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  1. dialamah
    Just sayin'
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    Man uses Biblical quotes to defend sexually abusing his daughters, including filming another man assaulting his oldest daughter.

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    Why are so many right-wingers on this forum so incoherent?

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    2. BubberMiley

      BubberMiley

      They often have a hard time understanding simple concepts too. I had to explain multiple times how I wasn't criticizing Harper for wearing Indigenous regalia before one of them finally figured out what I was saying.

    3. dialamah

      dialamah

      I noticed that.  

    4. Shady

      Shady

      Don’t feed the trolls.

  4. dialamah
    As Petteri Taalas is a credible right wing source, here are some other things he's said in the past week. We have seen fairly dramatic change in climate change so far, we have been breaking records in temperatures, breaking records in greenhouse gas concentrations, in carbon emissions. We must focus on adaptation. We know that climate change will proceed for the next 50 years, anyhow, with increasing disasters and problems due to climate change, and we must focus on adaptation.
  5. dialamah
    Seems like you'd be yelling, talking over me and banging on a table if we were sitting around having a beer ... ... in order to shut down a person whose opinion you don't like. Really? Arrest people who protest too loudly? How is that not "shutting down free speech"? Or, as its known in Canada "Freedom of Expression", even loud and annoying expression.
  6. dialamah
    In Canada, we don't have free speech. In Canada, we have freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is limited by the government to exclude hate speech, which includes threatening people physically or threatening people with death. Freedom of expression means that people can bang drums while someone else is speaking; the government protects the drum heater's rights to express themselves just as the government protects the speaker's right to express themselves. Or would you have people who made lots of noise during someone's speech arrested, fined or jailed? Is that what you think would constitute freedom of expression?
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    Sikh women have always been free to wear a turban, I see more of them all the time. They are quite different than a man's turban. So, every religious person uses his/her position to prioritize their religion at the expense of our society? Even if that were true, getting rid of the symbols doesn't eliminate the problem at all, so it seems like a pointless exercise to me.
  8. dialamah
    Freedom of expression is from the government, it's not from other people. If somebody has an idea that is dumb or obnoxious, he is free to express himself without hindrance from the government. There is no requirement that citizens must allow him to Express himself without hindrance, as long as they don't physically attack him or threaten to attack him. As Jacee said, that is also people exercising their right to free expression. Yeah, I get that it sucks if someone you want to hear is drowned out. You can consider these people rude and obnoxious, but only the government can remove someone's right to free speech. I've also been told more than once on this forum that government imposing "hate speech" laws would only drive those people underground, that letting these ideas enter the "marketplace of ideas" to be rejected or accepted by society is a better strategy. So if someone's ideas are being rejected through mockery, laughter, booing, talking over and drumming, then it seems to me the system of free expression is working exactly as I'm told it should.
  9. dialamah
    Sorry, you are right ... old news, used to be lower, in 2017, but not anymore.
  10. dialamah
    Lower taxes than the US.
  11. dialamah
    I read the whole thing, and did not clink on additional links. For me, the takeaway is that India is at least making the effort, along with States, cities and organizations in the US, while Canada is not - with the full support of people who seem to think that no effort is better than some effort.
  12. dialamah
    Easy solution: avoid fact checking with sources you don't trust. What sources do you trust?
  13. dialamah
    Ok, are you calling my mother racist? I wouldn't disagree, she was certainly a product of her time, as we all are.
  14. dialamah
    Do you have any kind of credible* proof that this is the plan, or have you just pulled this opinion out of someone else's alt-right a$$? *credible proof = A: actual statements by the government on their website, on Facebook, on Twitter, in an interview, in publically released policy documents; B: documents or policies leaked to responsible, trustworthy journalists or media outlets - like someone did with the initial brownface photo.
  15. dialamah
    When I was a kid, my mom put me in blackface for a 4-H costume competition; I was a jockey for Archie Bunker stables. Her intent wasn't to mock Black people, but to poke fun at an archetype represented by Archie Bunker. Putting on a costume is not invariably an attempt or desire to mock or insult someone, sometimes it's just a costume. I think by age 29, in the early 2000s, Trudeau ought to have known better and he showed poor judgement, but I do not believe it was malicious. The earlier examples, both from high school I believe, are entirely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. And, while I do believe Trudeau has lied about stuff, I don't think he lied about this. People's memories are not perfect. I think Trudeau only actually remembered one other occasion and disclosed it. Not remembering the other (or others, if they exist) is not the same as lying. Also, given your absolute and unshakable support for Trump, despite his many lies, your criticism of JT here seems remarkably hypocritical.
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    Turns out, India is on track to meeting their Paris Accord commitments, one of only a few countries to do so. One less excuse for "do-nothing" crowd to use justifying inaction. Even as Trump undermines action to mitigate climate change, a coalition of American States, cities and businesses have formed a coalition to meet the Paris Accord; that coalition represents 65% of US citizens and 70% of GDP and will reduce US emissions between 17% and 24% by 2030. An admirable example of people who don't sit on their backsides, whinging about "the other guy". Link.
  17. dialamah
    Your first post clearly stated that "free speech trumps facts". And then you swiped at the left. I accept your backtracking, and glad that you've decided that truth and facts are worth pursuing, regardless of one's political ideology.
  18. dialamah
    And how, exactly, does fact-checking claims or news stories impinge on "freedom of speech and protection", pray tell?
  19. dialamah
    Really? Your founding fathers preferred fake news, deliberate lies and ignorance over knowledge, honesty and facts? They thought it was awesome that Americans should believe just any old thing that came down the pike, and that they should not make any effort to know what they were talking about? They thrilled to the idea of newspapers that told outright lies? I find that hard to believe. Do you have proof? Ok, that explains why you think you have the moral high ground. Who the F cares about Trudeau? I don't; I'm merely interested in doing my part to reduce the general cretinism on social media sites like this one.
  20. dialamah
    What kind of slime champions lies and ignorance over honesty and knowledge? Where is the right now? Championing lies and ignorance. You have no moral high ground here. Maybe try being a better person instead of pointing fingers. Oh but wait - Trumpsters don't think they should have to be better people, so long as they can tell lies and point fingers.
  21. dialamah
    Wages for meatpacking jobs in Canada average $16 to $17 per hour. I'm all for raising wages, but dread the conservative whine about how people aren't entitled to such high wages because people in other countries don't make that much. Of course, raising the wage would result in fewer people buying as much meat, good for the climate and no meat tax required. But if they raised wages, corporate profit would drop, shareholder earnings would drop, so no increases. Capitalism it's finest! Packers have another record year. Have to choose to support either immigration or capitalism, I guess. Can't do both.
  22. dialamah
    Yes. Here's a more recent article from 2017, which references research, found here, confirming that the majority of Muslims in France place higher value on their French nationality than their religious belief or practice - 72% vs. 28%. I've only quoted a small portion, but there's a lot of interesting stuff in it - don't be scared by it's title "A French Islam is Possible"; the idea is to create a form of Islam which is compatible with French secularism and which would help reduce or eliminate those drawn to an extremist version of Islam.
  23. dialamah
    This news story seems appropriate to this thread. It's about Brooks, AB and the meat packing industry as a whole, who are having difficulty obtaining workers for the meat-packing plant. For them, immigration will solve that problem. The article notes that the meat packing industry had an employment shortfall of 12%, more than any other industry in Canada. However, the Federal Government is implementing a program, starting in 2020, that will see 2,750 positions filled for each of three years. The Calgary Herald explains more about this program:
  24. dialamah
    Yup, but everyone knows it was actually to target Muslims; prior to controversies over burkas & hijabs, there was no issue. Anyway, and interestingly, France's Muslims are likely to identify as French first, and Muslim second; I do wonder if the imposition of secularism by French government is causative or correlative. "Moreover, when asked whether they consider themselves as a national citizen first or as a Muslim first, French Muslims split relatively evenly (42% vs. 46%) on the issue. Not only is this remarkably different from Muslims elsewhere in Europe (fully 81% of British Muslims self-identify with their religion rather than their nationality, for example) but it is remarkably close to the responses given by Americans when asked whether they identify first as national citizens or as Christians (48% vs. 42%). Perhaps in this, as in other things, Muslims living in France are indeed absorbing the secular ways of their countrymen, among whom fully 83% self-identify with their nationality, rather than their religion."
  25. dialamah
    Not as long as they keep taking lowing-paying jobs to pull wages down, while staying on the public dole and filling up our medical centers.
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