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dagthegnome 5 points ago +5 / -0

I'm sure if we send Jane Fonda to China, she'll be happy to reassure us that no one is being mistreated and that all the people who've been locked up in their houses or factories for the past few months are happier now than they were when they were free.

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dagthegnome 5 points ago +5 / -0

Chinese culture is more conformist, yes, but every government's mandate ultimately derives from its ability to keep people fed and out of abject poverty. If it fails to do that, it will eventually generate a revolution.

The reason that hasn't happened yet in the ostensibly freedom-minded West, despite numerous and obvious abuses by our own leaders, is that we're still too comfortable. The CCP is really pushing its luck right now, though.

by folx
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dagthegnome 12 points ago +12 / -0

Imagine going to work every day in the old building, and being able to stop every once in a while in the middle of your bullshit office job, look around you and be reminded just just a moment that beauty exists. To have your spirits uplifted, even for just a moment, would probably have actually made you more productive.

Postmodernists either don't understand that beauty itself has utility, or they actively hate the idea of it. I'm sure that renovated building has all of the trappings that a modern office building needs: eco-friendly insulation, gender-neutral bathrooms, a wine bar and a place to nap. Very utilitarian.

But whereas the old building was probably in use for centuries, this one will be empty in a couple of decades. Despite all of its utilitarian trappings, it will quickly become clear that no one has any use for it. No one will have any use for it because no one wants to be in it, and no one wants to be in it because it's so fucking ugly.

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dagthegnome 19 points ago +19 / -0

That's the Swiss model, and it works perfectly. Almost no violent crime or gun crime, and every man has a gun and military training in case of an invasion.

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dagthegnome 10 points ago +10 / -0

Yes, this is funny, but I think the crucial, serious point that needs to be raised here is the danger this poses to the crew and the other passengers. Seat that thing so close to the front of the plane, and you could end up in a nose dive you can't pull yourself out of.

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dagthegnome 28 points ago +28 / -0

This is the kind of thing you should point to whenever your lefty family members talk about the government restricting fossil fuels because it's better for the environment. There is no cleaner, more efficient or more sustainable source of energy than nuclear, but they take every opportunity to shut it down because their goal is not sustainability: Their goal is to impoverish you.

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dagthegnome 5 points ago +6 / -1

It was a worldwide thing, not a nationwide thing, coordinated by much more powerful forces than Anthony Fauci. He remains nothing but an empty suit for the elites who were truly responsible. If anything, in spite of his efforts, many US states put up more resistance than pretty much any other government on Earth did.

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dagthegnome 13 points ago +13 / -0

Well they didn't deport him.

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dagthegnome 35 points ago +35 / -0

One of the most honest, mask-off moments I've ever seen from a Muslim was when a fundamentalis preacher called Anjem Choudary was facing deportation from the UK back in the 2000s. He did an interview with one of the big British television channels, and the (white British) interviewer said something along the lines of "Why should you be allowed to go on saying these things in our country?"

Choudary looked right into the camera and said, "What makes you think this is your country?"

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dagthegnome 14 points ago +14 / -0

Essentially, yes. And about the measures the establishment have taken to quell the initial protests over the election.

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dagthegnome 2 points ago +2 / -0

She's an executive in the Carlyle Group, and before that she was a vice chair of Procter and Gamble. She doesn't need a golden parachute from Disney. She could buy a literal parachute made from gold.

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dagthegnome 22 points ago +22 / -0

Actually, they just authorized Brazil's version of CPS to take children away from any of the protesters.

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dagthegnome 22 points ago +22 / -0

Um, is this police officer a biologist? With a Ph.D? In biology? No? Then how does she even know what a woman is? How can she be sure she's a woman?

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dagthegnome 19 points ago +19 / -0

If, as is the case according to feminism, all men are responsible every time a man kills a woman, then it can only follow that every woman currently alive and in all of history bears responsibility for this.

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dagthegnome 23 points ago +23 / -0

It'll stop being a "hate attack" as soon as the attacker has been revealed as a Muslim, just like the Orlando shooting.

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