i mean, if the prime minister wants to hold to the position that perpetuating a medieval system of violence designed to advance slavery and war is acceptable, while fighting against it is toxic, then i suppose he is entitled to his backwards opinion, but such is not an opinion that many observers would associate with descriptions like "progressive" or "liberal", but rather a pretty extreme form of far-right conservatism.

i don't think that his mishandling of the lavalin farce says much about his opinions on gender. these were poorly performing ministers that got demoted due to their clear incompetence; the media's insistence on making it about gender was vacuous.

but, his strange affinity with this violently anti-woman philosophy actually reveals a lot about where his head is about gender, and it's pretty damaging.

you can't be an apologist for islam and a feminist at the same time. this is a specific instantiation of the religion's broader incompatibility with the left, but it's one that cuts to the core of his astounding array of contradictions. and, if you ask me, his head isn't really with equality, but more with religion.

we don't need two conservative parties in canada; we already have one, and their track record at governing isn't very good.

black muslims and gay republicans ought to hold an outreach party together in colorado somewhere...

the ignorance required to be muslim and black at the same time is really astounding, isn't it?

black muslims, for example.

what a bunch of fucking idiots...

again: the prime minster's so-called moral relativism is in truth an absolute moral depravity, and his comments about new zealand are contemptible.

the most toxic, hateful people in the world today are muslims - and it is standing up for islam (a religion that would enslave 70% of the population and kill 15% of it if allowed to) that is by far the most toxic thing a politician can do, in the current environment.

if one is to condemn hate in any meaningful way, the strongest condemnation must be directed at the most hateful people, and the most hateful people are muslims. this is an empirical question. i'm not interested in the doublethink and intellectual dishonesty that would suggest otherwise, this depraved idea that it is acceptable to uphold the hate inherent in the core of islamic teaching and yet somehow unacceptable to condemn it, and that would hold muslims to a double standard.

the cliche is that we don't need to tolerate islamic hate, but i'm interested in liberalism, and not in tolerance.

i agree that simply killing them is not going to work.

but, mr. trudeau's comments reveal a fundamental incompatibility with liberalism. and, if he insists on aligning ideologically with an ideological system that insists on extremist conservative values then i might suggest he cross the floor to the conservative party, as that is where he truly belongs.

no, honestly - this is a responsible approach, and is more evidence that we're looking at an internal reclamation by the liberal party intelligentsia rather than a coup from the fringe.

no matter how you frame it, it's clearly a step in the right direction.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anne-mclellan-justice-lavalin-wilson-raybould-1.5061475.

landslide annie is a legit fixer, and she should hopefully find a way to get the pm out of this toxic relationship.

the weather is finally turning today, it seems for good. sort of. it's still clearly spring.

despite the air outside being bad, the smoke really, really doesn't seem to be coming in through the window, so i'm back to being 90% sure that the smoke is coming from upstairs and bracing myself for another legal battle. i don't know how to prove this, but i have no interest in hacking and wheezing all of the time. i'll have to figure something out. and, i'm just confused as to how and why this is happening. who signs a non-smoking lease and then smokes inside? what the fuck...

i don't remotely get it. but, if this is some kind of joke, it's going to backfire. hard.

this should be coming up on a full ten months entirely straight edge, but it's been ruined by whatever is happening upstairs, and i'm just tired and drained and sick all of the time as a result of it. sore throat. dizziness. it's like i never quit.

i crashed for a few hours yesterday afternoon and was nearly done filing when the kernel crashed; i overloaded the processor, and this board has been on the skits for a while. there's not a lot i can do with this machine due to the broken screen, so i'd might as well ride it out until the end. but, i may need to figure something else out for an internet gateway in the near term. the chrome book can work in a pinch, but it's not what i got it for, and i simply can't handle the lack of ad block for long periods.

i'm trying to file a folder with 75,000 html files in it, and it's just not liking it. i don't think it had started copying yet, so i don't think anything blew up, but i wanted to run a chkdsk to make sure. that 2 tb drive is a long scan - 12 hours in was only at around 5%. i had to cancel it to make some calls this morning...

so, the day, which is ending, was largely wasted, but i managed to get a few ideas cleared up and a few calls in. it's still cold for the day, so i guess we'll wait until tomorrow to get things going.

first, i had to figure out what i need to do about the border issue, now that the report came back unsubstantiated. it turns out i should have gone to detroit immediately. as it is, i need to get the disposition from the court house and bring it to the detroit side of the ambassador bridge, pretty much asap. so, i'll need to plan a day into detroit soon....and we'll see if my bicycle is still there while we're at it....maybe i can drop off some recycle, etc...

the person on the phone indicated that a dropped charge will probably not affect my status. we'll see what happens....

there is no statutory time frame on an appeal to divisional court, but i'll want to have it dealt with 30 days after i get the response on the review. documents were email saturday morning; i'll mail them to toronto tomorrow, unless i get a response today.

i was able to get a hold of somebody about the prints today as well and am expecting a response as to the status of them before the end of the day.

finally, the request to the privacy commissioner is in process, and i'm advised to sit tight and wait.

so, tomorrow is a running around day....

....and, what's going on in detroit this week? what did i miss this year?

there is a deep, fundamental contradiction between islam and liberalism that needs to be more thoroughly examined, as so-called liberal parties rush towards increasing muslim demographics in an attempt to pander for votes.

liberals are making a dangerous, faustian bargain, here - and we're already seeing some consequences of it.

in the end, liberalism will defeat islam - this is clear enough from history. so, i am less concerned about liberalism being defeated by islam in the long run, i don't think this is a fair fight, than i am about being forced to fight battles that have already been won.

it is easy for a cis white male that is born into privilege to talk about tolerance for differing views, as he is under no threat of harm from anybody at all. but, essentially all of the most vulnerable groups in society are in immediate threat of harm from increasing muslim political power, and we cannot accept this kind of depraved apologism for a system that would kill us on the spot, if it only could.

https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/is-islam-compatible-with-democracy-and-human-rights/

the religion of islam - like all other religions - is a violent system of hetero-patriarchal dominance that needs to be resisted at every opportunity, and ultimately abolished; it belongs in the dung heap of history, along with all of the other failed totalitarian attempts at tyrannical social control.

i do not and will never stand with muslims, and insist that fearing them is not merely rational but intellectually necessary.

that said, killing people at a mosque - and they are not innocent if they are attending a religious service - is a terrible way to address the violence of religious intolerance, as it merely sinks the shooter to their own level of depravity. we must be better than them, not become them.

i will always support any rational or effective tactic to annihilate religion; this isn't one of them.