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1·1 year ago“It’s just a joke, man!” Meanwhile, in Sartre:
Never believe that
anti-Semitesneotankies are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge.But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The
anti-Semitesneotankies have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors.They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.
Did you read the comment? “Firing squad for you”.
0·1 year ago@RemindMe@mstdn.social 10 days
Commenting to find this later, can’t remember remindmebot command :P
The UKs position today is arguably due more to leading the Industrial Revolution and that was the main factor in the decay of slavery, so you need to balance historic grievances with development i.e. “what have the Romans ever done for us?”
No more cheap russian gas and oil, internal combustion engine expertise and all the associated pieces and submarkets being phased out in favour of simpler electric cars…it’s going to be a few hard years until they find a new export industry to perfect. I’d expect hydrogen-based aviation or pharma, maybe even semiconductors, they’ll figure it out.