Beepo // Kevin

@GysoDe @BaronLeven @JJ_McCullough If they want to. No one is forcing anyone to learn a language they have no interest or need to learn. You can sell learning a second language as great on a resume, it just doesn’t have to be French.

@Beyond_Polygons @BaronLeven @JJ_McCullough Yes, of course, and if we do that, after a few years tens of millions of Canadians will be speaking Spanish or Mandarin.

It’s funny how Canadian reporters will call up some random political science professor to offer their hot take on political stories, but you’ll never see a professor of linguistics quoted in any story about Canadian bilingualism. Probably because it defies all linguistic logic.

@mlxYYZ @CandiceBergen_ @RomanFisher__ Definitely not coequal. We have two anthems and they actually don’t say the same thing. The French one is a lot more Catholic and badass. (War talk and fighting for the cross) I wish we only had the bilingual one, as a sign of our history. Language act isn’t needed.

> It’s time for a conversation No it isn’t, actually. I realize the Anglo dream is a bilingual PM whose second language is Hindi/Mandarin/Arabic/etc…, but there are two founding peoples to this country and their languages are coequal. If we compromise that basic requirement, we aren’t going to be a country.

Mr. Rousseau is expressing what millions of Canadians who don’t know french and have tried to learn it feel. What I am tired of is that a few elites (in Ontario primarily) get to tell the 80% of Canadians who don’t speak french fluently that we need to sit on the sidelines. It’s time for a conversation about what 2 official languages actually means. What’s transpired over the last few days is not about the communication or language but about control.

@p1huycke @mlxYYZ @CandiceBergen_ @RomanFisher__ Didn’t we all like Cretien?

@mlxYYZ @CandiceBergen_ @RomanFisher__ I would be 1000% fine with a PM from Quebec City who spoke French only.

@DimitrisSoudas @CandiceBergen_ Your argument boils down to “we agreed years ago so…” Guess we should never change anything with that attitude.

Let’s be precise. Millions of Canadians are not paid 12 million dollars a year to lead a company that is legally bound by the Official Languages Act. That standard exists for a reason. It comes with the job. It is not optional. Framing this as a struggle of “ordinary Canadians versus elites” is simply not grounded in reality. In Ottawa, the vast majority of deputy ministers are Anglophone. In cabinet, francophone ministers have often presented in English. I do not recall many, if any, Anglophone ministers presenting in French. The imbalance you are pointing to is not where you suggest it is. This is not about sidelining anyone. It is about leadership and responsibility. Mr. Rousseau has lived in Quebec for two decades. His spouse is francophone. He leads a national carrier subject to federal law. He publicly committed years ago to learning French. After hundreds of hours of tutoring, in a moment that required dignity and respect, he could not deliver even a few sentences in the language of one of the victims and their family. That is not about control. That is about priority. And let’s be honest about the lived reality of this country. Francophones who move into majority Anglophone environments adapt quickly because they must. They do not have the luxury of opting out. That expectation has never been controversial. Yet when the expectation is reversed at the highest levels of leadership, it suddenly becomes a debate about fairness. It is not. Canada made a foundational choice. Two official languages. Not one and a half. Not when convenient. Not when it is easy. In moments of tragedy, language is not a technicality. It is how you show respect. It is how you honour people. It is how you lead. Reducing this to a question of control or elite pressure misses the point entirely and risks turning a matter of basic respect into an unnecessary division.

@BaronLeven @JJ_McCullough I’d say no, they don’t have to. They can speak French there and we can speak English in the rest of the country. I feel like freeing up French class for other language studies will help with our multiculturalism

@JJ_McCullough Do you think that we should only have one official language across Canada? If so should Quebec be forced to comply? Or should it only be English at a federal level and the provinces can decide on bilingualism?

@kevlap017 Maybe having two official languages actually makes things more difficult.

One of my biggest annoyances about these accusations that "bilingualism requirements advantage francophones" is that there's this assumption that francophones are like innately knowledgeable about English, that only Anglos have to learn French. And it's so stupid.

@St1ka Depends on the game. Fighting games are different for the meme, or anything competitive. Such is the problem with games that have good multiplayer, your goal should be improvement game over game.

If the skill levels are too wide, you don't just lose, you get crushed. When that happens, it's not fun for either party

@zpaikin For official purposes, I get it, but it shouldn’t be a big deal. For all casual purposes it’s very difficult to work with low effort. It’s a second language. And if he isn’t fluent, he’ll read it poorly so what did it achieve? Brownie points?

You don’t need to speak French fluently. You just need to make a minimal effort to communicate with French Canadians in their mother tongue to show them that you consider them to be equally Canadian. All he had to do was read two sentences off a teleprompter.

@AsDawnApproach @dsonoiki To be fair, we made fun of the Jews too. Still do! In fact Pro wrestler MJF plays into it.

@dsonoiki Whites were the only acceptable target and were constantly brow beaten by the jewish media, school curriculums and government into being self loathing, submissive cucks. What has changed is that White people finally got sick of it and are telling the nons to fuck off now.

it’s impossible to explain the early 2000’s to zoomers but basically racism did not exist

@JJ_McCullough @cselley Exactly, either we all live bilingual lives (which you can’t force naturally) or everyone is just going to lose French in time anyways.

@cselley The educational model is fundamentally flawed. People will not become fluent in a language they don’t need for day-to-day communication. We could spend a gazillion dollars and force every K-12 kid to study eight hours a day and it still wouldn’t result in bilingual Vancouverites.

The most frustrating thing about these official bilingualism freakouts is people refusing to accept the dismal state of core FSL education in English Canada. Many of the people who should be most upset about it, demanding change, mostly pretend it's not a problem.

@xanbarksdale This was the exact play I see issue with, damn if only it was overturned

Interesting ABS situation here. 3-2, runner goes, ball 4 is called and he pulls up into 2B. Catcher challenges… and now you start to wonder what would happen if it’s overturned. Are the announcers right, would this become a double play? Or would the umpires send the runner back to first since the original call influenced the play?

@JakeLandauTO That’s how we got Freedom, and myriads of alternative providers that use the same infrastructure. Starlink is an example of how capitalism can allow new players into the market if they play their cards right.

Yeah bro just let me save up a few bucks so I can buy out Rogers and Bell

@SandyofCthulhu No, even if “destroyed” much like a building, rust is leftover. Water at minimum evaporates, which means the molecules still exist. The water can’t just disappear.

What you don’t understand is that the water used by AI is completely destroyed. It leaves the universe forever.

@AmericanMisty @dsonoiki And no one likes to admit that that was clearly thinly veiled propaganda. But democrats would NEVER! 😑

@dsonoiki I remember when every network suddenly called Biden "sharp as a tack" whenever his cognitive ability was criticized. It was really weird, as if each network was given the same catchphrase.

they called him “Sleepy Joe” because he had dementia and was barely sentient they ignored it until a debate against Trump revealed just how bad the dementia was and then they forced him off the ticket, knifing him in the back and front

@Stark_NotTony @MLFootball @SFGiants @Dodgers I hate check swings because it’s vague enough. And for important calls I just don’t want to take anything less than giving out a lot of the time. Get ABS to see if the bat could have hit the ball by passing by it.

@MLFootball Like that check-swing called third strike to eliminate the @SFGiants and help the @Dodgers move on a few years ago. That’s was awesome too!

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC IN THE #WBC GOT ABSOLUTELY SCREWED BY THE UMPIRE. ONE OF THE WORST CALLS OF ALL TIME:

@JustScott90292 @MLFootball Maaaan but Mason Miller too scary bro. I don’t blame them 🤣

@MLFootball How many swings were there in the 9th inning by the DR? Going out looking for walks doesn’t win games. Try again.

@DalibanW @ray_akuma @CGlass0704 @ImLukeJamesBish @sleepy_devo Gender is a social construct. Sex is part of being human. Gender is dehumanizing because it doesn’t care about the human form, just the construct. The expectations. Sex is just plain reality.

@Beyond_Polygons @ray_akuma @CGlass0704 @ImLukeJamesBish @sleepy_devo You just dont believe in the concept of gender. Your literally just 2 iq lol.

There's no "insane cope" here. trans people are human, their rights are human rights. This is just a basic "if X, then Y" logic statement.

@DalibanW @ray_akuma @CGlass0704 @ImLukeJamesBish @sleepy_devo When in doubt, just call them stupid. Then stick your fingers in your ears and go “lalalal I can’t hear you alalalala” That’s all you’re doing. It’s okay to be wrong.

@DalibanW @ray_akuma @CGlass0704 @ImLukeJamesBish @sleepy_devo Also because it’s extremely dehumanizing. Women are just a set of expectations… Your words, not mine.

@DalibanW @ray_akuma @CGlass0704 @ImLukeJamesBish @sleepy_devo Yeah, and you worship John Money. A despicable person. You literally act just like him. youtu.be/BBKVWUWEt-Q?si… You can always listen to this guy talk about then.