i don't think the canadian government should be trying to stop any quds day marches in canada.

first, i think it's important that these people identify themselves because, second, much of what would go on would credibly fall under behaviour considered to be hate speech in canada. arrests could and in fact probably should be made.

to be prosecuted for hate speech in canada, what you need to have done is incite hatred in a public space in a way that is legitimately political. they won't prosecute private communication, and i think they shouldn't. the law is intended to criminalize hate speech that has political intent, rather than just as somebody's opinion.

canada is about as lenient as it gets when it comes to speech rights, but this is the perfect example of the kind of speech that is in fact prohibited by law in canada and which canadians do not and should not tolerate.

so, they should let them march and prepare to make hate speech arrests and put organizers in jail.

the religious are moaning and whining about iranian followers getting bombed during their al quds ceremony, where the state whips the sheeple up into a frenzy, to go out and yell anti-semitic and anti-american chants.

in fact, nothing could be more appropriate than getting bombed by israel, as you are running through the streets chanting "death to israel". it serves them fucking right. it's a little bit of justice being served.

i've been calling iran a fascist state and people don't seem to be able to believe it or something. if you want to see just how much of a nazi society iran really is, go find some footage of one of these demonstrations. it looks like germany in the late 30s.

so, let's bring up the old cliche - if you could go back in time and bomb an ss march, would you do it?

you need to really see any level of tolerance to this regime at all through the proper filters. it really exposes a lot of biases, and it doesn't look good on people.

while i don't have a lot of sympathy for carbon users, and am not very interested in gas prices, i do want to point out that the cause and effect of price hikes is being a little smudged, and that you're mostly actually just getting ripped off by greedy assholes who are really just using the war as a convenient excuse to price gouge.

there should be laws put in place that prevent hiking prices during wars, but you'd have to get somebody to declare war first.

i can imagine almost no worse way to waste money and resources than this.

which is just proof that mr carney is an excellent conservative prime sinister.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-announces-35b-investment-in-arctic-defence-northern-infrastructure/

the lebanese parliament has taken a position that essentially relegates themselves to a dhimmi group in the arab league. they just want to pay the mob bosses to leave them alone. this is a historical position, as lebanon has lived under muslim rule for centuries. the lebanese are used to this. but it's not acceptable; it's a cop-out.

if lebanon wants to be a country, it needs to have a monopoly on violence in it's own borders.

if it refuses to do that, it can't be a country and will need to be partitioned. the time for holding on to empty rhetoric about "territorial integrity" is past. a country that cannot defend itself is not sustainable and cannot exist.

if canada wants to actually help, it should be sending soldiers to lebanon to train the military. at the end of the day, it is the lebanese that will need to stop paying the jizya, take up arms and defeat hezbollah, or we will need to stop pretending that lebanon is a country, and do away with it.

if canada wants to help, it has the expertise to help train the lebanese. that is what they need. not food.

lebanon is not a third world country. it's considered middle income. they can grow food. they have jobs.

they need help fighting the fuckers, not help feeding their people.

canada is the pathetic sick man of the oecd, writing checks for charitable donations across the world to generate respect and seek influence, and getting nothing but contempt in return.

there's lots of wealth in this world. the world doesn't need wealth. it needs leadership. we don't have it.

they don't need our money. we need our money.

i would support sending canadian soldiers to lebanon to fight hezbollah before i would support throwing money at empty attempts at philanthropy that will do nothing to stabilize the region.

i don't think that sending $40 million in aid to lebanon is very high impact, especially if it's for food. they're not experiencing a famine in lebanon and the people being moved out are not being blockaded. rather, this is the kind of stupid, self-serving philanthropy intended for domestic audiences to feel good about themselves that has given canada a low level of global respect. it does nothing to address any issue of substance or concern about iranian terrorist proxies in the region and the money will in all likelihood just end up stolen by corrupt elements of the organized crime networks in the region.

that money would have been better distributed to build housing for refugees in canada.

but, if the canadian government wants to do something in the world instead of something here, which i may strongly suggest it should reanalyze it's priorities around, it should be sending resources to help fight the terrorist networks, not basically funneling them money. 

lebanon certainly has some problems, but they don't need food. they need guns to fight off hezbollah with.