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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Redfining Human Rights & The World
Date: 11/21/25 5:18 PM
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We've seen redefining terrorism, so that it includes groups hard to think of as terrorists - only in a marco000 kind of way. Now we are redefining human rights. It is a human right to be a bigot and enforce your bigotry on an international industrial scale. My bigotry is the best! And my bigotry is defined by billionaires, which is selectively enforced and determined by bribery.

We should just send an envoy from Nobel saying that we will give him a Nobel Peace Prize if he forces Russia out of Ukraine. That would be worth it.

SNIP Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights.

The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses.

The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.

The changes, which the State Department says are intended to stop "destructive ideologies", have been condemned by rights campaigners who argue the Trump administration is re-defining long-established human rights principles to pursue ideological goals...

...The official added that rights were "given to us by God, our creator, not by governments".

Other policies by foreign governments which US embassies will be told to categorise as human rights infringements include:

Subsidising abortions, "as well as the total estimated number of annual abortions"
Gender-transition surgery for children, defined by the state department as "operations involving chemical or surgical mutilation...
to modify their sex"
Facilitating mass or illegal migration "across a country's territory into other countries"
Arrests or "official investigations or warnings for speech" - a reference to the Trump administration's opposition to internet
safety laws adopted by some European countries to deter online hate speech

State Department deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said the new instructions are intended to stop "new destructive ideologies [that] have given safe harbour to human rights violations".

BBC: US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights

Let the executions begin! The purge is on!
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