Absurdity

I tolerate people for being people, I don't tolerate hate. Simple as that. They only see thing black and white, tolerate all or nothing. It's perfectly okay to accept love and reject hate.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving on Friday − the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.

Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction. Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend; this is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK? And it didn't just happen once. And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier. Responses you wouldn't believe. Who thinks like that, and why are we building a $200 million chandelier in the White House? Is it possible that he's doing it intentionally so he can be bad about that instead of the (Jeffrey) Epstein list? …"

This is what Jimmy Kimmel said to get censored at Disney owned ABC and suspended from his job. While Fox News hosts talk openly about murder (which was followed up by a shooting of a homeless encampment). This following threats from the president towards Jimmy after Stephen Colbert got axed. After the FCC threatened broadcast and affiliate licenses, a formerly non-partisan organization, formerly independent, that was supposed to uphold regulations. Now they attack comedians.

Shouldn't the FCC rule with decorum and without bias? Saying someone doesn't have talent is purely a subjective view and not something I'd want from supposedly non political figures. The government used the FCC to bully and threaten criticism of the government and its supporters. Something that should be run as a civil department has been politicized, weaponized, and used to censor dissent.

We are seeing rights eroded before our eyes, the FCC bullying and calling for cancellation of comedians, the president as well stifling dissent and opposition. The states will not last as an authoritarian regime for long, a society built on law with the highest courts now ignoring precedent will not last. Their foundation is crumbling and when a foundation fails the house collapses.

And yes I'm upset and worried about American politics because of historically living next to a fascist regime has not worked out well for their neighbours, and I am anti-fascist.

Shouldn't the FCC rule with decorum and without bias? Saying someone doesn't have talent is purely a subjective view and not something I'd want from supposedly not political figures. The government used the FCC to bully and threaten criticism of the government and its supporters. Something that should be run as a civil department has been politicized and used to censor dissent.

I mean we are seeing rights eroded before our eyes, the FCC bullying and calling for cancelation of comedians, the president as well stifling dissent and opposition. It will not last as an authoritarian regime for long, a society built on law with the highest courts now ignoring precedent will not last. Their foundation is crumbling and when a foundation fails the house collapses.

And yes I'm upset and worried about American politics because of historically living next to a fascist regime has not worked out well for their neighbours.

Charlie Kirk said of gun deaths on April 5, 2023, "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Him and the right keep pushing violence and hate, so much rhetoric, you keep saying you hate people, you want their rights gone, you want to trample on women's rights, that gun deaths are acceptable, eventually it will bite you back. Speech has consequences. You surround yourself with hate, it will be what you get.

No mourning here. More so for the people killed on the boat in South America this week without any sort of trial, or the 2 lawmakers killed in Minnesota recently that we didn't spend nearly enough time talking about. That was when political violence seemed to be normalized, when not enough people on the other side of the aisle stood up and shouted, when the white house refused to call or pay respects.

There is a difference between hate and love, speech isn't just speech, speech has meaning, and different types will have different reactions. I would expect a large difference when someone who dies who spread love and empathy, compassion, versus someone who spread vitriol. It's okay not to mourn the loss of hate.

I mean he was right on one thing, I'm not going to celebrate, but I also won't mourn his passing. I'll mourn how violent the states have been, but been doing that since the 2 lawmakers were shot and didn't see nearly as much outrage.

I will not mourn or feel sad at this, death and that's okay, some people choose to put so much hate Nad vitriol into the world. I won't celebrate it as the states continue to descend into violence but they did that when they pardoned thousands of political criminals, when they've given up the rule of law, when there wasn't this outrage at representatives being shot in Minnesota.

To me I feel it wasn't about the tariffs, it was the threat to our sovereignty and national identity. I don't really care what the Americans do with their tariffs at this point, they were abusive to us and I don't want to go back. I want us to stay strong on our shift away from the US as a trade partner, exporting and importing, and I want to counter the American propaganda. Carney going on about austerity measures and not increasing funding to the CBC or other Canadian media has my disapproval.

I really don't care much about the economy TBH, that's just how the rich measure how rich they are. We can have a "good" economy and the wage gap still increasing, poverty gap increasing. I care about fair wages, increasing the middle class and decreasing the upper and poverty classes.

I can't remember who I heard it from but the jist of it was "I'm not going to be a candidate who fights for you, I didn't get into this to fight, you don't get anything done by always fighting. I am a candidate here to work for you and with others to get something achieved. You get more done working then fighting. "

Not liberal but left, most conservative belief is tough on crime, we need social assistance and focus on preventative measures, but we also need that stick. Bike theft prevention isn't just about better locks, or taking people out of poverty, but bait bike programs, and going after chop shops and pawn stores, and those 1% doing 90% of the crime, heavily.