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  • Hard-braking is usually an indicator of bad drivers.

    Though I’ve seen some roads that seem like they were designed to cause accidents.

    There was one off-ramp in downtown Houston my dad took with me. It was a ramp that led to another elevated highway, so it was pretty far off the ground. But you don’t see until you’re already in it just how sharp the one-lane turn is…

    I had never seen him get that close to losing his cool while driving before. He had to half his speed immediately coming off main artery to avoid drifting into the wall. A wall which had multiple tire mark going up it to the top of the wall.

    I will always wonder if anyone ever got slingshotted over that wall and off the freeway by that shitty Marble Madness exit ramp.

















  • The LDP is right wing, but moderately so thanks to the previous few Prime Ministers. Shinzo Abe, the longest service PM in Japanese history, was barely right wing at all, more of a right-leaning traditionalist than anything.

    The Sanseito Party is far-right wing and was only formed in 2020. Yet now, as the LDP is losing majority power, they’re suddenly gaining seats in the Diet faster than the recently-popular Constitutional Democratic Party (left-leaning centrists). The current PM may be a member of the LDP, but she’s just as far-right as Sanseito and shares a lot of their beliefs.

    Sadly, not enough Japanese understand their own history well enough to notice the similarities to past events (like the sudden public opposition to immigration) or what that will likely lead to next.