Congratulations for completely missing and proving the point.

I don’t know about that. To admit to being french is to admit to being liberal at best. The two can’t be separated. Same as any imperialist nationality. If liberal was added to later comments, it’s because clarification was clearly needed because readers weren’t understanding what it means to be French and what it means to criticise the abstract ‘French’.

I wouldn’t generally want to be associated with an imperialist regime. Nationality is not ethnicity or race. It’s an ideological choice. For Anglo-European nations, it’s a damning choice. It’s a claim that someone is in this group, not that one. Claiming and defending being ‘French’ perpetuates what Fanon called the compartments of the colonial world.

Those who take offence at a rejection of ‘French’, ‘German’, ‘British’, ‘Australian’, etc, need to ask themselves what it is they are claiming allegiance to. Once you’ve decolonised and abolished the imperialism of imperialist nations, what remains? The witty ‘defederate’ is like the phrase, ‘French? Not even once’. It’s not a general rejection of the people. It’s a rejection of what France stands for.

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You’re forgetting the ‘liberal’ of ‘fr*nch liberals’.

The appeal to authority is you saying that you’re an engineer, implying that you know better and that non-engineers don’t have a say.

Never attribute malice when incompetence explains the event unless it’s reactionaries, in which case it’s both.

Just a minute—is your counterargument based on the idea that flying planes into buildings could be dangerous? I’m not American but I would need some evidence of this. I’ve seen planes in the air with my own eyes and when they’re up that high in the air, they get really, really small.

People take it so personally, don’t they

The electoral democracy theatre has perfected itself and distilled it’s own essence into it’s purest and most honest form.

Happy birthday!

There must be a cartoon chimera that’s half donkey half elephant. That could work, too.

They grew up with lead pipes. They literally did become less empathetic. Who knows what the remaining lead and the microplastic will do to us.

Then they die and the eight people who survive their 55th birthday are the conservatives with acres and acres.

Yeah but if I hadn’t become ill or had found a well paying job or didn’t dislike the cold and hunger in those first few days when I actually ‘slept rough’ and if CBS had picked up on my marketing gimmick sooner so that a venture capitalist would come along with $millions to invest in my very innovative idea of selling dog coffee (I mean, that is genius, I bet nobody else has thought of selling dog coffee before), I would have made more than one measly million. When others fail it’s never for these reasons. It’s always laziness. Anyway I’m back to my mansion now that the health scare is over due to the phenomenal health insurance that I had throughout the whole time. And I’d like to thank every major news organisation in the Western world for boosting my story; that venture capitalist came along and it turns out that they were as impressed as expected and I’ve now made that extra mil. Bye losers.

It helps to have seen a hammer in use. But us blue collar workers are invisible to the likes of these rulers.

Depends if you’re hungry.

I quite like Hayek. Not because I like what he says. But because he articulates some modern right wing views so well. And he’s unashamed.

Many reactionaries today will try to sugar coat their politics. But if you explain what they’re really saying by paraphrasing Hayek? It’s like holding up a perfect mirror, yet the reactionary thinks it’s one of those fairground, distorting mirrors. He’s good for highlighting the problems of capitalist governance to onlookers. He puts the grotesqueness on display.

Fly it high.

They’ll let you live in these than stack you one on top of the other on a container ship headed to sea and forget about you.

The contradictions in that last example.

Spy balloon found incapable of spying.