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Simon Vallée

@sival84

Nationalisme québécois, urbanisme et sociale-démocratie traditionnelle. Québec nationalism, urbanism and traditional social democracy.

Montréal, Québec Katılım Mart 2012
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Simon Vallée
Simon Vallée@sival84·
The progressive moral universe is not universal, it is an unequal dichotomy, on one side the dominant/oppressor, on the other the minority/marginalized. They believe that people's moral duties depend on that characterization. People have strict moral duties towards the marginalized: to defer to them, accommodate them, help them, but not towards the dominant/oppressor to whom moral duties are far less, limited to not directly harming them physically (and even then). As a result, the definition of words like equity, tolerance and open-mindedness is reshaped by that moral framework. Equity is not about treating everyone fairly, it's about trying to "restore equality" by upholding the marginalized to improve their lot. Open-mindedness is not about being willing to listen and give a fair shake to any opinion, it's about the willingness to accept viewpoints from marginalized people and to correct your positions to align with it (note: excluding any viewpoint that would defend the status quo or justify it). Tolerance is not about being willing to coexist peacefully with things and people that irritate you, it's about being willing to sacrifice your own comfort to accommodate the marginalized, and to decenter yourself for the sake of the marginalized. How much you are willing to tolerate being sidelined for the sake of the marginalized. Note that there is an exception. If the marginalized adopt a universalist framework and promote it, these people are viewed as not having "real" opinions, but having simply internalized the oppression of the dominant and become their foot soldiers. Then these individuals lose their moral value as marginalized, they've become transparent vessels for the oppressors and thus to be treated likewise. That's why you can see people convinced of their utmost morality express totally vile views in reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder. In their moral universe, he is a privileged oppressor, thus they have little to no moral duty towards him. Being vile towards him doesn't matter, because how they treat the "marginalized" is the real yardstick of morality. That's also why you feel like you're in a madhouse the moment you try to interact and debate with people with such a worldview. They use the same words but they all mean something different. They'll be unfair in the name of equity, shut you down in the name of tolerance, dismiss your opinions in the name of open-mindedness, cheer on people's suffering or death in the name of morality.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@DrNeilStone Completely false. Why were there 20% LESS myocarditis in Sweden, which never locked down, in 2020 than in 2019? Then suddenly myocarditis diagnostics jumped in 2021, higher than 2019?
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Simon Vallée
Simon Vallée@sival84·
@univrsle @CBA_News I never said so. I said if the standard for a judge being sufficiently impartial is simply that he's not a moron to the point of outright admitting his partiality, then your standard is absurdly low.
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Canadian Bar Assoc.@CBA_News·
CBA President Bianca Kratt, K.C., warns that recent media commentary questioning the impartiality of a sitting judge of the Ontario Superior Court risks undermining public confidence in the judiciary. 🔗 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4sQV4Pi
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@univrsle @CBA_News Re-read what I wrote. I said, if the judge isn't a moron and outright admits that he is partial, how is one supposed to go about proving that he is? In any other job, pattern of behavior + history + apparent conflict of interest would be enough.
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Univrsle@univrsle·
@sival84 @CBA_News Where did the judge 'admit it' Even this jaded article doesn't assert that..and what conflict of interest are you talking about? There's a place for a debate about how judges are placing the value of race-based factors in decision making...but this article leaps to wrong-doing
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@univrsle @CBA_News And how exactly is someone supposed to prove that a judge is not impartial? If the judge isn't a moron who outright admits to it? In any other career, pattern of behavior + history + appearance of conflict of interest would be sufficient. Why isn't it for judges?
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Univrsle@univrsle·
@CBA_News Fair, the article did question the impartiality and it was supported by a guess rather than actual factual support. It was needlessly partisan in that regard.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@CBA_News Judges are not owed the confidence of the public, they must earn it. It is the activism and badly disguised partiality of judges which hurt confidence of the public, not the whistleblowers who reveal it to the public!
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@PhntmWhsprs @cirsova I once saw videos of a white guy who was born in Japan, lived there all his life but is still not a Japanese citizen. He had chosen to keep the Australian passport and citizenship he inherited from his parents. So he was a legal resident of Japan but not a citizen.
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Phantom Whispers@PhntmWhsprs·
@cirsova I'm sure the news that every tourist who commits a crime has birthright citizenship in Japan is a surprise to the Japanese.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
I'm more dissident left than right, so I've known both sides from the inside. That being said, smart conservatives like Thomas Sowell and Chesterton always use the common definition of words when explaining their views. Smart progressives you can't really understand unless you use a people-to-woke dictionaries. Equity doesn't mean equity. Racism doesn't mean racism. Don't get me started on systemic, which is not a common word at all, and which obvious meaning "relating to a system", makes it trivial, not meaningful. The smart left-wingers who speak in common language? They're usually the dissident left who criticize their own.
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thad@gumbelcopula·
@sival84 What would you say to people who accuse you of a double standard? I have had similar thoughts but could not satisfy my internal critic that this wasn’t just bias.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
If you want to know what conservatives think, ask the smartest of them, for they are the ones able to rationalize the largely instinctive positions and traditionalism of conservatives. If you want to know what progressives think, ask the dumbest of them, because they're the ones who aren't smart enough to use ambiguous language to disguise what they really mean. Who don't care about plausible deniability and will tell you EXACTLY what they think and want.
Simon Vallée@sival84

Like Ibram X Kendi, she is not bright enough to know when to bend or be ambiguous enough to provide plausible deniability. She just reveals the progressive judicial mindset in its rawest form, uncaring for reason, consistency or logic, heavy on posturing, emotion and theatrics.

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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@maryburner71917 The more laws you cite, the longer your reasoning is, the more likely you are of trying to Frankenstein your way to a desired conclusion by picking and choosing parts of jurisprudence of various sources to build up something a straight legal interpretation would reject.
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maryburner3@maryburner71917·
@sival84 Coming from ppl who think her citing the law the most is to much
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
Like Ibram X Kendi, she is not bright enough to know when to bend or be ambiguous enough to provide plausible deniability. She just reveals the progressive judicial mindset in its rawest form, uncaring for reason, consistency or logic, heavy on posturing, emotion and theatrics.
Yogi@Houseofyogi

Ketanji Brown Jackson is unfit for the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is supposed to be the one institution in America that isn't a stage. Nine people. Lifetime appointments. No elections. No donors. No campaigns. Just the Constitution. Yesterday the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado's ban on talk therapy violated the First Amendment. Six conservatives agreed. Both liberal justices agreed. Except Jackson. She wrote a 35-page dissent. Eight justices needed fewer pages to explain the law than she needed to explain why they were all wrong. And read it aloud from the bench. Turning the court into a spectacle. Then Kagan, Obama's appointee, publicly corrected her. Called the case "textbook" viewpoint discrimination. Accused Jackson of "reimagining and collapsing well-settled legal distinctions." Jackson fired back in a footnote. Accused Kagan and Sotomayor of being dupes for the conservative majority. A Supreme Court justice calling her own colleagues political pawns. In a legal opinion. From the bench that exists to be above politics. Every time she loses, she turns on whatever allies she has left. Three separate 8-1 rulings across three years. Lone dissenter every time. Barrett wrote that Jackson "decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary." She has two liberal allies sitting right next to her. They looked at her reasoning and chose the law over her activism. Last term, every justice on the Court agreed with the majority more often than she did. Dead last of nine. In contested cases: 51%. Kagan, same team: 70%. One builds coalitions. One writes 35-page letters to nobody. Majority opinions: 5. Fewest on the Court. Dissents: 10. Most on the Court. Words per oral argument: 1,350. Next closest justice: 900. She talks the most. Writes the longest. Wins the least. Before the Supreme Court she spent eight years on the DC District Court. More of her rulings were overturned than nearly two-thirds of her peers. Reversed unanimously for exceeding her jurisdiction. Tried to overrule Congress on immigration. The court above her said she had no authority. And that court leaned left. Six of ten judges appointed by Democrats. Even they thought she went too far. A judge is supposed to be consistent. States can't ban gender procedures for minors. States have ABSOLUTE power to ban talk therapy for minors. Same justice. Same year. The only variable is which side of the culture war the regulation falls on. A judge is supposed to be honest. Told law students in 2015 that critical race theory informs sentencing. Told the Senate in 2022 that CRT doesn't come up in her work as a judge. One of those was under oath. Can't define the word "woman" in front of the Senate. Celebrates being "the first Black woman" on the Supreme Court on The View. Under oath she's not a biologist. On daytime TV she's making history. A judge is supposed to protect the vulnerable. Federal sentencing guidelines called for 10 years in a child pornography case. She gave 3 months. Her sentencing averaged 57% below national for possession. 47% below for distribution. Every. Single. Case. Below guidelines. A judge is supposed to defend the Constitution. Not treat it as a document to be corrected. She praised the 1619 Project, which argues America's true founding wasn't liberty in 1776 but slavery in 1619. She wrote from the bench that "Our country has never been colorblind." Rejecting the plain meaning of the Equal Protection Clause. She accused the Court itself of enabling "our collective demise." "Let-them-eat-cake obliviousness." "Five-alarm fire." "Moneyed interests." These aren't legal opinions. These are campaign speeches from a chair that's supposed to be above campaigns. Harvard Law. A Supreme Court clerkship. Eight years on the federal bench. She told the Senate she doesn't have "a judicial philosophy per se." But she told the country she's "not afraid to use her voice." She's an activist. Weakest judge of the highest court. Biden had judges with more cases argued before the Court and bipartisan support. He passed over them for the nominee endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Demand Justice. She doesn't want to be a justice. She wants to be a politician. She just skipped the election. I hope you understand what's at stake.

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Simon Vallée@sival84·
Est d'extrême-droite quiconque... Renverse des décisions de gauche radicale? La mentalité du cliquet de gauche: la société ne devrait pouvoir évoluer que dans un sens, celui de la déconstruction, du contrôle, de l'égalité, le seul robe légitime d'un parti "de droite" est de marquer une pause, ou de ralentir la cadence, mais jamais, jamais questionner des "acquis" de gauche. Un président peut signer un décret pour régulariser des centaines de milliers de migrants illégaux, mais un autre n'a pas le droit de renverser ce décret. Un président peut adopter des dizaines de décrets environnementaux bloquant des projets économiques, mais pas annuler ces décrets. Le cliquet : seulement une direction est permise. ledevoir.com/monde/amerique…
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Amir
Amir@AmirDapl·
@sival84 @historyinmemes Thanks for pointing out part of the issue. Now try reducing those services down to essentials and then we can talk about if some form of taxes should be raised.
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Historic Vids@historyinmemes·
Do you think America should get rid of property tax?
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@AmirDapl @historyinmemes Let me remind you that the average US citizen already receives 5000$ MORE in service from the government than they pay in taxes. Which taxes do you want to increase to compensate?
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Amir@AmirDapl·
@sival84 @historyinmemes How about just taking it from the myriad of other taxes we are charged and stop paying for non-essential things?
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
Only retards believe that. Iran has been "two weeks away from getting the bomb" for decades. They didn't have a nuke because they didn't want one but compromised on capacity to make one for deterrence. You yourself have been very vocal about wanting the US to attack Iran as a way to disrupt BRICS and try to prevent the rise of a multipolar world, as a way to assert American military dominance and imperialism on the world. Nukes are an excuse, like WMDs were an excuse for Iraq. Murdering the leadership of the country proves the nuke argument is bullshit. Regime change was the goal.
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Gummi
Gummi@gummibear737·
@TuckerCarlson Here's why America attacked Iran...and it's not because of Israel x.com/gummibear737/s…
Gummi@gummibear737

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

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Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson·
Dave Smith on the fall of empire. (0:00) Who's Telling the Truth and Who's Lying? (9:12) The Massive Decline in Support for Israel (13:10) Is It Possible for Trump to Stop This? (20:16) The Myths of WWII (36:26) What We Can Learn From the Iran War (48:33) The Oncoming Police State (56:31) The Real Reason Antisemitism Is on the Rise (1:05:19) The Israel Lobby (1:11:34) Why Every Politician Fears Israel (1:25:51) Is Democracy Dead? (1:29:46) Are There Upsides to This War? (1:38:14) The Democrat Takeover (1:45:55) How Boomers Destroyed the US (1:54:17) The Spiritual Awakening (2:03:07) Trump's Strange Relationship With Douglas Murray and Mark Levin (2:11:31) We Still Don't Know What Happened in Butler (2:22:17) How Did the Never Trumpers Take Over the Trump Coalition? (2:31:16) The FBI's Epstein Cover-Up
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Amir
Amir@AmirDapl·
@historyinmemes Yes, and replace it with nothing except a reduction in spending.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@historyinmemes The property tax is used to fund municipal services. It's simply used to allocate the cost of these services based on the wealth of the residents. Municipal services HAVE to be funded. So if not a property tax, what?
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
If the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine means real evidence gathered illegally has to be dismissed, then it should mean that any baby born to someone present illegally in a country should also be denied citizenship on that ground. Had the law been followed, the evidence wouldn't have been gathered/the baby would not have been born in the country.
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Simon Vallée@sival84·
@CallMeTheBreeez @AlvinMutyaba @gummibear737 Actually, I sleep much worse since Trump has been waging stupid wars in a desperate attempt to preserve American prestige, damaging the global economy and precipitating the same decline you people wanted to avert.
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Gummi@gummibear737·
Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot
Ryan Saavedra@RyanSaavedra

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch

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