TimothyOilpants

It is completely rational to be outraged by those tragedies, but using extreme anomalies to claim the entire system is a joke ignores both the data and the law.

For example, citing Dear Zachary ignores the fact that Parliament unanimously passed Zachary’s Bill in 2010 specifically to close the exact bail loophole that Shirley Turner exploited.

Bail is also not a free pass. Our jails aren’t empty. Over 50% of the provincial jail population consists of people on remand, meaning they are legally innocent but have been denied bail. 2023’s Bill C-48 enacted a “reverse onus” for repeat domestic violence offenders, making it significantly harder for them to secure bail.

It is also just not true that it is “insanely easy to get away with it”. National statistics show that over 60% of adult criminal court cases result in a guilty verdict, and Canadian police consistently clear roughly 70% of all homicides. First-degree murder is still a mandatory life sentence.

The system relies on judges trying to predict human behavior. Occasionally, those predictions fail with horrific, unacceptable results. But claiming everyone just gets a slap on the wrist or that cases are simply dismissed is an emotional reaction to a tragedy, not a factual assessment of how the legal system actually operates.

Continue to vote for principled candidates and parties that reflect your values while organizing in your community to advocate for voter reform to introduce policies like proportional representation and ranked choice voting.

The hard-on is not really difficult to understand or empathize with. I mean, if the British had fled to, and seized control of Florida during the American Revolutionary War, I’m not sure people would be ok with just ceding the land to them…

I suspect that had the Kuomintang won mainland China and the CCP taken Taiwan, there wouldn’t be the global outpouring for Taiwanese sovereignty. People want to make this seem like a moral argument, but it’s really just the global west continuing their crusade against anything socialist or communist.

Exactly.

It’s also amazing to me that even when measured and quantified, any positive conclusion about China must be presented by the global west with the caveat of “…but at what cost?”

“Everyone is happy because the system is delivering improved outcomes, but if the system stops delivering improved outcomes people might become less happy!”

Yeah… No shit… Welcome to every political and economic system ever…

That’s called a “false dichotomy”.

For me, I’m just not interested in spending that much intimate time with another dude. Absolutely nothing wrong with it, just not for me.

There are so many places people can turn to for journalism, opinions, and first hand accounts about day-to-day life in China. Why does everyone continue to swallow the propaganda explicitly delivered by eurocentric, western corporate media outlets?

No nation in the entirety of human history has provided a higher standard of living to a larger population than China. Why is it so hard for people to believe that the majority of people might actually appreciate and choose the structures and systems managed by the CCP?

Do people really believe that if any meaningful proportion of the more than 1,400,000,000 Chinese citizens (~40% of whom have received formal military training) had significant objections to their way of life that they wouldn’t be able to facilitate change or make more noise? It seems phenomenally disrespectful and beggars belief to imply that such a large number of people are either too stupid/immoral to care, or too cowardly to act. Is it not possible that they simply have a different set of values?

I believe the correct name is The Republic of Samsung a Vassal State of America.

Yeah… Everyone on social media thinks they are some kind of philosopher… we’re all just assholes with smartphones.

No one cares about the numbers… but they reflect how well you are getting your point across and whether people find your ideas compelling. If you don’t care about effectively communicating ideas then you are nothing but a psych patient barking from atop a soap box…

It’s your who needs works

Case in point. 😂

Clearly your communication needs work based on how you’re getting ratioed…

…I’m not sure how you got sycophantic behavior being insinuated but I’m sorry if that’s how it came off.

By you suggesting that he and Trump are like minds or would be comfortable bedfellows…

What is happening in Xinjiang is not genocide.

Hundreds of Han Chinese have been killed and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure and private property have been destroyed by religious extremists in Xinjiang. At the radical end, the beliefs of an element of that society are incompatible with the stable, secular humanist

You can believe whatever you want, but once your beliefs motivate, and allow you to morally justify, the murder of your neighbors, you have broken the social contract of peaceful society and are no longer entitled to its protections.

Honestly, I think the tactic of isolation, re-education, and rehabilitation is REMARKABLY reserved and humane given the already unacceptable loss of human life.

Keep in mind that while the Uhygurs today represent an ethnic minority in the region, that is only after a centuries long history of organized military oppression and violence against the Han Chinese at their hands.

So none then?

Ukraine would be the Uyghurs if we want to compare because they’re the minority.

If you believe that then you have a poor understanding of both situations.

This isn’t petty street violence, it’s a targeted, ideologically motivated campaign that has armed, foreign funded militants targeting a civilian population.

Should Ukraine have simply acquiesced to the Donbas Peoples Militia and Russia?

If America starts arming Alberta separatists, should we just give them what they want?

Because the Uhygurs aren’t killing other Uhygurs, they’re killing Han Chinese.

How many Quebecois have been killed by anglophones opposing Bill 101?