A society like the one being described can not exist as a society long term. Either Canada needs to move back to a system of equality under the law or they will cease to be a unified country. It’s that simple.
A society like the one being described can not exist as a society long term. Either Canada needs to move back to a system of equality under the law or they will cease to be a unified country. It’s that simple.
From what I know of Canada, Gordon, it has never been a totally unified country.
The progressivism outlined in this essay is somewhat new, and will probably be accompanied by a backlash, pretty much following what's going on in the US. I don't see much difference between the two countries there - hell there is a movement for reparations to the descendants of slaves here (progressivism run amok..), and petty crime in many cities is going unanswered - so there is not much equality under the law right now right here in America either, obviously.
But politically, the country is not as nationalistic as America, and never has been. Quebec with its French speaking majority has had leanings of separatism since the 1960's, ebbing and flowing over the years - and now Alberta has a nascent separatist movement all it's own.
If Canada pulls itself apart, it won't be because black defendants are getting lighter sentences. In my opinion..
The time for Direct Democracy is now. We no longer need governments that don’t actually represent us. A safe, limited form of liquid direct democracy is possible.
And what we really need is the tyranny of the masses to stop all of this corruption.
I have. Even wondering if we are transitioning to that. The never ending campaign cycle and never ending polling in conju.ction therewith is beyond tedious. My FB is flooded with candidates begging for handouts. Many in races I cannot even vote in. It is unseemly. On the other hand would I trust the technology at this point? No I would not.
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Gang culture is prison culture. Like the woke D.E.I. commissariat managing the class war for the globalist DNC/CCP/WEF, it divides people by race, identity, sex, power, the willingness to use violence for access and control of resources and the open manipulation/compromise of bureaucratic institutions and authority to reach those ends. It is the same psychology. Kindness, vulnerability and ignorance of the true nature of the game is weakness to be exploited, the individual is prey and snitches die. For instance, the ready availability of drugs in prison's speaks to the profitable interface between the inmates and the look the other way guards receiving payoff's to do so. In prison, as in America, Canada and Mexico money moves upward to power. And Mexico?
Assange and Snowden are merely object lesson snitches. How is the Solzhenitsyn gulag criminal running the prison yard with specific instructions to make Stalin's political enemies suffer any different than the car jacking/home invading/store looting/Fentanyl dispensing thug wandering the unsafe American streets and subway's today? For the globalist juggernaut the "citizen" is a threat and a sucker to be exploited and removed. Criminal thugdom serves the purpose. The installation of surveillance state fascism by totalitarian finance is well underway. You're already under house arrest. Covid was the practice run.
Hyperbolic and extreme. Maybe. But the dynamic is there. Thinking you can reason with the criminals on the next tier up is a definite mistake. The 15 minute city, the suicide net, the eyeball's behind the screen in front of you, the social credit score, digital currency and the biggest lie the world say no. This article is yet another report on symptomatology. The Davos crowd has already proclaimed Trudeau in Canada (and select elected American political leadership coast to coast) designated hitter's. You've still got a Constitution and a Bill of Right's. For how long?
We're building a new fact/truth based American national dialogue. The Republican Party is a least malleable. The DNC, without blinking an eye, in service to globalist fascist finance has held us in thrall to a lie for decades and undermined our every political institution. Doing nothing is a decision.
On average, blacks have significantly lower IQ scores than all other races and this is a measure that holds across time and space. So maybe, on average, blacks don’t have as much agency and independent decision-making capability as you think. The reason their IQ scores are significantly lower on average is due to their lack of inter-breeding with other human species (eg Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc) tens of thousands of years ago and so didn’t the mutations that whites and Asians did. It’s well documented but rather unpopular for obvious reasons.
I don't know about any of that, but as a white person I have a feeling that if I went head-to-head with Thomas Sowell intellectually, he'd chew me up and spit me out.
"Insulting and demeaning" indeed, Cynthia -- as well as patronizing, patriarchal, infantilizing, and downright . . . racist. In the "reimagined" world that progressives have created for themselves (and inflicted on the rest of us), good is bad and right is wrong, and the most basic elements of civilization are turned on their head, upside down and inside out.
Exactly. What we're being told today is that black people are in fact a weaker, less intelligent, less socially responsible class that need special handling. It's really pathetic.
In fact, promoting reverse racism is simply making racism acceptable again. Black people in Canada are and will be a minority vulnerable to racism. If the “progressives” make it now acceptable that white people be treated effectively like roadkill by black people, sooner or later this will generate a backlash, and there will be far less of a restraint against this new type of racism, based not of ideas of “white superiority” but on resentment for being treated as lesser humans. This backlash is already brewing in the US, not only among whites - just ask Asians and Latinos. The “progressives” are effectively undoing all the progress in racial matters gained in the last five decades.
Democrats have not changed their minds about race; they have merely changed their tactics. Instead of pushing aside non-whites as "human weeds" and "inferior citizens" (as per Margaret Sanger), they figured out that--once Republicans made Civil Rights for all the law of the land--it would be more politically effective to publicly embrace the role of "white saviors," while ensuring--via counterproductive policies--that their victims would remain an underclass who could be counted on to vote for Democrats.
Brilliant. "Inborn disabilities." What other group of people would ever countenance such an abomination? Yet here are their "advocates" prescibing it into law. Perhaps next we'll see a resurgence in eugenics, as statistics bear out the inferiority of certain races. Is that what the woke desire?
Perhaps a way can be found. If you're willing to pay reparations, maybe in exchange they will teach you some tricks....but then wouldn't you be accused of cultural appropriation?
That is absolutely the next logical step. Inherently inferior, inherently incapable. Inherently in need of “great white heroes.”
It’s even more revolting than traditional racism - this is being done with every bit as much self-interest, but it’s also insidious as hell. The evil woke cast themselves as inherently superior.
Yes! People like Candace Owens and Larry Elders are disgusted that black people have been categorized like this. They’ve also pointed out what this article has proven about black and white discrepancies but so many want nothing to do with hearing: that the problem starts in the home and fathers need to be present. But instead, if you’ve had a rough childhood you’re excused and don’t have to pay the same consequence. Our country has gone mad.
Ernest Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying explores this. The guy's lawyer argued that his client couldn't be expected to know any better and I think he may have explicitly compared him to a dog (I don't remember, I read it many years ago). The guy ended up on death row and the story is about his accepting responsibility and going to his death a human being (not a dog).
That is mitigating evidence and has been used forever either to persuade a prosecutor not to bring a case or to argue that despite guilt there are reasons why a harsh penalty is not just. Really good defense lawyers are very skilled at presenting mitigating evidence.
A brilliant statement , Ms. Millen, boiling down progressive lunacy to its essential and inherent self contradiction.
Yet the entire foundation of the Biden presidency rests on the self-destructive progressive ideal of pushing a grievance culture and inciting race hatred.
It's machine politics writ large. It's all about creating client classes that will serve as reliable bloc votes, while at the same time, harassing opponents until they move elsewhere. On the local level, Tammany Hall created it, and people like Tom Curley and Richard Daley perfected it. Once you have the client classes dependent on government preferences and largesse, all you have to do at election time is say "The Conservatives/Republicans/whoever will cut off your checks!", and you've got the election in the bag.
I remember looking at a newspaper list of precinct-by-precinct votes in Alabama after the 2000 election. In a precinct in urban Birmingham, out of 2200-something votes cast, the bulk were cast for Gore, with a handful of votes for third party candidates. Not a single vote was cast for Bush. I searched in vain for any precinct where nobody voted for Gore. I found one rural precinct with two votes for Gore, but only about 70 votes total were cast in that precinct.
I am tired of people calling these brutal asshole fascists (Merrium Webster : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control) liberals or progressives. They are anything but liberal or progressive.
Giving preference of one race over another is racism and that is what they are doing.
They want to control, by fiat. what we say and what we think. If liberal or progressive means tyrants, then yes that is what they are.
Why not just call them what they really are, brutal tyrants. They love criminals but despise the victims of crime.
The Dem/Soc disgust me. They are hell bent on destroying our democracy and they are doing it by perverting our legal system.
These DAs and judges are insulated from these crimes. None of them have been beaten, raped or robbed. Idealism is directly proportional to the distance you are from the problem. Open border assholes live in New York not the Rio Grande valley.
Sorry to say this, but in order to show how not racist they are, they vote in the actual racists who are promoting black crime by not prosecuting it. Case in point -- the black kids on a joyride in a stolen car who hit a family, killed their one-year-old, and got off on a misdemeanor.
Jesus was also WRONG when He said it. Jesus was wrong about a great many things. He never had children and had no idea what He was talking about in the realm of human interactions. Turning the other cheek is the act of coward and a fool, not a saint.
Wow. If you're an atheist, Jew, Buddhist or Muslim this comment might make sense, even if it's wrong. But you capitalize "He," which only Christian believers tend to do. And if you're a believer, you believe that Jesus is God or the son of God, and as such cannot possibly be wrong and "have no idea what he's talking about" in anything in the known universe, even if he "never had children," because it is God who created children and who created the very humans who "interact."
If you do indeed identify as a Christian, I'd love to know how you think you would go about "schooling" Jesus Christ in the nature of children and human interactions.
This might possibly be the most bizarre comment I've ever seen on any comment board, ever.
I'm most certainly NOT a Christian. I capitalize "He" as a matter of cultural courtesy. If the teachings of the Gospels are indeed the teachings of Jesus, then He was wrong about many things. And if He was indeed the son of God then I suggest He was also an underachiever and likely a tremendous disappointment to His Father in Heaven...
Christ's teachings hold some merit in certain areas but for the most part, they are rather trite and unhelpful as a meaningful guide in life.
As for whether or not He is the son of God... I have always considered the notion implausible. The Roman empire knew how to crucify. When they did it, they got the job done. Jesus may have lived, been crucified and died at the hands of Rome as the story indicates. I can accept this notion. But after His death, He stayed dead. There is no resurrection. So, Jesus was wrong about that belief too...
Okay so you're anti-Christian. I have major issues with a lot of Muslim beliefs. That's not against the law, though I still think it's strange to capitalize the pronouns of someone you have contempt for. Please don't do us Christians any "courtesy" when your statements about our faith are deliberately noxious and offensive. If you consider wisdom like "do unto others" trite and unhelpful in life, I wonder what you do find helpful. Most likely, look out for number-one and things of that nature. Gee I wonder what spiritual figure that evokes. Sounds like you'd be a good recruit for the church of Satan, but you'd probably tell Satan all the things he's doing wrong and how you could do them better. Big theologian.
Being "anti-Christian" would mean that I care about Christianity enough to oppose it. I don't. But if you want to throw your ire at people, don't bother with me. Why not throw your rage at the prelates, priests, popes and ministers who have stopped fighting for morality in the world and instead have surrendered to woke hysteria...? It would seem that those who sell out your faith are the true anti-Christians.
But I will continue to capitalize "Him" in my replies... with, or without your blessing.
I'm not the one who started throwing ire and rage around here pal. You were clearly trying to trigger people. I only responded because I was curious about the He thing, which I still think is weird, and curious whether you identified as Christian. I normally don't engage with atheists and Christian-haters because I don't give AF what they think. Nor do I give af what their definition of "morality" is.
What I am saying is don't expect me to support the program if I'm not told what the program is and I am not told what happens when it is shown that the program is a flop.
Including depressed teenagers. I think the laws in Canada support killing a depressed teen regardless of what parents say - but they will notify the parents it is happening... :-0
"We all need to read and promote The Transgender Leviathan, a 40 page report written for The American Principles Project1 by Pedro Gonzalez2 of Chronicles Magazine. Though written by someone decidedly on the right, Leviathan is comprehensive and fair, and it implicates people, corporations, and institutions across the political spectrum. It’s pure fire starting with its title page,"
"People on the right" have understood the woke ideology for a long time. Unfortunately most people have not listened, and now it is likely too late to regain sanity.
I hear you. I think the author might have distinguished between "Republican Establishment" and "people on the right". Establishment Republicans appear to support Corporate America and Phama (see "Leviathan") no matter what - like Pharma companies that peddle "Trans" drugs to children and Disney that promotes Gender Ideology and Drag Queens for (and by) children. Lots of Rs are great with that.
Publications like the Wall Street Journal have been very disappointing other than the occasional Colin Wright opinion piece. I read a front page Business & Finance section article by Jennifer Maloney dated May 5th "Bud Light Maker Compensates Workers Targeted in Transgender Influencer Backlash" that read like a chapter out of some gender ideology handbook - so much so that I am now wondering whether Jennifer is another dude?
Lots of Republican lawmakers have been disappointing. I think DeSantis is amazing though and could help turn things around as president. "DeSantis interrupts woke reporter to demolish the press for their use of euphemisms like "gender-affirming healthcare""
I agree with you. DeSantis, Ramaswamy and Trump appear to be willing to do what needs to be done to save America, but I suspect that our elections will never be "fair" again. Unverified mail in ballots and no photo ID secure elections for Dems far into the future.
""Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world – the only one – is Twitter.""
LovingMother - you have the right attitude. Tucker and Musk, Joe Rogan's comedy store - these are big positives.
However, we must never underestimate the power of what I now simply call the Woke ideologues and their backers, the World Economic Forum. I believe the WEF has more power now than any Western nation, and they are rapidly gaining real control of many nations. Canada, Holland, France are in many ways owned by WEF.
But if the popular culture can swing our way, serious change can begin.
A society like the one being described can not exist as a society long term. Either Canada needs to move back to a system of equality under the law or they will cease to be a unified country. It’s that simple.
From what I know of Canada, Gordon, it has never been a totally unified country.
The progressivism outlined in this essay is somewhat new, and will probably be accompanied by a backlash, pretty much following what's going on in the US. I don't see much difference between the two countries there - hell there is a movement for reparations to the descendants of slaves here (progressivism run amok..), and petty crime in many cities is going unanswered - so there is not much equality under the law right now right here in America either, obviously.
But politically, the country is not as nationalistic as America, and never has been. Quebec with its French speaking majority has had leanings of separatism since the 1960's, ebbing and flowing over the years - and now Alberta has a nascent separatist movement all it's own.
If Canada pulls itself apart, it won't be because black defendants are getting lighter sentences. In my opinion..
The time for Direct Democracy is now. We no longer need governments that don’t actually represent us. A safe, limited form of liquid direct democracy is possible.
And what we really need is the tyranny of the masses to stop all of this corruption.
Like this: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Really? We need a bunch of morons educated in public schools making more decisions? Are you serious?
No fucking way.
I have. Even wondering if we are transitioning to that. The never ending campaign cycle and never ending polling in conju.ction therewith is beyond tedious. My FB is flooded with candidates begging for handouts. Many in races I cannot even vote in. It is unseemly. On the other hand would I trust the technology at this point? No I would not.
It is a slippery slope on which Canada now finds itself. Once ceded, the high ground is difficult to regain.
Not only is it that simple; vigilante justice will/is the response. Stupid, stupid people
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Gang culture is prison culture. Like the woke D.E.I. commissariat managing the class war for the globalist DNC/CCP/WEF, it divides people by race, identity, sex, power, the willingness to use violence for access and control of resources and the open manipulation/compromise of bureaucratic institutions and authority to reach those ends. It is the same psychology. Kindness, vulnerability and ignorance of the true nature of the game is weakness to be exploited, the individual is prey and snitches die. For instance, the ready availability of drugs in prison's speaks to the profitable interface between the inmates and the look the other way guards receiving payoff's to do so. In prison, as in America, Canada and Mexico money moves upward to power. And Mexico?
Assange and Snowden are merely object lesson snitches. How is the Solzhenitsyn gulag criminal running the prison yard with specific instructions to make Stalin's political enemies suffer any different than the car jacking/home invading/store looting/Fentanyl dispensing thug wandering the unsafe American streets and subway's today? For the globalist juggernaut the "citizen" is a threat and a sucker to be exploited and removed. Criminal thugdom serves the purpose. The installation of surveillance state fascism by totalitarian finance is well underway. You're already under house arrest. Covid was the practice run.
Hyperbolic and extreme. Maybe. But the dynamic is there. Thinking you can reason with the criminals on the next tier up is a definite mistake. The 15 minute city, the suicide net, the eyeball's behind the screen in front of you, the social credit score, digital currency and the biggest lie the world say no. This article is yet another report on symptomatology. The Davos crowd has already proclaimed Trudeau in Canada (and select elected American political leadership coast to coast) designated hitter's. You've still got a Constitution and a Bill of Right's. For how long?
We're building a new fact/truth based American national dialogue. The Republican Party is a least malleable. The DNC, without blinking an eye, in service to globalist fascist finance has held us in thrall to a lie for decades and undermined our every political institution. Doing nothing is a decision.
We are experiencing the end of civilization.
*western civilization
Not hyperbole. It’s nothing less than that.
On average, blacks have significantly lower IQ scores than all other races and this is a measure that holds across time and space. So maybe, on average, blacks don’t have as much agency and independent decision-making capability as you think. The reason their IQ scores are significantly lower on average is due to their lack of inter-breeding with other human species (eg Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc) tens of thousands of years ago and so didn’t the mutations that whites and Asians did. It’s well documented but rather unpopular for obvious reasons.
I don't know about any of that, but as a white person I have a feeling that if I went head-to-head with Thomas Sowell intellectually, he'd chew me up and spit me out.
I read that research. Unclear how to talk about it and dig deeper in search for truth and answers in the modern society without creating a disaster…
The ethical digging could reveal solutions mutually beneficial for all races.
Here is some of the objective research; David Reich
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past
"Insulting and demeaning" indeed, Cynthia -- as well as patronizing, patriarchal, infantilizing, and downright . . . racist. In the "reimagined" world that progressives have created for themselves (and inflicted on the rest of us), good is bad and right is wrong, and the most basic elements of civilization are turned on their head, upside down and inside out.
Well said! It is very degrading indeed!
I agree completely. This is an insult to our black brothers and sisters. This also hurts the black neighborhoods more than anyone.
Exactly. What we're being told today is that black people are in fact a weaker, less intelligent, less socially responsible class that need special handling. It's really pathetic.
In fact, promoting reverse racism is simply making racism acceptable again. Black people in Canada are and will be a minority vulnerable to racism. If the “progressives” make it now acceptable that white people be treated effectively like roadkill by black people, sooner or later this will generate a backlash, and there will be far less of a restraint against this new type of racism, based not of ideas of “white superiority” but on resentment for being treated as lesser humans. This backlash is already brewing in the US, not only among whites - just ask Asians and Latinos. The “progressives” are effectively undoing all the progress in racial matters gained in the last five decades.
I think you are right. It will be very mean times.
It's fascinating how the Left has managed to transform racism into something "good," as long as it is being practiced and administered by Leftists.
The Left has defined black people as 'basket cases'.
Democrats have not changed their minds about race; they have merely changed their tactics. Instead of pushing aside non-whites as "human weeds" and "inferior citizens" (as per Margaret Sanger), they figured out that--once Republicans made Civil Rights for all the law of the land--it would be more politically effective to publicly embrace the role of "white saviors," while ensuring--via counterproductive policies--that their victims would remain an underclass who could be counted on to vote for Democrats.
Yup - The Democrats NEED blacks to vote for them otherwise they're toast - it called the "Democrat Plantation' - it's own special form of slavery.
Brilliant. "Inborn disabilities." What other group of people would ever countenance such an abomination? Yet here are their "advocates" prescibing it into law. Perhaps next we'll see a resurgence in eugenics, as statistics bear out the inferiority of certain races. Is that what the woke desire?
One of those "inborn disabilities" is one that I openly covet: A sense of rhythm.
Perhaps a way can be found. If you're willing to pay reparations, maybe in exchange they will teach you some tricks....but then wouldn't you be accused of cultural appropriation?
That is absolutely the next logical step. Inherently inferior, inherently incapable. Inherently in need of “great white heroes.”
It’s even more revolting than traditional racism - this is being done with every bit as much self-interest, but it’s also insidious as hell. The evil woke cast themselves as inherently superior.
Yes! People like Candace Owens and Larry Elders are disgusted that black people have been categorized like this. They’ve also pointed out what this article has proven about black and white discrepancies but so many want nothing to do with hearing: that the problem starts in the home and fathers need to be present. But instead, if you’ve had a rough childhood you’re excused and don’t have to pay the same consequence. Our country has gone mad.
Ernest Gaines' novel A Lesson Before Dying explores this. The guy's lawyer argued that his client couldn't be expected to know any better and I think he may have explicitly compared him to a dog (I don't remember, I read it many years ago). The guy ended up on death row and the story is about his accepting responsibility and going to his death a human being (not a dog).
That is mitigating evidence and has been used forever either to persuade a prosecutor not to bring a case or to argue that despite guilt there are reasons why a harsh penalty is not just. Really good defense lawyers are very skilled at presenting mitigating evidence.
Stone raving mad!
A brilliant statement , Ms. Millen, boiling down progressive lunacy to its essential and inherent self contradiction.
Yet the entire foundation of the Biden presidency rests on the self-destructive progressive ideal of pushing a grievance culture and inciting race hatred.
It's machine politics writ large. It's all about creating client classes that will serve as reliable bloc votes, while at the same time, harassing opponents until they move elsewhere. On the local level, Tammany Hall created it, and people like Tom Curley and Richard Daley perfected it. Once you have the client classes dependent on government preferences and largesse, all you have to do at election time is say "The Conservatives/Republicans/whoever will cut off your checks!", and you've got the election in the bag.
I remember looking at a newspaper list of precinct-by-precinct votes in Alabama after the 2000 election. In a precinct in urban Birmingham, out of 2200-something votes cast, the bulk were cast for Gore, with a handful of votes for third party candidates. Not a single vote was cast for Bush. I searched in vain for any precinct where nobody voted for Gore. I found one rural precinct with two votes for Gore, but only about 70 votes total were cast in that precinct.
Think you have answered our voting problem, besides the rigging we witnessed in the last two elections Alabama.
I am tired of people calling these brutal asshole fascists (Merrium Webster : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control) liberals or progressives. They are anything but liberal or progressive.
Giving preference of one race over another is racism and that is what they are doing.
They want to control, by fiat. what we say and what we think. If liberal or progressive means tyrants, then yes that is what they are.
Why not just call them what they really are, brutal tyrants. They love criminals but despise the victims of crime.
The Dem/Soc disgust me. They are hell bent on destroying our democracy and they are doing it by perverting our legal system.
These DAs and judges are insulated from these crimes. None of them have been beaten, raped or robbed. Idealism is directly proportional to the distance you are from the problem. Open border assholes live in New York not the Rio Grande valley.
I agree they are not liberals but they are progressives.
Give me an example of one progressive thing they have done.
It's only "progress" in their eyes. Just like eugenics and Prohibition. They have a fantasy utopia they are trying to progress toward.
I just call them Leftists.
They call it utopia. I call it hell.
Sorry to say this, but in order to show how not racist they are, they vote in the actual racists who are promoting black crime by not prosecuting it. Case in point -- the black kids on a joyride in a stolen car who hit a family, killed their one-year-old, and got off on a misdemeanor.
Luke 23:34
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Jesus was also WRONG when He said it. Jesus was wrong about a great many things. He never had children and had no idea what He was talking about in the realm of human interactions. Turning the other cheek is the act of coward and a fool, not a saint.
Wow. If you're an atheist, Jew, Buddhist or Muslim this comment might make sense, even if it's wrong. But you capitalize "He," which only Christian believers tend to do. And if you're a believer, you believe that Jesus is God or the son of God, and as such cannot possibly be wrong and "have no idea what he's talking about" in anything in the known universe, even if he "never had children," because it is God who created children and who created the very humans who "interact."
If you do indeed identify as a Christian, I'd love to know how you think you would go about "schooling" Jesus Christ in the nature of children and human interactions.
This might possibly be the most bizarre comment I've ever seen on any comment board, ever.
I'm most certainly NOT a Christian. I capitalize "He" as a matter of cultural courtesy. If the teachings of the Gospels are indeed the teachings of Jesus, then He was wrong about many things. And if He was indeed the son of God then I suggest He was also an underachiever and likely a tremendous disappointment to His Father in Heaven...
Christ's teachings hold some merit in certain areas but for the most part, they are rather trite and unhelpful as a meaningful guide in life.
As for whether or not He is the son of God... I have always considered the notion implausible. The Roman empire knew how to crucify. When they did it, they got the job done. Jesus may have lived, been crucified and died at the hands of Rome as the story indicates. I can accept this notion. But after His death, He stayed dead. There is no resurrection. So, Jesus was wrong about that belief too...
Okay so you're anti-Christian. I have major issues with a lot of Muslim beliefs. That's not against the law, though I still think it's strange to capitalize the pronouns of someone you have contempt for. Please don't do us Christians any "courtesy" when your statements about our faith are deliberately noxious and offensive. If you consider wisdom like "do unto others" trite and unhelpful in life, I wonder what you do find helpful. Most likely, look out for number-one and things of that nature. Gee I wonder what spiritual figure that evokes. Sounds like you'd be a good recruit for the church of Satan, but you'd probably tell Satan all the things he's doing wrong and how you could do them better. Big theologian.
Being "anti-Christian" would mean that I care about Christianity enough to oppose it. I don't. But if you want to throw your ire at people, don't bother with me. Why not throw your rage at the prelates, priests, popes and ministers who have stopped fighting for morality in the world and instead have surrendered to woke hysteria...? It would seem that those who sell out your faith are the true anti-Christians.
But I will continue to capitalize "Him" in my replies... with, or without your blessing.
I'm not the one who started throwing ire and rage around here pal. You were clearly trying to trigger people. I only responded because I was curious about the He thing, which I still think is weird, and curious whether you identified as Christian. I normally don't engage with atheists and Christian-haters because I don't give AF what they think. Nor do I give af what their definition of "morality" is.
What makes you so bitter, sir?
The people making these policies KNOW absolutely what they are doing.
You're right.
He also said render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Which is what this conversation is about.
What are you trying to say here? Don't prosecute criminals and keep them off the street? Are you a Dem/Soc operative?
What I am saying is don't expect me to support the program if I'm not told what the program is and I am not told what happens when it is shown that the program is a flop.
What program are you talking about?
Whatever program of "re-imaging" that they are trying to sell.
Just look at what Portland, Oregon bought when the bought "progressive" without any "insurance".
They should have known they weren't getting the real thing when Flo wasn't there to close the deal.
Canada is really off the deep end on this issue - even more than the US right now.
Which is saying a lot:
"Proposed changes 'obviously' violate the 'key' point of Title IX: protecting women"
https://campusreform.org/article?id=22631
Plus they are willing to help depressed people commit suicide. If you helped your terminally ill loved one commit suicide you would be prosecuted.
Including depressed teenagers. I think the laws in Canada support killing a depressed teen regardless of what parents say - but they will notify the parents it is happening... :-0
You guys are so on point today, how did we get here? Why did we and do we keep voting for this. It’s crazy stuff
There's lots of blame to go around:
https://pitt.substack.com/p/lets-read-the-transgender-leviathan
"We all need to read and promote The Transgender Leviathan, a 40 page report written for The American Principles Project1 by Pedro Gonzalez2 of Chronicles Magazine. Though written by someone decidedly on the right, Leviathan is comprehensive and fair, and it implicates people, corporations, and institutions across the political spectrum. It’s pure fire starting with its title page,"
"People on the right" have understood the woke ideology for a long time. Unfortunately most people have not listened, and now it is likely too late to regain sanity.
I hear you. I think the author might have distinguished between "Republican Establishment" and "people on the right". Establishment Republicans appear to support Corporate America and Phama (see "Leviathan") no matter what - like Pharma companies that peddle "Trans" drugs to children and Disney that promotes Gender Ideology and Drag Queens for (and by) children. Lots of Rs are great with that.
Publications like the Wall Street Journal have been very disappointing other than the occasional Colin Wright opinion piece. I read a front page Business & Finance section article by Jennifer Maloney dated May 5th "Bud Light Maker Compensates Workers Targeted in Transgender Influencer Backlash" that read like a chapter out of some gender ideology handbook - so much so that I am now wondering whether Jennifer is another dude?
Lots of Republican lawmakers have been disappointing. I think DeSantis is amazing though and could help turn things around as president. "DeSantis interrupts woke reporter to demolish the press for their use of euphemisms like "gender-affirming healthcare""
https://notthebee.com/article/desantis-interrupts-woke-reporter-to-demolish-the-press-over-the-use-of-euphemisms-like-gender-affirming-healthcare
The Federalist has been good "Yes, The Trans Movement Is Coming For Your Kids"
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/03/yes-the-trans-movement-is-coming-for-your-kids/
I agree with you. DeSantis, Ramaswamy and Trump appear to be willing to do what needs to be done to save America, but I suspect that our elections will never be "fair" again. Unverified mail in ballots and no photo ID secure elections for Dems far into the future.
Maybe it's gonna be ok, Dennies - with this backfire on state/media/corporate/medical/pharma Orwellian fascist nightmare:
"Tucker Carlson is launching a new version of his show on Twitter"
https://notthebee.com/article/tucker-carlson-is-re-launching-his-show-on-twitter
""Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren't many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world – the only one – is Twitter.""
LovingMother - you have the right attitude. Tucker and Musk, Joe Rogan's comedy store - these are big positives.
However, we must never underestimate the power of what I now simply call the Woke ideologues and their backers, the World Economic Forum. I believe the WEF has more power now than any Western nation, and they are rapidly gaining real control of many nations. Canada, Holland, France are in many ways owned by WEF.
But if the popular culture can swing our way, serious change can begin.
That's a sad thought. We do seem to live in a country where you are not allowed to question anything.