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No it isn’t. It’s a prolific aspect of post-modern western culture. It reduces everyone and everything to its material value as a commodity. You need to read critical theory (no not CRT). Commodification is a cultural phenomenon that theorists like Jameson wrote about. Nihilism, relativism (moral relativism is a subset of this), and Existentialism are all features of late capitalism (to put it in Marxist terms). Look, I studied these ideas for a while, wrote a thesis, bought the t-shirt. The problem with all of these ideas is that they lead humanity to the empty void, the man without qualities, William Blake’s humanity reduced to number, the dead world. There’s no sense of meaning, nothing transcendent. Many of these ideas about the plasticity of gender stem from the false notion that nature doesn’t exist and identify is purely a social construct. The reality principle goes out the window. It’s the story of Frankenstein’s monster, the idea that technology can be used to create anything and can alter reality. Be careful what you wish for. We’ve entered the period of transhumanism where people are becoming technologically enhanced. We need to start asking questions like, at what point is one no longer human? We’re already pretending that biological sex can be ignored and that faked gender can override it. That’s why the Catholic Church, for example, only recognizes biological sex. Look, your activism is old hat to me. I could go on for days about Foucault and Derrida and the idea that language is persuasive sophistry used to assert power. That’s why it’s important to know the methods of one’s adversaries. I know the postmodern void that you inhabit. I simply see it as a degraded existence. I hold to traditional values such as the divinely created uniqueness of each person whose rights are inalienable and naturally given. They’re transcendent and therefore no earthly power can violate individual rights. Not Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Trudeau, Biden, Trump, Putin, no one. That’s why our Charter rights are inviolable. If we lose a sense of the transcendent, we lose our humanity. Be careful about your radicalism. You may find it leaves you cold.

Such reasonable and tolerant old-school Canadian views. You are a true liberal, not like these imposters who've taken to the podium spouting their hate and division. You make me want to say, "Yes Virginia, there are Canadians here."

Ray Epps was connected to the feds during the Fedsurrection. It's blatant. Get over it. Tucker showed video showing Epps lied to the subcommittee. They knew. They had access to the same video. They didn't care. He became their pal.

We need a Prog to English dictionary. Something like... Conspiracy theory: Name describing the condition where it becomes preferable to ignore the obvious. As in... 'Don't believe your lying eyes, it's a conspiracy theory."

“Whiff of CRT” = mentioning any Black people in a positive way Or, any random person place or thing that displeases any random conservative

What a joke. I’m giving you a complement when I call your bogus BS conspiracy gibberish a “theory”. Theories are well thought out hypothesis based on empirical evidence, logic and observations. However none of the MULTITUDE of baseless, half-baked implausible one-liner conspiracy claims that you’re constantly shrieking has enough substance to fill a single square of toilet paper…assuming anyone even wanted to devalue toilet paper by using it for such a disgusting job….

If 10 percent of the black community find themselves in jail, does this mean that police treating all black like criminals is justified? Yes, it's indicative of problems within the black community, but would ignore the majority that aren't committing crimes. By default it would be safe to say as a general rule, that black people are peaceful. The majority are, even. The above is just an example. Point being made, you can't base your conclusion on the minority, if talking to the group. Just like with gender. You can't overhaul gender ideology to cater to 1% of the population and talk on it like its fact. Your words will be inaccurate for most.

I just like Bill Maher have been a liberal my entire life. This doesn't make me superior. Current leadership, no longer met my needs, and conservative ones did. I am loyal to nobody. I look into policy, and whether the leader aligns with my needs. My sibling voted NDP, and I don't understand how either of us are inferior due to it. This trying to sell division between political groups to me. I can disagree with someone without insulting them. This used to be the political decorum that we would get. I don't see someone's political beliefs as making them inferior. Someone thinking this, vs the quality of the person themselves speaks more about them than the political opposition that they bring to the table.

On your last two points we totally disagree. ESG is the distraction. Climate catastrophe, racism, identity politics on gender, and scary Putin are lazy abstractions that distract us from the important work of creating more opportunities economically and educationally for all. Those in power are the best at wielding the language of distraction. It’s the persuasive sophistry that covers up power and privilege. Populism is an expression of the public’s frustration with this manipulation. What’s concerning to me is that the language of the radical left is used by the liberal elite to consolidate their power and authority. Fear is used constantly to assert control and undermine constitutional rights: fear of Covid, fear of climate change, fear of cancellation and de-platforming. The public are expected to accept disempowerment and the rhetoric of social justice (ESG) is used to justify it. The marriage of government and business in stakeholder capitalism is that consolidation of power. It’s fascism with a “liberal” face.

The “liberal” that you seem to reference is in short supply. It’s not typical anymore. It’s not in mainstream media anymore, which has shifted left. The Liberal Party of Canada is no longer liberal. They shifted left to win NDP votes and never looked back. Left isn’t really the accurate word to describe what’s happening actually. It’s more like official media. Basically as it was in the Soviet Union, there isn’t much news in the news anymore. It’s pro-government rhetoric and groupthink, as long as the government is Democrat or Liberal. Fox cashed in on the dearth of any alternative mainstream voice. I used to see Fox as the outlier, but actually if you watch someone like Tucker Carlson, a self-proclaimed conservative, he throws Republicans under the bus almost as much as Democrats because they’re all enabling the same unquestioning narratives. I used to go to lefties like Noam Chomsky for something approaching the truth. Now I have to go to Epoch Times or the National Post because much of what I see in the mainstream media doesn’t sit right with my conscience or ring true anymore. That world of Liberal vs. Conservative and Democrat vs. Republican is increasingly meaningless. Russell Brand caused a fuss on Bill Maher when he went after the MSNBC reporter, because we’re all expected to believe CNN and MSNBC. They’re simply too biased these days. Yes, Fox is too biased too. The middle ground is lost, but it’s happening because radical left ideology is alienating people, telling them they’re racist, causing the planet to overheat and making them swallow pseudoscience about gender and other ideas that are quite irrelevant to the major issues in the world today, such as war, poverty, economic opportunity, free speech, and cancel culture.

That's a no. ? There's not a single news station that I completely agree with. However, only right-wing media regularly just makes up stuff. For like a month Fox was lying about Biden banning hamburgers. Then they moved on to lying about Biden banning gas stoves. I don't like liberal media either, but stations like CNN and MSNBC don't do that. They may get things wrong, but they don't make up lies. Brad Williams is a liberal, dipshit. And look what happened. MSNBC made him resign because, as bad as liberal media is, they have SOME standards. They don't allow people on who make up stories like conservatives do.

It's only in question because Republicans need a distraction from economic policy. That's why they keep talking about trans people, "wokeness," and Hunter Biden. You really need to touch grass. If LGBT people had that much lobbying power, do you think Republicans would be making laws against them all across America, while the Democrats just sit on the fence? Right-wing media wants you to think trans people, the most marginalized group in America, are actually controlling society. The truth is that anti-trans laws and hate crimes against trans people have both been on the rise ever since righty media decided to make them the new enemy. It's seriously amazing how Michael Knowles can call for the eradication of "transgenderism" at CPAC without being made persona non grata. Instead, we're told that it's actually trans people who have everyone "petrified." This is your NPC brain on righty media.

Yes, which is why China isn't socialist. Socialism requires democracy. What you're describing is State Capitalism. Not only do the workers not control the means of production, but the government does.

The Epps conspiracy theory is just another right wing fever dream. He was Trump loving kook just like you and paid the price for it when his fellow extremists turned on him when he turned himself in.

Unsuspecting more ons are often caught up in undercover stings. You might call it entrapment. Fact is that if you decide to break the law, it doesn't matter if you were set up by an undercover agent, you still broke the law. And what's more, this type of entrapment is fully legal. So please.... Whine as loud as you can about this. If Ray told your dumb assed friends to attack the capital, and your dumb assed friends complied...... Well, youve seen the end result... https://mccaul.house.gov/media-center/news/dallas-skyscraper-bomb-plot-suspect-says-he-understands-charges

Yes, which he inherited from Bush. He fixed Bush's economy, but then Trump destroyed Obama's economy. Now Biden is fixing Trump's mess.

First you said that the textbook photos were “heavily photoshopped” and now you show us evidence that the publisher admits they were actual passages from their books. Pretty clever what the publisher is doing: “Hey, we’re just complying with the law, and Florida will tell us what they’ll accept or not.” Of course, if The NY Times hadn’t uncovered and published this, it’s likely the whitewashing of Rosa Parks and segregation would go unnoticed.

I knew there was yet another reason that I have zero interest in ever visiting Florida let alone living there.

Wow, you're still butthurt that Biden beat Trump? Inflation is up all over the world. Do you think Biden did that? He caused every country on earth to get extreme inflation?

Are you illiterate? I told you I don't think Peterson realizes he's spreading a nazi theory. He really is stupid enough to just repeat the things he sees in memes without doing any research. How is it not nazi propaganda? This is a conspiracy theory recycled from literal nazi propaganda. The only difference is that the part about the Jews is implied, whereas the original theory outright says it's the Jews.