Then what are you complaining about? A white girl saying "nigger" is disgusting anyway. They might as well taunt her for not being allowed to eat feces. If she's a decent person she'll have the same inclination to do that as to say slurs.
Poverty is literally the lowest it has ever been worldwide in the history of civilization, what the hell are you rambling about?
Have you ever heard the phrase "the grass is always greener on the other side"? You're comparing a comprehensive view of current life with a romanticized and heavily edited version of the past and feeling bad about it. This is like a teenage girl driven to anorexia by comparing her real self to the heavily edited photos other girls post online.
It isn't punishing for sins of the past, it's punishing for sins if the present. If your daughter calls a black classmate a slur today, then that happened today. The reason why it's bad has to do with a whole lot of history, but it was still said today.
Nobody is going around suspending students because their great granddaddy used a slur in 1840.
After all this time, probably only of he can prove someone else did it. I doubt the site still has IP logs from back then and obviously there's no having an alibi in this case.
He isn't because he obviously did. If someone had maliciously created an account on a porn site registered to his full name and using a screenname he also used on other websites over ten years ago, then posted his own political views and declared his love of transgender porn, all in order to smear his name, I very much doubt that they'd sit on that for ten years.
Internet censorship? Twitter was blocked for refusing to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, a legal requirement for any business that operates in the country above a certain size (and Twitter is very far from the threshold). Elmo claimed it was about censorship to make himself look good.
Why does Twitter need a legal representative? Precisely so that someone can answer for the sort of shit Elmo pulls on the regular. Or any other shit. Somebody needs to be accountable to the laws of a country if you're doing business in that country. Otherwise you could sell Fentanyl online from overseas and the worse that would happen would be geting the product seized at the border after you've already been paid. This isn't a radical concept and it has nothing to do with censorship.
I don't think it's extreme at all. Elmo openly mocked the Brazilian justice system and its representatives, including posting offensive AI-generated images of Judge Moraes, and has demonstrated several times through his words and actions that he believes himself to be above the law and can do whatever he wants. He is responsible for the actions of his company. "Responsible" means "one who answers for".
It might be a different situation if this were a company whose CEO was unaware of the legal troubles in a country that isn't home to their HQ. But he became personally involved with the case and is using technicalities to sidestep his legal obligations without even pretending that's not what he's doing. This is a perfect picture of the absolute worst way in which plutocrats can flaunt the law and you're advocating for it.
Not really applicable here, since making Xitter accessible in Brazil is breaking Brazilian law in Brazil. You very much will get arrested for disrespecting the CCP in China.
Damn, I've never thought of myself as a whale before but I guess for a while there I was. I wonder how many of the people we see in these games with all the premium characters and skins are like me, struggling. I always thought of them as having more money than sense but maybe they (we) lack both.
Indirectly, it's a strong indictment of Trump's mental health. A politician's strongest weapon (and a conman's, which he also is) is their image, and Trump knows it. If he's letting himself go to the extent that his odor deserves note, then you can be assured that he's let go of everything else that he considers less important than his image (i.e. everything else that exists) at least as much as he's let go of his hygiene, probably more.
The Donald J. Trump that debated Biden was a bad choice for a set of reasons that did not include becoming incapable of caring for the most important thing in his life. The current DJT has added that reason to the list.
Yes, you did answer my question very well especially with the part about cyclical history. I will watch the resources you linked to in both comments. Again, I am very thankful that you took the time to answer me so thoroughly.
After I've done some studying, would you mind if I maybe DM'd you?
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment, and for being so nice about it too. In this polarized political climate, it's quite refreshing to find someone who holds "extreme" views and who is still willing to educate rather than butt heads.
Can I ask a follow-up question? Reading your comment an immediate concern that came up was with complacency. The system you described seems to rely very heavily on nobody being an idiot (in the original Greek sense of the word, someone who isn't interested in matters of the city-state) but in reality, a lot of people are. What if a few generations into an anarcho-syndicalist utopia, a group of people decide to elect a representative in a broad sense, informally of course, because they trust him and it's easier this way and they can focus on other things? And then another group likes the idea, and another, and these representatives end up scheming amongst themselves...
I think where I'm going is that the structure doesn't seem rigid. That can be a very good thing for several reasons, but it can also be bad in that it seems (again, to my uninformed self) to not be very resilient against erosion.
I hope you'll notice that I am absolutely on board with the abolishment of impositional hierarchies. Both concerns I've expressed have to do with how the system would stay alive rather than with what it sets out to accomplish.
Thanks again for taking time out of your Sunday to educate a total stranger.
So are my dog's turds, and my dog has been dead for three years.