mywhitefeather.bsky.social
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I saw one of these “bubble groups” at a local restaurant. They were all sitting together sharing a cake and singing some happy song when I interrupted to join them and tell them what they were doing wrong. They were very close-minded about my participation, the losers.
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Check out a local kids game at least once, where they’re inexperienced and still learning. Below high school level. Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate a sport at the pro level because it looks so easy. Plus the kids are doing it for fun.
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A statement that is both precisely correct and undeniably true, and yet I believe expresses an opinion entirely at odds with my own.
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Local law enforcement orders popular tourist attraction closed so he can go fishing by himself. Typical police overreach.
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Every protester should be in costume, just to highlight the absurd level of government overreaction. Who would think it appropriate to tear gas muppets and powerpuff girls?
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We have a King, we don’t need a jester.
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I’m very much in favour of blocking, for the same reason I don’t listen to certain radio stations. Sure there might be a great song or two I miss out on, but the quantity of low grade music isn’t worth the trouble.
We have a limited lifespan, so we do need to be selective with our time.
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You may as well outlaw the tides.
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Interesting. I would have had those two meanings nearly completely reversed. A trigger is extremely personal to an individual, and not universal.
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I’d be interested to hear why either group thinks their choice would lead to greater unity.
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If you don’t mind, can you define what you mean by triggered, and specifically how it differs from offensive? Hard to have a discussion when terms aren’t clear to all parties.
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I don’t block everyone I disagree with, but I do block those whose opinions are offensive to me. Nobody is required to listen to every voice. That’s cacophony not conversation.
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Without due process, how do you even know who is a citizen, a tourist, or a refugee?
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Owning the libs was more important than owning their business.
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What a tedious account he has. I will enjoy never hearing from him again.
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“The response will be a dodge, so you've got to stay with it and follow it up.”
Sadly, this is the most important and least followed step in every interaction between press and politicians.
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“They say stereotypes exist for a reason”
Yes, that is true. And the reason is racism and bigotry.
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And Trump said he’d let Israel continue the war, bulldoze the land and put up condos. Her position was bad, Trump’s was worse. And Americans voted for worse.
You can’t say this was a determining factor when people chose the worse option.
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She showed daylight between herself and Trump on Palestine and it did nothing.
Regardless, tens of millions of Americans knowingly chose Trump when he wouldn’t be a viable candidate in any halfway serious democracy. The handful of lost Harris voters aren’t the problem.
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Well, how do you like them apples?
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You know he was governor of the Bank of Canada before that. Was it bad for Canada when he did the same for the UK?
Maybe don’t look at everything as zero sum games, and imagine cooperatively trying to improve everyone’s lot.
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Good strategy. I’ve learned that the more he talks, the more he is despised so it’s really his only choice.
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You realize you are trying to convince a stranger on the internet that you, a stranger to me, are superior to a third party who is also a stranger to me? And that I simply don’t care who is smarter?
I wonder why this is so important to you.
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Your opinion of his ability to argue aside, you did, in fact, denigrate his amusements.
“…slobbering over Disney Marvel product. you know Martin Scorsese was right about most of that trash, right?”
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I’m afraid I don’t have one sweet clue who Will Stancil might be, and I have no interest in fighting his battles.
When you denigrate the amusements of others as beneath you, it only shows your own shortcomings.
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How are you able to read a computer screen with your nose so high in the air?
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People are allowed to like things you don’t. It does not harm you that someone likes something different.
It does not make you cool or intellectual or morally superior. It just makes you annoying.
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You would think PP would want to be friendly with a highly popular right-of-center premier who won his last two elections.
I can’t imagine why his federal campaign is such a disaster.
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Please include verified details, like who is in the talks or where they are taking place, before baselessly repeating Trump’s assertions.
If these simple facts cannot be determined, then maybe Trump is just outright lying again.
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Ah, I see Conservatives have entered the “randomly promise everything in hopes something buys a vote” stage.
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No platform before early voting ends, from a party that has been begging for an election for over a year? So they just expected to win and be able to do whatever they wanted.
No ideas, just platitudes and slogans, bereft of plans or vision. Only raw power to force their will on us.
No thanks.
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A standard that’s not enforced is not a standard to rely upon with your life.
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When I was younger, I thought the passing of the “me first” baby boomers would bring improvements, but my Gen X generation has proven to be worse. How many more before we get the golden generation that actually cares for others?
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Teaching the complex idea of “build for the future against climate change” is as simple as the Three Little Pigs. Self-interest and lack of empathy means they just don’t care.
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I’m more intrigued by PP. If the Liberals have a historic result in Alberta in an election that was expected to be a Con majority for over a year, what happens to him? And does Doug Ford go federal?
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I think the last time they had more than five seats was 1940. This would be likely the second best showing (in terms of seat %) for Liberals in AB. Wild is an understatement.
Both NDP and Cons begged for this election, and both may end up replacing their leaders due to poor results.
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Sure, this “may” be “a (singular)” possible indicator of extraterrestrial life, or just an interesting chemical process, but isn’t it amazing they can actually make this kind of analysis at all? The science used to collect this data is amazing in itself.
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I’m glad I’ve played baseball, and am therefore a person worthy of life.
A little surprised he’s against incontinent tax evaders, though.
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Spoiler alert: there were no immigration laws in place at the time, so while technically correct this is a dishonest and deceptive statement.
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I had a scoffing, “Wednesday? It’s only Tuesday” teed up in response, until I realized it’s still Monday.
That bodes ill for my week.
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I don’t know if Americans appreciate that the world has never seen them as the good guy, just a Great Power that occasionally did the right thing. With Trump, they no longer have that fig leaf covering their base nature, and even once he’s gone the world’s perception won’t change back.
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Interesting to compare with their poll on voting intentions.
LPC: 44% (Carney 43%)
CPC: 36% (Poilievre 29%)
NDP: 8% (Singh 9%)
Not even Con voters think PP is the best candidate for PM.
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My cat is old enough to remember when Republicans believed issuing a lot of executive orders was dictatorial.
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NS PCs are more “too friendly with developers” than “too friendly with fascists”. The province often votes federally counter to their provincial choice (Lib/NDP during Harper, PC during Chretien/Martin).
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Don’t forget the pernicious effects of voting requirements. Requiring special ID, signature matching, restricting ballot sites. People can get very clever in the ways they deny others the ability to vote while ostensibly protecting their right.
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I think all disenfranchisement is bad. Once you accept that it’s ok for one reason (out of country too long), you’re giving others permission to accept other reasons (minor legal issue, odd religion, doesn’t own land, gender).
If you’re ok taking it from someone, they’re ok taking it from you.
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Once you accept that, the second reason to disenfranchise a citizen is even easier. And the third.
Democracy isn’t a selective enterprise. You shouldn’t be able to remove someone’s right to vote.
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I don’t see the strength of a democracy relying on how many clever ways it can come up with to disenfranchise its citizens.
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Still going with the image of a Conservative majority, when that’s considered a 1% chance according to your article, instead of the 84% chance of a Liberal majority?
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Interesting image choice, going with the 1% “less possible” Conservative majority over the 84% “possible” Liberal majority. No editorial slant there.
I miss the independent Herald.