Congratulations, you just discovered the paradox of tolerance.
And, yeah, essentially, in order to survive, a democratic society cannot allow those who seek to destroy it to participate in the democratic process.
leftzero
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best
*Least worst so far, maybe, if we're being generous (which tends to be frowned upon or downright illegal under capitalism, so better let's not).
Looking up “displeased white cat wearing cowboy hat” on duckduckgo (and, by extension, I assume also bing) produces pages and pages of slop and no useable results, but google images still produced some real pictures.
It seems that the concept is somewhat common amongst stock image shops (though specifically white cats are rarer); for instance:
I've also found several sites (which might be scams) supposedly selling cat hats using these images, despite the cat clearly not looking very pleased with the product in question:
Well, it's supposed to transmogrify into (human) flesh and blood once it gets in your mouth.
Alcohol might be a no-no, but cannibalism is apparently a-ok. 🤷♂️
Short people will not go to heaven.
Well, obviously. They can't reach.
*DIGNES
Translation for anyone who doesn't know Catalan and can't be bothered to look it up:
DECENT PENSIONS
(Digne/a/es comes from the same root as dignity; in this case it means decent, acceptable, that doesn't violate one's dignity.)
Translation for anyone who doesn't know Catalan and can't be bothered to look it up:
PRIVATI~~S~~ED
Translation for anyone who doesn't know Catalan and can't be bothered to look it up:
ENOUGH PRECARITY (literal)
STOP WORK / SOCIAL PRECARITY (paraphrased)
EDIT:
Also, VOTA ⇢ VOTE (rather obviously, but for the sake of completion) and ONG ⇢ NGO (Non Government Organisation; Red Cross, for instance).
The rest, unless I missed anything, I translated under a couple replies to this post.
Turns out the smallest kitty is the least scaredy-cat of them all, while the biggest (Samson) is by far the most scared one.
Obviously, the smaller the cat, the harder to hit, and easier to hide.
It was the black death.
It caused wages to rise due to the reduction in available labour force, and increased social mobility (through the amount of positions it left available) and personal wealth of the survivors (through inheritance and looting), kick-starting the renaissance.
From there, it was all dominoes. More wealth allowed more commerce and innovation (here's where the naval technology comes in), which led to the discovery and ransacking (and eventual colonisation of America) which led to more wealth and commerce and innovation and social mobility, which led to less social stability, wars, more innovation, a series of political, social, and industrial revolutions, a vicious circle of runaway capitalism devouring everything in its path, the ideal of eternal growth, and the raping to death of the only world we have.
No black death, we'd probably still be living in the middle ages (with better plows and bigger cathedrals, sure, there was still plenty of innovation back then), and complaining about the cold instead of the ever rising heat.
This, but unironically.