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I'm totally cynical. Not only do I think they won't disclose much, if anything... I don't think they have much to disclose at all. I mean, the tic tac and fast mover videos are interesting, but they don't tell us anything we don't already know. If anything, there has been comparable...

He's a classic broken narcissist. Here's the narcissist's prayer:

He will never take accountability. America has taught him that he doesn’t have to, because he’s white and pretends to be rich. Many Trump supporters are no different. It’s always someone else’s fault, even if you have to invent an enemy that doesn’t exist.

Trump said today that his comments inciting the insurrection were appropriate, and Pence refused to invoke the 25th to remove him. The GOP is over.

To throw one more thought out there... over beers one of my conservative friends a few months ago said breathlessly something to the effect of: "Can you believe that the University has a safe room? One where liberal students can go to get away from conservative viewpoints and be safe because...

Thanks very much Constance! I know we don't always see eye to eye but I sincerely appreciate the comment.

Sure. In my mind the test is "am I deciding something for myself or for someone else?" And if it's for someone else, it's "am I being harmed by their choice?" Harm is not annoyance (for example, one of my child's friends is trans, and I get the genders wrong sometimes and it's annoying)...

Further to my last post, the whole 'back the blue' and 'thin blue line' appeals from Trump supporters are very expressive about this kind of targetted, faux appeals to conservatism that are not at all honest. They also demonstrate the very tolerance conversations we're having. Prior to Jan 6th...

I think about it more simply. To use a non-charged example: I think chocolate tastes good, but I like nachos better. Please respect my view for myself. Yay tolerance! I think nachos are far better than chocolate, and demand chocolate to no longer exist. Tolerate my view for other people. One...

Lol, I'm biased. Part of my job is sitting with executives and seeing through the BS. Flowery speech no longer means anything to me - about the ideas being conveyed, or the person conveying them. Often all it takes is reflecting back their own ideas in a straightforward way to demonstrate faulty...

The problem is that conservatism is the domain of absolutes. MAGA itself is an example. Compare "Make America Great Again" to Obama's simple "Change we can believe in." Or how socialism is communism. Or that either are evil. Abortions are murder. You're either pro Trump or a traitor. Regarding...

His core complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest That's it. Wrap that into an intellectual sounding book, and it sounds good on the surface. But that is what his argument is. My response...

Sorry to reply twice, but as a Canuck this is one thing that's always annoyed me. Listen. I give America a hard time. Your country has a lot to be proud of. A lot. But this constant "America is the GREATEST DEMOCRACY ON EARTH" and "America is the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD" and all this 'America...

Did you watch the Colbert episode right after the 6th? When he listed a bunch of stuff off that happened, and then looked at the camera with what looked like tears welling up in his eyes, and said "are we great again yet?" They're harkening back to a 50's that never were. When women knew their...

Came across this on reddit the other day. I think it's appropriate and interesting given the free speech issue:

Even more, he encouraged mail in ballots from states that he's favoured in, and discouraged and lied about mail in ballots in states he's unfavored in.

If your baseball hat is red and says "Make America Great Again" you're effectively walking around with a neo-nazi symbol as far as I'm concerned. Proudboys are hopefully going too be labelled a terrorist organization in Canada soon.

He's an irrational man-child. Should he be censored or laughed as a professor? Both, but not by the state. We had a professor thrown out of UofC my final year. Get enough students together to complain about their poor teaching, and they get banned from ever teaching that course again. They're...

Nothing. Free speech in America concerns the inability of their government to restrict free speech. Private organizations can (and probably should) restrict free speech within their systems. For example, I could be fired for sending off hate speech notes using my companies email system. And...

Ya, fair, you know what I mean... I meant to say 'unskillful in my opinion'. I'm certainly neither the arbiter of truth or correctness. I'm not sure about that. I think there's a sense of loss - triggered by conservatives in North America dramatically undermining and underfunding education...