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there is bipartisan support for what I consider Australia’s shameful policy on refugees

There is simply something about Anglo-Saxon countries that show a serious thirst for blood at criminals, that not only should prisoners atone while rotting in prison, but that they also suffer. At the very least indifference to their suffering. How many ca…[Read more]

It’s articles like this that show me the utterly savage brutal side of Trump’s America. I literally cannot comprehend what goes through people’s minds when school principles attack their student’s poor family through threats. It paints states like Wyoming as a place of hostility and unforgiving cruelty. And yet that cannot really be the case. I…[Read more]

to see the Republican Party as The Party of Stupid

I’ve always seen it as the party of playing really dirty. Their antics and tactics are so scummy. Just repeating the opposite of reality a thousand times until for most of their followers it just becomes truth (despite them fully well knowing its a lie). “Climate change is a myth”. “The sky is…[Read more]

I always had a total blast traveling around America. And yet even in Liberal Seattle and New York City I came across tourists who would chat me up and within minutes start hearing lectures about how Jesus loves me. This is my favourite template of a conversation to have with an Evangelical:

evangelical: Abortion is murder

me: That’s a question…[Read more]

The trend of countries copying American policy is completely reversing. Trump is trying to axe the very limited form of mixed-system government the US has and returning the death penalty. Meanwhile countries are either enacting or strengthening their mixed-systems while axing the death penalty. America still has enormous cultural influence (I…[Read more]

How much of what Trump does now will matter in a few years time?

This is definitely the question on Trump that can lead to the most insightful answers. Very little of what Trump does will last beyond a couple decades. That’s the consolation we can take. Of course, immigrants who have been separated and caged…well this will affect them for the…[Read more]

Someday everyone will see I was right, and they were wrong. Reminders are the flowering parts that enthuse the procreation.

Just as we shudder when we read our historical heros saying racist things and positively describing slavery and female subjugation…so will our offspring in the future judge us for murdering and consuming…[Read more]

Are you aware there are humans who can’t feel pain?

Wow. I wonder if they taste good! Let’s make some human kebaps!

Or is that, scientists haven’t found what scientists currently recognize as pain receptors?

Yes indeed. It dawned on me that intelligence and pain can take so many exotic forms that we cannot detect and I’ve spent hours wondering, if every time I sweep away leaves on the ground…am I causing them grief? When people take rocks and grind them up t…[Read more]

Your post above sounds like a snake oil pitch if I ever heard one

Could I honestly write a less ironic/sarcastic post? At least no one took the apple one seriously. I’ll have to triple my efforts at making my parody as obvious as possible.

Actually I’ve read that apples are a lot more intelligent than we once thought. Not only are they aware of their environment but the even communicate with one another through the releasing of gasses and the transmission of Iron and Vitamin B12 through the tree sap. They also aren’t as stupid as a lot of people think. They are capable of doing many…[Read more]

That woman from the Mayo clinic is clearly being paid by big pharma and Monstanto. Her anti-vegan attack and smear-propaganda is designed to scare ethical and virtuous animal lovers from being their vurtious and ethical selves. Creating this vitamin B12 and Iron boogeyman, they aim to instill fear in the hearts of virtuous non-meat eaters and that…[Read more]

I’ve seen a few clips of the British one (and Spanish and Canadian one). They seem to be the same in every country. I watched parts of the Belgian/Netherlands first season (years ago). It was one of the saddest things I ever watched. I learnt later that the producers specifically pick highly outgoing and extroverted people, some of whom they…[Read more]

Indeed. Inconsistency in government policy is pretty universal. Even when it comes to a countries most important and cherished principles. For example: Washington D.C. is extremely unlikely to reach statehood despite having a larger population than Wyoming or Vermont and contributing more tax dollars than more than half the other states. It is a…[Read more]

It’s true Marx discusses democracy in his elusive paradise state, but it’s not the kind of democracy that we would recognize, and it would only arrive if the state were already democratic or after the dictatorial revolution fulfilled its goals. Since no Marxist state ever fulfilled its goals, the pseudo democratic Marxist state never happened. To…[Read more]

I always thought the best corporations I worked with had implemented many Marxist ideas

Indeed I had read that American companies that had participatory structures, and especially where employees had big shares in the company, were amongst the most successful. Which is probably why it’s done so little because tried, tested and demonstrable…[Read more]

Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan pulled of mixed systems (not Marxist-capitalist but socialist-capitalist). It’s capitalist economic structure, social security education and health care for all, generous aid for those fucked over by or incapable of participating in the economic structure. Capitalism is the dominant,…[Read more]

Canada actually had/has collectives in agriculture. There was the wheatboard in central canada. They grew the most sought after wheat in the world and they were obliged to sell it to the government who then sold it abroad for a huge price. You got paid a commission plus the wheat you sold with a guarantee of an income. It was actually extremely…[Read more]