10-20-2022, 08:25 AM
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#2762
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Libertarianism is incompatible with society, which is why you will always see her tripping over herself trying to govern society. She's packaged her brain into a an inevitable battle between her political philosophic and reality, and they are diametric opposites. Failure is the only outcome.
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10-20-2022, 08:50 AM
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#2763
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Didn't they release a movie with literal hot dog ####ing like, 5 years ago.
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Being in his mid/late 30s and the prime age for Superbad, Anchorman, and movies like that at the time of their original release, TheoFleury is confusing aging out the taste for those movies with some weird mass censorship movement of raunchy comedies.
There have been like 40 Superbad copycats since it’s release. There are shows on Netflix “raunchier” than Anchorman (LOL at the idea that Anchorman is raunchy) and movies (like the already mentioned Bros) coming out on the regular. Maybe he’s confused because this formula is being geared less to straight-white-adolescents and more to women, LGBTQ folks, etc while the “raunchy” stuff geared towards straight white guys is mostly found in movies like Deadpool since they’re all obsessively watching Marvel movies now.
In short, tastes change, movies change with it. But you can find far more explicitly sexual, violent, or “shocking” mainstream content now than in the late 90s/early 2000s. TheoFleury desperately wants to make it a “liberal censorship” thing but he’s just being dumb.
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10-20-2022, 09:16 AM
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#2764
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People are confusing censorship with capitalism. Censorship is when the government (or other institutions) suppresses information. Capitalism is when market conditions change.
Literally no governing body is saying that a certain thing can't be made anymore (movie content wise). That's a fantasy. I'm not sure I agree that there is even a problem (as several people in this thread have pointed out that they are still making raunchy movies). But let's assume, that those movies are being made less... it's not censorship, it's because the movie studios think there are less people who want to watch it.
If there is a big enough audience for something it will get made. Simple as that.
Funny to see right-leaning people blame these issues on "the left" when really its capitalism and freedom of choice, which are things that have always been championed by the right.
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10-20-2022, 09:20 AM
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#2765
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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Originally Posted by b1crunch
People are confusing censorship with capitalism. Censorship is when the government (or other institutions) suppresses information. Capitalism is when market conditions change.
Literally no governing body is saying that a certain thing can't be made anymore (movie content wise). That's a fantasy. I'm not sure I agree that there is even a problem (as several people in this thread have pointed out that they are still making raunchy movies). But let's assume, that those movies are being made less... it's not censorship, it's because the movie studios think there are less people who want to watch it.
If there is a big enough audience for something it will get made. Simple as that.
Funny to see right-leaning people blame these issues on "the left" when really its capitalism and freedom of choice, which are things that have always been championed by the right.
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It's just another case of social Conservatives upset the world is changing around them, and unable to deal with it, as people come to realize the harm some of these things lead to and the ideas they represent. I'm sure slave owners felt the same as their world changed.
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10-20-2022, 09:35 AM
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#2766
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Being in his mid/late 30s and the prime age for Superbad, Anchorman, and movies like that at the time of their original release, TheoFleury is confusing aging out the taste for those movies with some weird mass censorship movement of raunchy comedies.
There have been like 40 Superbad copycats since it’s release. There are shows on Netflix “raunchier” than Anchorman (LOL at the idea that Anchorman is raunchy) and movies (like the already mentioned Bros) coming out on the regular. Maybe he’s confused because this formula is being geared less to straight-white-adolescents and more to women, LGBTQ folks, etc while the “raunchy” stuff geared towards straight white guys is mostly found in movies like Deadpool since they’re all obsessively watching Marvel movies now.
In short, tastes change, movies change with it. But you can find far more explicitly sexual, violent, or “shocking” mainstream content now than in the late 90s/early 2000s. TheoFleury desperately wants to make it a “liberal censorship” thing but he’s just being dumb.
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Ya well, that's just like your opinion, man.
The music in my coming of age period was clearly superior than anybody else's coming of age period. They just don't make 'em like they used to.
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10-20-2022, 09:35 AM
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#2767
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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I don’t think you could have made the Kids in the Hall with full frontal nudity 30 years ago, but here they are today, triumphant and majestic.
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10-20-2022, 09:41 AM
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#2769
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Looooooooooooooch
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On the wrong side of history for every single issue. Lol what a dinosaur.
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10-20-2022, 09:43 AM
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#2770
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Give kids cigarettes, not computers!
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10-20-2022, 09:44 AM
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#2771
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Originally Posted by Looch City
On the wrong side of history for every single issue. Lol what a dinosaur.
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I bet she was one on the side of the brexiteers way back when.
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10-20-2022, 09:48 AM
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#2772
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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It would be interesting to actually see the argument and context in that opinion piece instead of just a headline.
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10-20-2022, 10:19 AM
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#2773
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
It would be interesting to actually see the argument and context in that opinion piece instead of just a headline.
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Agreed, but I'm struggling to come up with any logically good reasons for why school kids wouldn't need computers. The article was probably from the early 2000's? That just my guess though.
Regardless, I can't think of any good rationale she could have made, besides less funding for education, therefore schools can't afford computers.
It's pretty obvious that our society today is dominated by technology and kids from the past few decades would have benefitted greatly from computers in the classroom.
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10-20-2022, 10:30 AM
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#2775
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Join Date: May 2004
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Unsurprisingly, it's the same old "kids need to learn facts by rote even though we are living in the age of information" wharrgarbl.
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10-20-2022, 10:35 AM
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#2776
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Self Imposed Retirement
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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You brought it up so why didn’t you elaborate on it instead of getting all huffy when called out.
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10-20-2022, 10:36 AM
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#2777
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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Okay, I read it. It's really disheartening to see her place the blame on Alberta teachers even back in 2000. Alberta has been one of the best jurisdictions for education in the last couple decades and it feels like it never gets this recognition from within.
Her arguments, with hindsight (admittedly) are ridiculous. The world is constantly changing and advancing and we need to help kids in this province stay at the forefront.
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10-20-2022, 10:38 AM
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#2778
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Originally Posted by Macman
You brought it up so why didn’t you elaborate on it instead of getting all huffy when called out.
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Why don't you comment on it instead of posting stuff like this that adds nothing to the conversation?
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10-20-2022, 10:39 AM
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#2779
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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Originally Posted by Macman
You brought it up so why didn’t you elaborate on it instead of getting all huffy when called out.
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The #### are you on about? I didn't get huffy, I provided the source. Read it with your own ####ing eyeballs. Damn, man. Figure out how links work.
Also, you slandered me earlier and still have the post up, despite me asking you to provide some evidence of it. If you can't find where I claimed Daniele Smith should be at home pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen, I'd ask you rewove it, or I'll have the mods do it for you. An apology would be nice, too.
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...postcount=2394
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...postcount=2419
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10-20-2022, 10:49 AM
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#2780
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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Originally Posted by b1crunch
Agreed, but I'm struggling to come up with any logically good reasons for why school kids wouldn't need computers. The article was probably from the early 2000's? That just my guess though.
Regardless, I can't think of any good rationale she could have made, besides less funding for education, therefore schools can't afford computers.
It's pretty obvious that our society today is dominated by technology and kids from the past few decades would have benefitted greatly from computers in the classroom.
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Looking at the piece and thinking back to that time I don't necessarily think this is as extreme as it is made out to be in the Twitter post. I graduated high school in 2000 and computer literacy was really at a very early stage. At that time there wasn't much commercially available software that was easy to use and beneficial to young elementary school kids that would help with early learning. Based on that the argument that computers are not needed is pretty reasonable. Obviously the progression of technology and literacy exploded in the 2000s and the landscape was quite a bit different just a few years after this opinion piece was printed.
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