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APDSmith 2 points ago +3 / -1

Look, Tony, can't you be just a little bit racist, viking desperately needs to validate his view of us as deeply problematic.

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APDSmith 47 points ago +47 / -0

Forty percent casualties before they've even deployed...

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APDSmith 17 points ago +17 / -0

In general they're against most forms of large-scale power generation. Greenpeace doesn't like to admit this but, given their vociferous opposition, I can only assume that their long-term plan is to return the planet to a late-medieval industrial base, which would only support a population less than 10% of it's current size.

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

The thing is, at it's most fundamental, most basic level, communism as presented isn't some horrific nightmare fuel.

It's presented as "wouldn't it be nice if we helped people less well-off than ourselves". But it never stays there, because communists don't value morals and so have no problem at all lying to get what they want.

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, if you're a colossal racist like DiAngelo, what would you need to talk to them for?

One presumes that, as an avowed antiracist, DiAngelo sees a student's skin colour and immediately knows how they think, knows everything there is to know about them.

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APDSmith 5 points ago +8 / -3

They're correct, to a point. It doesn't hurt to say "chestfeeding", even though it's stupid.

What hurts is to let people like this know that you will be cowed by their ever-escalating fragility.

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APDSmith 35 points ago +35 / -0

Now, the next question: will the agenda proceed as before, only with an intelligent-design-esque renaming to something like "antiracism"?

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, yes, it's an ideology devoted to culling anybody above average ... and as soon as it does so, the average moves down again.

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

it's fine cuz there's conservative Dems so right-wingers would still have representation.

Not for long, one suspects, if Judson gets his way.

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APDSmith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Biden's old. He probably meant "the room".

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APDSmith 9 points ago +9 / -0

There's also no equivalent to "hate the sin; love the sinner" in woke ideology. They just get added to the long, long list of people who are going to be put up against a wall when the time comes.

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APDSmith 9 points ago +9 / -0

Oh, agreed, agreed. From her viewpoint - as a colossal racist - it's completely within her principles.

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APDSmith 21 points ago +21 / -0

Says something, when, as a white woman, your operating thesis is:

  • I'm a colossal racist
  • All white people are like me
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APDSmith 22 points ago +22 / -0

One way to fight this (I had a similar thing in one of groups I help moderate) is to point out that by introducing politics to it, you are mandating political positions for the entire group, a very divisive position to take.

If you can make that point stick early enough, you can get in front of the inclusive rhetoric that'll surely follow in an attempt to colonise your group.

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

From the replies:

White grievance/white identitarianism is the wrong reaction to CRT.

It's the only reaction that CRT advocates will tolerate, because they're a bunch of idiots.

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APDSmith 4 points ago +7 / -3

You know, when Colbert started reaching for the break, I had a sudden recollection of the Fox show where Stewart took apart Tucker Carlson.

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APDSmith 4 points ago +4 / -0

That appears to be the aim:

"Oh, this repeal of your civil liberties is only temporary! We're only doing it while this virus is out there!"

"It's endemic. It's always out there."

"Police! Police! One more for the covid gulag!"

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APDSmith 10 points ago +10 / -0

You're asserting A -> B; E -> F. Care to fill in the middle ground a little?

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

The "real" reason, if there even is a single one, is the regulations of the time.

Ships in the era of the Titanic were physically much larger than they had been a generation before, and regulations hadn't yet caught up to what that meant for seaworthiness - as an example, one of the older-generation ships had struck an iceberg a decade or so before the Titanic's fateful voyage. You've not heard about it because this ship, with proportionately much thicker hull plating compared to the mass of the ship and a different shape that kept the impact away from the waterline, essentially bounced off without major damage.

Titanic, with her vast mass - 50,000 tonnes, more than double the size of the White Star liners commissioned only ten years earlier - slammed her flat sides into the iceberg, and her hull, while thicker than that of her earlier sisters, was still only 3/4 of an inch plate, driven into the iceberg with 50,000t of force behind it.

Regulations of the time were written with collisions between ships in mind, one driving bow-first into another somehow. The ship that rammed the other, per regulation, would stay afloat due to the strong bow bulkheads designed for this, and, if the damage to the other ship was significant enough to risk that vessel, both ships would combine their lifeboat flotillas to transfer passengers over to the ship with the damaged bow, which, thanks to the collision bulkhead, would still be seaworthy.

That's why Titanic was short on lifeboats, and why she was incapable of dealing with having a section of her side carved away.

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APDSmith 1 point ago +1 / -0

Heh:

Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his prescription for protection of public health: it required good leadership, free-thinking scientists and universal trust in their work.

good leadership, free-thinking scientists and universal trust in their work.

So, a total failure, then...?

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APDSmith 13 points ago +13 / -0

Well, they've got a bunch of reporters who have been kicked off other platforms for not shutting up when told, so for the moment it's reasonably hopeful.

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