He needs to wash his brain, you could even say.

The purpose of a system is what it does, not what its marketing department says.

The only true ideal for power is that there is none except when handled by all. The US Constitution seemed to have this idea in mind with its intent

Are we talking about the same document granting exclusive political rights to land and/or slave-owning white males or are you a visitor from another dimension?

The consequences for what you’re calling “social credit score” in China is actually court orders issued on a case by case basis, not some automatic/bureaucrat-run all-encompassing system based on rating each citizen. I.e. it’s not a social score system.

The distinction between left and right in the U.S is democratic and Republic ideologies.

Both Republicans and Democrats subscribe to the same ideology: Liberalism. That is: the supremacy of private property and absolute freedom (for those who posses said private property). That’s what liberalism is, not whether you believe deep in your heart in the neccesity of “social progressivism”.

They just play the good cop/bad cop routine; and just like with those cops, their goal is the same, they just trick you into trusting one of them because he’s stopping the ‘bad cop’ from hurting you.

Actually, it was gender-inclusive, they equally demonstrated for the right to rape Palestinian men.

If you read the rest of the tweet by Arnaud, you’ll learn that Nazis later abandoned the practice of rescuing survivors of sinking enemy ships, and it was because Americans are worse war criminals than Nazis:

The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident).

The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn’t get attacked during the rescue.

That’s when a US B-24 “Liberator” bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia’s survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.

The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery…

This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the “Laconiarefehl” - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.

In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.

Dönitz at least had an excuse.

People have already deeply internalized the excuses, they don’t need to repeat them.

Nobody ever told me I needed to read Proudhon to think the state’s bad

Yeah, cause if you actually read Proudhon, you’d probably lose interest in anarchism after realizing how unserious and idiotic the arguments and methodology of “the father of Anarchism” were.

Further reading: The Poverty of Philosophy (Part three has the funniest blunders of Mr. Proudhon, if you’re looking for highlights).

I guess I did the meme and told you to read.

That’s a BOLD claim.

If Trump did it he must have had a good reason - MAGAs reacting to any inconvenient fact about Trump.

You:

Americans famously have goldfish memory when it comes to any kind of political events, so in a sense any event is a distraction from the previous event for them.

The mental gymnastics to support this one are on an Olympic level of stupid.

Well, yes, but so were the mental gymnastics to support all the previous interventions.

Always reminds me of this masterpiece quote:

First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery. And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it.

— Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism (Please read it, it’s short)

If not for Venezuela’s oil, you wouldn’t know who Maduro is.

Someone I disagree with used a word I don’t know, must be a russian agent slipping up! I knew it!

Everyone should watch that lecture, but TL;DW is ANYTHING you say to the police will be used against you and NOTHING you say to the police will ever help you.

If you’re not convinced, you really need to watch that lecture.

It’s way easier to trick people than to have them admit them they have been tricked. CIA knows that.

Real heroes are in the comments.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49613-d-day-anniversary-britons-disagree-with-other-countries-on-who-did-the-most-to-defeat-the-nazis