July 25, 2020
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand:
"We will continue to be your single source of truth. ... Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth."
What do you think Western countries would be like if our governments became our "single source of truth"?
@VigilantFox Maher is pointing at the hypocrisy, but the real issue is how proximity to that kind of wealth makes people delete their own filters.
They aren't being "phonies"; they're just being honest about what they value when they think no one is looking.
@AshleyAFrawley I can be persuaded to go quite a way to the Left on economic matters, but when government decides it has the right to know what socks I buy and who I buy them from, my civil libertarian instincts shove their way to the front.
Guten Morgen.
Es ist ein schöner Tag um allen politischen Lagern zu sagen:
Ich verachte Euch für Eure Unfähigkeit zu erkennen, wie selig vereint ihr im Autoritären seid.
A great explanation for white wokeness I heard: upper-middle-class whites desperately want to express sneering, classist contempt, and lower-class whites are the only socially acceptable target.