Harrison [He/Him]

You:

The European colonial project that built the US killed literally hundreds of millions of people in the US alone

Your source places the highest estimates for a north American population at seven million. Most likely it was half that. “Hundreds of millions of people in the US alone” is what I am contesting.

Them’s fighting words

We brought pigs into existence for the benefit of human conditions, we will take them out of it if and when it becomes necessary.

This source supports me as far as I can tell.

I would see a million pigs die before one human.

Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

This is the future those damn communists want! They’re going to force their hideous art deco infrastructure and nerfarious drug-filled public transport on us!

The entire population of North and South America at the start of that project did not exceed a hundred million, and the vast majority of it was in central and southern America. There were not hundreds of millions of people in the US to kill.

Very possibly, every native American living within the modern borders of the US from 1400 to today might have totalled a hundred million, but the colonial project didn’t kill literally every one of them.

It’s neither of those things. Words have meanings, and legal terms have very specific meanings.

In the west there are laws about public indecency which legislate what people may wear outside and these rules demand women wear shirts but do not demand the same of men.

In some western countries, there are ones that do not make a distinction

The law covers that also. All visible religious garments are forbidden.

“The law in it’s great magnanimity prohibits poor and rich alike from sleeping under bridges and stealing bread.”.

A law can be applied equally to everyone and still target a specific group of people.

The people’s flag is deepest red. It shrouded oft our martyred dead. And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold. Their hearts’ blood dyed in every fold

Out of respect to our martyrs, please iron our flag. They didn’t die to dye a flag with such pronounced creases.

Anarchy forever?

I am sorry to say that your diagnosis has come back as liberal.

The modern schooling system in the US and much of Europe has evolved directly out of educational institutions pioneered in the 19th century with the intent of turning the working class into better soldiers and subjecting them to nationalist indoctrination.

The rigidly enforced structure and hierarchical relations inside of it are obviously authoritarian.

I suppose belief that the movements of distant stellar objects can directly affect elements of your life that can somehow be predicted using centuries old pseudoscience is about as rational as the belief that a functional anarchist society can exist for more than a few weeks. Considering that it makes complete sense!

(This is joke I swear, I have many anarchist friends and am not being sectarian I promise)

whoever this guy is that they let live.

The last “Emperor” of China

The r word does actually have a meaning.

Slow en français

I sell my privacy for convenience as I am a fool. It is very convient though