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Not in this post, true, but in pretty much all her other ones.

The reason for the ban is still stupid though.

Oh, they have a plan for that too. Making them all wear shock collars and holding their families hostage.

More damning? I would think trying to overthrow the government and trying to install himself as a dictator would be just as bad.

True, but remember they don’t think that way, because it messes up their fantasy.

Have you heard the nonsense the owner of Reddit spouts constantly? About how he was so good at hoarding that he’ll have a private army and slaves and people will come crawling on their knees to serve him for a little food and he’ll be a king? These losers all think like that, and facts like tools break and bullets run out and you have to cast more and get the supplies to do so just ruins their dreams of being an unstoppable tyrant.

Right, hence him saying ‘I know I haven’t any right to do this’. He was infringing on their rights, with them not present to object.

But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.

That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.

Kids didn’t have rights, any more than a dog or horse or chair did. They were seen as property. Both by the law and by custom.

Kids back then were seen as property of their parents (in case you were wondering where that idea comes from when it pops up now and again today), and thus technically their discipline was also the province of their parents.

I’d say yes… except he does it to smart and digital watches too.

My snake likes to wrap around and ‘strangle’ watches. Not bracelets, just watches.

He didn’t say ‘ancient alien theorists’, he said ‘racists’.