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Comment Re: EU wants to control over how you spend (Score 1) 114

Timeline is fine. The protests crossed a line and the response was what it was.

I imagine that any free society would have done the same. I imagine most free societies would have stopped a protest of this magnitude a lot sooner. The incredible amount of leeway given to the protesters was quite something. Same with the occupy Wall Street protests. They lasted about a year before various levels of government in Canada started cracking down on them. Though they were far less disruptive

Comment Re: EU wants to control over how you spend (Score 1) 114

There is nothing globalist about any of it.

Canada froze bank accounts of a few people who created a national emergency. This has literally nothing to do with removing global trade barriers to enable growth. You can argue about this being government overreach perhaps.

But it begs the question, why would anyone who is focused on eliminating trade barriers want to block consumers from spending money? It makes no sense.

Now ok, maybe Americans are more paranoid because of Americas desire to punish the poor for being poor. Food stamps for example can't be used to buy certain foodstuffs for some reason, so many Americans extrapolate from that and think spending money via debit/credit cards is authoritarian.

But I don't believe Canada nor any European countries have similar systems in place, probably because it's not a rational system

Comment Re: Because.... (Score 1) 94

Star Trek has always been a target of conservative ire, starting from TOS because black people and aliens were senior bridge officers.

It continued into TNG since the cardasians were a representation of the end result of conservativism: fascism. It continued into DS9 because the captain was black and into Voyager because the captain was a woman.

Everyone hated enterprise equally though.

Discovery is trash because its just trash. Not because the main character is a black woman or the head doctor is gay. Strange New Worlds is not bad though.

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