but the developers of the Switch 2 understand that most people don’t play console games with a handy table nearby and ready to go

at the very least, you gotta wear pants.

So close to understanding how your players play!

You’re not getting it. Macron does in fact control the legislation.

Sure it’s not what the president is supposed to do, there’s a prime minister and speaker for that to decide what laws will be voted on in what calendar. Except when Macron forces his pick on both (and straight up ignores when a new national vote says the left wing opposition gets to name the prime minister), forces the voting calendar, forces passing his laws by skipping a vote he knows will fail, etc.

The 5th French Republic has laws like this that give the president some exceptional powers to get over the head of the parliament. And Macron uses those exceptional powers all the time.

So yes, Macron does do all the things you say the president doesn’t do. And that’s why people are mad at him.

but an “outsider” earning the highest title a normal person can earn in feudal japan seems very outlandish.

William Adams was specifically known to have been granted the title of samurai by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and that’s precisely in the period immediately at the end of the Sengoku where the title of samurai begins to change as a status (in the sense of being more restricted and codified). And there’s zero way that “public pressure” would have pushed Oda Nobunaga to change shit about something he decided to like, he’s the last guy of that era on which public pressure did anything. No one from Oda’s circle would have called him out on that.

Again, a samurai wasn’t necessarily “at the top of social order”, there are places where ashigaru, the lowest rung on the ladder, were called samurai. It’s a misconception.

As for chosing an actual Japanese person from the time - there is a second playable character who is the fictional daughter of one of those famous real people from that time and an actual ninja from Iga. You play as her for the first 10 hours or so before Yasuke even becomes playable (except for the introduction mission). This argument is ridiculous and just plain bad faith.

Not necessarily - not everyone who fought was a samurai, just as not everyone who fought in medieval europe was a knight. However, I do agree that the definition is not entirely strict.

Yes, not necessarily, but that’s the thing - the people who claim he couldn’t be a samurai because he didn’t have such or such are making up requirements that didn’t exist at that time. We don’t know if he was called one or not because we don’t have records about him from the people who might have had something to say.

We do have accounts that Nobunaga was impressed with his strength, made him test fight multiple people in shows of strength, gifted him a sword (which is kind of a big deal), and that he was captured by Akechi (and then freed) when he was trying to defend Nobunaga at Honnouji. He might have been just a bodyguard, yes, but even if he was, we don’t know if Nobunaga was calling him a samurai or not, because being a samurai wasn’t a rank or a title. Maybe a bodyguard could be called a samurai depending on how important and trusted he was, and Yasuke was trusted by Nobunaga. My point is that the people dismissing the samurai title are doing so based on a wrong premise - and we have no account that could be relevant in proving it right or wrong.

He was doing actual fighting, there are records of this happening, at least one confirmed battle happened in 1582 when nobunaga was betrayed by mitsuhide. There’s no doubt about that.

Yeah, that’s the one we know about, the Honnouji attack. I mean we don’t know if he took active part in large scale battles like the Tenshou Iga war doing more than standing around Nobunaga, which is depicted in the game with him leading charge - but that can be easily counted as creative liberty. Honnouji was a surprise attack on a temple, not a battlefield, so naturally, anyone caught in it would be fighting, especially a bodyguard.

Mori Ranmaru, Oda’s other famous fuckboy bodyguard who was also at Honnouji, was a samurai because of his family and was also mostly a close bodyguard, I don’t think he’s recorded as having actively participated in any battle either. And apparently he didn’t even have any land to his name beside his family, either, but he’s still clearly called a samurai.

Except there’s no clear cut definition of a samurai like that in that period. The class definition wasn’t that strict for most of Japan’s history, including the sengoku period - even ashigaru were considered samurai in some places.

Yasuke was a professional warrior (almost certainly more than just a regular ashigaru) who fought as a retainer of the Oda clan, that’s a samurai. And we’re pretty sure he did actual fighting, we just don’t know if he was in full armor and everything.

The daimyo is the one who owns the land and gives it to his retainers as he wants, samurais don’t automatically own land by definition.

Democrats let fascism ramp up without doing anything, and now they aren’t doing anything to even slow it down. Are you denying that this is the American situation?

I’m saying this is what centrism does when the slightest hint of fascism starts pushing and shoving: they give in, pretend to compromise, they’re happy when the fascist says “fine, we’ll cut our expectations for 20 crimes against humanity down to 10, but it’ll be back next week” and they pretend that’s progress. Sometimes they put their foot down, but only when putting your foot down has zero effect, and they say “see, we tried”.

That is centrism, that is what Democrats did, and that is what’s happening here too with those “reasonable” parties. The “reasonable” argument is only on this side of the Atlantic, of course the Nazis in the US aren’t even pretending to have any reasonable discussion. But they did have a phase claiming that the Dems were rude and not doing anything bipartisan, which is why the Democrats tried so hard to project this image of reaching across the aisle for so long. See where that got them.

The “reasonable left”, the PS, wants to say that they still play ball, that they can be part of a government, that they’re not here to destroy the country, that they can work to keep the institutions working. But they never get any compromise going in their favor, and when they say “see, we tried” it’s already too late, and nothing they do gets anywhere, after they’ve killed anything the actual left tries.

This is not reasonable. This is collaboration. We have proof of where that goes with the Democrats in the US. Only the right wing calls them reasonable because they allow the right to pass everything they want. Reasonable means you sign off on everything and get nothing.

Some places translated it as popular new front instead of new popular front? That’s missing the point of the claim that it’s reviving the old popular front from the 1930s.

There is no working with the “center” / center-right, they proved that again and again and again, they have not made a single compromise while constantly complaining that the left doesn’t want to work with them. Working with someone means both sides give something to the other, and the right only ever takes and never gives anything. They have to learn to play ball.

They’re finding issue with mtf athletes playing against a league of individuals who didn’t go through puberty as a male. That’s clearly an advantage, and to say otherwise is to ignore science altogether.

That would be an argument worth discussing if the Nazis weren’t also trying to ban puberty blockers and frothing at the mouth claiming the trans agenda is coming for their kids. But no, right now, that’s a garbage bad faith argument, because it already has an obvious answer. That’s how they poison the discussion.

Bizarro jury nullification, where it’s okay to give life in prison to someone you think is innocent. And the idea probably originated from someone who would tell you that it’s wrong to inform people that jury nullification exists.

100% garanteed Bardella and the whole party do Nazi salutes between themselves. Just never in public - those who do get kicked out. The US far right simply tested the boundary long enough to realize that no one will do shit about any of it - but Europe still pushes back when we see it.

Only because Russia is failing to do what they’ve really wanted to do since the beginning, or did you forget Bucha.

They’re still stealing children by the thousands though.

Yeah, whatever Trump decides to do with the US membership, there’s nothing he can do about everyone else. He can pick his the US’ toys and leave, NATO will be weaker, but Europe will still want an alliance to defend themselves, even if Trump tries to pressure individual members.

People claiming it’s dead are delusional.

Careful,people who don’t understand the trolley problem are gonna complain again that there are only two options.

What you’re pretending to miss is that those in powers are making sure that those people remain “illegal” , on purpose. In the first place, you’re the one creating the situation of them being “in the country illegally”.

The correct solution is to give them papers, not to deport them and treat them like criminals for a situation you put them in. Remember that the “you’re on the table” argument that you claim is reasonable is putting them in prison where you can exploit them harder as slaves, it’s only one step after what’s happening to them already.

Everyone can be illegal if you don’t make anyone legal and then claim they’re only getting punished because they broke the law. There’s nothing reasonable there.

SR Venus, SSR Mars (or UR in some games)

Not having sex doesn’t make you at fault. Rapists make that claim to pretend they’re right. But they are not, they are lying. Only rapists defend that lie.

You start from the conclusion that it makes you at fault, and you deduce that it must be part of the vow. Your reasoning is nonsense, you are trying to justify a conclusion that is already wrong by inventing a premise that doesn’t exist.

There is no such thing as a promise for sex in marriage vows, you fucking clown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_laws_by_country

France Explicitly criminalised The law criminalises rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence, and the government generally enforced the law effectively. The Court of Cassation authorized prosecution of spouses for rape or sexual assault in 1990. In 1994, Law 94-89 criminalised marital rape; a second law, passed 4 April 2006, makes rape by a partner an aggravating circumstance in prosecuting rape. (Article 222-24(11) of the Criminal Code)

I figure the crux of an argument would more likely rest on defining consent, which is where there’s always progress to be made.

Also there was a massive trial that ended just recently about the mass rapes of a wife who was drugged to sleep by her husband and offered to people for years without her knowledge. Of the 50 guys including the husband, most of them got prison I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapes_of_Gisèle_Pelicot

All over the news for months here and it made some degree of International noise, at least in Europe. Dunno about the US.

Edit to your edit - “not true anymore” is an understatement, it hasn’t been true for 30 to 35 years.

By calling it “starting a war” (which is a lie) and insisting that it has never gone well, you are implying that they should lie down and let Israel genocide them. Because that’s how that goes.