Tyranny of the majority
The tyranny of the majority in a democratic context is NOT the risk of tyranny of white people, or heterosexual people, or men, or whatever. It is the tyranny of the POLITICAL majority.
50%+1 of the votes, 100% of the power. THIS is the danger, not
@DannyCoonan
@JasonSCampbell
This is Rami Malek. He's an Egyptian, a Coptic Christian, descended from the historical people of Egypt.
Does he look black to you?
There are two kinds of people in the world...
1- Those who hear COVID cases are rising and become afraid of COVID
2- Those who hear COVID cases are rising and become afraid of government reaction and lockdowns due to the first kind of people
@Norlaine
@MaximeBernier
No, that's civility you're talking about. Political correctness is about controlling what opinions can be aired, civility allows every opinion to be voiced as long as it's done in a respectful manner.
@MichaelPSenger
Public health used coercion to enforce their measures. They CANNOT admit their failures, they'd open themselves to so many lawsuits from those who suffered harm due to the coercive way the measures were applied.
@rupasubramanya
My hypothesis is that he has signed contracts for tens of millions of doses of vaccine for the next 2 years so he either has to force people to take them or admit he wasted billions of dollars of public funds in a panic.
@Emersom_Biggins
@JustinWhang
@MikeSington
As far as I'm concerned, if you can take bits of the animal no one likes and make it into highly desirable food, that's a demonstration that pure economic self-interest can be very effective to reduce waste. That's good, not bad.
@robbysoave
@wokal_distance
Branding dissenters as mentally unstable and forcing them to be subject to psychological/psychiatrical treatment was a favored tactic of the USSR under Brezhnev. Crazy to think an American educational institution would do the same.
@lporiginalg
If a 12 year old kid is claiming to be bi, the proper response is ask who put that idea in his head.
I was raised in the 90s, no kid that age ever called himself bi or "non-binary". Kids don't come up with that on his own, this is put into their heads by adults.
@Timcast
The cost of not paying attention to what goes on in Twitter is worse than the cost of participating in it. Whether we like it or not, the media and political establishment take Twitter very seriously.
If you stop paying attention, you'll just get blindsided.
@michaelpsenger
She's still lying. They had no data whatsoever to make that claim. Even the pharmaceutical companies admitted they never tested for this in their trials.
@zeynep
Grifters?
So the grifters according to you are not those lobbying social media companies to censor truthful information to sell more of their company's products, but those who denounced what they saw as wrong at great personal and professional cost?
I transformed ChatGPT into a
@JustinTrudeau
reply simulator with one simple prompt. I laughed out loud given how accurate it was, that I even got a bit dizzy.
@LocalSoundwave
I said it before and I'll say it again, the subscription model is a disaster for movies. Because there is no direct income source linked to a movie's popularity, there is little incentive for anyone to make sure a movie appeals to the public rather than to internal politics.
@JohnRWoodJr
He wishes that kids would have died so that his position pushing lockdowns and vaccine mandates would have been vindicated. Which in a way is an admission he KNOWS he went too far, but instead of apologizing, he blames COVID for not being lethal enough to make him right.
@Covid19Crusher
This is even more impressive when you learn the IVM users were older on average, with 30% >50 yo versus 20% for non-IVM users. The mortality reduction is even higher looking at different age groups. 85% for 31-49 yo and 59% for >50 yo.
@misterdebuono
Stop sexualizing kids and stop encouraging them to shape their identities around their sexuality. What you're doing is deeply harmful, you're denying kids a normal childhood by forcing your own petty ideological crusades on them.
@scruffgruff1
@wokal_distance
Not just that. Too effective. Both in intellectually showing why their ideas were bankrupt and in coming up with flippant rebuttals that expose their ideas to ridicule.
He could reach the intellectuals and the masses.
@JhcPolitical
@nickourey
@morganisawizard
Your denial of things that are of common knowledge and easily verifiable with a Google search makes you out to be in bad faith. I won't bother wasting my time.
@JhcPolitical
@nickourey
@morganisawizard
Obama used to be the "deporter in chief", now Democrat politicians sign documents promising not to deport anyone except criminals.
"Treat every race equally" used to be the left-wing position, now they say it's "colorblind racism"
...
@MakkStephen
@ChanLPfa
It's not just using normal pronouns, it's refusing to engage in the ritual, and that people have the right to require you to use certain pronouns when talking about them.
They want to make neutrality impossible, either you embrace them or you're homo/transphobic.
@libsoftiktok
How can people not see this is teaching kids conspiracy theories? All of society's institutions are designed to oppress "marginalized" groups? This is conspiratorial thinking that will lead kids to not even try to succeed.
@Timcast
In other words, Twitter is like a dump truck full of shit that goes around ramming people, you might not like looking at it, but if you do, at least you'll know it's coming before it hits you. Otherwise, you get hit by it without knowing it's coming.
@conradhackett
This is a joke. Today's Republicans are basically at the same position as 90s Democrats on most issues. The metric used can only be biased and hides the subjectivity of the author.
@JhcPolitical
@nickourey
@morganisawizard
...the left's position on abortion used to be "safe, legal and rare" now we have some pushing for abortion until the moment of birth and celebrating abortion as a good thing.
The left used to simply preach tolerance for trans people, now there's talk of "female penis".
Etc...
@CMA_Docs
@AlikaMD
We all lost two years of our lives to absurd measures with your complicity, while you systematically refused to even study potential treatments, putting it on people not to get sick rather than treating them when they do.
You reap what you sow.
The biggest disinformation campaign right now is that of calling ivermectin a "horse dewormer", omitting the fact that it has been approved in humans since 1988 and indicated for human use for many conditions, this disinformation is downright harmful...
@luvadergolder
@Norlaine
@MaximeBernier
That definition is incorrect. Political correctness is the social enforcement of political orthodoxy and repression of any view that challenges it. Today, the orthodoxy does pretend to stand for what you say, but it's obviously a disingenuous veneer to justify the repression.
@politicalmath
We have been telling generations of kids that working most of your waking hours for a corporation that doesn't care for you is liberating, but taking care of the people you love is no better than slavery.
@RBReich
Woke - a conspiratorial mindset of peope who consider themselves "awakened" to the supposed reality that society is an intersection of systems of oppression that manifest everywhere and are responsible for all observed disparities, who think any disparity is proof of systemic
@Harry__Faulkner
When you spend years demonizing parts of your citizens, saying they have unacceptable views, turning their friends and family against them, and trying to deprive them of their livelihood and their basic human rights, that's what you get.
@kukuruyo
"Nothing's good for me" says she, living in a wealthy, advanced society, probably going to college, feeling entirely comfortable insulting a strange man she just met because she feels if he did anything to her, the police would be on him like a Fat Acceptance activist on candy.
@smt_romania
@OliverJia1014
It's actually far worse, because you don't really need to kill lots of people as Jack Marston to get to him. The missions to find him are just about asking people where you can find him.
@Humble_Analysis
This is interesting scientifically because it demonstrates how the virus is spreading even in fully vaccinated populations when testing is systematic rather than based on voluntary testing provoked by symptoms.
@petersterne
@davidrkadler
Turnout in the first "progressive" constituent election: 45%
Turnout in the current constituent election: 85%
People were never on the leftists' side. They just didn't vote. The majority of apathetic voters are not left-wing radicals, they're "leave me alone" conservatives.
@misterdebuono
Here's what the message should be about sexual minorities in schools: "Some people aren't straight in life, maybe you will be one of them, they deserve the same respect as everyone else. It is wrong and illegal to harass them for that...
...now back to maths."
@Arturmaks
@wef
As a former NDP member (even twice candidate), since when has the left become bootlickers for foreign billionaires?
I remember the left being highly critical of the WEF's Davis meetings. Now the establishment Left calls any critic of the WEF a "conspiracy theory".
@CMA_Docs
@AlikaMD
We can't stay silent either on your complete betrayal of all standards of bioethics in your support of coercive measures to force people to take a non-sterilizing vaccine and your denial of the principle of informed consent by censoring emergent information about side effects.
@Par2ivalz
@disclosetv
They've announced referenda in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson to join Russia. Once they're Russian soil (according to Russian law), the army won't be limited in its means to mobilize and defend it.
@Humble_Analysis
Just to underline it.
The fully vaccinated are 98% of the population.
356 out of 364 cases are among the fully vaccinated.
That means 97.8% of cases are among the fully vaccinated.
@TyVorhies
@DrJBhattacharya
Media language has for two years been used to portray lockdowns and other measures as mandatory, the logical result of COVID waves rather than political measures that could be criticized and avoided. The use of language has been insidious but very real in shaping minds.
@BretWeinstein
I will point out though that there is no control group in that study. We cannot exclude the fact that social isolation from lockdowns may in themselves provoke some cognitive decline and so even the uninfected may show such decline if we were to test them.
@SouthlandPost
I remember that day, well on TV anyway. So what strikes me most is how the camera outran most people ahead of the debris cloud while carrying a heavy professional video camera. That man was an athlete.
@EdKrassen
Again. New York juries full of Democrats are going to recognize Trump guilty of whatever he is accused of. No one but hardened Democrats will recognize the validity of such juries.
@Scientific_Bird
@phl43
So the problem with us engineers is that we live in a world where objective reality exists and is a check on our theories and opinions rather than one where anything can be "true" as long as one convinces one's colleagues of its internal logic or social desirability?
@beatmastermatt
@ElijahSchaffer
@Culture_Crit
Immigration isn't a good thing. It increases total GDP but doesn't increase GDP per capita (even reduces it a bit) and tends to balloon housing costs, directly increasing cost of living.
Rich countries have higher immigration because they're rich. You're confusing causality.
@petersterne
@davidrkadler
...because they abused the fact they got a majority due to voter apathy to propose a very progressive constitution, which prompted a backlash from normally apathetic voters who decided to vote to block that kind of partisan constitution.
@ConceptualJames
Welcome to "disaster progressivism".
Whenever an event happens, if it can be spun to extract radical progressive changes, it will. It will be squeezed like an orange to the very last drop.
If it can't be spun, it will be swept under the carpet.
@ChanLPfa
In addition to the inappropriateness of indoctrinating kids into that pronoun stuff, how many days celebrating minority sexualities and sexual identities are there? It seems like every other week there's one.
@atRachelGilmore
@BlackTomThePyr8
They didn't "cover the divide" they deliberately sought out the more inflammatory, hateful comments on Twitter and in interviews to promote them on their first page. And it wasn't a one-time deal, this was just the peak of a campaign of hate propaganda YOU participated in.
@NoContextHumans
Meanwhile, in Japan, "This ATM just hands out 10 000 yen bills (100$), I'm going to go buy a coke in this 7-eleven to get some change."
@wokal_distance
To criticize something, you have to define it. To refer to that definition, you must name it.
If they do not have a name, you cannot criticize "them". That's why they deliberately refuse to name their movement and philosophy, so it is impossible to criticize them.
@ThierryBreton
@elonmusk
You never gave a damn about transparency with the previous Twitter administration. People like you call "disinformation" any information, true or false, that makes you look bad, you want it censored so your power is never threatened.
You are the
#1
threat to democracy.
@MarinaMedvin
@libsoftiktok
When a man entered Dawson college in Montréal for a shooting spree, two patrolmen rushed into the building within minutes as they were trained to do, they wounded him and he committed suicide. This limited his death toll to just one victim.
What happened in Texas?
@PolitiFact
"I want schools to open but only when it's safe."
-Are they safe now?
"No."
-What will it take for them to be safe enough to reopen?
"No."
Politifact verdict: she wanted them open!
The media told us to "follow the science" but the "experts" in public health apparently made decisions based on things they read in the media. A perfect closed loop.
The media says something. PH reads it and adopts it. The media says no one can criticize it cause PH said so.
@DelusionPosting
Because the Simpsons are well-known for rounded, nuanced characters that are models for all to follow and not exaggerated stereotypes.
@wokal_distance
Wokism: conspiratorial worldview that assumes any observable differences in outcomes between group identities is generated by disguised "systems of oppressions" built at the heart of every part of society, which have to be denounced and countered in any way possible.
@rupasubramanya
Imagine if courts worked like that.
Judge "M. X, you are accused of murder, did you do it?"
Mr. X "No."
Judge "Well, that's good enough for me, not guilty! Case closed!"
@picardonhealth
Ah yes, the wife-beater excuse. "It's your fault I'm hitting you, it's the consequences of you not doing what I told you to do, why do you force me to do this to you?"
@NJMomforinpers1
I visited Asia 5 times before 2020. People did NOT wear masks regularly. Only sick people wore masks when going out, no healthy person ever wore a mask outside or inside.
@TheoMoudakis
@TorontoStar
The WHO back in 2019 looked at the data and concluded that masks had little to no effect on respiratory diseases' transmission, but I guess a cartoonist who rejoices at the death and suffering of others as an opportunity to push for more government control knows better.
@yuanyi_z
The same ones cheering on the Chinese protesters were often the same ones vomiting their hatred and abusing those who protested lockdown measures in their own countries.
@RWMaloneMD
As the failure becomes apparent, some governments are trying to deflect blame by blaming the failure of their approach on the unvaccinated. The government in Québec is already blaming them for the upcoming 4th wave while setting up vax passports so they can't hide their status...
@francoislegault
Et moi, je n'ai jamais eu aussi honte d'être Québécois à voir la population avaler tes mensonges et tomber si bêtement pour ta démagogie.
@RichardKnack
@cspotweet
You just don't want to admit she's right because if you did, you would have to come to the realization you're an awful human being who was an active part of that movement of hate and discrimination.
@RWMaloneMD
...as far as I am concerned, this counts as hate propaganda. Inciting hatred against a group of people that the government also makes sure becomes identifiable so they can be a target for hatred by their fellow citizens.
We're heading into dark times.
@SarahTheHaider
People are labeling their own fear and panic "Science" here. It's clear the scientific data says the opposite: outdoor transmission is rare to the point of being nearly non-existent. Wearing a mask outside is largely virtue-signaling hygiene theater.
@YoniFreedhoff
@LeslynLewis
An elected representative in Germany cannot be a Nazi, it's illegal there. Neither would a Nazi meet with a black woman in a cordial way.
You are a liar and I hope you're sued for defamation.
@BlameCanucks
@TorontoStar
No province had even announced a winding down of the vaccine passports when the convoy began. By its end, two provinces had ended theirs and the other provinces had all added its end to their reopening plans.
@Threadmizer
@pharaoh_ptolemy
I thought the scribbling at the bottom left was a watermark of the program... Turns out it's just the AI noticing signatures in paintings it had analyzed, not understanding their purpose and producing fake signatures by mimicry.
@SorbellAngela
@truckdriverpleb
Hate propaganda against the unvaccinated. Encouraged businesses to fire them. Denied them employment insurance to drive them to suicide.
Demonizes dissidents. Suspended civil liberties to crack down on peaceful protests.
Is overall a corrupt son of a whore selling out Canada.
@luvadergolder
@Norlaine
@MaximeBernier
Wikipedia: In 1934, The New York Times reported that Nazi Germany was granting reporting permits "only to pure 'Aryans' whose opinions are politically correct."
Was Nazi Germany mindful of not hurting or excluding historically disadvantaged groups?
@LocalSoundwave
Before, whether with the box office or home video sales, the income a studio made from a movie was directly linked to its popularity with the public. Now, it's all monthly subscriptions, which means any impact on income a particular movie has will be minute at best. The decision
@caj
The hate that you get is just a reflection of the hate that you spewed against millions of Canadians while making propaganda for the government.
Your constant lies and disinformation is the real threat to democracy.
You're reaping what you have sown.
@noelphx
@disclosetv
They may exist, but having a high-profile Republican be put in front of a Manhattan jury is like putting a black defendant in front of an all-white jury in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era.