Moonbox

I think your viewpoint is a pot-meet-kettle sort of situation. Not everything the socially conservative say is wrong or unfair, and your dismissing the reasonable cases as over-the-top just showcases how unreasonable the other side often is. We don't care to, don't need to and shouldn't be expected to understand the decision making processes of our public sector bureaucracies. We can make our voices heard when we are unhappy with the results, and it's up to them to listen (or not listen) and deal with the consequences. This is a similar, though not nearly as absurd, situation as the Kayla Lemieux debacle. Your suggestion that we need written guidelines and rules to avoid every ridiculous case that might come up is (IMO) overly fussy and out of touch. Not stocking porno cartoons (gay or otherwise) in a school library is a pretty low bar for common sense, and when even these end up being contentious issues we are both fueling the counter-culture movement and lending it credibility.

I think you have an overly optimistic view of how AI is going to affect politics.

This sounds like equivocating. You can't have a written policy for everything, but you can only have clarity if it's written down? I would argue that keeping pornography (cartoon or otherwise) out of school libraries isn't very subjective at all. To be clear, I don't actually care that it's there or if my kids saw it. I do, however, understand why other parents (probably most?) wouldn't, and I don't really see how/why this needs to be part of the education system.

This is how I see it too - just an ideological provocation and a complete departure from common sense. Let’s be real for a moment too, and consider how many teenagers are going check this book out with serious intentions rather than just to giggle at the penises.

You can't have a written policy for everything, even in a highly polarized environment. A basic standard of common sense is required and "there's no written policy" is a poor excuse for not exercising judgement. The culture wars have two sides, after all.

Between the two of you, I’d say Perspektiv is probably dumber, but please don’t take that to mean that anyone thinks you’re intelligent.

Dumb.

It’s not a civil war you goof. Yes, if Putin didn’t invade. ?

Cool. You disagree. You disagree on a lot of things, but rarely provide any reasoning behind it. So...are all Russian leaders cold-blooded killers then? ?

Yes pretty much. It's the worst and poorest shithole on our hemisphere. and they have this guy to thank for it! Who'd have thought that a batshit nutter who threatened his enemies with voodoo curses would steer the country wrong. If it wasn't before my time, I'd have probably said "saw that coming".

Just regular dudes, or guards/police? I see guards all over the place in Mexico with big guns carried in the open.

If you were actually asking questions, you'd realize the Zelensky-is-a-Nazi-dictator story makes absolutely no sense. So limited are your reasoning skills, and so desperate is your need to cope with the unhappy reality that's left you behind, you'll just sit here parroting direct-from-the-Kremlin propaganda like the angry twit you are.

I think that's what's dumb about this. Whether or not this is as big a deal as folks make it out to be, it was perfectly predictable that some folks would make a big deal about it. Sexually explicit comics really, really don't need to be part of the school library, do they? That's a fairly reasonable expectation, I think, but you'll undoubtedly have people screaming HOMOPHOBIA for suggesting it.

Do you? I see a lot of carrying on, and little else.

Everywhere I go when I travel, folks are always telling me how much they love our money and how they collect it and frame it at their homes. ?

Other people from other countries don't care a whit about our money, and most of them haven't seen it.

Housing is affordable. Traffic is fine. Toronto is on the moon.

"I daRE to aSk QueStIons" is the coping mechanism of every conspiracy clown - a comforting self-delusion that convinces you EVERYONE ELSE is the problem, not you, no no. YOU'RE the critical thinker here, coming up with clueless gems like: The former comedian elected in 2019 vs the ex-KGB colonel who's ruled Russia for 24 years? Which one is more trustworthy!?! The only dumb questions are the ones we already know the answer to, but they're also the only ones you're "daring to ask". ? Whether you like those countries or not is irrelevant. You're repeating the same viewpoints as they are - the same dumb arguments, the same pro-Russia rhetoric. That you don't see the contradiction is unsurprising, however.

Dumb dumb dumb. Not much else to say here.

$113B from the US so far...after a year in a half...so trillions more means this goes on for another 15-20 years. Good math brainlet.

Durable, perhaps, but when they’re not toppled from the outside, they rot from within.

Nobody here is an expert, just most normal people aren't mind-melted conspiracy clowns trawling their twitter feeds for anything that helps them rationalize why they're unhappy at home and why a Russian dictatorship is a more trustworthy source of information. You realize that your viewpoint is aligned with China, Iran, Cuba and North Korea, right? Forget CBC, CTV, Global, CNN, just remember that the Islamic Iranian Republican Guard is parroting the same stupidity that you are. ???

Because he pulls his news off of his twitter feed.

This is what happens when you decide what you want to believe first, and only trust the things that say that. Western media did plenty of reporting in the initial months of the invasion where Russia was taking large swathes of territory. That stopped happening by the summer of 2022, and Russia has done nothing but lose net territory ever since. Even discontented Russian generals are confirming western sources. ?

The Russians control a pile of rubble now, and it cost them over 20,000 deaths, and they're looking like they're about to lose it anyways. ?