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The emergence of a new rule that benefits only a small group of people but fails to help the majority is bound to be a vicious rule.
This applies equally to laws and regulations—resolving the existence of bad laws requires only common-sense thinking.
The open society and its enemy, Soros.
While he named his Open Society Foundations after Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” his project stands as a philosophical inversion of everything Popper defended.
Popper’s open society rested on critical rationalism, the recognition that no one possesses final truth, that institutions must remain open to criticism and piecemeal reform, and that democracy functions as a method for removing rulers without bloodshed.
He rejected historicism, the belief in iron laws of history that justify sacrificing present generations for a utopian future, and warned that such thinking inevitably produces closed, authoritarian societies.
Soros has repurposed the label to advance a grand project of engineered demographic transformation.
Through mass immigration, multiculturalism as official policy, and diversity mandates that prioritize group identity over individual merit and assimilation, his foundations actively dissolve the cultural continuity and social trust that make rational criticism and incremental change possible.
Popper understood that openness requires a stable framework, a shared language of reason, basic cohesion, and institutions citizens feel they collectively own.
Soros treats those foundations as obstacles to be overcome in the name of an abstract, borderless openness.
The concrete results are visible. Parallel societies that operate under different norms, public spaces where debate on the scale and selection of immigration is treated as illegitimate, and the rise of identity based hierarchies that close off dissent in the name of equity.
These are certainly not expansions of the open society, but new forms of closure, tribal in character, enforced through institutional capture rather than overt dictatorship, yet hostile to the very critical spirit Popper placed at the center of civilized life.
Philosophically, Soros replaces Popper’s falsification and humility before reality with a new historicism, the conviction that global multiculturalism and open borders represent inevitable moral progress, and that resistance from actual existing communities constitutes the new enemy.
The machinery funded in the name of openness does not test its own assumptions against evidence, it suppresses the questions.
Those who still value the ideal of an open society should read Popper on their own terms.
They will find that Soros has not extended the open society, but has supplied its most sophisticated contemporary enemies.
WOW!
Mark Carney again showing how little respect he has for Parliament by admitting MPs are only “useful for votes.”
Canadians put their faith in elected representatives to fight for their communities, and be their voice in Ottawa. Mark Carney clearly doesn't respect that. He only cares about securing a manufactured majority and forcing through a Liberal agenda that is making life more expensive for Canadians at the gas pump, at the grocery store, and everywhere in between.
To the floor-crossers who betrayed the voters who elected them: You weren't brought in for your ideas, your experience, or your principles. You were brought in because your vote was for sale.
@niceboatmarth All dictatorships are a matter of internal structure.
No institutional checks and balances. competitive elections Strict control over speech . state violence and fear to maintain control.
Are any of these dictatorial signs present in the US?
🚨 BREAKING: President Donald Trump just put Canada on notice and told PM Mark Carney the era of America last deals is OVER.
“The fact that Canada controls what crosses the Gordie Howe International Bridge and owns land on BOTH sides is unacceptable.”
Trump also blasted the project for not using enough American made materials. Even worse than what Barack Obama agreed to with Canada at the start.
Trump’s position is crystal clear.
The United States should own AT LEAST half the bridge.
The US should have SHARED authority over what crosses it.
And America should share in the economic benefits.
This is what America First looks like in practice.
No more lopsided deals.
No more giving away leverage.
Strong borders. Strong trade. Strong leadership.
@kangminlee The day before yesterday, I forgot to bring poop bags while walking my dog. I planned to head back, grab a bag, and come right back to clean it up. But by the time I returned, the poop was gone. I can’t believe someone actually cleaned it up for me—after all, this is New York.
🚨 BREAKING: The House Leader of the NDP, Heather McPherson, calls Elon Musk a Nazi & for him to be jailed.
THIS IS AN ELECTED CANADIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Here’s what Elon is guilty of:
✅ Starlink to 3rd world countries ignored by every telecom
✅ Restoring internet to Ukraine in the first days of the Russian invasion
✅ Cut the cost of space launches by 90%
✅ Forced the global auto industry to electrify
✅ Co-founded OpenAI
Canada has reached the point where the second ranking NDP official can’t distinguish between a Nazi & the most successful entrepreneur of all time.
If this is the standard for House Leader, what does the back bench look like?