sounds legit /s
compatibility and cohesion through intolerance and exclusion
makes total sense /s /s /s
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If you exclude everyone you’re not compatible with, then everyone remaining is obviously perfectly compatible!1
1Your mileage may vary, depends on the definition of “compatible”, depends on the definition of “everyone”, depends on the definition of “remaining”…
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Ein volk.
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The obvious1 problem2 being that there is always someone, somewhere, that some people will think of as “incompatible”…
1 obvious to anyone who thinks about it for more than a second
2 sadly, some people think of it more as a feature than a bug… until they find themselves on the wrong side of the equation.
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What do you mean? They’re only going to come for the socialists and maybe the trade unionists.
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How the fuck do they think that’s going to happen at this point? Everyone thinks it won’t affect them (unless they know it absolutely will affect them), and then they get to find out they were fighting for their own exclusion.
I saw yesterday the Con candidate in my riding is Nadirah Nazeer. First line of her bio from the official Con site: “Nadirah has been proud to call Canada home since immigrating from Mauritius 29 years ago.”
I scrolled through the list of Ontario candidates to find that, and while there are a lot of white people, there are a lot of not-white people, including at least one Sikh.
There’s also a lot of white people with non-WASP names – people who still get referred to as “ethnic” in certain Conservative circles (I know because it’s been lobbed at me).
I just want to ask them all, what is it like to belong to a party that hates you?
ETA: removed sentence fragment
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Depends on when + where they’re from - by the third gen or 40 years, most canucks are down with hating on Newer Canadians. Same phenomena as in the US: Cubanos joined the GOP to hate on Mexicanos and Colombianos.
I’ve seen this happen to my family in real time. My grandparents were pretty cool and involves in community cultural centers. Their kids - with one exception - grew up to be jerks. The grandkids are pretty racist.
Because dipshits keep pretending life is a zero sum game, there will always be dorks who try to make life harder for others. They need to break the cycle.
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probably refers to a trading regimen, or a policy on monopolies, advocated by progressives in the 1920s. Or more cynically, one could point to a “progressive” eugenics policy, or a “progressive” immigration policy. That is, of course, if you still believe in nominative determinism in politics.
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the 1939 version of the Huchback of Notre Dame.
Gypsy — Why do you stop us?
Soldier at city wall — Because no gypsies can enter Paris any longer without a permit. It’s the new law.
Gypsy — If the others are permitted to, why can’t we?
Soldier at city wall —They’re Frenchmen. You’re gypsies. Foreigners.
Gypsy — Foreigners! You came yesterday. We come today.
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An even better example of that would be the PPC slate for Brampton.
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“we have to follow the rules” /s
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As bad as this is, the article is a little bit misleading. He was elected “Ortsvorsteher” and calling him a mayor is a bit of a stretch. He represents a dependent part of a small town and a major reason why they didn’t find anyone else is that it is a bullshit office without any tangible rights or responsibilities to speak of. His job is to make sure that his neighborhood is not forgotten by the actual town council not quite a mile away.
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After the 2016 election I was shocked to find out how many of my wife’s Indian co-workers had voted for Trump. For the most part they found his anti-Muslim rhetoric very reassuring.
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Around my office, I noticed a lot of people whom I’d otherwise thought would be against Trump due to the immigration and racism policies said they liked him because he was a “strong leader” and “great businessman”.
They started walking that back pretty quickly. After six months they still said he was great but should stay off Twitter. After 18 months he was a one-word “Could be worse” joke. Now everyone is completely silent about him, and the conversation topic gets changed if someone mentions him.
I think they’re finally worried.
Me, I’m worried because I suspect a lot of them would still vote for the Canadian Cons in a heartbeat.
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On this day, 46 years ago, on this very hour, the tanks of fascists rolled into Santiago. The presidential bodyguard was a skeleton crew, but they managed to hold Pinochet’s forces back long enough for Salvador Allende to give one final speech.
Salvador Allende died twenty minutes later. Rather than be taken prisoner by the fascists, he fought until he had no comrades, and few bullets. He never surrendered.
In the terrible 24 hours that followed, fascist forces went door to door armed with CIA-supplied lists of Union organizers, poverty rights thinkers, songwriters, and socialists.
My grandparents survived because they were tipped off by my grandmother’s uncle. But 20,000 comrades were not as lucky. Victor Jara, the Chilean poet laurette, was tortured and killed there in the Estadio Nacional.
My grandparents spent four years on the run before applying for amnesty. They got it - in 1975. As they hid in far-flung towns, in attics, closets of friends, in the desert hills, some comrades decided to fight back. Resistance cells managed to finally steal or smuggle in arms and began guerilla strikes against the secret police.
But fascism had won.
It wasn’t until the 90s that the fascists finally gave up power, having enriched themselves on the wealth of Chile’s resources.
This is the true 9/11 attack.
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Is the problem really “human brains,” or is it the fire hose of lies that is Facebook
It’s surmised that 10 million people saw on Facebook the false claim that Pope Francis came out in favor of Trump’s election in 2016. Living in a news bubble of their own making many undoubtedly believed it. (This was the most-shared news story on Facebook in the three months leading up to the 2016 election, researchers report.)
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Or the absence of self-rule, and the structures which preserve oligarchy?
Human minds definitely aren’t equipped for ruling others (see the decisions of ruling classes) and don’t seem well-equipped for being ruled by others either.
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