As a general rule, I hate opinion pieces as I feel that they are a major contributor to our slide towards ‘facts don’t matter’ US style political rhetoric. That said, I thought this was an interesting and fact driven piece that if anything was too easy on the RCMP. Sharing a journalist’s request for information with the...
You are absolutely correct, and my snarky reply leads toward this tendency to call an organization as a monolithic entity that has agendas when the actual issue could be any number of other things, probably all of them, in a quagmire together:
Resistance to change and outside pressure, factionialization within the group that leads to the request being impeded, corruption, organized crime, institutional failure, racism, nationalism, cronyism, outdated training, lack of training in general…
There could be a good number of people trying to comply with the policy and simply failing. We just don’t know the full truth.
You identify a problem, you then call the attention of your family, friends and peers and really anyone who will listen to your rantings and ravings. After which if enough people support your claim to give confidence of legitimacy, you voice your concerns to authority. Or governing body or anyone that has been designated for the...
With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
I have similar feelings about Polanski’s fleeing the country.
He was to be acquitted, then had drinks with the judge and told him exactly what happened, whereupon the judge takes the acquittal off the table.
That’s improper behavior on the judge’s part in my book. Maybe he should’ve served his time, but I understand why he chose to flee after that treatment.
Edit: Also same, I certainly wasn’t insinuating that Polanski is innocent or anything of the sort. Didn’t see the community at all.
Agreed. I do not excuse him for his crimes in the least. I do again apologize for not seeing which community I was responding in. Nor have I ever seen one of Polanski’s movies, for what tiny bit that’s worth.
In that sense it was a bad comparison to the Woody Allen example. I’m not trying to exonerate Polanski in anyone’s estimation.
When I was in school we were taught genocide is a crime against humanity, now the USA and other countries act like Israel has blackmail material on all their leaders. What causes so many countries to be supporting them like this?
Because the entire world watched and stood by mostly silently as the Jewish people were eradicated in Europe and only stepped up when they became personally threatened.
Then they decided to return the Jewish people to their homeland because 1) it wasn’t theirs to give so it was easy and 2) it wasn’t in their land so they didn’t have to host them.
That is of course a vast oversimplification, but the spoils of past policies have come to roost.
Israel is surrounded by enemies and its currently elected leaders, paranoid beyond reason. Most see the Palestinians as largely innocent bystanders in a war between Israel and Hamas, not true targets, so they don’t support the idea of genocide.
But many of us see Netanyahu as someone who will not stop with eradicating Hamas as that was never his goal, and to pretend that all of these accidental strikes are indeed accidental is infuriatingly insulting.
It’s so difficult to thread the needle that both the Jewish people and Palestinians are embattled in a hostile region. There are good and innocent people there.
And those people are losing.
Edit because I stopped before truly answering: The world has been supporting Israel out of guilt after WWII and undoing that framework of support will take time, and of course Israel is trying to keep that support.
In the mid 90’s tattoos became super trendy and now have gained acceptance as something people do. My opinion is, especially when the tats are crawling up peoples’ necks and onto their faces that they truly look awful, like some sort of disease.
You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.
I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they’d attack you later from your inventory.
I have never thought of Red Lobster as particularly ‘affordable’, nor ‘beloved’ as the article repeatedly insists.
I’m not taking sides at all, I’m sure the facts behind the article stand for themselves, but it feels like an attempt to be a sob story when a beleaguered and overpriced restaurant chain goes under - even if it was drowned.
Bowel disease breakthrough as researchers make ‘holy grail’ discovery (www.theguardian.com)
I asked Justin Trudeau’s Liberals why they broke a promise to ban three controversial police practices. Their answer says a lot (www.thestar.com)
As a general rule, I hate opinion pieces as I feel that they are a major contributor to our slide towards ‘facts don’t matter’ US style political rhetoric. That said, I thought this was an interesting and fact driven piece that if anything was too easy on the RCMP. Sharing a journalist’s request for information with the...
I firmly believe protestors have a right to shut down busy highways, freeways, places of business and higher education.
You identify a problem, you then call the attention of your family, friends and peers and really anyone who will listen to your rantings and ravings. After which if enough people support your claim to give confidence of legitimacy, you voice your concerns to authority. Or governing body or anyone that has been designated for the...
Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction (www.nytimes.com)
With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
Hot take time. Super Mario Bros (1993) is a better movie than Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.
Discuss.
Bill Maher Vigorously Defends Louis C.K. and Woody Allen (www.thedailybeast.com)
Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon?
If so, then why?
Alice Cooper - Guilty (youtube.com)
ELI5 why so many countries are supporting Israel committing genocide?
When I was in school we were taught genocide is a crime against humanity, now the USA and other countries act like Israel has blackmail material on all their leaders. What causes so many countries to be supporting them like this?
Study: Microplastics found in Agriculture Clog Soil Pores, Prevent Aeration, and Cause Plant Roots to Die (medium.com)
When did you get hit by "the tetris effect" AKA playing a video game so much that you get the urge to do moves/actions from the video game in real life?
When I got hooked on Morrowind in middle school it occurred to me to quicksave before a test at school....
Tattoos look like shit and are not 'unique'.
In the mid 90’s tattoos became super trendy and now have gained acceptance as something people do. My opinion is, especially when the tats are crawling up peoples’ necks and onto their faces that they truly look awful, like some sort of disease.
The RPG that inspired Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Demon’s Souls is now more playable than ever - Wizardry! (www.polygon.com)
A Christian Nation that follows Biblical Laws is possible in Alberta. God is winning, let’s work together to keep it that way.
All denominations, all Christians, imagine a world where Government obeys Gods rules....
What did you buy that improved your life?
24 May 1987 (sh.itjust.works)
Red Lobster Had to Close So That Rich People Could Get Paid (jacobin.com)
archive.ph/GG03V
Punctuation is a Rothschild conspiracy, sovcit. (lemmy.world)
Brenna Twohy, "What I've Learned About Trauma". (lemmy.world)
Brenna Twohy, "A Coworker Asks Me If I'm Sad, Still". (lemmy.world)