Moonlight Graham

Woke has nothing to do with climate change. Woke is based on group identity politics. Wikipedia defines it as: "...refer[ing] to a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights." So when you're making e.g. hiring decisions not based on merit but on trying to help "fix" racial or gender inequalities then that policy is described as "woke". The people who don't like the label just don't like those policies/decisions being criticized because the label is usually used in a derogatory sense. If people want to keep making (IMO largely cringe-worthy) decisions based on the "woke" precepts they themselves invented and/or are pushing then I see no reason why their own label shouldn't be used to describe these decisions.

If you're going to kill an animal or a person then do it quickly. I have hunter friends and family members who use rifles and have found arrows from other hunters lodged in deer, including one who found a deer with in arrow in its skull. Killing animals shouldn't be for sport. You kill it to eat it.

Crossbows are unethical weapons.

Your gun laws are garbage. Your health insurance regulations are garbage. The results speak for themselves. Your post-secondary education system is a joke. So much of it is for profit charging kids/families out the nose and they're in debt for decades. Nobody in Canada has to worry much about college debt. The best universities in the country have sub-10k annual tuition. You've never experienced anything else so its normal to you. Your country's laws are highly controlled by wealthy corporation donors who just want to make money.

The government needs to regulate health insurance companies so that morally absent corporations are forced to act in an ethical manner. The US is deficient in regulations etc for gun control, health insurance, and post-secondary education costs.

The CBC should just buy stories from the Canadian Press and leave it at that. Just report the news. The 2 top stories on CBC News at this very moment are 2 articles critical of Israel written by an Arab CBC reporter, one of the article calling what's happening in Gaza "genocide". https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/amnesty-international-report-israel-genocide-1.7401842 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-mawasi-tent-camp-strike-israel-1.7402036 Uhh maybe it would be a good idea to have your reporters on the Israel/Palestine conflict not Jewish or Arab? Ya think???

And yet did you EVER hear Rex be allowed to voice any rightwing opinions on the CBC? I can't recall any. And it certainly wasn't anything like what he wrote for the National Post. So you just proved the journalist's point. On the CBC go find any mention of negative side effects beyond a sore arm (i had some after both primary shots, but none on the boosters) or any quote of a doctor showing anything other than positive things about the vaccine. We live in a world where saying ANYTHING possibly bad or cautionary about any vaccine, even from doctors or scientists, is "rightwing". That's insane. The same is true when pushing back against any climate change claims. This doesn't mean vaccine don't generally work or that man-made climate change isn't real. We need to stop politicizing science. Science is not based on "belief" or "ideology", its based on evidence.

I don't see any here. There's more on the other board actually, i can name 2 or 3. Just a few chuds here, but that's nothing new lol Bluesky will get bots and trolls if it gets any steam. Is X or MLW toxic...or are anonymous people on the internet?

That explains why Carlson is a conservative.

I support LGBT and Pride events. I don't support the government telling every city council or mayor they have to fly flags for X or Y causes. Same with crosswalks. That's up to each the city.

Yeah but progressives are leaving twitter for Bluesky, and many left MLW for the other forum. This is highly divisive and unhelpful. Silos and echo chambers are bad. Musk is an arse, but i do think the platform itself is more politically neutral than before. His tweets would have existed whether or not he owned the platform (unless the old owners banned him LOL).

That theory has clearly been debunked, in fact it was almost immediately by the author's former professor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

Who the heck would fine a town for not flying a Canadian flag on Canada Day? That's insane. If the residents don't like it they'll vote the mayor out.

The story in the OP is unbelievable. Forcing activist flags on a polity is insane. Doug Ford should abolish the human rights commission and those fake courts run by non-judges.

The page is titled "Teaching about Palestine" and "Nov 29 is the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Some useful vocabulary:". They don't even bother to label Hamas a terrorist group (as defined by Canadian law) or mention the word "terrorism/terrorist", and they define "islamophobia" but not "antisemitism". This topic is a hornet's nest for the board admin, I have no idea why they want to be touching it, especially in an elementary school given somebody's especially some parent is going to get offended.

Post-national state. Canada is just a place to hang your hat now. Nobody is signing up to serve in our military anymore. Why defend something you have weak attachment to, or know little about? It's the Liberal way. Canadians see Americans as smug and overly patriotic, which they sometimes can be, and so Canadians kneejerk and want to be the opposite. "Nationalism" and "patriotism" become a dirty word. It's an over-correction and poorly thought out, like many liberal sentiments.

Its wise not to get in the middle of that sh*t show if you want to keep friends LOL. Especially as someone with no skin in the game.

FYi the source didn't call Hamas "a resistance group", they said Hamas' name is abbreviated from their full name "The Islamic Resistance Movement". The sheet of terms seems maybe a little biased towards the pro-Palestinian side though. But its not egregious.

What are the opinions of liberal Jews on this conflict? Are they critical of Netanyahu and have some sympathies to the Palestinians? Are some anti-Zionist?

Mexico saying another country has a drug problem HAHAHA

Yes I remember it.

Sounds like political suicide.

Yes the working classes are getting screwed. And I have no issues with barbed wire and rifles to keep out people trying to enter illegally. If they fired warning shots and then shot adults in the leg if they continued to try to enter illegally then the number of illegal attempts would drop to virtually nothing, and they'd all deserve it. But we don't have the balls to enforce the law. I also have zero issue refusing legal refugee status to anyone who doesn't have the skills/education to keep themselves and their family out of poverty in Canada. Instead we have violent gangs and organized car theft rings in our cities. Relocate them safely to a country more in line with their socioeconomic status. There's large areas of my city that have turned into poverty trash bins. I'm so tired of it. Progressives like yourself are completely incapable of protecting our country because you're too worried about being "nice".

Cite?

I would think this would benefit the rich and hurt the middle class and poor. The rich make far more in money than they can consume, so they invest the rest. Before the GST existed Canada was doing just fine. Get rid of it. Our government wastes money on all sorts of nonsense.