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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
Sorry I've not been keeping up with this election but there are so many freak candidates to keep track of, I'm overwhelmed. I've not even watched the debates, but here's my estimation of what they were like: "I'll be the first Armenian-Butanese Trisexual to become President on a Wednesday!"
"I'll be the first Quaker with Tourette's Syndrome to *BLEEP* *BLEEP*
"Hi, I'm Elsa Schrödinger, a pregnant woman who will make either free childcare or abortion rights my signature issue!"
"Hi, we're a pair of incestuous gay conjoined twins, and my running mate is literally my mate!"
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I'm told that those are called "intersectionality" - so you could have a hook nose, cisgender, ectomorph, anal retentive, ingrown toenail, bi-lesbian, bi-polar, dwarf, person of color, Subaru with a damaged left front bumber driver.
This is all supposedly derived from "deconstructionist critical theory", but at the moment I'm still wading through the turgid writings of Fredric Jameson - so I don't have a clue yet how it works.
In trying to make some sense of this, it occurs to me that we need to work through all these combinations and permutations - which requires some factorial math, and I'm thinking we're going to wind up with some pretty big numbers here. No matter how it comes out, my guess is that at least someone is going to wind up being "oppressed".
We're being told that the answer to all these "inequality" problems is "socialism", but I remain skeptical as to how this reconciles with Gödel's Theorem.
I've been looking forward for the debate moderators to ask these kinds of questions, but I don't hold out much hope as they belong to their own intersectionality of feckless numbskulls.