His potential re-election is both obvious and concerning.

A celebrity with no formal education or experience in politics, geopolitics or law has no place speaking on it to the public. Opinions are fine, but people on the whole seem to be unable to make clear in their own minds that the opinions of a celebrity are opinions wholly based on their personal purview and not professional experience.

I don’t disagree that quality journalism exists, however I would posit that current day journalists have more incentive to cover nonsense like the current topic as opposed to serious issues like tax avoidance from billionaires or inappropriate gifts, travel and monetary donations to various individuals in power (and their backing bodies) from multinational corporations and their associated c-suites. A key issue of note is the increasing rate over the last few years in which individuals with journalistic integrity are being shunted aside or outright murdered, or imprisoned, for their investigations into such things (kashoggi being one of the largest international examples of this, but I would posit the majority of individuals that work for the ICIJ would fall under that umbrella as well, seeing as a number of them have been murdered in recent years, which in my opinion deters serious journalism that holds those elected to account)

I would also note that the international nature of corrupt banking and the intertwining of banking interests with military industrial interests creates a system of active suppression and aversion.

Especially given the inherent need for local journalists to travel abroad to unfavourable countries to get answers from multinational companies alleged to be engaged in nefarious actions whether directly or within their supply chains.

This quote from the official inquiry regarding the murder of Daphne Galizia is particularly chilling in my opinion:

“The fact remains that in the board’s opinion, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s writing about the intimacy between big business and politics led to her assassination.”

Apologies in advance for link spam. Sources in case you may have missed any of the above/in case others would like to dive further:

Two international investigations shut down with direct violence:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/timeline-of-the-murder-of-journalist-jamal-khashoggi

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/malta-responsible-for-assassination-of-journalist-daphne-caruana-galizia-inquiry-finds/

Links supporting notes about missing/murdered journalists:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/10/42-journalists-killed-over-their-work-in-2020

Specifically murder in relation to their investigations. You’ll notice a trend between terror and banking crisis years and increase of journalist murders. 2023 was lower but appears to be an outlier, here’s hoping the 2023 trend continues:

https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed[]=Confirmed&type[]=Journalist&typeOfDeath[]=Murder&start_year=2000&end_year=2023&group_by=year

https://cpj.org/reports/2020/12/record-number-journalists-jailed-imprisoned/

https://cpj.org/data/killed/all/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed[]=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed[]=Unconfirmed&type[]=Journalist&type[]=Media Worker&start_year=1992&end_year=2024&group_by=year

https://cpj.org/data/?status=Imprisoned&start_year=1992&end_year=2023&group_by=year

https://cpj.org/data/missing/?status=Missing&start_year=2024&end_year=2024&group_by=location

(cpj.org is a pretty decent resource for keeping up to date on the amount of missing/imprisoned/killed journalists worldwide)

ICIJ link because I think they do good work:

https://www.icij.org/

Ground news link to assist with sifting through biased articles (I’m guessing more people are aware of this, but I have found it particularly useful these days with certain organizations choosing to omit facts or present an incomplete scenario to push a narrative)

https://ground.news/

Obviously it isn’t new, but it’s important to point out so people can acknowledge it and work to avoid engaging in it in the future. Periodically engaging in this content is fine, that’s why we had tabloids, but old companies that specifically worked in journalism that have been bought and re-aligned with tabloid-esque behaviour is because we are willing to click on it.

A few less clicks and more reflection on the things we click can go a long way, in my opinion.

Same, but even our interest in other peoples views on the topic at hand contributes to the superficial topic getting more views

This representative should’ve been aborted

Everyone that clicked on this article please be aware that we are the problem behind why news agencies don’t cover real news anymore.

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The easiest way to deal with this complete dumbfuckery is to abolish gendered bathrooms and add full wall to ceiling stalls with locked doors.

Please shut the fuck up about this there are real problems to deal with

I think it was worth your time trying. There’s always the possibility somewhere down the line that the individual(s) you spoke to will encounter a situation in their life that will force them to reflect on their views and attempt to update them from archaic to pre-modern.

Discussion is never a failure, in my opinion, but I absolutely believe it can be seriously draining.

You got me, I laughed pretty hard

Point to the effective alternatives that aren’t hell bent on turning women back into domicile slaves.

I’ll wait.

You KNOW he’s just going to respond “I’ve had bigger shits” and then cry about it in a closed room. If logic was ever going to work on these morons, it would’ve happened decades ago.

e. I feel like it’s also important to note that there are dumb as fuck women who also believe this fucking nonsense and these laws would have far less efficacy if it didn’t have their support (looking at all those ladies with ® beside their name)

He’s a great president whenever his brain is functioning, so at least 0.3% of his total tenure so far.

Somehow still a better pick than DJT. What a fucking world we live in. Fuck the democrat trash for fucking over all other potential nominee’s in favour of the guy who’s one stressful situation away from a fucking aneurysm.

Anyone that actually believes this shouldn’t be allowed to continue breathing.

I’m done being nice about this.

Legal challenge over what?

Selling arms? You mean our weapons being involved in no less than three genocides over the last decade hasn’t been a problem but “this genocide is different”?

Globeandmail trash at it again. “It’s only a problem when we can profit off of it”

https://opencanada.org/murky-world-canadas-arms-manufacturing/

https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/controls-controles/reports-rapports/military-goods-2021-marchandises-militaries.aspx?lang=eng

It’s almost like this should’ve been more thought out and the companies responsible should be paying for it. OH RIGHT, they own the unions, politicians, judges AND the regulators.

So the taxpayers lose regardless.

You have no respect at all for people who served and died, and it shows.

You’re the exact type of person that would go “don’t record the horrors in the deathcamps, we should remember them not memorialize them”.

A memorial is supposed to serve as a reminder of what to avoid, not cater to your or anyone else’s current nonsensical ideologies or sensitivities.

It exists to inform and prevent acceptance of war, not to portray a ‘rewarding sacrifice’ when people are thrown into the meat grinder.

Your complete lack of understanding of this issue or your wilful mischaracterization is absolutely abhorrent and shows a total lack of respect and critical thinking education or a total lack of empathy, ignoring the suffering of others in order to pursue your own agenda.

Canada is one of the richest countries in the world and we definitely have the resources to do both. I don’t think there’s ever a need to equate situations like this when we have the resources and liquidity to do both.

That being said, I personally disagree with the 40 million to palestine since its materials are going to be appropriated by HAMAS once they go over the border (or ‘lost’ in the bureaucracy of the UN), but I don’t disagree with the intent to help, we should’ve just thought about it a bit more before doing something like this.

I would’ve been more down to buy 40 million in food/water and para-drop them into palestine than trust the various aid organizations that continue to misappropriate and ‘lose’ funds in that region.

Para dropping supplies would have a higher chance of supplies getting to the people that need them than trusting the ruling bodies inside palestine to actually provide for their people. (If unaware, HAMAS is the elected body of palestine)

So, you guys are aware that the majority of truckers in that convoy only had problems with their working conditions and pay, right?

From my understanding only about 5% of them were actually borderline-retarded if not completely retarded, and the rest were protesting working conditions, which were absolutely fucking horrific, during covid and they’ve barely improved since. (the serious morons that came out to “protest” used the truckers convoy to push their ‘freedom’ bullshit)

There are SERIOUS problems with our trucking and rail industries which overwork, underpay and intentionally remove required safety oversights and training from their workers.

What did you expect when the general population doesn’t fight the ruling government when they sell out our rights, freedoms and properties to foreign and local corporations