theacharnian

Hey Americans, just establish a national identity document already. Belgium, Spain, Germany, Greece and other European countries that are definitely not tyrannies have them. It will fix so many of your problems.

You mean that some of those that burn crosses are the same that work forces? 🤯

Did he take the literal nazis' dicks he's been sucking out of his mouth before he said that?

Who stopped them, motherfucker?

I don't see it. How is China a geopolitical threat to Canada? I get it's a threat to the Chinese people, being a dictatorship, and to their neighbors, being jingoistic, but how are they a threat to us?

I'm going to wager a wild guess: Jews and Israelis who oppose apartheid and genocide (IJV etc) and are facing harassment for it are not going to be considered as victims of harassment and discrimination. Only "good" Jews who are pro Israel will count, none of the "bad" ones. And nobody is going to even think of the word "antisemitism" when it comes to them being called JINOs.

Ever heard of Universalism? There is a whole church of them. They hang out with the Unitarians.

I like the bikelane analogy, actually.

It shows clearly that (a) yes you do need activism (like Critical Mass) and a few crazy ones that will bike regardless of the adverse conditions, (b) political will to shift towards bikelanes, (c ) wider adoption but also sustained activism to build better bikelanes (not painted gutters on the side of stroads, but protected lanes, connected with transit).

We definitely do not lack (a), but (c ) FOLLOWS (b). If you want to go from "just the crazies" to "everyone and their 5 year old", systemic change needs to be backed by very concrete top-down action.

Without very meaningful (b), telling people to change their eating habits while stuff is otherwise the same is like telling people to take their kids to school on bikes next to crazy SUV traffic: it's not happening.

They will be beautiful tariffs, everyone says so.

Which is why I think it's better to start with some kind of populist attack on the excesses of the super rich. How many beef burgers was Katy Perry's publicity stunt in low orbit?

I don't like these kinds of articles because they always have an undertone of making it a matter of personal consumer choice as opposed to systemic change.

My understanding is we already have sensibly restrictive gun laws but a problem with illegal guns coming in from the States.