GreyEyedGhost

For the last 200 years, a significant amount of slavery has been limited to certain phenotypes. I agree that prior to that, it was less prevalent. That doesn't mean we don't have a historical model of slavery based on phenotype, it's just more recent history.

The core tenet of tribalism is "They aren't like us." That might be based on skin color, hair type, clothing, smell (from different diets), behavior. Modern racism (from the last couple hundred years) likely has some elements of more traditional tribalism with relaxed standards so the people a few hundred miles away can start to wrap their heads around the idea that Irish, for instance, are more or less the same as British.

I do hope people can get to the idea that anyone from a given point on this planet (so far) is just a person and not an outsider, but it looks like we have a way to go.

The thumbnail for that video looks exactly like what I expect a 500 year old anything to look like.

He spent nearly half his life in government as an elected official. He has been involved in politics since he was 21, and was in university before that. He is literally a career politician.

The rich people won't have any better coverage, either. I know someone who had his daughter flown to the Mayo Clinic for mono. Yes, her case was very bad, yes, they were Canadian, no, that's not an option that is available to the majority of us, and no, being part of America won't appreciably improve their options more than that.

Might doesn't make right, no, but what exactly do you think rule of law is when it doesn't represent the will or the welfare of the people? The people you're complaining about carried signs and disrupted traffic. The people who stopped them were armed and had the force of the law behind their actions.

I used to work at a company that did this. White collar, but we would often work stat days, and we were salary. So our PTO was x days vacation time, y days stat days, and z days sick days. Vacation time was the legally mandated or higher, stat days were the legally mandated, and then sick days were on top of that (no legally mandated paid sick days where I live). If you got sick a lot (and actually didn't work anyway) you had less vacation time. If you didn't get sick a lot, you had more vacation time. If you worked some stat days, you had even more vacation time. It worked for everybody and meant there was no reason to worry if people were actually sick when they took a sick day - it was just unplanned PTO.

If you get additional PTO to allow for sick days, I'm not sure why you're complaining. That's a perspective issue. If you don't, I definitely get it.

Well, today just started and it's already weird. I was reading some right-wing bullshit that basically boiled down to, "Elon didn't do a Nazi salute because there's no reasonable purpose for him to have done one." Now I read this, talking about how it's silly to rationalize superheroes. And both tie into the quote from Mark Twain the first topic made me think of, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t."

Sorry, sorry. I didn't read the username, but I still think the content of the post is worthwhile, if not the emotional tone, so I'll leave it there.

That's correct. You were the one talking about criminals in jail, which would be reserved for minor crimes/sentences or people awaiting trial (not that that precludes violence from other inmates). So which are you talking about?

So harming criminals is okay, got it. Shall we reinstate the age-old tradition of cutting off thieves' hands? And you haven't even addressed the difference between being charged with a crime and being convicted, both of which can land you in jail.