Simon Vallée

Nationalisme québécois, urbanisme et sociale-démocratie traditionnelle.

Québec nationalism, urbanism and traditional social democracy.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

"Divisive speech" is slowly joining "hate speech" as justification for exemptions from free speech.

Make no mistake, this is the end of free speech and democracy altogether if this becomes formalized. "Hate speech" is a concept that is easily abused, but "divisive speech" is a concept designed to be abused.

What does it mean to be divisive? It means to reject the dominant narrative. It means to question what Authorities tell you. It means to present an alternative opinion, to present facts that make the Establishment look bad. To disagree with the Official agenda of what society's evolution should look like.

Divisive speech is speech that the Authorities do not approve of. All must be united in the same vision, the same political agenda, anyone who disagrees must be silenced one way or the other.

That is what is being proposed. The same justification used by the North Korean tyranny: North Korea has to be united in spirit and mind, any dissident that weakens this cohesion is weakening and harming all of North Korean society, therefore repression is fully justified.

The final steps towards full-blown managed democracy will be taken once the State and its institutions will start considering that "divisive" speech is undeserving of legal and constitutional protections.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

I watched the Amazing Digital Circus Last Act after watching EP 1-7 in the last week.

I find the Final Act at the same time too heavy and too naive. Won't go into spoilers, but there is a massive tonal shift where there is no fun nor joke to find anywhere in the Finale. It sounds quite one-note.

Naive in the sense that "if you just confide in others and talk things out, every problem can be solved". I guess no surprise from the Therapy Generation (therapy is a scam).

Quite unsatisfying in the end.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@brandil387292 I don't think the current state of society is agreeable for many people. Our judicial and academic institutions themselves are expressly anti-conservative as they're busy tearing laws and norms down.

We're in a transitional state, no society can last for long this way.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

In politics, the goal of everyone should be to create a society in which they would feel comfortable to be conservative.

Anyone who cannot even imagine such a society is someone who shows deep immaturity and an unhealthy self-identity as seeking change for the sake of change.

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@xwanyex Zoning regulation is even worse in terms of controlling someone else's property.

When it was introduced, developers actually sued cities for the decline in value of their land due to it, but NIMBY homeowner judges denied them any compensation for regulation changes.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

Just had a thought.

In the Matrix, they explain the reason why the simulation takes place in the then current date of 1999 as it being the peak of human civilization.

Nearly 30 years later, that purely convenient throwaway line is something a lot of people would approve with.

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@DKlemitz @PeterDiamandis @elonmusk When human labor becomes 0. Humans become superfluous. The ruling elite will see no point in keeping the lower classes alive.

We might be looking at human extinction.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@JoelPragnell @TrevorTurnpage @TheSeriesFeed So many words, yet nothing of substance said.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@JoelPragnell @TrevorTurnpage @TheSeriesFeed Thanks for admitting you have no argument and no rebuttal, and therefore you're completely wrong.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@JoelPragnell @TrevorTurnpage @TheSeriesFeed AbLeIsTsLuR... Jesus.

So what? He's hurt. Men are allowed to hurt. He's flawed, but he's not enjoying the situation nor indifferent to it. He ultimately tries to get over his personal pain and put the priority on righting the wrong. A villain wouldn't do that.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@JoelPragnell @TrevorTurnpage @TheSeriesFeed That's a retarded take. Nikki doesn't know his death breaks the wish or might have asked him to kill himself instead. He chooses self-sacrifice to set her free.

That's the summum of taking responsibility.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

@JoelPragnell @TrevorTurnpage @TheSeriesFeed He clearly cares, he just can't do anything about it.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

No, it does not.

A villain is someone who either deliberately causes harm or is indifferent to the harm he causes. Bear is neither, the idea his decisions may cause harm to others makes him deeply distressed. He simply lacks the strength of will to address it earlier.

A well-meaning person who causes harm unwillingly is a tragic protagonist, not a villain.

Put it like this. In Evil Dead 2, if Ash hadn't brought his girlfriend to the cabin or hadn't played the tape, it wouldn't have brought about the later events that resulted in the death of his girlfriend and many others.

So his decisions brought about harm to the woman he loved and to innocent people. Does that make him the villain?

No, because he didn't intend to and that harm distresses him significantly and he tries to rectify it, or at least stop it.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

Let's put it this way.

There is no multicultural society with high migration that has survived centuries. None. They either assimilate newcomers and produce a single nation from many influences, or they break up as communities tear the country apart.

What we are in, this multicultural, high migration state, is not a final state, it is a transitional state. To what we transition depends on what we choose to do today, which will set us on a course that will become inescapable in the future.

[Simon Vallée @sival84]

Multiculturalism works in a closed system like Singapore, where you have a majority and a couple of established minorities and you create a multicultural system to accommodate the minorities within the society.

But that requires the balance of power remaining constant between the communities. Once the system is opened up and mass migration creates massive demographic changes, minorities no longer agree to a mere accommodation, they know they're waxing and the majority is waning, and they dream of power, not just rights. Conflict is inevitable.

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@politicalmath So many zoomers confuse trauma and personality. That's a major issue in fiction and even in real life, some people collect ostentatious "traumas" in lieu of an actual personality.

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@Chatt_TT @chriswhit272050 @ScottJenningsKY @CNN You sign the voter registration form and the return envelope when voting by mail.

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@MaCgroupUK @ClarkeMicah You don't care about cyclists, you just want to put more regulations on cycling to deter people from cycling. You are transparent.

The best way to protect a cyclist is to provide safe infrastructure, slow down cars and reduce their numbers on the road.