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All of these are abuses of power, and should be opposed. That said, I'm confident that there is no nation state on Earth that hasn't done these things. Please correct me if you can think of examples. The difference now is that they are affecting mainstream, middle-class, "normal" Americans. While it's good that people are angry about these abuses, it also seems incredibly naive. This is what states do. This is what t…
>That said, I'm confident that there is no nation state on Earth that hasn't done these things. Please, tell me one "first-world" country that has kill lists??
Don't be fooled by this post, the dude comes from a country where rape is a regular no-comment thing.
Where a minister cost the exchequer $50 billion by giving away spectrum.
Where the state army regularly massacres its own citizens in the name of progress (forced land seizures), citizens who have no political options and have turned to Naxalism out of desperation.
Look, brown man travels for 10 years in the US and gets hassled once -- with some justification it seems (the chemical tests came back positive). I can guarantee that and average American travelling to India would face a much harsher ordeal at the hands of the locals. Just ask any white woman tourist.
Yo...Aggrieved Bong! Karma is a bitch and somehow all the hassling of Whitey when he is in Calcutta had to come around. In this case it landed on your ass. Move along and stop pretending to be a hipster with your "virtual corporations" and shit. Or would you prefer going back to the motherland and working for Didi?
I for one would be happy to be subjected to such a process IF it also had the effect of catching the REAL terrorists. The fact that it does not is the real tragedy here.
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What, because of the cursing? [EDIT: which has now been edited out; too bad, I always appreciate a sincere " Fuck you! "] Let's not be censorious. I can think of some hellbanned who didn't obviously deserve it, but most of the ones I've seen did obviously deserve it. Are you seriously going to argue that jrockway is as bad as the guy who posts all his personal revelations from the Lord? [EDIT: I'm talking about the r…
[EDIT: I'm talking about the richly-deserving-of-his-hellban "losethos": that guy's ramblings are always worth a drag of the trackball.] losethos is a talented programmer with schizophrenia. The reason his posts deserve to be killed is because they are 98% content free and occasionally disturbed, paranoid, and racist, hallmarks of schizophrenia. But losethos the person , as a human being in distress, doesn't deserve…
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I don't follow...can you connect the dots for me?
The Constitution imposes a lot of constraints on the government that make its job more difficult, presumably because those rights would not be protected if it was necessarily to rely on some inherent bit of goodness in bureaucrats.
A caricatured example would be the serial killer who looks both ways before he crosses the street. We can agree that some of his 'core goodness' is certainly off...but his common sense is spot on.
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A friend of mine set one off when we were traveling in Australia. We talked with the guard (who very 100% ralaxed) and he said that setting off the detector is incredibly easy. While he was searching my friend's purse, we were told that some of the chemicals used in make up can set it off. After finding nothing, we were free to continue. Took all of 3 minutes, no additional security, no prolonged questioning, just a…
That because your friend was a lady or was not of brown skinned.