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This isn't C-18, this is way worse. The context is that there's a Canadian Sikh who has been calling for parts of India to secede from India. In response, India had him assassinated. India has laws on the books that allow them to remove content globally for things that violate Indian law. They enforce this on social media companies by requiring them to have employees on the country's soil in order to take them hostag…
> They enforce this on social media companies by requiring them to have employees on the country's soil in order to take them hostage Are you suggesting that India requires Facebook to employ people who reside in India in order to operate in India, and that they use those employees as hostages in order to coerce Facebook to succumb to their demands even when when those demands concern communication between non-Indian…
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Canada's single most deadly terrorist attack was the bombing of Air India Flight 182 by Sikh Khalistani separatists. 329 people were killed, including 268 Canadians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks United State's single most deadly terrorist attack was the bombing of the World Trade Centers by Islamic separatists. 2996 people were killed Is your point all Muslims are terrorists?
islam is an inherently violent ideology. The Quran commands followers to murder innocent people for sodomy or leaving the religion. Martyrdom is an important concept. Sikh doctrine does not call for murdering people. For what it's worth christianity is also an inherently violent ideology, although the new testament eschews that a bit.
Obviously not all muslims strictly follow the ideology.
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> Pompeo wanted to whack snowden There wouldn’t be an issue if New Delhi had stuck to wanting to whack a Canadian.
Whacking Snowden in RU is different tier of drama than whacking a Canadian. Time will tell if this is going to be a significant issue. Hard to imagine FVEY / US not knowing when Canada brought it up during G20 and have this not dominate the G20 narrative.
> Whacking Snowden in RU is different tier of drama than whacking a Canadian
Sure. There isn’t the necessity of a military response here. But it was exceedingly dumb. New Delhi has a rogue security element. I, at the very least, didn’t see that coming. From the indignant response, it appears Delhi didn’t either. That’s concerning.
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> Soviets regularly murdered dissidents from the Soviet Union in western countries American citizens in North America?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive They did a lot of shit in North America but one of the points of Sword and Shield was explaining how assassinations were mainly directed towards ex-Soviet dissidents and not American citizens. I'm not excusing what the Indian Government did here, I'm just saying that the Soviets (and the United States for that matter) regularly performed actions on this level in a numbe…
> the Soviets (and the United States for that matter) regularly performed actions on this level in a number of western countries
Sure. But America didn’t assassinate Russians in Russia. And the Soviets reciprocated. This is a bright line that someone stupidly crossed. Rogue elements happen. That New Delhi appears blindsided is the concerning bit.
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> There are bad people in every group What about Tibetan Buddhists? They have been highly persecuted. Yet only thing they set fire to is their own body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
I specifically talked about Tibetan Buddhists- your Wikipedia article doesn't list any.
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#246You let them have total media control and censorship and then act surprised when they use it. Canadians, time for change!
What do you mean by "let them have total media control"?
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/c11-is-now-law-and...
I do understand how this related only in a tertiary way. However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is a hot mess and Canada is headed towards total media control.
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> "khalistani" (mind you, not Sikhs) thank you .. also I have seen ill-informed US people accosting young Sikhs with accusations and harassment on the street in daylight .. Sikhs identified by their formal dress
While I understand that "Khalistani" have significant doctrinal differences from "traditional Sikhs", it seems like claim the Khalistani are not Sikhs is like claiming that Mormons aren't Christians. It is a prejudice based exclusion of a group in contradiction of the groups own identity. I think explaining the differences between groups is totally worth wile, but denying the label seem like prejudice to me. I rather…
> like claiming that Mormons aren't Christians
Do you agree the fundamental difference with Abrahamic religions is their choice of holy books and introduction of a holy prophet? The Jews have the Torah. The Christians had Jesus and appended the New Testament to the Torah, hence new religion, Christianity. The Muslims had Muhammad and appended the Quran to the Torah, hence new religion, Islam. The Mormons had Joseph Smith and appended the Book of Mormon to the Bible. I struggle to see how that doesn't make them a different religion just like the rest, worthy of a different name.
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#248Which is why I love X - no censorship.
Did you miss it when they censored all mentions of Mastodon, banned people who said to follow their Mastodon instead, and throttled links to other websites?
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You're comparing extra-judicial murder to mask mandates?
That would have to be a separate discussion. It's obviously not the one we're having here right now. It was asserted that "in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law". I don't think that assertion is true based on recent events. Forced masking was just one of many abuses of government power we saw in Canada very recently. If there actually were rule of law in Canada, as was claimed, then none of those abuses wo…
This is unhinged, I'm sorry but that writing categorically cannot be the output of rational thought process. Implementing comprehensive and strong public health protocols during a once-in-a-century pandemic is exactly the type of responsibility government exists for. Right up there with building roads and national defense.
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What do you mean by "let them have total media control"?
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/c11-is-now-law-and... I do understand how this related only in a tertiary way. However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is a hot mess and Canada is headed towards total media control.
Brian Lilley, for some context, often writes incendiary posts for Toronto Sun, a tabloid with notoriously low journalistic standards.
He himself, who often writes glowing articles about the current provincial government, seems to frequently be privy to otherwise unknown/unreleased details from our provincial government. He is coincidentally in a long term relationship with Ivana Yelich, who works in the current Premier’s office as “ executive director of media relations”