I missed a comma before “algorithms” it seems.

The kind of “extreme authoritarianism” you’re pearl clutching about is literally the age ratings system that was in place in the late 90s. Get a grip.

At this point, the guy could be a rabid neonazi pedophile for all I care: he should still not have been deported without a trial. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Do your fucking job.

“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” Stephen Miller posted.

Did I stutter, bitch?

This is totally a diffusion of social media issue. Twenty years ago, the media that kids had available for consumption was age rated. We had agreed as a society that certain things should not be visible to children until they grow up. It was possible to do because it was centralized (TV, movies, radio, print) and it was accountable to regulatory bodies and the rest of society. If a TV channel showed something as shitty as Tate style propaganda, there was institutional pushback, there were letters to the editor, there was someone specific to be targeted for accountability.

With social media being dominated by US style “freedom of speech” algorithms and US style acceptance of the impossibility (or even undesirability) of regulation and with completely unaccountable megacorps running them while giving very minimal if non-existent attention to who is watching what, we have a complete lack of age rating. We have given up on the idea of protecting childhood it seems.

Coupled with every fucking other issue being brought up in this thread, from COVID, to economic issues, to cultural misogyny, there is a perfect storm…

I am capable of feeling empathy for ordinary people who got swept up in something, fucked around and found out. But a senior Maga politician? Hahaha hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha, roast bitch.

Poilievre is a fucking idiot.

Ever seen a movie called V for Vendetta?

The word “means” is also used for logical entailment, in which case it’s not symmetric. The dog’s coat is wet which means it’s raining. And of course, a man is a featherless biped, but not every featherless biped is a man.

But the way, we are not arguing about the same thing. You think I’m defending the stupid ruling. I’m not, I’m just saying that language is not algebra.

In fact to paraphrase Nish Kumar, if we’re going about precisely characterizing things, a more interesting precise characterization than the meaning of the word woman is the characterization of the people who obsess about it as transphobic idiots.

LMDE because it’s Mint and a recent Debian stable.

I don’t think anything in the ruling hinged on the semantics if the world “means”. That said, there is nothing ambiguous in saying that a logical relation is not symmetric. Symmetry, like reflexivity, transitivity etc, are well defined in algebra.

Cross the aisle then.

Rapist doesn’t understand that “No means no”.

The American mind cannot comprehend this.

Only if you assume that the word “means” defines a symmetric relation.

Next: German authorities name Haaretz an antisemitic publication.

Really? Just google “Poilievre deport” and the first two hits are literally:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-tory-leader-vows-to-deport-foreigners-for-antisemitic-crimes/

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-850082

It’s barely a dogwshitle at this point.

Excellent. Eloquent, to the point, devastating. Fantastic.

Don’t cherry pick the phrase, give the rest of the context of what he said.

That’s a silly american-centric way of understanding Canadian politics. There are ridings where the LPC is the spoiler in an NDP-CPC race or in a BQ-CPC race. Use your brain, don’t parrot Americanisms.

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