stability.”

Ignore EVERYTHING China has done though, only look at the bad that the U.S. is doing.

I’m sure you have plenty of arguments that support or claim how China has been with: Taiwan

Uygher people

Support of North Korea

Support of Russia against Ukraine

Tibet

The horde of nonsense “technological breakthroughs” that seem to come every month but never amount to anything and just disappear.

The pollution that has been produced by Chinese industry that pretends to adhere to global standards but get busted when college students use basic satellite data.

Suppression of Hong Kong

China’s state sponsored industrial espionage.

China’s disregard of human rights abroad when kidnapping Chinese dissidents from foreign countries.

(This is just me pulling the random items I can just immediately recall)?

But that is all Western propaganda I’m sure. Feel free to break out your playbook responses.

I didn’t use bad language this time for you to get my comment deleted, since suppression is one of your biggest tools.

This guy would probably argue that the protest at Tiannamon Square was a CIA funded false flag operation. If he was allowed to even discuss it in a way that implied it really happened.

Don’t waste your time talking to tankies

At least this one gives it away with his name. Usually their simping for China gives them away.

They only accept their little cesspit of information as facts. Everything else is conspiracy theories or state funded propaganda.

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San Diego was actually a red stronghold at the time.

Labor started to gain ground, but then elected a blue mayor that was such a piece of shit, that it rebounded red for a few terms.

Now it is much more solidly blue.

I think we’ve stopped at the “wrong things” part and just refuse to move on.

Motherlover or Dick in a Box could both work here.

I mean isn’t this post kind of giving consent?