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Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:02 am
by phantom000
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/ ... 27f23.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/th ... ar-AADKrpL

I feel a little like gloating because of all the buzz about tearing down statues of Confederate Generals. To me it felt kinda hypocritical to remove a plaque honor Confederate soldiers while we have a monument to Washington and Jefferson.

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 3:19 am
by Admiral X
:roll:

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:06 am
by clearspira
Heh. I can't actually read either of these articles. No lie, it's telling me the eu has banned access to them.

But Why did people vote Brexit they ask.

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:11 am
by Madner Kami
Remind me, which country had porn filters?

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:56 am
by Mecha82
Context is important. While none of "Founding Fathers" of USA were perfect and they surely had qualities that in today's standards are less than admirable they are still important people in your Nation's history since without them there wouldn't be USA. Same can't be said about Confederate Generals.

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:00 am
by Karha of Honor
phantom000 wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:02 am https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/ ... 27f23.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/th ... ar-AADKrpL

I feel a little like gloating because of all the buzz about tearing down statues of Confederate Generals. To me it felt kinda hypocritical to remove a plaque honor Confederate soldiers while we have a monument to Washington and Jefferson.
And who the fuck will be woke enough to be honored when it's done?

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:33 am
by clearspira
Madner Kami wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:11 am Remind me, which country had porn filters?
I think there is too much freely available porn in which children have damaging access to. I agree with porn filters.

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:21 pm
by PerrySimm
clearspira wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:06 am No lie, it's telling me the eu has banned access to them.
Nah, those scareware notices are just a way some lazy American web designers use to get around the GDPR. Instead of stopping their scummy data tracking practices or providing an opt-out, they just try to scare off anyone that has legally enforceable privacy rights from their websites.

95% of the time you can get around them by turning off javascript on the offending website. Of course, you can and should get the same news elsewhere.

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 4:31 pm
by Darth Wedgius
We should down all the statues now to save time in the future. None of these guys were vegan, were they?

Re: Boot's on the other foot now!

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:16 pm
by clearspira
Darth Wedgius wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 4:31 pm We should down all the statues now to save time in the future. None of these guys were vegan, were they?
Sadly you are probably right. I have a strange suspicion that in fifty years time meat eating will be heavily controversial. Or at least, eating real meat, people who eat frankenmeat from a lab will be woke factor 10.