I almost think someone hijacked his account

got freaky fridayed LOL

Jesus Christ.

Canada has many fine qualities to admire. That is definitely not one of them. No matter what any of us think about the man's opinion, that is no bueno. Woof.

And calling yourself a Tribunal is really not helping the Orwellian cartoon authoritarian image of it all.

And I'm still not clear exactly on how his position worked. Just fire him or vote him out?

But I'm walking out the door to a pediatric final exam, so it'll have to keep til the weekend. I will look at it, tho.

Western countries are waking up to it.

And free expression is a thing liberals value.

Or at least, that's what I've believed my entire life. I know others are evolving in a different direction on that one, but I hold no space for it.

I'm a gay man. I've heard plenty of speech in my life. I still find the principle too valuable in a functioning democracy.

But if people want to create a structure where Trump or a government like his gets to decide what's hateful, go ahead and erect those gallows, I suppose.

This is a great example of why we shouldn't have hate speech laws. They get abused to silence opinions the party in power doesn't like.

In character?




I find his arguments fawlty.

Nt

What is he, 86 or something?

Oh

but dismissing and trivializing minority groups has become a widespread, often passive tool of contributing to harm against the vulnerable, too often tacitly supported by less-than-on-point arguments.

Others also reserve the right to point out how stupid those jokes are, and, that isn’t “canceling.” For example, if you’re making “I identify as an attack helicopter” jokes in 2026, you absolutely suck and need to get better material.

I'd always liked and admired him. That's been diminished. And age isn't an excuse for bigotry.

She kept confusing Trans with either Gay or Lesbian Drag Queens/Panto performers or Traps (Queer who pretend to be Cis for money or dates).
It took a while, but she eventually understood our co-worker Morgan was serious about being female, not play-acting.

Eddie/Susan Izzard identifies openly as Trans- Fluid, and very much accepted by Brits in the business - because frankly, most who have a problem with Trans or Gender Fluid see it as Panto.

I suspect Cleese, like most TERFS, just have a really selfish, petty problem with Trans folk being serious about pronouns and gendered bathroom use.
They see it as a joke or act, and see themselves much too important to be corrected or expected to be concerned when it comes to the real world or everyday life.
But I really, really don't understand the virulent hatred of something that isn't frankly something that isn't an attack on them personally, especially when they supposedly already support or accept the LGB and Q(+) members in LGBTQ(+ )...

I thought the Europeans were ahead of us as far as that's concerned. You learn something new every day. I didn't know Eddie/Susan was Trans. I wish them nothing but the best. I've never understood the hate either. I think it says more about the hater than it does their target.

which has been floating around the internet for years.

https://ia600206.us.archive.org/4/items/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.pdf

Being listed is not incriminating on its own, since Epstein did some charity work. But now that countries which are not the United States are investigating and prosecuting people connected to Epstein, it seems like a fine time to make up a flimsy excuse to avoid international travel and the scrutiny that comes with it.