Pretty much all Western countries looked up to the US between 1945 and 2016 (or so).

Are you sure about that? Pretty much all Western countries see America as a convenient bully.

He wants to be the first trillionaire. This is the way.

If you build it, they will porn.

feddit.uk represent! Best inna worl’! Oo are ya, oo are ya? Come an’ 'ave a go if you think yer’ardinuff!

And so forth, I’m sure you get the general gist.

Every PC I’ve ever owned has had some version of vi installed on it pretty much on day one of my owning it.

I mean, I don’t disagree with anything you say, but that’s because I have a progressive mindset. Which kind of was the point.

Yes, I agree.

But surely you can acknowledge the possibility that some people believe transgenderism is an affront to god and an existential threat to children, or whatever, then their position is not dissimilar.

That’s the issue. What makes ‘this is offensive’ more valid than ‘this is dangerous’?

This is just another front in the war between religion and reason.

I mean it’s not an easy question to answer is it? How is my ideological position that ‘nigger’ is not acceptable and removing it makes the book suitable for modern readers any different from someone else’s ideological position that, e.g., ‘transgender’ is not acceptable and removing it makes whatever book suitable for modern readers?

A punchier example would be And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - the best selling murder mystery of all time - which was first published as Ten Little Niggers

Listen to this guy 'cos he ain’t fucking wrong. It’s grifts, all the way down.

“Yes, I am untouchable, the cops can’t do jack sh—”

Love this format.

I’ve been using Qwant for a while now. Better results than Google, that’s for sure.

Same. I’d have assumed a single day.

I think some of us still remember the whole ‘pedo guy’ thing that started his public slide into becoming a low charisma version of Hank Scorpio.

Some of us find him weird and he triggers an uncanny valley response since he seems close to being human while obviously not being one.

A lot of Brits like subtlety and nuance and he has none.

A lot of Brits cheer on the underdog and his photo appears in the thesaurus under the antonyms section for ‘underdog’.

Me, all of the above.

Is Google really as shit as Bing? I had to Ask Jeeves to confirm that.

Don’t want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.

Carry on being wrong and looking like an ill-educated dullard then!

I am a pedant bore!