QuebecOverCanada

1. Arab countries, you mean where the Babylonians were, where the religion of Judaism, Christianity and Islam came from? 2. Afghanistan was secular and pretty liberal in some areas, like Iran was at some point. This was 1970s Kabul at the University level, although not depicting the condition of women's livelyhood as a whole in Afghanistan, it is pretty telling. 3. Turkey is becoming more and more Islamized after becoming secular with Ataturk. 4. The Iranian nation is not only one voice you hear in our press. It is also the voices of many Islamists living in Iran, sadly enough. 5. What did they learn, really?

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I overlooked that sentence and have to answer to that specifically. Islam is far from a dying religion, very, very far from it. That's why many people in the West are partly scared of it, because it is actually growing, and growing fast.

I never said the Iranians were Arabs anywhere in my post or saying they're all the same. I made an analogy with the Arab Spring, where Democratic forces were supposedly fighting to instill freedom in Muslim countries of the Middle East, which led to ... nothing or that sort. As it does here in Iran, and so did protests back in 2009. And talking about Arab countries like you do, it seems like you overlooked my acknowledgement of a country that was vastly advanced in terms of economics but also in terms of societal norms; Tunisia. The same can be said about their education and their freedoms they had before as you stated Iran had. Another country resembling more to Iran demographically wise, Afghanistan, is another country which had great individual freedoms, but decades of misgoverning led to the population being totally in the grips of the Islamic Clergy. Not all Muslim countries are the same, and each has its own culture and flavour. But one thing is clear; Islam, being prevalent, leads to dysfunctional systems. I do not believe in Iran getting democratic or overthrowing their government for the best. If Tunisia and Afghanistan weren't enough, look at Turkey, a not-Arab country, another country which had many freedoms. It is totally falling from grace, because the Muslim government decides to apply what Muslims believe in. And what Muslims believe in, is clearly not equality, freedom or peace. For those reasons, I find your takes very optimistic, borderline child like. You have pure thoughts, very innocent, and want the better, I think. But this is not La La Land. We're talking about a tyrannic regime and a population that supported that regime for many decades. And also a country that may declare war for the worse.

I remember the Arab Spring in 2011. Which country made advances in terms of Human Rights since the Arab Spring in 2011? In Tunisia, the country made a reference by those who apply the wishful thinking you've interiorized, is now more Islamic than before the revolution. In Egypt, it led to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, replaced afterward by a proxy regime. Out there as well, the country islamicized itself even more. In Syria, it led to the rise of the Islamic State. I do not partake in your optimism which is based on our side of the propaganda. There are protests by Secularists, but they are a vocal minority in a country like Iran. There are counterprotests actually FOR the Islamic regime, which are supported by many in the military/police and of course... the regime. Not only that, but Iran can also trigger a war against an opponent in the region to adopt martial law. Nothing will come out of these protests. Iran is a country that is way too backward, way too intolerant of others, way too poor to become something else than it is right now; another variation of every Muslim dictatorship across the Globe.

*Yawn* So what about now? How is the revolution going? It seems like the current thing is becoming a past thing, day after day becoming less relevant.

Settling for mediocrity is what makes us a great country, with an efficient government, isn't it?

Hi, I went to the Guy-Favreau complex in Montréal to get a passport 2 weeks ago on a Monday, having declared mine lost a few years ago (thankfully I recovered it but since it was declared lost, I had to get a new one). I waited in a line for 2 hours with my spouse, because we need to go to Belgium as her mother passed away recently and funerals are there. Finally, at the counter where the government representative was, I was told alongside my partner that we needed to have a form in order, filled, before talking to her to get an appointment to get a passport. No one told us that when we went in the line, despite there being 5 staff members asking us why the hell we where there, none bothered to tell us we needed to fill a form before inquiring to the officers. The officer gives me the forms, and we're back at the end of the line after we take 5 minutes to fill them. We spend another 2 hours, finally for them to tell us we'll get an appointment for in 4 days. That's what I call efficient, baby. I had an appointment for 2PM, went there at 1:45PM, and waited until 3:30PM to finally get my passport. I had to wait in line despite having an appointment scheduled at a certain time. It's great out here, our procedures are so modern and very up to date in the great country of ours. Oh and it's not better at the provincial level. When I had lost my Health Insurance Card in a moving, I had to go on Québec website for health insurance to order a paper form to be sent at my Home, that I could send back to the Government of Québec. I did a mistake in the form so they sent me back my form, and I had to resend it. It took 6 weeks to get my Health Insurance Card back. I could have been sick during those times, but hey, I guess I'm lucky. Talking about the form... it could have been available on the online portal of the Québec website, but no, I had to order a paper form on their online web service.

Hey, but at least we're SaViNG tHE EnvIRONMENT anD UkRaINe!!!! Please support the current thing, shut up and give your money to the just causes of our the current year.

One week later. The regime still is shivering from these brave acts by my coworkers who cut an inch of their hair. What a defiant act.

1. Yes. 2. We all know it's not going to happen, sadly enough. We opened the Pandora Box with this censorship to 'protect the public'. 3. To be fair, there are many attention seekers on the Internet and yes, sometimes, it could be the vaccines or it could be a bunch of other things. I don't think the vaccine was totally safe, as a 25 year old male myself last year, I was given the vaccine twice and each time felt really bad, and also had chills that caused me to tremble a lot in my bed. If it did that to me, what about other people?

Remember the vaccines are safe and effective, and there is no censorship. I'll watch that later when I'll have the time, thanks for sharing.

Very typical of Youtube What was the name of the video before the corporate greedy suckers for Pharma took it down?

Hey, at work today, I've seen some women cutting half an inch of their hair and sharing it to our group chat in our Teams chats. It was so moving, and it sure will help liberate Iranian women from blood thirsty islamists. It sure showed them, right?

How's the booze, bud?

Ask your mom.

So, how are the protests going so far now? Bigger or smaller than 2009?

Remember the position the School Board took! Hey, you're against someone displaying tits in front of students? Well, you're a bigot if it's a trans according to the School Board, innit?

The folly of ignoring people's energy needs is creating a mess in Europe and will make it barely livable in some areas. Europeans, who pushed for renewable energy and abandon nuclear can't rely on their renewables to get heating for this winter, and to be fair, the climate change or global warming push comes as being exaggerated most of the times, many predictions went flat out wrong such as ice caps in Arctic melting completely for the year 2013. In fact, that year, the icecap grew by a third after a cool 2013 summer according to the BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33594654 It is also highly political, like COVID. Some politicians, like AOC, really manipulate the anxious masses with sentences such as the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. "The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?" https://reason.com/2019/01/22/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-calls-climate-c/ All in all, I think the problem is mostly the fear of global climate change, and not global climate change, that is the biggest problem. Like COVID was a bigger problem than it was because people feared COVID a lot, and before that they feared terrorism, and before that they feared communism, etc.

I think Poilievre does not want to get involved with that. He's more of a fiscal conservative than a social conservative, which in my book is fine btw, but also there is the fact that this teacher obviously doesn't represent the transgender movement as a whole. But like you said in your previous post on page 1, the fact the admin doesn't do anything is preposterous to say the least.

Why do I agree with you both, actually?

You don't think showing nipples is sexual?

Has it ever not been that way?

Which one if we may lock this thread and resume it where it should?

1. The values are learned through experience, not being throated down by ideology. You don't need to impose values as well. 2. It was deemed racist to require wannabe teachers to have a standardized math test, because minorities had lower scores than people who are White. Once again, the context is similar; to the guise of promoting your values, you are downgrading the school system by diverting it from its main role, teaching academic subjects.