Winston Churchill’s government did not hold an election during six years of World War 2, but we didn’t see any shred of crocodile tears about it.

Simple. In the past there is no “border”. You are someone from Frankfurt who came to Paris to set up business and there was no question asked.

I’m guessing you have not been alive long enough to remember that newspapers, especially tabloids, have always been demeaning of women. To be honest I think headline is timid sounding compared to twenty years ago, when tabloids were more popular and running sensationalist headlines, and the picture of the person being always the most unflattering. I don’t really see that kind of reporting nowadays, but it is now on social media where sensationalist shaming happens.

In the American sensibilities, the Democrats are left wing.

I know we’ve shat on Americans too many times that Democrats are not leftists and Republicans are far-right, but there is a place and time for doing so and I learned to cut Americans some slack. Americans simply have different Overton window because of different history and culture (I have explained before as to why, but I cannot be bothered to write another wall of text about it). Other countries don’t even follow a left and right political dichotomy. Many places, especially in developing countries, vote on personalities than policies. But few of us crap on people from developing countries for not following policy-based discourse, or not following the European-originated sensibilities of “left or right” politics.

The novel “The Handmaiden’s Tale” is literally inspired from real life based from the author’s observation of unfolding events in the 20th century, particularly the rise of Iranian theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and how they treat women. The author fears something could happen in the United States. And her fear is inching closer to happening in the United States.

Some people take pleasure in being pitied and victimised.

Many mosques in Xinjiang are reportedly damaged or destroyed though. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67483202.amp

I watched “The Man in the High Castle”, and the Christian imagery and symbolism in a former Christian Church were replaced with Nazi symbolism. I thought it was a bit farfetched, but now hearing something similar being done by China as part of totalitarianism, it is rather spooky. I’ve heard religious buildings being destroyed, but converting places of worship and blatantly removing its past to align with state ideology is far more surreal and haunting, and I am an agnostic atheist.

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You joke, but some animals are psychopaths. I remember a news years ago of a seal raping a penguin.

/r/JustLikeUs

This is the real joke.

Wait, what joke?

I’m a guy, and I really don’t give a damn. I surround myself with folks who are open-minded and won’t make me insecure. Or if someone tries to, I don’t let them get into my head. It says a lot about themselves trying to put me down than about me.

I think I read somewhere that in order for the Romans to abnegate their role in killing Jesus, as they transitioned to Christianity, they scapegoated the Jews. Although, it was the people who demanded to crucify Jesus. But of course, anti-semites focused on the ethnicity, instead just ascribing the mob justice to just-- on people.

My guess is that because Jews reject the divinity of Jesus, the Christians found it fair to oppress the Jews. It is not different though to the crusading missions of later Christians in the medieval Europe. The non-Christians refuse to recognise Jesus Christ as both the son of God and god himself, the either they convert, or else be killed or ostracised.

It has always been about power.

I distinctly remember debating with a person from my old Internet community. The person is anti-globalisation whereas I am pro. This was before I realised right wingers are anti-globalisation, but he blamed the rise of far left and far right in the 20th century to globalisation, and also blamed the fall of Rome to foreigners with the Germanic invasions (it is an oversimplification as to why Germanic peoples invaded but many viewed themselves as also Romans; hence why the later Holy Roman Empire is Germanic). Then after a while, the discussion turned to women’s rights because I mentioned Westerners just don’t have as many children and therefore immigration is necessity . The interlocutor then basically argued that women should have more children. I alluded that there was a certain political party that explicitly viewed women as baby churners in order to breed more people for their race (I’m referring to the Nazis of course, but I should have also mentioned at the time the Islamic fundamentalists also do the same).

Someone mentioned that the user I debated with changed over time within the community. I later learned that the person got banned.

Advocating for traditional values is not in and of itself wrong, but if those values impede another person’s rights then those values are not worth actually worth valuing.

“Academia is being esoteric” or in other words “academia is a pompous twat”.

Don’t overthink it. The remaining employees are just there for the money.

Isn’t that standard business practice so that you’d be able to promote your product? As well to improve?

With this kinda thing, better to report to HR first than make a counter joke.

It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.