@elonmusk Yes, massive build out of solar can facilitate much higher population levels and densities. We would still have to figure out the right social and economic systems to facilitate vastly higher levels of human reproduction...
@dbdttpl Secondly, singling out hijab seems unfair and unreasonable. The same criteria ought to apply to ALL religious symbols - they should all be disallowed or all allowed.(2/2)
@globeandmail Just a reminder that tax or not, CPP returns are pretty high - https://t.co/agLi3Y6lr4 and you'd be hard pressed to match it with your own investments. Of course the Financial Industry likely wants CPP gone so they can rake in billions in fees and profits from retail investors.
@BigSieps@kris_sims@globeandmail If it's so straightforward and CPP is such a bad deal, could you please show me a private sector, guaranteed, lifetime inflation adjusted annuity that pays out more than the CPP if I make the same contributions that I would for the CPP? Plus factor in other benefits too...
In UP, India, two minor Muslim boys, aged 16 & 17, were kept under police lock-up and charged with criminal cases for listening to Pakistani music in their home!
"For all advertisers promoting the BJP, Facebook charged an average of 39,552 rupees ($517) for one million views for an ad, but for all advertisers promoting Congress, it charged an average of 52,150 rupees ($681), nearly 32 percent more." https://t.co/uj0k1dcrse
Completely unacceptable: EU citizens being retained at the Polish border with Ukraine because they are black. Same thing happening with people of Asian descent. A thousand times unacceptable.
Supporters of Global Hindutva are pulling out all the tricks in the book to get this conference cancelled. It is essential to stand up for freedom of speech and academic freedom and not allow the public sphere to be subverted. (8/n)
Although its founders drew inspiration from interwar fascism and Nazism, it has appropriated the language of social justice, minority rights, Black and indigenous rights movements to help it sound modern and trendy in order to increase its appeal and further its objectives. (7/n)