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As someone who has to regularly remind myself not to be too hard on weird things in French, I think you just needed to learn a new word. They’re different words.

Geez, so much for getting free will, eh?

There were scores of Christians who thought slavery was great. If the bible was really the ticket into being against it then it wouldn’t have happened in the first place. Instead we get The Americas(TM), a collection of stolen lands turned into a mire of plantations and now into prisons built on making said the prisoners work for pennies to prop up the rest of the country while many more “free” people are below the poverty line despite putting in their 40+ hours of hard, often physical, labour. Even people that are “paid decently” aren’t getting their fair share. Slavery coexists with the bible just fine, and in fact thrives more in more religious regions.

The reason the US has been around for a while and learned nothing even from its time being marginally ok is all the people who let them get away with it.

Oh! Look! It’s someone letting them get away with something heinous!

No Nut November was months ago it’s ok.

Ya got me there.

How on earth is none of this enough “touching the stove” to set people in the US off? Even in Canada we’re not as bad for it(don’t worry, many are certainly trying). But regardless, Schumer is center-right and does not fit the “lib” label in the slightest(neo-liberal, maybe, but “lib” has a specific meaning). I see what you meant at least, but it’s not like Trump’s big shut down really stuck in people’s minds and it would give the Democrats reason to pretend that they have spines and a great excuse to tell people why they did it. What I’m saying there is that the Democrats aren’t making a hard choice but an objectively bad one and I hate how low the bar is that this is where things are at.

Yes, and stupid and lazy people don’t want walkable spaces. Neither, it seems, do you. Curious.

Where do we think those ideas come from? The way you say that makes it sound like you don’t believe anyone could come to that idea without that specific religion’s religious text. That projection is, by far, probably the most frightening thing in this thread.

People are fully capable of being good without being forced to. Yea, most are stupid and plenty are nasty but to act like the ideas of baseline human freedoms must have come from the bible is so weird.

Ok here’s the deal though, I have a not insurmountable but not pathetic bar I expected to be crossed. If people can see the fucking obvious, in your face shit that’s happening today, where even the right-wing propaganda machine isn’t really hiding it and still believe in 90% of this bullshit then they are stupid. If I have to handhold them and tell them they’re special and use only the best words and still pray that things will turn out even margainally ok then those people are a dangerous, stupid liability. A dangerous and stupid liability that I would still like to see have fair wages and healthcare, mind you, but oh my god they are not smart because you can send them to a university and train them like a Sea World dolphin to do basic tricks(university should also be free, of course).

I’m sorry was there a typo in that lib comment? You’re saying that generally those people agree that they shouldn’t do things that hurt people? And that they actually fear consequences? Those are good things.

I still have incredibly strong doubts that you even know what the far-left is beyond a handful of loud tankies you bump into on the internet.

China also has detained Canadian citizens several times in the past and it has been major issues trying to get them back here. That alone probably isn’t enough to warrant such extreme sanctions, but their disregard for many human rights is a problem we all face unless we’re shitty, selfish, nationalist assholes at which point that opinion ceases to hold much weight.

South Korea showed us that when someone in power tries to do a crazy thing the country as a wholw will actually do something to stop them. Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and that whole thing is still ongoing, with the court to rule on that on Friday so I’m not sure why you think that’s a gotcha.

It’s easier to censor the books first. Don’t worry, the internet and its content will be fucked with soon enough(more than it is).

Angola still is operated as a working farm; former Warden Burl Cain once said that the key to running a peaceful maximum security prison was that "you've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night." In 2009 James Ridgeway of Mother Jones wrote Angola was "An 18,000-acre complex that still resembles the slave plantation it once was."

I left in the address that came over when I copied the text for the “working farm” specifically because it redirects not to “working farm” but to “prison farm”. They know they’d get more flack for running a prison farm so instead of not doing that they just change the term. Gross.