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Moonlight Graham

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  1. That's right. And this was how it was for the last several decades until recent years. We had made a lot of progress with just about every marginalized group. Good and reasonable people were honestly trying to understand and do what they could. People like MLK were venerated heroes by both black and white people, we had a common understanding and relative social peace (shout-out to @Michael Hardner), or at least it was improving over the years and decades. But now you're either a victim or an oppressor, every white person is called a racist etc, and it leads to divisive and toxic interactions like this: Many of the woke people and their ideas are simply out of line and take things too far. I've spent a lifetime doing what I can to help marginalized people and we were all doing it together. But if the people I'm trying to help are going to start turning the aim of their barrel at me, attacking me and my race/ethnicity, trying to erase my culture, and denying me jobs or school admissions etc because of my race then my choice is to either be submissive to everything they say and want, or I'm going to defend myself when I think something is unfair. And if I'm labelled a racist or someone threatens my job and i'm insulted and yelled at or whatever just for defending myself and my rights then we're done here because nobody should put up with that nonsense. Understanding and conversation ends and people are just going to retreat into their corners and growl because now it's a zero-sum game. Woke people helped create people like Trump and DeSantis and it was totally predictable.
  2. Not surprising that feelings of guilt, self-hatred, and resentment of others is correlated with more depression and anxiety.
  3. What do you mean by this? Don't really understand. "Chud money flag planter"?
  4. I'm willing to become Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader if Trudeau steps down and run in that election if they want to call me.
  5. Well that was an interesting read worthy of discussion. The American Academy and "Trump's 10 principals for schools" iis pretty ambitious that people will argue over.
  6. The next election is almost 2 years away. There's lots of time. Chretien resigned in Nov 2003 and there was an election in June 2004. Of course Trudeau could stay on if he really wanted but if he looks like the party will lose government why would he? The party would bounce him in the leadership review after the election loss.
  7. He should think even more about quitting. If his poll numbers don't get better over the rest of the year his party is going to force him to quit.
  8. Pretty much every packaged food is a steaming pile of garbage ready to clog your arteries in favour of shelf-life so they'll be suing for the next century it sounds like.
  9. 1. Yeah it's been dead since the 1960's, for better or worse. Moral schisms existed before, like protestant vs catholic, slavery and other issues. A big generation of young people plus a lot more mass media seemed to change things. Everyone believed in God in previous times. Now more of us get morals from our logic/emotions rather than our religion. THose days are gone. 2. ok 3. Well i think the values we teach our kids and morals about how we deal with problems in our society is pretty important. Are you saying you'd have no issue if Trumpism and chudism spreading more throughout our culture, our schools, government and then corporate North America, live and let live? Ignoring or doing nothing is a political stance on your part and which you're advocating to accept what is being sold to us, and that's your choice. And yes I do think it's a deceptive stance because it would ensure many of the political stances you happen to agree with prevail while feigning "peace and civility", and I don't believe that's just a coincidence based on my Trumpism/Chud hypothetical above. Don't underestimate the power of the radical minority: Yes foreign agents can absolutely be a part of things, but when morals turn into policy then you have to accept it or not no matter where it's coming from. Maybe some of the 60's revolution was a psy op fed by the Soviets. Frankfurt school and French socilaist academics and yada yada. 4. Why would I want Trumpsters and anti-vax chuds to prevail? 5. I think that's true. Most seem pretty moderate and reasonable. And then there's Black Dog and Shady who are addicted to twitter and knee-deep in the culture war and taken stark sides and want each other to die haha. 6. Sure I agree we need someone like you're saying. 7. Why not? Mahr has already had a show cancelled due to cancel culture, but it was conservatives back then doing it. He's got balls to risk it again. They tried to cancel Chappelle too but his career was too popular. Had he been a mediocre comedian maybe they'd have been successful, or maybe on another network. Netflix has been pretty good with the censorship stuff. Jimmy Kimmel isn't going to get cancelled in Hollywood for criticizing Trump or taking a pro-trans rights stance.
  10. Hey Loblaws has put in a lot of self-checkouts to save themselves money, and theft has gone up, and so their solution is to harass you by putting in scanners requiring you to check your receipt LOL: https://globalnews.ca/news/10356789/loblaw-grocery-receipt-scanners/
  11. Don't worry Michael, if people don't hate on you it means you're probably doing it wrong. Even Jesus and Abe Lincoln and Gandhi and MLK had haters. In fact, they were all murdered by their haters now that I think about it. Trump and Jordan Peterson are also loved and hated by many. So I guess who is right morally is all in the eye of the beholder. A world where we all agree means nobody is thinking, just complying.
  12. 1. "Extreme" sounds more extreme. 2. People don't agree here because they have different morality. A common morality isn't going to happen anyways, it hasn't existed in centuries if ever, and now the crazy people are too crazy and they've seemingly grown in numbers over the last 10 years. Getting the Trumpsters and wokesters to agree is impossible. Getting the wokesters and moderates I.e. Bill Maher to agree is probably not even going to happen. So we're left with the realm of politics: a struggle for power. A battleground for morality. The culture war. It's on tv, in our schools, workplaces, almost everywhere. If people want to change society, whether banning Muslim immigrants and making Trump a dictator OR making society a bastion of woke hyper-sensitivity then the only way to defeat them is to 1. Convince them why they're wrong, or 2. If that fails, stop them any other legal and ethical way possible. My aim is to do both. But I'm not looking for cultural peace if they're only looking for culture war. If I need to meet them in the field to defeat them I will. But I'm scared of being canceled for it like most are, nobody wants to lose their job or lose friends etc, so I and others have to tread lightly. Anonymous msg boards and social media are tools here. But what we need are people brave enough to risk being canceled and stand up to the woke cancel culture mob. Bill Maher and Jordan Peterson and Dr Phil are examples, even if we don't always agree, but at least they're trying. It doesn't take much risk to virtue signal wokeness and go along with the woke moral bullies compared to standing up to them. Standing up to Trumpsters is easy, they do it every night on late night TV to great applause. That's why the woke have an advantage: feigning moral high ground, calling people racist etc, and getting people canceled for it.
  13. Wokeism isn't just marginal though. The US and Canada are run by woke governments. The VP of the US was a diversity hire. DEI has crept into most large organizations throughout North America. The point of highlighting the marginal stories is to speak out against it so that it doesn't become a norm. Not every school has removed certain books from their curriculum for silly woke censorship reasons, but give it 5-10 years and most of them might if people don't speak up. And "trans rights are valid" doesn't get into any context, it isn't black and white as you framed it. There are many issues and rights to be discussed because there can be reasonable and unreasonable trans rights. Washrooms at Walmart are everyone's business because every woman uses them and every man's wife and daughter and sister and mother does too. It's a public issue. Again you're asking people to be quiet about something that affects them because you want that policy to be implemented. That's not going to happen. You need to accept that not everyone agrees with you. I'm not even that interested in a unity figure because someone is going to disagree with them anyways. The left now hates Bill Maher because being moderate and reasonable isn't being woke and radical like they are. What I'm interested in is bad radical ideas being defeated and not having power.
  14. Well a lot of young men like Jordan Peterson. But the young left are the ones that seem to resent the boomers, because boomers don't think like they do because boomers aren't insane. The younger generations are brats. That's the way its been since post WW2 though. Dr Phil has made a career putting young brats in their place on his show. But the brats not on his show aren't going to listen. The only person young crazy people will listen to is another young crazy person.
  15. @Michael HardnerMaher is anti Trump and anti woke. We need a lot more of that. That's how we can unify, around reasonable ideas.
  16. I like most of what Dr Phil has to say politically. Musicians and actors.... meh. At least we have Bill Maher.
  17. Well the economy has had some capitalist reforms clearly but for the purposes of what's being discussed in this thread they remain communist in terms of the total government control they maintain. There have been virtually no democratic reforms in that country.
  18. PP is trying to appeal to the regular voters. It's a smart play. Of course, I don't believe him, because I'm not naive if this is for real then it will take years of similar behavior to build trust because tigers don't typically change their stripes. But I'm confident it's all a sham.
  19. What did Peterson say about China that you disagree with? No he's not right 100% of the time obviously. His tweets now are very odd and filled with wrath, so maybe he drinks to cope with half the western world hating him and trying to destroy him and his career. I imagine that's stressful. And when he drinks, he tweets. Who knows.
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