In other words, Canada right now.
But we don't have our perfect utopia like my high school English teacher promised me we would and I can't afford soylent or hemp toilet paper anymore and THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH WHAT I BELIEVE SO IT HAS TO BE CONSERVATIVES' FAULT!
To a bunch of redditors? I get the feeling that when Bill Gates writes a book, it's the same as when a politician writes a book: a "New York Times Bestseller" that no one wants to read. His main customers would be people buying copies by the palletload to sit in some warehouse somewhere collecting dust while they use the receipts to trade for influence.
Maybe they'd have a higher moral ground to stand on if they'd stop marrying underage girls.
It's possible that he really does see himself as some kind of messianic figure, and that this is his way of doing the "king walking out amongst his subjects" thing. So, yes, he probably does expect universal praise. Or he's identifying accounts who challenge him so reddit can go after them.
The school system has been like this forever. Teachers' unions have always protected these people. The fact that so many of them are now facing actual criminal charges doesn't mean there are more of them than before. They've just gotten a lot more brazen due to the permissiveness of modern society, so it's harder for the institutions to run interference for them.
I would argue that the internet is a substantial part of the reason for the level of insanity in modern politics. We might have ended up here anyway, but the ability to curate your social environment until you're surrounded by people who agree with you or provide you with nothing but positive reinforcement has definitely accelerated and exacerbated the problem.
More like women can't stand a platonic friendship between men, because they can't understand why men would rather spend time with each other over spending time with women unless there's a sexual reason.
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If he pulls out of this deal, in a week their stock will be worth 44 cents.
They're clearly hoping the abortion issue will save them.
No you didn't.
This is a provocation.
NATO provoked Russia by continuing to exist after the USSR collapsed along with NATO's professed reason for existing. It also did so by expanding into former Soviet countries after promising the Russian leadership they wouldn't.
This behaviour put booster rockets on Russian nationalism, which was on the ebb in the 90s, and actually paved Putin's road to power.
Your efforts to paint the Western globalists as the good guys here are not grounded in reality.
Every country in NATO has lost their sovereignty except the US, because every country in NATO has effectively outsourced its national defense to the US. And that model doesn't even work well for the Americans.
Finland just fucked itself by choosing a side when they could have remained politically neutral, which is all the Russians wanted from them. It's all the Russians wanted from Ukraine, too, but our glorious leaders couldn't stop financing coups and installing leaders more favorable to them.
You are deliberately and dishonestly conflating Russians and Soviets as if they're the same thing. The USSR was an ideological, expansionist globalist power that more readily resembles the monstrosity that has subsumed the West in the past couple of decades. Russia is a regional power with a strong sense of nationalism that has reacted to incessant provocations from NATO in the only rational way it could. If NATO didn't want this to happen, then it should have stayed the fuck away from Ukraine.
And their defense against that is to give up their political, military and economic sovereignty, first to the EU, and now to NATO, alongside the country that used to be their imperial overlord?
Musk could definitely be the catalyst for this. If he buys Twitter and makes it profitable, he could completely destroy the ESG narrative. Investors following the ESG framework are already getting antsy because they're starting to realize they'll never get the returns they were promised.
If Musk pulls out of the Twitter deal, after having provoked them into inadvertently exposing all of the shady and dishonest practices they had been engaging in to mislead investors, Twitter stock will crater, and that would have a knock-on effect for the rest of the big Silicon Valley stocks. Either way, the credibility of ESG would be seriously damaged.
Remember when the Swedes occupied Finland for 600 years, suppressed the speaking of the Finnish language and began colonizing whole regions of the country?
Remember how after they gained their independence from Russia, the Finns fought a brilliant guerilla war against the Soviets in order to prevent their country from being subsumed by another foreign empire?
Finland doesn't remember.
I prefer "Go back to Birmingham and try this shit there."
They were allowed to protest. This arrest was for trespassing.
Schwab really does look like someone tried to cram Blofeld into an oversized condom.
Catholic church back on form, I see.
As opposed to trusting a bunch of teenagers throwing a temper tantrum because they were told they can't attend school dressed like hookers.
Exactly. A 16-year-old doesn't get to show up at school in an outfit that belongs on the beach and then complain about "sexual harrassment" when a responsible adult tells her to wear a dress that goes down to the knee. That's the polar opposite of sexual harrassment: those rules are in place to protect the kids, and if they're too dumb to understand that, it's only more evidence that the rules are necessary.
It's more than that. This trial has a chance to seriously damage the credibility of the MeToo movement, and with it the power these people have to enforce ideological compliance. Not just in the entertainment industry, but in every industry with high-profile public figures in it. MeToo, just like Twitter, is one of the most important tools in their arsenal of societal control. They will defend it with everything they have, even if it means defending Amber Heard.