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Comment Re:Canada is Free? (Score 1, Insightful) 12

The subtext of the right-handed circle jerk above you is because years ago the Canadian government didn't let truckers obstruct the streets for months on end and because a licensing board thought Jordan Peterson was preaching out of his depth. Meanwhile, for the US these people cheer people being jailed for weeks for insulting the regime, journalists being deported for covering protests of the regime, the President and his appointed head of the FCC placing their own restrictions on the news, and and the government "restricting the right to protest" with unreasonable and unaccountable force.

They nurse the grievance of lost privilege and exposed mediocrity by becoming "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic — Islamophobic — you name it". I suppose we can add Canuk-Francophobic to the list. It seeps out of their pores, and they like it when thinking people wrinkle theirs nose at the foulness because it reassures them they they are still the person they are afraid of growing out of.

Many of them realize that the malevolence and incompetence is crashing the economy, but when they look at the cabal of kiddy diddlers and enablers in this administration, they think "at least they are like me," and they're fulfilled.

Comment Re:Remember kids (Score 4, Insightful) 64

The error with your math is that it only works on spherical minorities in a vacuum. The world did not begin when you started thinking about it, and in the millions of real lives that were lived before you started trying to justify your social position, out-groups were excluded from contention in the meritocracy, and in-groups were improperly promoted within it because the in-group is often blind to it's own bias

Neither education to help recognize of this bias, nor an attempt to correct for this bias' historical effect is racism. One would think the party that complains constantly that "X isn't racism" would be willing to recognize the distinction. But instead, they use government pressure to keep people ignorant of history, and government money to erect Confederate monuments in the year of our Lord 2025.

What is happening is not subtle, and if you deserve a place in the meritocracy you should be able to see the distinction without thinking any less of yourself.

Comment Re:Amazingly, Trump did something similar too (Score 1) 75

Spare OP the effort and just state plainly that you like federal gunmen arbitrarily detaining citizens for days at a time. You like it when they shoot protesters. You like that Posse Comitatus Act is dead letter. You like it when the government prosecutes people on laughable charges when the president's whim demands it.

If you don't like it, then stop trying to debate people about the proper use of the word "attack".

Comment A cynic might note (Score 0, Troll) 70

This FCC is acting on behalf of an administration that is actively hostile to consumer rights and has expanded the capacity and reach of the surveillance state more than any other. I suppose this means that immortal Pooh will have to beg or pay Donnie for the information these devices may have stolen. Very good for the trade deficit!

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