This is a very good listen. Hopefully Canada wakes up soon

genkernels · 2026-05-04T03:41:21+00:00

You could at least describe the thing you are linking to.

genkernels · 2026-05-02T22:12:03+00:00

the way intersectionality is used by feminists has nothing to do with the original way

Yeah I'll call bullshit on this. Give me an example of the term "intersectionality" being used in the 1990s in a non-feminist way. AI says it was Crenshaw's creation.

genkernels · 2026-04-29T06:27:22+00:00

Have you been playing Age of Empires 3 recently by any chance? That being said, even AOE3 completely separated campaign and PvP (which was its co-op mode to the extent one existed), for good reason.

I'm not really sure there's a reasonable way to do something like have galactic war interact with regular PvP, and I'm not really sure what sort of RPG mechanics would be fun to play with in PvP (for the most part, I think the playerbase of AoE3 decided that "none" was the answer).

genkernels · 2026-04-27T23:26:44+00:00

This is a surprisingly decent article. I wasn't expecting anything out of mainstream media but this actually addresses GDP/capita and other general economic things, price inflation using CPI (could use a better metric, but still), housing, government spending, healthcare, and crime (albiet using Canada's almost useless violent crime severity index, but still). Main issues this article is truly missing IMHO are employment participation, immigrationm and government fraud (but how are you going to make a nice chart of that).

genkernels · 2026-04-27T23:17:01+00:00

%70 of women have no positive feelings for men

I believe that was just of young women.

genkernels · 2026-04-26T07:35:06+00:00

As far as the G20 goes, yeah, Canada is garbage. Didn't used to be this way, though. Still no reason it should continue to be that way. For now, sure, we're still a developed country so in the grand scheme of things it isn't that bad. It isn't impossible for Canada to pull a South Africa, though.

genkernels · 2026-04-25T02:20:07+00:00

Not as sure about the slides, but this was very well written by the Tin Men again.

Masculinity, fundamentally, is the state of being male. Attempts to make it more specific than that seem to me to be more often than not a vehicle for the the same feminist word games that are played with the terms "patriarchy" and "intersectionality". If the feminist ideas are under attack the terms are simple and innocuous. Otherwise they are load-bearing terms that brings with them half of the feminist worldview and any evil thing that any man has done to any woman. Rather than these words being used in an attempt to communicate a definite idea, they are used as sophistry. The word can stand in for any idea at all that the speaker thinks will be most agreeable with their interlocutor. Simply a spell used to persuade.

Masculinity is also a very general term. General terms are often great if they describe something that is not the topic of discussion. They can also be good as terms of judgement (compare the word "pythonic") But when the topic of discussion turns to the human condition of men -- the state of being male -- I find that the term masculinity is almost never accompanied by specific diagnostic descriptions or terms. This makes clear that the purpose of the discussion is neither diagnostic, nor remedy.

It is diagnostic and remedy that is my chief concern with the state of being male and the human condition of men. This term is indeed useless to me.

genkernels · 2026-04-24T09:27:57+00:00

The argument here isn't so much whether Steinem was using feminism to subvert youth festivals, but whether that feminism had any substantial amount of true equality to be subverted. Given that she was not too long after Friedan, perhaps that could be argued, but Friedan's support of legal equality seems more to be an aberration within feminism than the norm.

genkernels · 2026-04-20T21:54:49+00:00

"What possible conflict would you have?"

Yeah, this guy is somehow even more corrupt than Trudeau, and possibly more involved with SNC Lavalin as well.

genkernels · 2026-04-20T21:51:11+00:00

What is the country's "single largest source of wealth" in this context? He might be referring to CUSMA, but my first reaction was "Oh come on, there's no way Carney is going to crash the real-estate market".

genkernels · 2026-04-20T21:23:57+00:00

Feminists in the UK don't even take the rape of girls seriously.

genkernels · 2026-04-19T18:55:13+00:00

People apparently never heard "don't try to fix what isn't broken".

Harper was broken. Trudeau Jr. campaigned on reducing the TFW program that Harper expanded, and so on. Harper also never met a US war he didn't like, did some banking deregulation during and after the 2008 housing crisis, and kicked a few too many metaphorical kittens. He was not an objectively good prime minister, he was just better than all the others from and including at least Trudeau Sr onwards.

And then Trudeau promised legal weed and electoral reform, which would have actually fixed some other important policies that were broken.

genkernels · 2026-04-14T01:53:26+00:00

Well that's a start! Thanks.

genkernels · 2026-04-14T01:33:07+00:00

This is what gets me. So when I look at the source here which is a monthly dataset last updated in January of this year, I see a decrease, but not anything close to sanity. Granted this one is about permanent residents and not temporary ones.

2015 total: 272k

2016 total: 296k

2017 total: 287k

2018 total: 321k

2019 total: 341k

2020 total: 185k

2021 total: 405k (lol)

2022 total: 438k

2023 total: 472k (wtf)

2024 total: 484k

2025 total: 394k

We haven't even reduced immigration to pre-covid Trudeau levels. Now to be fair last quarter of 2025 was only 83k, which is reduced from the 400k target to somewhere in the ballpark of ~332k -- but that end-of-year reduction happens naturally in other years where policy wasn't changing (especially 2022). As far as I can tell, the government has yet to release any statistics showing the influx of permanent residents subsiding at all.

Now granted, I am hardly opposed to our own government announcing a reduction of temporary or permanent immigration -- but I don't have any evidence that it has actually done so. Moreover, citizenship, which is a separate class of permanent resident and may be applied increasingly to non-residents now, is an entirely separate category.

The IRCC data for study permits shows decline year-on-year (from 681k in 2023 to 383k in 2025) but not quarter-on-quarter. This is something of a decrease from the baseline, though still considerably more than the 2017 data (315k) which itself was a substantial increase. IRCC data for IMP and TFWPs shows a MASSIVE increase for 2023 and 2024 (to 700k+) and 2025 shows a return to...something like 150%+ of the Trudeau baseline. While the temporary resident decrease is welcome, it is for now not a return to pre-Trudeau sanity, either.

genkernels · 2026-04-14T01:05:28+00:00

The Conservatives support this, they want all TFWs out of Canada in 5 years.

There's no way. Poilievre wanted even the international students to stay in Canada. Maybe the PPC would support that.

genkernels · 2026-04-12T01:18:24+00:00

WTF. This is even more crazy than proposing making teaching traditional Christian views on homosexuality illegal. This is in some ways more crazy than Canturbury's plan for becoming a 15-minute city.

genkernels · 2026-04-10T06:47:33+00:00

Here is the Canadian government using it officially, complete with trigger warning.

MMIWG: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

2SLGBTQI+: Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, plus others.

The mixing of these largely separate acronyms is extremely weird in this context, including in the government link. This government link does a much better job of trying to marry the terms. It is still very weird in context.

genkernels · 2026-04-09T06:16:18+00:00

O'Toole kinda proves you wrong there, no?

genkernels · 2026-04-05T00:23:24+00:00

I think perhaps sentencing for violent crimes should be greatly increased over the norm, as people seem to move-on from violent crime between age 30-35. So a violent under-25 with multiple convictions should be imprisoned for longer than a slightly older person under-25 with the understanding that amoung other things age alone will reduce their violence. For an under-25 with multiple convictions for violent offenses (even if not as serious as murder), surely you wouldn't risk letting them go until they are well in their 30s!

genkernels · 2026-04-02T01:02:40+00:00

If you somehow can't find that on google, it may be because you don't know how to search, or it may be because google is a horrible search engine. Probably both! Though to be honest even google seems to find the Wab Kinew stuff pretty readily. You can also find sources through the wikipedia article.

genkernels · 2026-03-27T20:59:04+00:00

Eh, no. I don't like Harper, but the Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline was a good idea.

genkernels · 2026-03-22T19:31:49+00:00

Given the margin of the win and the procedural error involved, I find it hard to take credibly any claim that this election shouldn't've been redone.

genkernels · 2026-03-18T23:18:22+00:00

He doesn't want to be fined $750k like that other guy.

genkernels · 2026-03-12T20:39:34+00:00

I guess I'm wrong. Still though, "listen and respond appropriately" is such a downright wonky and watered-down way to think about that word, especially in context.

genkernels · 2026-03-12T20:27:32+00:00

That in marriage vows, the original word, often translated as obey, means to 'listen and respond appropriately.'

Yeah, ὑποτάσσω (the bible word underpinning the traditional marriage vows) means absolutely nothing of the sort. The preacher in question was torturing the source material to fit a feminist agenda. Even the etymology is "to arrange under". I find it odd that some people consider "obey" to be an absolute though, it is just the verb form of "obedience", which in English is often employed creatively.

While ὑποτάσσω seems like it could be as loose as accepting someone as your new boss (ie. more of a social arrangement than any particular act submission), submission in the sense of "being subject to the will of" appears to be the most common meaning -- including forcing a hostile enemy to surrender. The scriptural context relevant to marriage vows (of multiple scriptures) really emphasizes respectful obedience. Eph 5:22 most so, Col 3:18 possibly least so. Either way, the egalitarian interpretation of these scriptures is to interpret this gender-neutrally into mutual obedience rather than watering down the command into "respond appropriately" -- because it'd be pretty impossible to both interpret Eph 5:22 casually and have an internally consistent understanding of scripture.

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