Not really. The reason why it didn't happen is because there was no reason for it to happen in the first place. All the people complaining about SJWs are quickly becoming far more obtrusive than the SJWs themselves.
Really? So explain how people who don't want intrusiveness in their lives and to be left alone is more obtrusive then SJW's who want to restrict speech, engage in witch hunts, and demand historical monuments to be torn down are worse.
"Race is "prejudice + power" thus blacks can not be racist." Is a very common line taught in universities diversity/race/gender/etc classes in the US and Canada.
This.
is. just. bullshit. claim. by. those. who. don't. want. to. give. their. entitlement. to. bully. any. and. every. minority. they. feel. like. they. don't. like.
Which is why when women who are accused of sexually assaulting men in the "#metoo" era, feminists rally the wagons, circle them, and defend them at all costs. Very progressive. Or when someone says "I'm not an anti-semite, I'm anti-termite" various progressive groups and organizations rally the wagon train and bung up against people attacking the speaker.
You're right on the culture of blame, but misunderstand why Trump is able to whether it. It's because he refuses to "bow" to the politically correct culture around it and through it. People were getting pissed off over it ~20 years ago, that PC culture has gotten far worse over the last 6 years. Everything from destroying historical monuments, to active discrimination against others "for the greater good" for education, job positions, loans, and so forth. In general western society was on a very good track towards meritocracy, and the political left injected identity politics into it hard pushing that if you don't fall in line with what they tell you, then you're a racist, sexist, misogynist, rapist, and so on.
You can round all of this out, that in many cases the people who are screaming this culture of blame from the rooftops are people who've actually done the things they've accused others of. The rank hypocrisy is simply the final nail in the coffin for it.
Heard this and the other conspiracy theory about Linus never being alone in a room with a woman, but never seen any evidence that it's true.
You mean when the stuff started coming out that the ada initiative was honeypotting people in order to pressure them out of jobs or positions of influence to get other people in there? That's where the rumors of Linus never being in a room alone with a woman came from.
Meanwhile Linux hasn't forked, hasn't been destroyed, the predicted mass exodus of developers and use of the CoC to oust all straight white men hasn't happened.
Yeah the only reason why it didn't happen is because contributors and developers refused to bow to it, and that's the reason why Linus is suddenly coming back. This isn't rocket surgery, this is what happens when a moral busybody pushes something in, gets into place and people go "nope - fuck you" and the entire thing starts to degenerate into a mess of infighting. The "average" people who don't pay attention, were suddenly paying attention when it directly affected them.
This isn't any different then say, the decade of loss for blue collar jobs via outsourcing and white collar works went on about "lulz low skilled workers, you should have gotten jobs like us." And a bit down the road, those white collar jobs are suddenly being outsourced and "average people" suddenly see it as an issue as well.
Someone stuck a gun to his head? Look, the world is changing whether you like it or not. Linus Torvalds chose to roll with it.
Most people have a problem with "diversity initiatives" that look like they came out of the 1953 playbook of "fuck insert race here." This is after decades of "judge by the content of character, not by their skin" with the west moving for a more meritocratic system. And then the leftwing progressives, universities, and government policies that fell all over themselves by giving handouts, freebies, preferential hiring, slots in universities, government jobs to people who wouldn't have cut it otherwise.
There's a reason why Harvard and several other US universities are being sued for active discrimination against whites and asians.
Seriously, when faced with 'take empathy training' or 'lead the community off to the biggest flame war of all time', which did you think he was going to choose?
Easy answer, because outrage mobs have already made the choice for him. If he didn't bow, they'd start slandering him and trying to ruin him financially among others who refused to bow down. So the choice between bowing to the mob that does nothing, and the group that contributes? He made a choice hoping it would blow over.
Empathy is an interesting thing, problem is the people riding the outrage mob don't care. They don't want empathy, they want their victimization validated. Victimization as a currency is valuable, you can get pretty far on it if you're a shitty human who's done shitty things to people. Because there's an entire mob of people inside that progressive stack who will defend your actions, and go out of their way to ruin the detractors. Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt, Donglegate, take your pick among the hundreds of other cases.
The "outrage" over the NPC meme is fake, and a great example of how fake news can be divisive.
Really? Could you please explain then, why sites like the washington post and NYT were falling all over themselves publishing actual articles on it. Not opinion, articles. Then please explain why all those blue checkmarked retards were falling all over themselves screeching that it was dehumanizing. No no, this wasn't 'outrage fake news' this was real news that for whatever reason triggered the hell out of them. And this was despite the fact that they used ad-homs all over themselves and attacking conservatives with them.
Here's a study of a recent example of fake outrage over the new Doom game
You don't seem to know what "fake news" actually is. Just like how you don't seem to grasp that SJW's exist. You seem to misunderstand what's going on here, so I'll explain it. The left is full-on outrage bait all the time, this isn't fake news, this is news made for people who have a desire to have their sensibilities offended. This isn't new, it's been going on for years. Hell you were parroting outrage bait not that long ago, and were all over yourself about how Pepe is a "white nationalist symbol" and other garbage.
Please stop repeating this stuff. All you are doing is driving the wedge between people who think of themselves as conservatives/rational and everyone else in deeper.
Why don't you go tell the left wing press to stop printing it then? The mainstream press in western countries doesn't cater to conservatives or libertarians. But it directly caters to people like yourself who eat this garbage day in and day out.
Everyone manipulates public opinion. Know what the difference today is vs 30 years ago? Now everyone can leave their own views, input, beliefs and "let the group as a whole" make the decisions as to what they're saying is good or bad. This pulls views away from the elitists, the pundits, the manipulation by the media telling you how you should view something. That control they had for decades is something they've lost.
The most recent meme aka NPC meme is a great example of this. The political left, pundits, media just freak out over it. What's the problem with it? Well the let "claims it dehumanizes people." But...there's a problem with that. Why weren't they being banned from social media platforms when they were screeching that conservatives, libertarians, trump supporters, mad max, doug ford supporters, were all labeled as racist, neo-nazis, sexists, reacists, bigots, homophobes, white nationalists, race traitors, uncle toms, and so on.
I'll give you your answer. Because it struck too close to home. The NPC meme is a satirical mocking of a loud-mouth leftist pundit/politicians point and those who suppor it. It becomes effective to everyone else because a person and look around at the people they draw to them, and then notice how much is full on regurgitation of these same points, in the most stupid way. Usually involving some form of attack against the persons job, family, race, sexual orientation and what not.
Conservatives find this funny because they can and regularly engage in self-deprecating humor. Progressives do not. And in a round of "OMGROFLF" phase, Twitter banned 1500 accounts that were not violating any rule, or policy, or anything else. The reason? Nobody knows, and twitter is refusing to day why.
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Strange because the result I see is fundamentally different. It's all HTTPS, the referrer ID is static when using different browsers, and only shows a different ID when using a VPN in turn a different country. Which is likely the reason that you're seeing something different. The ad server is the same - 'yhs' or yahoo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
That's not what it says, and even at that unlike google they give you the option to "report bad ads."
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
They use bing, and curate the ads served. Something fundamentally different, remember when companies had their own ad hosts and only allowed specific ads? Yeah...those were the days before giant ad networks spewing malware. Oh, the other way is via affiliate links aka you click on a product they get a cut. They also don't follow you around the internet like a crazy ex that just can't seem to let go.
Slash and burn is not a bad system. It worked for mankind very long times: because they only did it to farm food, and later the jungle took over again. It indeed was a cycle.
Wrong. You misunderstand how slash and burn in various soil types differs. If you slash and burn a deciduous forest, there's already an existing cycle of growth that's at play. On top of that, the soil type is fundamentally different it's not 'nutrient poor' compared to say the rain forest. This is why slash and burn doesn't work there, it's why when the nutrients are expended the first thing that happens is they cut back more forest and plant more crops. The nutrient cycles of rain forests, tropical and subtropical are far longer then in places where there is a seasonal change.
No. I mean climate scientists. Quite obviously. But morons like you will lie to themselves right up until the mess you made kills you.
Oh, you mean the ones that operate with organizations like the IPCC? How's the snow on Everest these days, a decade ago they were saying it was all going to be gone. Apparently the moron is yourself, if you think that they're infallible.
Up next, maybe you can explain why eugenics is becoming the hot shit in leftwing academia again.
That's a good point. So, why are people protesting against Trump wanting to bring manufacturing back and out of China again?
By-the-by though, if you look at a lot of computer hardware you'll find that a lot of isn't even made, manufactured, fabbed in China these days. Malaysia and Thailand are the hot manufacturing, fabbing places right now...at least until wages start rising. Interesting thing in that, people say countries "don't have long term plans" and all that. If it was true, you wouldn't see China and what they're doing in Africa these days. Give it another decade or so and if you thought "American" or "European" imperialism in that continent is bad, you haven't see what they're likely to pull.
Yeah, DVORAK can replace QWERTY keyboards... but you'll be condemning yourself to a life of fighting your environment to work in DVORAK instead of QWERTY.
Pretty much. It really won't change either unless there's a fundamental shift on how typing is changed either. And since we've got a couple of generations that have learned nothing but QWERTY keyboards, and an entire new generation with their tablets, smartphones and so on as well? It likely will never change.
Don't get me wrong, I can type on both types and get a higher error free on DVORAK, but you're trying to fight an uphill battle if you think that QWERTY will be replaced by anything short of either wetware or neural typing.
No. It was scary 20 years ago. For those that listened. By now they are desperate as they see what is coming.
You mean like the environmentalists, ngos, the UN itself that protested the cutting down of the rainforests but at the same time protested helping those same people developer better farming techniques, and modernizing instead of clear-cut burning/slash and burn farming? Creating a really great cycle of slash and burn because of poor soil quality, so as the system is depleted they engage in more slash and burning.
Yep, those are our learned sages of academia, and the people who are promoting policies.
I think it might be the centuries of genocide against the Indigenous / Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, and not the government living up to any treaties obligations that is responsible for what you see in Canada. Residential schools, Indian hospitals, Sixties Scoop, the list goes on and on.
Really? So when the natives were genociding themselves, raping, enslaving each other and other people did the same thing it was suddenly whitey's fault? Hey whatever I guess, I mean it's not like there wasn't historical evidence that natives from other bands would take women captive, rape them until pregnant then kill them after giving birth or anything. Such a great shining cultural ethos and all that, and really plays well with the peaceful natives bit.
Shouldn't be surprised by that comment especially with the garbage they teach in school these days. Oh, and Canada does live up to it's treaty obligations..funny thing about that say compared to the US for example. And of course don't forget that natives seem to think that the residential school program was actually a good idea. Or the bands that believe that all of the treaties should be voided because it creates a culture where cronyism and abuse are normalized.
Oh, I'm sorry, you were talking about why we must not help poor people get out of poverty.
Where did I say that? Ah...right...no where. By all means, explain how you got that out of what I said. Never mind that here in the Americas that a person who's dirt poor is leagues above a person who was poor even 30 years ago. Why don't you explain how your answer obviously ties into throwing free money at people, with the belief that it will solve all their ills. Because that's what the UBI solution is, and that's how things have worked out in Canada not to their benefit, not to societies either. But to a fundamental detriment all the way around.
it's got nothing to do with laziness. Most folks just aren't that capable. That was fine when we had farm jobs and later factory jobs. We've done away with most of those, and we're starting to see the effect.
That said, folks can and will amuse themselves. And given birth control they won't even breed out of control. Heck, give the birth control for free and start sex ed early and you'll have trouble getting them to have enough people to sustain a population. People breeded a lot because they needed farm hands. Take that need away and they'll control themselves.
Well it appears your argument is they're just stupid. So what's your savior answer going to be?
You're spouting puritanical nonsense that got jammed in your skull when you were too young to have mental defenses against it. Look around the world at how people behave when they're under constant pressure. Poor people make consistently worse decisions and mistakes. Pressure doesn't make diamonds, it makes garbage more compact.
So, when a native makes the same statement when they've left the reservation. Or bands that are extremely successful, and haven't fallen into the "free money" claptrap state the same, it's obviously my problem and not a common sentiment? Gee it's almost like you're fundamentally ignorant of what's actually going on.
Oh, and as children many were taken from their communities against their will and put into Residential Schools that had the express purpose of trying to erase their indigenous identities.
Yeah residential schools, funny how many natives actually do and still support them and believe they should come back.
So after all of this... you think a bit of Government money is to blame for their problems?
Indirectly yes. And it's not an uncommon belief among natives that "have left the reservation."
To mangle an old expression, you're blaming the deck chair arrangement for the sinking of the Titanic.
Well you sure did mangle it. But why not look at the actions, what the previous government(Harper) did in an attempt to gain accountability and the current government(Trudeau) which screeched that it was racist and we'll go from there.
So, according to your logic, if enough people say "Mashiki is a pedophile" over and over again, you'll somehow become one? In spite of never having done anything with a kid?
According to my logic, there have been numerous court cases. There have been multiple official inquiries, and the leaked council, police, and government reports stating that they were not to look into it. I'm not sure what's worse, that you can't understand what I said. Or you actually think that your reply approached logic.
That's essentially what you're arguing. We know that more people are in jail for falsely reporting "migrant rapes" than migrants for raping. They admitted to making things up to stir up tension. To get idiots like you to believe lies. Why can't you believe them when they admit to lying?
So the trojan horse scandal didn't happen? Rotherham and nearly a dozen other cities in the UK that had the same thing going on didn't happen? Canada just had their first 'migrant' child prostitution and rape gang bust, but that didn't happen? The cases of the same in Sweden, Netherlands and Germany didn't happen either? Are you living in an alternate timeline?
We have data. You have literal fake news, that has been disproven over and over again. Screaming and raving that you're right even when the data irrefutably proves you wrong won't magically make you correct. Why do you have such a problem with dealing with reality?
So the actual inquiry reports are fake news? And the police reports are fake news? And the court cases with criminal convictions are fake? Who's the one having a problem dealing with reality again.
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Not really. The reason why it didn't happen is because there was no reason for it to happen in the first place. All the people complaining about SJWs are quickly becoming far more obtrusive than the SJWs themselves.
Really? So explain how people who don't want intrusiveness in their lives and to be left alone is more obtrusive then SJW's who want to restrict speech, engage in witch hunts, and demand historical monuments to be torn down are worse.
"Race is "prejudice + power" thus blacks can not be racist." Is a very common line taught in universities diversity/race/gender/etc classes in the US and Canada.
This.
is. just. bullshit. claim. by. those. who. don't. want. to. give. their. entitlement. to. bully. any. and. every. minority. they. feel. like. they. don't. like.
Which is why when women who are accused of sexually assaulting men in the "#metoo" era, feminists rally the wagons, circle them, and defend them at all costs. Very progressive. Or when someone says "I'm not an anti-semite, I'm anti-termite" various progressive groups and organizations rally the wagon train and bung up against people attacking the speaker.
You're right on the culture of blame, but misunderstand why Trump is able to whether it. It's because he refuses to "bow" to the politically correct culture around it and through it. People were getting pissed off over it ~20 years ago, that PC culture has gotten far worse over the last 6 years. Everything from destroying historical monuments, to active discrimination against others "for the greater good" for education, job positions, loans, and so forth. In general western society was on a very good track towards meritocracy, and the political left injected identity politics into it hard pushing that if you don't fall in line with what they tell you, then you're a racist, sexist, misogynist, rapist, and so on.
You can round all of this out, that in many cases the people who are screaming this culture of blame from the rooftops are people who've actually done the things they've accused others of. The rank hypocrisy is simply the final nail in the coffin for it.
Heard this and the other conspiracy theory about Linus never being alone in a room with a woman, but never seen any evidence that it's true.
You mean when the stuff started coming out that the ada initiative was honeypotting people in order to pressure them out of jobs or positions of influence to get other people in there? That's where the rumors of Linus never being in a room alone with a woman came from.
Meanwhile Linux hasn't forked, hasn't been destroyed, the predicted mass exodus of developers and use of the CoC to oust all straight white men hasn't happened.
Yeah the only reason why it didn't happen is because contributors and developers refused to bow to it, and that's the reason why Linus is suddenly coming back. This isn't rocket surgery, this is what happens when a moral busybody pushes something in, gets into place and people go "nope - fuck you" and the entire thing starts to degenerate into a mess of infighting. The "average" people who don't pay attention, were suddenly paying attention when it directly affected them.
This isn't any different then say, the decade of loss for blue collar jobs via outsourcing and white collar works went on about "lulz low skilled workers, you should have gotten jobs like us." And a bit down the road, those white collar jobs are suddenly being outsourced and "average people" suddenly see it as an issue as well.
Someone stuck a gun to his head? Look, the world is changing whether you like it or not. Linus Torvalds chose to roll with it.
Most people have a problem with "diversity initiatives" that look like they came out of the 1953 playbook of "fuck insert race here." This is after decades of "judge by the content of character, not by their skin" with the west moving for a more meritocratic system. And then the leftwing progressives, universities, and government policies that fell all over themselves by giving handouts, freebies, preferential hiring, slots in universities, government jobs to people who wouldn't have cut it otherwise.
There's a reason why Harvard and several other US universities are being sued for active discrimination against whites and asians.
Seriously, when faced with 'take empathy training' or 'lead the community off to the biggest flame war of all time', which did you think he was going to choose?
Easy answer, because outrage mobs have already made the choice for him. If he didn't bow, they'd start slandering him and trying to ruin him financially among others who refused to bow down. So the choice between bowing to the mob that does nothing, and the group that contributes? He made a choice hoping it would blow over.
Empathy is an interesting thing, problem is the people riding the outrage mob don't care. They don't want empathy, they want their victimization validated. Victimization as a currency is valuable, you can get pretty far on it if you're a shitty human who's done shitty things to people. Because there's an entire mob of people inside that progressive stack who will defend your actions, and go out of their way to ruin the detractors. Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt, Donglegate, take your pick among the hundreds of other cases.
The "outrage" over the NPC meme is fake, and a great example of how fake news can be divisive.
Really? Could you please explain then, why sites like the washington post and NYT were falling all over themselves publishing actual articles on it. Not opinion, articles. Then please explain why all those blue checkmarked retards were falling all over themselves screeching that it was dehumanizing. No no, this wasn't 'outrage fake news' this was real news that for whatever reason triggered the hell out of them. And this was despite the fact that they used ad-homs all over themselves and attacking conservatives with them.
Here's a study of a recent example of fake outrage over the new Doom game
You don't seem to know what "fake news" actually is. Just like how you don't seem to grasp that SJW's exist. You seem to misunderstand what's going on here, so I'll explain it. The left is full-on outrage bait all the time, this isn't fake news, this is news made for people who have a desire to have their sensibilities offended. This isn't new, it's been going on for years. Hell you were parroting outrage bait not that long ago, and were all over yourself about how Pepe is a "white nationalist symbol" and other garbage.
Please stop repeating this stuff. All you are doing is driving the wedge between people who think of themselves as conservatives/rational and everyone else in deeper.
Why don't you go tell the left wing press to stop printing it then? The mainstream press in western countries doesn't cater to conservatives or libertarians. But it directly caters to people like yourself who eat this garbage day in and day out.
Everyone manipulates public opinion. Know what the difference today is vs 30 years ago? Now everyone can leave their own views, input, beliefs and "let the group as a whole" make the decisions as to what they're saying is good or bad. This pulls views away from the elitists, the pundits, the manipulation by the media telling you how you should view something. That control they had for decades is something they've lost.
The most recent meme aka NPC meme is a great example of this. The political left, pundits, media just freak out over it. What's the problem with it? Well the let "claims it dehumanizes people." But...there's a problem with that. Why weren't they being banned from social media platforms when they were screeching that conservatives, libertarians, trump supporters, mad max, doug ford supporters, were all labeled as racist, neo-nazis, sexists, reacists, bigots, homophobes, white nationalists, race traitors, uncle toms, and so on.
I'll give you your answer. Because it struck too close to home. The NPC meme is a satirical mocking of a loud-mouth leftist pundit/politicians point and those who suppor it. It becomes effective to everyone else because a person and look around at the people they draw to them, and then notice how much is full on regurgitation of these same points, in the most stupid way. Usually involving some form of attack against the persons job, family, race, sexual orientation and what not.
Conservatives find this funny because they can and regularly engage in self-deprecating humor. Progressives do not. And in a round of "OMGROFLF" phase, Twitter banned 1500 accounts that were not violating any rule, or policy, or anything else. The reason? Nobody knows, and twitter is refusing to day why.
It's obviously 748,931 Libraries of Congress.
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Strange because the result I see is fundamentally different. It's all HTTPS, the referrer ID is static when using different browsers, and only shows a different ID when using a VPN in turn a different country. Which is likely the reason that you're seeing something different. The ad server is the same - 'yhs' or yahoo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
That's not what it says, and even at that unlike google they give you the option to "report bad ads."
Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
No, they actually don't.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
They use bing, and curate the ads served. Something fundamentally different, remember when companies had their own ad hosts and only allowed specific ads? Yeah...those were the days before giant ad networks spewing malware. Oh, the other way is via affiliate links aka you click on a product they get a cut. They also don't follow you around the internet like a crazy ex that just can't seem to let go.
Good luck with that. Using Duck Duck Go won't even register in the Google accounting department.
That's kinda funny, because I remember when people said altavista would be around forever and google would never replace them.
People in the UN are political leaders, not scientists. I'm assuming he/she meant the people who actually know and understand this stuff.
So the IPCC is a political organization now? That *is* part of the UN after all.
Slash and burn is not a bad system. It worked for mankind very long times: because they only did it to farm food, and later the jungle took over again. It indeed was a cycle.
Wrong. You misunderstand how slash and burn in various soil types differs. If you slash and burn a deciduous forest, there's already an existing cycle of growth that's at play. On top of that, the soil type is fundamentally different it's not 'nutrient poor' compared to say the rain forest. This is why slash and burn doesn't work there, it's why when the nutrients are expended the first thing that happens is they cut back more forest and plant more crops. The nutrient cycles of rain forests, tropical and subtropical are far longer then in places where there is a seasonal change.
No. I mean climate scientists. Quite obviously. But morons like you will lie to themselves right up until the mess you made kills you.
Oh, you mean the ones that operate with organizations like the IPCC? How's the snow on Everest these days, a decade ago they were saying it was all going to be gone. Apparently the moron is yourself, if you think that they're infallible.
Up next, maybe you can explain why eugenics is becoming the hot shit in leftwing academia again.
That's a good point. So, why are people protesting against Trump wanting to bring manufacturing back and out of China again?
By-the-by though, if you look at a lot of computer hardware you'll find that a lot of isn't even made, manufactured, fabbed in China these days. Malaysia and Thailand are the hot manufacturing, fabbing places right now...at least until wages start rising. Interesting thing in that, people say countries "don't have long term plans" and all that. If it was true, you wouldn't see China and what they're doing in Africa these days. Give it another decade or so and if you thought "American" or "European" imperialism in that continent is bad, you haven't see what they're likely to pull.
"Hans ... are we the baddies?"
Of course not Franz. The God-Emperor protects, bask in his radiant glory as a 1000 psykers are killed each day to protect us from chaos.
Yeah, DVORAK can replace QWERTY keyboards... but you'll be condemning yourself to a life of fighting your environment to work in DVORAK instead of QWERTY.
Pretty much. It really won't change either unless there's a fundamental shift on how typing is changed either. And since we've got a couple of generations that have learned nothing but QWERTY keyboards, and an entire new generation with their tablets, smartphones and so on as well? It likely will never change.
Don't get me wrong, I can type on both types and get a higher error free on DVORAK, but you're trying to fight an uphill battle if you think that QWERTY will be replaced by anything short of either wetware or neural typing.
No. It was scary 20 years ago. For those that listened. By now they are desperate as they see what is coming.
You mean like the environmentalists, ngos, the UN itself that protested the cutting down of the rainforests but at the same time protested helping those same people developer better farming techniques, and modernizing instead of clear-cut burning/slash and burn farming? Creating a really great cycle of slash and burn because of poor soil quality, so as the system is depleted they engage in more slash and burning.
Yep, those are our learned sages of academia, and the people who are promoting policies.
WTF Poor != Lazy
Don't worry if the point flew over your head, you'll catch on eventually.
I think it might be the centuries of genocide against the Indigenous / Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, and not the government living up to any treaties obligations that is responsible for what you see in Canada. Residential schools, Indian hospitals, Sixties Scoop, the list goes on and on.
Really? So when the natives were genociding themselves, raping, enslaving each other and other people did the same thing it was suddenly whitey's fault? Hey whatever I guess, I mean it's not like there wasn't historical evidence that natives from other bands would take women captive, rape them until pregnant then kill them after giving birth or anything. Such a great shining cultural ethos and all that, and really plays well with the peaceful natives bit.
Shouldn't be surprised by that comment especially with the garbage they teach in school these days. Oh, and Canada does live up to it's treaty obligations..funny thing about that say compared to the US for example. And of course don't forget that natives seem to think that the residential school program was actually a good idea. Or the bands that believe that all of the treaties should be voided because it creates a culture where cronyism and abuse are normalized.
Oh, I'm sorry, you were talking about why we must not help poor people get out of poverty.
Where did I say that? Ah...right...no where. By all means, explain how you got that out of what I said. Never mind that here in the Americas that a person who's dirt poor is leagues above a person who was poor even 30 years ago. Why don't you explain how your answer obviously ties into throwing free money at people, with the belief that it will solve all their ills. Because that's what the UBI solution is, and that's how things have worked out in Canada not to their benefit, not to societies either. But to a fundamental detriment all the way around.
it's got nothing to do with laziness. Most folks just aren't that capable. That was fine when we had farm jobs and later factory jobs. We've done away with most of those, and we're starting to see the effect.
That said, folks can and will amuse themselves. And given birth control they won't even breed out of control. Heck, give the birth control for free and start sex ed early and you'll have trouble getting them to have enough people to sustain a population. People breeded a lot because they needed farm hands. Take that need away and they'll control themselves.
Well it appears your argument is they're just stupid. So what's your savior answer going to be?
You're spouting puritanical nonsense that got jammed in your skull when you were too young to have mental defenses against it. Look around the world at how people behave when they're under constant pressure. Poor people make consistently worse decisions and mistakes. Pressure doesn't make diamonds, it makes garbage more compact.
So, when a native makes the same statement when they've left the reservation. Or bands that are extremely successful, and haven't fallen into the "free money" claptrap state the same, it's obviously my problem and not a common sentiment? Gee it's almost like you're fundamentally ignorant of what's actually going on.
Oh, and as children many were taken from their communities against their will and put into Residential Schools that had the express purpose of trying to erase their indigenous identities.
Yeah residential schools, funny how many natives actually do and still support them and believe they should come back.
So after all of this... you think a bit of Government money is to blame for their problems?
Indirectly yes. And it's not an uncommon belief among natives that "have left the reservation."
To mangle an old expression, you're blaming the deck chair arrangement for the sinking of the Titanic.
Well you sure did mangle it. But why not look at the actions, what the previous government(Harper) did in an attempt to gain accountability and the current government(Trudeau) which screeched that it was racist and we'll go from there.
So, according to your logic, if enough people say "Mashiki is a pedophile" over and over again, you'll somehow become one? In spite of never having done anything with a kid?
According to my logic, there have been numerous court cases. There have been multiple official inquiries, and the leaked council, police, and government reports stating that they were not to look into it. I'm not sure what's worse, that you can't understand what I said. Or you actually think that your reply approached logic.
That's essentially what you're arguing. We know that more people are in jail for falsely reporting "migrant rapes" than migrants for raping. They admitted to making things up to stir up tension. To get idiots like you to believe lies. Why can't you believe them when they admit to lying?
So the trojan horse scandal didn't happen? Rotherham and nearly a dozen other cities in the UK that had the same thing going on didn't happen? Canada just had their first 'migrant' child prostitution and rape gang bust, but that didn't happen? The cases of the same in Sweden, Netherlands and Germany didn't happen either? Are you living in an alternate timeline?
We have data. You have literal fake news, that has been disproven over and over again. Screaming and raving that you're right even when the data irrefutably proves you wrong won't magically make you correct. Why do you have such a problem with dealing with reality?
So the actual inquiry reports are fake news? And the police reports are fake news? And the court cases with criminal convictions are fake? Who's the one having a problem dealing with reality again.