Rentlar @ Rentlar @lemmy.ca

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Yeah. Mr. Mangione would be the only person who I think of who could be competitive against Mamdani, on a campaign to "deny, defend, depose" corrupt billionaires and corporations from NYC.

Since when were 3 basketballs allowed in the game at once?

I'm upset that more deference to House MPs' summer vacation was given in the Senate than the potential impact to our rights.

I'm still cautiously optimistic about Bill C-5 (though Bill C-2 needs to either be scrapped or massively reworked IMO), since there could be bills to amend the laws again, or matters of discretion that come out of this summer's consultation.

The power is in the government now in law, but the civil and legal pushback will come depending on how forceful the government attempts to use this newly gained power.

Great news. But my Trump-BS-translator is going haywire: since this is a lie like everything Trump says, next week Carney is going to have some sort of deal with Trump.

Get ready for lower court justices that are sick of SCOTUS' apparent disregard for the rule of law to start approving class-actions more broadly and expediently.

"Right, so we can distract from our Palestinian genocide six more times?" - bibi

It's also a very bold assumption of mine that they would try to do anything more than the status quo even if they did manage to retake power, predicated on the Democratic Party being massively reformed. If there was ever a time to reform the Dems, that's right now, years before midterms or a US general election.

More bad behavior from the Roberts Supreme Court. Write it down, Democrats.

I'm just going to keep putting "bad behavior / bad behaviour" in the thread of each new piece of SCOTUS' deliberate ignorance of democracy, constitution and the rule of law. You'll be able to search my profile for it, and maybe Democrats can do something about it if they can retake power.

Haha, you're right... I've vowed to stop commenting or posting on Reddit so I was seeing if anyone else wanted to take up the job.

Not that I am condoning vandalism, but it sounds like OIP was targeted because they are a subsidiary of Israeli company Elbit Systems. So profits from this production for Ukraine would go partially to Israel.

That said company ownership is a complex matter (Canadians are grappling with a similar issue whether to boycot Canadian subsidiaries owned by American companies). This action does not do much to harm Israel, it does a lot to harm Ukraine, and to harm the Palestinian cause.

I thought his French was perfect, when he said《Re-stay a la mayzon.》

Anybody want to encourage some Redditors to come to Lemmy or Piefed? A handful in this thread appear to be looking for alternatives.

This is an issue that I struggle to grapple with and feels paradoxical to me. Not that I don't believe in land acknowledgements personally, but more around the concept of free expression, compelled expression and repressed expression in general.

This article has helped with my understanding slightly: the idea that saying something vs. not saying something are both political stances; neither are neutral.

The aim of the petition is to repress expression condemning genocide, acknowledging colonialism and the original owners of lands, and not require the affirmation of diversity, equity, inclusion. This is bad obviously, it does not bring about free expression or have anything to do with neutrality. It's bigoted and fascist.

Yet, individually I haven't figured out the issues around some of this.

• Yes, the university can and should select for faculty that affirm diversity, equity, inclusion as a requirement, and it is consistent with a non-sectorial, apolitical university atmosphere for faculty and students. If you don't affirm you can choose to work at MapleMAGA U instead. You can express that you'd rather be inequitable and non-diverse after that, to a level it doesn't discriminate or interfere with students and peers, but in your job capacity it is a reasonable requirement.
• No, faculty and students should not be prohibited from making statements about Israel or Palestine. You can't seriously be doing that in the name of free expression, that's ridiculous. Free expression would be allowing for radical Zionist or Hamas-sympathizing views and everything between, as long as it doesn't cross into hate speech or personal threats it seems reasonable.
• The land acknowledgement one is tricky to me. Requiring a speech specifically mentioning who owned the land before in every presentation or report, seems like compelled expression and non-free to me. It definitely should not be banned (so more than half that section of the petition is moot to me), and should be encouraged all the time, but a faculty member should be permitted not to make such a declaration, or permitted to weave it into a format of their choosing. I've seen such acknowledgements done in the form of a personal story instead of a dry listing of the original owners of an area. So yeah, this part is still complicated to me. Politicians twisting themselves to ensure they mention how much they love Israel seems as much as ingenuine to me as those forcing themselves to make a land acknowledgement, for example.
• Just in general, seeing people get up in arms about "they said this", "they didn't say this today" as if it should make or break their entire legacy, in our discourse is not healthy, it's polarizing, leaves no room for actually constructive discussion. Yes, we absolutely should swiftly condemn bigoted, intolerant, ignorant, harmful views (including those I still hold). But we can leave a bit of wiggle room for apologies, learned lessons, differences in opinions, changed minds, patience.

Nice try rocks, aiming for the seniors discount reserved for rock formations 4.2 billion years or older.

It's the same moving company as the one that had crashed 10 months before!

A photo related to an American billionaire attempting to take over a whole Italian city with their wedding

Italians are concerning themselves too much with America

gr8 b8, m8.

And Mr. Adams has a silver federal police baton up his ass.

I use stretch-ed Debian btw

Oh, right, good to know.