Zeitgeist

Are you a communist?

The Hague international criminal court may be suitable here. I’m sure Canada is a signatory, y’know being that it’s international…

Well the Herbies of the world have been allowed into the control room and the adults have left. I hope Canadians start asking themselves, after several years of the lunatics running the asylum, whether they think Canada is a better place now. I’ve never seen such a rapid decline. I thought the early 90’s debt crisis and recession were bad. I thought the late 70’s were bad. What he have now is not just economic decline, but the deterioration of our social moral fabric, culture, and democratic rights on an unprecedented scale. Canada is becoming China with a woke-green activist face.

Vice News is mostly on the left in its news coverage, but you’re so lost and ill-informed that you don’t understand why these crimes are happening. How could it have anything to do with perhaps the most lax drug policy in the developed world, right? Your mentality is exactly why BC cities are now unable to reel in violence and self-harm. You also won’t make the connection to the most permissive medically assisted suicide laws in the world, which is I’m sure what some of these lost people will be seeking. The rest of the world doesn’t have these reckless policies for good reasons, but of course the BC and Canadian political leaders know better. There’s no connection between these “progressive” drug policies and the opioid, fentanyl, and methamphetamine epidemic that has taken so many lives. How could there be, right? We went from Just say no policies, which I opposed at the time, to anything goes. You reap what you sow.

Subramanya is a good journalist. Her articles have appeared on Beri Weiss’s Common Sense Substack. 20 years ago she would’ve been considered a really important voice by Canada’s MSM, but now our major newspapers have become mostly government mouthpieces, repeating government rhetoric unquestioningly. Trudeau’s government can basically do whatever it wants in this climate with impunity.

Canada’s decline on full display in Vancouver, where hard drugs are free. I’m sure once the addictions multiply the Mexican drug cartels will be back on top and the killings will grow. The borders will be open of course, brought to you by the same left wing radicals who permitted all hard drugs in Vancouver.

Oh there’s plenty of bills making all sorts of terrible ideas law. The government overreach in Canada is staggering. Wait until they’re done with the internet.

At some point Canada became the most extreme example of all the dystopian experiments we used to mock in parts of Europe: the most permissive euthanasia, the most permissive hard drug tolerance, the most permissive abortion laws, the most permissive gender surgery laws, the making illegal and “against human rights” of anyone who questions these radical and reckless policies. Our compelled speech laws and banning of unpleasant protests are especially Orwellian. Canada is becoming a dystopia.

Actually a lot of Blacks and other “non-Black racialized” people roll their eyes at the woke victim point scheme. Don’t think for a second that racial groups line up along political lines with Blacks always on the left. Far from it. It’s like the myth that all Blacks want to defund the police. That’s a lot of white liberal saviour BS.

One flag meaning what, that Trudeau is acting like Hitler? You’re playing Trudeau’s manipulative game. Seize on the flag and say the protesters “are walking with the Nazis”. Pathetic

Bullshit

Trudeau should resign over this. He was an incompetent leader, unable to bring the right tools to bring the temperature down. Instead of reaching out with empathy and meeting with protest leaders he insulted them, painted thousands of protesters with the extremist brush, hid, and brought in the maximum domestic emergency powers available. The claims against the protesters were exaggerated or outright lies. Charter rights were trounced. The whole mess is on the Liberal government. Freeland was no better. She revelled in the freezing of bank accounts, removal of licenses, and seizure of vehicles.

The blockades were mostly cleared and the honking had mostly stopped when the EA was declared. You need to stop. I’m starting to think you’re a fake here on behalf of the Liberals.

You set no statute of limitations on the injustices of the distant past and pretend that they persist today to an extent that people are still widely held back because of skin colour and ethnicity. Given all the current examples of “building representation” through hiring and the attempts by management programs to see racism lurking everywhere, I just don’t believe the hype. The only codified discrimination today is in racialized job postings or EDI point schemes that determine what someone deserves based on superficial markers or intersectionalities. I understand what the initial intent of these programs was, but we’ve just created more discrimination. We’re creating new forms of victim-state-dependents whom government can save. I know that people’s views about such programs depend very much on their politics and how interventionist they believe government should be. I find it sadly ironic that the non-Indigenous who are most critical of Canada’s creation of residential schools tend to have the kinds of interventionist political views that create paternalistic institutions like residential schools. There’s an inability to connect that impulse across time. I really see it now. It’s the willful blindness of the elites. It’s the one-eyed Horus trying to control everything but missing the importance of freedom and self-determination. The Covid measures demonstrate the same need to control how people live and think. It’s happening with the internet too. Government needs to back off because the authorities can’t help but create new forms of oppression over and over. It’s why I’m for small government and stronger individual rights. Racism is no longer systemic in Canada in the sense of policy. Attitudes persist but creating new forms of discrimination to counter old ones isn’t going to improve people’s attitudes.

They can lie to justify suspending rights then simply apologize later. Oops

You keep comparing the Freedom Convoy to January 6. My other point is that even if you call this an occupation, the use of martial law was unwarranted. It was a form of martial law or War Measures, basically a suspension of rights so law enforcement could do as it saw fit to remove protests that were arbitrarily declared illegal.

In Canada you are free to harm yourself in many different ways, from MAID for minors and the mentally ill to free needles in Vancouver where all drugs are legal for consumption. You’re free to abort up to the day of birth and free to seek a sex change without parental consent. However, you’re not free to protest government rules or to say what you think if the CRTC deems it harmful. You’re not free to have medical discretion over your own medical treatment and you may be locked into a care home barred from visitations for your safety. Your donations to a political cause counter to government policy may be seized and your bank accounts frozen. You can be denigrated and canceled by your government and media for having opinions that run counter to government policy. If you buy giant fake breasts and flaunt them in front of students mandated to attend your class, government and police will protect you. Canada is increasingly twisted, depraved, and totalitarian.

Yup, and when normal people doing harmless things can be treated so harshly by government and media, you know we’re in trouble.

So? Does that warrant martial law? Does it warrant character assassinations and freezing of bank accounts? Occupy Wall Street and the BLM occupation in Portland was tolerated. Buildings were burned down and people assaulted during the BLM protests and most people basically accepted this rage and listened patiently to the cries to defund the police. The learning from government’s response to the Freedom Convoy is that government can impose and maintain drastic measures and put down opposition to those measures without so much as an explanation or compromise.

Doesn’t matter. Trudeau started the overreach and Biden returned the favour.

Canada imposed it on truckers in January and the Americans followed suit.

Canada’s border is federal jurisdiction.

I can’t stomach your ignorance and denial. You’re right, there have never been violent protests or protests with vandalism in Canada (sarcasm).

Dougie is about 90% correct in my opinion. I have a different take on Hegel because I studied him and know how Marx corrupted his ideas. Otherwise Dougie is describing the totalitarian creep that has taken hold in Canada. I think it’s the result of a mixture of naïveté before international ideologues and the rise of Chinese surveillance totalitarian capitalism, the rise of the influence of A.I. data driven management, identity politics, Trudeau’s narcissistic need to appear virtuous (despite his hypocrisy and removal/denigrating of opposition), and the blunt, slow-moving instruments used to solve perceived “crises”. Our weak constitutional protections simply caved under these forces. A different leader could do things quite differently, but the fact that Trudeau could act so arbitrarily and impose the E.A. so unaccountably tells us how weak our “democracy” really is.

Again, that’s why we’re supposed to have Charter protections of rights, but we’ve learned that those are pretty suggestions, easily ignored by governments and swept away by the courts without much reason. The media always complies because rocking boats might prevent the government grants from flowing.