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“The only democratic solution to this is that what happens to Canada is decided by all Canadians. Not by a group within it.
Or if I can really boil it down: You absolutely have a right to leave this country. It’s a free country. You have a right to leave Canada. You do not have a right to take a piece of it with you.” Well said @acoyne! 🇨🇦 Quote by: Andrew Coyne Canadian columnist.
Political bombshell. The NDP has obtained video evidence showing that top UCPers attended a Centurion Project meeting in which the illegally-obtained voter database was the star attraction. The Premier and her party have lost all plausible deniability. They were complicit. #AbLeg
For all the folks who think the alleged abuse of a list with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of nearly 3 million Albertans isn't a big deal,
Could you please post your real name, real address and real phone number in this thread?
It's not a big deal right?
What?
BREAKING NEWS
#ForeverCanadian just learned and confirmed that Alberta’s list of electors, containing everyone’s personal information, was made available to the separatists.
This is illegal, risks public safety, and creates uneven playing field as we fight for Canada.
#ableg
Instead of using his Make-A-Wish for something for himself, 13-Year-old Abraham Olagbegi used his wish to feed the homeless in his neighborhood for a year.
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the unexceptional Jeffrey Epstein - rapist class everyman and Übermensch
https://t.co/0ypIbwqyew
"is not beside the point, that the powerful people were men, or that those they victimized were girls. It is not beside the point: the sex of the oppressor and of the oppressed, the violator and the violated, the master and the slave, the fucker and the fucked. So it is obfuscation, dissimulation: to disregard it. The predation and the cruelty that saturates the Epstein Files is hardly sex-neutral. Men exploited girls. Men abused girls. Men raped girls. Men used the girls like things, as friendship offerings and luxury accessories and indulgences to consume, carrots to dangle. First and foremost, then, the Epstein Files tell us a story about what men do to girls, but that lede is buried. It is buried by the bait-and-switch displacement of attention from the tawdry scandal of serial rape to supposedly weightier concerns (capitalism); and by the emphatic glossing over of sex, the refusal to name girls as girls and men as men. And interred with it, in the tenebrous crypts of “let’s not go there, please,” is a system of power even most leftists prefer to leave well enough alone...
if we acknowledge that the Epstein Files testify to the grim fact that men own this world and rule it, then it is transparently false to say that what we are seeing is social norms breaking down. Instead, it is a lurid spectacle of malignant normalcy, magnified by hyperbole and shoved under our noses, reeking in pulsant technicolor. The Epstein Files expose the social norms of contemporary male dominion stripped of all its conciliatory masks – anemic liberalism’s equality prattle, traditionalist righteousness, shame-free feel-good revolutionary kinkiness – and left flensed to squirm in the display vitrine, rancid and ugly and impossible to unsee...
it is normal that the Brotherhood of Epstein sexually abused teenage girls. As an omnipresent feature of manmade society, the sexualization of teenage girls does not deviate from the norm. Remember that Salome was 13 when she slipped her veils for King Herod; Brooke Shields was 11 when she appeared as a prostituted tween in Pretty Baby (1978); Britney Spears was 17 when a photographer posed her on candied lipstick-pink satin sheets clutching a Teletubby for the cover of Rolling Stone, to accompany an article entitled “Britney Spears, Teen Queen,” which begins, “Britney Spears extends a honeyed thigh across the length of the sofa…” (Another photograph from the series shows Spears pushing a pink children’s bicycle, pouty as she looks back over her shoulder at the camera, with “BABY” scrawled across one cheek of her white hotpants.) Nabokov’s 12-year-old Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita, achieved cultural icon status as an irresistibly desirable, if forbidden, sex symbol. (Epstein adored the novel, a first edition of which he displayed in his office.) For years “teen” was the most popular search term on Pornhub, until the site was sued and then sued again for hosting footage of child rape and the keyword, if not the content, mysteriously disappeared from its “Year in Review” lists...
If rape is accepted as an intractable problem then punishment is a nice tidy solution, one that feels like catharsis, like closure. But accepting rape as intractable means learning to live with rape and what I want more than for rapists to “pay the price” is a world without rapists. Every man implicated in the Epstein Files could be arrested and imprisoned today, executed even, drawn and quartered in the public square, and still the systems and institutions of male power and the culture of male domination that produced these men and normalized their abuse of girls would persist, intact, unscathed—and that’s precisely the point. “Justice for Victims” as the default demand readymade for our protest chants chains those who repeat it to faith in, hence loyalty to, the justice system, for it is only the justice system that infuses “justice” with any stable, tangible, real-world meaning. The premise of the justice system, as it exists, is that certain individuals are bound to commit crimes, because they are criminals, and the justice system, when functioning as it should, will punish them for those crimes. Any malfunction is the result of corruption, which can be routed. To expect “justice” from the justice system means taking for granted that the system, as it was created, is fundamentally good – it has good bones – and therefore can be salvaged, therefore should be. With faith and a hearty slathering of elbow grease, we can fix what is broken and get the system back up and running cruising along in working order once again. But the justice system is a manmade system, built, like every other manmade system, to preserve male power. And when we are convinced to go on wishin’ and hopin’ and believing in that manmade system, the energy of our resistance to male power is co-opted and redirected into stabilizing a core structure of that same power’s preservation. By the show trial pageantry of “Justice for Victims,” women are scammed into knuckling down to keep the lights on for the patriarchal state. “Justice” and “accountability” are the words placed on our tongues to drive all others from our mouths, so that we cannot speak of what it would truly take, to end rape. So that, wordless, we cannot even think of it. So that we do not say: to hell with this. Tear it down. Start again.
Any faith, loyalty, or labor that women invest in the systems and institutions of male dominion is squandered. They are not broken and we cannot fix them, because they are functioning exactly as they were meant to function. It is incoherent to lament that an institution created to uphold male power has succumbed to “institutional failure” when male power is upheld. By any metric, that institution is a success."
[This entire essay is a an absolute must-read, start to finish. This is the patriarchy. Let us not flinch, let us not look away. Instead, let us destroy the edifice of this fulminating cancer, block by block, stone by stone, until we build a world fit for our daughters and granddaughters.
I am publishing this summary ahead of schedule because this essay is too important to wait for midnight.]
![SexIndustryRes's tweet photo. #SexIndustryArticles
the unexceptional Jeffrey Epstein - rapist class everyman and Übermensch
https://t.co/0ypIbwqyew
"is not beside the point, that the powerful people were men, or that those they victimized were girls. It is not beside the point: the sex of the oppressor and of the oppressed, the violator and the violated, the master and the slave, the fucker and the fucked. So it is obfuscation, dissimulation: to disregard it. The predation and the cruelty that saturates the Epstein Files is hardly sex-neutral. Men exploited girls. Men abused girls. Men raped girls. Men used the girls like things, as friendship offerings and luxury accessories and indulgences to consume, carrots to dangle. First and foremost, then, the Epstein Files tell us a story about what men do to girls, but that lede is buried. It is buried by the bait-and-switch displacement of attention from the tawdry scandal of serial rape to supposedly weightier concerns (capitalism); and by the emphatic glossing over of sex, the refusal to name girls as girls and men as men. And interred with it, in the tenebrous crypts of “let’s not go there, please,” is a system of power even most leftists prefer to leave well enough alone...
if we acknowledge that the Epstein Files testify to the grim fact that men own this world and rule it, then it is transparently false to say that what we are seeing is social norms breaking down. Instead, it is a lurid spectacle of malignant normalcy, magnified by hyperbole and shoved under our noses, reeking in pulsant technicolor. The Epstein Files expose the social norms of contemporary male dominion stripped of all its conciliatory masks – anemic liberalism’s equality prattle, traditionalist righteousness, shame-free feel-good revolutionary kinkiness – and left flensed to squirm in the display vitrine, rancid and ugly and impossible to unsee...
it is normal that the Brotherhood of Epstein sexually abused teenage girls. As an omnipresent feature of manmade society, the sexualization of teenage girls does not deviate from the norm. Remember that Salome was 13 when she slipped her veils for King Herod; Brooke Shields was 11 when she appeared as a prostituted tween in Pretty Baby (1978); Britney Spears was 17 when a photographer posed her on candied lipstick-pink satin sheets clutching a Teletubby for the cover of Rolling Stone, to accompany an article entitled “Britney Spears, Teen Queen,” which begins, “Britney Spears extends a honeyed thigh across the length of the sofa…” (Another photograph from the series shows Spears pushing a pink children’s bicycle, pouty as she looks back over her shoulder at the camera, with “BABY” scrawled across one cheek of her white hotpants.) Nabokov’s 12-year-old Dolores Haze, better known as Lolita, achieved cultural icon status as an irresistibly desirable, if forbidden, sex symbol. (Epstein adored the novel, a first edition of which he displayed in his office.) For years “teen” was the most popular search term on Pornhub, until the site was sued and then sued again for hosting footage of child rape and the keyword, if not the content, mysteriously disappeared from its “Year in Review” lists...
If rape is accepted as an intractable problem then punishment is a nice tidy solution, one that feels like catharsis, like closure. But accepting rape as intractable means learning to live with rape and what I want more than for rapists to “pay the price” is a world without rapists. Every man implicated in the Epstein Files could be arrested and imprisoned today, executed even, drawn and quartered in the public square, and still the systems and institutions of male power and the culture of male domination that produced these men and normalized their abuse of girls would persist, intact, unscathed—and that’s precisely the point. “Justice for Victims” as the default demand readymade for our protest chants chains those who repeat it to faith in, hence loyalty to, the justice system, for it is only the justice system that infuses “justice” with any stable, tangible, real-world meaning. The premise of the justice system, as it exists, is that certain individuals are bound to commit crimes, because they are criminals, and the justice system, when functioning as it should, will punish them for those crimes. Any malfunction is the result of corruption, which can be routed. To expect “justice” from the justice system means taking for granted that the system, as it was created, is fundamentally good – it has good bones – and therefore can be salvaged, therefore should be. With faith and a hearty slathering of elbow grease, we can fix what is broken and get the system back up and running cruising along in working order once again. But the justice system is a manmade system, built, like every other manmade system, to preserve male power. And when we are convinced to go on wishin’ and hopin’ and believing in that manmade system, the energy of our resistance to male power is co-opted and redirected into stabilizing a core structure of that same power’s preservation. By the show trial pageantry of “Justice for Victims,” women are scammed into knuckling down to keep the lights on for the patriarchal state. “Justice” and “accountability” are the words placed on our tongues to drive all others from our mouths, so that we cannot speak of what it would truly take, to end rape. So that, wordless, we cannot even think of it. So that we do not say: to hell with this. Tear it down. Start again.
Any faith, loyalty, or labor that women invest in the systems and institutions of male dominion is squandered. They are not broken and we cannot fix them, because they are functioning exactly as they were meant to function. It is incoherent to lament that an institution created to uphold male power has succumbed to “institutional failure” when male power is upheld. By any metric, that institution is a success."
[This entire essay is a an absolute must-read, start to finish. This is the patriarchy. Let us not flinch, let us not look away. Instead, let us destroy the edifice of this fulminating cancer, block by block, stone by stone, until we build a world fit for our daughters and granddaughters.
I am publishing this summary ahead of schedule because this essay is too important to wait for midnight.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HF-zP7IWYAAEioU.jpg)
@KristinRaworth Congratulations!!
“We urge the government to accept the majority report in its entirety. This is the only option to guard against partisan interference that would secure an electoral advantage for one party over another. To do otherwise invites litigation, unprecedented concern about the independence of the commission, loss of trust in basic electoral fairness, and a radical rejection of the voices of many Albertans who took time to weigh in on the redesign of the electoral map.”
Women less likely than men to get flexible work arrangements: survey https://t.co/DL7xMpTieT
After years of covering misinformation, investigative journalist Justin Ling has reached a stark conclusion: “There is no amount of fact checking, media literacy, or platform moderation to solve the extent of this problem.” What comes after defeat? https://t.co/0MbWmOeyfI
@KristinRaworth Congratulations 🎊
Read this excellent op ed by @UAlberta education professor @K_denHeyer on the UCP's proposed Bill 25.
https://t.co/SsR2cVTrCH
#abpoli #ableg @albertaNDP @CFE_TMU @edmontonjournal @CBCCanada @CityNewsYEG
Read this!!
A Canadian pharmacist built the world's largest database of deepfake pornography, targeting celebrities, influencers and ordinary citizens. What he did isn't against Canadian law. https://t.co/pElK3JdhOx
So very true!!
"Even when the independence referendum fails, the damage will be done. By legitimizing a movement built on bigotry, we’ve legitimized the bigotry itself." #ABPoli
https://t.co/sId6FWjJqc
Don't call rape sleep porn...it is rape!!!
CNN did an investigation into the world of “sleep porn,” in which men drug their wives and either rape them or allow others to rape them.
Dominique Pelicot was not a one-off. He’s not even that unusual.
Call for Justice 1.1:
A National Action Plan must ensure access to basic rights, housing, health, safety, education, employment.
These are not extras.
They are prevention.
#MMIWG2S #CallsForJustice #HousingIsSafety #HealthEquity #NotOneMore #AccountabilityNow
Uggh....honestly....
Someone is defacing Canadian coins with their 51st state bullshit.
If you get one of these in the wild, take it to the bank to be exchanged so they can destroy it.
Also defacing canada currency is illegal.
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