Zeitgeist

Private companies, provided they aren’t virtual monopolies, can attempt central planning and the marketplace can respond. When governments overreach and impose pricey regulations and taxes to meet some abstract global goal, that quickly becomes a problem, especially since Goldman alumnus Carney doesn’t have to worry about money like most people. Same goes for Trudeau.

Enough of these central planning freaks who want to “save the planet” by impoverishing the population.

Canada and America need a restoration of epic proportions. The irony of all these precious self-righteous bs artists is that most of them would collapse like a house of cards when times get tough. It will be the real conservatives taking care of the trans people and making them feel accepted, using their preferred pronouns, etc. I would be one of them. But that’s just being kind. It’s like telling someone their gawdy tie looks nice, placing compassion over truth. I think we’ve gotten so afraid of offending people that we’ve stopped telling the truth, and now ridiculous policies and ideas are being pushed by dubious characters. We can be kind without being stupid or false.

Except that PET was a lot more intelligent and created a third way Canadian identity that held up quite well for a couple of generations. I’d say that his alienation of the West, reduction of the military (including keeping nuclear missiles off our soil), and his Multiculturalism program are coming back to haunt us, because Canadian culture is constantly under attack, our military can’t rebuild or recruit fast enough, and our resource sector, which could’ve made us as rich as Norway, is overregulated. Other than containing Quebec separatism and adding some cosmopolitan pinache, PET’s legacy is proving somewhat failed. Junior pretty much sold the family farm. The next Conservative government will need at least two terms to clean up the ashes. We don’t know what other “crises” will beset us in the meantime. Anyway, hope springs eternal.

But c’mon, flags at half staff for a year over an unsubstantiated guess about a possible mass grave of Residential School students based on ground penetrating radar anomalies racialized-only job postings budgets that balance themselves Punishing carbon taxes unchecked mass immigration dysfunctional regulations of the energy sector imcreasing the size of government by 40% Martial law to put down bouncy castles frozen bank accounts ”Many of these people are racists. Do we need to make space for these people.” (Regarding protesters of Covid vaccine mandates)

What’s suicidal about supporting lifestyles that can’t produce offspring naturally, right?

Yeah it illustrates how ignorant our politicians have become, especially on the left.

Also our absurd woke cultural suicide is great fodder for Putin in the information war. In fact, many people would take a strong man traditionalist over an effete radical left lunatic like Trudeau or an ideologically captured zombie script reader like Biden. The war of ideas is very important. Voice of America played an enormous role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Well it shows the value of maintaining important institutions and their associated historic affiliations, because it does ensure the preservation of certain principles. I do think that the people pursuing military higher education are generally appreciative of our culture and freedoms. However, even the military is under woke assault. Men are put under stress in combat roles and expected not to give into human impulses like chatting up a female soldier to whom they’re attracted. Doing so will result in investigation. Affirmative action and the race to have an equal number of women to men in all professions, even ones where they have a clear disadvantage and present a safety risk to the forces and country, is hurting an already fledgling military. The Russians know this and laugh at our stupidity. Prayers to God at military services are next to verboten. Referring to biological gender is frowned upon unless it is publicly declared on a signature line. Woke has come for the military and I’m not sure these kids will have your experience.

Yes I’ve actually heard my kids say that on all applications they’re declaring themselves bisexual in order to even be considered for jobs and admission to programs. The fact that they don’t feel that they are free enough to speak out against this discrimination and that it’s easier just to accept discrimination and lie says everything about the compromised state of our basic rights in Canada. The other problem is the fact that people are being asked these personal questions. I find it offensive and out of line that these questions are asked of people, even when the explanation is given that it is merely to collect data about disproportionalities or that the information won’t be used against applicants. Young people know what’s happening and are adjusting their behaviour to get what they need to survive. That’s called social engineering and totalitarianism. It’s no different to requiring that all people running for office must be members of the communist party. Trudeau did this with summer job programs, requiring that all applicants be pro choice. It’s a total disregard for freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and religious expression. It’s anti-democratic.

These foolish debates about how many imaginary genders exist and whether bestiality and other longstanding deviant sexual preferences constitute love are emblematic of a loss of rational and moral grounding. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the leading voices calling out what’s underway. It’s basically an attack on the conditions of liberal democracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK2qtFJqMPI

The problem that is being underlined over and over but still isn’t being understood is with the imposition of symbols that represent lifestyles and identities that not everyone thinks are just fine. There are important arguments that aren’t even religious as to why changing one’s body to appear to be another gender is not advisable, at least some of the time. There are non-religious reasons for being concerned about raising kids to think that homosexual lifestyles are good choices, such as the inability to procreate naturally. Then yes, there are faith-based reasons. There are women’s rights concerns around the trans debate. To simply throw up a symbol of all of these non-biological identities and various sexual orientations across the society as though everyone must be in support, or to think that this doesn’t entail social engineering, is ridiculous. It’s not about the right to live as a gay person or trans person. Those rights are granted. It’s the imposition of perspectives that is the entire issue being discussed. No one here is advocating for bullying or harm towards people with these identities or orientations. Why is this so hard to understand? Why must someone have a flag attached to their organization, business, church or school that they never agreed to? If I enter a Catholic school, presumably the symbols should reflect Catholic values. Why does a flag representing lifestyles and identities that violate that faith’s beliefs have to be there? It’s a very creepy and totalitarian oppressive move. It’s basically an attack on what people hold to be sacred. Universal love is represented in Christianity by the cross. Most people don’t even know what the stripes on the pride flag represent. It’s so obvious that all of this is about imposing a dubious value system on people, very arguably a bad one.

The issue isn’t whether such parades should be allowed to take place, it’s whether the views of the organizers/supporters of these events should be able to impose their views on the public. Our free speech rights in Canada are proving to be weak in that regard, and other rights are impacted, such as religious freedom. You notice it when the publicly funded school your child attends, a “Catholic” one at that, has a massive pride flag draped in the foyer all year. Many parents don’t want this and they weren’t asked. The people defending these policies don’t seem to understand why this symbol might be problematic, especially for people who know the teachings of their faith. It’s clearly being pushed by some people on everyone. The fact that there doesn’t seem to be any recourse for parents in most of Canada says a lot. In public schools one cannot post religious symbols, but the pride flag gets endorsed.

Canada has been ideologically captured by the radical left, including most Conservatives.

I hope for a major return to Christian social conservatism. Canada has become morally repugnant.

Yup, it’s not what the vast majority of people want. In fact it’s highly arguable that this is grooming and even highly suggestive of pedophilia. Enough. The problem of course is that too many people have been swindled into supporting a cause that, if they actually knew what’s behind it, they would never support. At some point reasonable people became co-opted, and there’s enough of these dupes in most organizations to make it hard to reverse this agenda in Canada. On so many levels Canada is lost.

What does Islam say about LGBTQ2S+?

If it’s on someone’s property, then no. If it’s on public property you can contest it and you’ll likely win and get a pride flag instead.

Can I remove the pride flag on the front lawn of the organization?

It’s about a lot more than guys in drag doing story time. It’s a wide swath of beliefs, training and policies based on identity and sexual orientation. It’s an attack on the values that are foundational to Western democracies. It’s a melange of radical ideas about race and gender tied to Marxist ideas about class conflict and how to fix it. Basically groups of people have been selected for special treatment, and any means that the directors of this project deem necessary to achieve equal outcomes are justified. There’s also a total lack of respect for differences of opinion and beliefs.

I’ll take that criticism. I think I’m probably ideologically aligned with that new Argentinian leader. In fairness, the world is quite different today than it was several years ago. I think like many Canadians I was naive.

I think when we started hearing trans activists in pride parades say things like, “We’re coming for your children”, combined with rhetoric in DEI training like “gender-normative” and “the patriarchy” (happening in virtually all government departments and big businesses), people started to feel a real threat to their values, especially when it comes to child-rearing, free expression, religious rights, women’s rights, and even scientific facts. Basically people are realizing that they are being pushed in directions that they don’t want to move, and for valid reasons.

Yeah he’s okay. What’s that old book: I’m okay. You’re okay.

I guess I no longer support those standards. I think Canada has lost its way. We had it pretty good until the mid-2010’s.

He’s too much of an equivocator and apologist for weak governance.