... as determined by who?
Also:
a right that was around for almost 50 years,
That right there - in a country 246 years old - is an indication that somebody somewhere pointed looks at the Burger Supreme Court was just plain making shit up. US rights date back 246 years, not fifty. Unless you guys overthrew your government and started again without mentioning it, that is...
As if preventing public schools from trafficking in gender lysenkoism is some sort of existential threat.
For them, it is
This is an ideology that seems to seek to lay waste to an entire generation - it's not like this lot can pass their ideas onto their own offspring, as they generally don't have any.
I wonder, are they actually attempting to simply prevent the next generation entirely? The children they're creating, even if they have the biological ability to have kids at any point in the future - and that's not something you can say about all of them after this lot are finished with them - are so psychologically damaged that I'm not sure they'll be able to form a family.
I mean, not being funny, with a population of maybe 400, for generations ... how are they not supposed to be inbred to fuck by this point?
About the only way you'd avoid total inbreeding there would be if they'd formed two separate, smaller tribes that didn't mix ... with each smaller enclave being even worse.
Well, the founders of the US thought they'd done a pretty good job of dismantling any aristocracy ... and if you'll recall, one of them advocated for periodic revolutions to keep any such tendencies in check.
More prosaically, the US system, with it's focus on building things up from a low level rather than imposing from above, does offer plenty of prospects to shutter doors to would-be aristocrats ... or would have done, had those local- and state-level organisations stopped playing ball somewhat earlier than this. As it is now, I'm just not sure if the mere fact that the letter of the law is on their side will be enough to counterbalance the immense weight of a US Federal government intent on turning the country it's conquered into a colonial possession.
One of the things that I still don't entirely get is the American idea that they don't have any aristocracy.
I mean, maybe, because I'm a Brit, I can see it more readily than they can, but if you know what to look for, yeah, it's there, plain as day. In some cases worse than the UK system, which has been around long enough to have rules and boundaries placed on it - not a feature of the US system.
Having an 'insert trait insert hero' or an 'insert trait insert hero' was never good storytelling, it was always lazy culture-destroying identity propaganda. That much was made clear with their inability to ever make original characters to fulfill that task.
Yup, having actual characters who had specific traits has never been a barrier to good writing. Benjamin Sisko being a good example - good character first, black guy a distant second.
The problem is modern writers are terrified of giving a black (or female, or gay, or, or...) character the character flaws to work around that would make them, well, a character. So you're left with the same cardboard cut-out character that fits into any of their preferred characteristics because underneath the palette swapping it's the same Mary Sue wearing a different skinsuit. That's all such a politically safe character can ever be.
Yeah, but inflation mostly makes the poorest people poorer.
The EU, in the process of buying into "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy about it", does not seem to view this as a problem.
How long before those who've been wiped out by this are offered a choice ... come, sign the contract and join the WEF family - for you and your children. If we allow you children. Trade your civil rights for perpetual servitude, in a gilded cage.
A point to note - I understand most of the "technical details" the Biden administration is seeking refuge in will also show a recession, they're just hoping to drag this news out to limit the impact.
Not sure I agree with the strategy.
... also has the bonus, if you're rich, of keeping the peasants 100+km away from you.
Do you think that fancy end-to-end, zero-carbon transit system requires biometric ID to function?
One that'll go all social credit on your arse if you start getting uppity?
"I'm sorry, valued customer, you've expressed a desire for a meaningful say in the The Line is run. You now need to walk to your cleaning job 20km away, and if you're not back in your pod by sundown you'll get prosecuted for vagrancy. Have a nice day!"
How can anyone afford this?
They're not supposed to. The ultimate aim of the eco-warrior types appears to be to return the populace in general to a medieval level of existence.
This also has the side-effect, if you're a Malthusian type like a lot of eco-warriors are, of ensuring the required population decline organically when people start dying at age 40.
I'm not sure they do understand why people would value the original author's intentions.
Bear in mind that even their "morals" are built on shifting sand. I'm not sure they see any value at all to that kind of long-term consistency, preferring to bundle it all up under thought-terminating clichés rather than actually analysing it.
the cinematic world that Peter Jackson created has immense value but we’ve shifted lenses since then.
Peter Jackson's lens:
We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him (Tolkien), not for ourselves.
I don't expect a narcissist to understand that viewpoint, though...
The US Federal government is certainly acting more and more like a hostile power that has conquered the individual States, and seems set on being about as accountable.