stoner Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 ⁰ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Well, how about a bit of reality now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouatchee Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 (edited) this has been going on long before social media, but social media has taken this to a whole new level. when i was younger it was newspapers, TV and radio news and talk shows that used to do this. there was very little fact checking and much fake news filtered through. even the term 'FAKE NEWS' is relatively new. before, we used to gobble up whatever was thrown at us and base our divisive opinions on that. Edited November 30, 2023 by Pouatchee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnydrops Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Alvin Toffler's Future Shock written in 1970 pretty much explains what is happening. He is the one that coined "information overload". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthegimp Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 8 hours ago, stoner said: ⁰ The "algorithm " must be confused by me. I often read Reddit, which is crawling with Liberal Arts degree holders and leans heavily to the left. I've never learned anything by having my biases confirmed or hanging out in an echo chamber. What's interesting about r/canada is that is has swung quite far to the right since the young'uns can't get a mortgage and struggle to pay the rent. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoner Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Bobthegimp said: What's interesting about r/canada is that is has swung quite far to the right since the young'uns can't get a mortgage and struggle to pay the rent. i left 20 years ago. saw the writing on the wall. ohhhh canada. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthegimp Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Just now, stoner said: i left 20 years ago. saw the writing on the wall. ohhhh canada. I took early retirement a couple of years ago and came over to Thailand last September when my kind was allowed to leave Canada again. Vancouver is more gorgeous than it was 20 years ago but has big city problems now. My friends and I agree that it no longer feels like the place we grew up in, and many have left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoner Posted November 30, 2023 Author Share Posted November 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Bobthegimp said: I took early retirement a couple of years ago and came over to Thailand last September when my kind was allowed to leave Canada again. Vancouver is more gorgeous than it was 20 years ago but has big city problems now. My friends and I agree that it no longer feels like the place we grew up in, and many have left. i went home in summer of 2022 (ontario about an hour north east of toronto) and i felt like a stranger in my own home. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouatchee Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 15 hours ago, Bobthegimp said: What's interesting about r/canada is that is has swung quite far to the right since the young'uns can't get a mortgage and struggle to pay the rent. errrr... quite wrong there. trudeau is considered much to the left. the right has taken quite a plunge. the young cant get loans on mortgages cos trudeau and his cronies have run the economy to the ground. only a leftist gvt would want 500 000+ immigrants a year. when they are accepted these immigrants then go on welfare... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post parallelman Posted December 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2023 Not according to 'Diversity is NOT a Strength. It WEAKENS Society, Research Clearly Shows' Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on youtube. 1 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoner Posted December 1, 2023 Author Share Posted December 1, 2023 10 minutes ago, parallelman said: Not according to 'Diversity is NOT a Strength. It WEAKENS Society, Research Clearly Shows' Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on youtube. i am glad you took the time to watch the short video and then comment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 On 11/30/2023 at 7:43 AM, Andre0720 said: Well, how about a bit of reality now. Ann Coulter surely you jest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ignore it Posted December 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2023 Well.. Diversity seems to be going strong here on AN. Such a diverse group of wonkers, drunks, reforming (weekly) drunks, pot heads, curmudgeons, grousers, people who post only to be conversational, "quoters" who lack original thoughts, wanna be humorists, contrarians, and others and even decent folks is rarely found and so well "moderated." 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthegimp Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 22 hours ago, Pouatchee said: errrr... quite wrong there. trudeau is considered much to the left. the right has taken quite a plunge. the young cant get loans on mortgages cos trudeau and his cronies have run the economy to the ground. only a leftist gvt would want 500 000+ immigrants a year. when they are accepted these immigrants then go on welfare... r/canada is a sub reddit on the Reddit platform which has swung from the left to the right. Canada as a country has a long way to go to correct its course. I agree with your sentiments, but those numbers are low. Add immigrants to temporary foreign workers + foreign students and it comes to well over a million people. 5 hours ago, parallelman said: Not according to 'Diversity is NOT a Strength. It WEAKENS Society, Research Clearly Shows' Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on youtube. You're looking at it from the wrong side of the equation. To the owners, who speak through their various puppets, diversity is their strength because it can be used to divide a non homogeneous group of people and turn them against each other, which creates a wonderful subterfuge under which they can continue to plunder the country and gain control over every aspect of our lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parallelman Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 30 minutes ago, Bobthegimp said: r/canada is a sub reddit on the Reddit platform which has swung from the left to the right. Canada as a country has a long way to go to correct its course. I agree with your sentiments, but those numbers are low. Add immigrants to temporary foreign workers + foreign students and it comes to well over a million people. You're looking at it from the wrong side of the equation. To the owners, who speak through their various puppets, diversity is their strength because it can be used to divide a non homogeneous group of people and turn them against each other, which creates a wonderful subterfuge under which they can continue to plunder the country and gain control over every aspect of our lives. Actually my reference was to try and balance the equation...Oh well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 I have a friend also who would accept information, facts, data, news, ideas, all of that, only from certain sources. He was such a bigot. But I am attaching the same kind of information, just in case this source would please you, even though it refers to the same type of information. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 On 12/1/2023 at 9:55 AM, charleskerins said: Ann Coulter surely you jest I have a friend also who would accept information, facts, data, news, ideas, all of that, only from certain sources. He was such a bigot. But I am attaching the same kind of information, just in case this source would please you, even though it refers to the same type of information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 14 hours ago, Andre0720 said: I have a friend also who would accept information, facts, data, news, ideas, all of that, only from certain sources. He was such a bigot. But I am attaching the same kind of information, just in case this source would please you, even though it refers to the same type of information. 14 hours ago, Andre0720 said: I have a friend also who would accept information, facts, data, news, ideas, all of that, only from certain sources. He was such a bigot. But I am attaching the same kind of information, just in case this source would please you, even though it refers to the same type of information. I come from a country where the right wing invited illegals into the country to drive down wages and destroy unions then they turned around and blamed it on the Democrats and their BS worked . I can back up that assertion with documented cases . Diversity is a strength when immigrants assimilate and add to the vitality of a country. In America diversity is a plus . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 8 hours ago, charleskerins said: I come from a country where the right wing invited illegals into the country to drive down wages and destroy unions then they turned around and blamed it on the Democrats and their BS worked . I can back up that assertion with documented cases . Diversity is a strength when immigrants assimilate and add to the vitality of a country. In America diversity is a plus . Thanks. Some substance that we can look at here. In the last video, the narrative indicates that immigration does have some benefits, but only when the immigration level is low, as it was some years ago. Currently, the immigration level is too high, as described, ans the result is that these newcomers cannot assimilate, as they are numerous enough to create areas in a host country where their own values dominate. And then problems between cultures arise. Douglas Murray documents this. "Douglas Murray went to Doha to have a debate about asylum-seekers. It was in a hostile crowd where everyone else believed asylum-seekers all have a right to come to Europe. The host even suggesting Britain should give up its culture if it offends immigrants." In my country, Muslims have been welcomed. But they already created their own Middle-East area, where they live all close to each other, right next to the new Mosque that they built, next to the Halal stores. And in our supermarket stores, women dressed in Burkas walk around, in this store where we used to have small baskets to buy just a few items. The baskets, that were available for as long as I remember, have disappeared, because they were all stolen, the year of the arrival of a great number of Muslims. Immigration has some benefits, when there is merit in the people that immigrate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
save the frogs Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Maybe in 200 years in countries like Canada, you won't be able to tell anyone's ethnic origins / race / color. Because practically everyone will be a mix of different races with all the inter-racial fornicating going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mokwit Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 On 12/1/2023 at 8:30 AM, parallelman said: Not according to 'Diversity is NOT a Strength. It WEAKENS Society, Research Clearly Shows' Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on youtube. It doesn't come more Orwellian than 'Diversity is our Strength' You know it is just political bunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclag Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 10 hours ago, charleskerins said: I come from a country where the right wing invited illegals into the country to drive down wages and destroy unions then they turned around and blamed it on the Democrats and their BS worked . I can back up that assertion with documented cases . Diversity is a strength when immigrants assimilate and add to the vitality of a country. In America diversity is a plus . Very few complained when they came legally into the USA! Now its a crisis and its been that way since the cultural Marxist took control of the Wokehouse imop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Andre0720 said: Thanks. Some substance that we can look at here. In the last video, the narrative indicates that immigration does have some benefits, but only when the immigration level is low, as it was some years ago. Currently, the immigration level is too high, as described, ans the result is that these newcomers cannot assimilate, as they are numerous enough to create areas in a host country where their own values dominate. And then problems between cultures arise. Douglas Murray documents this. "Douglas Murray went to Doha to have a debate about asylum-seekers. It was in a hostile crowd where everyone else believed asylum-seekers all have a right to come to Europe. The host even suggesting Britain should give up its culture if it offends immigrants." In my country, Muslims have been welcomed. But they already created their own Middle-East area, where they live all close to each other, right next to the new Mosque that they built, next to the Halal stores. And in our supermarket stores, women dressed in Burkas walk around, in this store where we used to have small baskets to buy just a few items. The baskets, that were available for as long as I remember, have disappeared, because they were all stolen, the year of the arrival of a great number of Muslims. Immigration has some benefits, when there is merit in the people that immigrate. "Immigration has some benefits, when there is merit in the people that immigrate." Great quote your words? If so well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 53 minutes ago, riclag said: Very few complained when they came legally into the USA! Now its a crisis and its been that way since the cultural Marxist took control of the Wokehouse imop This is satire right? No one could be this brainwashed could they ? It's been a crisis since Nixon was President is he the cultural Marxist to whom you refer? Deprogram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charleskerins Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 (edited) On 12/2/2023 at 6:16 PM, Andre0720 said: I have a friend also who would accept information, facts, data, news, ideas, all of that, only from certain sources. He was such a bigot. But I am attaching the same kind of information, just in case this source would please you, even though it refers to the same type of information. Ann Coulter didn't posit any facts "rape culture" Here's a fact there were almost 1/2 a million rapes in the US last year and immigrants didn't commit the vast majority of them . She's a bigot. Edited December 3, 2023 by charleskerins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted December 5, 2023 Share Posted December 5, 2023 On 12/3/2023 at 7:56 PM, charleskerins said: "Immigration has some benefits, when there is merit in the people that immigrate." Great quote your words? If so well done. Well yes, my words. I often use this word 'merit', often when I discuss the notion of 'Interest' and 'to like or not'. My son would know that I wrote something, when he sees this word. When I say for example, "It is more accurate to say that one does not know about something, rather than saying, 'I do not like something, or I am not interested in something. I used to ask people to tell me something that they know well, and do not like. After getting some startling responses, I started adding, 'something that you know well, and has merit.." It eliminates such responses as 'Violence', answer that I did get once. Now take a listen to this video of an event that happened in a small town in France.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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