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  • I personally prefer the idea of a Peace Prize which ensures peace by agreeing on people to take out and putting them into their own worst nightmares. Putin dies by Polonium, but only after several times being told he had ingested polonium, only to find out it was something less-deadly, but much more lastingly unpleasant, like dioxins. By the time they actually give him polonium, they can just not tell him and let him find out for himself. Trump gets to watch as his name is scrubbed from every book, every plaque. Full Akhenaten treatment, only acknowledged as a void in space where a legacy could have been. Every act, undone. Every precedent, removed. Complete Damnatio Memoriae. For the rest of his short life, he is acknowledged only by his prisoner number or, for variety, merely looked at with a sneer of disgust and a plugged nose. That sort of thing.





  • You have just perfectly stated my point: a teacher’s union rep CLEARLY cares about other workers, but that’s not the POINT of a Teacher’s Union. I’m saying that you don’t see anyone complaining that there’s a union to protect those specific labourers, because such a complaint would be patently ridiculous. It is similarly ridiculous to assume that a Feminist opposes the rights of non-women just because their movement is focused on women. That is my point.


  • Wish I had more than one upvote to give. Movements and groups name themselves after their targeted focus, yet you never see someone going up to the teacher’s union rep and saying “but shouldn’t you also care about the other jobs?”

    Say what you will about PETA (I’m sure I could say a lot), but you never see someone criticising them for their “narrow minded focus solely on the welfare of animals, without regard for the ethical treatment of humans, plants and fungi”

    You’ll never catch someone criticising a homeless shelter for not doing enough to shine light on the prevalence of gun violence.

    So why does anyone treat these bad-faith criticisms as anything more or less than attempts to silence the already-marginalised groups for which these movements are advocating?