Corporatism is a cancer that is a form of statism/socialism.

That’d make sense. If state control was synonymous with left-wing or right-wing.

Unfortunately, it is not. Left and right-wing refer to economic systems, rather than the level of state influence. It is possible to advocate for the worker’s owning the means of production without governmental oversight (this is called,…

Right. What if I wanted to make an audio commentary of a movie? It would get pulled as soon as they found it. But I’m “making” the video of myself talking and people are watching it because they want to hear me talk about the movie, right? This whole community of idiots playing video games for 10 year olds are so…

Well, shit, hard to argue with that. If only there was some way to, I dunno, focus on more than a single issue at any time? But unfortunately, activism is a zero-sum game, and you can only put your efforts towards stopping anti-semitism or stopping drone strikes in other countries, and never both at the same time.

If you’re so dead set on saying “Heil Hitler!” without understanding why you shouldn’t be saying that, then that’s your problem

I'm confident that you don't know what really any of the words you've used here actually mean. I guess that's to be expected.

Yeah, damn those liberals. We all know Hitler did nothing wrong. I personally can’t wait for my future robotic führer. They will put new meaning to the term “ruling with an iron fist.”

so are you saying all game devs should cater to lets players? if so then the terrorists have won.

I don’t recall anything threatening coming from him, but in the Toronto media scene Ghomeshi was successful and very much at the top. His show Q, according to many, made our national broadcasting network hip and cool again, and even though there had been many kinds of complaints about him over the years he was THE guy…

That’s not safe or possible. Not everyone can leave their home or quit a job or leave school.

Women have so many reasons for interacting with those who have abused or assaulted them after the fact, and none of them mean that it didn’t happen. I can’t even begin to put myself in those shoes so I don’t know, but I do know that Ghomeshi is slick and charming and manipulative based on all accounts, so it’s hard to…

Just my experience here, so not to be taken as a blanket statement for all women, but in my case the assault was at the hands of a boyfriend with whom I’d had consensual sex before.

I am a woman lawyer in Toronto and I followed every second of the trial as it was live-blogged, as did many of my colleagues. Anyone who thinks a conviction would have been the correct *legal* outcome of this trial is , quite simply, wrong.

I understand the verdict. It doesn’t make it any less infuriating or appalling that the judge decided to use the verdict to editorialize that the real problem is that every once in awhile, rape victims are treated like victims in every other crime and not automatically assumed to by lying whores.

I believe the women, and having met the man, I can say he’s a douche of the first order.

He obviously did it, and he’s obviously a piece of shit, but witness credibility is actually important in he said/she said cases, and Crown prosecution dropped the ball fucking hardcore on this one.

I guess there’s a right way and a wrong way to act and feel after a sexual assault. His lawyer pulled from a book of stereotypes and it worked.

As shitty as this is; the writing was on the wall when the case adjourned for the decision to me made. Henien absolutely gutted any argument the defense had. I still think Jian is a piece of garbage but this case was slated to go in his favour pretty much from the get go

The most depressing part is how everyone KNEW this was how it would go down. and we had the listen to 70+ minutes of victim blaming to find that out.