I think you're insane if you think it's just the liberals (calling them "left" is a joke) playing identity politics. The only platform the CPC has had for the last 9 years has been identity politics fed by easily verifiable lies. The entire "fuck Trudeau" movement has been sold to Canadians like a sports team.
Not to say the Liberals have been better in that regard, but it's some real classic hypocrisy at best, and genuine idiocy at worst, to support the CPC based on that stance.
I understand, facing the truth is scary when you've attached your ego to lies. I'm sure whatever Internet safe space you found your way here from can help you feel justified. Have a good one.
We 1000% can.
Destroying the only widespread source of information that isn't centralized in the hands of American ogliarchs is immediately worse, and that's literally just the beginning.
I mean, there you have it. Your options are currently the American owned PostMedia, or the CBC. Meanwhile, Poilievere targets literally the only remaining Canada owned media company nation wide, while claiming to put Canada first.
The hypocrisy is naked and shameless, yet we're looking at a CPC majority under his leadership? There has got to be a better option.
I'm always interested in conversations about opinions contradictory to my own, but I do not need to suffer direct insults to my character.
I'm not obligated to go backwards through your entire post history, particularly if it's filled with the kind of vitriol present in this conversation. I don't need to sift through intellectually void shit in the misguided belief that maybe, there's a nugget of gold in there. If you feel like you made a clear, succinct statement in post to someone else, in some other thread, a two second copy paste of something you know you said, or a link as I usually do, is all that's necessary. If you don't want to do that, not responding, or saying you're too exhausted by and/or don't care about this conversation is plenty.
Your desire to continually speak with such disdain towards anyone who disagrees with you, and your unwillingness to approach conversation with civility says a lot more than your words. Either you don't want to be understood and this conversation isn't in good faith, or you have no idea what actually upsets you. You're just repeating the same baseless, vapid talking points you've been spoon-fed, and I've begun to suspect that the goal here is just to spread hate.
If I wanted repitition, I'd be plenty satisfied by now. Hilariously, and ironically, despising politicians with no true understanding of what they've done or why is a very uniquely Canadian position, so I'd argue that our culture is alive and well.
With every bit of respect as a human being, and none as a thinker, please take your misinformed, poorly reasoned opinion back into whatever safe-space echo chamber allowed it to ferment in the first place. Or, recognize that most people will not share your identical thoughts, and you might have to figure out how to treat others with respect as you work to understand each other. Your pick.
I'm not talking about weed, though. It's been traditionally over policed but that doesn't mean we should stop policing all drugs. There's hardly any sense in saying that severely addictive drugs with visible negative effects on the human body should be sold for recreational use for profit. The majority of opiods are a good example of this.
But more to the point, giving moral purchase to profit justifies the abuse of the consumer. I can't say for certain whether the TikTok ban is government overreach, as I'm not knowledgeable enough on the topic to speak with any authority, but "it makes money, so it's fine" really shouldn't be the end of the conversation.
A platform should be allowed to function if it can. If it's horribly made, or supremely unprofitable it'll find its own way out.
I mean, this doesn't allow for any form of ethical analysis, though. Should every drug be legalized? How about gambling?
I'm not saying I am for the TikTok ban persay, but if the only conditionals for whether a product or service should exist are "is it 'well made' and does it make money," we are setting ourselves up to achieve a corporate dystopia rather quickly.
They government should consider what parts of TikTok make it not okay, and target those forms and functions with well reasoned laws. Unfortunately, as you said, I suspect they'll target things that are good and users like, while pretending that the issue is entirely about one small portion of the complete law. Ie, stress that the issue is one of security, and then write a law saying that all social media in the US must be willing to submit it's data to the American government. (To be clear, I have no idea what the actual law they wrote is, but this is the kind of shit I expect them to get up to )
When you've built your entire political personality around being "not that guy" and that guy drops out of the race.
Comments like this make me wonder if we've got a lot of paid actors over here, or the brainwashing is truly this effective.
For a good time, post this on .ml.
I guess I just assume you're a troll and move on with my life. At least I can say I tried to understand. Have a good one.
Kinda hype. Had my eye on this one for a while. I'm a little cautious what "early access" means in this regard, though. I've had altogether too many rogue-likes release into early access without enough content to justify it.