You’re not crazy, and it’s not new. The current buzz word is “DEI”, but they’ve been doing the same thing since before any of us were alive. Before DEI it was Woke. Before that it was Critical Race Theory (CRT). Before that it was Social Justice Warriors (SJW). Before that it was Politically Correct (PC). Before that they used terms which are less polite.
When were those days, exactly? I’ve studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:
The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn’t really count.
WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.
I’ve never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.
There’s really only failing, then learning, then death
My kids have me listening to way too much Disney music lately…
In a magical hypothetical world where we could make this happen without it being absurdly cruel to the animals, I’d love to see it.
That’s not a species of animal. That’s the living embodiment of a fundamental force of nature. No mortal, man nor beast, can defeat one.
I think a grizzly bear or a polar bear would take it. Any other bear it’s going to the gorilla.
Is this the showdown we’ve been waiting for that will finally definitively prove we’re no longer a Constitutional Republic?
I guarantee you there’s going to be a fuck ton of obnoxious fascists on Reddit and Twitter quoting the fuck out of Jackson today.
There were MASSIVE anti-Vietnam war protests at the time. Far more massive than anything we’ve seen since. And they did recognize the hypocrisy in calling it a “police action” when it was obviously a war.
You do not understand anarchism in the slightest. You are imagining some Hobbsian hellscape out of a disaster movie, which is completely counter to human nature.
So your argument is that the only way to get people to live together is under the constant threat of violence from the state?
That’s a different situation considering the Irish language was created before there even was a united Ireland. We can trace the history of how English came to America, and it came from the English people. We can’t trace the history of how the Irish language spread across Ireland because it predates history.
I don’t know what that means, but I don’t think you do either.
What’s the circle A supposed to be here, then?
Yes, it’s 100% immature, which is exactly why you should do it.
I was mostly just making a snarky comment about how everyone is going to get tooth decay from lake of fluoridation.
Like I said, while semantically imprecise, yes, we did get the English language from the English.
Anarchists (lib left) aren’t typically waiting for society to collapse. We typically focus on building the world we want to see now in order to make the collapsing society unnecessary to provide out material needs. You know, the whole mutual aide and community organizing bit.
That’s just semantics. Sure, I guess the more proper way to say it is that when the Americans founded the US they continued the practice of race-based chattel slavery which the British had instituted in the colonies prior to the formation of the US. Is that really substantively different than saying the Americans adopted slavery from the British?
This is a big part of how it’s become so pervasive lately, although the racists have been complaining about the same thing for a very long time. The internet and influencer culture has allowed them to monetize the outrage in ways that weren’t possible before.