My country, Canada, is a ridiculous country from the very outset. The US is born of republicanism, of separation of church and state, from separation of powers.
Canada is the opposite. Canada, conceptually, is born of monarchism, obedience, institutionalism, dominion of the Monarch's thinking over all other forms of decision making (no separation of powers).
There is also a geological/geographical component to this subservience, it's fucking cold and rocky. This means a majority of citizens only survive at the will of government interference.
Canadians are doomed, and clueless.
The only thing that could save Canadians is a merger with the less centralised US.
Canada's "conservatives" are probably the world's most ridiculous conservatives, they are extreme monarchists, insitutionalists, and the worst, they're germophobes.
During covid hysteria, the intellectual leaders of Conservatism in Canada Ruddyard Griffiths, Janice Stein, and David Frum, at The Hub and Munk Debates, opined that unvaxxed Canadians should be anally probed 3x weekly in order to have the right to earn a living.
Canadian Conservative Elites are straight up disgusting. Across our country, Conservative provinces had harsher covid hysterics regulations, compared to more liberal provinces.
Canadian Conservatives also believe people be born in the wrong body.
There's even a Canadian Conservative lesbian in Parliament who thinks men can be lesbians.
In the Western world, corporate rights are not got derived but government law derived. Therefore objectivists are 100% confused about their corporate LEGAL PRIVILEGES and individual LIBERTIES.
42:00 he talks of "positives and negatives" that's ridiculous and moralistic, the contrary of true objectivism. As for social media being "innovative" ? hell no. Social media are primarily advertising mediums.
35:00 Social media LOBBIED for freedom from liability (Sect.230), a definite legal competitive advantage over all other forms of media BECAUSE they would not be editors.
As soon as they leaned into editing, they should have lost their freedom from liability.
Corporate interests are NOT individual expression, they are government expression, because all corporations control policy.
Covid policies were NOT socialist policies, they were PROFIT corporate policies. The "stay-home we'll pay you" policies are a DIRECT devaluation of currency which DIRECTLY benefits corporations over the plebs.
30:00 It is faulty thinking to limit one's view of censorship to government power. Censorship applies to ALL forms of power. Many powers are stronger than "government" (governments are a farce anyway). I was raised in a Roman Catholic society. My government, until the 70s, had no Department of Education, all education was controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church was my censor.
Today, media is the principal censor.
Governments are a joke, simply parroting what their lobbyists demand of them.
Legally imposed "peace" is a ridiculous concept. The elites falsely use the word "peace" in lieu of the word authoritarianism.
As a well self-defence trained feminist, the "legal" structure can NEVER make women safe from violent men. I'm not an "anti-violence" feminist, violence is a part of life. The only way for women to be safe from violent men is to use all psychological and physical means to get out of violent situations.
The "law" ain't gonna save us. Only we can save ourselves.
Overthrowing a government or a ruling class is a perfectly valid, and possibly necessary, political endeavour. It's RIDICULOUS that "secession" "sedition" "overthrow" are "illegal".
My country, Canada, is a ridiculous country from the very outset. The US is born of republicanism, of separation of church and state, from separation of powers.
Canada is the opposite. Canada, conceptually, is born of monarchism, obedience, institutionalism, dominion of the Monarch's thinking over all other forms of decision making (no separation of powers).
There is also a geological/geographical component to this subservience, it's fucking cold and rocky. This means a majority of citizens only survive at the will of government interference.
Canadians are doomed, and clueless.
The only thing that could save Canadians is a merger with the less centralised US.
Canada's "conservatives" are probably the world's most ridiculous conservatives, they are extreme monarchists, insitutionalists, and the worst, they're germophobes.
During covid hysteria, the intellectual leaders of Conservatism in Canada Ruddyard Griffiths, Janice Stein, and David Frum, at The Hub and Munk Debates, opined that unvaxxed Canadians should be anally probed 3x weekly in order to have the right to earn a living.
Canadian Conservative Elites are straight up disgusting. Across our country, Conservative provinces had harsher covid hysterics regulations, compared to more liberal provinces.
Canadian Conservatives also believe people be born in the wrong body.
There's even a Canadian Conservative lesbian in Parliament who thinks men can be lesbians.
We are so fucked.
In the Western world, corporate rights are not got derived but government law derived. Therefore objectivists are 100% confused about their corporate LEGAL PRIVILEGES and individual LIBERTIES.
45:00 FALSE via the algorithms, which are imposed onto us, they are ENTIRELY PROVIDERS not "neutral platforms"
42:00 he talks of "positives and negatives" that's ridiculous and moralistic, the contrary of true objectivism. As for social media being "innovative" ? hell no. Social media are primarily advertising mediums.
41:00 his opinion is ONLY valid if you take away Section 230, which was a direct legal attack on all other media sources.
Companies exist ONLY at the behest of government!
The whole LLC (limited liability) and shareholding is a GOVERNMENT sanctioning of corporations ruling society, as oppossed to democracy.
The moment the first LLC was invented, that was the end of democracy and any realism of objectivism.
35:00 Social media LOBBIED for freedom from liability (Sect.230), a definite legal competitive advantage over all other forms of media BECAUSE they would not be editors.
As soon as they leaned into editing, they should have lost their freedom from liability.
Corporate interests are NOT individual expression, they are government expression, because all corporations control policy.
Covid policies were NOT socialist policies, they were PROFIT corporate policies. The "stay-home we'll pay you" policies are a DIRECT devaluation of currency which DIRECTLY benefits corporations over the plebs.
30:00 It is faulty thinking to limit one's view of censorship to government power. Censorship applies to ALL forms of power. Many powers are stronger than "government" (governments are a farce anyway). I was raised in a Roman Catholic society. My government, until the 70s, had no Department of Education, all education was controlled by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church was my censor.
Today, media is the principal censor.
Governments are a joke, simply parroting what their lobbyists demand of them.
Ultimately, ironically, this conversation has further demonstrated to me (a biologist) our incredibly irrational and unthinking objectivists are.
Objectivism is, ultimately, entrenched with institutionalism, through its religious belief in coerced peace for the preservation of the institution.
I'm sorry, but these objectivists are complete hypocrites. "If you try to change my rule of law, you are illegal"
Rule of law and free speech must be independent concepts.
Legally imposed "peace" is a ridiculous concept. The elites falsely use the word "peace" in lieu of the word authoritarianism.
As a well self-defence trained feminist, the "legal" structure can NEVER make women safe from violent men. I'm not an "anti-violence" feminist, violence is a part of life. The only way for women to be safe from violent men is to use all psychological and physical means to get out of violent situations.
The "law" ain't gonna save us. Only we can save ourselves.
"don't use force" ??? what a ridiculous concept!
If change is demanded by a majority, then all means are valid.
Overthrowing a government or a ruling class is a perfectly valid, and possibly necessary, political endeavour. It's RIDICULOUS that "secession" "sedition" "overthrow" are "illegal".