Surgeons have been wearing masks to avoid throwing stuff INSIDE the open bodies of their patients, not to stop the spread of any particular disease.

Exactly. Flat earthers aren't being deplatformed, but people who disagree with the official views on Covid are. So of course they are going to think that they are hurting the interests of powerful people and double down.

It's sad to see what Slashdot has turned into, the discussions are so editorialized that it doesn't really matter how insightful you are or how good your arguments prove to be, only whether you are in the same line of thinking as the mods.

Not the Russia bullsh*t again, please.

UK? Don't make me laugh! with hundreds of thousands living off benefits, people being jailed for criticizing Islam, citizens being told "they should simply get used to terrorism", crazy "positive-discrimination" laws, etc. Very right-wing, yes.

But I will concede that perhaps Denmark is a bit of an exception to the norm. Although it's a small country with very little weight in the EU.

How do you know what I am? Can you answer my question and tell me which country in Europe is ruled by the right?

I agree with most of what you say, with just a few comments:
- Franco was a real socialist from an economic point of view: Spanish workers never had so many rights and protection as during his rule, and all the governments that came after his death have slowly destroyed all those rights.
- Hitler and Mussolini were also kind of socialists in that aspect, with a slightly different approach
- Many old people whom I have talked to who lived in Spain during Franco's regime say that there was actually more freedom than today (excepting politics, of course). "Democracy" is actually breaking down on all kinds of freedoms, and Spain also has similar laws to the one that allowed the crackdown in Germany.

What I mean to say is that things are neither black nor white. It is possible to be a socialist from an economical perspective but utterly right-wing from a social view, and viceversa.

Which (western) European country is currently ruled by a right-wing party? Don't tell me that the Spanish, British or German governments are "right wing" (even if the radical left likes to call them "fascists") when they are spending like crazy on social benefits, welcoming and blowing rapefugees, imposing a dictatorship of political correctness, pushing agendas of gender ideology, etc.

Completely agree. It's the same "male privilege" arguments that feminists use to justify passing more and more misandric laws. Nowadays being a straight white male puts you in the lowest rung (unless you're rich of course) as you can't use the "racism", "sexism" or "homophobia" cards in your defense.

It's really interesting to see Zuckerberg (jew) giving green light to this kind of speech.

I think the Swiss are doing pretty well and would disagree with what you say.

A guy in a Spanish forum wanted to troll the vote and proposed the name "Blas de Lezo", who was an Admiral of the Spanish army that managed several victories against the British navy despite counting with considerably less resources.

The proposal got viral and for a short period of time it was the most voted option, but then the option was removed and further attempts to reenter the name into the competition were banned.

http://m.forocoches.com/foro/s... (Link to the thread in the Spanish forum)

So much panic has been created by the media coverage of big pedophilia scandals... which would be understandeable if this coverage wasn't so one-sided (showing only male agressors, as if there weren't also women with these tendences).

In general, education as a whole has become tremendously feminized, and any "masculine" behaviour which boys have engaged in for centuries (such as fighting, playing physical contact sports, etc) is now frowned upon and instead they tend to encourage boys to have fun in a "girl" way which is utterly unnatural.

The consequences of this, and the patent male discrimination that these boys will have to face as they grow up (their life being ripped to pieces if they ever marry and face a divorce), are here to see: a constantly decreasing birth rate, increasing presence of MGTOW and similar movements, and globally a (not so) slow decadence of the western civilization in favour of other cultures that still have other values.

...after the taxi mafias started demonstrating, shutting down roads and even physically attacking Uber Drivers.

Why do I say they are a mafia? Well, for a start, not a single new licence has been issued by the authorities in the last 30 years (more or less). If you want a license, you have to buy one from a current Driver at an astronomical price. In Madrid some people have paid more than 300.000€ for a taxi license, often going heavily into debt. These drivers then have to work extremely long hours without taking any Holidays to pay off their debt, while a few families have dozens of licenses in their hands, not having to work at all as they prefer to have 3 guys driving around 8 hours a day each for a minimum wage pocketing enormous profits. When they die, licenses are automatically inherited by their children, thus perpetuating the monopoly.

Of course, this is all starting to backfire on them as it adds to decades of overpricing, regular passenger-scamming and rude behaviour (which they could allow themselves thanks to the lack of competition). People have given a great welcome to Uber and after the mafia has shown ist true face les and less people are using taxis.

...that has to be recharged every day (or couple of days; I have actually no clue about how long the battery will last but for sure no longer that 3-4 days)?

I feel like this single detail is already a giant step backwards. It's already quite a big bother to have to recharge the battery of my smartphone every day, I don't need this additional inconvenience. And all for what? For having a watch that can do a fraction of the things my smartphone can do but with a smaller screen and a higher price?

And of course, a high-end watch like a Rolex is for a lifetime and when your children inherit it it will still have a high value if it was well maintained. The iWatch will be just as obsolete as the first iPod is today and have practically no value.

Honestly, I don't see this a big threat for the Swiss watch industry. Just like they survived after Casio started mass-producing digital watches, this will be no more than a niche for Apple-fanboys.