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The world is largely full of masochists ruled by sadists.
Never underestimate people’s desire for servility in the name of stability.
The vast majority of people have an exceedingly high tolerance for their own subjugation if it means they don’t have to think or act to avoid pain or responsibility.
Okay, I admit that I basically said the same thing 3 times with different wording. Personally, I just hope that I’m not as docile as I fear that I am.
I’m going to be flogged for saying this as well, but I don’t understand why you’re being down-voted.
I lost a lot of money being furloughed and was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, and many old friends of my father in India died in that global cluster-fuck. Granted, there were many environmental benefits for our ailing biosphere, and I found many moments of peaceful solace as a result of not having to be in public, but average people were eviscerated by that virus on many levels.
I agree: despite the inevitability of another one, to wish for another pandemic is, at best, an idiotic, selfish, and angsty teenage opinion. Along with the obvious health risks, people now have even less trust in institutional health and scientific organizations, leading me to predict that the next one will be even worse because people refuse to think and learn nothing from the past.
Even worse, people regard their unbridled skepticism of expert opinion, research, and their own scientific ignorance as a virtue. We experienced the Dunning-Kruger effect at a global scale and will do so again because the average person despises humility and thinks they know everything about anything.
Kind of like a bunch of bratty teenagers.
Ah yes, “insert'Muh'MemeLanguageHere” argument/excuse that we all heard a bajillion times
Even the BBC is
towingtoeing the line.
Almost like they’re, I dunno, Manufacturing Consent.
I think SpaceX is profitable too.
Hypocrisy is rampant among those who are rarely/never held accountable. My assumption is either that he’s incapable of comprehending it, or he doesn’t care about it.
Elon Musk is an authoritarian masquerading as someone who values free thought, inquiry, and action. What he means when he says “freedom” is for the ultra-wealthy to have “freedom” from accountability to an “authoritarian” government or the “whims of the unwashed masses” and do as they please with impunity.
The British Government is an authoritarian police state which punishes thought-crimes against their contemporary monarchist/corporatist zeitgeist with impunity.
Both things can be true, and I argue they are.
Should women be allowed to fight on the front lines?
If the individual woman passes the required physical and psychological standards and requirements for the combat MOS, absolutely.
However, they shouldn’t get carte blanche special or relaxed standards and treatment; lives are at stake.
Anything that serves as a bedrock for self-reflection, nuance, and questioning one’s own premises.
BlackRock is the largest hedge fund in the world, and in history, by market cap. What are the historical examples in which a financial firm or institution has been “dismantled”, by a government inside of one month?
Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers don’t count because they declared bankruptcy, which means they “dismantled” themselves.
Your language is very vague.
I’m asking, practically speaking, how will the Trumpers dismantle BlackRock inside of 1 month?
This is how all military branches have always pressured Congress for more budget.
That’s fairly accurate, but that is the military’s job.
However, the CCP military rapidly upgrading their orbital and suborbital capabilities should give pause to those who want free and open democratic societies and republics.
Military jingoism and scaremongering can and do exist simultaneously. It’s our job to elect people who can responsibly address both hyperbolic alarmism and real threats from aggressive and encroaching adversaries.
Basically: give them some money, but not all of it.
Again, with sincerity: did the woman who perpetrated the assault or her attorney give any public statement re: her motive? I saw in the video linked to the article said that the attorney, when asked by this reporter, had no comment. Was there anything ever released or documented about why she snapped?
What I’m getting at is did she attack him for being a man, a muslim, or a muslim and a man?
Furthermore, it’s not clear to me if she’s being charged with “vanilla” assault and battery or if there’s a hate crime charge on top of it. This may be my own fault for reading too quickly.
Nevermind that. I re-read the aricle.
Guilbeault was officially charged in a state supreme court indictment “with one count each of Assault in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime, Assault in the Third Degree as a Hate Crime and Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree”.
Sure, dude. Sure.