They're going to use ANY excuse to do this. They're literally advertising that they're going to use instigators to make sure they get the videos they need to do what they're going to do anyways
These things aren't won with peaceful protesting alone. We need both mass peaceful action and targeted violence.
They're going to suppress us as if we did both anyways, might as well make progress.
I 100% get where you're coming from. That makes total sense. I guess I was thinking of one specific context and over generalized. There is definitely room for nuance and to expand definitions of crimes through social efforts.
I think I was focused on the idea that we should be careful with strong language like rape, genocide, fascism, etc. Using them too liberally, or in ways that don't match their severity undermines the position of victims like rape victims, Palestine, or whatever the fuck is happening to immigrants in the US right now.
It's definitely a step too far to say that the only valid definition is the legal definition.
First of all I completely agree, and have no solution. Rape is by definition an intimate crime, generally all you have is he said/she said. That makes it hard to meet the criminal standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" which isn't far for victims. Weakening the standard isn't fair for anyone. We have to be innocent until proven guilty, I'd rather not live in a system where proving me guilty requires only the claims of one person and no evidence.
Our legal system was never designed for date rape.
I would like to add that it's made worse by organisations spreading false information about rape. For example drinking or drugs don't USUALLY invalidate consent. That should be obvious to anyone who has ever gone out on a date, had a couple of drinks then had sex enthusiastically with their new partner. Alcohol or drugs invalidate consent when either the person is clearly too intoxicated to consent/participate or has been given alcohol or drugs by someone in order to make them less able to resist sexual advances.
Unfortunately in cases like this it's easy for the "any amount of alcohol/drugs means no consent" messaging to convince someone that it was rape. Especially if it wasn't a good time, which isn't uncommon when having sex with a new partner. Then they put themselves through the entire legal process only to come out of the situation worse than they started.
These organisations aren't doing anyone favours by using definitions of rape that don't match legal ones.
Same with statistics. It's well known that the "most women are raped in university" type statistics are based on these types of faulty definitions. Generally the surveyed women report NOT being victims. What these organisations don't understand is that overreporting statistics only makes people suspicious. If statistics don't generally match lived experiences people are going to become suspicious of the concepts. Then when a victim steps out they're subject to an unfair amount of suspicion: did you get raped by the common/legal definition or the definition used in these types of statistics. This is an additional trauma victims don't deserve.
Definitions are important and we need to adopt common definitions of rape and sexual assault across the board instead of self serving ones to make big numbers and confuse young adults.
If the NDP press hard on these types of motions to materially improve the lives of Canadians they're going to go far next elections. They need more marketing for their win on dental care. That was 100% them and they're not getting the credit they deserve when the media talks about it.
A third said it’s causing Israeli families to reconsider sending their children to serve in Israel as lone soldiers
It's already working as intended! I'm glad to see that there is accountability for Canadians who go out of their way to participate in war crimes and crimes against humanity
I've got a nonsense idea with no sources do you have sources to contradict it?
Start with sources that back-up the nonsense you just made up. Because there is just no possible way that extracting 1 EV's worth of lithium is equivalent pollution to the expected 200-400 thousand miles of ICE driving it offsets.
Exactly, we're talking about two different things when comparing children's sports and Olympic sports and it's easy to conflate the two.
Olympic competition needs fair rules to ensure the best humanity can produce is rewarded. The rules are already there and they seem to be fair and supported by trans athletes. Politicians need to stay out.
In children's sports it's more important kids learn skills, fitness, cooperation, and find a sense of community. So unless there is a massive outlier, the rules should maximise inclusion over "fairness". Politicians also need to stay out.
I mean we all saw what happens when you put 40 police officers armed to the teeth in a school with a shooter. They shit their pants for 45 min waiting for the shooter to use up all his ammo on kids before they bravely enter the class.
Which is exactly why Europe needs to ditch American companies. The fact they're bound to obey such a corrupt president means Europeans, especially governments using Microsoft is a direct liability to all of Europe.
I think it's also the old hub and spoke model where American companies open shops in Canada to get market access and bypass certain regulatory requirements that apply to international firms. So the Canadian subsidiaries are spokes designed to extract wealth FROM Canadians rather than the "hub" in the US where all the investment money goes.
Same with Canadian companies that are bought by American conglomerates. They usually just become spokes rather than companies meriting innovation investment in their own.
Not really, it's just that no one invests in Canada. I don't have a full story as to why, but the data points directly to a low investment rate into technology in Canada. It's super shitty and I'm sure someone is profiting from the money that would have been invested.
None of those. I don't disagree that they USED TO BE the best electric cars.
But that's in the past. There are very few markets where Tesla has the most market share anymore in 2025. It's not just because of protests, they're just not that great compared to the competition anymore. The trend has been worsening for years and Tesla hasn't brought anything new to counter it.
Inferior car? Tesla has some of the weakest reliability metrics in the industry which is shocking considering electric drivetrains are far more reliable than ICE.
Modern electric car manufacturing has far surpassed what Tesla can provide at any price point (range, reliability, comfort, you name it) unless you still believe FSD is coming in "just 2 more years bro, and it'll be free and backwards compatible"
This whole article reads like https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/
They're going to use ANY excuse to do this. They're literally advertising that they're going to use instigators to make sure they get the videos they need to do what they're going to do anyways
These things aren't won with peaceful protesting alone. We need both mass peaceful action and targeted violence.
They're going to suppress us as if we did both anyways, might as well make progress.