MapleEngineer

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[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)
[–] MapleEngineer -3 points 11 months ago

It's a self satisfying parade of their absolute moral superiority. It's a public circle jerk.

[–] MapleEngineer -5 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Read it again. You are NOT morally superior. The three people he was writing about are now spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison because they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone they see as inferior. This is the same mistake that every extremist makes.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 11 months ago (76 children)

From a recent ruling in the UK.

“I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.

“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.

“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”

[–] MapleEngineer -1 points 11 months ago

I think you're reading what's happening in this group through rose colored glasses. This community is highly toxic. It's so toxic that it was banned from Reddit. Reddit. That's toxic.

The reaction of the group when I made my first comment was very angry. I poked the hornet's nest. When I started asking questions multiple people told me to mind my own business and walk away. That's highly toxic. Protect the scho bunker at all costs and all.

I've grown borded of this discussion. I got a couple of good answers from people who were hoping that it would make me go away and stop asking questions but they then reverted to personal attacks and amateur psychoanalysis.

I'll leave you to your hate, now. Have a good day.

[–] MapleEngineer 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not worked up. No hurt feelings. You're projecting.

I saw the posts going by in All and saw that they were incredibly toxic. I read the info and saw that it was so toxic in fact that it had been banned by Reddit which is a fetid cesspool of toxicity so it made me curious. I'm just asking questions to try to understand why you can't simply walk away. It's the members of this community that are getting worked up and their feelings hurt because someone is questioning the group think.

[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry...granted...SOME Americans believe that hate speech and guns make them the freest country in the world.

 

Remember how canceling the gas plant was such a big deal? I bet the apologists will be out in force explaining how the fact that we are on the hook for this abjectly corrupt effort to transfer billions of dollars of unearned benefit to Ford's wealthy developer friends/donors is, "ToTaLlY dIfFeReNt."

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A cautionary tale for Canada (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/canada
 

An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge.

When we look at the now extreme Canadian right, with soaring food prices and housing prices and a failing healthcare system and faltering public education that is now focused on pronouns and hurting the most vulnerable Canadian children we cannot help but draw parallels. They don't have a platform other than TrUdEaU bAd, pronouns, drag queens, and we're going to fix everything, no we don't have a plan, no we can't tell you how, just trust us.

These people are focused on tearing apart the polices and services that make Canada among the best countries in the world to live in. Their base seethes with resentment about being made to feel ignorant, racist, and intolerance and that seething resentment is manipulated into fear, anger, and hatred toward those who make them feel bad about themselves.

We need to wake up and vote down this nonsense.

 

French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens.

Thanksgiving poutine!

Yum!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/backyardchickens
 

French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens.

Thanksgiving poutine!

Yum!

 

French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens.

Thanksgiving poutine!

Yum!

 

McLaughlin compared the landfill ads to a plan by former federal Conservative leader Stephen Harper in 2015 to set up a telephone hotline for people to report "barbaric cultural practices." The idea met with widespread public backlash.

Swinging hard right will not win elections in Canada. You might gain a few extremist votes but polls always show that Canadians favour progressive social policy, not christofascists virtue signaling.

 

My virtue signaling christofascist dictatorship cannot function without the blind obedience to the group thought by every member of this caucus.

  • Blaine Higgs

FTFY

 

He said yes.

So today he mixed seventeen 30 Kg bags of concrete mix two at a time in a wheelbarrow with a mortar hoe by himself.

We set this foundation slab for a wheelchair lift I bought used and am working on installing for my father.

I think the teachers at his Catholic high school will be ok with this absence.

 

Woo!

Now to get rid of the christofascists in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Then Doug fucking Ford in Ontario.

 

It's "basically saying to people, 'Look, you can do things that other people would say are immoral or unethical in terms of your voting decisions, and you can get away with it because the voting booth is private,'" Saunders said.

They said the quiet part out loud.

I've been dating this for a while. If you look at the things that the christofascists call people who disagree with them they tell the whole story.

Progressive - they're bad for looking forward and for making you feel bad for looking backwards.

Woke - they're bad for being aware of social issues and making your feel bad for being ignorant about them.

Intellectual elitists - they're bad for being smart and making you feel dumb.

Tolerant - they're bad for accepting that people who make you feel icky exist and making you feel bad for hating and fearing them.

It's all about how they feel about themselves and that they feel that they are constantly being avoided for being ignorant, intolerant, regressive hicks. It's about their seething resentment and manipulating it to convince them to vote against their own self-interest instead of helping them to be better.

So, vote your fear, anger, hatred, and intolerance like no one is watching.

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Four letter post. (self.homestead)
submitted 2 years ago by MapleEngineer to c/homestead
 

I just posted a note about a post that I made and marked with the four letter acronym flag. The second post included the four letter acronym. If you have that four letter acronym blocked you won't see either post. If you want to see what is all about remove the filters temporarily so that you can.

The first post is not suitable for vegans or those of delicate constitution.

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