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SJWs are right when they assert that the world would be much better if Europeans hadn't developed mercantilism and then sailed all over the world fucking it up

But the depressing thing is that if Europeans hadn't done that, someone else would have done it - probably not too much later.

You hate imperialism? You hate slavery? You hate lack of humanity, focus on money, colonisation, subjugation? Don't worry, the Arab world had you covered nicely - before we took over that too. If we hadn't, they'd be out there right now taking the same blame for the rape of the Americas and other similar atrocious actions.

What if that didn't happen? China would have. Or what if there'd never been any Romans? We'd be looking at Carthage doing it, or maybe even some kind of remnant Akkadian civilization.

Depressing, isn't it?

@kaniini as a cock.li user, I disagree that's what it is, but ok.

The core of the point is that it seems he's not actually done anything against any CoC, the organisers have let them travel there and then arbitrarily decided "we don't like you so you can't come in".

This kind of arbitrary decision undermines the rules, because it makes clear they're mostly just there to appease people who want rules, but it's ultimately down to the whims of people who are there liking you or not, for *whatever* reason that may be, and it may be opaque.

I don't want to go to events where I don't feel safe, even if I'm following the rules, just because someone doesn't like how I run, for example, freenode, or my day job. The "whatever" above is also really dangerous, because once we tolerate the whims of organisers, the need to justify those whims becomes less and you end up kicking people out for silly (at best) and discriminatory (at worst) reasons.

What's up with this meme of fireworks being bad for the environment? Are you telling me that not firing fireworks is going to have an effect on the environment when planting 20 million trees won't?

ADL added "We wuz kangs" to their list of hate slogans. We truly live in a clown world. :honk:

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