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“Candy company Mars announced Monday it is putting its M&M’s “spokescandies”— the brand’s anthropomorphic sugary mascots—on an “indefinite pause,” after a new rollout featuring the characters became the subject of attacks from conservative pundits like Tucker Carlson, nearly one year after the brand received backlash for its “woke M&M’S.” “Fox News personality Carlson dedicated a segment to the candies, saying “the woke M&M’s are back,” the green M&M “is now a lesbian maybe” and “there is also a plus-sized, obese purple M&M.” “ “Conservative personality Nick Adams tweeted “every American with half a brain should be outraged by M&M’s going woke,” as “manhood is under attack like no other time in world history.” “ https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2023/01/23/mms-candy-mascots-put-on-indefinite-pause-amid-tucker-carlsons-attacks-on-their-alleged-sexuality-and-weight Sheesh, talk about triggered! Tucker even loses it over M&M cartoon candies. If a cartoon candy is an attack on your manhood, you literally need to grow a pair… cause you obviously don’t have any!

"Hamm’s crime is that she believes biological sex is real, that men are men and women are women. And for that she is being persecuted. Hamm believes that you should respect transgendered people but that women should be allowed safe spaces in areas like washrooms, changing rooms, and prisons. And for that she is being persecuted. Hamm believes that she should be able to speak about these things because she is under the impression we live in a free, tolerant society where differing views are respected. And for that she is being persecuted." Michael Higgins: B.C. nurse Amy Hamm is being persecuted for believing in biology (msn.com) Her mistake is in thinking we live in a free, tolerant society where different views are respected. Evidently some people don't understand we have been taken over by the radical woke liberals who have carefully crushed our basic freedoms of speech and thought. They have infiltrated political parties, all levels of government, media, academia, and society. We are now living in Orwell's soon to be new world.

I consider myself a "conspiracy expert" at this point. ?

I disagree, it has nothing to do with how she does her job, nor does it have anything to do with the practice of medicine. The college should butt out, they aren't a morality police.

Leviticus also says my uniform that I wore for 25 years was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. I worked on the Sabbath, for which, Leviticus said I should be put to death. I enjoy eating bacon. Leviticus says I will go to hell. I have never met an evangelical Christian who supported Leviticus except for his neurotic assessment of homosexuality.

Well.. Neptune was discovered in the late 1700’s, and Pluto in the 20th century, but the other planets have been known for a very long time. And… Pluto got a raw deal. But the existence of Pluto hasn’t changed.

Sigh. This is going to be as fruitless and pointless as ever, but this person (the Chairman of these two companies) is listening to climate scientists specifically because he has multibillion dollar businesses to protect, nurture and grow. And make no mistake, climate scientists are nearly unanimous in their recognition of anthropogenic warming and climate change, and have been for decades. There is not a single scientific body on the planet that denies anthropogenic warming. The last group to abandon their dissent were the Petroleum Geologists, who stopped dissenting in 2007. That's it. Now just a few lonely voices in the scientific community offer dissent, and typically for questionable motivation. It is because of the overwhelming evidence and scientific consensus that companies like Siemens and Maersk and literally every other major enterprise are investing millions if not billions in adopting sustainable business practices. Now, you are welcome to desperately search out some heterodox meteorologist or something who denies climate change, and you can say that this person is right instead of the overwhelming scientific consensus being right, but since you lack the ability to conduct any independent research it's clearly not a belief based in logic. It would be like going to 10 doctors who all tell you your cholesterol is dangerously high and you need to change your diet, and instead of listening to them, you look, and look, and look for just one doctor to tell you he thinks you'll be okay. You can choose to ignore scientific and medical advice because you simply love potato chips and petroleum, but there's nothing smart or honest about it. And for an individual actor with individual consequences (death by potato chip), fine with me, kettle-cook your arterieries into concrete tubes. But when it comes to a shared planet and shared consequences other people get to vote.

You don’t need a weatherman to feel which way the wind blows.

Seriously, for a moment: George Santos is a total lying shitbag and very likely a criminal. He should not be in Congress and the GOP should kick his ass to the curb. In the 1990’s, a GOP Speaker named Craig Livingstone resigned from his role as Speaker of the House AND from Congress after it was revealed he’d cheated on his wife. Look how far they’ve fallen! Santos is obviously a disgrace to himself, and the longer the GOP keeps him in Congress, the bigger they all disgrace themselves.

Bill Mahr explains George Santos. (And modern politics)

Yup you’re fence-sitting. This is exactly why these regulatory bodies are able to get away with overreach and why our speech is getting more and more restricted. It basically means you’re not to question practices that you think are unethical. It’s poor to think that’s okay.

I like Nick's statement:" anyone with half a brain should be outraged by this".... As it turns out, Nick DOES have half a brain.

The frustrating part is the complete and utter refusal to even consider it as a real possibility. It's like when they FINALLY and grudgingly admitted that natural immunity was real and was superior to jab immunity. Most people cannot comprehend the next logical steps or thinking. They're still stuck in the brainwashing of "Unvax people BAD, EVIL." That means that it's highly likely that the vast majority of the small number of unvaxxed people are already likely immune and therefore SAFER to be around than vaccinated people, who are catching reinfections repeatedly. The Alberta lab ICHOR tested thousands of unvaxxed people and found a large percentage had immunity and that some of that immunity came from past SARS/corona infections. And some people have very good immune systems, so if they do catch it, it will be like every other cold or flu. Instead, we have the braindead still insisting that perfectly healthy but unvaxxed people be separated from society, jailed and fined and demanding health purity passports, even though it's already well-known that vaxxed people catch and spread it. Mass hypnosis is real, man.

"You see, Amy Hamm had waded into the controversial conflict of worldviews between trans rights activists on one side and women’s rights, and even gay and lesbian groups, on the other. And, apparently, women’s rights are transphobic. It is a raging debate in the public square, as one would expect when a conflict of rights occurs and when a small group insists that everyone else conform to its worldview." Amy Hamm BCCNM disciplinary hearing: Opening Submissions by Lisa Bildy, JD (cawsbar.ca) One Twitter user commented on her feed: "A new standard of practice is emerging for Canadian professionals: be woke, be quiet, or be accused of professional misconduct." The well-known political commentator, Jordan Peterson, is also apparently being threatened by the psychology association for his presentations. I don't know where these associations get the notion they have the right to control what people say on their own time. Canadians are losing their basic freedom of beliefs and expression.

She put up a sign and is now being investigated apparently, which seems ridiculous. Apparently you have to be pro-trans everything to be a nurse? Doesn't make any sense, it has literally nothing to do with her job.

No one is talking about the WEF being Illuminati. The issue continues to be a small group of unelected, unaccountable rich and powerful people influencing government policies and subverting democracies in nation states. The current level of union between big business and government hasn’t been seen since 20th century fascism because this is fascism. Read about ESG and stakeholder capitalism. I and others keep explaining it and you keep jumping to “conspiracy theorist!”

This has nothing to do with professional behaviour. Unless they can show that she brings it to work and it affects the way she does her job, they should stay out of it. I'm getting more and more worried about professional organizations that are setting themselves up as arbiters of social issues. It is a really disturbing trend. It is not their mandate to tell people what to think about things that have nothing to do with providing health care, let alone penalize them for it. Her opinions on who should be allowed to use women's washrooms is no more their concern than it is to this man.

So first you say carbon emissions don’t matter, then you blame China?

I didn't say that article was peer reviewed. I said the peer reviewed work is more telling, and that article provides a snapshot of the peer reviewed work. Though I think you and your german blogger misunderstand the point of the article. The article isn't an exhaustive survey or catalog of hard climate science papers. It's a random sample review that provides insight into how scientists treat the notion of anthropogenic climate change in their actual published, peer reviewed work. Get it. Like if you randomly pick up 3K papers with keyword hits for climate change, does it feel like there is a debate about warming or mankind's role in warming? The answer is no. There is virtually zero debate among scientists on those fundamental facts. Get it? 19 of those papers were attempting to quantify the impact, but the majority of papers were not. But regardless of whether a papers was attempting to quantify mankind's effect, many of them include that fact as a starting premise or part of their understanding of reality. Whereas there is almost no sentiment to the contrary. That's the point of such a review: to see the scientific sentiment as reflected in actual peer-reviewed work.

I'm not even poor and the carbon tax was neutral for my family at the last time I checked.

We never did have any say. Disruptive technologies and competition for your industry are coming regardless of whether or not you want it or try to resist it.

Our political heads of government in Canada have never been popular. The leaders of the NDP consistently lead the approval polls going back to Tommy Douglas, yet not very many people vote for them. Our Prime Ministers constantly lead in the disapproval polls Nobody liked Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney or Stephen Harper, yet, all were good Prime Ministers. You hardly hear a good word about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, yet he put together multi-party bi-partisan teams that saved NAFTA and responded with better outcomes than most countries, in the first part of the Covid-19 emergency. The first thing a Prime Minister learns about voters when assuming office is everyone wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die to get there. Remember that, the moment you sign the instruments of office. It is all down hill from there, so savour that moment. When we look at PR, it is worth looking at the choices President Hindenburg had to make in 1933. In order to produce a stable coalition, the President gave in to the backroom dealing that comes with proportional representation and made Hitler Chancellor. That is an extreme example in hindsight, but there is a growing trend towards extremist parties in countries with PR. The Netanyahu government in Israel and La Pen in France are current examples. The moderates in these coalitions always believe they can control the nut jobs. That is what von Paren and von Schleicher thought about Hitler.

Who gets to decide what a 'protected belief' is, and what is not? Who gets to decide what is 'worthy of respect in a democratic society' and what is not? In my opinion, truth is above all else.

They picked a system that worked, and then made it something that required ample of effort and force of will to change. If it's too easy to change, you make it too easy to play games. The system isn't nearly as broke as you pretend. The alternative you propose it not nearly as good as you portray. Finally, the desire for the change itself isn't as strong as you believe.

Appreciate the effort but you got it wrong again. Can't say sorry can offer my sympathy though.

Sorry but a guy is not a woman just because he grows his hair longer. You want to be transgender? Cut your dick and balls off. Go through the operation. Looking like an obese lumberjack badly in need of a haircut doesn't make you a woman. Pretending you're a woman as an excuse/explanation for your failed life should not require anyone else to 'respect' your view of yourself. This guy has no business in a change room with young girls. And the idea anyone saying so would be accused of some kind of bigotry or unprofessionalism is gobsmackingly crazy. https://www.cheknews.ca/transgender-woman-told-she-is-not-allowed-to-use-women-only-gym-in-parksville-1134924/

You are unbelievably dumb. It beggars belief. Like, this can't be a real person. It's performance art, right? The planets of our solar system have been "discovered" and identified since ancient times.

You are wildly and willfully ignorant. Your Gish gallop of grade-school trivia means absolutely nothing. You're not even making arguments. Just randomly stating (often questionable) factoids, as if they should be compelling. It's something a child would do. It's like you're shouting at a doctor that overhydration can't exist because 60% of the human body is water! The total absence of logic and reason is still shocking, even though you've been posting here for some time now.

We have a shortage of nurses due to covid overwork so at the very least delay all this inquisition stuff by 5 years.

No you f-ing jackass, you said that Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune were all discovered in the 19th century. I don’t know how else to break this to you: You Are An ldiot. You are poorly educated. You lack basic understanding of the world around you and you suffer from some sort of demented view that you’re the smartest person in the world, even though you routinely make easily disprovable and often blatantly contradictory statements. It’s pathetic. I feel sorry for you and your dog.

You're (one of) the expert wrt TROLLING. AKA, pretending your unsubstantiated OPINIONS mean something.

A man who "identifies" as a woman does not have menstrual periods. A man does not have that kind of internal structure. The big deal is when people LOSE THEIR JOBS because they call some freak the wrong pronoun. If you see some really awful looking Trans freak and you call him/her/it a different gender from what he/she/it is thinking, your welfare checks will still come in every month. Those of us who work for a living are under that gun.

I wonder how these knucklehead liberals would act if LeBron James were to put on a bra and declare he is a woman, and then play for the WNBA (where he would score maybe 300 points a night and totally humiliate every one around him)? It doesn't seem to bother these bozos when boys put on bras and compete in women's swimming events.

Scared of the purple M&M because her nuts are bigger.

Yeah I don’t respect people who bury their heads in the sand pretending that none of this is taking place. Our liberty and living standards are under assault.

Carbon taxes are just more taxes to add to the Liberal slush fund. Endless stupid projects that scew markets, create winners and losers, increase inflation, and make us all poorer.

What’s especially insane is that this trans crusade is being launched against the woke themselves. J.K. Rowling wrote a book that turned into a play about respecting gay love between the sons of former enemies, yet she’s a backward anti-progressive? We need to stop listening to shrill complaints from the overly represented radical left identity politics crowd. Oh wait, our PM is one of them. How can free speech survive in this ethos?

These regulatory bodies are so politicized and fearful of the radical left woke inquisition that they’ll deny science and pretend that biological facts like sexual gender can be ignored. Instead, what someone feels like today — woman, man, non binary, or furry — are treated as facts. Let’s hope doctors keep biological sex in mind when they medicate patients, because some drugs impact men and women quite differently, whatever one might want to think.

I guess we would need to know what those statements were and where she said them.

Yep. In the US all legally sold guns can flow unrestricted into the unregulated secondary market. We have to formally transfer ownership of a transportation machine, but you can give or sell a killing machine to anyone, no questions asked and no future accountability. Hell, it's actually better if you *don't* ask questions. Genius system. Thanks NRA Republicans!

Not any more. The last 3 years should have opened your eyes to that. They only have to control the narrative, via the media, enough to fool most of the people. If someone had told you in 2018, that everyone would have to show a QR code testifying that they had obeyed a public health order to inject an experimental pharmaceutical into themselves and have that information available to countless strangers just to eat in a restaurant, would you have believed them? Would the government have been able to sell that to any us of? Did you know that before vax passports were introduced to the public they were trialed on university campuses like UCI's "Zotpass"? Students, and later the pubic, were conditioned to accept interdicts and strictures that would have sounded insane a year before. Even after nearly 100% of students and staff were vaxxed at Columbia U, new measures were introduced that prohibited students from having guests over, visiting the other residence halls, or being in a group of more than 10 people. Administrators had determined through seized contact tracing data that there were some "cases" that appeared to come from "students socializing at other residence halls, and off-campus bars, apartments and residences." Imagine the horror - college students hanging out in bars, dorms and restaurants. Journalist Michael Tracey said " the new powers conferred by this infrastructure, the ability to micromanage the private lives of young adults, track and judge the propriety of their movements, is probably creepily intoxicating on a level these administrators may not be overtly conscious of, and in any event would never admit." To wind back this biomedical security regime would take enormous psychological effort. Here's how Tracey described it: Benign "cases" ie: a positive PCR test would not have even been detected if it weren't for the compulsory and constant asymptomatic testing students were subjected to, which was a burdensome and invasive regime of frequent testing, completing daily symptom checklists, vaccine and booster verification at every doorway and monitoring of all movements. It's a self-perpetuating system, feeding on itself constantly. Students and staff at universities all over were encouraged by administrators (who have no medical knowledge) to snitch on each other for minor infractions such as not wearing your mask completely over your nose. U of Chicago students had to sign a Soviet-style affidavit pledging that they would snitch on fellow students for even minor violations. At Georgetown (98% vaxxed) and at USC Law School, students were not allowed to take their masks down during lectures, even for a sip of water. Instructors were allowed, as it was deemed necessary for them to "hydrate". Few people realize that indiscriminate asymptomatic testing violates sound principles of medical practice and creates more problems than it solves. Even before covid, did you know much about the complaints that Amazon employees have about the conditions they work under? Were you aware that Amazon developed an app that employees must use to monitor productivity and efficiency, monitoring bathroom breaks and lunch times? And other companies expressed desires to do the same. Amazon monitors its warehouse staff, leading to unionization efforts - The Washington Post There are clear signs of just how invasive, just how micro, how specified and how determined the biomedical security regime's demands will become. Imagine what will happen with climate change now that the powers that be know how much we will give up to feel "safe", which we did for a virus that has an IFR not much higher than the seasonal flu and a +99% survival rate for everyone who is not very elderly AND has multiple comorbidities. But it did have EXCELLENT marketing. Now, I know you have said obedience to authority is extremely important to you and that you believe governments and other authorities would never do anything bad to the citizenry. You do understand how childishly naive that sounds to many of the rest of us, don't you?

That's the wrong answer. The origin of covid was never an "ALMOST CERTAINLY THIS" scenario, especially not when appended by "and ban all mention of the BSL4 lab!" It was a "One of these two things scenario: 1) The virus that already had GOF research done on it to make it capable of spreading quickly between humans got out of the lab, or 2) The virus that had existed in nature for quite some just coincidentally made it's own pathway to H2H awesomeness in the wetmarket right beside the lab, and not in any of the other 2,000 wetmarkets, right after we amped up our own virus in the lab It's not speculation at all that Fauci needed to disclose the other, more likely scenario. It's not speculation at all that fascist control of the BSL4 narrative was highly suspect. The fact that you can't say that you're the least bit suspicious is telling. You actually have Stockholm Syndrome, I'm not even kidding. There's not a 1% chance that you don't at this point.

The only way a teacher could prevent any student from feeling guilt about certain aspects of American history would be to avoid those topics altogether.

OMG - let's pass a law making it illegal for people to listen to this. Then we will all be safe from these opinions !

I nominate your post the stupidest of January, 2023.

Thanks for admitting that you're just one more of the trolling cons here.

Well I don't know about that but he was Epstein's lawyer. Do you feel okay about that?

If there are no solid legal grounds for law enforcement to charge someone they can always get business to cooperate and force that someone into self-censorship. It gets around those pesky charter rights. Government and law enforcement are allowed to use coercion to enforce the law. Laws that are usually well known and that the majority of us agree with. But if the target is not breaking any laws doesn't the use of (indirect) coercion by government and law enforcement (even with the help of businesses) become illegal? We don't have all the facts for this individual case, but plainly it is happening in the US. In the US not only are they imprisoning and de-platforming people for their political views but people are also losing their jobs.

Yes or No: Was the 2020 election stolen? What is the proof?

But you've completely FAILED to substantiate ANY part of ^this OPINION. ANYONE CAN WRITE ANY WORDS THEY WANT HERE. Means NOTHING without EVIDENCE.