The only question that matters Telmo, is if the allegations of Islamists attacking your women is true? Thus, it then becomes a criminal matter and even though I view your politicians and police covering for the attackers, it ain't good, results wise. It's either true or false in each case. It's observable behavior and not down to emotions. If Brown men are attacking then yeah, its a real problem. The axiom doesn't work that being a victim doesn't make you less racist, nor more guilty of racism. My suspicion here is that the Scandinavians are trying to prove to the world and themselves, that, We Aren't Nazis! As nice as that is to know, if you want to prove to yourselves that the 3rd Reich is truly dead you know there are other cultures you can have immigrants from, and ones that are far, less, belligerent than the folks from Somalia & Syria. People from Latin America, nice and earth-toned would be happy to do work and pay into your national healthcare system to help replenish the funds. India, you know about, Vietnam, etc. On your collective future, my plea is the issue isn't just with one guy, and thus, the party he represents has climbed high on the unreliability scale. Now, we are the nation state that invented Isolationism (sans, globalist corporations) and it seems that it is once again invented. Armor up, I'd say.
-----Original Message----- From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Sep 1, 2021 3:53 am Subject: Re: The American Taliban #yiv3808551804 p.yiv3808551804MsoNormal, #yiv3808551804 p.yiv3808551804MsoNoSpacing{margin:0;}Am Mi, 1. Sep 2021, um 02:53, schrieb [email protected]: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/vernor-vinge/true-names-and-other-dangers.htm To be honest using one's true name was something I was paranoid about for a long time, and yeah, that shows in my character and writing. I believe it is naïve unless one is on a professional venue to not use a nom' de guerre. As this society polarizes and splits in two, (US) it becomes increasingly unlikely that we'll respect each others boundaries. For Europeans involved as Nato countries, I wish the best of fortune and would urge planning for a an EU defense that is independent on a now unreliable USA. Both Merkel and Macron could see the writing on the wall during the Trump presidency. This is more likely to happen in the post-Brexit EU. The UK was the main actor blocking it. But before that, we will have to deal with yet another wave of refugees created by US military interventions. And while we deal with it, I am sure that US populist pundits will once again at the same time criticize us for doing it, crying about "the fall of Europe" and spreading "news" about the streets of Copenhagen being awash in brown men raping blond women, etc ad nauseam. European populist pundits usually join the party, but this time they might not, given how much of a shit-show Brexit (a direct consequence of such "news") has been. Telmo Yes, another area to bicker about, but policy changes, when not well planned or executed do cause disorder. Definitively not the Scandinavian model, that. -----Original Message----- From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 10:38 am Subject: Re: The American Taliban Am Di, 31. Aug 2021, um 13:10, schrieb John Clark: [...] Hmm.... that would explain why you refuse to sign your real name to your screeds, in a way I can sympathize, if I held your opinions I'd be ashamed of them too. John, I mostly agree with you on this ongoing (and rather boring for a non-American) debate over US politics. That being said, I think that the old Internet tradition of using pseudonyms is a good thing. There are many reasons for not using your real name beyond shame over your opinions. Maybe you are a non-believer in a strongly religious environment, and disclosing this could put your life in jeopardy. Maybe you need some job to surive, and you know you could get into trouble if your real opinions were known to your employer, and so on and so forth. Maybe spud has his reasons, that's none of our business. There is a relentless push toward "real identities" that, I think, started with facebook. Their incentive here is probably mostly about increasing the quality of the data that they mine for their advertisement algorithms, but it has the side effect of magnifying the chilling effect on public discourse. It is better to remain silent than to say something that might get you into trouble. It certainly helps the status quo (whatever the status quo is in your country). Hummm... I guess I was influenced by the times when the Internet was young and full of promise as a technology that could amplify human agency and freedom instead of curtailing them. I now know that that was pretty idealistic and naive, but I will still resist anonymity-shaming until my last breath. People who want us to force us to use our real identity no matter what are usually the same people who wish to control us, and probably not with our best interests in mind. I do sign with my real name here. Probably everywhere, maybe not. I won't tell and nobody should ask. Telmo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e4c6d4c1-4097-4011-8844-4d3d29df2906%40www.fastmail.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/89444244.1361166.1630526196250%40mail.yahoo.com.
