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Justin Ling: I’ve studied the ‘incel’ culture that fuelled the Montreal shooting and solutions are hard to find

I read the shooter's manifesto and didn't see the prevailing hatred as being directed towards women, as suggested in the Star article, but more as directed towards capitalism and who the shooter thought of as elites. There's definitely a distorted view of women in there, and the advocacy for violence is extreme, but the prevailing themes are surprisingly common in what you see in popular discourse: anger about inequality and anger about perceived injustice resulting from inequality. Attacking Mindgeek would have resulted from that ideology not because of hatred for women, but out of hatred of porn and the impacts of porn on men and on young people's relationships and intimacy as, which is the kind of thing you could read about in a broad spectrum of mainstream publications.

It's a weird read. Overall, it made me really sad. The pain and sense of rejection then turned into motivation for violence and calls to kill whole classes of people is quite chilling. It's disturbing. Most disturbing is probably that he wrote about grievances not just as justification for his own individual act of violence but calling for a mass movement that would be violent and, as he put it, "liquidate" whole groups of people as it took power. The grievances he focused on are also not so uncommon to see people feeling/expressing online, which is no doubt part of the danger of the ideology. I wouldn't share it with anyone vulnerable.

I wish that guy had experienced a better childhood or some influences that could have stopped him going down that spiral, but I'm glad he ended up as a lone shooter rather than part of something much bigger that he advocated for. The deaths he caused are already tragic, but a movement sharing that ideology would be a movement of mass murder. It's pretty awful.

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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC

Totally support that, and it's a great time for it as Canada's under threat and many Canadians are boycotting US media products.

Personally, since cutting off US media and switching to CBC, I've really enjoyed a lot of Canadian content and I've found myself more appreciative and interested in Canadian cultural products overall.

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Carney’s Message to the World: The Rules No Longer Protect You | The Walrus

This was a profound speech. There was a lot to it. Declaring the death of the liberal international order with less than shining obit being one example. That was a very powerful statement. More than that though, he has been gradually laying down pieces of a framework for working back towards a world order we might want to see. Can we do it without the US smashing it all up first? Very uncertain. Still, can't fault Carney for taking the position he has. He's supposed to be a leader, it's a time when leadership is desperately needed, and he is stepping up as a leader.

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'Rogue state behaviour': Israel carrying out covert influence operations in Canada, report says

Nobody should be shocked by that at all, and yet we won't even criticize them. They can be targeting and killing UN peacekeepers, engaging in ethnic cleansing, seizing territory that doesn't belong to them, and participating in starting a war of aggression that now threatens the world economy, and we won't even name them as doing anything wrong. It is truly pathetic and despicable from our government. The entire world can see what Israel's doing, but apparently not our government.

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Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech

So, the valedictorian was a good student and learned the lessons of history and the values that we would hope for her to learn. Good for her.

I would have been very disappointed to have a principal under me make a choice like that during my career.

The student should receive a public apology from the principal and be allowed to finish her school year with dignity alongside her classmates.

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No "condemnations" for the murders of 165 Iranian schoolchildren by the US though

The responses of Western leaders broadly have just been trash, not including Sanchez. Anyone can just look at what's coming out of the US and see how dangerous it is. They're literally calling it a holy war against Islam in their military, with Secretary of War who has a crusader's cross tattoo and who has said they don't care about any laws of war and will take no quarter. The president has said it's his great honor to kill Iranians, he's talking about Somalians in his own country as genetically deficient and low-IQ, he's saying he can just take Cuba and do what he wants with it, and so much more. Then there's Israel, with everything that's happened in Gaza and the West Bank and now members of government talking about taking not just Southern Lebanon, but all of Lebanon and even threatening Turkey next.

It's screamingly obvious what we're dealing with, but Western leaders provide access to their bases to support the war, provide diplomatic support, keep arms supplies flowing, and won't speak out against the obvious and obscene statements and actions.

What tf did our grandparents fight for in WW2?