Learning handwriting is obsolete. A ton of work for little gain. Everyone uses phone or computer input methods. Hell, I don’t even handwrite in English any more.

Radicals are an obsolete concept. They belong in the garbage can. Since we don’t use paper dictionaries to look up characters any more, the entire idea of “radical” is deprecated.

kanji

This is not Japanese. It’s Chinese. Two completely different languages.

Kanji refers to all Chinese characters.

That’s where you’re wrong, Bucko.

I typed that without thinking about it at all.

There’s your problem, right there.

Kanji are Japanese characters. They are fundamentally different from Chinese characters. Calling Chinese characters “kanji” is wrong.

There are far fewer Japanese characters in the 2,136 in the jōyō kanji. That’s all? You need 5,000 Chinese characters (called hanzi) to read a newspaper. Moreover Japanese never went through the simplification process of 1965 like Chinese did. The current list of standard Chinese characters contains 8,105 hanzi. Never call hanzi “kanji” again.

What gets better? “Radicals” were invented as a way to look up Chinese characters in a paper dictionary. Since we don’t use those any more, the entire concept of “radicals” is obsolete and was discarded a decade or more ago.

Yaknow, for a Fox news host, Tucker Carlson has all the right enemies.

Tucker is more like the isolationists of the early 20th century than anything else.

Those people were right…the US never should have built an empire. It’s spending itself to death, it’s murdering millions across the globe, and Americans can’t even have things like healthcare and free college - all of which would be easily solved if not for unchecked military spending. The US is sending weapons to literal neo nazis in Ukraine as we speak.

he famously stayed out of Rwanda during the genocide

That was the incident that soured me permanently on US intervention abroad. 1993: “Danger in Somalia! USA get in there and help!” USA does get in there and help, the Mogadishu Massacre results: 5,000 civilians die in a single night. 1994: “Danger in Rwanda! USA get in there and help!” USA doesn’t get in there and help, gets blamed for the massacre. It’s the Kobayashi Maru, the no-win situation. The only winning move is not to play.

Name rings a bell…was she one of those people who deployed to Iraq so that Saddam could use them as human shields on important targets?

The only reason they were ever anti-war in the first place is so that they could be on the opposite side of the argument from Republicans. Once the right decided that they had seen enough of their relatives with blown off limbs and these wars weren’t working, liberals switched gears smoothly and started accusing Republicans of being traitors in the pay of Russia. It’s wonderfully cathartic after the Cold War, when the right accused the Democrats of being insufficiently anti-communist.