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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

The point of that rhetoric is "Bad thing! Bad thing from white man!" - it doesn't have to make sense, The important thing is to blame white people.

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APDSmith 6 points ago +6 / -0

They seem to feel that until white people are gone they will still be infecting those poor, simple diverse communities with their huwhite supremacy.

Honestly, I suspect the game plan for people like this is that once they've managed to get rid of white people entirely, the major opposition to propagandising the various demographics into an eternal race war that they can referee will disappear with them.

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APDSmith 15 points ago +15 / -0

Somebody who only sees the immediate financial return on things and doesn't place any weight on moral values at all.

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APDSmith 12 points ago +12 / -0

to more users

carefully-curated, approved users, one assumes, not the regular hoi polloi. Regular plebeians have deplorably reactionary opinions.

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APDSmith 9 points ago +9 / -0

This reminds me of something that has been discussed here before:

The left can't meme.

This is what happens when a leftie actually tries to meme - normally, they'll construct vast palaces of words to imprison the intellect and bully their subject into silence.

When a leftie tries to be short and punchy - like this one here - when they actually condense the point down to something that might work in a meme ... it becomes blindingly obvious that it's total bollocks because it's been stripped of all of that supporting essay trying to minimise and belittle any dissent.

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APDSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yup, and there's also a legal point: under the law, the driver bears the responsibility for the vehicle's road worthiness. They are going to be the one careening through old people's homes if it goes wrong, after all.

If we take them out of the equation, where does the fault lie? The firm that made the automation? The fleet manager running the thing? How long exactly do you expect those parties - and more - will be batting responsibilities around the courts while people bury their dead - and there will be deaths, road traffic already accounts for a lot of deaths anyway.

The current state of play, while far from perfect, has the benefit of very simply, very obviously drawing lines about whom bears the costs of failures - because it's always the little guy. Remove them from the equation and you've got big corporates doing their best to duck responsibility right in the public eye, and people have already seen entirely too much of that.

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APDSmith 5 points ago +5 / -0

Agreed, but under Deng the reach of China's economy was still sharply limited.

Simply put, Deng's PRC couldn't get in Soros' way. Xi's PRC can.

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APDSmith 28 points ago +28 / -0

Anti-worker

Yeah, those bloody workers with their anti-worker protests.

Have we had the quote about the Communist party having to dictate matters to the workers because the workers - poor plebeians that they are - simply do not understand what is good for them, and must be led by the kind, gentle government that will gulag them for non-compliance?

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

Did you read the subtitles?

Done his best to dismantle Deng Xaioping's achievements.

Soros isn't anti-China. He's against Xi Jinping's liberalisation of China.

Presumably he doesn't like the PRC meddling in what Soros seems to regard as his personal possession: the rest of the planet.

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APDSmith 12 points ago +12 / -0

To the minds that run the New Yorker that just means that you and your children have not yet been sufficiently propagandised.

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APDSmith 7 points ago +7 / -0

And don't forget to make use of your State-provided mental health app. No way that's going to be used for further nudge work in future - or as a source of "confessions" for anyone who's difficult.

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

I suppose it's fair to say it was racial without being exclusively anti-Semitic.

Even those of their own people that the Nazis exterminated were killed to improve the Aryan race, as I recall?

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

Is this the Castreau government's attempt to tell the truckers that they've been noticed, now get back in your box?

Because I'm fairly sure the truckers have noticed that not one member of the Castreau government has mentioned actually fixing anything, and I'm also fairly sure they're not falling for that shit any more.

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

Most popular First Lady in history

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APDSmith 6 points ago +6 / -0

... Google, almost foiled again by the hacker known as 4chan KiA2.

They can't keep getting away with this!

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APDSmith 29 points ago +29 / -0

Oh ffs. I had to defend bloody McConnell last week, now Goldberg this week.

The thing is, there is a core of a point here. The holocaust was a multi-purpose abomination, and the Nazis actually killed more non-Jews than Jews, if I'm reading these stats right. To claim it as an exclusively Jewish atrocity is not accurate.

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APDSmith 17 points ago +17 / -0

Only relevant information is shared with your consent

Watch that morph into "Unless the Australian security services can demonstrate a pressing need \ are bored or unless this information could possibly be used in the resolution of a crime. Any crime, any where. Including making sure your taxes are paid properly - i.e., all of your information shared with all of the government, all of the time."

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APDSmith 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yes, in the same fashion that nobody's about to ban, say, national socialism as an opinion, but - just like national socialism (an ideology it does resemble somewhat) - it's just not appropriate to teach in schools.

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, this is why I get a little uncomfortable around the converted-to-atheism crowd - more particularly, the ones who change to zealous atheists. Granted, may be my own bias as someone was raised atheist, by, to my eyes, the problem is the unquestioning zeal in general, not whether it's ire is pointed in my direction right this second.

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APDSmith 5 points ago +5 / -0

My grandfather - a Williams - hated Plaid Cymru because they tried to get holier-than-thou with a born-and-bred Welshman because he didn't follow their policies.

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APDSmith 10 points ago +10 / -0

My City, my shirt

Cymru is a progressive country

I don't believe the lady said "Welsh". She said "hers".

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APDSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

I was going to say, is this the same People's Republic of China that attempted to construct military fortifications all over the South China Sea, attempting to ding the US for "flexing force at every turn"?

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